Jim Ladd

About Jim Ladd

With over three decades of leadership and hands-on experience, I have a career long…

Experience

1. Founder Principal Consultant

   Wazee Group, Inc

   Oct 2000 — Present · Tampa, FL, US

   Founded Wazee Group in to provide IT professional services with integrity, respect, and high value. Led multiple successful engagements across several industries, a wide spectrum of business challenges, and diverse technologies. Achieved and maintained profitability since day one. As CEO, oversaw the operation of the business including strategic planning, sales, proposal generation, and contract negotiation. Also responsible for professional and worker compensation insurance policy and vendor selections, unemployment insurance reporting, state and federal tax reporting.As Principal Consultant, responsible for all client engagements and contract executions. Successfully lead numerous client projects and guided the development of four commercial software products. Also contributed to a significant open-source project.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

  1981 — 1985

• Carnegie-Mellon University

  Masters in Manufacturing Engineering

  1985 — 1986

Skills

• Start-Ups
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Business Development
• Telecommunications
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Software Development
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Analysis
• Databases
• Java
• Entrepreneurship
• Sdlc
• Salesforce.com
• Program Management
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Integration
• Agile Methodologies
• Saas
• Management
• Leadership
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing