Sam Joseph Email & Phone Number

Saint Petersburg, Fl, Us

New York City, And Florida

I lead research projects and programs commissioned by the Technology Infrastructure Research Board membership. Gartner Research Board is a member driven research organization for the world's largest and most complex companies. Membership is by invitation only and is restricted to Chief Information Officers and their global direct reports.

United States And Canada

Trusted adviser, coach, and facilitator for enterprise executives in leadership roles (CIO, CTO, Chief Architect,...) in IT, Architecture, Innovation, and Planning. Responsible for Enterprise Architecture & Innovation best practices program delivery including coaching and advising, on site events, virtual member work groups, online delivery of content and networking, client relationship management and member retention.Led the development of platforms and processes to share IP across the EA role domain. Managing the research and collaborative agenda of the constituent global client community for the Architecture, Strategy, and Innovation practice.

Roles/Responsibilities:• head of IT researchAccomplishments:• Established IT research and emerging trends practices, built a portfolio of valuable research resources, and created a new value-added delivery capability.

Roles:• chief enterprise and technology architect (2004-2006) • senior technology consultant (2002-2004)Accomplishments:• Key leader in senior leadership team to establish IT vision and ‘reinvent’ the organization for business alignment. Crafted IT’s inaugural vision and strategy, leading to new organizational structure, business servicing model, and prioritized project focus. Introduced and established new paradigms, including centers of excellence, architecture program, core principles, service oriented architecture (SOA), and virtualization.• Chartered and established enterprise architecture practice, introducing previously non-existent levels of alignment of IT and business.

Eagle Asset Management is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial.Roles/Responsibilities:• Senior manager of ITO for portfolio asset management company, overseeing all operations and development activities.Accomplishments:• Architected and directed replacement of core business systems. Increased availability by 40%, reliability by 400%.• Successfully updated systems for Y2K with zero date defects.• Established initial business continuity capability for core systems, ensuring core business function in the event of evacuation.

This position was originally with The Technical Resource Connection, Inc., which was acquired by Perot Systems during my tenure.Roles/Responsibilities:• Acting MIS Director for Eagle Asset Management, overseeing all operations activities• Senior Consultant to various clients, including GTEDS (Verizon) and Poe & Brown Insurance Co.Accomplishments:• Executed an organizational ‘turn-around’ for a mismanaged ITO, improved systems and services availability by orders of magnitude.• Technical assessments for application architecture. • Reduced client’s production system downtime by two orders of magnitude.

The TRC is wholey owned by Perot Systems. (see below for details)

CBIS is a subsidary of Cincinatti BellRoles/Responsibilities:• Project manager for client engagements• System architect• Database specialist (architect and administrator - Oracle, Informix, SQL)• Programmer (C,C++,SQL)• Business analyst• Technical analystAccomplishments:• Defined advanced architectures for very large relational database servers• Led development of public records indexing application used by title industry (first product in industry to use relational database technology)• Optimized membership production database performance on a large membership application, improving application performance by up to 30 times• Developed strategies for high performance transaction processing for billing systems

Roles/Responsibilities:• Topological mapping software designer and programmer (FORTRAN)• Unix internals / systems programmer (C)• Rapid Prototype programmer, advanced cartographic processing researcher (C,C++, proprietary)• Prototype team leaderAccomplishments:• Led team development of prototype and production geographic information systems (GIS) applications• Designed and led development of leading edge data integration software for merging maps• Published papers on GIS data integration, and thematic map overlay processing

Bse, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Lambda Chi Alpha, Omicron Delta Kappa, Student Senate, Peer Adviser

Engineering And Management