Aug 10, 2006
About Me
Mark Phillips
I am the product manager and lead spokesperson for Vertabase. Its my job to make sure the Vertabase approach to project management gets out there and that feedback from our customer’s and the market make it back to the engineers who build the great products we sell. I spend a lot of time traveling, talking to customers, users groups and conferences in the US and Canada primarily about project management, time management and getting more done.
I write about those same topics on this blog and in other places including a regular column for Fusion Authority. My work has been published in publications like C|Net, ComputerWorld Magazine and the Financial Times. News about Vertabase (which my team generates) has been in almost every major project management magazine, vertical industry magazine (e.g. the insurance industry, banking industry, education, municipal government, oil and gas, etc.) and local newspaper around the United States.
Besides project management I am an active member of Adobe Technology related communities. This includes ColdFusion, AIR and the Creative Suite group of products like Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.
Before getting into project management and software I worked on Wall Street as an economic and financial analyst. Those topics are still very dear to me. Sometimes, on this blog, you’ll find that I can’t help but comment on economic and financial events going on in the world. But I do stay away from politics (on the blog).
Philosophically, the Vertabase approach to project management comes from over 15 years of real world experience helping thousands of people at hundreds of companies get more done -everyday. It has been used to produce projects for companies like MTV, Young and Rubicam, Sesame Street and the State of California. It is based on having to produce high quality work with limited resources. It is built on making it easy to get project related information, track information and use that information for intelligent reporting and decision making.
I hold a Masters degree in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan and a Bachelors of Science [Econ] in Philosophy and Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. I live in Michigan with my wife and kids, our dog and a fish.
