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Mr. Navratil's 25 years in the software business has provided Navratil International good insight into these areas.
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John B. Navratil - Founder
Mr. Navratil, president of Navratil International, has spent the last 25 years researching, designing, developing and writing about software for the U.S. and international market.Mr. Navratil has traveled widely to research country-specific accounting requirements, and has authored many documents on such topics as software development processes, multi-currency processing, financial statement translation, tax processing and the euro.
Mr. Navratil has spent many years analyzing complex financial and accounting issues related to doing business in the United States, Western Europe, the Americas and the Far East.During this period he developed considerable expertise in translating complex business processes into clear, concise, unambiguous business rules.He used that knowledge to assist software vendors design, test and implement software for the U.S. and international markets.
Along the way Mr. Navratil turned his attention from analyzing specific processes and developing specific solutions, to developing a strategic, process-driven solution to the way in which software vendors approach the development of their software.Mr. Navratil's focus shifted from developing specific answers to specific questions to developing a methodology that would fundamentally change the way in which companies approached developing software.
Mr. Navratil received his B.A. in International Relations in 1970 from the University of Wisconsin, and graduated in 1971 from the Russian Language Studies program at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California.From 1973 through 1976, Mr. Navratil completed several graduate degree programs at the University of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland, and in 1978 he obtained his M.B.A. in Finance and Management from the University of Wisconsin.
Mr. Navratil served in the U.S. Army from 1970 to 1973 as a Russian-language trained interrogator.