Cary Peele, VP Development, PointServe
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In August 1978, Cary signed a two year contract with DHL International to work in their Latin American Division and was an integral part of the team that opened DHL’s first South American office in Caracas, Venezuela. Cary led teams to open additional offices in Bogota, Maracaibo, Port of Spain, and Quito. During this time, Cary learned to speak Spanish fluently.
Cary graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983 with High Honors, with a BBA degree in Management Information Systems (MIS). After graduation he worked for Tenneco as a computer programmer in the Processing and Marketing division. Later, he moved back to Austin, and was a senior data systems programmer with Lockheed.
In 1985, Cary left Texas for Southern California and the first of many rewarding contract consulting jobs as an Independent Information Systems Consultant. Cary has worked on a variety of hardware platforms, operating systems, and development languages developing software solutions for various businesses. Cary's professional goal is to promote the harmonious interaction of business and technology where technology is a means to an end, not the end itself.
In 1987, Cary started aPriori Software, Inc. in Houston, Texas. aPriori specialized in accounting and business automation tools for the personal computer. Their expert system product, BudgetMASTER, focused on the concept of integrating the personal computer into the general business systems environment including backend integration into mainframe accounting systems.
After aPriori, Cary led a team that developed a remote wide area wireless field service technician routing, invoicing and inventory system for General Electric. This unique system is still in service today.
Cary served as Director of Product Development at SalesKit Software in St. Louis, MO. While at SalesKit, Cary was chief architect of SalesKit 5.0, a sales force automation system that was sold to a third party for several million dollars.
Subsequent to SalesKit, Cary Served as Director of Product development at SMART Technologies in Austin, TX where he and his team successfully transformed SMART from a consulting company into a product company that was later purchased by software giant i2. SMART specialized in high volume eBusiness and eCommerce applications and infrastructure.
Beyond SalesKit, Cary was a Senior Software Development Manager and Software Program Manager at Dell Computers in Austin. While at Dell, Cary successfully managed the rollout of Microsoft’s Windows 2000 operating system across multiple platforms and multiple factories world-wide. He also designed and architected Dell’s Product Lifecycle Management System, ePrP. EPrP allowed Dell to move away from the spreadsheet centric approach to multiple product development programs and achieve a higher level of efficiency in their product development and factory launch operations.
Cary now serves as VP of Development for PointServe.
Cary has lectured on a variety of Information Technology topics at the University of Texas and other technology conferences. In April, 1990 Cary was appointed by faculty to the University of Texas MIS Steering Committee where he still serves today.
He has traveled extensively through North and South America as well as Eastern and Western Europe. In 1986, Cary and his wife Kathryn took a five-month sabbatical and backpacked through South America. They visited various Universities along the way, gathering information on the state of computer technology in Latin America.
