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Alpharetta, Ga, Us

- Responsible for consultative sales, IT management consulting, delivery engagement management and key delivery leadership in complex IT assessment, IT governance and IT strategy planning.- Developed consulting practice for IT alignment with business need, IT strategy planning, IT service management, project management and solution delivery life cycle maturity.- Developed solutions, proposals, statements of work and account development strategies.- Provided technical leadership to… Show more - Responsible for consultative sales, IT management consulting, delivery engagement management and key delivery leadership in complex IT assessment, IT governance and IT strategy planning.- Developed consulting practice for IT alignment with business need, IT strategy planning, IT service management, project management and solution delivery life cycle maturity.- Developed solutions, proposals, statements of work and account development strategies.- Provided technical leadership to consultancy regarding technology strategy, technology roadmaps, project estimating and the human factors associated with technology transformation. Show less

- Responsible for Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) practice, providing EAP establishment, technology roadmap and technology transformation consulting to Fortune 500 clients. - Responsible for solution planning, engagement management and solution delivery of full life cycle J2EE, .NET and Business Intelligence projects.- Established a highly effective Solution Delivery Life Cycle process to mitigate risk and elevate maturity of solution delivery projects emphasizing agile… Show more - Responsible for Enterprise Architecture Planning (EAP) practice, providing EAP establishment, technology roadmap and technology transformation consulting to Fortune 500 clients. - Responsible for solution planning, engagement management and solution delivery of full life cycle J2EE, .NET and Business Intelligence projects.- Established a highly effective Solution Delivery Life Cycle process to mitigate risk and elevate maturity of solution delivery projects emphasizing agile processes, effective requirements definition and highly mature scope definition and management. Participated strongly in the SDLC used for Daugherty's solution delivery over an 8 year period. Show less

- Responsible for product development of seven industry leading shrink wrapped retail accounting software products (developed in C, C++ and Visual Basic). Developed a highly predictable and effective workforce of approximately 100 people; established CMMI level 3 software development processes and performance based workforce management.- Responsible for internal systems, corporate Y2K project management and technical research. Met all project delivery deadlines within budget while… Show more - Responsible for product development of seven industry leading shrink wrapped retail accounting software products (developed in C, C++ and Visual Basic). Developed a highly predictable and effective workforce of approximately 100 people; established CMMI level 3 software development processes and performance based workforce management.- Responsible for internal systems, corporate Y2K project management and technical research. Met all project delivery deadlines within budget while strengthening the 15 person IT staff through continuous process improvement, performance management, training and hiring. Show less

- Responsible for establishing core open systems solution delivery capability with C++ and JAVA development frameworks, a mature solution delivery process and initial staff. - Delivered CSX’s first open systems applications to advance locomotive efficiency, train operating efficiency, rail car utilization levels and railroad operation planning and control systems. - Managed core staff of 25 - 30 with extensive outsourcing for solution delivery.

- Responsible for establishing a new startup organization of 60 people to provide product development and support of cross platform software development tools for UNIX, Windows, and IBM/Unisys mainframes. First year growth was from a base of nothing to over $15M in revenue.- Spearheaded product planning, staffing, technology and business acquisition; oversaw project planning, product development, and quality control; provided sales support with key customers.- Established a professional… Show more - Responsible for establishing a new startup organization of 60 people to provide product development and support of cross platform software development tools for UNIX, Windows, and IBM/Unisys mainframes. First year growth was from a base of nothing to over $15M in revenue.- Spearheaded product planning, staffing, technology and business acquisition; oversaw project planning, product development, and quality control; provided sales support with key customers.- Established a professional services function to provide full life cycle mainframe to micro system conversions; supported sales, developed process model and oversaw delivery of initial contracts. Show less

- Established new business startup supporting mobile computing with specialization in mobile sales force automation. Provided business proposals, RFP responses, technical sales support, project planning, and project management. Grew from 3 Principals to 45 consultants in the first year. - Designed and managed a key project automating over 2,000 global airline sales staff. Delivered a turnkey system with custom application software, system installation, configuration management, setup and… Show more - Established new business startup supporting mobile computing with specialization in mobile sales force automation. Provided business proposals, RFP responses, technical sales support, project planning, and project management. Grew from 3 Principals to 45 consultants in the first year. - Designed and managed a key project automating over 2,000 global airline sales staff. Delivered a turnkey system with custom application software, system installation, configuration management, setup and client training to increase airline's annual revenue by more than $200M. Show less

Responsible for identifying breakthrough opportunities for more productive computer system development with five person staff. Pursued methods of system specification and cross platform generation with emphasis on Windows, UNIX, RDBMS, ODBMS and open systems standards.

Managed enterprise infrastructure development, delivering application and router operating systems, telecommunication gateways, messaging middleware, grid computing, virtual terminal (CUTE) platform. Deployed infrastructure to 250,000 desktops, 15,000 travel agencies and hundreds of airports. Provided infrastructure and applications for hub airport of the future with 25 large applications and totally fault tolerant Wintel-based platform. Worked closely with Microsoft and IBM and 20 other… Show more Managed enterprise infrastructure development, delivering application and router operating systems, telecommunication gateways, messaging middleware, grid computing, virtual terminal (CUTE) platform. Deployed infrastructure to 250,000 desktops, 15,000 travel agencies and hundreds of airports. Provided infrastructure and applications for hub airport of the future with 25 large applications and totally fault tolerant Wintel-based platform. Worked closely with Microsoft and IBM and 20 other vendors to develop the LAN, server, workstation, communications and control infrastructure for distribution of United and Covia's mission critical computer systems. This highly complex platform was delivered on time and within budget enabling United and Covia to take advantage of new service opportunities presented by micro-based distributed processing in the latter half of the 1980s. Show less

Responsible for $200M infrastructure budget. Managing capacity of enterprise networks and computer systems. Provide architecture, migration plan, infrastructure logistics, equipment and circuits for consolidation of 45 data centers into on 620,000 sq ft data center. Reduce equipment budget by 20% while doubling capacity and maturing all service level categories.

Started career as a Software Engineer and Data Analyst working on high throughput reservations and airline operations control systems. Developed real time system software and applications using event handlers and reusable service components. Established corporate data management organization and infrastructure and managed 15 to 20 person teams in large scale, high risk technology implementation projects and high risk business application projects.