Biography

Dean Stephens - Senior Consultant, Project Management

Mr. Stephens is a Project Management Consultant assisting on projects that require complex management structures in leading edge fields of Information Technology. He is a specialist in leading strategy planning exercises to Internet enable marketing based organizations. Prior to forming ASL Computing in Colerain, NC, he was Managing Partner in William Stephens & Associates, a west coast based firm that specialized in Internet based software consulting in Silicon Valley. He has worked as a consultant in high technology systems for over 10 years and is a recognized expert in project management for leading edge client server systems and multi tier Internet technologies. He has over 25 years experience in Distribution, Entertainment and Automotive Manufacturing as a systems developer. He is also an inventor and holder of multiple patents in word processing and Internet to ATM bridge technologies.

Mr. Stephens has served as Director of Management Information Systems for Allied Signal Corporation, Director of Systems Development for EMI Music, Inc and Vice President of Management Information Services for Print Technology, Inc. He has served on the Board of Directors of several firms. He was the cofounder and Chief Executive Officer of The Seminars Group. He served as Chief Financial Officer for First Commerce Mortgage. He has also served as a product manager of Internet technologies for KLA Tencor in Silicon Valley. Prior to his involvement in technology management, Mr. Stephens was successful in telecommunications sales management.

He has directed organizations with staff of over 300 employees, and managed two well-known technology projects that advanced the state of the art significantly; in service management for the office equipment industry; and electronic order entry for the airline industry. He has managed international projects in Europe, South America and Asia.

He has a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta Georgia, and attended Kensington University Law School in Glendale California.

Mr. Stephens' family lived on a farm in Hexalena, North Carolina when he was born. His father was an assistant County Agent for Bertie County after the war. Dean attended school in Aulander and has hunted and fished in Bertie County all of his life.