Jim Heaton Email & Phone Number

Saline, Mi, Us

Worldwide, Oo

Deloitte Consulting, Automotive Industry. Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs)Autonomous VehiclesConnected VehiclesBattery, EV & Hybrid systemsSystems of SystemsArchitectureInnovation

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Systems Engineering of distributed platform functionality, and Systems of Systems Architecture. IoT architectures applied to automotive. Dual Digital Twin connectivity architecture. OTA, FOTA.AV modifications to stock vehicle designs to enable Level 4 autonomous operation. EV enhancements to automotive systems. Dual modem architecture. Connectivity enhancements to enable ADAS features such as BlueCruise. Automotive Ethernet, CAN, LIN.FMA and DFMEA experience. Distributed systems, features and products. Hybrid competence.Most important, attracting the best and brightest to work on my teams, and help them develop to even higher levels.

Drive architecture to move GE down the road to becoming a true agile software company. Accelerate adoption of AWS, Predix and GE Digital stack by Oil & Gas Product Companies.Create transitional architectures to allow legacy IT systems and commercial products to more quickly coexist with or adopt Cloud architectures. Advanced cloud analytics team and architectures.

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Bringing CTO and Chief Architect skills to PwC Advisory clients. Outsourced Emerging Technology engagements (Hadoop, HDFS, next generation Real Time, Internet of Things), Enterprise Architecture Innovation engagements, accelerated technology Proofs of Concepts. Architecture Assurance. Technical assessments.•Opened communications with and became trusted advisor for C-Suite executives in major energy accounts leading to consideration of and winning RFPs for PwC.•Rapid outsourcing of Emerging Technologies and assessment of proposed architecture and technology, resulting in a revised, market-leading architecture for flagship software product. (HDFS, Streams, IoT, Docker, Occasionally Connected Architectures, and Loon-like connectivity commercially available today).•Invited three times to serve as judge for John Zachman’s iCMG Global Enterprise Architecture awards.•Drove Enterprise Architecture through IT PMO in business transformation initiative, injecting multi-year Architecture Vision into practical, timely projects for cadenced delivery.

Houston, Texas, Us

Responsible for IT architecture, Innovation, IT global operations, IT's CTO function and Enterprise Engineering's non-product Design Chair and TRL functions. Embedded Systems of Systems Architecture. TOGAF executive training. John Zachman iCMG judge. Green IT award winner.•Drove ITIL adoption into and managed IT Operations global team of 450 reports and $150M budget.•Developed and executed new structure for existing technical experts to create Enterprise Architecture function supporting the first Baker Hughes’ matrixed organization. Contributed to the growth of Baker Hughes’ revenue and market share through pragmatic changes to legacy systems to allow 2x and larger scaling. Maintained pull demand for architecture services from day 1 by being recognized as always bringing value to every project and system, and led global collaboration with Development, Operations and Business technical teams.•Improved performance, uptime or scalability for over 100 existing complex global systems. Drove HPC calls as a product addition to Azure with Microsoft, as well as implemented the first non-refactored WIntel app to run in Azure (non-laminar fluid flow modeling).•Led the strategy, design and implementation of innovative architectures leveraging legacy systems to win Baker Hughes public recognition/awards from John Zachman, Steve Ballmer, AT&T, SAP, CA, InfoWeek and more. Leveraged this recognition in house to build credibility and momentum to persuade groups resistant to IT architectural change and to demonstrate the ability to implement great architecture without rewriting legacy systems. •Developed and mentored a highly effective team starting entirely with in house technical experts and created externally recognized world-class architects in 12 months. Led best-in-class supplier-provided architects to improve to world-class status, and blended them seamlessly with employees to form a single high performance team.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Ran the Emerging Technology office globally for GM IT. Showcased and proved out emerging technologies to change GM's server request and delivery cycle from 7 months to 7 minutes. Showcased emerging technologies and their business value in/to early cloud, IoT, telematics, ECU advancement, autonomous vehicle potential components, mobility, cross domain between IT & OT, and virtual machines.•Developed the largest Active Directory lab instance in the world, directly enabling GM’s successful test and upgrade of over 200 AD nodes around the globe with no plant or facility downtime globally.•Developed a highly effective team creating a lab of the future with technologies showcased to the most senior executives from the member companies and the GM business.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Senior Executive responsible globally for GM's Identity Management program.•Lead Sun and Microsoft as lighthouse customer to their first interoperable implementation of SAML protocols. •Drove and assisted Sun in re-architecting Sun Identity Manager to handle the tremendous transactional volumes of GM (500K+ directory users).

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Various positions including Chief IT Architect globally for Manufacturing, global Application Architecture, and global Data group.•Institutionalized standards for applications (Java, C, C++), data management, data warehousing and directories, creating strong buy in and drive by the top technical teams of the company. Initiated business ownership and governance of key data objects globally, improving data quality by over 15%. •Developed and implemented Industry standards for robot protocols with competitors and NIST. Saved GM 20%+ of system integration costs.•Championed Industrial Ethernet within GM and the industry. Lead Cisco customer in the creation of the 2955 premier Industrial Ethernet switch to support the Cadillac CTS plant launch which enabled plant controls and IT to communicate on a single network technology, saving $5 million in integration/duplicate network costs and creating the first mainstream networking device enabling the Industrial Internet of Things.•Led a virtual global team of technologists to consensus on technical standards for new plants and manufacturing lines. Moved away from local standards such as a $10k network card to a $200, more capable device.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Senior management team for IBM's entry into various segments of industrial verticals at a time of massive growth.•Co-founded and grew automotive vertical, enabling IBM Global Services thrust to become the largest services company in the market, globally.•Designed and implemented TREAD Act systems for full, rapid compliance. Avoided customer non-compliance fines and negative publicity.•Created a new, high performance global organization. Enabled business growth of over 50% per year and exceeded all objectives.•Designed engagements using Customer Value Management to align IT activities for a major OEM with desired outcomes of end customers. Designed engagements to modernize technology for manufacturing customers globally.•Assessed customer IT operations, identified opportunities for IT and telecom asset consolidation.•Provided executive leadership for Tier 1 automotive supplier on multiple development projects, providing results ahead of schedule and under budget.•Provided executive and technology leadership in ERP system evaluations for automotive and heavy vehicle suppliers.

Austin, Texas, Us

Brought all phases of multi-technology-vendor Solutions Center on-line and generating business, and part of the original team that co-founded an Oracle Consulting vertical.•Identified and implemented operational and key competitive integration offerings, which allowed Oracle to enter the Automotive ERP and Financial markets. Drove Oracle corporate to adopt these field integrations into standard product. •Brought the Automotive Solutions Center on line with $0 hardware cost and contributions of $5 million in equipment from leading hardware vendors. Demonstrated specific customer solutions running on real enterprise hardware. Directly enabled over $40M in sales.•Enhanced customer value by participating in customer engagements, to keep deliverables on track for Automotive customer-specific needs. •Managed partners and their integration with ERP systems for one of Oracle Corporation’s Worldwide Solutions Center, and negotiated millions in free hardware and software to create the Center.•Consulted with manufacturing clients on issues such as networking, ERP/MRP II systems and Electronic Data Interchange, and coordinated resources outside the Center in development, facilities, consulting, and sales and marketing.•Key speaker presenting value proposition to customers of COE, establishing Oracle’s credibility in the Manufacturing sector.

B.S.E. Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering

Computer Engineering