| Chris Olinger, president, has more than 20 years of experience delivering software solutions. Most notably, Chris spent 14 years
at SAS where he led the development of the SAS Output Delivery System (ODS). As R&D product manager, Chris led a team of developers charged with creating this reporting
system, now a core component of SAS software and used in nearly all of SAS solutions. Chris attended conferences and speaking
engagements, many of them with a life sciences focus, to promote the new SAS ODS. Chris has authored many technical papers and was a keynote speaker at the annual Pharmaceutical SAS
User’s Group conference. Chris has built on the valuable experience gained by transitioning from software developer to business development to make a third step forward to the role of corporate
leader. As president of d-Wise, Chris’ vision is to create a team with a balance of software and services capabilities that can solve problems with innovative solutions while maintaining
a customer focus. |
 John Leveille, vice president, is a technical software architect with more than 15 years of Internet and distributed computing systems experience. Also a SAS alumnus,
John led development of the SAS/IntrNet Web Application Server, a core infrastructure component for SAS web-based data warehousing, data mining and OLAP software. While at SAS, John
was awarded two patents for inventions related to Internet technologies. He later took on a roll of senior developer for the SAS Drug Development solution. At d-Wise, John is active
in a team leadership role on multiple projects, providing architecture and technical design. His experience includes system design across many industries. Some noteworthy projects include
SOA, Internet-based data delivery systems for pharmaceutical companies, clinical data warehouse and CDISC data integration for life sciences, and web-based business intelligence reporting
of electronic medical records for healthcare providers. |
 Chris Decker, life sciences director, has more than 15 years experience in the life sciences industry. Chris spent seven years with a large pharmaceutical company as a senior
statistician and data integration consultant. He participated in a number of FDA submissions and led multiple successful data integration projects. For the last eight years he worked at
SAS as a life sciences consultant implementing and delivering SAS solutions for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Chris is an active participant in the CDISC organization
as a co-leader of the industry-wide CDISC Integrated Safety Pilot, co-leader of the Research Triangle Park CDISC Users Group and member of CDISC Technical Leadership Committee. Chris
brings a diverse background of domain knowledge, technology expertise and experience in implementing delivering solutions for life sciences companies. |
 Stephen Baker, senior consultant/business development, has seven years experience in applications development and management consulting. He spent four years with SAS developing enterprise
applications and was actively engaged in the technical thought leadership within the department. He has led multiple projects interfacing SAS solutions to custom Java applications.
Stephen has provided management consulting to several multimillion dollar corporations delivering innovation strategies, operation planning and conference planning. He has close ties
to the Triangle entrepreneurial community from his experiences with the N.C. State HiTEC program. |
 James Hunnings, senior consultant, has more than a decade of software development and business intelligence experience. James is also a graduate of the
U.N.C. School of Law and brings the rigorous detail-oriented characteristic of that esteemed program to the d-Wise leadership. James was intimately involved in the creation of the sales
enterprise data warehouse at SAS which consolidates sales information from the global SAS offices for senior management. |
