Optim Team
Bill Wolf
Director of Data Management, Concord
Technical Director, Concord Blue
Bill Wolf is Director of Data Management for Concord and Technical Director for Concord Blue, Concord's affiliate organization dedicated to the sales and implementation of IBM related software products. He is responsible for the strategic planning, development and management of the firm's Data Management division and specializes in the architecture and design of applications surrounding data integration. Additionally, he manages Concord Blue's technical solutions team and assists the sales team with discovery, pre sale, implementation, post sales resources and solutions for Optim and additional IBM software products.
Wolf has more than 28 years of industry experience with positions such as data modeler, business analyst, project manager, system architect and department manager. Most recently, he worked with clients in the banking and healthcare industries to build center of excellence practices' surrounding the use of ETL tools within their organizations. This included best practices as well as training and staffing programs. Prior to that, he was the Owner of Wolf Consulting and worked as an Independent Consultant. He completed a number of projects for Fortune 500 companies dealing with large scale multi-platform data warehouses, which serviced customer relationship management, automated scoring and decisioning, and lead management systems.
Wolf was a previous executive council leader of the Minneapolis-based IBM/Ascential Midwest Users Group and has been a repeat speaker at Ascential World, IBM IOD and various other national conventions. Additionally, he provided reference and testimonial for the use of IBMs ETL toolset as well as general data warehousing concepts to prospective new clients by IBMs marketing staff on both national and local levels. Wolf has worked extensively with various software engineers on a variety of software related designs and issues to resolve problems and build new features within products.
Richard Schechinger
Sr. Technical Lead, Concord Blue
Richard Schechinger is Sr. Technical Lead for Concord Blue, Concord's affiliate organization dedicated to the sales and implementation of IBM related software products. He is responsible for the scoping, engagement preparation, ramp-up and implementation oversight for IBM-based projects.
Schechinger has more than 23 years of IT experience and has held positions such as software systems engineer, product specialist, programmer analyst, systems administrator and database administrator. Most recently, he worked as a front line technical lead for IBMs Optim sales team. As technical lead for Optim sales efforts, Schechinger grew proficient in issues, tools and solutions surrounding information lifecycle management, data privacy, test data management and server oriented architectures with focus on Optim supported databases, operating systems and storage components.
Prior to that, he was a consultant for Fortune 500 clients and specialized in manufacturing quality control, medical image-processing and military messaging systems.
Schechinger is experienced in a variety of operating systems including various flavors of UNIX from Sun, HP and IBM, Linux, MacOS, as well as IBM OS/390, z/OS and System i. He is also proficient at Java, Eclipse, XML, SQL, C/C++, VB and UNIX Shell languages.
Schechinger holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Delaware.
David Stansberry
Sales Director, Concord Blue
David Stansberry is Sales Director for Concord Blue, Concord's affiliate organization dedicated to the sales and implementation of IBM related software products. He is responsible for developing business relationships with IBM as well as Fortune 500 customers.
Stansberry has more than 14 years of experience in sales, sales management and business development. Prior to Concord, he was a Principal with Certus EDM. He was responsible for developing business relationships with investment banks, private equity firms, Fortune 500 companies, law firms and major banking institutions. In addition to business development, Stansberry was active in developing marketing strategies and new product offerings, and raising capital.
He has worked for and founded start-up companies in the areas of software, hardware and finance. He served as National Sales Manager for Marshall BankFirst Residential Mortgage Group where he focused on providing financing for mortgage companies throughout the U.S. Prior to his work with Marshall BankFirst, he served as National Sales Manager for Partner Loan Services and was Vice President of Sales for Zonetrader and a founder of Golf Intelligence (National Golf Network).
Stansberry holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota.
Concord Blue Development Team
Concord Blue’s Development Team is dedicated to the implementation and continued support services of Concord and IBM related software products.
With more than 120 years of combined, progressive IT experience, Concord Blue’s Development Team has the ability to effectively manage software development lifecycles from their initial visionary and planning stages through the analysis, design, build-out, validity testing, completion and transition stages.
By combining the Development Team’s widespread roles in management, familiarity with ETL programming and test analysis, and system conversion experience they can provide the hands on training and real world know-how to help organization’s become more efficient and further capitalize on enterprise-wide applications.
Associates from the Development Team have worked in a variety of business environments within the banking, financial, insurance, healthcare, corporate retail, logistics and technology industries. In addition to being IBM Certified, the Team has extensive experience with multiple languages, operating systems and database environments.
Concord Blue’s Development Team will also leverage further technical sales support from the directors of Concord’s additional practice lines of Management Consulting, Risk and Compliance, Infrastructure and Integration.