About

Philosophy

Bigger is not always better. Innovent Consulting was started in 1998 by Terry Rohrer when he was Vice President, Strategic Technical Services at IBM/Sterling Commerce. After 13 years in software engineering, project management, and various senior management positions, he launched Innovent Consulting with a simple philosophy - Expertise, Integrity and Results. During this time, Innovent Consulting has gathered a network of personally selected full-time and part-time consultants. Each individual has personally worked with Terry and has demonstrated expertise, integrity and results. Below is a brief bio of Terry and a list of services offered by Innovent Consulting.

Terry's Bio

Leadership Experience

- President and Founder, Innovent Consulting
- Vice-President - Strategic Planning, Sterling Commerce/IBM
- Vice-President - Strategic Technical Services (IT and COMMERCE), Sterling Commerce/IBM (42 headcount)
- Director – E-Commerce Development, Sterling Commerce/IBM (92 headcount, plus consultants)
- Director, Strategic Research, Sterling Commerce/IBM (4 headcount)
- Director – Strategic Project Management (IT and COMMERCE), Sterling Commerce/IBM (12 headcount)
- Manager – Server Development, Sterling Commerce/IBM (9 headcount, plus consultants)
- Project Manager – COMMERCE Products, Sterling Commerce/IBM (matrix managed inter-departmental teams)
- Scrum Leader – BPL Global, Power SG SmartGrid product line (7 team members)

Consortium Participation, Speaking Engagements, and Key Customer Presentations

- Technical Representative - Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) EDI-INT Task Force
- Speaker and Member - Electronic Messaging Association (EMA) Task Force for messaging interoperability
- Technical Participant - CommerceNet Task Force for Internet EDI
- Technical Participant - National Wholesale Druggists Association (NWDA)
- Speaker - Data Interchange Standards Association (DISA)
- Speaker - Uniform Code Counsel (UCC)
- Technical presentations for Wal-Mart, Target, Meijer, McDonalds, Canadian National Railway, Nestle(Switzerland), Satyam (India), China Steel (Taiwan) and many more
- Participant - Gartner Group Symposium

Technical Skills

- Software Architect
- Software Engineer (JAVA and .NET)
- Database Administrator/Developer (MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostGreSQL, mySQL)
- Systems Architect/Administrator (Windows, Linux, VMWare)

Personal Reference

"I can highly recommend Innovent Consulting. When I was the IT Director for Picway Shoes, a national retailer with over 20,000 SKUs and 1000 stores, Terry helped us design, implement and support our merchandise planning systems. He demonstrated excellent technical skills, a keen understanding of the merchandising process and the ability to deliver on key projects. You won't be disappointed."
- David Hogan, CIO -National Retail Federation

Innovent Consulting Services

Agile

Lean. Scrum. Kanban. TDD. Continuous Deployment. Which practices are best for your company? Is your Agile team performing at peak velocity? You can leverage Innovent's experience in helping teams realize the benefits of Agile development.

.NET

Whether it's Web Forms, Web Apps or Mobile Apps, Innovent has extensive experience helping companies launch and support products using Microsoft technologies. Specialties include C#, VB, ASP.NET and MVC

Java

If your company prefers open source technologies, Innovent can help. We have experience in Java SE/EE, Java for Android, Spring, Hibernate, Wicket, JMS, Jersey, Jackson, JUnit and other open source technologies.

JavaScript/HTML5/CSS

It's the important glue between the UI design and the backend services. If concerned with browser compatibility, HTML5, JQuery, Ext JS, Mobile Web, charting libraries or just plain JavaScript, Innovent can help make your web experience sleek and responsive.

SQL/NoSQL

Microsoft SQL Server. Oracle. PostGreSQL. MySQL. Access. MongoDB. Whether it's upgrading, tuning, migrating, designing, programming, replicating, recovering or reporting, we've done it all.

Biz Services

Innovent offers specialty consulting services for Strategy, Business Development, Marketing, Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures. We also have arrangements to provide hosting, e-mail, web marketing, SOE and other biz services.

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