Fred Thorne Email & Phone Number

As chief architect for CSC’s corporate standard methodology Catalyst, I guided the design, implementation, and evolution of the method content, thereby supporting consistency, efficiency, and quality in selling, planning, and delivery of services. I drove implementation of a method content management system that replaced hard-to-use and hard-to-maintain books, thus improving integration, maintaining consistency, reducing publishing time, and saving maintenance cost.In addition to overseeing other method architects, I took personal responsibility for certain subjects, including service orientation, service blueprinting, user experience, agile / lean methods, and continuous delivery / DevOps. Most recently I enhanced the firm’s project management standards to address agile methods and agile scaling, overcoming management resistance in the process, and I developed and delivered training on agile scaling practices. I recently designed and implemented CSC’s next-generation approach to method content management using a SharePoint wiki, enabling distributed ownership and maintenance of method content, while still operating under central guidance and a common framework, thus further shortening cycle time for content creation and publishing. This new design follows the practices approach to methods documentation, focusing on practices first and reusable processes second, for better flexibility, adaptability, and maintainability.With my expertise in scaled agile methods, I participated in delivery assurance reviews of two large software product development and maintenance programs, assessed their software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices, and recommended critical improvements.

Wrote and edited methodology manuals. My initial focus was on enterprise transformation planning and business area architecture, with a particular emphasis on business process redesign and business process improvement. Later I addressed large-scale program management, with an emphasis on managing business change. I also wrote methodology addressing IT strategy, enterprise architecture, and legacy system transformation. I participated in the team proposing, winning, starting up, and executing a major transformation program for the IRS. I was responsible for the methodology aspects of the program, overseeing a small team tailoring, extending, and implementing our methodology at the client and helping to achieve a CMMI Level 3 certification.

San Francisco, Sacramento, Saudi Arabia, Chicago, Los Angeles

I spent my first two years doing financial auditing to qualify as a CPA (now lapsed) then transferred to management consulting. As a consultant, I performed operational audits for claims processing and city administration. I participated in numerous information systems projects, generally in a business analyst role, in both commercial and governmental contexts. I developed an enterprise business systems plan for a major international airline and helped them to implement a yield-based revenue accounting system. I helped to establish Deloitte's first methodology management group and developed their first standard methodology for systems planning. I implemented tooling for enterprise modeling and systems planning. I also developed and delivered training. When Deloitte Haskins & Sells merged with Touche Ross to form Deloitte & Touche, I structured the merging of the two firms' methodologies, enabling consultants from the two firms to operate as one organization with a consistent approach and language.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Also completed summer internship in the Information Systems Management Consulting group at SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Conservation Of Natural Resources

This was an interdisciplinary major that allowed me to integrate knowledge from many different fields from many different.