Michael Tisdale Email & Phone Number

Florida, United States

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

As an Enterprise Solution Architect in the manufacturing and logistics area, Mr. Tisdale leads the solution response in Cognizant's high-value, complex deals and solutions, providing vision, direction, and management to large and complex solution teams. He delivers compelling, profitable, and deliverable solutions that meet customer requirements in the most cost-effective and innovative manner for both standard and large deals.He has uccessfully created solutions valued at over $500M in the past year, for manufacturing clients in across many different industries; most recent pursuits spanned the automobile, paper packaging, and clothing markets.To customers and clients, he engages closely with customer executives and third-parties to understand their business priorities and needs, authors complex solution, process, and financial presentations then presents that information compellingly at executive leadership levels, and finally supports contract negotiations through signature. Within the team, he directly manages solution architects from different practices to deliver an integrated end-to-end solution that fits customer needs and requirements, reviewing technical recommendations and negotiating productivity, savings, and profitability while aligning the proposed solution to corporate guidelines and recommendations.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Working with their in-house development team, Mr. Tisdale led the engagement team for an Azure-based DevOps governance digital transformation effort at $3B healthcare insurer for over 700 applications, including the top 50 mission-critical solutions, evangelizing to directors, leaders, and developers, migrating over 10,000 repositories, and achieving adoption goals over 30 days early.Additionally, he advised over 30 teams on DevOps best ideas, including feature-based development, repository segmentation, product design, and continuous quality via pull request code analysis. Adopters reduced build times, test execution, release cycle periods, and integration issues.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Mr. Tisdale architected an AWS cloud migration of Cognizant Catalyst, an Account Payable SaaS solution. He accessed competitive offerings, then implemented a phased migration roadmap for core components, creating new business offerings to augment revenues via multi-tenant insights dashboard and reporting infrastructure, reducing delays from 24 hours to no more than 10 minutes.He also advised and designed cloud architecture for new business to create a HIPAA-compliant data hub for insurers offering a credit score for health during rating and underwriting. The solution leveraged a React-based front end connecting to a container-based lambda-based service layer for both inbound and outbound gateways, while streaming full compliance tracking and governance to insurers.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Mr. Tisdale evangelized the Blockchain technology innovation efforts in the Product, Platform, and Innovation's Technology group within Cognizant's Insurance practice. He guided senior management across the industry to understand the opportunities these technologies provide. He worked across the engagement lifecycle, starting with identifying early-stage proofs of concept opportunities and speaking at conferences and tech talks.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Among numerous engagements, Mr. Tisdale focused on B2B and B2C solutions for the insurance industry. He:- Oversaw technology advisory efforts for named accounts, identifying, designing, and executing each client’s strategic vision while also collaborating with account management to identify, design, resource, budget, and propose solutions for new opportunities in areas such as predictive analytics, augmented reality, IoT integration, drone delivery integration, and omnichannel service delivery.- Created an IT portfolio rationalization solution to augment a client’s Apptio-based technology investment management system. The solution utilized a discrete conjoint analysis assessment of investments to goals, identifying areas of misalignment. From the analysis, the firm was able to redirect investment, improving levered IRR.- Architected, proposed, and closed a $4.5M engagement to an agricultural and crop subsidiary of a $10B commercial insurance company for their digital transformation effort—an incrementally-deployed microservice design including operations, networking, and process to migrate from a Citrix-based thick client with GIS and dynamic UI requirements to a reactive web-based service solution with integrated mapping and satellite imagery, scenario costing, and full claims lifecycle management based on federal- and state-based rules integration.- Managed and delivered investment reports of acquisition candidates for equity investment from Cognizant’s insurance investment portfolio by analyzing the candidate’s management goals and technology strategy, process implementations, organizational assets, technical infrastructure, development team execution, support, and industry direction against a CMM-styled maturity model.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

As the Director for Enterprise Content Management Technologies at The IQ Business Group, Mr. Tisdale worked with government agencies, generally for either cloud or large-scale, in-house implementations. He architected and implemented content and records management solutions on the OpenText platform, while providing advisory services in design, architecture, DevOps, CI, CD, and deployment alternatives. - Designed and developed a discovery management system for the City of Philadelphia District Attorneys’ Office, enabling discovery distribution electronically to opposing counsel from hundreds of paralegals redacting content while maintaining records management control on all document interaction. Discovery distribution times dropped from nearly 4 months to less than 2 weeks with full adoption by Courts.- Designed a mobile-enabled platform for workers’ compensation quote management integrating an internal 4GL solution with a new case-based processing platform, integrating predictive analytics and form-based delivery to optimize data collection.- Architected rules solution for US-based prescription management platform. Developed proof-of-concept platform. Identified platform optimizations for cloud integration.

As an independent consultant, Darrin Tisdale assisted companies at the highest levels of technology architecture, specification, and management. He specialized in early-stage efforts, where solutions require multi-disciplinary insight, cross-industry experience, or just someone to ask the question "why?". His areas of expertise focused on content management, risk assessments, data analysis, rule systems, learning systems, and solution architectures. As a result, his clients have spanned the globe, including Jaguar, Rolls Royce, University of Warwick, Boston University, Fujitsu, Fidelity, Partners Healthcare, and many others. Project highlights include:- Designing real-time predictive analytics component for sales teams integrated within a manufacturer's Salesforce implementation. Using discrete conjoint analysis modeling exposed as web service, sales teams tested proposals, predicting production and profitability vs. goals, processing over 3.5 billion data points in less than 1 second.- Leading technical analysis, design, and delivery for Jaguar Automotive and the International Automotive Research Centre creating a product platform feasibility analysis for design specifications, enabling price, weight, tooling, and design virtual testing.

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Through a long-term engagement, Darrin Tisdale worked with Fujitsu Consulting on a variety of client engagements. Augmenting their direct and offshore development capabilities, he provided senior technical experience, assessment, analysis, presentation, and management capabilities. While working with FC, his focus was primarily been on ECM (enterprise content management) and records management. However, other projects also involved e-forms adoption, change management, and compliance management.

The IARC was a £60 million joint effort of the EU, Ford Europe (through their Jaguar division), Advantage West Midlands, and the University of Warwick. As the contracted Chief Architect for this effort, Darrin Tisdale oversaw several teams working on specific implementation programs. Specifically, with the Zero Prototype/Virtual Test Vehicle team, he oversaw the creation of a product feasibility analysis system, enabling Ford to test product configurations amongst the design team collaboratively and in real time. It became a key component of the complexity management efforts at Ford Europe. For the RFID team, he designed a tracking system in order to track expensive shipping palettes throughout the extended supply chain. For the QA team, he architected a supply-chain collaboration system using the latest in BPEL technologies to integrate and streamline manufacturing-line quality, moving past a mere "Lean" approach into a more virtual manufacturing floor, geographically distributed across the West Midlands.

Darrin Tisdale consulted to the NB2BC, a technology-seeding effort by Advantage West Midlands in the UK. He provided technology oversight and guidance to the team, helping them establish not only a presence but also a capacity to assist the businesses of the West Midlands. The effort underpinned support by the Government to encourage, simplify, and increase technology adoption and utilization by the businesses therein. He also led the development of specific demonstrator solutions for key business partners, showcasing how to use the new tools available to them.

As a Chief Architect, Darrin Tisdale oversaw the transition of a custom-developed knowledge management and mining application from an outside consulting firm to an internal development team. During the productization of this solution, he re-architected key aspects of the application; the redesign arose because of the platform's mismatch of transactional roots and the usage patterns of knowledge users. Such changes increased performance (e.g. reducing transaction times from 45 seconds to 2 seconds).

As a founder at Document Forum, Darrin Tisdale raised $3M from Bankers Trust in order to fund an ASP providing real-time document negotiation services for knowledge professionals. He managed all technical aspects of the business, including the application architecture, technology partnerships, and the entire development team. Building the staff to over 20 people, the management team sold the company for a profit just over one year.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

While the Worldwide Chief Architect for Knowledge and Technical Support at IBM, Darrin Tisdale ran the ibm.com/support website effort, combining over 170 different data sources into one searchable, cohesive infrastructure. This effort mined over 600M documents, hints and tips, FAQs, downloads, and created one semantic system--with a company-first, product-wide taxonomy--for users around the globe to search, retrieve, and leverage support information. Mr. Tisdale managed 31 international developers from design to delivery, negotiating budget contributions and funding, and ensuring delivery across all content providers.