Tom Richards Email & Phone Number

Naperville, Il, Us

Naperville, Il, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

• Responsible for the technology, strategy, vision, and implementation through design to align with the overall objectives for the Symplyr Connected Enterprise platform architecture.• Closely collaborate with all cross-functional product leadership to understand their needs across the Connected Enterprise platform.• Provide guidance on the migration needs for existing products for the Connected Enterprise platform on the AWS cloud.• Provide architectural leadership on the Connected Enterprise platform on the AWS cloud.• Engage and partner with product and prototype, explore, architect, and prove out technology to create differentiated value.• Lead the team of architects responsible for the Connected Enterprise core platform architecture.• Ensure the architecture of the next generation of our Core platform is designed, socialized and enabled throughout the organization.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Supporting AWS healthcare and life sciences partners on their AWS Partner Network journey. Focusing on helping customers understand cloud shared responsibility in compliance with regulatory quality frameworks like GxP and privacy laws like HIPAA and GDPR.• Designed reference architectures with Partners to support their customers’ reusability on AWS.• Guided Partners in designing new HCLS solutions on AWS.• Created demos or proofs of concept that Partners could use to envision how to enhance their own products and solutions.• Supported AWS HCLS service teams by enabling Partners to build marquee solutions using them.• Mentored other Solution Architects as part of the HCLS Technical Field Community.• Led several design groups as part of creating the AWS HCLS Interoperability reference architecture.• Advocated for HCLS partners within AWS to connect with programs and service teams.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

IBM Watson Health Cloud Transformation Center of CompetencyChampioned the creation of cross-pillar teams in order to refine cloud reference architectures and develop a playbook of common design and development process for Watson Health on IBM Cloud. Guide development efforts for Watson Health service offerings aimed at assuring process quality and ease of delivery onto IBM Cloud. Assist project offerings on understanding technical needs and easing migration burdens. Created common set of development and deployment processes covering ISO 9001, GxP regulated, and Non-GxP unregulated offerings.Served as Lead Architect on Watson Health Cloud Metadata store, partnering directly with Quality Assurance and Compliance teams to identify regulatory requirements and create cloud-native common service, enabling regulated and non-regulated offerings / practitioners / customer solutions to collect metadata on health data.Designed and implemented Watson Health Playbook, which unified all development processes into single, role-based visual guide that accelerated development team efforts and ensured maintenance of quality efforts.Provided education to Watson development teams on mature development process and delivery through online training sessions as well as provided step-by-step guidance on Watson Health Playbook.Identified, documented, and / or created reusable accelerators, ‘starter kits,’ examples, pre-built patterns, common security, and compliance controls, allowing all offering teams to seamlessly move to IBM Cloud.Enabled transition of more than 25 core Watson Health offerings, originally running on SoftLayer or on bare metal, to IBM Cloud.Established Watson Health Common Services process used to evaluate existing offerings as candidates, as well as providing mechanism for identifying IBM Cloud-specific gaps needing to be filled.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

IBM Watson Health InnovationsPartnered closely with acquisitions to architect and implement unified strategic cloud lambda (ETL and Near Real Time) architecture for Watson Health’s SaaS-enabling key common components (terminology, metrics, etc.). Focused on creating single, unified patient health record that combined medical imagery, patient diagnostics, and claims data. Served on Watson Health Governance Review Board, providing architectural leadership and oversight across Watson Health development teams.Aligned Watson Health development processes with Offering Management and Watson Health QMS processes, allowing Offering Mangers and Development leads to understand ‘bigger picture’.Provided architectural leadership for design of Watson Platform for Health (WP4H), IBM’s HIPAA-compliant analytics platform, specifying patterns used and leading effort to unify multiple acquisition architectures into single platform; WP4H GxP has drawn more than $5M in sales revenue since release.Consolidated and worked with offering management, prioritizing requirements for introduction into WP4H’s backlog.Integrated and documented use of good documentation practices (GxP) with existing development and architectural best practices, driving compliance to Watson Health QMS and federal regulatory requirements, specifically in areas of requirements management, standardized architectural documentation, and execution of processes under Design Control.Provided architectural leadership to Watson Platform for Health GxP (WP4H GxP), Watson Health’s HIPAA, GDPR, and QMS-controlled analytics platform; advised and led development teams, ensuring that architectural patterns were followed, and that implementation matched architecture with direct traceability to requirements; WP4H GxP has generated sales in excess of $3M since release.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

IBM Smarter Cities Services / Smarter Planet:Supported Smarter Cities Services organization by creating architectures using Intelligent Operations Center products. Created first-of-a-kind product offerings for public sector customers. Architected SOA Accelerators aimed at enabling services teams to quickly deploy into customer environment and drive business value.Served as Testing Lead on Intelligent Transportation Management System (ITMS) product, including creation of all master test plans (IVT, SVT, FVT, performance, and regression) that ensured adequate testing coverage across all product aspects.Fulfilled Lead Architect activities on Intelligent Operations for Water (IOW) product, capturing requirements, creating product architecture, and coordinating all domestic and international development teams during implementation that generated sales revenue in excess of $5M.Functioned as Lead Architect on IBM Defense Operations Platform (DOP) ‘Product Architecture and Design Blueprint’ team, defining architectural scope on product that achieved sales revenue in excess of $40M and continues to be maintained and sold into global defense industry.Participated on DOP Architectural Review Board, reviewing architectural changes and new requirements of IBM DOP product.Supported ‘Frameworks and Industry Solutions’ group, working closely with relevant services teams (Global Business Services, Global Technology Services, and other internal stakeholders) that assured successful deployment of industry frameworks and accelerators.Drove development of reusable content for team based on various methodologies, including IBM TEAM-Method, RUP, iRUP, IBM GS Method, and Agile.ation for various customers.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

NCO, Defense, Government and Healthcare Services:Designing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), and other complex systems for the NCO (Network Centric Operations) Defense organization, as well as the Healthcare and Social Services organizations, in Software Group Public Sector.A Lead Designer for the IBM Defense Operations Platform product as well as the Design Team Lead for the product.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

IBM Industry Solutions & Architecture, Software Group:Designing web based solutions for various customers. This group functioned cross-industry to tackle very difficult J2EE, multi-system custom architectures for our customers around the world.Designed a first of a kind, SOA based Healthcare data integration product called the IBM WebSphere for Business Integration Healthcare Collaborative Network, or HCN for short.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

IBM Net Generation Software Architecture Team, Software Group:Design and Implement web based solutions for customers across the united states.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Xerox Connect:Led the Chicago Business Solutions Practice solutions team in designing and implementing large-scale E-Commerce solutions for Fortune 1000 companies.

London, Gb

Primary duties entailed the design and implementation of complex electronic commerce software systems, targeted primarily for the Business to Consumer market (B to C).

Conducted seminars on subjects ranging from MS-Word, Windows 3.11, UNIX and Windows e-mail clients to the UNIX OS and X-Windows.Responsibilities included managing all CTS computer laboratories, consulting students with programming difficulties, DOS and UNIX OS maintenance, and network management.

Technical Systems Administrator for Information Technology team at ANR Pipeline, responsibilities included re-configuration of several HP9000/8XX class UNIX servers. This included a complete re installation of the OS (HP-UX 9.04 D and related patch levels), Developed POSIX K-Shell, and Perl scripts for root and developer functions, responsible for all development makefiles and their construction, Consulted developers on C and makefile related problems, along with general UNIX/DDE support.