SUMMARY:

Confidential brings over 20 years of progressive experience focused in automotive, manufacturing, sales, operations, and product development with recent proficiencies in setting strategy, architecture, security, and in - vehicle emerging technologies. Confidential has held executive leadership positions and is a member of the CIO executive leadership board. He is an expert in planning and leading engineering and manufacturing operations and possesses a global and strategic view of business, with emphasis on ROI/TCO.

EXPERTISE:

• Enterprise Strategy and Architecture
• Infrastructure (Cloud/Hosting, Security, Network)
• Applications Development, Agile Development
• Engineering and Manufacturing Systems
• Digital Strategies
• Cyber Security
• Emerging Vehicle Technology - Over the Air, Vehicle to Vehicle

RELEVANT LEADERSHIP AREAS:

Architecture and Technology Implementation, Manufacturing and Quality Operations, Strategic Planning, Financial Risk Management, Business Governance, Applications Development, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, Change Management, Operations, Business Process Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Strategic Outsourcing, Security

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Troy, MI

Chief Enterprise Architect - Executive Director

Responsibilities:

• Member of the CIO Executive Leadership Board
• Dynamic thought leader transforming Strategy, Architecture and Innovation
• Emphasis on leadership, technology, architecture and business innovation
• Business Architecture and Strategy
• Domain Strategy and Roadmaps
• Infrastructure
• Security
• Solution design
• Data and predictive analytics
• Innovation and Software Development Factory
• Transformation to Hybrid Cloud services
• SAP (ECC 6.x and S4 Hana)
• Digital for Aftermarket division
• Software Engineering and Manufacturing Systems
• Governance function for architecture, standards, and technical reviews
• Process development and maturity

Confidential, Warren, MI

Chief Architect - Global Product Development

Responsibilities:

• Architecture Leader
• Transformation and Innovation leader
• Engineering and Manufacturing Systems
• GM Next Generation Technology leader
• Cryptography
• Vehicle to Vehicle communications
• Over the Air Communications and remote vehicle update
• Vehicle Cyber Security
• Embedded software development and infotainment
• System Architecture and Design
• Data architecture and engineering
• Security
• Infrastructure
• Governance function for architecture, standards, and technical reviews
• Enterprise, domain, and project level architecture development
• Architecture process development

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Global leadership responsible for architecture and engineering
• Business process engineering
• System Architecture and Design for infrastructure and applications
• Master Data Management
• Architecture governance
• Enterprise, domain, and project level architecture development
• Global deployments

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Chief Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Strategic development of new unit and service offering for Aftermarket product
• Connected Vehicle and Volt
• System Architecture and Design
• Governance function for OnStar Architecture, Standards, and Technical reviews
• Technologies include infrastructure, hosting, applications, and telephony
• Enterprise, domain, and project level architecture development
• Agile development techniques
• Application Security reviews and testing
• Application Architecture Integration for next generation applications
• Applications include eNAV, Turn by Turn, Accident Notification, Telephony, Vehicle Communications, XM

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Chief Technologist

Responsibilities:

• Led the Productivity Improvement Initiative for the GMAC account with the goal to double productivity in 2008
• Led Confidential internal focus on technology and architecture with an emphasis on improving efficiency of the organization; this included advanced development techniques (e.g. Agile and Iterative)
• Led the SME Factory Model program
• Supported SOA for Financial Services offering
• Solution Architect (e.g. Securitization, Hyperion)
• Architecture reviews
• Architecture team resource planning

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Pursuit Lead on ELM Design, 10G Upgrade, HR Development environment resulting in over $1.3M in new business for Confidential
• Led Architecture teams in the development of Architecture and design specifications for project delivery; these included PeopleSoft, Kronos, and Oracle DB projects
• Lead Architect responsible for the ETO review process and overall Architecture development

Confidential, Warren, MI

CIO

Responsibilities:

• Led IT for the $250M merged company, Confidential
• IT included hosting, infrastructure, and applications
• Implemented PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource Planning system
• Managed a team of 25 employees
• Member of the Board of Directors

Confidential, Warren, MI

Director of eBusiness and IT

Responsibilities:

• Leader of IT, eBusiness, and Marketing Services
• IT Strategic Planning, Business Process Development, Architecture
• IT included hosting, infrastructure, and applications
• Managed a team of 20 employees
• Constructed new data center and installed new corporate networks
• Led development and implementation of ERP system