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Nashville, Tn, Us

Reading, Ma, Us

Covering two primary scopes:- Supporting national sales force on all complex pursuits, especially application development- Hands-on with SMB CxO's consulting on generative AI and ML applicationsDeveloping collateral, giving presentations, doing discovery and analysis, leading pursuits, negotiating and contracting.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

OCI provides specialized consulting across software engineering, blockchain/DLT, and ML/data science.Built and led presales engineering and solution architect capabilities for the company. Participated in sales strategy. Built capabilities in presales, contracting, service offerings, products, and standards. Collaborated with leadership in Delivery, Engineering, Products, and Sales.Led the presales process until handoff-to-delivery:- Sales support, opportunity qualification- Presales consulting to clients- Guided discovery and estimation, engaging SME’s and coordinating across technology practices- Build and present proposals to stakeholders and executives- Contracting and SOWs- Ensure smooth ramp-up of implementation

Hanover, Md, Us

Pre-sales architect with TEKsystems Global Services, the consulting and managed services arm of TEKsystems.I functioned as consultant and problem-slayer for clients who have particularly hairy problems. Primarily focused on projects involving appdev, product development, or organizational and professional practice (upskilling) concerns. Especially in: appdev, AMO, digital transformation, cloud migration, agile/SAFe implementation, devops, and enterprise technology strategy.Day-to-day, I did consultations and discovery with clients, craft solutions to the identified needs, collaborate with client's technical leadership, determine estimations and pricing, draft/review/revise SOW's, and present to stakeholders and executives.

Carlinville, Il, Us

Chief Architect for software company specializing in dealership management systems. Led new product initiatives in integrations, APIs, cloud migration, platform engineering, and development of cloud SaaS offerings to replace legacy on-premise products.Managed multiple teams of architects and developers creating apps, microservices, APIs, and dev/ops.Designed the application platform, integration platform, transaction platform, and the meta-platform and core capabilities to bring it all together into a next-generation suite to leave our competition in the dust.Direct responsibility for architecture and design related to all new product initiatives, as well as the planning, development, testing, roll-out, and operations of the systems.Worked directly with CEO, VP of Product, and VP of Development to envision and drive technology strategy, representing the NPI in company meetings, customer meetings, pre-sales workshops, trade shows, and in presentations at our annual user conferences.

Springfield, Il, Us

Built solution development practices and operating models for modernization in the P&C business, including Guidewire implementation, integrations, and custom development. Development teams in GW Configuration, Integrations, Legacy, and more. Projects included resourcing strategies, CoE development, operating model/support model design, etc.

Pekin, Il, Us

Led the Solutions Engineering, Architecture, and Applications practices (of 90+ contributors) in a multi-year transformation of the company's internal software capabilities. Started with an under-staffed, under-skilled dev organization mired in legacy systems, ineffective/non-existent process, and a reputation with the business for unreliable quality and inability to deliver. From that, created professional teams to Get Software Done.Enterprise-wide responsibility for dev/architecture/apps for all business units and systems -- policy admin, claims, underwriting, agent interaction, finance/accounting, billing, print, etc. Supported full-suite implementation of Guidewire. Both distributed (.NET/Java) and z/OS mainframe environments.

Peoria, Illinois, Us

Client: Fortune 50 heavy equipment manufacturer. Role: Architect and implement specialized security systems to ensure integrity of embedded systems in onboard networks of complex equipment.

Peoria, Illinois, Us

Led all software development, architecture, testing, and applications for a mid-sized, fast-growing non-profit. Architected technology transformation across all business systems, along with rollout of new customer-facing initiatives. Replacing outdated winform+SQL systems with scalable, HIPAA-compliant microservices architecture and web clients. Introduced agile methods and code quality/architecture initiatives.

Founded custom software shop, working primarily in .NET and web technologies. Major projects included multiple custom web catalog/cart implementations, statistical modeling applications, and enterprise network monitoring system.

New York, New York, Us