Zev Lavon Rare Combination of I.T. Pragmatic Visionary Expert Experi

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Zev has over 25 years of progressive responsibility in IT leadership in Hospitality Industry and Healthcare. Zev has in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in all business and technology aspects of both industries, complemented by in-depth IT knowledge. Zev demonstrated significant experience in directing IT strategy in both industries through the phases of conception, planning, execution and operational adaptation to market opportunities and enterprise business strategy.

He has evolved IT strategy as an integral component of business activity and competitive advantage. Embracing lifetime diversified experience, combined with educational foundation and enhanced by constant learning, he has a history of collaboration with business leadership, integration of business operations and strategies.

Zev has gained a reputation of an individual who uses knowledge and experience to mentor and advice associates, while driving himself and them to be the best professionals they can be. For himself, his career ranged the full gamut of developer, program manager, visionary technology expert, chief technology officer, enterprise architect, and development manager. Zev’s career path includes Manager of Software Development for Logistical Decision Making, Chief Architect for Hotel Management System and Reservation Systems, Program Manager for multiple software projects in enterprise setting. Experience covers a variety of positions, including Enterprise Architect, CTO, Consultant and Organizational Change expert. Domain areas include Logistics, Reservations, Finance, Telephony, Health and Enterprise (Clinical, Financial, and Marketing) Analytics.

He has demonstrated progressive ability to learn and adapt to current and emerging technologies, disciplines and methodologies, leveraging formal education in IT and Business Management (MBA). Most recently developed specific expertise in such areas and methodologies as: Hospital IT Management, Healthcare Insurance Operations, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Rule Management, AGILE methodology (Certified SCRUM Master), CMMI (3) and Information Security.

Zev has established reputation as a communicator and facilitator. He is both an abstract thinker and a pragmatic executioner with solid foundation in IT delivery capabilities. He is known for his ability to communicate and bridge Information Technology concept and vocabulary with Business Strategy and Tactical thinking. His past includes technical; hands-on-practice includes J2EE, Object Oriented Analysis-Design-Development, and Portal technology. At the Enterprise level, he is considered an expert in Application Integration (EAI), Business Process Management / Re-Engineering (BPM), Business Rules Management (BRM), Workflow (PEGA) and Mobile Computing.

Zev is a rare combination of a creative methodologist, with multi-disciplinary pragmatic approach to managing change.

Coach, Team Builder. Strategic and Tactical focus.

Experienced Enterprise Architect

Presentation Skills, Engaging Presenter.

PMP, CMMI, AGILE, SCRUM

Security savvy (PKI)

Diversified Technologies: Mobile, Portal, Cloud

Business Process Management & BRM

Delivery of robust business solutions

Significant Revenue Increase

Solicitation & Retention of Technology Experts

Relentless pursue of Excellence

Pragmatic thought leader

Professional Experience

C-Level Advisor & Consultant – 2014 - Present

Delivered team re-orientation, pragmatic coaching on streamlining software development. Collaborated on enterprise strategy planning and execution, combining team skills, team business expertise and technology capabilities to support rapid growth. Demonstrated over short period of several months the effectiveness of combining the specificity of such methodologies as Six-Sigma with pragmatic methodologies such as Agile.

Director – Enterprise Solution Architecture CareFirst -2005 – 2014

Responsible for the Enterprise Solution Architecture covering the full life cycle of IT efforts to gain competitive advantage. Annual project portfolio valued at over $120 million with over 80 individual projects. Oversight and direct accountability for vision, scope, architectural design, detailed design and ensuring development efforts meet the design fundamentals. Responsible for the coordination of work done on over 100 individual work tracks, to produce cohesive results that are built on strong architectural foundation and attainment of specific business goal.

Implemented mature Software Development Life Cycle Methodology that borrows from past practices along Service Oriented Architecture, RAD, Agile, and Iterative and TOGAF methodologies. Formalized the process of engaging third party resources, including On-Off-Shore partners.

Past and current knowledge and practice in leading IT efforts covering common enterprise foundational components, including Mainframes (Cobol, DB2, VSAM), .Net (MS SSRS Stack), J2EE, IBM portal (WebSphere) and security (Tivoli - TIM/TAM), ORACLE, PEGA (Workflow), ESB (TIBCO).

Extensive knowledge of business areas related to the full spectrum of activities in Health Insurance (Payer) operations.

Significant achievements include such large programs as Legacy consolidation and migration to a new claim-adjudication foundational system (FACETS), HIPAA 5010, the recent Health Legislation mandates, corporate initiatives: PCMH; eBill; eMail; IVR; Healthy Blue and many others.

During the same period focus was also placed on the following:

Managed multiple development teams, each focusing on an independent work stream, in a joint development environment through the application of AGILE principles.

Initiated Object Oriented (OOA&D; UML) and SOA training for the Legacy team to facilitate new thinking.

Engaged third party consultants to serve as coaches in the Requirement / Analysis & Design phases.

Negotiated the COTS contracts and designed the Application Integration Architecture.

Manager Software Development - Entegrity Solutions, 1995 to 2005

Implemented multiple security disciplines (Encryption, Access Management) into a series of dedicated service/product offerings for the Financial, B2B Commerce and Health industries.

Successfully delivered service/product integration projects in three critical, time to market, distinct $1 million projects in these industries. Served as CTO, program director and development manager. The security components were integrated into a solid software solution that met client expectation and was successfully deployed.

Managed a delivery of multi-million integration projects, providing a security framework for the successful B2B Digital Market Maker (eventually deployed by Commerce One). The core technical solution implemented Single Sign On into multiple back-end legacy systems, using PKI (C++, Java, JNI, Oracle and Secure LDAP).

Led the design and implementation of a $3M project to develop enterprise wide security using PKI for United Healthcare / Ingenix.

Directed the custom development of a $ 1 million solution that provides secure, reliable and scalable digital content transfer over unsecured networks (Internet) for a Fortune 500 company. The solution was built entirely using Java technology (J2EE, JINI, JNDI, JavaSpaces) and is used to secure transfer of large volumes of financially and privacy sensitive data between the company and its strategic trading partners.

Implementation Lead for World Wide Hotel Systems - Micros Systems, 1992 to 1995

Recruited by the CEO to help transform this leading Point of Sale (Restaurant Cash Registers) into a world leader in Hotel Computer Systems. Managed the development and worldwide deployment of Micros first Hotel Management System. Led software design, product development, testing, marketing and support of the company's initial hotel system offering. Managed the product group software development team and the roll out to major hotel chains.

Managed the deployment of Progress 4GL, C and Assembler to develop successful hotel management system, utilizing SCO UNIX (V.3.2), version control and extensive serial interface programming.

Initiated the timely release of new versions into both domestic and international distribution channels with installation and upgrade procedures, documentation, and training programs. Grew sales by 100% including full roll out to major hotel chains with over 100 sites annually.

Implemented on-going software enhancement to a client server (Novell NetWare 3.X) based system. Provided on going implementation of software enhancements covering telephony interfaces and credit card processing producing ad-on recurring revenues of $ 1/2 million annually.

Education

Ph.D. Leisure Industry Economic Development Cornell University

MPS Hotel Information Systems Cornell University

MBA Organizational Change, Information Systems Tel-Aviv University

BA Economics, Political Sciences Hebrew University

Professional Training

TOGAF – 9 Certification. The Open Group Architecture Framework

CMMI Foundation – CMMI Certification

Java, Object Oriented Analysis and Design

SCRUM MASTER - Agile Software Development; Ken Schwaber Instructor

IBM - Systems Architect – The architecture repository tool

BRM – Business Rule Management – the standard methodology for rule authoring

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