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Birmingham, Alabama Area

Led independent consultancy that realigned IT and business and provided guidance in use of new and emerging technology to school districts.- Reduced operating costs and improved profitability for insurance company by aligning business and IT goals through implementation of SOA, virtualization, and cloud computing, improving utilization of IT resources and allowing organization to enter new market segments.- Worked with school districts, helping use predictive analytics in providing prescriptive guidance on individualized learning for students to achieve maximum potential and improve statewide test scores.

Washington D.C. Metro Area & Birmingham, Al

Teamed with senior business and IT executives in commercial and federal and local government organizations to determine needs in area of predictive analytics and develop business cases to justify investment. Developed proposals specifying products, IT resources required, architecture, and level of effort necessary to implement proposed solution.- Managed Proof of Concept (POC) projects that demonstrated to customers how predictive analytics could be integrated into existing environment and solve business problems, resulting in millions of dollars in savings for customers (ROI in weeks).- Managed roll-out of some of POC projects into production, allowing client to rapidly migrate from POC to production environment and gain benefits of proposed solution.- Worked with IBM Business Intelligence developers in upgrading software offerings, allowing to run in cloud environment, as well as on premise, satisfying customer requirements and resulting in millions of dollars of increased revenue, as well as placing products in innovative and vision portion of Gartner Magic Quadrant.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Worked with federal government executives and technologists to improve IT efficiency, while reducing cost, improving business continuity, and modernizing environment.- Led multiple teams of consultants in modernizing and transforming government client Data Centers by optimizing infrastructure and expertise, migrating from legacy to current technology, consolidating to fewer data centers, and allowing organization to migrate to Cloud Computing.- Architected Quick Start environment for government financial institution that allowed any new or improved application to be run in environment while organization consolidated more than 100 data centers to down to 3, resulting in millions of dollars of tax payer savings.

Led teams of consultants reviewing clients’ IT infrastructure, performing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) health checks and architecting solutions to address business needs.- Re-architected troubled project involving deployment of state government public safety portal to allow access to mission-critical information, resulting in over $800K of additional consulting revenue to IBM and providing 99% reliability demanded by application.- Architected and managed implementation of company-wide demonstration facility using hardware and software virtualization that supported over 200K demonstrations for worldwide users, resulted in net savings of over $1M; scripting, automation, and calendaring capabilities were precursors to today’s cloud computing capabilities

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Oversaw overall architecture of sales, service, and claims applications and infrastructure necessary to operate environment and provide 99% reliability.- Developed strategy to align business and IT goals by providing illusion of 24x7 availability, increasing call-center user and customer satisfaction rating over 15% and allowing for more rapid application development.- Accomplished migration to SOA environment, eliminating necessity of developing 1 set of custom applications for internal use and second set for Internet customers, resulting in annual saving of $1M.

Master Of Science (Ms)

Bachelor'S Degree