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Jeff is a seasoned IT strategy consultant with 20 years of Enterprise Architecture, Governance, and Management experience. His vast technical experience has been balanced with extensive program/project management, process definition/improvement, and standards creation/enforcement. He has an uncommon level of business savvy and an innate ability to communicate effectively with key operational and executive stakeholders throughout an organization. He has breadth and depth experience that covers business, application, and technical architectures across the whole enterprise IT stack. He has more than 20 years of experience in some of the most complex Fortune 500 IT environments on the planet including recent experience at major DC based secondary mortgage company and a global automobile manufacturer.
Jeff has a knack for bridging the communication gap between Technical and Non-Technical people. His experience comes from projects that have typically been National or Multi-National in scope with budgets ranging from 5 to 20 million dollars. He has helped establish and operate EA Offices for various Clients by developing and maintaining frameworks, guidelines, models, processes, procedures, methods and standards. He has extensive background in implementing real-time technologies that assist in maintaining, or advancing, his client’s competitive advantages.
From a technical perspective he is an expert in using Enterprise Architecture frameworks in specifying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) roadmaps. He has used Zachman, TOGAF, PMI, RUP frameworks to produce EA blueprints that helped his clients understand the current (as-is) state of their business systems and effectively communicate the future (to-be) vision those systems. He has an outstanding working knowledge of Linux/Unix, Microsoft and Mainframe environments, as well as their related component based development platforms (SOA, J2EE, .NET and EAI) and databases (Oracle/SQL Server).
Some of the highlights of from his experience and background: - IT Strategy, Governance, Business & Data Architecture, and Transformation Planning at Pearson Education
- IT Governance using COBIT, and TOGAF at GM, GMAC, and Freddie Mac
- Extensive technical background including Chief Architect experience at GMAC a Fortune 500 global financial company
- Program & Project management experience, including Program Management Office background at Freddie Mac, a major secondary mortgage company
- Current state analysis, future state definition, gap analysis, business case development, and implementation planning in the Enterprise Architecture space with GM, a Fortune 5 global manufacturing company, and GMAC a Fortune 500 global financial company
- Strong pre-sales background, including proposal preparation, technical and business presentations to C level executives at iTDept.com and 4 Gen consulting
- Account & engagement management experience at iTDept.com
- Developing and implementing IT standards, policies and procedures, including those for architecture, security, and vendor relationship management at GM and GMAC
- Ensuring IT goals, objectives and operating procedures are aligned to business goals at GM, GMAC, and Freddie Mac
- Hardware and software maintenance, upgrades, and replacements at Assurant
- IT strategic and operational planning
- IT staff responsibility of 120 FTE and max P&L responsibility of $2.5M budget including recruitment, scheduling, development, evaluation, and disciplinary actions at Delta Air Lines, Delta Dental, and EDS
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