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Our team has delivered world-class solutions for companies around the world.  From New York to Los Angeles, from Moscow to Johannesburg our experience draws from a wide range of international work.

Experiences
* Advised one of the largest financial, marketing, and business communication companies on integration best practices and standards. We reviewed their existing integration plans, strategy, and tactics, and provided specific measurable improvements to their methodology, designs, and solutions.  
* Designed an integration platform and governance processes for Hess Corporation. Designed a leading SDLC system integration methodology. Guided Hess through production IT integration implementations.  
* Advised New Media division of a large sports and media production company. Reviewed business model, organizational structure, clients, and technology; articulated findings and technology strategy recommendations to Global Division Head.  
* Designed an integration platform for CBS. Enabled near real-time integration between the Sales and Trafficking systems and Broadcasting systems.  
* Crafted an IT Application Strategy and delivered a breakthrough for a Moscow-based organization.  read more...
* Helped this 19B organization realize its integrated business vision across its segmented IT program offices.  read more...

Strategy & Architecture

  • Served as a strategic IT architect / engineer on an executive initiative for a federal Government to economize the scale, responsiveness, and quality of national IT services.
  • Evaluated the architecture of a company's collaboration solution built on Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and advised their leadership team in Madrid, Spain on innovative ways to advance their business objectives.
  • Advised a company's Dublin, Ireland leadership team on their information, application, and technology strategies to enable agile processes and rapid requirement response capabilities.
  • Provided engineering, technical project management, and on-site direction for a large telecommunications company located in Colorado Springs, CO.
  • Chartered and led a global application architecture organization in New York City to guide executives in 32 countries to align business objectives with technology architecture and strategy.

Integration

  • Designed the integration platform for one of the largest television broadcast companies in the world.
  • Designed, built, and implemented a real-time account provisioning solution for a company's 120,000 global practitioners that integrated its HR processes and HR data, multiple HR systems including SAP and PeopleSoft, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Active Directory, and Microsoft Exchange Server.
  • Chartered and managed the integration of global applications by creating a global integration department for a 14 billion dollar company based in New York City, New York after directly acquiring investment from the Global CIO.
  • Designed a solution for 7000 people of a company based in Mexico City, Mexico that automatically created network access accounts, email addresses, and verified the integrity of all of the provisioned assets immediately upon hiring, promoting, or terminating employees.

Leadership

  • Hosted a strategic session in Redmond, WA with Ron Markezich, Microsoft's Chief Information Officer, to discuss architecture and imminent technology products.
  • Briefed a company's representatives from 31 countries in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server and Microsoft SharePoint Team Services to maximize their global collaboration opportunities and drive new efficiencies and business possibilities.
  • Delivered a vision and map for the implementation of web services and service Oriented architectures to a company's European IT Leaders in Vienna, Austria.
  • Chartered and led a 120,000 user global web portal program using Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server for a company based in New York City, New York.
  • Evaluated and advised an executive team in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on their Microsoft Competency Center's strategic offerings, processes, and business opportunities.

Development

  • Led the development of a heuristic SAT test engine and Learning Management System for the rapid production of award-winning*, media-rich eLearning products. As sales surged, successfully sold technology innovations and agile organization to Kaplan, the education industrys largest provider of online courseware.
  • Led the profitable development of a company's software product for an on-line benefit enrollment service delivering additional revenue and increased profits year after year.
  • Crafted and managed the redesign of a 14 billion-dollar company's software development team in New York City, New York to dramatically improve timeliness from less than 50% on-time delivery to nearly 98% on-time delivery while at the same time increasing overall customer satisfaction, improving product quality, and boosting employee morale.

* Winner of prestigious SIIA CODiE awards for software engineering excellence in Education.