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Baltimore, Md, Us

Baltimore, Md, Us

Virginia Beach, Virginia, Us

Strategic Planning, Strategic Vision, and Solution Architecture: As a member of the senior leadership team, define and oversee implementation of enterprise-level vision and strategy for solution architecture, R&D, partner relations, and business development.IT Strategy and Program Management: Provide IT strategy leadership and direct IT program activities, drawing on technical expertise to ensure that architectures and roadmaps deliver value and align with overall business plans.Center of Excellence and Proposal Leadership: Develop, support, and govern the organization’s centers of excellence (CoE), which bring together cross-functional resources to standardize best practices and provide thought leadership. Use of this CoE model led to submission of a proposal that earned the government’s highest technical award rating.Process Optimization and Process Automation: Identify opportunities for improvements and create solutions that optimize processes. Notably, developed a program that automated approval processes, reducing required human interaction by 80%.Strategic Roadmaps and Research and Development (R&D): Created a strategic roadmap for R&D, defining areas of technical focus that supported business goals. Career Path Planning, Staff Development, and Employee Engagement: Established a path of promotion, recognition, and mentoring for technical experts to develop into system architects, increasing staff engagement, capabilities, and retention.Business Model Innovation and Business Development: In collaboration with chief growth and operating officers, built and implemented a technical approach to business development that delivers high-quality solutions with a comprehensive support model.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, Us

Newport News, Virginia, Us

Global Strategy and Enterprise Architecture: Provided global oversight of centralized architecture strategy, developing and implementing multi-year plans that consistently met business requirements, reduced spend, and enabled revenue growth.Strategic Planning and Enterprise Architecture Planning: As part of annual strategy planning process, provided EA leadership in the creation, alignment, and roadmapping of new goals and objectives for all technology domains. Technical Advisory: Served as technology advisor for internal business departments, facilitating integration, successful launch, and adoption of 3rd party technical solutions.Program Creation and Mentoring: Created a mentoring program, which was adopted as a model enterprise-wide. Data Warehouse Architecture: Deprecated legacy data warehouse environments and established a consolidated data lake set of platforms, which conformed to a Ferguson Enterprise canonical data model. IT Security Best Practices and DevSecOps: Created a formal enterprise security function within the application development organization, utilizing the DevSecOps model to make security considerations an integral part of the application life cycle.

Newport News, Virginia, Us

Enterprise Architecture and Team Leadership: Led 5-person team to deliver a significant EA overhaul, an effort which included analyzing, evaluating, designing, integrating, documenting, and implementing cost-effective and up-to-date software solutions.Collaborative Leadership and IT & Business Strategy Alignment: Worked directly with senior leadership and the board to select appropriate IT solutions, providing advice and recommendations that best aligned with high-level organizational goals.Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Directed all aspects of non-business-facing solutions—such as master data management, business intelligence reporting, and an e-commerce suite—that made up a post-modern ERP.Coaching & Mentoring: Coached, mentored, and developed technical staff, building trusted relationships through open communication, transparency, and problem-solving that drove employee retention and satisfaction.Enterprise Systems Implementation: Rolled out enterprise systems over 2 years, providing business capabilities that supported Agile development, rapid business-to-consumer responses, and real-time business intelligence reporting. The success of this launch led to implementation of similar initiatives at all global operating companies

Warwick, Warwickshire, Gb

Enterprise Architecture, Team Leadership, and IT Solutions: Directed EA functions for global locations, leading architecture associates to develop, implement, and maintain IT solutions that met business requirements and enabled operations.Global Strategy, Organizational Design, and Shared Services: Developed and implemented a global architecture organization that supported shared services functions spanning networks, security, data centers, application portfolios, and supporting organizational units.Global Staff Management: Supervised staff and performed personnel actions, including hiring and performance evaluations. Quality Assurance and TOGAF: Assured quality of programs, services, and deliverables, using TOGAF and other frameworks as baselines to provide oversight that expedited problem-solving, standardized definitions, and strengthened governance.Project Reviews and Cost Savings Strategies: Conducted strategic project review across global operating companies that identified and eliminated duplications in business capabilities.Change Management, Technology Alignment, and Operating Efficiencies: Transitioned EA from individual initiatives to a unified strategic alignment across business units, which reduced the application portfolio, increased efficiencies, and lowered costs.

Warwick, Warwickshire, Gb

Strategic Initiatives, Model Development, and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): Created the “Future State Architecture” model, an ERP initiative that leveraged service-oriented architecture and application programming interfaces to save countless hours of development effort.TOGAF and Process Optimization: Used TOGAF governance, feedback, and engagement models to optimize EA processes.Inventory Analysis and Cost Reduction: Provided inventory analysis capabilities, which led to the identification of inventory planning errors and reduced spend. This proof-point demonstrated the value of the EA team and prompted the formation of a global architecture team.

Glen Allen, Virginia, Us

Virginia Beach, Virginia, Us

Northville, Michigan, Us

Ba In Business - Minor In Computer Science, Management & Communications

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