WARREN GOLLA

Warren Golla is a seasoned management consultant, technologist, and entrepreneur specializing in business acceleration through corporate strategy, operational effectiveness, and emerging-market innovation.  Immersed in pioneering activities and thought leadership with a keen perception of practical capabilities, Warren is able to quickly grasp complex, emerging technologies and trends to envision how they might best be leveraged by customers for strategic advantage to drive profitable growth.  As is essential for this role, Warren is an excellent communicator who is equally conversant with business executives and technologists alike.  At Trexin, Warren provides business strategy consultation, operational management and transformation services, interim CIO/CTO executive services, and advanced IT research and development.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

A sample of Warren’s recent project work at Trexin includes:

• CTO for Backstage Gallery, a new media startup currently amassing and monetizing a library of rock & roll photography that is targeted to exceed 1,000,000 images and 42 TB of data by year end 2008.

• Led an effort to create a new customer scorecard/SLA with baselined metrics aligned with service management strategies (ITIL and CMMi) and linked to vendor SLAs as part of a broader $750M IT outsourcing deal.

• Developed a comprehensive IT Strategy and Technology Roadmap for a $50M economic consulting firm preparing for 3-year 100% growth.

• Led a rapid-response “SWAT” team that sustained the performance of an application ecosystem supporting a $12B financial services firm during a promotional sales event that drove a 600% increase in business volume.

Prior to Trexin, Warren was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Javelin Solutions, a regional IT consultancy acquired in 2002 by Perficient (NASDAQ: PRFT) after 6 consecutive profitable years in business.  Warren played a critical role in growing Javelin to over 100 consultants and $15M in annual sales without any external funding.  Javelin’s rapid success was recognized by two CityBusiness / Deloitte & Touche 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies awards for the Twin Cities in 1999 (#11) and 2000 (#9).  At Javelin Warren’s role as CTO was to provide clients with thought leadership and development expertise in varies areas, including IT strategy, enterprise architecture, systems integration, and emerging Internet-based platforms.

After the acquisition of Javelin, Warren remained with Perficient for three years as a Managing Director, helping to grow the business to over 500 consultants and $100M in annual sales.  During this time Warren continued to guide clients on a number of advanced technologies, including business process modeling and simulation, workflow and process automation, business performance management, business activity monitoring, service-oriented architectures, Web services, distributed on-demand computing, application integration (internal and external), applied security and cryptography, virtual teaming, knowledge management, and technology trend analysis and prediction.

Earlier in his career, Warren was a Senior Consultant with MCI Systemhouse (formerly SHL), where he developed the contract management subsystem of a large commodity merchandising system for Cargill as part of a large $100M, 100-person systems development project.  Warren began his career at Morgan Stanley developing real-time distributed systems for Wall Street.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Master of Science, Software Engineering - University of St. Thomas
• Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering - University of Michigan
• Bachelor of Science, Aerospace Engineering - University of Notre Dame