Key People

CTB's Management Team

CTB is led by a team of executives who have a passion for delivering an excellent array of services to the marketplace. Each is committed to ensuring that whatever is proposed by CTB is delivered on time and under budget. 

Coley T. Brown - President and Founder
Coley founded CTB Consulting in July 1990 after achieving repeated sales and management success with a number of hardware, software and reseller organizations. His uncompromising commitment to quality and customer satisfaction defines the foundation upon which CTB Consulting has been built. Today, Coley provides the vision and strategic direction for the company.

Coley possesses a rare combination of technical expertise and business acumen with over 25 years of industry experience. He was one of the early employees at 3Com where he instrumental in establishing OEM relationships with ATT, DEC, and building the initial reseller and system integrator businesses. He also opened several 3Com offices and was consistently recognized as one of the top worldwide sales and management performers. Previous to 3Com, Coley developed corporate and commercial sales at The Computer Factory while implementing some of the first PC production systems for the NY Transit Authority, Lipton, and General Foods. He was also the International Marketing Manager for Bunker Ramo where he coordinated all activities for their Canadian and European subsidiaries.

Coley brings specialized expertise in the consolidation of disparate systems including application expertise with Messaging, Workflow, Financial Reporting and IT Infrastructures. These are the cornerstones on which CTB Consulting has been built.

Under Coley’s leadership CTB has consolidated operations at Starwood and FrontRange, prepared systems for divested units of Dun & Bradstreet and Thomson Corporation, implemented messaging systems for Philip Morris and Dun & Bradstreet, designed network infrastructures for CitiBank, Amerada Hess and MetLife, developed compensation systems for Pepsico and AC Nielsen, developed a global oil trading system for EXXON, automated port operations for Sea-Land Service and the South Carolina State Ports Authority.

Coley is a recognized authority on integrating both client/server databases and Internet systems with legacy host systems. He has been a featured speaker at numerous software user conferences including Hyperion, Information Builders, Sybase, and Microsoft, and is the author of numerous white papers on the topics of Internet Enablement of Financial Reporting Systems, Universal Database Connectivity, Proto-cycle Development Process, On Line Transaction Processing, and Microsoft Transaction Server Architecture.

Coley received double undergraduate majors in Math and Economics from the New York University College of Arts and Sciences, where he graduated with honors in economics, and completed a Computer Information and Application Systems MBA in one year. Under the auspices of NYU’s International Graduate Exchange Program, Coley also completed studies at The London School for Business and Les Hautes Etudes Commercial in France.

Coley’s personal interests include building and racing cars as well as operating a crewed catamaran sailing vessel in the Caribbean, Gliding, and instructing Judo.

CTB's most valuable resource: it's people

Of even greater importance than its executive team is the extensive group of professionals who analyze, propose, manage and deliver the CTB engagements to our customers. CTB is proud of them and their cumulative knowledge and experience. 

Company Picnic, July 2000

Brief biographies of some typical CTB professionals are outlined below.

 
bullet Strategic Consultant
bullet Senior Consultant
bullet Senior Developer 1
bullet Senior Developer 2
bullet Developer 1
bullet Senior Engineer 1
bullet Senior Engineer 2
bullet Engineer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
Strategic Consultant:

This Senior Information Technology Professional has over 17 years experience in implementing technology solutions by aligning business goals with strategic technology plans, utilizing both mainframe and PC-based technologies.

* He addressed the changing business needs of a Fortune 500 corporation by planning and implementing a global technology strategy.

* He streamlined business processing and reduced costs by evaluating and deploying leading edge client-server and messaging technologies.

* He delivered complex IT projects on time and on budget by utilizing both domestic and international project management expertise.

* He mitigated risks in technology selection and deployment by developing and leveraging strategic vendor relationships.

He is experienced in technology positions with expertise ranging from operations, software development, systems analysis and design, systems development management and architectural planning. He is accomplished in planning, implementing and managing global technology architectures for client-server and messaging business systems. He has a proven ability to organize and manage technology teams of 20 or more people.

Senior Consultant:

This Consultant is an accomplished writer and designer of PC software. With over 23 years in the computer industry, he has written more than 500,000 lines of C and C++ code for PC and network applications.

He is an authority in OLTP and Stratus/IBM 88 fault tolerant computing and has designed 3270 Bi-sync cluster controllers, an X.25 Packet switching network, and collaborated on the design of the first electronic mail service.

Other areas of expertise are in RF engineering, C-Band/Broadcast Teletex Technology, and bridge/router communications.

He worked on a major project for Bell Communication Research Corporation developing a network monitoring system for a 300,000 node network. He has completed other significant projects for the New York Stock Exchange, Citibank, Manufactures Hanover Bank, AT&T and SBC.

Senior Developer 1:

This Senior Developer is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Princeton University with a Masters degree from the University of Michigan in Computer Information & Control Engineering.

His computer industry experience has included the development of electronic mail products and LAN product support. He has designed and implemented several generations of menuing and network PC shells and has managed electronic mail projects utilizing the entire family of SMB/NetBios/Redirector NOS's, standards such as X.400 and X.25 and desktop metaphors/tools such as Hypertext C++ and PowerBuilder.

As a product support manager and later as Director of Research and Development for 3Com Corporation he has worked extensively with 10Base T, Token Ring and Ethernet topologies as well as many connectivity products and most network protocols.

Senior Developer 2:

This Senior Developer has in excess of fourteen years of design, analysis, data architecture, database administration, project management and consulting experience. His skills have been successfully applied as a database specialist for a major computer hardware vendor; as a consultant and project manager for the financial services branch of a large communications subsidiary; and as a database designer and manager for a Wall Street firm, an International bank, an Engineering firm, and a software vendor.

His technical skills feature a strong working knowledge base in the VMS environment and he is fluent in SQL environments. He has designed client-server applications based on Microsoft SQL Server (Sybase) applications using tools such as PowerBuilder and Visual Basic. He is also highly knowledgeable in Excel, Access and other Windows-based tools. He is a Microsoft C programmer.

Developer 1:

This Developer has designed and built Multi-User Micro-Based business applications since 1978. He has designed mission critical applications for the retail, wholesale, insurance, and financial industries.

He is an expert in high volume multi-user databases, bar code technologies, asynchronous communication, and wide area networking. He is highly skilled in the use of many tools such as PowerBuilder, Visual Basic, and SQL, and is an excellent group leader with extensive experience in Windows, MS-DOS, Unix and Theos operating systems.

Senior Engineer 1:

He is an Honors Graduate of Northeastern University and is recognized as a technical expert in OS/2 network protocols. He designed the Quality Assurance Server Lab architecture and authored all test procedures for Lotus 1-2-3 Corporation's Lotus Notes. The Lab is used for testing and modeling all groupware products on OS/2 network operating systems and protocols for both Ethernet and Token Ring topologies.

He is a hands on engineer with a broad based skill set that includes bridges, routers, communication gateways, SQL server integration, mini and mainframe to LAN connectivity, multiple protocol support on the same network, server and workstation tuning, and troubleshooting in all aspects of Local and Wide Area Networks. He was project leader and principle architect for two network management systems, Logon Access System and Central Workstation, and is a 3Com 3Wizard, and an authorized Microsoft Network Specialist for NT, Windows and SQL Server.

Senior Engineer 2:

He has a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Columbia University and is certified and trained in operating systems from 3Com, Microsoft, and Novell. His experience includes PC and mini computer Wide Area Network (WAN) design, installation, and support for integrated electronic mail applications and information bulletin boards.

As a Senior Network Engineer, he has worked extensively with 3270 gateways, X.400 E-Mail gateways and WAN bridges using X.25 and T-1 communication circuits. He has developed front end user interfaces for local and remote network applications and is proficient in network capacity planning, workload management, performance analysis and system tuning.

Engineer:

This Engineer has extensive network installation and network project management experience with both small and large systems. He has been responsible for the installation of forty Microsoft Networks over the last four years, and for the maintenance and support of an additional forty networks with a total of 7,000 nodes in the US and Europe.

His design and implementation work includes intelligent repeater hubs, FDDI ready networks utilizing fiber optics technology, remote Ethernet bridges and a SNA TI private backbone. He has also designed a Problem Management System and built a Wide Area Network Management Expert System help desk.

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