Directory:Dan Bradbary

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Dan Bradbary, CEO of V-Rooms

Professional Background

Dan R. Bradbary is the Founder of Due Diligence Online, a provider of Virtual Data Rooms for use in M&A, real estate, financial and legal transactions. The company’s proprietary V-Room™ virtual room internet technology is utilized by numerous investment bankers, attorneys, accountants and M&A specialists to manage the review of potentially thousands of due diligence documents associated with a transaction.

Previously, he was the Owner and Chief Executive Officer of Project Management Services, Inc., an Atlanta based 150-person management consulting firm with additional offices throughout the country. For over twenty-five years, Mr. Bradbary has applied the concepts of project management to numerous industries including corporate, merger & acquisition, commercial, retail, product development, aviation, telecommunications, information technology and financial services.

Mr. Bradbary has been able to assist in guiding the evolution of the acceptance of project management as a common sense approach to fulfill the needs of business. He is an accomplished speaker and instructor and has authored numerous articles for various industry and trade publications. His recent book, Herding Chickens: Innovative Techniques for Project Management, (Wiley & Sons), is a light hearted and informative look at managing complex projects.

He is a specialist in the implementation of project management control systems, including numerous aviation industry programs as well as information technology developments throughout the continental United States. He also specializes in the implementation of project management techniques for a wide variety of new product development programs and has extensive experience in utility industry projects.

After selling PMSI in 1998, Mr. Bradbary has been an active investor in numerous start-up service industry, biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

Education

Master of Business Administration, Georgia State University, 1975
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1972
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), #04527, 6/17/95
Registered Professional Engineer, State of Georgia, 2/3/77, #010691

Affiliations

Member, Project Management Institute; (Past President, Georgia Chapter 1985-1987)
Member, Institute of Management Consultants
Member, International Development Research Council
Member, The International Society of Strategic Management & Planning

Project Management Experience

Delta Air Lines, Inc. - Airport 21

To deploy new computer systems involving tens of thousands of PC's, printers and other peripherals to over one hundred airports throughout North America.

IBM - Mercedes-Benz AAV Information Technology Project, Vance, AL

To assist in the coordination of the software development and hardware deployment in support of the All Activity Vehicle Information Technology Project.

Oglethorpe Power Corporation - Energy Control System

To manage the design, installation and start-up logistics of a state-wide $30 million control system involving over 500 locations connected via a telecommunication network backbone to a new master computer station.

Motorola - RF Communication System

To deploy a radio frequency communication system at a cost in excess of $40 million, involving over twenty sites for private utilization by 10,000 security, operations and volunteer personnel associated with the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

BellSouth Telecommunications - Document and Information Access System

To implement a corporate-wide system for the electronic access of numerous volumes of technical and vendor supplied documentation, in addition to over 5,600 printed forms currently used by various departments and subsidiaries.

MediaOne, Inc. (a division of US West) - Communication Equipment Buildings

To manage the fast-track design, construction and start-up of major equipment buildings as part of a 12,000 mile fiber optic cable upgrade for the metropolitan Atlanta area.

Digital Equipment - Centralized Customer Support Center

To consolidate customer support center operations with a staff of 1,400 and extensive computer systems, with the transition being "totally transparent to the customer base".

External links

• V-Rooms Virtual Data Room