Trust Your Supplier is a next-generation blockchain-based supplier information management platform built to accelerate supplier onboarding, lower procurement operating costs, ensure global regulatory compliance, and reduce supply chain risk. TYS provides the lowest total cost of ownership, the highest return on investment, and the fastest time to value, which begins immediately and grows continually.

Chainyard™ is a leader in developing blockchain-based solutions for enterprises. Our team of more than 45 blockchain consultants and developers has delivered leading-edge solutions that address manufacturing, financial services, supply chain, and government services pain points. These solutions are critical to improving efficiency and creating competitive advantage for our clients.We accelerate the development of blockchain infrastructure, middleware, and decentralized applications. Our team brings years of experience in building, testing, securing, and operating complex distributed systems to help adopters of blockchain technology succeed. We work with multiple blockchain technologies and have a specific focus on Hyperledger Fabric and its ecosystem.

Responsible for driving business development and new client engagement for the emerging C|Spring practice in Raleigh, Durham, the Research Triangle and surrounding areas. As a business partner I help clients realize maximum value from their current technology investments as well as strategize and plan new initiatives that create value, drive growth, build customer loyalty and deliver revenue. C|Spring is recognized as a provider of high-quality, high-impact business and IT consulting services. We provide exceptional, expert professionals that deliver technology initiatives and drive value based business solutions. We specialize in:→ Big Data→ Analytics and Visualizations→ Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence, → Collaboration and Cloud→ Business and IT Alignment→ Project and Managed Services→ Application and Web Development→ Open Source Development Tools→ Data and Application Integration Services

Executive Leader for all IT activities including application management, professional services integration, computing / network infrastructure, cost management and ongoing operations. Established and drove end-of-life wind down plan for all aspects of IT including human resource optimization, data strategy, computing infrastructure demise, and business application decommissioning according to Nortel’s Bankruptcy guidance.Interfaced, negotiated, and consulted with multi-national legal counsel litigating $12B bankruptcy liquidation.Defined approach and lead execution for segregation and protection of over 60 million Nortel electronically stored documents and over 100TB of data – satisfying legal requirements of the US Bankruptcy Court.Developed strategy to transition corporate regulatory data to long-term custodians in accordance with US and international laws and guidelines.

Managed and executed divestiture and sale of five core multi-million dollar business units to acquiring businesses with five unique transition plans in overlapping timeframes over 18 months. Restructured IT to execute core divestiture elements in support of liquidation: Transitioning applications and infrastructure to acquisition partners; Development and implementation of residual company infrastructures in US, Canada, and Europe to operate post divestiture; Operational service provider during divestiture transition. Negotiated terms, plans, and timetables for IT transition with executive leaders at Avaya, Genband, Ericsson, Ciena, & the Rockstar Consortium of Apple, RIM, Ericsson, Microsoft, and Sony. Drove subsequent conversions of applications architecture, computing / network infrastructure, and operations. Executed transition plans for human resources.Led IT in identification and transition of data required for regulatory/legal purposes as defined by various courts worldwide. Participated in a significant negotiation to establish unique ownership of data sets and business information, often resulting in multi-national litigation.

Held total accountability for Enterprise Application Development and Operations in support of the global business – including all SAP functions and Business Intelligence Information Warehouse. Successfully developed, negotiated and actively managed ongoing service agreements with multiple acquisition partners to provide IT services.Drove vision and strategy for corporation’s business applications restructuring plan.Led nine senior leaders of Nortel’s IT business solutions with a team with a total staff of 100+, including internal resources and an extensive network of external suppliers/key relationships.Implemented and drove maturation of ASAP, CMMI, Six-Sigma, and ITIL methodologies. Drove adoption of a measurement-focused operating model for business application evolution, emphasizing both system and business metrics.

Responsible for strategy, development, implementation, and evolution of Nortel’s $100M+ global SAP program:Established and maintained Nortel’s strategic SAP roadmap. Responsible for aligning IT application architecture and business process rationalization objectives into a common global program.Deployed SAP in 137 countries transforming legacy tools and process to world class Manufacturing, Inventory Management, Finance, Order Processing & Fulfillment, Purchasing, and Human Resources solutions.

Managed Supply Chain Management Baan IV ERP project implementation plan for Wireline and Op-tical product lines, coordinating development, testing, training, and implementation.