for the
people who need
information ...About Garrett Business Technology
To bridge the gap between what business people need and the benefits that technology can provide -
for the
people who need
information ...
for the
people who create
information ...
and the
people who manage
those people.
Our goal is to encourage and facilitate the communication (and knowledge transfer) across that gap
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Significant
productivity improvements for business.
Unique
blending of years of business and technology experience
Why Garrett Business Technology is different ...
Over 30 years experience
in every phase of information systems inception, design,
development, implementation and operation.
Our systems
experience spans web-based, mainframe, client/server, Internet
and desktop applications.
Our database
experience extends across multiple platforms and business
We've set up
the Intranet web site and developed the home page for a large
telecommunications company's Procurement organization.
We have
experience derived from delivering and managing software
solutions that provide the right fit for business processes -
through rapid development of prototypes that incorporate optimum
user interfaces, robust system design and data architectures that
work.
And most
importantly ... we bridge the gap between business needs and
enabling technologies.
Business professionals are frequently unaware of the advantages that technology can bring; technologists are correspondingly unaware of how to most effectively deploy technology. We have worked with many solutions providers who understand technology - or the business environment - but few understand both. With our experience in management information and decision support systems, we can quickly capture understand your business requirements and recommend ways to drive more benefit from the systems you already have.
Jack Garrett
Author, with Dr. Steven Shepard, of Managing Supply Chain Technology: Bridging the Gap Between the Supply Chain and the Technology That Supports It
Founder and President,
Garrett Business Technology
Former CEO, Chairman and
co-founder, IFM Technologies
Former Director of
Procurement Systems, Pacific Bell
PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Designed the application
and data architecture used to manage American Express's
Supplier and Contract management
- Featured in a CIO magazine article about innovations in business
technology.
- Analyzed the procurement technology support (purchasing systems
and contract data management) for the incoming Chief Procurement
Officer for Six Continents Hotels.
- Managed technical support for a mainframe application with
20,000 on-line users that processed all Service Orders for
Pacific Bell
- Managed application support for PacBell's major purchasing
system that issued 250,000 Purchase Orders annually to a base of
16,000 suppliers and did 85-93% of them electronically.
Purchasing through the system totaled over $650 million annually.
- Managed the $100 million annual hardware and software budget
for Pacific Bell. As part of that assignment, responsible for
demand and capacity forecasting for 55 mainframes and hundreds of
minicomputers.
- Represented Pacific Bell on a joint telecommunications effort
to standardize product identification, labeling and
classification that was associated with the Telecommunications
Industry Forum (TCIF). The eventual standards became part of the
ANSI X.12 standards suite. Also represented Pacific Bell with the
FCC and California PUC, testifying regarding the effective life
spans and retirement of computer assets.
- Managed computer operations in a major mainframe and
minicomputer complex.
- Designed the physical layout for a large computer center which
housed six mainframe computers and a significant number of
minicomputers, direct access storage devices, magnetic tape
drives and high speed printer equipment
- Provided consulting support for American Express's selection of
an e-Commerce environment
Former
Director, Procurement Systems with Pacific Bell
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
- More than 30 years in the design, delivery, implementation and
support of information systems
- Experienced manager of technical professionals
- IBM-trained in technical training delivery
- Computer center design and operations management
- AI/Expert System rule design, development and management
- Knowledge Engineering to develop application requirements
- Rapid application prototyping from business requirements
- Nationally recognized expert in Procurement Systems management
- Experienced instructor and manager of technical professionals
- Computer center design and operations management
- Web-based, mainframe, minicomputer and desktop software design and delivery
- Holder of a Certificate in Purchasing from the University of California, Berkeley
- Broad experience in database design and conversion
- Technical project design and management
- Director of Information Systems procurement
- e-Procurement planning, product selection and implementation
- Experienced in UNSPSC (United Nations Service and Product Standard Classification) commodity structure, implementation and use
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