Business Architect

PWI Contract] North Carolina Department of Transportation

Contracted to be the sole business architect assigned to the IT project management office (PMO) to
provide 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. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: (1) developed and demonstrated a new use-cased based
requirements management methodology; (2) analyzed, abstracted and modeled conceptual business
semantics using a complex business rules based transformation scheme to port data from one system
(SAP/BW) to another (OpenText); (3) lead technical engagement with NCDOT Signal Safety division,
facilitated senior management and end-user requirement solicitation workshops, developed stakeholder
questionnaires, authored a business vision document to document and convey business unit goals,
objectives, strategies, assumptions, etc.

Insurance Fraud Investigator

Shaw, Seagraves & Assoc

Enterprise Architect

CMS (Medicare Innovation Center)

Multi-year contract role collaborating with HCMDM principle to provide primary government
contractors with senior leadership and hands-on expertise regarding enterprise architecture, systems
analysis and requirements specification. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: (1) trained a staff of 5 analysts on
enterprise architecture fundamentals, service-oriented analysis and design (SOA&D), use-case driven
methodology, visual modeling paradigm and the UML visual modeling notation; (2) persuaded senior
management and the solution development team to adopt the Zachman Enterprise Framework , Unified
Process, use cases, UML modeling notation, and Enterprise Architect tool suite; (3) authored 4
detailed technical assessments, 5 methodological approaches, 60 technical presentations and 1000+
diagrams & visual models.

Distinguished IT Technologist / Business Architect

BB&T

Hired to train and provide hands-on technical leadership to a newly created internal business
architecture team within the bank's IT department. Developed, documented and recommended 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. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: (1) trained 7 new business architects on EA fundamentals, business
motivation modeling, business decision mechanics, and service-oriented analysis and design basics;
(2) developed 25+ senior management presentations concerning technology investment strategies, IT
application portfolio management, business architecture discipline, business decision modeling,
business technology roadmap, SWOT analysis techniques, and reference architectures.

Enterprise Architect / Technical Governance

PWI Contract] Toyota Financial Services

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. Developed the TG team's quality assurance
operating procedures to identify and specify technical assessment goals, objectives, requirements,
procedural actions and project quality evaluation criteria. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS: (1) developed,
documented and implemented department-wide technical governance assessment protocol; (2) assessed
30+ projects and identified 100+ quality related technical documentation defects; (3) contributed 13
detailed observations, 10 requirements management principles and a set of recommendations to a new
business systems analysis (BSA) center of excellence (COE) organization being formed within the
department.

Business Systems Engineering Consultant

PWI Contract] Farmers Insurance

Consulted with Farmers Claims IT division's senior leadership team to facilitate the development of
a new quality engineering initiative (QEI). Based, in part, on the success of the QEI rollout,
subsequently contracted with a "business side" organizational unit (National Process Development
Team) to train a cadre of process analysts to adopt, use and benefit from a set of IT-derived
methods, techniques, notations and tools. Also contracted with another business-side team (Personal
Lines Applications) to develop strategic technology modernization and workforce reorganization
plans.

Enterprise Architect Consultant

PWI Contract] Zenith Insurance Company

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 BSAs to improve the quality of the
company's overall claims processing system landscape.

Senior Architect

AMGEN

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 IT-wide 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.

Founder

AeroPartnerships.com

Chief Architect / Technical Product Manager

EventConnex, Inc.

Director, Product Development

JADE Solutions

Director, Research & Planning

VR-1

Director, Systems Integration

ORION Scientific Systems

Security Police Supervisor / Operational Resource Manager

USAF

business systems engineer (20+ years); (enterprise-, business-, solution-) architect; analyst

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