What Happened?
Hartford, CT-based NEOS has Appointed Rob Nocera as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Our mission is to bridge the business-technology divide with creative, implementable solutions that yield short-term results and long-term benefits. We create a trusted advisor relationship with our clients keeping our number one priority as the impact we can provide for their business. We think strategically but act practically. Our solutions and customized services combined with a practical work ethic, deep business acumen, and attention to client-service create a strong basis for our client partnerships.
About the Person
Rob Nocera has multi-disciplinary technical skills throughout enterprise architecture technologies. His business expertise includes financial services, media and pharmaceuticals where he has worked with companies such as The Hartford, Nielsen Media and Pfizer, Inc. At those companies he has worked on key projects, specializing in internet and intranet applications. As CTO of NEOS, Rob leads the technology drive for the company and is the visionary behind the NEOS product set including the Vgo product set and the Equilibrium framework. The Equilibrium framework is a servlet-based web framework that achieved separation of logic and presentation to a degree that had not been present before. This framework enabled a small internet company to leverage the experience and creativity of their web designers and graphic artists without sacrificing time to incorporate the business logic being developed by the programming staff. Always a problem solver (he was on a team of four that won the Future Problem Solving State Championship for Connecticut in 1988-89), Rob's work on the Vgo product set started when he realized that a small consulting firm like NEOS needed a tool that could give them a competitive edge. His keen insight into existing patterns and intense dislike of tedious redundant work that can be prevalent in IT shops led to the creation of Vgo. As an in-house development aid the tool helped NEOS win project work and keep clients happy. The usefulness of the tool and the cost savings led to the vision expanding to a point where Vgo would become part of the NEOS toolset. Rob led the development effort to turn the in-house development to into a ready-for-market development tool. Rob's concentration has always been on practical real-world technologies and tools. He has written white papers on the realities of code re-use in Java and the benefits of Model 2 architectures in Web applications. The work that NEOS has done on Equilibrium in the past and currently on Vgo reflect that experience. In 2013, Rob earned a Bronze Stevie Award in the Information Technology Executive of the Year category in the 11th Annual American Business Awards. His work modernizing product capabilities in multiple ways, led NEOS to grow rapidly in 2012. Rob holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Rob maintains the JavaHair blog, including articles on Java, ADF, Vgo products, and programming in general.
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