Project Manager Management
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James McGovern
Qualifications Over twenty years of experience applying people, process and technical skills to improve individual,
Summary team and organizational performance. Advanced knowledge of enterprise architecture and enterprise
security with a focus on high-profile customer facing applications. An impassioned leader who
mentors with purpose and understands that strong working relationships create great teams and
produce exceptional results.
Core Competencies o Enterprise Architecture o Emerging Technologies o Strategic Planning
Management Consulting Program Management SOA (Web Services)
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o Roadmap and Blueprints o Leadership o SDLC
Work Experience Mar 2001 – Present The Hartford
Enterprise Architect [Director] – Financial Services
Office of the CTO – Accountable for business transformation solutions, enterprise application
architecture and software development.
Responsible for the future technology platform decisions that enable the business strategy of
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Property and Casualty Operations (2009 Results: $10B Revenue)
Demonstrated expertise in overseeing multiple technology improvement initiatives, aligning
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information services with business goals, increasing reliability, maximizing productivity and
introducing system efficiencies.
Spearheaded the implementation of Federated Identity within the insurance vertical which
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increases security while also enabling cost savings and increased productivity. Participants
include Top Ten Insurance Brokers and Agency Management System Vendors.
Lead role in Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance comprised of twenty-two applications.
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Provided technical guidance on multiple $20m to $100m projects while supporting the aggressive
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adoption of agile management and software development practices resulting in successful on-
time project delivery.
Voting member in the Hartford’s Architecture Steering Committee (ASC) which governs
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technology investments and is responsible to define, challenge and evangelize EA standards and
decisions.
Set the vision and drive transformational change to the IT portfolio via application modernization.
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Visionary and interface across multiple organizations to coordinate requirements and deliverables,
build consensus and influence successful business outcomes.
Recruited and managed geographical dispersed staff of differing cultures and weaved them into
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cohesive delivery teams.
Electronic Business Center (EBC)– Responsible for architecture, technical direction and
stewardship of an extranet site that allows the Hartford’s insurance agents to access quoting, rating,
underwriting, billing and claims functionality for property and casualty operations. Leveraged
WebLogic Portal, application server and Oracle database.
Mar 1999 – Feb 2001 enherent Corporation
Solutions Architect – eBusiness Consulting
Carbonek Financial Services – Chief Architect Responsible for overall strategy, development and
infrastructure approach for insurance distribution site. Participated in planning and other management
activities related to acquiring financing from venture capital sources.
Lowestloan.com – Chief Architect for three separate mortgage and commercial lending sites.
Architecture includes WebLogic, Microsoft SQL Server and Netscape. Responsible for overall
strategy, development, and infrastructure.
Wingspanbank.com – Lead technical architect / project manager for web e-Commerce initiative for
online banking, investments & insurance site. Business Development / Site strategy developed in
conjunction with McKinsey. Architecture includes DCOM, WebLogic and Oracle.
Oct 1993 – Feb 1999 Command Systems
Technology Director - I.T. Consulting
Actively managed the technology direction for the organization. Responsibilities include defining
requirements for and performing detailed analysis of complex systems, public and private technical
briefings, writing proposals and technical screening of prospective candidates.
Northeast Utilities – Lead technical architect for web E-Commerce initiative. Introduction to
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several Microsoft technologies such as Site Server, Transaction Server and COM based
development. Process modeling using UML.
Omnisphere – Technical Architecture validation for their Omnibuilder product. Provided guidance
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for future enhancements related to component-based development.
Gerber Optical –Architect for Exchange migration from Microsoft Mail.
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Travelers (FMI) – Architect for rewrite of underwriting system. Leveraged PowerBuilder and
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Oracle Database.
Aetna – Reporting application for Investment Management (Maximus). Focused on Investment
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Accounting, Cash and Trade Processing, Valuation.
Louis Dreyfus –Leader and Architect for development of Commodities trading system. Analyzed
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existing architecture and future considerations including relational model, class hierarchy and
application logic. Provided mentoring and concept validation to developers. Leveraged
PowerBuilder and Oracle Database.
Shawmut Bank – Developer of Non-performing Asset Forecasting System. Leveraged
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PowerBuilder and Sybase.
Oct 1990 – Oct 1993 Connecticut Community Care
Programmer / Analyst - Healthcare
Developed multi-user GUI Client/Server based applications. Responsibilities included remote office
communication, network management and support. Tools used were Powerbuilder and Microsoft C
with Windows SDK. Maintained legacy systems in Cognos 4GL languages.
1988 – 1990 Conning & Company
Systems Administrator - Brokerage/Investments
Responsible for system administration of HP3000 system. Performed migration from HP3000/44 to
RISC based HP3000/925. Provided end-user support for multiple PC applications.
Accomplishments
Author – Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture – Prentice Hall
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Author – Enterprise Service Oriented Architectures – Springer
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Author – Java Web Services Architectures – Morgan Kaufmann
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Columnist – Ask Doctor Java – Java Developers Journal
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Frequent Speaker at major industry conferences
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o Hartford Chapter Leader for the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Education Charter Oak State College
Business Administration
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