Advisory services for organizations looking to create, grow and transform their business through the strategic application of technology and innovation. Core expertise in building out organizational innovation, strategy, and enterprise architecture capabilities.

Provide ongoing advice and perspective on technology innovation and strategy and related services to Seamless Ventures and their enterprise partners.

In the role of Executive Partner, I provided ongoing practical advice and guidance to IT executives in Fortune 100 organizations from both the public and private sectors. These included leading organizations in Retail, Healthcare, Finance, Utilities, Telecommunications, Defense, and State and Local Government. In this role, I assisted these organizations in building their technology innovation strategies and enterprise architectures. I provided best practices, tools and expertise in how to best… Show more In the role of Executive Partner, I provided ongoing practical advice and guidance to IT executives in Fortune 100 organizations from both the public and private sectors. These included leading organizations in Retail, Healthcare, Finance, Utilities, Telecommunications, Defense, and State and Local Government. In this role, I assisted these organizations in building their technology innovation strategies and enterprise architectures. I provided best practices, tools and expertise in how to best implement those best practices. I typically focused on these leader’s most critical business and IT initiatives and business outcomes. Led over 50 on-site and remote workshops for corporate executives and their teams across numerous topics related to business strategy, IT strategy and technology innovation. Also planned and facilitated several partner member conferences. Show less

Area Chair for the IT department at the West Michigan Campus of the University of Phoenix. Taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in Information Technology, programming, management information systems, e-commerce, statistics, and technology in human services. Facilitated courses in both the on-line and on-ground modalities.

Led enterprise architecture and strategy activities at Meijer. Defined key architecture strategies, roadmaps and ensured that IT initiatives drove critical business outcomes. Led initiatives and strategies around cloud, integration, mobile, big data and analytics and DevOps enablement. Extensive experience with leading technologies and best practices Built and led the Innovation function at Meijer. This included building an innovation charter and strategy for the organization… Show more Led enterprise architecture and strategy activities at Meijer. Defined key architecture strategies, roadmaps and ensured that IT initiatives drove critical business outcomes. Led initiatives and strategies around cloud, integration, mobile, big data and analytics and DevOps enablement. Extensive experience with leading technologies and best practices Built and led the Innovation function at Meijer. This included building an innovation charter and strategy for the organization, developing relationships with innovation accelerators, hosting an IT innovation hackathon and sponsoring innovation Expos. Also focused on building a culture of innovation through publishing executive technology briefs, producing emerging technology podcasts, and performing proof of concepts. Show less

Responsible for driving Meijer's enterprise architecture and IT Strategy programs. Also led to update Meijer's IT security strategy and roadmap. Led IT Security organization during the implementation of that strategy. Team defined security and compliance policies and partnered with Development to ensure that Developers were applying secure coding practices. Also led the overall portfolio and project program and ensured that IT programs were funded and aligned to corporate and departmental… Show more Responsible for driving Meijer's enterprise architecture and IT Strategy programs. Also led to update Meijer's IT security strategy and roadmap. Led IT Security organization during the implementation of that strategy. Team defined security and compliance policies and partnered with Development to ensure that Developers were applying secure coding practices. Also led the overall portfolio and project program and ensured that IT programs were funded and aligned to corporate and departmental imperatives. Show less

Responsible for driving enterprise architecture and IT Strategy for Meijer. Led a number of IT strategy initiatives including establishing a mobile and BI strategy for the organization, developed the first formal enterprise business intelligence strategy. Also led the development of Meijer's Enterprise Business Intelligence Program and the deployment of enterprise collaboration services.

Reporting directly to the CIO as part of the Office of the CTO. Responsible for driving IT Strategy and enterprise architecture development for the enterprise including the research and application of emerging technologies within Spectrum Health (now Corewell Health).Provided ongoing leadership to the architecture team which spanned technology, clinical, and business domains and led the development and implementation of strategies around data center consolidation, advanced storage… Show more Reporting directly to the CIO as part of the Office of the CTO. Responsible for driving IT Strategy and enterprise architecture development for the enterprise including the research and application of emerging technologies within Spectrum Health (now Corewell Health).Provided ongoing leadership to the architecture team which spanned technology, clinical, and business domains and led the development and implementation of strategies around data center consolidation, advanced storage technologies, mainframe and midrange server virtualization, ITIL and service excellence, identity and access management, portals, collaboration, and strategic vendor management. Show less

Led team of technical and application architects in partnership with development areas to define and provide architecture governance, standards, principles, and frameworks and their use at Meijer. Experience with technologies and vendors such as Microsoft, IBM, NCR, HP, NCR and Novell.

Was responsible for the integration, implementation, and support of Meijer’s mid-range server, database, and middleware environments. This team of 25 was responsible for integrating and validating new operating system and core applications into Meijer’s client/server infrastructure using standard procedures and processes.

As the Manager, LAN Technology and Implementation Services, he led the development and implementation of Meijer’s NetWare server and Windows client environments across the corporate campus. Led the design of the enterprise directory, creation of standards and the deployment of 150 file servers and 2000 clients.

Taught sections of Visual Basic and Introduction to Computing at the undergraduate level for several semesters.

Architected and deployed Novell NetWare based network across nine divisions of Ford Motor Company. Acted as liaison to Ford Aerospace in the packaging and deployment of enterprise applications. Established and managed the World Headquarters Help Desk supporting a wide variety of technologies for senior executives and staff at World Headquarters.

Consulting service provided to small businesses in the metro Detroit area. Services focused on providing technology needs assessments, network and server design and implementation, netowrk and server support services, etc.

Performed IT needs assessments as pre-sales service to organizations acquiring hardware and networking equipment for their organizations.