GDG Principals
Stephen
Bennett - President /CEO
Mr. Bennett has over 25 years of computer experience. As a highly successful
technical sales person and systems designer, Mr. Bennett designed and
implemented imaging solutions for Martin Marietta, Brunswick Defense Systems
and NASA. Mr. Bennett has extensive project management experience as he
has overseen several multi-million dollar projects including the integration
and installation of the Florida corporate offices of HIP Health Plan in
Hollywood and Tampa, Data Warehouse solution for Thomas & Bett's,
Data Warehouse for the Uniform Commercial Code Council in Dayton, Ohio
and Computer Telephony based call centers for Tel-Save(Talk America NASDAQ:TALK)
and Mobil Oil's Lubricants Division. Mr. Bennett also developed the call
center operations for Discovery Marketing of Orlando, which was one of
the first WEB based call centers in the country utilizing remote agents.
Mr. Bennett has appeared as a featured expert in several national computer
publications and contributed to the development of the Cleqs / InterpreGATOR
ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) engine that won Imaging Magazine's
"Product of the year for 1996" and IMC "Project of the
Year 97" for the processing of the Turkish National Census.
EDUCATION 1978 - 1979 St. Cloud State University, MN 1979 - 1981 University
of Minnesota Institute of Technology 1981 - 1982 University of Minnesota
College of Liberal Arts (Political Science & Economics major, minor
in Computer Science)
Delwar Hossain
- Director of Design & Programming
Mr. Hossain has over 25 years of design and development experience in
industries as varied as textiles, banking and government in the United
States, Germany and Bangladesh. In addition to developing sophisticated
retail, point-of-sale and healthcare applications with Gator Bait, Mr.
Hossain’s projects have included Trading Management and Export Processing
Systems for General Network, Ltd. Of Minnesota; Inter Branch Reconciliation,
Classification of Loans, Central Bank & MIS Reporting, Personnel Management
Information and Phone Banking systems for City Bank, LTD. in Dhaka, Bangladesh;
and Crisis & Disaster Management and, MIS systems for the Office of
the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
Mr. Hossain was educated at Gurudayal College, Dhaka University, Kishoregonj,
Bangladesh (B.S.) and at Dhaka University, Dhaka, Bangladesh where he
earned an MBA (Quantitative Business Analysis).
Richard Reed
– Sr. Systems Architect
Rich Reed is a senior IT professional with 25+ years of experience in
mid and senior level positions within government, insurance and healthcare.
In addition to working on GDG's SNO project, he is currently Program Director
of a Budget System project for the VT state Legislature's Joint Fiscal
Office. He has consulted with small-medium sized providers on HIPAA compliance
and worked as the Technical Architect on the Data Warehousing program
of CIGNA Healthcare’s Transformation Project, which was cited at
the time as the largest business and systems re-engineering project in
the healthcare industry. Prior
to contributing to CIGNA’s data warehousing efforts. Rich served
as CIO to CIGNA Healthcare’s southeast region where he introduced
rapid application development and object oriented development techniques.
He directed the development of several systems for Provider Contracting,
Medical Utilization Management and Customer Service.
Rich
graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (now Polytechnic
University) in New York City, majoring in Social Sciences and Electrical
Engineering. He also holds an M.S. in Public Administration and Labor
Economics from the University of Utah and an M.S. in Education (Educational
Technology) from American Intercontinental University. He resides in north
central Vermont.
