Charles Bess

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Primarily retired - but always busy doing something @ Savannah, GA, US
Savannah, GA, US
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Greater Savannah Area, United States, United States
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About Charles Bess

I am a team builder who interfaces across and within organizational boundaries to develop enterprise-class solutions, with a track record of helping executives and sales pursuits to understand the implications of business and technology trends and take advantage of them. I have rallied technologists from across the globe to tackle strategic, innovative solutions - for example: I was the lead-chair for HP's global technical conference multiple years and initiated the lead technologist community within EDS to leverage the diversity of experience available among the technologists.My value has been that of a pioneer - typically knowing where the explorers have gone and identifying the best path for others to follow, clearing overgrown routes through modernization and automation, enabling efficient and effective movement of the larger group to meet common and corporate objectives. I’ve architected and engineered solutions across a diverse range of industries and client sizes.I have excellent communications skills speaking at conferences, with executives and blogging through a range of social media outlets, including HPs popular Next Big Thing blog as well as a personal blog at: https://cebess.wordpress.com, among others.I'm active on Southern Methodist University's MBA associate board where I mentor MBA candidates as well as participate in the business school curriculum advisory committee. I'm on the executive board of the US-FIRST robotics competition in North Texas and participate both in North Texas and globally as a judge. I have provided leadership to ISSIP.org, performing the role of VP (2013) and President (2014). Industry experience includes: process & discrete manufacturing, engineering, consumer products, financial systems, health care payer and IT services. Specialties: Technology Architecture creation, Professional Engineer (Texas, software), Collaboration, Social Media, Service futures and Mobility

Charles Bess's Current Company Details
Self-Employed

Self-Employed

Primarily retired - but always busy doing something
Savannah, GA, US
Charles Bess Work Experience Details
  • Self-Employed
    Self-Employed
    Savannah, Ga, Us
  • Sun City Hilton Head Woodworkers And Modelmakers Guild
    Advanced Training Director
    Sun City Hilton Head Woodworkers And Modelmakers Guild Jul 2018 - Nov 2024
    Coordinates the advanced training curriculum for a guild of over 900 individuals focused on advanced woodworking and model making techniques.
  • Self-Employed
    Freelance Blogger And Consultant
    Self-Employed Jan 2018 - Nov 2024
    Supporting freelance blogging and consulting requests on a range of topics.
  • Raytheon
    Senior Manager It Architecture
    Raytheon Jul 2015 - Jan 2018
    Arlington, Va, Us
    Intelligence, Information and Systems - IT architecture and Amazon AWS sandbox development.Clearance TS SCI CI Poly
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  • Freelance/Blogger/Consultant
    Freelance Blogger And Consultant
    Freelance/Blogger/Consultant Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
    During this time I was blogging at:https://cebess.wordpress.comhttp://diginomica.com/andhttp://networkingexchangeblog.att.com/as well as advising individuals and companies while in transition to a new role.
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  • Hewlett-Packard
    Fellow / Vp / Chief Technologist Application And Business Services Americas
    Hewlett-Packard Feb 2013 - Mar 2015
    Houston, Texas, Us
    In this role, I facilitating technical leadership across the Americas for HP Enterprise Services applications and business services organization. The primary focus was on delivery, innovation and sales support activities. This large organization addressed the software development and support needs of numerous industries across Canada, US and South America. Areas of focus include:* Reviewing and advising application delivery solutions larger than $5M* Leading an effort to define $6M per year in margin improvement through automation* Reviewing senior technologist candidates in Enterprise Services (ES) across the globe* Presenting to multiple conference and executive interactions focused on expanding relationships * Revising the innovation content of the HP ES executive briefing center* Creating hundreds of blog posts on The Next Big Thing blog which regularly received over 300,000 reads a month* Intervening in numerous delivery issues in both North and South America* Increasing the leverage of innovation through monthly leadership meetings and direct interaction with hundreds of technologists a month During this same time I was the Vice President of the International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP.org) in 2013 and the President in 2014, where we investigated and shared the implications of service futures across industry and academia and served on their executive board.
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  • Hewlett-Packard
    Fellow / Service Labs Researcher
    Hewlett-Packard Mar 2011 - Mar 2013
    Houston, Texas, Us
    While HP labs had a lab focused on services, I took on a researcher role concentrating on service-based value generation using techniques like gamification, data analytics, case management and the Internet of Things. This was an exciting period of interacting with the diverse range of research taking place in HP labs and collaborating to define new ways that the research can be applied to business.During this time I was the lead chair of HP’s global Global Technical conference (TechCon) in 2012 and 2013. This invite only event brought together hundreds of technologists and executives to demonstrate and collaborate on the implications of these efforts on future products and services.I also was the research coordinator between HP labs and the MIT Center for Digital Business, where we discussed the implications of automation and service futures and funded research.I also performed the role of cloud advisor at numerous conferences like HP Discover, VMWorld, Interop as well as numerous client engagements and presentations at HP’s executive briefing center..
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  • Hewlett-Packard
    Fellow / Architect Capability Owner
    Hewlett-Packard Jul 2004 - Mar 2011
    Houston, Texas, Us
    This time of my career allowed me to perform a number of functions involving direct and indirect leadership EDS and eventually HP, including supported numerous large sales efforts. One of these was the startup of the relationship between EDS and Kraft where I performed the Chief Technologist function for the first 8 months of this large SAP outsourcing engagement. Another was working with the Department of Works and Pensions in the UK on architecting their re-compete structures.During 2007-2010, I owned the architecture capability of EDS and then during the HP purchase of EDS facilitated merging the Enterprise and Solution architects of HP and EDS, defining the training, certification and role requirements of almost 1000 architects across all of HP.I was also a member of the early Top Gun program addressing the relationship between EDS and Microsoft. This program was designed to generate the next generation of technologists and technical leaders for EDS.In 2005, I was the co-creator and the on-going coordinator of The Next Big Thing blog of EDS and then HP at: www.hp.com/go.tnbt. This blog was defined to project thought leadership into the marketplace on the implications of business and technical trends.Also during this time, I received a professional engineer license (software) in Texas.This period involved doing whatever was needed, changing roles on a monthly basis.
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  • Electronic Data Systems
    Fellow / Chief Tech. Applications Delivery - Global
    Electronic Data Systems May 2003 - Jul 2004
    West Hartford, Us
    As the Chief Technologist for applications delivery, I provided technical leadership to the software delivery team on process and organizational improvements globally (a 30,000 person organization). I coordinated the global lead technologist’s virtual communities across EDS allowing technologists to leverage the experience and insight quickly. This role also involve assisting EDS delivery teams through problem areas in specific account relationships, defining the processes and diagnostic approaches used to enable others to perform a similar function. Many times I was reporting directly to a CxO on what I was seeing, on a daily basis. I also owned EDS's Enterprise Architecture method - RightStep. During 7 months of this period, I was the acting vice-president of the Application Portfolio, defining and coordinating the creation of the offering playbook in the application development and maintenance space, while EDS was trying to move to a portfolio led approach to its marketplace. This enabled me to participate in the top 100 leadership meetings defining the future structures and processes of EDS.
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  • Electronic Data Systems
    Chief Tech. Applications Delivery Americas
    Electronic Data Systems Jan 2001 - May 2003
    West Hartford, Us
    I was the first chief technologist defined for the applications space fpr the Americas. So I had to create and coordinated technical delivery structures and technical sales activities related to application development in the United States and Canada for EDS. I also acted as a liaison to EDS' CIO organization in addressing tool and process issues and requirements.One of the first things I did as the chief technologist was define the EDS Global Lead Tech Virtual Community, striving to increase collaboration and innovation by lead technologists across EDS. This community still existed when I left HP. I also defined an approach to software reuse and automation enabling others to benefit from the innovation and capabilities across the organization.Another activity I took on was to work with HP HR to re-defined the process for and led the Architect review board for EDS. This was an important element to having a growing relationship with our clients.
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  • Electronic Data Systems
    Enterprise Architect
    Electronic Data Systems Sep 1999 - Jan 2001
    West Hartford, Us
    During this period I coordinated EDS activities to implement the initial Business Intelligence deployment associated with the SAP roll-out. This required the first instance of SAP BW to be deployed, creating an enterprise financial warehouse used by all EDS executives. I also worked with SAP on their initial efforts with the SAP Strategic Enterprise Management module, an early balanced scorecard based dashboard.As part of this period, I participated as a member of EDS' Enterprise System Management Review board and other governance functions as well as authoring content for EDS's Technology Policy.
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  • Electronic Data Systems
    Chief Tech Healthcare Sbu
    Electronic Data Systems Nov 1996 - Sep 1999
    West Hartford, Us
    EDS was structured based upon industries at this point and I was the Chief Technologist for the Healthcare SBU. Its focus was on commercial (including Blue Cross and Blue Shield) and US government healthcare (Medicare and the VA). I was responsible for defining, documenting and implementing the group's technology plan and implemented a technical review approach that assessed all projects greater than $250K to ensure consistent and cost effective delivery for the 2,500 person organization. I was also recognized as a Delivery Reengineering Officer focused on implementing structured change for the business and technical processes.During this time, helped define EDS's RightStep Enterprise Architecture methodology and used it to create a leverageable Healthcare payer value generation model.
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  • Electronic Data Systems
    Consultant System Engineer
    Electronic Data Systems Nov 1994 - Nov 1996
    West Hartford, Us
    I was the technical Leader for the team that supported General Motors' Production Control and Logistics systems that was approximately 300 people in size. I also performed the role of Quality Assurance subject matter expert for the GM account as part of their software engineering performance network. Defining and implementing a Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) compatible quality assurance tool that enabled the QA function to rotate around the organization rather than be performed by a dedicated team. I also led the Senior Software Engineer review board for GM.
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  • Electronic Data Systems
    Senior Knowledge Engineer
    Electronic Data Systems Nov 1990 - Nov 1994
    West Hartford, Us
    Technologically this was a very exciting time. I was working in the Artificial Intelligence Services group as part of the architecture team of the Marine Spill Response Corporation project. This project involved approximately 60 developers evenly divided between Washington DC and Troy, MI. I was the overall coordinator for the Technology Design phase of the effort. This project was created by the US government as a direct response to the Exxon Valdez Oil spill by the US government. We implemented a unified emergency response management system that integrated two mainframe systems, a UNIX CAD system behind a Macintosh-based front end that require little to no training. This also involved creating a Geographic Information System and a hypertext based help environment virtually from scratch.I was also the project leader for the Knowledge Based Tool Design engineering project for GM. This project's goal was to use parameters embedded in computer design files of car parts within Unigraphics to facilitate rapid design of tooling, reducing GM time-to-market for new car designs.
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  • Electronic Data Systems
    Manager
    Electronic Data Systems 1985 - 1990
    West Hartford, Us
    Supervisor for semiconductor manufacturing software development for 2 years and then the manager of manufacturing system administration for DEC, HP systems (largest installation in GM) for 2 years. In 1989-1990, Also consulted across all the EDS accounts in Indiana as part of the Indiana Resource Center working at locations like Delco Electronics, Delco Remy, Allison Gas Turbine, Allison Transmission, Cummins Engine.
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  • Delco Electronics (Once Part Of Gm Now Part Of Delphi)
    Manufacturing Development Engineer
    Delco Electronics (Once Part Of Gm Now Part Of Delphi) Nov 1980 - 1985
    When I started my career, I focused on the creation of statistical graphic display and analysis tools and data collection from factory floor semiconductor testing devices, performing the role of manufacturing development engineer until the EDS purchase by GM. I wrote dozens of statistical analysis solutions and created a multi-device capable, windowed graphic environment that enabled multiple programs to simultaneously display their graphic content on HP terminals back in 1982.Before this time, I worked at the Delco Electronics starting in the summer of 1979 and 1980 as a summer engineering student.

Charles Bess Skills

Enterprise Architecture Integration Cloud Computing Enterprise Software It Strategy Business Intelligence Outsourcing Software Development It Service Management It Outsourcing Program Management Governance Architecture Solution Architecture Disaster Recovery Strategy Business Process Service Delivery Data Center It Management System Architecture Itil Consulting Architectures Consultants Saas Togaf Requirements Analysis Thought Leadership Soa Professional Services Networking Blogging Futures Application Architecture Software Documentation It Governance Future Trends Virtualization Mentoring Software Project Management Gamification Software Project Portfolio Management Consultancy Business Transformation Product Innovation It Operations Big Picture Thinking Creativity Skills

Charles Bess Education Details

  • Southern Methodist University
    Southern Methodist University
    General
  • Purdue University
    Purdue University
    Electrical Engineering

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