While co-founding BatchBlue Software in Barrington in 2006, Pamela M. O’Hara wrote the company’s business plan, recruited a technical team – many of whom were culled from Amazon.com staff – and recruited local, national and international product testers.

But her resume also lists another job at the company, hidden deep in her responsibilities: “Everything else that isn’t getting done,” it reads. She handles all the financial, legal, human resources issues and other important decisions.

And BatchBlue Software, which held a coming out party and first-product launch at the annual DEMO conference in California less than a year after it was formed, isn’t the first successful startup in which O’Hara has been involved.

At Matrix Group International, a Virginia-based Web developer, O’Hara was the first employee hired, in 1999. During her first three years, she helped grow the business from two to 35 people. She was named co-owner and board member after only one year. During the company’s second year, it had sales of about $2 million. She’s still sits on the company’s board.

O’Hara has said that her business prowess stems from “the desire to build a company that personally and professionally values every person that spends part of their lives contributing” to it.

An alumna of the University of Richmond in Virginia, O’Hara studied English and history. More recently, she’s been taking coursework in painting and drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design. She’s sold her portraits in Washington, D.C., and in Providence. •