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Mr. Herman has over 10 years of technical assessment and software development expertise. Prior to co-founding Recognition Group, Mr. Herman was the co-founder, and Chief Technology Officer of govWorks, Inc., a NY-based company that pioneered the global e-government marketplace. The govWorks transaction processing middleware products web-enable state and local government transactions like infractions and tax payments, business and recreational permit applications, government records retrieval and voter registration. Under Mr. Herman's guidance, the firm designed, built, and launched the proprietary e-commerce payment engine to serve the $500 billion municipal payments market and a government resource portal rated "Best of the Best" by Forbes Magazine. As CTO, he also led govWorks through the due diligence process on dozens of acquisition candidates, resulting in several consummated corporate acquisitions. He also was responsible for forging enterprise-wide technical and product development partnerships, including those with American Management Systems and Arthur Andersen. Mr. Herman previously served as a Senior Web Architect for TVisions, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a leading Web design firm specializing in e-business solutions, undertaking responsibility, for the development of Analog Device Inc.'s electronic product catalog for engineers. He also served as the Executive Producer for Arepa Inc., an e-commerce software leasing company based in Cambridge. Mr. Herman has extensive experience in Internet-based database interfaces, e-commerce solutions, content management systems, business process re-engineering, and project management. Mr. Herman graduated from Bates College with a degree in Psychology and Computer Science. | 