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James D. Weichel
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James
Weichel is currently a Consultant for Progeny Ventures, helping to
identify and start companies based on new technologies.
Prior to joining Progeny, Mr. Weichel was Chief Technical Officer
of GlobalView Software, Inc., a combined software and information
delivery company serving the energy industry where he led all technology
strategy, product development, technical consulting, company IT
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Prior
to GVSI, Mr. Weichel was a founder and President of Visual Insights,
Inc. from its skunkworks inception in Lucent Technologies in 1994 until
December of 1997.
In 1998 and 1999, he served as its Chief Operating Officer
responsible for finance, contracts, operations, IT, system test, and
technical support.
In 1995, Mr. Weichel created an information technology consulting
business in Lucent Technologies. Prior to that, he provided system,
network, and application software and data communication services to
Lucent Technologies (formerly AT&T) R&D in North America,
Europe, & Asia.
In 1990 to 1993, he led a successful re-engineering of the all
the AT&T R&D computing services with customers in Europe and US.
He improved service while reducing cost by a factor of 2 and staff by
40%.
From 1985 to 1990, he was the IT Director of an $80 million
department supplying system and network services to 6000 customers
within AT&T. In the early 1980s, he founded a company engaged in the
business commodity fund management and trading.
In the 1970's Mr. Weichel led software development teams and did
technical marketing support for AT&T's initial expansion into the
international switching market.
Mr.
Weichel graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Electrical
Engineering from Kansas State University, and an MS in Electrical
Engineering from Purdue University.
He has also completed Executive Management programs at Penn
State, Harvard, and Northwestern Universities
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