Jignesh Patel Email & Phone Number

Detroit, Mi, Us

Greater Detroit Area

• 20+ years of experience developing solution architecture frameworks, patterns, and best practices to drive business transformation through the delivery of application and infrastructure solutions• Manage the selection, evaluation, contracting, and integration of externally available hardware, software, and data to deliver business solutions• Select and build strong teams through formal training, diverse assignments, coaching, and mentoring• Foster vendor partnerships and manage delivery• Founding member of the bi-weekly Architecture Review Board chartered with reviewing technical solutions and aligning with business strategy, financial prudence, enterprise risk management, solution viability, supportability, sustainability, and project prioritization• Launch weekly Technical Solutions Committee meetings with Business, Application, Data, and Technology team representatives to present and gain consensus on the viability of technical solutions for proposed projects and their alignment with IT Standards• Practice lead for Enterprise Architecture (EA) artifacts supporting strategic projects including Non-Functional Requirements, Solution Summary, Infrastructure Questionnaire, Connectivity Map, Application Transaction Flow and Solution Cost - Bill of Materials Summary• Coauthor of the IT Standards Handbook publication for supported software and hardware solutions, the IT Variance Request document process for non-supported solutions, and Decisions Document for resolving multi-domain conflicts and building consensus• Facilitate Quarterly Planning sessions with business stakeholders and domain teams to review strategic rationale and ensure alignment for the IT Roadmap• Regularly participate in strategic planning, proposal reviews, and project viability assessments to evaluate and guide successful solution approaches• Extensive experience in collaborating with diverse teams to design, diagram, and write technical solutions for projects

Greater Detroit Area

• Generate client deliverables such as website technical specifications and solution architectures• Recommend platforms and solutions based on affordability, complexity, scalability, extensibility, and speed to market• Provide input for client engineering deliverables, systems architecture, and security related issues• Lead a team of Systems Integrators to provide analysis and technical guidance to client technical staff and consultants• Provide management oversight to Systems Integrators including supervision of daily activities, mentoring, and career development• Improve reliability for daily content and application code launches with standardized web, app, and database platforms for Chrysler• Lead the implementation of a corporate-wide document versioning and workflow project leveraging source control software and custom scripts for managing client deliverables, digital artifacts, and industry research

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Manage the development team responsible for designing, deploying, and administering departmental websites• Manage the IT team responsible for administering a heterogeneous computing platform to service 200+ researchers• Develop and implement organizational IT standards operating procedures• Administer IT Services, such as DNS, NFS, NIS, data archival, application security, and email• Responsible for fiscal planning and delivery of annual IT budget