Overview

A quick scan of my background will show that I not only bring significant innovation and emerging technology experience to the table I also have extensive experience with development and architecture on mid-tier and mainframe systems.  This includes extensive experience with the systems, processes, and frameworks used in both emerging and traditional technology.  

 

This background provides me with the ability to take a global and pragmatic view of opportunities using emerging technology and drive a realistic implementation plan that achieves the business value while minimizing the inherent risks.

 

Skills Summary

·              Strong business acumen, with a pragmatic, business case driven, approach to shaping I.T. investment in support of new revenue and operational efficiency strategies.

·              Track record of enterprise-wide transformation initiatives delivering new I.T. capabilities in the areas of mobility innovation, strategic systems planning, cross-tier applications development, and database administration.

·              Deep knowledge of frameworks, tools, and infrastructure used with the development and integration of most emerging technology and traditional application systems. 

·              Specialized at marrying new technology and innovation with back-office systems and using industry accepted and standardized SDLC best practices for quality design, development, and management.

·              Highly skilled problem solver tasked to lead resolutions in situations where highly complex system designs and implementations are creating issues having high impact and visibility.

 

Personal Skills Summary

·              Established leadership skills and vision to build and engage teams across the globe

·              Highly self-directed and able to manage and prioritize multiple concurrent and competing challenges, issues, ambiguities, and contradictions. 

·              Excellent written and verbal communications skills in a wide range of technical and business disciplines with a capability to author and present technical material in a clear, concise, and compelling manner.

 

Capgemini USA, Detroit, Michigan 2006-2015

Technology Lead, Emerging Energy Solutions, Consumers Energy (2014-2015)

Engineered delivery of the conceptual, logical, and physical I.T. service components for new energy-based business services enabled with the introduction of IoT energy management devices.

·               Evaluated, selected, and integrated third party components and PaaS services into the overall solution. 

·               Designed cloud based control system to manage IoT load management devices at client sites as part of the automated load management service.

·               Designed a new provisioning process to automate purchasing and supply chain activities, reduce/eliminate errors in specifications and minimize the time to provision a new revenue generating customer. 

·               Designed gateway to cloud communications alternatives to support either low cost high-bandwidth broadband connectivity or higher cost lower bandwidth cellular connectivity.

·               Built a demonstration center to provide live demonstrations of energy management, automated load management, and fault detection to prospects.  This demonstration center included the provisioning of two client office towers with load and energy management equipment and the associated gateways.

Major Environment Technologies

Internet of Things (Iot), Embedded Systems, Microsoft Azure, SQL Server, Intel IoT Sensors, Intel Moon Island Gateway, Pulse Energy, Candi Controls, Field Server, REGEN, Insteon, Smartenit, SysLink, CBW, eGauge, Powerline, Netmeter, Harmony, Z-Wave, Zigbee, GSM/CDMA, BACNet, MESH, BAS/BMS

 

Lead, Innovation and Transformation Solutions, Capgemini USA (2009-2014)

Evaluated, selected, organized, and managed a team of resources responsible for the identification of new innovation opportunities which had the potential to deliver breakthrough value to customers and to the firm.

·               Highlighted high-value applications extendable across consumer channels with little capital outlay.

·               Showcased cost-effective solutions to simply but quantifiably raise system functionality. 

·               Leveraged vehicle data, mobility and localization technologies, HTML5 capabilities, and social networking systems (salesforce.com, yammer.com) to uncover new opportunities.

·               Created the first connected-car application designs that leveraged vehicle information to enhance driving, ownership, and purchasing experiences. 

·               Utilized operable prototypes to demonstrate business case merits and lower potential risks related to new technology.  Examples include:

o            Created the first, customer-centric, mobility application designs using existing B2C to identify new opportunities and working prototypes to validate business value and technical capability.   

o            Created prototypes to demonstrate how to native and web application technologies could be used to create a single code base supporting multiple device types.

o            Developed prototypes to demonstrate synergistic technologies such as QR Codes and Near Field Communication.

·               Developed a cloud based website to support prototype demonstrations and disseminate support collateral.

 

Major Environment Technologies

XCode, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Android SDK, Java, JavaScript, Object-C, Visual Basic, HTML5, CSS, Android, iPhone, iPad, Google-TV, Apple-TV, Responsive Design, Kinect,  Video Encoding, HLS Live Streaming, NFC, Bluetooth 1.4,  Amazon EC2, S3, Cloud Front, IAM, Windows Server, Ubuntu, Apache, RDP, FTP

 

Lead Architect, Application Integration Management Group, GPSC, GM (2006-2009)

The I.T. Purchasing and Supply Chain supporting function had been reorganized to bring the formally autonomous regions (North America, Europe, Asia, and Middle East) under global administration.  As part of this effort the mandate of the new global function was to rationalize the portfolio of applications to reduce operational costs, provide better response to business demands, and enable potential economies of scale from a global, rather than regional, supply chain.

•         Created the roles and responsibilities, wrote position descriptions, interviewed, hired, and managed team of ten architects in North America, Europe, and Asia.

•         Created business intelligence, ODS and data warehouse strategies, and build best practices and guidance to support effective use of Oracle SOA Suite, ESB, and EAI tools.

•         Introduced architectural governance to ensure compliance of all development efforts with approved architectural guidelines and standards and lead in the provision of architectural governance to over 100 development projects per year involving a wide range of purchased and custom mid-range and mainframe applications.

•         Introduced twenty five initiatives that were designed to improve development efficiency and effectiveness, implement new quality control processes, and convert the waterfall SDLC to an incremental/agile supporting process by combining segmented enterprise architecture with Rational Unified Process plan/define activities.

•         Created Mentor Program that teamed senior architects with junior architects as needed to improve their understanding of mid-tier and mainframe technologies and technology compliance goals and to help with collaboration within the new and complex multi-vendor multi-client matrix model.

•         Through briefings and presentations, interacted with executive management to align architecture activity and recommend opportunities to improve I.T. delivery quality while reducing development and sustain costs.

•         Rated “superior” in performance reviews (see References section). 

 

Major Environment Technologies

J2EE, Cognos, JCAPS, FTP/ETL , CICS, IMS-TM, IMS-DB, COBOL, PL/1, VSAM, IMS-Connect, MQ-Series, BPEL, MVS, Weblogic, XML, STAR BOD, IAF, TOGAF, I2, ABPP, Telelogic, Enterprise Architecture, SDP-21, Rational Unified Process, Togaf 9

 

EDULINX (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Company), Toronto, Ontario               2001 – 2005

Senior Technology Consultant to the VP

In 2001 EDULINX acquired a large government student loan contract, more than doubling the volume of student loans it had to process.  At the time, all operations were supported by only a flat-file based MVS mainframe system originally built to handle automobile loans and then extensively modified.  The challenge was to create a mid-tier, object oriented, java based set of application components that can be easily reused by future efforts. 

Directed the creation of a new mid-tier/mainframe development capability providing architecture, design, and task planning guidance to all mid-tier and mainframe resources.

·               Took direct control over the first, mission critical, project efforts, redesigning all mid-tier to mainframe access, to achieve throughput targets, and redeveloping project plans to meet delivery commitments.

·               Created a plan to replace existing, non-object-oriented, objects with re-usable o-o objects that introduced the replacement gradually by incorporating into planned projects.   This was completed after 18 months.  

·               Replaced custom development practices with frameworks that supported authentication/authorization and encapsulation of rules.

·               Mentored all development staff in effective J2EE-Mainframe integration development best practices, integrated development planning, performance testing, and operational support.

Windows, MVS, AIX, UNIX, Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), Rational Rose, Rational Product Suite (Robot, XDE), DB2, MYSQL, FILENET, Lotus Notes, Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), WebSphere Application Developer (WSAD), Eclipse, MQSeries (MQ-Series), IAM/VSAM, CICS, COBOL, JAVA (J2EE), WSBCC, Rightfax, Crystal Reports, Report Mill, XML, ILOG JRULES, Host On Demand, Hostbridge.

 

Various Companies                                   pre-2001

Strategic Planning, Application Development, Database Administration

A small summary of accomplishments while working for various companies in Montreal and Toronto Canada. 

·                 For a manufacturer of pharmaceutical software I was responsible for the design, development, and support of e-commerce and client-server applications to support a new service that provided drug related information (ex: drug interactions) across a comprehensive base of prescription and cross counter medications.   The client-server application was the first mobility application to utilize an Internet based server to provide data services. 

·   As the infrastructure delivery lead I evaluated, selected, and delivered the infrastructure to support the first three years of operations of a new backend application that would sell products utilizing the bank’s ATM machines. 

·   Working for a manufacturer of software utilities I was responsible for converting a tightly coupled MVS-Tandem high speed transfer utility to a loosely coupled modularized product that included new modules for the DEC-VAX, HP-UX, AS/400, and PC platforms.

·   As the systems planning manager I introduced a new strategic planning methodology that was used to identify five years of I.S. development projects. Initiated over 20 projects representing $7 million in development effort and recovering over $5 million in annual savings. 

·   As the database administration manager I lead a team in the implementation of a new DBA group that included the development of database design and tuning guidelines, change control processes, chargeback mechanisms, as well as the development and support of 14 large production databases.

Education

•          B. Comm., Major Data Processing  – Concordia University, Montreal

•          Executive Development MBA  (EDC)   - McGill University, Montreal