Hector Fortes is a Founder at ARCH Consulting Group LLC at ARCH Consulting Group LLC. He possess expertise in enterprise architecture, it management, integration, disaster recovery, solution architecture and 26 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I worked with Hector for many years at Royal Caribbean. Hector has vast and broad technical skills. He is well versed on many technologies, which made him an excellent Enterprise Architect. What I admire most and learned from Hector was the importance of bridge building and collaboration. You cannot implement complex cross-functional solutions without the cooperation and support of others, even if you are doing the right things for the right reasons. You need to build honest, trusting and mutually beneficial relationships with individuals and teams that may have different priorities and directives than you do. With Hector’s honest and easy going style and his technical expertise, he naturally and effortlessly earns the trust and respect of his peers, IT Management and Leadership at Royal Caribbean, Executives and experts at IBM and other large technology companies, and pretty much everyone he has engaged in professional settings. This is something Hector is, not something he does." and "I have worked with Hector over 15+ years at Royal Caribbean. He was one of the first people to discuss Enterprise Architecture and was a true champion of the practice. As the IT department grew at Royal Caribbean, Hector was always at the forefront of the IT landscape. He guided the strategic direction of IT in so many ways, and was instrumental in moving the IBM iSeries from a monolithic platform to a true mid-range virtual system. He served as the primary architecture resource for far too many Infrastructure projects to list ... and in all cases was the trusted advisor on those projects, showing the team the way forward. In addition to being a visionary for IT, Hector is also a person who has an historical perspective of Information Technology. He's a unique person who knows where IT should head, based on experience of where IT comes from. We trust Hector's judgement and recommendations based on his years of experience and his proven track record. It's easy to follow someone moving forward into the unknown when you're confident that their decisions come from a strong experience in the past. Hector is one of those people ... a leader who instills confidence in the people who look to him for guidance."