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Warren S. Reid

	Warren S. Reid Posted: Jan 15 2003 Contributor Over 26 years experience as a businessman, management – litigation – and technology strategist and consultant including Senior Principal – in – Charge (Partner) of Information Systems Consulting for an international public accounting firm. Managed consulting teams of 3 – 30 consultants on fee assignments of $3,000 - $3 million for companies ranging in size from $1 million to over $20 billion in annual sales. Areas of Expertise (a sampling of successes) Business Counseling and Management: Developed strategic, marketing, and business plans to assist in growing, reorganizing, selling and/or raising capital for high-technology companies. Guided the Board of Directors, staff and physicians of a major non-profit health-care institution in changing its mission, organization structure and management team, physical plant and systems, resulting in annual savings of $3 million. Responsible for identifying and negotiating the hiring of more than a dozen CEO’s and top managers to lead newly formed, redirected, or emerging-growth companies. Total Systems Solutions and Innovation: Implemented California’s LOTTO 6/49 Games including controls to prevent annual losses of $10 million for potential fraud/abuse. Co-led creation of Federal Energy Office, advising the Regional Administration on the staffing and training of 250 people, and implementing policies, procedures and controls. The agency was set-up and running in 75 days, and prevented and oil crisis form closing essential services. Led planning team to revamp New York State’s multi-billion dollar Welfare Program. Developed methods to limit, detect, and correct fraud/abuse, with projected annual savings of $50 million. Orchestrated complete micro-, mini-, and mainframe systems solutions form concept to startup for more than 100 companies in 15 industries, including: healthcare, manufacturing, wholesale distribution, retail, government, financial services, and non-profit firms. Results included major improvements in clients’ planning, operations, controls, accounting, and profitability. Acted as a Crisis Manager for clients with “failed mission-critical” computer systems. Specialized Legal Solutions and Litigation Expertise: Consultant/expert witness and/or special master in complex litigation involving: Year 2000 issues; computer systems contracts; acceptance and performance; systems development and life cycle methodologies. Other areas of expertise include: complex system project management, and system project estimation methods; unit, system, acceptance, and performance testing; intellectual property; director/officer responsibility, business failures; Civil RICO; and general business and insurance matters. Frequently requested presenter/keynote speaker at major national and international business and computer law conferences speaking on: technology and computer contracts; expert witness strategies; systems testing and acceptable performance; financing high tech companies; raising venture capital; the Year 2000 Millennium problem; and developing successful quality systems solutions. Experience WSR Consulting Group, Los Angeles, 1988 Present Founder and Managing Director Laventhol & Horwath 1980 1988 Los Angeles Senior Principal-in-Charge of Information Systems Consulting for the Western Region Arthur Andersen & Co., Los Angeles, New York 1972 1980 Manager in Management Information Consulting. (Advanced from staff consultant) Education Wharton Graduate School of Finance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania MBA in Management Information and Control, 1972 MS in Accounting, 1971 Baruch College (City College of New York), New York, New York Bachelor of Business Administration, 1970 (accounting major, first in class) President, Beta Alpha Psi (National Honorary Accounting Fraternity Winner of National Beta Alpha Psi Award for Excellence in Accounting Member of Beta Gamma Sigma (National Honorary Business Fraternity) Winner, New York State Regents Scholarship Affiliations Earned the Certified Management Consultant (CMC) designation from the Institute of Management Consultants – 1990 and the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) designation from the National Association of Certified Fraud Examiners – 1989. Vice-Chair of the World Computer Law Congress – 91,93. Co-organizer and Official Host for the International Conference on Computers and Law – 1988 and IBM – RACF Users Conferences – 1990,1992. Co-founder and Board Member of the Professional Technology Executives Cooperative (ProTEC). Chairman and Co-founder of The Southern California IMPACT RoundTables I and II. Executive Committee Board member of the Caltech-MIT Enterprise Forum. Seminar leader at the Forum’s yearly Entrepreneurship seminar. Awarded the designation of Expert Neutral (one of few in the United States) by the ADAPSO organized Milton R. Wessel Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution for Computer and Technology Matters Member of Faculty of The Masters Program for International Computer Negotiations, Incorporated. Keynote speaker at innumerous prestigious conferences. Board Memberships: Board of Governors – Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Reviewer/Contributor for Carnegie-Mellon – Software Engineering Institute Task Force for the “Software Development Cost/Estimation Initiative:. Pas Board Member of : the Cultural Foundation; Technical Steering Committee – City of Hope; Century City Chamber of Commerce; Comp-u-Talk – a high-tech R&D Company Former Member of the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Study Forum; Wharton Club; Quality Assurance Institute. Publications Co-author of: The Year 2000 Computer Crisis: Law, Business, and Technology, (with Michael D. Scott), Published by Glasser LegalWorks, 1998. (ISBN#1-888075-68-6) Phone: (800) 890-1700 Author of: The Year 2000 Computer Crisis: A Director & Executive Management Guide, Published by The Information Management Forum, 1997. (ISBN#1-55711-172-3) Phone: (770) 455-0070. Over 50 published business and technology articles; interviews syndicated in 150 newspapers. Authored chapters in business bookd; Information Systems Editor for High Tech Procurement Magazine; Former KGIL Talk Radio Technology Commentator Counselor. Developer of “rfp/MASTER – for Successful Systems Solutions”. Columnist for The Enterprise Systems Journal. Member, Editorial Advisory Board of The Year 2000 Journal. Member, Board of Editors of the Y2K Counselor. Email Warren S. Reid Go Top