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
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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
Technology – companies 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.
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