Executive Profiles: Robert Veranes - Vice President

Robert Veranes
Vice President--Enterprise Services

My Job: As Vice President of Enterprise Services, my job is to assist our clients in building flexible, adaptable, and scaleable enterprise-level solutions...solutions that will grow with their companies and adapt to changing business conditions.

E-Commerce Specialties:
Industry specialties: Government and Services

Business process specialties:
Enterprise Architecture & Design, Security

Technologies:
Security, Enterprise-level N-tier architectures, Identity Management

Education:
B.S. University of Connecticut
M.S. Computer Science, Rennselaer Polytechnic University

Years Devoted to E-Commerce: Ten years.

Big Names I've Done Work For: Criminal Justice Information Network, North Carolina; North Carolina Information Resource Management; Hewlett-Packard, Singapore; Institute of Systems Science (top SE Asian research institute); Malaysian Institute of Microprocessor Technology (MIMOS); Auditor General's Office, Singapore; Overseas Union Bank, Singapore; State of Ohio

E-Technology That Amazes Me the Most: Technology doesn't amaze me. What people have been able to conjure up from a simple concept – that of interconnectedness – is what truly amazes me.

Jobs Before Innovate:
· Aetna Life & Casualty – Director/Senior Consultant, Knowledge Engineering Institute. Moved advanced technologies into the company.
· Institute of Systems Science, Singapore – Internet Services Director.
· TechAsia.Com – Managing Director, Cryptography and Security Services.

Nicest Compliment Ever Paid to Me By a Customer: The Chief Technology Officer of a state government said to me, "Your team is my SWAT team. They go in and solve our thorniest problems."

Greatest E-Commerce Challenge to Date: Designing and building a security infrastructure for the Criminal Justice community. And helping the community to migrate to a modern application architecture.

Favorite Business Solution to Introduce To Customers: Innovate SAM, our Software Asset Management Services and Innovate PAY-CENTRAL™, our payment gateway.

Favorite Reading Material: Roger Lewin's Complexity. It deals with emergent properties of systems, which is exactly what is happening with the Internet and businesses.

Career Accomplishment I Brag About Most: Supporting the implementation of enterprise architectures into reality at two state governments.

Favorite Executive Drive-Thru Meal: El Chilango's take-out.

Feathers in My Cap: Building enterprise solutions for complex environments.

Self-Description: Tenacious, trustworthy, able to solve the really tough problems.

E-Mail Address: rveranes@innovateec.com

Corporate Headquarters 160 North Craig Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Corporate Headquarters
160 North Craig Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15213