Craig Piekarz This is Me

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1. 1. BostonLogix Inc.

   www.bostonlogix.com/management - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/24/2008   Last Visited: 4/24/2008

   Craig Piekarz - Founder, COO and Chief Product Strategist
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   Using his chemist training, Joe, together with Craig Piekarz architected an innovative laboratory data management, analysis, and workflow system.
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   Craig Piekarz - Founder, COO and Chief Product Strategist
   
   Craig has been designing and developing enterprise software applications for his entire 18 year career. His software applications are used for monitoring, managing, planning, automating and optimizing business and manufacturing processes in international Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Food and Beverage and Financial corporations.
   
   His rigorous software discipline was honed early in Craig's career working on critical applications in the highly-regulated environment at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals. Later, at DuPont, Craig designed and developed a series of software applications to improve the operational efficiency of the paint manufacturing facilities in the US and Mexico.
   
   In 1991, Craig joined Joe McDermott at Datalogix to help bring their 2nd generation Process Manufacturing ERP system (GEMMS) to market.
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   Craig was responsible for application design and full-life-cycle development including JAD (Joint Application Design) sessions and Beta programs as well as maintenance of the product.
   
   As a member of the executive transition team, Craig stayed with Oracle Corporation after their acquisition of Datalogix to manage the smooth transition of his organization and product GEMMS into its current state: "Oracle Process Manufacturing - OPM". Here, Craig also completed his APICS coursework in Master Planning, Materials and Capacity Planning and Production Control.
   
   Craig rejoined Joe McDermott, (now at Formation Systems) to develop the product strategy, functional design, and to build the development organization for Optiva.
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   Craig has spent the past 4 years developing and refining a repeatable, reliable off-shore software development and delivery model with Venu Chigullapalli and the rest of the BostonLogix Management Team. As a Sr. Partner in the firm, Craig successfully built and ran the North-East Region for Fusion Technologies, Inc. Craig's group specialized in designing and developing add-ons for Enterprise Applications, Integration, Business Intelligence and Commercial Software outsourcing.
   
   Craig holds a BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and in addition to contributing his organization and business building skills, he provides strategic Management Consulting and personally oversees the Design Process of BostonLogix' applications and solutions.
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   During his tenure at Fusion Technologies, Venu worked with Craig Piekarz to refine the traditional offshore services and turned offshore teams into a seamless extension of onshore units.
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   Chris joined Craig and Joe at Formation Systems in 1998 to help manage the large-scale joint development effort with key partners including The Coca-Cola Company, and to help develop best-practices in the deployment of Optiva across the user-base.

2. 2. BostonLogix Inc.

   www.bostonlogix.com/aboutus.ht - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/27/2007   Last Visited: 4/24/2008

   Founders Joseph McDermott (CEO) and Craig Piekarz (COO) have been working together for the past 14 years.
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   Craig has worked with the rest of the BostonLogix Team over the past 4 years developing and refining a repeatable, reliable off-shore software development and delivery model at Fusion Technologies, Inc. With support from Fusion, Craig partnered with Joe McDermott and the rest of the team and launched BostonLogix as an independent, turn-key commercial software development firm in July, 2005.

3. 3. www.precisionsg.com

   www.precisionsg.com/pages/indu - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/16/2008   Last Visited: 6/13/2008

   2007 PRISM User Group Meeting â€" keynote presentation by Craig Piekarz; Chief Product Strategist, Boston Logix