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• Lead strategic assessments of business priorities and emerging technologies at Conneva• Develop outcomes-based roadmaps to deliver early, material value for the business or mission• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to navigate vendor hype and drive innovation

Denver, Co, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

VMware completed its $2.7B acquisition of Pivotal in Dec 2019. The Pivotal team is now part of the VMware Modern Application Platform business unit (along with Heptio and Bitnami).VMware Tanzu is focused on helping some of the largest companies in the world use custom software and advanced infrastructure to rapidly create innovative digital experiences for their customers.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Responsible for the CGI Cloud Native Solutions practice bringing ECS Team expertise and experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry and cloud native applications to Global 2000 customers by leveraging CGI's scale and local delivery model.

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

As CTO, I work with a talented team of architects to identify emerging technologies that can be used to deliver real business value for our clients. My current focus is on guiding large enterprise clients on their journey to "cloud-native"​ development to help them accelerate software delivery, shorten time-to-innovation and bring "web scale" into the enterprise. Building a team of experienced and skill cloud-native practitioners who can implement platforms like Cloud Foundry, integrate them with your CI/CD build-pipelines, aggregated logging and monitoring tools and coach your teams to increase adoption.ECS Team – Technology Solutions Delivered.

Westminster, Colorado, Us

Member of Digital Globe's Enterprise Architecture team assigned to support key projects involving several Amazon AWS Services including EC2, S3, elastic map-reduce, etc. Responsible for leading evaluations of key vendor solutions for big data analytics, accelerated delivery and API management

Conneva's emerging technology architects deliver business value by researching, prototyping and evaluating the latest technology trends to separate hype from reality in order to deliver competitive advantage while minimizing risk.With each new emerging technology, IT reinvents itself in a predictable pattern. Whether you are an early adopter willing to take the leap before anyone else or a more conservative player wanting to achieve advantage after others have lived on the edge, our consultants can help create a roadmap to fit your business.Client/Server, Object Oriented Programming, J2EE, Web-centric, Mobile, Service-Oriented Everything-as-a-Service, Virtualization and Cloud Computing are just a few examples of the waves of emerging technologies that have crashed upon the IT shores over the years. We can help pick the right entry point for today's waves building upon the best practices and lessons learned from our years of experience.

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

Provide IT architecture leadership to strategic ECS Team clients in the telecommunications and cable industries. - Enterprise Architect for a major wireless carrier's selection and implementation of new convergent mediation and rating applications.- Lead SOA architect for a major cable company's implementation of a enterprise-wide services bus. Designed architecture and service functionality for a mission-critical enterprise service and an associated web-based application. Supported service and application enterprise-wide deployment and initial production support.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Responsible for evaluation and implementation of new technologies. Evaluated integration middleware products and selected webMethods Fabric. Recruited and built team of integration developers. Developed Nexstar's initial set of integration applications connecting Siebel, custom Oracle applications and a packaged loan origination package. Build B2B applications to receive XML-based mortgage loan applications from a major online lending firm.Nexstar was acquired by MBNA in 2005 which was acquired by Bank of America in early 2006. Bank of America is currently implementing the Nexstar technology platform which continues to utilize webMethods-based integration architecture.

Built a high-performance team to re-constitute the IT organization from scratch. Stabilized infrastructure and application support while building new capabilities for customer software design, development and deployment. Implemented over 20 projects integrating existing and new applications to provide innovative business solutions for indirect auto lending in the credit union industry.

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Lead call center / CRM technical architecture projects for BSG's Denver office.

Responsible for developing architecture and functionality enhancements for the John Costanza Institute of Technology (JCIT) "FlowPower" demand flow technology (DFT) manufacturing software package.

Golden, Co, Us

Lead the 60-person Enterprise Operations team which was responsible for data center operations, telecommunications, collaboration software (Lotus Notes), database administration and desktop support in Boston Chicken's Corporate Support Center.Managed key vendor relationships with hardware, software and telecommunication services providers.Conducted multiple technology selection projects to implement new operational maturity initiatives and consolidate the technology portfolio.

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As a solution architect in BSG's first expansion office beyond their Houston headquarters, I was responsible for numerous pre-sales efforts including prototypes and the technology architecture of proposals. I also lead the technical architecture design and development for several large BSG client projects in transportation, telecommunications, multi-unit retail and financial services.

Dublin 2, Ie

Lead consulting projects in the banking and insurance industries. COTS package selection, configuration and implementations for large enterprises.