Evan Bauer Information Technology

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Evan Bauer has 25 years of experience in the architecture, design, implementation, and maintenance of complex information systems. He is an independent consultant advising both public and private sector organizations on technology innovation. He also works with venture capital and private equity firms through Fanzilli | Bauer Technology Partners.

Current and recent projects include:

  • global wireless application delivery
  • data and compute grid design and architecture
  • introduction of Linux and other open source technologies into major organizations
  • technology risk assessment and mitigation
  • venture capital due diligence assignments
  • product strategy and roadmap development

Evan is a member of the technical advisory boards of Baynote, Blazent, Egenera, Interwoven (NASDAQ: IWOV), nLayers, and PSS Systems.

Background

  • Evan served as Managing Director of Technology Operations at Sona Mobile, the world's leading provider of mobile business wireless solutions. By stepping in to an operating role at this consulting client, he created a product management function, instituted a QA process for Sona's enterprise products, and developed new product lines specifically for channel partners Alcatel and SugarCRM. Evan was responsible for both Sona's largest financial services contract of 2005 and for the design of its secure mobile entertainment infrastructure.
  • As a Principal Research Fellow with the Robert Frances Group, Evan delivered strategic consulting projects to RFG's Fortune 500 client base, with major projects for Dow Jones, Pfizer, IBM, HP, Unisys, Novell, Cognos, Red Hat, and Nstar Energy. Evan published research on IT strategy, open source software, data management, application architecture, and mobile computing.
  • As Chief Technology Officer for Global Technology Infrastructure at Credit Suisse First Boston, Evan provided overall direction and oversight for the re-architecting of CSFB's network, server, and desktop environments supporting the global operations of this top tier investment bank.
  • In his previous assignment at CSFB, Evan built a global Internet/Intranet hosting organization and infrastructure for CSFB that managed 77 external and over 1,400 internal sites and applications.
  • Prior to joining CSFB he served as Principal Architect for both Global Operations and Sales and Trading Technology at Bankers Trust Company where he had responsibility for the business and application architectures for foreign exchange, money market, and listed securities systems.
  • Evan was a founding analyst serving as Vice President and Senior Research Advisor at the Giga Information Group where he established the data management and web software research teams.
  • Previous positions include: Vice President, Client-Server Engineering for Bankers Trust; Principal Database Consultant for Digital Equipment Corporation; and Vice President of Operations for SEED Software Corporation.
  • At the start of his career he held a variety of technical positions at ManTech International, Control Data Corporation, International Database Systems, First Pennsylvania Bank, and the staff of the United States Senate.
Publications include over one hundred articles, research notes, and monographs; he has been a guest lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University as well as a frequent presenter at industry conferences including the Waters Congress, Comdex, LinuxWorld, Internet World, and the CSFB Asian Investor's Conference. He is an alumnus of Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Evan serves on the Brooklyn Community Leadership Committee of the Board of Habitat for Humanity NYC and is a founding member of its Community Builder Society. He sits on the advisory board to the Computer and Information Systems Department of LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York. He is webmaster for his wife, novelist Joan Bauer.

"eb at evanbauer.com"