50 St. Paul Street Apt. 3 • Brookline MA

Phone 617-216-9921 • E-mail Dan@danhousman.com

Daniel Housman

Objective

 

At the moment I am quite busy with my current ventures but am interested in advisory roles with companies that can take advantage of my experience as an entrepreneur.

Summary of qualifications

 

n     Co-founder of Internet start-up ChannelWave, Inc. overseeing the business growth from zero stage to $13M in annual revenue over 6 years. ChannelWave successfully pioneered PRM (Partner Relationship Management) and commerce outsourcing.

n     Ten years of management experience across all aspects of corporate development.

n     Proven track record providing leadership, defining product strategy, articulating business value to customers, and creating clear technical communications

Professional experience

 

March 2005  - Present      Recombinant Data                                                   Burlington, MA

Co-Founder - Director of Clinical Intelligence

n     Managed and developed a .NET and Crystal Reports based quality reporting portal and data warehouse reporting framework for Partners Healthcare.

n   Entrepreneurial leadership to grow through bootstrapping from a small 4 person services business to a rapidly growing 10 person product focused growth business in the healthcare analytics market

n     Established partnerships with Partners Healthcare to bring internally developed products to market.

Jan 2004 – March 2005      Viapoint                                                         Burlington, MA

VP Marketing

n     Positioned desktop tool away from competitive desktop search market to create smart organizer message

n     Established partnership with Google Desktop Search and free product version through launch activity on March 17th driving 20,000 downloads to date and 500 downloads/day

n     Created product roadmap and expansion strategy focused on channel partnerships to drive product adoption, new revenue, OEM revenue, and user value

1998-2004 ChannelWave Inc.                                                                     Cambridge, MA

 

Co-Founder/VP of Professional Services, 1998-2000

n     Created and established business strategy, recruited senior management including an established CEO, VP of Technology, and initial engineering team.

n     Authored business plan and communicated vision for initial fundraising activities

n     Executed initial sales engineering and project management efforts to win and deliver solutions to telecom equipment manufacturers including 3Com, Nortel, Xyplex, and Intel.

 

Director of Product Management, 2000-2003

n     Initiated acquisition strategy to extend the product footprint and customer base

n     Managed a team of 4 product managers and 2 marketing managers across 3 locations

n     Leader of a product porting effort to combine 4 legacy platforms into an integrated Java based platform including establishment of OEM relationships for platform components.

 

Director of Product Strategy, January 2004 – Feb 2005

n     Strategic evaluation process including four viable candidates leading to the merger between ChannelWave Software Inc. and Aqueduct

n     Business development focused to support 15 referral partners and 4 International resellers

n     Marketing content author for white papers, presentations, newsletters, and web sites.

n     Search engine marketing initiative to grow traffic from 5,000 to 35,000 unique visitors

 

1996-1998    VirtuMedia Inc. Co-founder                                                         Cambridge, MA

n     Established the VirtuFlex Dynamic Web Engine product, a mark-up language interpreter for developing database driven web applications for non-programmers. Similar to Cold Fusion and Active Server Pages.

n     Marketed and sold the product into over 50 client accounts growing sales to over $100,000 per year through bootstrapped sales.

n     Sales and delivery of consulting engagements to create business applications based upon VirtuFlex including applications for help desks, intranets, lead management, and sales forecasting for clients including Parametric Technologies and Nexar computer 

1994 – 1996      VirtuMall, Inc. Co-Founder

n     Co-founder of an ecommerce site for mail-order catalog publishers and magazines to market their products online.

n     Tele-sales campaigns to establish landmark clients including Hickory Farms, Inc. Magazine, and Metropolis magazine, to create a mall including over 40 mail order catalog publishers and three magazines.

n     Web development of the VirtuMall site and technologies

Education

 

1991- 1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology                                         Cambridge, MA

BS, Chemistry/BS, Biology

Professional memberships

 

Boston Product Managers Association, MIT Venture Mentoring Service (Mentor), MIT Enterprise Forum

Additional Interests

 

Improv comedy, Digital photography, Video/Movie production, Biotechnology, Outdoor activities, and Creative writing