***********@*****.*** Clarke,
PMP, TS SCI
Jair Clarke, PMP, TS SCI
Information Technology Director CIO CTO Information Technology
Vice President VP
Professional Highlights
Technical executive hand selected to help lead IBM's Watson super computer
federal footprint (Business Analytics & Optimization super computer
appeared on Jeopardy!) * Honorary speaker to 27 country presidents on
technical platform he personally created for world use * Technical advisory
board member of medical company giving medical informatics expertise *
Published papers and sought after speaker * Increased startup division
revenue by 800% within 2 years * Consistently doubled (200%+) yearly
revenue and footprint for several years * Expert in managing tight profit
margins (2-4%) without contingency and minimal PTI (Pre-Tax Income)
dollars * Won every proposal effort he led * Spearheaded overhead
reduction while ensuring optimal results * Holds a Top Secret SCI clearance
* Commercial, federal, financial, health & education experience * NCAA
Football National Champion
Advisory Board Member for Restorative Health & Wellness PLLC (2008-present)
Provides business and technology vision and leadership in the selection,
and implementation of organization-wide information services. Provides
overall technical guidance and vision of technology development and
operations. Helps shape the technology direction from the perspective of a
Vice President (VP) of IT/ Chief Information Officer (CIO) / Chief
Technology Officer (CTO).
Honors & Achievements
Highest Ranking Performance Grade of IBM - IBM Program Manager of Quarter
Award
IBM Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) Award for Exemplary Performance - Project
Management Institute Symposium Honorary Speaker - IBM Distinguished Speaker
- 4 Star General Commander's Coin Award
2 time Admiral Commander's Coin Award - 2 Star General Chief of Staff Coin
Award
Multi-winner of IBM Service Excellence Award - Lockheed Martin Corporate
STAR Recognition Award Featured subject of Front Page Article in Lockheed
Martin Today Magazine - Multi-winner of IBM Thanks! Award - Citizenship
Award - 2000 Blue Ribbon Award - NCAA National Champion (Football)
Received multiple formal thank you letters from men and women Clarke
mentored and coached
Professional History
IBM (International Business Machines) (0/72007 - present)
Technical Program Executive Watson Super Computer Federal Initiative
1. Responsible for short and long term strategic planning and road maps
of IBM's service area's sector with all correlated IBM software,
hardware, and service products
2. Works with Watson super computer team to develop the business and
strategically instantiate clouds and Software as a Service (SaaS).
3. Build and maintain vendor/subcontractor relationships and ensuring
contractual agreements are met.
4. Responsible for IT global support and staff, including proper
management of help desk activities.
5. Concurrently managed multiple million-dollar programs successfully
within requirements of complex service level agreements (SLAs).
Develops standard operating procedures (SOPs) and best practices
incorporating CMMI, Agile, and other methodologies to resolve
deficiencies and streamlining processes.
6. Managed teams responsible to provide the following skills: network &
system administrators, end user service, database management and web
development, and more across windows, Linux, & Unix platforms.
7. Drove and benchmarked IBM's multi million dollar federal global
business services footprint in Florida where other IBM leaders weren't
successful for decades to accomplish.
8. Consistently met/exceeded business case goals and forecasts
with/without contingency with margins as small as 2-4% gross profit
and less than 1% PTI among other challenging financial expectations.
9. Leader in larger scale (5,000+ users) data center migrations with zero
unscheduled downtime. Developed disaster recovery planning (DRP),
business continuity, backup recovery for mission critical operations.
10. Lead and won large value ($10M+) Request For Proposals (RFPs). Leads
effort in Application Management Outsourcing (AMO), delivery
excellence, IT portfolio management, software development life cycle
and more. Shapes innovation decisions for time sensitive initiatives.
11. Leads global teams that exceed metrics and satisfy service level
agreements of 365x7x24 on call support and 99.7% uptime of systems
(20,000+ web sites, ~1,000 databases and more across 10+ networks).
12. Responsible for human resource functions (e.g. performance reviews,
staffing, bonuses, merit increases, promotions). Personally
responsible for optimization and efficiency planning for staffing
matrix.
13. Manage programs with multiple vendors ensuring invoices, financials,
delivery excellence, client satisfaction and program responsibilities
were met or exceeded from inception to program closure.
Clarke, PMP,
TS SCI
Lockheed Martin (03/2005 - 06/2007)
Project Manager Developer / Acting Coordinator
1. Implemented overhead efficiency by streamlining day to day operation
workflows and processes of team, reducing project duration, and
ensuring metrics and scorecard deliverables of our corporation
satisfied the needs of our customers and our service level agreement
(SLAs) expectations
2. Helped lead team implementation of enterprise critical systems used
across the world.
3. Helped lead teams to ensure enterprise level applications and systems
(15,000 web sites and ~800 databases) were up 99.7% of the time
365x7x24 across countries exceeding other global metrics.
Smartronix, Inc. (11/2004 - 03/2005)
Software Engineer / Application Architect
1. Web farming, design, development and upgrade of .Net applications and
government software for Special Operation Command (SOCOM).
2. High-level design, development, and deployment of enterprise mission
applications and software.
Collegiate Funding Services, LLC (02/2004 - 11/2004)
JP Morgan Company
Software Engineer
1. Web farming & Service Oriented Architecture orchestration & mapping of
applications and legacy systems
2. Lead regression and unit testing for quality assurance.
University of Miami (1999 - 2003)
Assistant Manager Computer IS Department Acting, Associate Director of
Wellness Senior Staff Supervisor
1. Supervise 50 staff members directing contracts from recruitment to
contractual agreement.
2. Analysis, Proof Of Concept, and implementation of Messaging and
integration of BizTalk
3. Lead Software Development Life Cycle deployments on time and within
budget of a payroll distribution database preventing dispensation of
unjust disbursement for multi-million dollar organization.
Education
Master of Business Administration (completing)
Bachelors in Computer Information Systems - University of Miami
[pic]PMP (Project Management Professional) PMI (Project Management
Institute) Certified
Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) Foundation
ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)