Experience

PGT Solutions

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Business Architect

  • Mar 2022 - Present



Practical Wisdom, Inc.

• Thousand Oaks, California, United States

• Enterprise Architecture Consultant

  • Jan 2007 - Present

  Practical Wisdom, Inc. (PWI) is my professional services S-corp through which I contract with clients requiring enterprise and business architecture consulting services. As the President and Managing Enterprise Architect, I conduct on-site technical assessments, consult with business and IT executives to develop strategic plans, provide hands-on business architecture and analyst training, and lead client-internal technology innovation and modernization initiatives. Practical Wisdom, Inc. (PWI) is my professional services S-corp through which I contract with clients requiring enterprise and business architecture consulting services. As the President and Managing Enterprise Architect, I conduct on-site technical assessments, consult with business and IT executives to develop strategic plans, provide hands-on business architecture and analyst training, and lead client-internal technology innovation and modernization initiatives.



Healthcare MDM

• United States
• Information Technology & Services

• Enterprise / Business Architect

  • Oct 2015 - Mar 2022

  Sr. Data Analyst ( Business Architect ) -- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( Medicaid ) -- Data Quality Lab ( ~ 2018 - 2022 ): Responsible for leading the development of systems engineering methods, modeling and data visualization in support of the federal system designed to aggregate Medicaid program utilization data from ~54 US state- and territory specific Medicaid plans. Director of Enterprise Architecture for Innovation -- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( Medicare ) -- Innovation Center: Responsible for developing and managing a team of business system analysts and engineering disciplines to remotely support the development of a robust, highly reusable web application framework for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) Innovation Center in Baltimore, MD. Show less



BB&T

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Architect

  • Oct 2013 - Oct 2015

  Hired to train and provide hands-on technical leadership to a newly created internal business architecture team within the bank's IT department. Tasked to develop, document and present a set of business architecture capabilities, functions, processes, roles and responsibilities. Facilitated workshops with business unit executives, SMEs and external consultants to identify key problems, issues and risks – and demonstrate the over-arching value proposition of the business architecture discipline as a solution. Show less



Toyota Financial Services Corporation

• Japan
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Enterprise Architect

  • Dec 2012 - Oct 2013

  Contracted by the TFS IT department's technical governance ( TG ) team as their sole enterprise/business architect, responsible for conducting periodic technical reviews and assessments on a broad portfolio of active IT system projects. Tasked to develop the TG team's quality assurance operating procedures to identify and specify technical assessment goals, objectives, requirements, procedural actions and project quality evaluation criteria. Contracted by the TFS IT department's technical governance ( TG ) team as their sole enterprise/business architect, responsible for conducting periodic technical reviews and assessments on a broad portfolio of active IT system projects. Tasked to develop the TG team's quality assurance operating procedures to identify and specify technical assessment goals, objectives, requirements, procedural actions and project quality evaluation criteria.



North Carolina Department of Transportation

• Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Business Architect

  • Jan 2013 - Sep 2013

  Contracted to be the sole business architect assigned to the IT project management office ( PMO ) to provide an architecture and analysis expertise to a variety of concurrent projects. Primary focus on an enterprise content management ( ECM ) system transition and service evolution involving document capture & management, records management, knowledge management, stakeholder collaboration and business process automation. Contracted to be the sole business architect assigned to the IT project management office ( PMO ) to provide an architecture and analysis expertise to a variety of concurrent projects. Primary focus on an enterprise content management ( ECM ) system transition and service evolution involving document capture & management, records management, knowledge management, stakeholder collaboration and business process automation.



Zenith Insurance Company (United States)

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Enterprise Architecture Consultant

  • Jan 2008 - Dec 2010

  Initially contracted by Zenith CIO to consult with the organization's Chief Architect to develop a better requirements management discipline in support of the company's claims department. Subsequently contracted to work directly with the 'business side' claims division to develop a team of business systems analysts, and work directly with those new Business Systems Analysts to improve the quality of the company's overall claims processing system landscape. Initially contracted by Zenith CIO to consult with the organization's Chief Architect to develop a better requirements management discipline in support of the company's claims department. Subsequently contracted to work directly with the 'business side' claims division to develop a team of business systems analysts, and work directly with those new Business Systems Analysts to improve the quality of the company's overall claims processing system landscape.



Amgen

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Architect

  • Jun 2002 - Dec 2006

  Hired into the $12B pharmaceutical's sales and marketing IT group to add architectural skills and capabilities to their systems analysis team. Quickly promoted to their solution architecture team within enterprise architecture group; Rational Unified Process ( RUP ) mentor; Unified Modeling Language ( UML ) mentor; recognized expert in Service Oriented Architecture ( SOA ), semantic web/ontological engineering, business process/service modeling. Trained in Six Sigma and 8 Omega business process improvement frameworks. Show less



Various Companies

• United States
• 700 & Above Employee

• [ PRIOR ROLES ]

  • Oct 1981 - Jun 2002

  AeroPartnerships.com, Golden, CO Founder 2001-2002 EventConnex, Inc., Denver, CO Chief Architect / Technical Product Manager 2000-2001 JADE Solutions, Boulder, CO Director, Product Development 1999-2000 VR-1, Boulder, CO Director, Research & Planning / Producer 1997-1999 ORION Scientific Systems, Irvine, CA Director, Systems Integration 1992-1997 Shaw, Segraves & Assoc, Canoga Park, CA Insurance Fraud Investigator 1992 United States Air Force, Various Locations Worldwide Security Police Supervisor 1981-1992 Show less