John Adams
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LinkedIn User
I would like to highly recommend John. He is an excellent architect and very technically expert -- and combines this technical expertise with deep financial industry knowledge and great client relationship skills. On a personal level, he is a pleasure to work with -- responsive, hardworking, collegial, and an all-around great colleague.
Michael Stefanick
Not only is John Adams an outstanding architect with a very broad understanding of technology and business, but John also brings a warm and disarming leadership style to a "change agent" position that allows him to very effectively help teams see a vision and move to results. An outstanding leader, I highly recommend....
LinkedIn User
I would like to highly recommend John. He is an excellent architect and very technically expert -- and combines this technical expertise with deep financial industry knowledge and great client relationship skills. On a personal level, he is a pleasure to work with -- responsive, hardworking, collegial, and an all-around great colleague.
Michael Stefanick
Not only is John Adams an outstanding architect with a very broad understanding of technology and business, but John also brings a warm and disarming leadership style to a "change agent" position that allows him to very effectively help teams see a vision and move to results. An outstanding leader, I highly recommend....
LinkedIn User
I would like to highly recommend John. He is an excellent architect and very technically expert -- and combines this technical expertise with deep financial industry knowledge and great client relationship skills. On a personal level, he is a pleasure to work with -- responsive, hardworking, collegial, and an all-around great colleague.
Michael Stefanick
Not only is John Adams an outstanding architect with a very broad understanding of technology and business, but John also brings a warm and disarming leadership style to a "change agent" position that allows him to very effectively help teams see a vision and move to results. An outstanding leader, I highly recommend....
LinkedIn User
I would like to highly recommend John. He is an excellent architect and very technically expert -- and combines this technical expertise with deep financial industry knowledge and great client relationship skills. On a personal level, he is a pleasure to work with -- responsive, hardworking, collegial, and an all-around great colleague.
Michael Stefanick
Not only is John Adams an outstanding architect with a very broad understanding of technology and business, but John also brings a warm and disarming leadership style to a "change agent" position that allows him to very effectively help teams see a vision and move to results. An outstanding leader, I highly recommend....
Credentials
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Certified Data Warehouse Professional
Gavroshe USA Inc.Jan, 2014- Nov, 2024 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Jun, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2018 Certified Architect Associate
OracleOct, 2018- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Liberty Advisor Group
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Principal at Liberty Advisor Group
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Jun 2022 - Present
CIO/CTO for several companies. Executing as the CIO/CTO for a major insurer leading all aspects of technology within the organization. Improving processes, remediating technical concerns, structuring the organization and positioning the company for future modernization. Providing team building and mentoring to improve the organization. As the CIO, led the rollout of several distribution centers for an auto parts distributor that allowed expansion on the East Coast overseeing all areas of IT. This included development and technology. Mentored colleagues as required and assisted in the hiring and onboarding of the new CIO. Show less
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Oracle
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Enterprise Architect
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2021 - 2022
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Master Principal Cloud Architect
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2018 - 2021
Focused on Tier 1 accounts strategic initiatives both in a hybrid cloud and cloud native approach. Operating as the CTO for Oracle on these accounts.
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Enterprise Architect
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2015 - 2018
Assisting large enterprise accounts on their cloud journey. This involves understanding the business case, developing the use cases, leveraging an engagement framework, creating the strategy from both a business and technology perspective, determining the solution, communicating the findings, organizing the required teams internally, partnering with customers, planning the implementation and deployment and issue resolution.
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Fusion Alliance
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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IT Architecture and Technology Leader
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2013 - 2015
Providing technology and architecture consulting for major initiatives with clients across several verticals. Areas-of-focus include consultation, leadership, architecture, strategy, roadmap, technology, design and leadership for mid-size to large Fortune 500 clients. Providing technology and architecture consulting for major initiatives with clients across several verticals. Areas-of-focus include consultation, leadership, architecture, strategy, roadmap, technology, design and leadership for mid-size to large Fortune 500 clients.
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Citi
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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SVP Global Sr. Architect
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2012 - 2013
Led the technical strategy, leadership and provided oversight over implementation of several large-scale and complex global multi-million dollar payment initiatives. Led the technical strategy, leadership and provided oversight over implementation of several large-scale and complex global multi-million dollar payment initiatives.
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CSC
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United States
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Information Technology & Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Principal Architect
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2010 - 2012
Lead architect within the SOA and Enterprise Architecture practice that provided architectural capabilities to various clients. This included SOA assessments, implementation oversight, architectural strategy, RFP/RFI response and IP creation. Lead architect within the SOA and Enterprise Architecture practice that provided architectural capabilities to various clients. This included SOA assessments, implementation oversight, architectural strategy, RFP/RFI response and IP creation.
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Chief Architect
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2009 - 2010
Worked as a consultant assisting clients in all areas of architecture and technology, recommending best practices and approaches in achieving organizational structure and meeting business requirements. Worked as a consultant assisting clients in all areas of architecture and technology, recommending best practices and approaches in achieving organizational structure and meeting business requirements.
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IBM
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Executive Architect
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2006 - 2009
Worked with several fortune 500 organizations to develop solution strategies from conception to plan. This involved business justification, cost/benefit analysis, conceptual architecture, portfolio management and selection, and project planning. Worked with several fortune 500 organizations to develop solution strategies from conception to plan. This involved business justification, cost/benefit analysis, conceptual architecture, portfolio management and selection, and project planning.
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Fifth Third Bank
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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VP Chief Architect Wholesale and Commercial/Enterprise Architect
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2004 - 2006
Integral member in the establishment and a subject matter expert within the Enterprise Architecture function and approved all aspects of architecture. These aspects included the purchase of vendor products, infrastructure enhancements, server and application consolidation/virtualization, portfolio management, architecture leadership, application enhancements, emerging technologies and strategy. Integral member in the establishment and a subject matter expert within the Enterprise Architecture function and approved all aspects of architecture. These aspects included the purchase of vendor products, infrastructure enhancements, server and application consolidation/virtualization, portfolio management, architecture leadership, application enhancements, emerging technologies and strategy.
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IBM
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Chief Architect
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1997 - 2004
Successfully engaged as a leader on several large-scale (multi-million dollar) mission critical enterprise-wide end-to-end engagements/applications while leveraging enterprise architecture. The engagements were within the financial services, manufacturing and retail verticals that leveraged SOA, Java and web-based technologies. Successfully engaged as a leader on several large-scale (multi-million dollar) mission critical enterprise-wide end-to-end engagements/applications while leveraging enterprise architecture. The engagements were within the financial services, manufacturing and retail verticals that leveraged SOA, Java and web-based technologies.
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Education
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University of Dayton MBA Program
MBA, MIS -
University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business
BBA, IS