Corporate Career

Corporate Career of Al Davis

Detailed Experience

2012-present: Offtoa, Inc., Westminster, Colorado
  • President and CEO. A 2012 start-up, Offtoa (as in "off to a great start") provides an internet-based service that assists entrepreneurs in crafting their business strategies to optimize financial returns for themselves and their investors.
2010-2011: Undisclosed Company, Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • President and CEO. A 2009 start-up, this company enabled consumers to direct a percentage of their on-line purchases to their favorite charity, at no cost to them. Most on-line merchants already pay referral (aka affiliate marketing) fees to third parties. The company used proprietary software to direct those fees to the company, and then it passed most on to the consumers' charities. During 8 months in this position, he extricated the company from a long list of legal and IP entanglements, focused the company on just one rather than three businesses, created equity and financial plans, and created internal processes for product development, customer interface, and merchant management.
1998-2002: Omni-Vista, Inc., Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • Chairman and CEO (1998-2002), President (1998-2001), and Acting Vice President, Marketing (1999-2000). Omni-Vista was dedicated to helping companies prevent software management disasters through innovative products and services centered around product planning and requirements management. The tools assisted companies in balancing their desired product features with a target market window and available R&D dollars. Such complex, multi-dimensional problems were previously solved only by “gut” or “instinct” of decision-makers. Omni-Vista raised $2.3M in five rounds of private placements, released three products (called Omni-Vista SP, OnYourMark and OnYourMark Pro). At its peak, the company had 150+ customers and 14 employees. 
  • The assets of Omni-Vista were sold in mid-2002.
1995-2000: Catalyst InfoTech Development Fund, L.P, Colorado Springs, Colorado
  • Non-Managing General Partner (1995-2002) and Member, Investment Advisory Board (1995-2002). In addition to being a general partner of this venture capital company, Dr. Davis served on the board that assessed candidate portfolio companies, and made investment recommendations to the managing general partners. 
  • The assets of this company were distributed to the general and limited partners in 2002.
1995-1997: Requisite, Inc., Boulder, Colorado
  • Founding Director. Al was a member of the Board of Directors throughout the life of Requisite, Inc., a start-up focused on providing innovative software tools to support requirements management. 
  • Requisite was acquired by Rational Software Corp. in 1997 and IBM in 2003.
1984-1991: BTG, Inc., Vienna, Virginia
  • Vice President, Engineering Services (1984-1986), and Vice President, Engineering Technology (1987-1988). As Vice President of the two divisions, Dr. Davis was responsible for all financial, technical, administrative, marketing, and planning aspects of BTG's $4M annual services business. Business included systems engineering, configuration management, program management support, consulting, training, and software engineering research. 
  • Vice President, Director of Research (1986-1987). Dr. Davis reported to the President and was responsible for all aspects of corporate research: writing proposals, participating in Independent Research & Development (IRAD) funding decisions, performing research, publishing and consulting.
  • Internal Consultant (1988-1991). Reporting to the President, Dr. Davis performed a wide variety of assignments including writing speeches, performing joint research with staff members, teaching internal classes, and performing management and technical consulting on an as-needed basis.
  • BTG was acquired by Titan, Inc. in 2002 and L-3 Communications in 2007.
1983-1984: GTE Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
  • Director, Common Systems Development. Dr. Davis had responsibility for half of all product development in GTE Communication Systems. This included digital hardware, operating systems, and systems diagnostics and recovery for central office and PABX switching systems. CSD had a budget of over $16 million and employed 150 people.
  • GTE merged with Bell Atlantic in 2000 to create Verizon.
1977-1983: GTE Laboratories, Waltham, Massachusetts
  • Member of Technical Staff (1977-1978). Dr. Davis developed tools for automation of software development.
  • Manager, Software Engineering Department (1978-1981). Dr. Davis was responsible for all aspects of software R&D and computer-aided design (CAD) R&D functions of GTE Laboratories. The Department created automated tools and techniques for developing software and integrated circuits throughout GTE Corporation. Under his leadership, the department grew from 10 to 40 people.
  • Director, Software Technology Center (1981-1983). With an annual budget of $3 million, Dr. Davis directed 45 professionals exploring techniques to automate software and hardware development. He was responsible for long-term strategic planning in software for GTE.
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