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Team Profiles

Dan Coutu

Dan CoutuA computer industry veteran with 25 years of experience, eRichards’ Director of eCommerce, and an internationally recognized expert in eBusiness systems, Dan Coutu has provided valuable solutions to thorny problems for hundreds of clients.

Mr. Coutu’s skills and demeanor are particularly well suited to capturing stakeholder requirements and then designing and delivering computing architectures that satisfy these requirements, whether the solutions are packages or bespoke applications.

He has led teams using a wide variety of technologies to deploy winning eCommerce, content management, other eBusiness, and database driven web-based business systems. Mr. Coutu has architected and coded cost-effective solutions in complex business/computing environments by close collaboration with all levels of client personnel. He brings a high level view of both the technical and business requirements and can deliver innovative results in a timely fashion to highly satisfied clients.

One among his numerous successful engagements was the implementation of a customer relationship management (CRM) system based on integration of SalesForce.com with a legacy corporate database. On this project Mr. Coutu architected the complete solution and implemented the integration code necessary to cross-connect the systems.

As the Chief Technology Officer of iCOMS, an eCommerce services company, Mr. Coutu’s leadership and technical strength established the company as the world's experts on the Open Market Transact eCommerce product. In his capacity as CTO, Mr. Coutu worked on hundreds of eCommerce and CRM projects, many times as the lead. iCOMS' clients included Sony Style, Bank of Boston, Houghton-Mifflin, Random House, MyFamily.com, and Lycos.

He can be contacted at: dcoutu@e-richards.com

Team Profiles
Mark J. Richards - Founder & CEO
Doreen F. Gebbia - President
Robert Blau - Senior Web Architect
Dan Coutu - Director of Solutions & Engineering
Frank Natale - Senior Infrastructure Engineer