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Director of Solutions Architecture, State and Local Government
October 2011 to Present
As the Director of Solutions Architecture, State and Local Government, I lead a start-up team that works with customers to demonstrate how to map their most critical business needs to flexible technology solutions. We work with CIO’s and business leaders to help them understand the unique benefits of the Pega platform, determine how it would fit into their current technology architecture, and show how they can build flexible solutions that provide immediate business value that will keep pace with their constantly changing business and technology needs. In this role I also work closely with partners to build complex proofs of concept and frameworks that demonstrate the power of partnering with Pega across a broad set of use cases.
President
April 2009 to October 2011
As President at Tagma computing, I helped bring order to my customers’ technology projects through architectural and methodology review and guidance, enterprise technology planning, and project management expertise. The primary project that I worked on during my tenure was at the CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as a technical consultant and project manager for the SOMS project. In this role, I assisted the department with architectural and SDLC reviews and project and development management duties. I also provided significant operational review and guidance, overseeing the deployment of the desktop hardware and software (over 12.000 PC’s), helping to develop the release management process, and overseeing the implementation of their help desk.
VP of Technology/CTO
January 2007 to October 2008
As the VP of Technology/CTO, I initially managed the technology group for both Hanson McClain Financial Services and Liberty Reverse Mortgage (which was ultimately spun off). At Liberty Reverse, I managed all aspects of the technology platform and brought new project management disciplines to the organization. In particular, to overcome previous challenges in the organization, I created a project scoring system that allowed us to drive enterprise consensus on which projects best met the fiscal year planning goals to determine which should be prioritized. Also, I oversaw the design and delivery of a new loan management system that replaced salesforce.com as our primary computing platform. This solution utilized both COTS and custom components developed by a mix of internal resources and an offshore team. For Hanson McClain, I helped update several aging platforms, including moving the organization to Microsoft Dynamics CRM to provide a solid application development platform to build our key LOB systems upon.
CIO
May 2004 to September 2006
As CIO for Kelley & Swain, I put together an overall technology plan that would provide a secure computing platform and directly support the company’s business goals. This included architecting a new platform to replace our existing Access-based agency management system. The new system incorporated a COTS agency management system component, as well as new ASP.NET custom components developed by an off-shore team in India.
Principal Consultant
June 2001 to May 2004
Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) State & Local Government Practice: As a Principal Consultant, I worked with customers, partners, and internal Microsoft groups to design/review application architectures, create enterprise application development infrastructures, and develop strategic business and technology plans that map to the organizations’ business goals. The solutions I worked on include a statewide bio-terrorism alerting and collaboration portal; a statewide, web-based Medicare system; a data warehousing initiative for a superior court; and a prototype application delivering critical suspect information to peace officers in the field via wireless handheld devices. In addition, I worked closely with agencies to implement effective project management environments that facilitate the realistic determination and communication of project status and ensure project success.
Director of Platform Development
August 2000 to June 2001
As the Director of Platform Development at TeaLeaf Technology, I was responsible for the design and development of the capture and pipeline components that allow our users to monitor, transform, and store the entire data stream coming from web servers. TeaLeaf (now owned by IBM) provides infrastructure software that allows companies to monitor the real-time state of their web applications and to analyze customer usage patterns for their sites.
September 1992 to August 2000
Microsoft Consulting Services, Sacramento Practice.
Microsoft Consulting Services, Advanced Technology Group.
Travel Products Group (Now expedia.com).
Information Technology Group
Information Technology Group.