Experience

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  Enterprise IT Solutions, LLC

  • President/CEO/Consultant/Speaker

    • Mar 2007 - Present

    Established a business supporting CIO’s in aligning IT to the business directions and strategies for the CEO and Executive Staff. Created this start up business providing various service offerings leveled at the executive management of the enterprise. Negotiated partnerships with multiple modeling tool providers in supporting their software products using our consulting services. Setup a network of independent consultants and software providers offering integrated business solution.Created an offering to establish an Enterprise Data Architecture for any enterprise including tools to assist in the capture of all legacy data within the enterprise systems creating strategies for the creation and use of Enterprise Data Architecture. Implemented strategies for decoupling enterprise systems from its data accomplishing a 360 degree view of the customer across all legacy systems and in some cases in less than ninety days. Created business plans, marketing materials, presentations, white papers, and methodologies for launching these service offerings. Created proposals and presented to prospective clients.Created project plans and managed them to insure timely, quality, and low cost application systems.Schedule work efforts and assigned resources from the consulting network.Conducted several engagements on IT strategy in the retail/distribution industries.Made various presentations including the Main Tent speaker on how to accomplish a Data Driven Enterprise Architectures down to implementation.

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  IBM

  • National Practice Principal

    • Oct 1999 - Jun 2003

    As a Principal for the National Practice within IBM, created methods for creating Enterprise, Data, Application, Security, Networking, and Infrastructure Architectures for various service offerings and delivered to the IBM internal staff and thier customers. Participated in the selling of these new concepts to prospective clients and mentored the field staff through the engagements including establishing the project plans, best practices, change management, and building effective relationships with the client. Coordinated the national practice staff in mentoring these engagements by providing training, direction, guidance, and change management practices for the field staff in accomplishing the client expectations of what the engagement would produce.Created methodologies for going from an Enterprise Architecture down to the implementation of the Applications Systems including ERP solutions such as PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel, Etc. and application interfaces.

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  Veronex Technologies, Inc.

  • Vice President Product & Services

    • Jan 1997 - Sep 1999

    Sold the Approach Methodology and Toolset created at Archidata Systems to Veronex Technologies. In return, received stock and assumed responsibilities as the Vice President of Product & Services. Continued the development of the toolsets, methods, and provided services for developing application systems for any industry. Established partnerships with KPMG, IBM, Computer Generated Solutions, and PRC/Litton in using our products in providing their services and mentored them in the process of using those products. Obtained ITAA (Information Technology Association of America) Y2K certification for the Y2K methodology and became one of 23 vendors certified by ITAA.Integrated Veronex and Archidata Systems products in an offering called I|Nova.Created strategies for marketing I|Nova as an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution.Created methodology and designed solutions for sniffer technology in the Y2K product offerings.

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  KVB/Analect (Air Water Technologies)

  • V.P. Software Products & Services

    • Jan 1993 - Jan 1997

    Assumed responsibility for a software organization created as a result of the KVB hardware manufacturing business in providing environmental analyzers to 26 Major utilities. The customer base held approximately 76 million dollars until the software functioned to contract specifications.Reviewed contracts and met with customer base to outline plans to correct software problems.Created strategies to create a system (Compliance) that met the specification for monitoring emissions under the Acid Rain Legislation and reported those emissions quarterly to the EPA.System was a real time on-line monitoring system using PLC and Data Loggers; attached to analyzers and probes within the stacks of these major power plants.Obtained 96% of the revenue held by the utility customers.Created database and system Architectures using Client/Server technology in C/C++, UNIX, TCP/IP, and Relational Databases in both Oracle and Sybase.

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  Archidata Systems, Inc.

  • President/CEO

    • Jun 1990 - Jan 1993

    Created a systems development methodology supported by a comprehensive Object Oriented systems development toolset known as Approach. Developed and implemented re-engineering, database and system architectures for various industries including Health Care, Retail, Banking, Entertainment, Publishing, and Manufacturing.Created Database/System Architecture for Marshall Industries including the ability to do B2B internet business using the Database Architecture taking them from 250 million to a Three Billion dollar corporation in less than 6 years all documented in a book titled “Free, Perfect, and Now” by Robert Rodin the CEO.Created Database/Systems Architectures for Millers Outpost, Thrifty Drug Stores, The Limited, Woolworth, Kenney Shoes, and Seattle Times.Created Dataman a fully integrated toolset allowing for SAP, PeopleSoft and EDI implementations.Created a concept in Data Objects allowing the software product to be platform independent.

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  Freedom Communications Inc.

  • OCR Director (CIO), Information Services

    • Jan 1986 - Jun 1990

    Assumed responsibility for providing policy, procedures, and direction for the IT organization of this Billion Dollar Corporation including the management of a staff of 102 members in the operation of Prime, DEC, HP, and IBM systems. These systems serviced production, circulation, finance, editorial and transportation applications. Supported three additional Freedom Newspapers and one TV Station integrated in to a 24/7 operation.Developed NEWSMAN(tm), consisting of an integrated Database architecture around which all systems where designed using IBM's state-of-the-art technology (DB2, CICS, and SAA Architecture).Implemented Payroll/Personnel, A/P, G/L, and A/R software packages.Created systems contributing to the increases in newspaper circulation by 41% in its first year of operations.

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  California Federal Savings and Loan

  • Senior V. P. Support Services Division

    • Jan 1983 - Jan 1986

    Managed the conversion of 52 branch offices in the South/East Division to a common CalFed system in California and created a strategy in a nationwide communication network (CalNet) for ATM, EFT, Teller Terminal, and Branch delivery systems.Preserved the terminal investment by allowing Burroughs teller terminals, ATM's, and EFT network services to communicate with either Univac or IBM mainframes.Managed over 240 staff members with 8 direct reports, including documentation services, plan management, configuration management, data security (RACF), data management, end user computing, financial analyses/reporting, and branch training.Installed an X.25 network, the first private packet switching network in the United States using Paradyne (AT&T) equipment, and connecting Burroughs, Univac, and IBM mainframes.

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  Carter, Hawley, Hale, Stores Inc.

  • Director, Information Resource Management

    • Jan 1980 - Jan 1983

    Created and maintained an integrated IMS Database Architecture for all Merchandising Processing Systems.Interviewed and hired 22 staff members to support Data and Database functions.Established working relationships with application development, computer operations, and the end user in the use and development of the databases.Integrated Data Dictionary as a central inventory of data names, programs, and components.Made management presentations on merchandising functions reflected in Database Architecture.Educated top management in the use of technology and systems construction practices.Worked with John A. Zachman in the concepts of "Information Systems Engineering" and how that adapted to Enterprise Architecture through the Data Architecture created at Carter, Hawley, Hale Stores, Inc.