Jeff Potts

Jeff Potts is a former Sr. Practice Leader and friend of the Firm.  Jeff is currently the President and CEO of Metaversant Group, Inc.

Mr. Potts has over 15 years of IT and technology implementation experience in IT departments and professional services organizations. Mr. Potts' areas of expertise include document management, content management, workflow, collaboration, portals, and search.

Prior to Optaros, Mr. Potts was a Vice President at Hitachi Consulting (formerly Navigator Systems, Inc.) where he founded and grew the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) practice. During his nine-year tenure at Hitachi Consulting, Mr. Potts designed and implemented a number of large solutions such as:

• a web-based capital expenditures tracking application for a large semiconductor manufacturer,
• a custom web content management solution for a large consumer packaged goods company,
• a custom, web-based CRM solution for a large consumer packaged goods company that included a version of the application that ran on a handheld device,
• a proprietary web content management solution (Interwoven) for a national transportation and logistics company,
• a web-based contract management application (based on Documentum) for a global airline catering company, and
• a web content management (Documentum) implementation for a leading airline.

In addition to client work and ECM practice growth, Mr. Potts was responsible for several internal initiatives at Hitachi Consulting including a portal implementation, a collaborative team space implementation, the development of a Documentum developer training curriculum, the establishment of a development tools infrastructure, and a Learning Management System (LMS) implementation.

Mr. Potts' areas of technical expertise include:

• Applications and Systems – Alfresco, Apache, Apache Cocoon, Autonomy, Documentum Content Server, Documentum Web Publisher, Documentum WDK/DFC, IBM WebSphere, Interwoven TeamSite, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, MySQL, Tomcat, Zope
• Languages – Java, XSLT, JavaScript, Perl, Python, SQL
• Tools – Ant, Apache FOP, Eclipse, Subversion, Microsoft Project, SVG, VMware, IBM WebSphere Application Developer, WordPress
• Operating Systems – Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, OS X

Mr. Potts has been published in technical journals and has spoken at multiple user groups and conferences.

Mr. Potts received a BBA in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the University of Oklahoma with a minor in Economics and an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas. Mr. Potts lives with his family in Dallas, TX.