Matt Weaver

6149 Kilrenny Drive • Loveland, OH 45140

matty.weaver@gmail.com • +1.513.708.6437

http://www.linkedin.com/in/matteweaver

 

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

 

A challenging and responsible position as an IT architecture lead focused on building a team to bridge the gaps between business and IT, establishing standards and governance, and creating solutions to maximize business value from IT investments.

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

 

Experienced in enterprise architecture (TOGAF) and solution architecture utilizing TOGAF/Open Group and proprietary methodologies; practical experience in architecture spanning a myriad of system types (ERP, Cloud, COTS, Custom Development), functional areas and business verticals.

 

Experienced in many IT functional domains including strategic planning, portfolio management, project/program management, system development, quality management (Lean manufacturing), operational excellence (ITIL), outsourcing governance, and commercial engagements (RFP/RFI).

 

Over 20 years of progressively responsible IT architecture, architecture management and consulting experience in companies ranging in size from Fortune 50 to start-ups.

 

Graduated Magna Cumme Laude from Indiana University, with B.S. degrees in Computer Information Systems and Finance.

 

POSITION REVIEW

 

Enterprise Architect, Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing NA

• Created/rationalized numerous enterprise standards as part of the OneToyota EA working group involving architects from TEMA, Toyota Motor Sales and Toyota Financial Services.

• Validated requirements with business, then crafted multiple layers of the technical solution’s blueprint for projects including ITSM to ServiceNow cloud, PeopleSoft HRMS migration to Workday cloud and introducing enterprise BPM for the plants via Pega tools. 

• Led requirements gathering, mapping and matching/fit gap exercises, and high level design for implementing SAP order-to-cash solution in Virtustream cloud.

• Developed two RFQs (Dynamic BPM and Standard NA .Net/Azure Framework); led the evaluation, due diligence, scoring process, and designated in-house architect for both initiatives.

 

 

 

 

Program Architect, Kroger Co (June 2013 – December 2013)

• Managed architecture team working across releases of Project Mercury, a $100M+ program standing up an enterprise Master Data Management system and governance processes, Oracle Retail ERP suite, a third party external customer portal and numerous legacy system integrations. Organized and on-boarded work-stream architects and overall design for subsequent phases.

• Led successful implementation team for Grissom 1 phase in Stage and Prod.

• Contributed in several non-architecture related areas including: development, operations, testing, transition, general methodology – wherever help was needed to move forward.

 

Project Architect, Kroger Co (October 2012 – May 2013)

• Orchestrated the implementation of program’s first successful release (Allocations) into production spanning TIBCO MDM, BW, EMS, Oracle RMS/Allocations and other integration/in-house technologies.

• Awarded in recognition first Redstone Rocket award given once a quarter to one of the 400+ program members who generates significant results while building organizational capability.

• Resolved numerous issues and problems; focus was surfacing as many issues as possible so they could be dealt with and the project could move forward.

• Created solution leveraging existing infrastructure so a second concurrent release (Shepard) could be delivered despite internal headwinds.

 

Project Architect, Resolvit, LLC (April 2012 – October 2012)

• Collaborated with the Kroger Business, business analysts, developers and system integrators on the program’s first release (Allocations), while in a 6-month contract to hire role.

• Instituted regular stand-up meeting for follow-up, introduced further traceability into requirements, delivered functional and detailed design docs, drove accountability and a positive team culture.

Managing Director, Consulting Services

• Exceeded sales, margin and quality targets for initiatives managed as client partner (spanning Citigroup, Union Pacific, Allstate, State & Federal government agencies).

• Grew start-up consulting practice from 5 to 23 fully utilized EAI/SOA/CEP consultants in 12 months.

• Created prototype of components of TSM pilot running in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

• Developed company website content, managed blog, led twitter interaction along with the implementation of numerous back office B2E applications internally (e.g. Google Apps, Salesforce, etc.)

 

Integration Architecture Practice Manager (June 2007 – August 2010)

• Managed global team of architects tasked with increasing HP’s share of P&G’s wallet in the integration and SOA domain. Provided bid support and solution architecture for P&G requests with team exceeding targets of $5M, $6M and $7.5M in deals signed in FY08, FY09 and FY10, respectively.

• Led team resource planning, organization work planning and deployment, managing organization capabilities, client management and developing joint HP-P&G business plan.

• Developed scope/stood-up CIB improvement program to improve proprietary internal P&G data transport solution resulting, once implemented, in a reduction of incidents by >95% over 9 months starting Jan 2008.

• Participated on steering committee for selection and delivery of HP Services Tech-Con showcases.

• Managed team developing RFP responses encompassing solution strategy, design and crafting the proposal(s). Team won pursuits in multiple verticals: CPG, Financial, Media and Healthcare.

• Served on HP Services Tech Council responsible for identifying and shepherding future disruptive technologies HP Labs was incubating into commercially viable offerings for HP Enterprise services.

• Led architecture of $100M+ proposal to provide P&G a multi-tier provisioned “Infrastructure-as-a-Service” private cloud offering leveraging external HP Data Center.

• Led successful enterprise integration planning and execution with P&G for the Gillette acquisition.

 

 

 

 

HP Global Integration Competency Center (ICC) Manager (Feb 2006 – May 2007)

• Developed charter and led creation of 500+ FTE virtual HP Integration Competency Center organization spanning 12 sites globally, handling all requests for EAI/SOA related bid support and delivery for pursuits. Managed organizational stand-up through steady state and successfully transitioned.

 

Enterprise Integration Delivery Manager – P&G (May 2005 – May 2007)

• Awarded in recognition HP Services MVP Leadership Award (3/2006)

• Managed global delivery organization responsible for operational excellence and implementation of Procter & Gamble’s Enterprise Application Integration and B2B services. Responsible for end-to-end service delivery of data transport, transformation and integration services for the P&G account spanning SAP, Tibco, Cyclone, GXS ES/AI and custom systems.

• Met or exceeded contractual SLA measures with team dispersed across 7 countries.

• Grew services from 750M+ to >1.25B+ transactions managed annually across several technologies.

• Led HP team in P&G CIO chartered task-force to identify $30M in integration cost savings/cost avoidance, and rapidly integrate Gillette/future M&A’s. 

 

Master Architect – Enterprise Integration (August 2003 – April 2005)

• Managed 12 person team responsible for E&D, 3^rd Level support, product strategy and implementation of integration products spanning 300+ servers across multiple data centers globally for P&G account. 

• Led HP response in external Sarbanes-Oxley and internal P&G audit.

• Led solutioning of multiple General Motors “Crossbow” RFPs resulting in $18M+ in ITO/ADM services.

• Assisted in successful bids, due diligence and transition for PepsiCo and BarnesandNobles.com deals.

• Led solution architecture for $236M, 10-year comprehensive outsourcing deal with Avago.

 

Section Manager/Architect - EAI (Jan 2003 – July 2003)

• Improved delivery results continuously every quarter, exceeding expected SLAs. 

• Led turnaround of $8M+ investment in TIBCO technologies – increased reliability from low 80% monthly to 99%+ in less than one year.  

 

Senior Systems Analyst – EAI Team Leader (Jan 2002 – Jan 2003)

• Led deployment and support team responsible for driving increase in internal P&G integration scenarios from 1,500 Jan 2002 to 9,000 by end of 2002. 

 

Senior Systems Analyst – E-messaging (Feb 2000 - December 2001)

• Led evaluation for Lotus Domino replacement including delivering pilot integrating ~5,500 Clairol users.  • Led migration of 14,000+ users in first 2 quarters resulting in licensing and depreciation savings of $1.2M+ annually and improved reliability/availability over Lotus Domino environment.

• Led effort with Lotus/Iris engineers design and development of web-based “light” email client prototype.

• Led 8 FTE E&D and delivery team managing enterprise SMTP backbone and email directory feed.

 

Systems Analyst – E-messaging (Jan 1998 – Feb 2000)

• Managed $82M+ budget for Technology Services WW, on behalf of my Director.

• Developed and implemented global internal SMTP virus detection program for inbound emails.

• Led Domino r5 enterprise-wide SMTP architecture supporting >100,000 users.

• Technical leader for Y2K compliance programs spanning P&G e-messaging systems.

 

Analyst – E-messaging (Jan 1997 – Jan 1998)

• Led implementation of global SMTP backbone and elimination of HP-UX x.400.

• Led project to eliminate Worldtalk/Netjunction and legacy conferencing code, saving >$1.5M/yr.

• Managed project for MS:Mail and HP Openmail elimination, spanning 10K+ users, savings $2M+.

 

EDUCATION

 

B.S. Finance; Management Information Systems - Indiana University – Bloomington, 12/1996

Awarded Magna Cumme Laude (with high honor), IU - Kelley School of Business

Golden Key Scholastic Honor Award 1995, 1996

Founders Day Award Winner 1994, 1995, 1996

EDS Case Challenge Winner 1996