Frederick Sherman

Sr. Managing Consultant

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San Antonio, Texas, 78253 ad45hh@r.postjobfree.com

830-***-****

Sr. IT practitioner manager with over 30 years of a technical, managerial and business development expertise, Record of creating and executing effective strategies producing favorable customer outcomes. Proven ability to motivate virtual or distributed teams to achieve organizational goals. Outstanding interpersonal, team building and communication skills. Intelligent, analytical and articulate.

Professional Experience

September 2021 – Present

July 2014 - September 2021

Sr. Lead Cloud/IT Consulting, Kyndryl (IBM spinoff)

Sr, Managing Consultant, Digital Transformation IBM

Responsibilities

Serves as a technical team leader on multiple large-scale, multi-year projects with a reputation for exceeding expectations

Ability to make decisions which have significant impact on the Kyndryl’s credibility, operations, and services

Recommends improvements to processes, products and support models

Partners with business and technical leadership to contribute solutions architecture insight, and analysis, to teams defining, assessing, and planning from strategy to execution

Ability to influence and consult while providing assistance in solving business processes and technical problems and relay that in easily understood language to stakeholders

Performs onsite surveys and assessments for data gathering and conducting stakeholder interviews with a focus on IT improvement, cost reduction and operational efficiency

Conducts analysis, develop reports and presentations, present findings and options to clients and potential clients

Develops an understanding of client’s business needs and aligns IT solutions to address those requirements

Build sand delivers ROI models to showcase the value of the solution recommended to our client

Promotes positive client relations, working with them as partners to develop long-term and meaningful relationships that are beneficial to them and Kyndryl

Ensures technical deliverables to customers are complete, consistent, high quality, on time, and deliver valued outcomes

Collaborates and contributes on the creation, deployment and maintenance of technical best practice and standards

Contributes to the continual improvement of consulting and delivery services processes as well as the maturing of the different capabilities, expertise, and best practices

Proactively identifies emerging technologies and industry trends, develops thought leadership to deliver greatest value to clients

Provides practice community development and mentoring of junior practitioner

Shares technical knowledge and expertise with peers - exchanging ideas, concepts, and processes that create a strong team approach to problem-solving and client solutions

Develops partnerships with technical teams and lines of business within Kyndryl our clients

Soft Skills:

17+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture

Possesses a well honed business acumen and a technical mind

Proven ability to manage time and priorities effectively

Ownership, accountability, and attention to detail in all work efforts

Maturity, professionalism, and good judgment; ability to excel with minimum supervision

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Demonstrated interpersonal skills, customer centric attitude, ability to deal with cultural diversity

Active listening skills, respects others' point of view and takes ownership of contributing the required input while demonstrating strong communication skills (written, interpersonal, and presentational).

January 2007 - July 2014

President and Principal Architect vTech Solutions, Inc.

Develop applications architecture in alignment with client’s business strategies and priorities.

Defined governance of solution architectures; ensured project requirements aligned with the clients’ long-term strategies

Developed alternative solution architectures; analyzed and evaluated the financial, organizational, process and technology tradeoffs

Defined and developed a client-centric service-oriented blueprint for their enterprise; builds architectures that leverage or enhance the service catalogue

Analyzes enterprise technical environment; identified gaps; recommended and implemented solutions for improvement

Defines governance the integration and interoperability standards for the enterprise

Applied patterns, references architectures, industry standards to build solution architectures

Developed solutions that leverage the capabilities of cloud architecture and succeed within a hybrid cloud environment

Developed and documented detailed roadmaps which capture transitional architectures; ensured architecture can move from a current state to a target state

Documented technical architecture and enterprise environment; maintained a current enterprise-wide view of key services, capabilities, and processes

Remained current on the latest industry and emerging technologies, reference architectures, patterns, trends, and strategies

Educated and assisted employees, vendors, or other clients by answering questions related to architecture processes, procedures, and services

Further Professional Experience

Stonebridge Technologies IBM System p, System Storage and Infrastructure Virtualization Architect

2006 - 2007

Agilysys, Inc. Professional Services Solutions Architect, Senior Systems Engineer, IBM Professional Services

2005 - 2006

Veritas Software, Inc. Technical Alliance Manager, IBM Strategic Business Unit, Strategic Alliances

2001 - 2005

Landmark Systems Corporation Systems Engineer Technical Advisor

1999 - 2001

Bank of America Assistant Vice President, Midrange Systems

Education

Community College of the Air Force, 1985-1995. AS in Electrical Engineering, AS in Computer Science

Burlington County Community College, 1987-1988

University of Nebraska – Omaha 1989-1994, BS in Mathematics

1998 - 1999

Certifications

March 2020

Coursera Data Science Foundations - Level 1 and Level 2

March 2020

Coursera Cognitive Practitioner, Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

April 2020

Coursera Big Data Foundations – Level 1

June 2020

Coursera Data Science for Business - Level 1 and Level 2

July 2020

Coursera Cloud & Cognitive Patterns, Hadoop Foundations – Level 1

April 2017

IBM Mentor, Earning Advocacy Practitioner

May 2017

IBM Engagement Leadership

September 2022

IBM Certified Specialist -- Storage Networking Solutions

October 2022

IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert IBM Power

February 2016

EMC Velocity SE Accreditation

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