William May CDPSE, CDIA+

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Enterprise Architect Executive

A highly experienced self-sufficient IT Architect, executive and program manager with a strong background in driving digital transformation, enterprise architecture, cloud strategy, and cross-functional collaboration utilizing agile methodologies.

Proven success of taking innovative projects from ideation to delivering comprehensive complete solutions. Exceptionally skilled in building and aligning business and technical teams and objectives to optimize delivery schedules and streamlining program operations. He has consistently exceeded expectations in his roles at multiple engagements in his career.

Experience working alongside the C-suite to navigate complex business challenges, implement cost-saving measures, drive strategic alignment across the organization and deliver fast ROI. Experiences include ensuring GRC compliance with internal, state, and international data privacy and commerce regulations. Articulate communicator comfortable speaking with Sr. management, business, or technical teams.

Uses positive can-do attitude, independent problem solving and strong communication skills to proactively find business needs and resolve them. Or make a clear business case and offer viable solutions which make him an asset in any IT leadership position.

Areas of Expertise

Enterprise Architecture Planning

Cloud Computing Solutions

Strategic Planning & Execution

IT Governance & Compliance

Team Leadership & Development

Cross–functional Collaboration

Agile Methodologies

Process Optimization

Risk Assessment & Mitigation

Complex Problem Resolution

Relationship Building

Operations Management

Signature Accomplishments

Lead of a large workstream with multiple development teams(off/onshore) to build AI-assisted system to read scientific information that could then be classified and analyzed by experts in their particular fields of Chemistry or Life Sciences.

Lead to develop a Vendor Relations program for an organization looking to integrate COTS solutions into their new SaaS back-office solution to save development time and resources. Conducted thorough research, vetted, and evaluated potential vendors with PoCs by identifying viable partners and developing relationships with them.

Lead in the implementation of a Master Data Management program for a global financial institution. Led teams, starting with 28 people, to oversee data architecture and governance for the bank's retail banking portfolio. Policies, procedures, and metrics were defined and implemented to establish a federated data architecture within the bank's portfolio and support the ongoing development of a global data lake.

Lead to develop and implement an application rationalization plan as part of an Enterprise Architecture program for a division of a large government aerospace contractor. Resulted in annual savings of $2 million in punitive licenses yearly.

Led for the implementation and facilitated the ongoing combined GRC process and architecture board within a distributed IT department, providing the CIO with complete visibility into ongoing projects.

Lead in the creation of a reusable microservices library for multiple aerospace commercial products, removing the silos between the different products and groups. This resulted in significant cost savings of several million dollars in redundant development efforts across the nation.

Developed and executed CIO strategies to keep Ginnie Mae Mortgage system operational during ‘08 US Housing crisis, keeping the re-platforming initiative moving forward while accommodating increased demand (6x) as US credit systems were frozen and the industry pivoted to Federal mortgages.

Assumed role of Lead IT executive in addition to current roles to stabilize small IT Federal Contractor (Project Portfolio value = $7M) when owner suddenly became medically incapacitated for 1 year.

Assumed role of Lead IT executive for mid-sized IT Federal contractor when current management was relieved for inappropriate work practices. Performed project recovery and delivery that was about to be terminated for cause.

Established and managed a small boutique IT firm for 13 years, specializing in design and management of implementing large-scale document management and workflow computer systems in Energy, Telecom, and Federal sectors.

Career Experience

CAS, Columbus, OH Nov 2022 – October 2023

IT Strategist/ Technical Product Lead/Vendor Relations

The focus of this new position was to work to create an end-to-end IT strategy that fulfills the future needs of the business. This was done by simplifying the number of aspirational goals for the long-term strategy to bring the short-term into focus. Additionally, creating a vendor relations program to survey, vet, acquire, and implement vendor solutions in the program’s target environment to expedite implementing the overall solution. Working closely with the Sr. Management team through the entire process, from contract negotiations to program implementation.

Technical Product Lead for building supporting services & data stores to implement a new Library Management system that will integrate into our new fully automated back-office processing system. System built in AWS with Marklogic and Alma LMS.

Collaborate closely with vendors throughout discovery, negotiation, and implementation phases, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.

Focus to clarify longer-term strategy issues to reduce development time and minimize risk by leveraging program strategy to identify opportunities for integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software solutions into ecosystem.

CAS, Columbus, OH Oct 2021 – October 2023

Technical Product Lead

Lead a team to spearhead greenfield development of a cloud-based content extraction, curation & workflow system for scholarly publications.

As the business architect and lead software engineer; Design and build a system to Process, shape, clean, aggregate, and normalize thousands of raw, unstructured incoming data daily to meet quality standards and ensure availability for consumption for over 3k sources by treating data as a product.

Leveraged AI (LLM - Large Learning models) to train system to automatically analyze incoming documents, extracting data and assigning attributes, metadata, routing and create output in a standardized format.

Engaged customized content curation tools, AWS services, RPA, AI, ML, MarkLogic databases, and document intelligence technologies to enable automated preparation and standardization of large volumes of scientific data without human intervention.

Wells Fargo, Phoenix, AZ / Charlotte, NC Apr 2019 – Nov 2021

Data Management Consultant III

Ensured alignment of business and data architectures, as well as compliance with internal, state, and international data privacy regulations.

Built data dictionaries, determined data lineage, validated, and assessed data controls to support efficient data management.

Supported ingestion of data assets into data lake/warehouses, contributing to creation of enterprise and lines of business data catalogs.

Leveraged business and technical metadata using Collibra and Ab Initio toolsets for efficient and accurate data management governance.

Led team of seven analysts in US and India to specialize in GRC issues for Capital Markets applications, becoming subject matter experts.

Managed a team of 23 analysts in 3 global locations that are responsible for maintaining Enterprise Data Governance policy compliance and identifying and documenting risk within the bank's domains.

Manheim, Phoenix, AZ May 2018 – Apr 2019

Senior Consultant

Conducted comprehensive business impact analysis & disaster recovery assessment for recently acquired brands

Development of a full DR plan with recommendations to modify current business strategy to align with the larger organization. Collaborated with enterprise architecture team to facilitate smooth migration to AWS.

Conducted comprehensive review of recent acquisitions to identify areas of weakness and developed remediation plan.

Discovered architectural deficiencies that posed risk of up to $400k per hour in lost revenue to Manheim.

L3Harris Corporation, Rochester, NY Oct 2012 – Mar 2018

Enterprise Architect

Led CIO Office projects to manage $37M+ value portfolio through an IT Project Initiation Governance Board aimed at providing guidance governance, IT risks, and architectural oversight for all IT projects.

The lead facilitator collaborated strategically with new IT project teams to determine cost, schedule resources, risk, and benefits for approval to be put into production.

Aligned IT strategy with business strategies by establishing new processes to improve efficiency.

Streamlined project teams by integrating test resources and programming tools, leading to increased productivity.

Implemented enterprise-wide risk management training, improving risk profile and increasing appetite acceptance for business and project risks.

Led multiple teams to integrate parts of their applications to create a reusable microservices library for multiple commercial products

Eliminated $3M in annual fines due to improper software usage and vendor lawsuits.

Consolidated multiple Open-Source Software programs and policies into coherent program, saving $1.5M annually in costs for business units.

Managed transition from legacy environment to bimodal IT organization, utilizing cost-effective cloud technologies and enhancing work streams.

Uncovered unlicensed Open-Source software contained within our commercial software portfolio. Worked with teams to remediate the issues by vetting and suggesting replacements for each and scheduling it into their backlogs.

Implementing TOGAF framework into new organization to utilize with their portfolio.

Additional Experience

Director Operations, Information Engineering Services, Alexandria, VA

Program Manager, Systems Engineering Office, Office of the CIO, Ginnie Mae (GNMA), Washington, DC

Program Manager/Solution Architect, Office of DCIO, Dept. of the Interior, Washington, DC

Program Manager/Enterprise Architect, Office of the CIO, US FHA, HUD, Washington, DC

Enterprise Project Management Office Program Manager, Quadel, Washington, DC

Senior Technical Program Manager, Client Server Technologies, Alexandria, VA

Education

Metallurgical Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Colorado

Physical Metallurgy, Iowa State University, Iowa

Bachelor of Science in Analytical Chemistry, Governors State University, Illinois

Associate of Arts in Technical Writing, Prairie State College, Illinois

License & Certifications

CDIA+ CompTIA ECM Practitioner AIIM International Project Management Essentials Certification Management & Strategy Institute Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer™ (CDPSE™), ISACA, Issued Aug 2020 – Expires Jan 2024

Technical Proficiencies

Office Visio Project Jira Confluence Collibra Slack Teams Miro UiPath OpCon AWS Aha! Lucidchart xmlSpy Webex Zoom Talend ETL Squirrel SQL Ab Initio Alma

Associations

Business Architecture Guild IEEE, Sr. Member Agile Alliance Member CompTIA AIIM ISACA PMI

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