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Senior Business Systems Analyst & Project Lead

Welcome to my web site.  The purpose of this site is, to provide information about my carreer, the areas I have expertise, and the areas where I can provide value.

There are common threads that run through my work and professional life.  Briefly, these are:

·       Innovation - Many companies attempt to purchase competitive advantage by oursourcing and/or with standard software packages or new products.  My view is that "proven solutions" are a contradition to "leading edge innovations."  In today's web and social media-centric environment, being innovative has become even more crucial for IT, and for developing new products.  To gain an edge, and keep it, one has to become competent at risk / reward assessment, and soon finds that the ability to identify, test, and deploy significant software changes quickly can itself be a competitive edge, as long as "quick" doesn't become "quick and dirty." 

      I have good experience with both Agile and "waterfall" methodologies.  Both can work well without sacrificing effective control.

 

·        Information Technologycompanies were making use of computer technology before I started my career, but the uses and capabilities have become steadily more powerful, and so my interest in deploying these powerful tools everywhere I worked has grown concurrently.  While much of my work was not focused specifically on IT, in almost every instance my work has involved the company’s information systems, or its gaps. 

      Having all major applications and data in the cloud is a real game-changer, as are the now-available powerful integration tools that allow a company to move away from the monolithic, large, very complex ERP system platform toward a "best of breed" heterogenous, evolving, constantly improving software platform for the company consisting of different software modules from different vendors as well as truly custom functionality.

      My work at JAFRA with the Mulesoft ESB toolset, working with some very expeirenced team mates, taught me how this work can be done, and done well to produce an essentially seamless flow of data between different software environments.

 

·       Manufacturing and Supply Chain – the process from idea to something physical which is useful to many people has held my attention throughout my career. I developed significant experience in these areas early in my carrer, forming the foundation for dozens of projects, mostly in the earlier part of my career.

 

 Another area that may be of interest -     

Documentation - On the Work page there are examples of my written work you can review.  I have believed in excellent documentation since the start of my career and seen the value of it over and over, although not all professionals in business and IT agree with its value.  My earlier career experience with large and complex documentation enabled me to work pretty fast, so even large documents don't "take forever." 

One tool which I have had recent good experience with is Enterprise Architect - EA - from Sparx Systems.  Since its diagrams are all e-diagrams, and can become quite large, printing them out is not practical, so I don't have examples of these.  I used it at American Homes 4 Rent, where my data flow diagrams are used as training aids.