Vice President, Enterprise Architecture

William Kendall

Atlanta, Georgia 678-***-****

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Senior Technology Executive

IT Strategy Enterprise Architecture Solutions Engineering

Highly effective Professional Services IT Executive with proven success designing, implementing, and optimizing strategic, enterprise-wide technology offerings to meet critical business objectives and create new markets. Experience includes driving effective IT strategy and solutions for Industries such as Healthcare, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Transportation, and Logistics, along with professional services, pre-sales, consulting, management, research and development, and marketing. Outstanding team leadership, decision making, and organizational skills. Astute negotiator and problem solver who succeeds in demanding environments experiencing rapid change through internal growth, acquisition, and revitalization.

Areas of Expertise

Strategic Planning

Operations Management

Process Improvement

Project Management

Practice Management

IT Strategy

Stakeholder Management

SaaS, CRM, ERP, HCM

Full-stack Architecture

Migrations & Consolidations

Oracle, AWS, and Google Cloud

Cloud/Hybrid Architecture

Professional Experience

BIAS CORPORATION

Vice President Enterprise Architecture, 2014 - Present

Created new Enterprise Architecture organization focused exclusively on strategic pre-sales and delivery activities, including long-term account development, building the BIAS and Oracle brand, and creating multi-year strategic blueprint roadmaps. Led design of new, repeatable cloud, on-premise, and hybrid solutions to solve long-standing critical business issues for clients. Created vision, charter, operational best practices, and solution areas. Developed programs with marketing to build BIAS brand and establish thought leadership through speaking engagements, business and technology white papers, customer solution press releases, blog postings, and social media exposure.

Drove double-digit growth year over year by developing new solutions and sales strategies.

Developed strategic programmatic services offering called the “BIAS Migration Factory” that uses best practices, automated tools, and repeatable processes to eliminate migration risks and costs.

Saved $240 million in costs for major financial services client leveraging BIAS Migration Factory to consolidate 5,600 heterogeneous databases on to sixty Oracle Exadata machines.

Received Oracle’s 2018 Specialized Partner of the Year for Engineered Systems Award for BIAS Migration Factory implementation.

Facilitated one of the largest single Oracle Cloud migrations with cloud migration strategy incorporating a cloud foundational approach to ensure performance, security, integration, and streamlined operational management.

Established critical partnership with Oracle and Equinix to broaden BIAS Cloud Service offerings to include several strategic business-driven solutions.

BIAS CORPORATION

Practice Director, Architecture Services, 2013 - 2014

Directed pre-sales, architecture, and delivery initiatives for all core Oracle products solutions and services, such as database architecture, Engineered Systems, RAC, In-Memory, Multi-Tenancy, Data Guard, GoldenGate, and Big Data. Managed budget and finances to ensure profitability. Cultivated key relationships with Oracle divisions, including development, marketing, sales, operations, and channels.

Achieved highest average project margins consistently across all practices by offering high-value solutions utilizing top-level resources.

Accelerated sales cycle, reduced risks, and streamlined implementation processes by promoting quick start, fixed price, engineered systems solutions for every phase of implementation and management lifecycle.

Built team of highly skilled Senior Solution Architects focused on architecting and delivering complex solutions, building key strategic relationships with clients, and evangelizing the BIAS and Oracle brand.

BIAS CORPORATION

Replication and Migration Services Practice Director, 2009 - 2013

Built and led highly successful and profitable professional services practice around Oracle GoldenGate Change Data Capture solutions. Defined and deployed repeatable best practices for GoldenGate implementations by use case, including complex active/active configurations, zero-downtime upgrades, and proprietary audit configurations.

Enabled BIAS to become the first Oracle Specialized Platinum partner on the East Coast, and led first successful GoldenGate implementation by an East Coast partner.

Architected over 200+ strategic solutions for clients that eliminating downtime and leveraged current investments through zero-downtime upgrades and integration of hyper-flexible reporting solutions.

Developed new use case for Oracle GoldenGate for Financial Services and Healthcare auditing and implemented the repeatable architecture at more than one dozen sites.

Previous Experience

Applied Technology Lead, Master Principal, ORACLE CORPORATION

Vice President CA Technology Services, CA CORPORATION

Senior Sales Consulting Manager, ORACLE CORPORATION

Education & Credentials

Bachelor of Science, Computer Information Systems Bachelor, Business Administration

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, GA

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:

Oracle GoldenGate Implementers Certification Oracle DBA Masters Certification Oracle RAC Specialist Oracle Exadata Specialist Oracle Sun Solaris Specialist Sun SPARC Enterprise Server Specialist Sun JAVA Certification

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Oracle Cloud, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud GoldenGate Architecture Oracle Engineered Systems Exadata, ODA, ZFS Complex Application/Database Architecture and Design Microsoft SQL, Sybase, Informix, DB2 ERP Package Implementation and Maintenance (Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft, SAP) Cloud Development and Integration (MuleSoft, Apigee, JSON, Docker) Cloud Security (Okta) Firewall Servers and Encryption Messaging Systems (MQSeries, Oracle AIA/SOA, JMS) Cloud Orchestration (Terraform)

SPEAKING ENGAUGEMENTS:

Oracle OpenWorld 2011: Beyond the Traditional Use Cases, GoldenGate GOUG 2012 Oracle Federal Forum 2012: Engineered Systems, Engineered Operations Oracle Federal Forum 2013: Advanced Replication Oracle OpenWorld 2015: Executive Panel Oracle Broadcast: Oracle Cloud Oracle Open World 2016: Executive Panel Oracle Federal Forum 2017: Exadata Architecture

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