IT Strategy & Architecture Professional
IT Strategy & Architecture Professional with over 25 years of progressive experience in all IT architecture disciplines; Business, Application, Information and Technical architecture. Bottom-line focused leader with the ability to effectively utilize IT solutions to support mission critical strategic business goals, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. Skilled in creating strong alignment between IT and Business domains. Expert in target architectures, roadmaps, blueprints and implementation of emerging technologies. Dynamic leader who builds team commitment and cohesion.
Areas of Expertise
Strategic Planning Enterprise Architecture Business, Application, Technical & Information Architecture Emerging Technologies Technology Evaluation Health Information Technology Competitive Analysis
Research and Advisory Services System Analysis & Design Staff Management Project Management
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Fortune 100 health insurance leader
Managing Director, IT Strategy & Planning
Senior Architecture Manager, IT Strategy & Planning
Promoted based on recognized success aligning information technology and business strategy. Led development of 3-year IT strategic plan deliverables. Led key business initiatives. Advised business strategy team on emerging technologies and trends, developed IT competitive landscapes, and directed corporate research organization. Led IT team in business strategy workgroups, including electronic medical records, health information exchange, lab results and provider payment reform.
Developed annual IT competitive intelligence assessment for Board of Directors, providing clear, concise positioning of company IT strengths and weaknesses contrasted with major competitors.
Negotiated and selected research contracts, and guided research vendor relationships. Removed redundant processes. Streamlined business process for research requests. Slashed research contracts by $1M+, while expanding services.
Key player in planning effective utilization of $350M IT investment portfolio. Improved budget and strategic alignment, simplified portfolio prioritization and ensured that IT portfolios remained within budget. Created application rationalization strategy to optimize application portfolio and consolidate multiple post acquisition systems.
Analyzed IT offerings of major competitors, developed principle forces research and analysis, and drove new IT blueprints/roadmaps to effectively address marketplace. Analyzed and presented technology trends that would provide effective return on investments.
Directed joint Aetna/IBM team on SOA portfolio rationalization project, providing a multi-dimensional analysis of application portfolio, leading to implementation of SOA components in production at Aetna.
Created technology maturity models and determined "best in class" IT capabilities providing gap analysis between business strategy and information technology. Identified new technology roadmaps/blueprints for operating plan.
Architecture Manager
Spearheaded transformation of Aetna to leader in utilization of emerging technologies. Led Product Management and Research Services organizations. Evaluated and recommended enterprise products. Provided EA best practice information. Directed team of 15.
Evaluated, recommended, and developed proof-of-concepts for enterprise products, leading to implementation of ECM, business rules, and workflow to streamline the IT portfolio of products.
Analyzed processing bottlenecks and introduced 'straight-through' processing, a financial services approach never before utilized in the insurance space.
o Improved claims processing to #1 industry-wide from #4.
o Process was documented in Mastering the Hype Cycle, by Harvard Business Press.
Instituted new application portfolio lifecycle processes, reducing costs and improving services throughout the enterprise.
Architecture Manager
Architected, evaluated, and selected enterprise products. Published architecture direction and governance on corporate Intranet site.
Developed proof-of concept, and implemented proof-of-concepts of enterprise application integration, extract and load, and enterprise information integration products.
o Designed master data management strategy, evaluated ETL tools, and produced roadmap for creation of "books of record" for core databases.
Presenting briefings and videoconferences on n-tiered applications, information architectures, and infrastructure patterns, to lead establishment of architecture governance standards.
Architecture Manager
Implemented product/vendor management and governance spanning all business lines. Directed corporate product managers and architects, providing consulting, architecture design, industry assessments and product evaluations and selections. Implemented enterprise product pilots. Selected into Top Technology Talent Program.
Evaluated, selected and implemented pilots of enterprise databases, application servers, web servers, application integration, load balancing/fail-over, and use-case modeling.
Created product usage and architecture design standards.
Senior Development Specialist
Mentored client/server developers on application and system architecture and design. As Subject Matter Expert on C and Visual Basic programming, defined client/server standards, evaluated 3rd party products, and developed evaluation whitepapers for management review. Developed security module for client server applications. Supported business applications, telephony and MAPI applications, and new web applications.
Architected systems in .Net environment, creating 1st Microsoft n-tiered systems.
Developed evaluation whitepapers leading to selection of standard company-wide products.
FUNCTIONAL SKILLS
Business Management, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Business Process Improvement, Competitive Analysis, Healthcare Information Management Systems, Practice Management Systems, Provider Payment Systems, Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchanges, Regional Health Information Organizations, Emerging Technologies, Research.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Multiple operating systems (IBM z/OS, OS/390, AS/400 and AIX, Microsoft PC, HP3000) Multiple databases (IBM DB2 and AIX, MS SQL Server and Oracle). Multiple application servers (IBM Websphere, Microsoft .Net). Multiple programming languages (Java, C/C++, COBOL, Visual Basic). Multiple architecture frameworks, models, roadmaps and blueprints (TOGAF, RUP, UML, BPMN, SOA).
EDUCATION
CLC
Honor Graduate - Computer Programming, 4-year Computer Science equivalency
DCCC
Associate in Applied Science Degree
AFFILIATIONS
Greater Philadelphia Sr. Executive Group, Technology Executives Networking Group, HIMSS, WEDI, and AHIP member |
