Todd Salmi: deverus
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Todd Salmi possesses a holistic approach to systems architecture and continuously works to build his knowledge, from the deep technical level to project management.
Todd graduated from UT with high honors in Business Honors and MIS, as well as a BA in Spanish. As a student, Todd and fellow MIS majors ran a small consulting firm "...to force us to learn the business with the technology." Todd also worked in the SMF where he spent time helping users troubleshoot computer problems, and in the ACWL (UNIX Lab) where he chatted with programmers and learned Internet development tools. After graduation, Todd worked at Arthur Andersen's Business Consulting in a leadership role in the Web and e-Commerce group. He served as a core developer and technical lead on three major custom e-commerce web sites. He also worked to help develop Internet strategy assessments, development methodologies, and whitepapers.
In addition to Fortune 500 experience, when Todd returned to Austin, he consulted independently with several startups on business plan creation, market analysis and strategy, investor presentations, and technology planning.
In 1999, Todd joined deverus, founded by UT alumni Shawn Rucks, as Chief Technology Architect, Vice President, and co-Founder. Initially, Todd and his team developed a system to support a deverus product called e-screening.com, which sold background checks via the Internet. Deverus quickly realized the need throughout the background check industry for enterprise level technology. Recently completing a sale of the e-screening product, deverus focuses exclusively on providing the best Internet software and services to background check companies.
Todd's dynamic experience across the continuum of e-Business professions gives him a broad perspective on systems architecture. This perspective motivated Todd to initiate and facilitate the MIS Steering Committee breakout group which developed the N-Tier framework.
