Michael Anthony

Brentwood, NH 03833
Phone: 603-767-9008
Email: mike@mikeanthony.biz
LinkedIn Account: www.linkedin.com/in/mikeanthony2/
Summary: Entrepreneurial Business Leader & Analyst who excels at fostering collaboration, driving
innovation, and transforming company culture. Recognized for attaining strategic objectives by leveraging
project management expertise to pioneer cross-functional initiatives as tactical liaison with marketing,
engineering, finance, operations and sales.

WORK EXPERIENCE
IQity Solutions, Wexford, PA
Co-founder | Board Director | Chief Technology Officer | Advisor

Co-founded startup organization with approximately 50 employees, offering Software as a Service

(SaaS) real-time interface with automated control systems
Contributed strategic and technical leadership to Angel investor fundraising, obtaining $1.35 million
first round and $2.5 million second round funding
Developed technology strategy, resulting in the formation of a globally distributed software
engineering organization reducing software development costs by approximately 50%
Managed software development lifecycles (SDLC), resulting in the delivery of SaaS and online
analytical processing (OLAP) platform prototypes ahead of schedule and below budget
Steered evaluation and selection of cloud-based hosting service providers and negotiated all service
level agreements (SLAs) & contracts, reducing IT overhead by approximately 75%
Led early stage development of real-time business intelligence reports, integrating ERP and MES,
HMI & SCADA databases and data warehouses with multi-dimensional data models
Innovated event-based processing, conserving network bandwidth and accelerating the analysis of
critical customer data
Institutionalized AGILE methodology, resulting in rapid and user-driven product development
Fulfilled commitment to co-founding partner, completing software prototypes and build out of
software engineering organization
Reduced active commitment to that of shareholder and advisor in January 2012 in order to complete
Masters Degree

Brush Prairie Ranch, Brush Prairie, WA

Owner | Operator

March/2007-Present

July/2003-May/2006

Situation: Health challenge to immediate family member necessitated temporary departure from
travel intensive consulting industry
Utilized executive management skills and business acumen to establish and manage horse ranching
operation
Gained experience as a sole proprietor as well as an appreciation for requirements of owning and
boarding Thoroughbred, Quarter and Arabian horses for recreational trail riding and rider training

XRoads Solutions Group, Irvine, CA

Principal

Collaborated directly with Xroads interim CEOs and CFOs, implementing turnaround strategies and
contributing to multimillion-dollar savings to bondholders and credit providers
Diversified this turnaround firms consulting services into nondistressed markets by heading up the
formation of Solutions Enabler Technologies (SET) subsidiary, increasing overall revenue by 10%
Successfully developed and launched SET multimillion-dollar transaction, delivering a 79%
reduction in inventory losses to nondistressed multibillion-dollar grocery retailer
Cultivated nondistressed market awareness of SETs IT core competencies through public speaking
at the CFO Magazine annual conference among others

USC Consulting Group, Chicago, IL

Vice President | Regional Manager

December/1999-November/2002

March/1992-December/1999

Aided this mid-tier management consulting firm by building from the ground up a $30 million
Western region consulting practice
Delivered over $100 million in P&L impact to Fortune 1000 clients in aerospace, automotive, capital
equipment, defense, electronics, energy and industrial equipment et al.

EDUCATION
MBA in Information Technology Management
Florida Institute of Technology
Accomplishments: 4.0 GPA, U.S. 99th Percentile Rank

2012-2014

BS in Software Systems Engineering

Colorado Technical University
Special Recognition: summa cum laude

2005-2006

CERTIFICATIONS & AWARDS

ITIL v3 Foundation Certified, with an appreciation for the role IT must play to the wider organization
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt (SSMBB), well acquainted with the quantitative research and
statistical methods necessary to the design of experiments and data-driven decisions
Elected to The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
USC Founders Award, Inspirational Attitude, Energy and Actions
United States Navy Achievement Medal, Professional Achievement
MILITARY SERVICE
United States Marine Corps
Sergeant of Marines: Honorable Discharge
VOLUNTEER WORK
www.peasegreeters.org
Pease Greeter: Volunteer with this organization that has welcomed men and women in our Armed Forces on
their way to or their way home from Afghanistan, Iraq or any other area of conflict.

ADDITIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Project Management: Built teams and helped guide many multimillion-dollar operations & IT
improvement projects for Fortune 1000 firms, expertise includes: assessment, solution design and
high-level supervision over execution

Software Systems Engineering: Managed software systems engineering ventures extending the
reach of commercial off-the-shelf (COS) business intelligence (BI) applications and Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) software packages through the design and implementation of innovative
web-based software delivered as a Service (SaaS) over the Internet (cloud)

Outsourcing: Fluent with both the technology and business aspects of software development. With
discernment, astutely leveraged and organized globally distributed engineering teams to minimize
cost while protecting intellectual property

Startup Management: Effectively advised and worked with startup companies as well as those in
early stage growth bringing a laser focus to critical path planning and execution while providing
perspective on the challenges of going from concept, to startup, to early stage growth

Entrepreneurship: Built from startup and commercialized a SaaS cloud technology with complete
supervision over the systems development life cycle (SDLC)

Business Development: Managed the development, deal closing, and delivery execution of
re-engineering and continuous improvement projects contributing to the optimization, restructuring
and turnaround of business operations generating multimillion-dollar financial impacts

Management Consulting: As a trusted advisor to C-Level executives, have taken on challenges to

drive multimillion-dollar improvements to profitability by improving quality, reducing losses and
increasing effectiveness

SKILLS & EXPERTISE

Strategic Planning & Execution

Budgeting and P&L Management
Organizational Development
Interpersonal Communications
Board Room Presentation
Team Leadership & Mentoring
Lean Six Sigma
SaaS, Cloud Computing & OLAP
Agile Software Development
SQL Database Development
Web-Based Application Development
Business Intelligence & Analytics
Process Re-Engineering & Continuous Improvement
Vendor Relations & Management