Lance Birtcil

Experience

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  Seagull Technology

  Jul 1997 - Mar 2000

  Systems Engineer II

  Created software models to support NASA and FAA research of the US National Airspace System, commercial aircraft fuel burn, aircraft performance, and aircraft descent trajectories. Built software to analyze and visualize large sets of radar data.

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  CNET Networks

  Mar 2000 - Mar 2008

  Led the application development team for CNET’s Lifestyle websites CHOW.com and UrbanBaby.com. Prioritized features to support growth targets and established effective communication between design, product, and app dev teams. Introduced agile project management (Scrum). Unified the front-end and back-end app dev teams, which streamlined delivery of Ruby on Rails, PHP, CSS, and Javascript code. Hired engineering team, managed contractors, created budgets, and architected scalable appserver and database tiers. Enabled doubling of CHOW’s growth to ~100,000 users and ~150,000 page views per day. Show less

  • Senior Manager, Engineering - Entertainment & Lifestyle Division

    May 2007 - Mar 2008

  • Manager, Enterprise Business Systems

    May 2005 - Sept 2007

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Apr 2004 - Apr 2005

  • Software Engineer

    Apr 2001 - Apr 2004

  • Associate Software Engineer

    Mar 2000 - Apr 2001
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  IDEO

  Jul 2008 - Jul 2014

  Director, Business Systems

  Lance leads globally distributed product owners, application developers, interaction designers, and support-team members to enable human-centered technology solutions for IDEO and its clients. Responsibilities include architecture, infrastructure, application development, hosting, operations, database administration, financial systems, HR systems, knowledge sharing, search, project planning, and pricing. He’s an avid follower of agile management techniques. Lance’s leadership skills are both strategic and pragmatic, moving from oversight and delegation to being hands-on the technology, as needed. Recent work includes prototyping how cloud-based, mobile, and social enterprise applications are enabling collaboration and knowledge sharing, implementing a Google Search Appliance architecture, and building collaborative, open source application development platforms for IDEO. Show less

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  Birtcil Integrated Business Systems

  Feb 2015 - now

  President

  Whether you’re looking to automate your lead-to-cash process, hire and manage your talent more effectively, or conduct faster financial closes, we’ve got the expertise to help. By taking a holistic approach to integration, we help establish the balance between people, systems, and processes which leads to higher operational efficiency, better compliance and audits, and reduced error rates.Birtcil Integrated Business Systems provides business process optimization consulting and technical implementation services. With more than 19 years of analysis, design, and implementation experience, we specialize in helping businesses migrate from human-in-the-loop, Excel-based frustration to automated and scalable integrated business processes. Let us help you modernize your business.Solutions include: • Cloud integrations • Process redesign • System architecture • Product evaluation • Vendor selection • Contract negotiation • Product implementation • Application development • Project management Show less