Resume of
William R. Pickard, Jr., President
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
President, Pickard & Murphy, Seattle, Washington. Founded the firm in 1989.
Chief Operating Officer, DiscoverMusic.com, Seattle, Washington. Came on initially as a short term consultant, and remained to head up Finance, Information Technology, Production, and Administration. Grew operations and developed infrastructure into a non-stop, robust platform capable of serving in excess of 50 million music transactions per month, with steadily improving customer satisfaction metrics.
Principal, KPMG Peat Marwick, Seattle, Washington. Partner in charge of the Core Information Technology Practice for the Pacific Northwest Region.
Vice President, Vertical Systems, Inc. Seattle, Washington. Co-founded this operations management and systems integration consulting firm, and built it into largest IBM business partner in the Pacific Northwest. Merged with KPMG Peat Marwick.
Treasurer and Director of Finance, HICOMP Technology Corporation, Inc. and Computer Corporation, Inc., Redmond, Washington. CFO for five high technology start-ups.
Senior Management Consultant, Touche Ross & Co., Seattle, Washington.
Vice President of Operations, Champion Cable Chain, Inc., Swanton, Vermont.
General Manager of Mail Order and Director of Advertising, Eastern Mountain Sports, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts
EDUCATION
Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, MBA
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, AB
OTHER
Director, Globe-1, Incorporated, - 1995 - Present
Director, Pixel Dust Animation, Inc., 1996 - 1998
Co-Chair, Washington Software Association, Industry Information Committee 1993-1996
Chair, Washington Software Association, On-Line Services Sub-Committee 1995-1996
Founder, Computing Technology Industry Association, Product Information Standards Committee
Contributor, Internet Engineering Task Force - Internet EDI Standards 1993-1995
Senior Director, George Pocock Foundation 1985 - 1992
Director, Lake Kapowsin Public Development Authority 1987 - 1993
Panelist, ACM International Workshop on Electronic Commerce, In conjunction with the Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'94) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland
Panelist, WSA On-Line Advantage '95 & '96.
Program Committee, Panelist, and Moderator WSA Annual Meetings '94 & '95, Moderator & Panelist
