John Cosmas | Startups

Startups are a passion, that drives innovation

The entreprenuerial spirit of hybrids is realized most heartily in startups who rely on them to create new innovations.

Every Startup is a cornerstone to Success for Hybrids

At the heart of every hybrid & innovator, is the yearning to start something new never done before. I successfully indulged myself over the years building new innovative firms, or helping to start one.

Why Startups

My success in building a sustainable startup has seen great benefits simply by virtue that such ventures are credited to funding & resources, extensive freedom to guide & mentor, high availability of talents, resourceful funding sources, modern network capabilities and a sure promise for global expansion in an era where organizations are capitalizing on startup to help themselves succeed.

Get Started

Accelerate your startup by rapidly standing up ecosystems & using the hyrid sense of intuition to bring together ideads, creative talents, investors that materializes innovations to market quickly, making available concepts that can be visualized for consumers while you improve development over time.

JEATZ.NET

In early 2008, the restaurant industry saw a mass decline in the industry, so a revolutinary marketing engine was developed to embrace a cognitive analytical program designed to deliver savings & deals to consumer while benefiting both patronage & productivity solutions to restaurants throughout major US cities.

Managed Dynamics

A post 9/11 firm that was built to support customized oversight, securitization, program management efforts to handle special projects on behest of Oracle, IBM and large organizations not limited to SOW, proof-of-concepts & delivery management to meet the growing demand of emerging technologies.

McElroy & Associates

MASTAFF.COM is a staff augmentation firm that provisions highly skilled professional with exclusive backgrounds in research, complex developments, patent designs and licensed creations that are hard to locate but is available through this agency that supplies to speciality organizations such as Bellcore, Oracle, SAP.

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1	Summit COLD	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_scold.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_scold.jpg	Summit COLD	Summit COLD	I joined a group of technology executives to build a first generation COLD solution featuring a primitive graph database, that enabled firms to consume & store scanned artifacts, documents, including aging microfice/microfilm onto digital media coupled with an intelligent RDBMS to deliver analytics capabilities. The innovative integration document management solution allowed customers such as the DOD, US Air Force, NATO, Small Business Association, Community Banks & Official Records Offices throughout Florida to retire declining storage & archival systems. Firms leverage the new data driven distributed platform to conduct various function including records management, analysis, searches, retrieval & reporting against digitized media.	1994
2	Universal Consulting	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_univ.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_univ.jpg	Universal Consulting Group	Universal Consulting Group	Universal emerged to support my acquired Mortgage Investing certification, which resulted in using .COM marketing solutions to help standup mortgage investing firms that did not have a presence on the rapidly growing internet. This was not limited to the technology transformations required to help clients firms embrace the most current infastructure, including document management system, BackOffice, file servers, network & related appliances. A system that I developed to catalog, track, organize, procure, review & process mortgages packages allowed investors to engage prospective business with relative ease, while ensuring the quality & accuracy of the investment package remains strong & sound.	1996
3	PSA Alliance	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_psa.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_psa.jpg	PSA Alliance	PSA Alliance	Having developed Bellsouth HR services, a few retired executives joined forced with me to build PSA Alliance. The new HR consulting firm offered a wide variety of automated solutions focused on Compensation, Annuities, Benefits & Compliance services, coupled with PeopleSoft platform operations. Integrated solutions designed to leverage the HCM platform were delivered, including benefits analyis, and EEOC planning & reporting tools. Consulting services that required technology inputs leveraged by background to supplement their business, and generate value to customer operations, particularly when their infrastructure was not suited to meet the most current specifications which included BackOffice and client-server platforms. PSA Alliance employed its own technology designs I created for them to improve the disposition of its clients.	1997
4	State Line News	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_state.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_state.jpg	State Line News	State Line News	A first of its kind documentary that focused on four major African-American universities in North Alabama featuring the development of its football teams & how it helped shape the academic progress in deeply biased South, also shows how the love of the game eventually help put diversity & fledgling schools to make a historic impact in the American culture. My background in technology, multi-media, film, internet & marketing helped complete their project quickly on an already cash strapped effort, and a team that had little familiarity with emerging technologies. Together with my project management skills, I helped build a company with a highly regulated schedule, while enforcing the need to meet deadlines, adjust for weather & delays while helping shuffle resources. State Line News eventually earned its place in the Guiness Book of World Records for its efforts.	1998
5	Caldwell Communications	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_caldw.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_caldw.jpg	Caldwell Communications	Caldwell Communications	A small group of Bellsouth executives joined forces with me so I could kick-off a digital marketing firm that was fore-front in the business during the early rise of internet based advertising. I was able to leverage co-location to harness distributed platforms to enable targeted marketing strategies based on geolocation data & create an early emergence of market mechanics analytics that would drive the way businesses engage their commercial & retail consumers. Caldwell successfully helped Bellsouth & MCI migrate to the internet coupled with interactive multimedia as publications saw a progressive decline. These advancements helped Caldwell secure additional business enter a new era of enhanced digital marketing, featuring analytics, search tools and directed impressions.	2000
6	Power of One	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_pooh.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_pooh.jpg	Power of One Health	Power of One Health	Sponsored initially by the Alabama State Department of Health, a group of UAB professionals founded a program designed to offer teaching, interpreter resources & appointment aids centered on UN Refugee Commission efforts, particularly patients from Samolia, Vietnam and Albania, in an effort to improve their health condition adjusting to their new habitat. I helped re-organize the small group into a working company, serving as VP of Information Services & build out its functional structures such as the Community Engagement Group, Legal Services, Project Office, and Teaching groups. A culturally based engagement model was used to identify & build community programs that delivered positive outcomes while capturing barriers to help sustain future efforts.	2002
7	MethSolv	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_mcs.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_mcs.jpg	MethSolv Solutions	Software development firm specializing in case management for rehabilitation clinics	MethSolv helped me extend a case management system that was developed initially for an eGovernment program that was customized for clinical use that was not limited to patient record keeping, inventory, cash management & state reporting. My experience with HCM, data exchange, RDBMS, corporate resource management, coupled with project management enabled me to build multiple practices while provisioninig it with a sophisticated configuration driven clinical management system that was able to handle a complex range of operational requirements & reporting needs. MethSolv lacked an identity because its partners did not have a good grasp of a technology platform & the knowledge needed to run a organization, so I was obliged to show them how & meet its operational capabilities.	2003
8	Managed Dynamics	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_onemd.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_onemd.jpg	Managed Dynamics	Consulting firms specializing in oversight & fault tolerance programs	Managed Dynamics is a provider that served large corporations implement projects so help meet their demands because they lack the expertise and resources to complete them. Coupled with McElroy & Associates, ONE-MD successfully executed large-scale enterprise programs that engaged complex requirements that involved building program management offices, integration offices and infastructures. Managed Dynamics delivered a multitude of valueable solutions aside from its focus on program oversight, fault tolerance, security, executive & staff selection support. ONE-MD also successfully created a integrated Program Management Operations Console that provided an integrated view of projects, status, tasks, issues & deliverables less having to navigate distinct platforms.	2004
9	McElroy & Associates	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_mastaff.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_mastaff.jpg	McElroy & Associates	Staffing augmentation provisioning highly specialized professionals	McElroy & Associates was built to aid ONE-MD successfully executed large-scale enterprise programs by augmenting highly-skilled professionals such as scientists & researches in an effort to service projects. The firm successfully provisioned other customers & businesses fulfill speciality resources who was otherwise un-available in the market. The MASTAFF.COM web-based talent acquisition application provided customers the ability to make special requests that allowed it business intelligence system to quickly identify the best suited candidates, and leverage BackOffice services to rapidly process resources without the worries of cumbersome recruiting systems that eases the entire engagement effort.	2005
10	PeopleConnect	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_pc.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_pc.jpg	PeopleConnect	Staffing augmentation supporting special projects	While McElroy & Associates provisioned specialized resources, PeopleConnect was able to service projects with mid to low-level professionals to help meet customer & business needs. This offered projects a wide breath of resources without the traditional staff augmentation efforts by reducing the overall search & fulfillment process by making ready a high availability pool of professionals. The technology infrastructure that enabled McElroy & Associates was configured & re-used to help PeopleConnect support its talent acquisition operations, while I helped extend its CRM functions to handle both staff augmentation & managed services lines of business. People Connect successfully supplied speciality resources to its West Coast customers and funnel many of the talents McElroy & Associates found incompatible with its requirements.	2006
11	JEATZ.NET	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_jeatz.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_jeatz.jpg	JEATZ.NET	Marketing firm employs advanced analytics to help revive the restaurant industry.	When the market collapse of 2008 occured, an idea sprung up to help revive the restaurant industry during its decline by offering the soccer mom consumer direct access to coupons, restaurant deals & rebates customized to meet their own taste. I took charge as CIO and architected a distributed analytics & business intelligence enabled marketing system that delivered time-critical savings to consumers, while allowing restaurants to benefit from the multi-media programs, driving new business & help increase its business. The consulting services I designed enabled restaurants to leverage the analytics data to drive menu, supply, deals and forecasting for sustainable programs to generate new types of business, and additional revenue streams.	2008
12	Nov Ortos Foundation	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_nov.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_nov.jpg	NovOrtos Foundation for Life	Foundation created in Alabama supporting renewal natural resources.	A collaborative and joint-venture group comprised of leading architects, scientist and engineers has commissioned my skills to help develop a philanthropic organization that is focused on employing their resources and skills for the construction of mobile trauma treatment centers, portable surgical units, municipal art & historical restoration efforts. This long term effort will benefit, serve local & international municipalities. My organizational & technology skills lent itself to developing a program management office, critical Backoffice infrastructure & collaborative services allowing remote partners & talents to diverge in a common effort for community betterment.	2009
13	Leaders Insight	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_leadr.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_leadr.jpg	Leaders Insight	Coaching...	My extensive background in creating relationships, focused services and maturing existing programs to achieve contemporary demands and complexities lead to a partnership in the design of Leaders Insight. Having served as CIO to multiple organizations, my management background offered ample strength in helping create to a coaching program that drives leaders to deliver decisive results, re-purpose nearly lost efforts, define strategies to re-engage customers who are in need of progressive solutions. A purpose driven focus designed to increase the value of the employee in an organization is a radical concept that galvanized a new way of design thinking processes intended to unlock the dynamic human need for improvement, better performance by increasing the capital value of the knowledge worker.	2009
14	Full House Marketing	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_fhse.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_fhse.jpg	Full House Restaurant Marketing	Marketing agent for JEATZ.NET	A customer of JEATZ.NET sought my talents to help build a marketing agency that provided a full packaged marketing program that included planning, financing & web resources that eventually partnered with JEATZ.NET to support smaller restaurants. Their programs offers smaller businesses engage marketing at reasonable costs, & lent its creative resources to deliver much needed materials & campaigns to allow them to compete with established franchises that flooded the market. It also featured email-based advertising, afforable printed materials, banners and related advertising resources that helped grow its consumer base. When new restaurantiers were introduced to JEATZ.NET, this firm gladly took on the challenge of provisioning marketing plans & successful programs to advance the business.	2010
15	Quantum Sense Solutions	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_qss.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_qss.jpg	Quantum Sense Solutions	....	When the worldwide effort to embrace everything GREEN made its debut, an idea to leverage highly efficient wireless sensor technology using cloud technologies & infrastructure allowed for QSS to introduce a suite of sensors & appliance capable of providing cutting-edge surveillance, control & management of plant operations. The high availability market of emerging platforms quickly became a viable solution for global operations that required a wholistic view of its dispersed centers with dynamic up-to-date views accessible from desktops, mobile and operations-centered platforms coupled with at-the-moment notifications, alerts & intelligent decisioning functions. QSS engineering bound with the technology I had developed enabled customers direct access to operational, analytical & reporting services that was highly scalabale and easily stood-up to CLOUDIFY against critical assets anywhere on the globe.	2016
16	Project Room	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_proom.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_proom.jpg	Project Room Art Studio	....	In the far east where art has recently invoked the interests of millenials who hare returned from studies aboard & began to make investments to preserve it, a new way for engaging their growing taste using cloud techologies that features collaboration, bidding, knowledge sharing capabilities was needed to improve the market. A secured cloud infrastructure was stood-up using Azure in the Asia region coupled with a DOT.NET stack to develop operations, while I leveraged by management & small business knowledge to help build the organization, which is intended to guide artists into a sustainable discipline that will generate a reasonable revenue stream while maintaining affordable pricing, to continue to promote consumer interests in a slowly developing market. The studio is able to showcase emerging talents while encouraging new ideas to promote the highly regarded discipline of the arts.	2016
17	SMART	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_smart.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_smart.jpg	SMART	....	With an original focus on delivering a total Hybrid eGovernment platform centered on the educational system, S.M.A.R.T would enter the market by delivering a Xamarin based Integrated Student Information System that featured eLearning, collaboration, assessment, record management, customized academic programming & centralized reporting. The extensibility of the system, infrastructure & emerging technologies would allow the company to cloudify existing assets to support integrated reporting so that existing services can be easily modernized using scalable containers & offer the protection & privacy needed for such a critical undertaking. A phased approach that ensures its continued reliability, growing landscape & evolving regulation will need to satisfy its end-users while promising a robust eLearning ecosystem.	2017
18	TSA Cergas	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_cergas.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_cergas.jpg	TSA Cergas	....	The escalating cost of shipping globally competes with business demands has imposed upon the capabilities of families dispersed accross oceans to make sending parcels home very expensive. An age-old method of sending packages using FTL orders makes it more afforable when coupled with a marketing effort that leads to rapid fullfillment & frequency that is able to drive costs down. An integrated system that supports multiple payment options, tracking capabilities & regulatory processing allows for orders to be managed from end-to-end while reducing traditional overhead, while promising to meet deliverables within a reasonable time & no risks. The greatest value to our partners is ability to harness backhauling channels & providers to ensure all parties benefit financially.	2017
19	Lucky13	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_tmb_lucky.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_stuppg_con_lucky.jpg	Lucky13 Communications	....	An unpopular market that re-purposes older mobile phones at an efficient cost model coupled with reseller service making it easier for older or pay-as-you-go consumers to acquire renewable phones makes this company a highly viable startup innovation. Leveraging integrated provider networks, coupled with a lightweight ecommerce engine that pushes products, coupled with a modernized CRM platform allowed this company to engage the market quickly. I also helped guide Lucky's business model to help ensure it continuous supply chain, sustainable pricing model & evolving marketing demands.	2018