We are delighted to have both Robert Treat and Leon Fayer on the leadership team to help our customers meet today’s online platform demands.
~ Theo Schlossnagle, CEO
With many new clients coming to OmniTI each day for help with scalability and performance issues, as well as those who need strategic IT planning, custom CMS or guidance for starting up, some restructuring was necessary. As a result, Robert Treat assumed the role of COO and Leon Fayer took on Business Development. These positions will help to ensure that all of OmniTI's clients continue to receive, not only technology agnostic solutions to real-time problems from some of the best minds working on the web, but also sustain their close working relationships with staff.
In his new role, Robert will provide operationally focused leadership within the company, overseeing all aspects of the business, including marketing, sales, contract execution and team growth and development. Robert Treat is a veteran open source developer and advocate. A major contributor to the PostgreSQL project, he is an internationally recognized speaker on open source, databases and managing operations at scale. Prior to joining OmniTI, Robert worked at several companies including GTE, Sprint and WebMD, where he served in a variety of front-end and back-end web development roles, including user experience analysis, and more traditional systems and database management. He co-authored the book, "Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional," and has written numerous articles.
As Vice President, Business Development, Leon is responsible for the overall growth, profitability and staffing of complex and highly visible engagements, overseeing multiple, mid-size projects and large integration efforts. Prior to joining OmniTI, Leon worked on projects for enterprise level clients, and the Federal government―including the White House--leading a development team through a series of very successful content management systems implementations. Leon was one of the architects behind what is now IBM’s premier enterprise content management platform, and led teams through the architecture, design and development of content management (CMS), customer retention management (CRM) and workflow systems for very large entertainment, media and sports event clients. These efforts simplified outdated and overly complex existing systems, and reduced editor’s time to upload new content by more than 80% and ensuring that the applications could sustain traffic spikes of 800%.