BRIAN W. LOOMIS
adcq6t@r.postjobfree.com & LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-loomis-84b790/
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
** ***** ** ********* ********** and direct experience driving value from the boardroom to the development team, building teams and practices capable of delivering world-class digital products and services. An authentic and principled leader who works closely with senior execs and business partners, using agile methods and enterprise architecture to improve time-to-value and build sustainable solutions across a wide range of industries. EXPERIENCE
Chief Digital Officer, Enterprise Architect, BV Strategic, LLC (2017- Present) Provides project-based consulting and advisory services in digital transformation and solutions architecture for client organizations, including Spotify, McKinsey, Volvo, the City of Stockholm, AstraZeneca, Boeing, and startups engaged with angel investors. VP / Chief Technology Officer, Michigan State University (2017- Present) Chief Enterprise Architect
Cross-functional executive leader accountable for managing major academic relationships, setting service strategy for cross-campus initiatives like smart city and sustainability, and responsible for creating and executing the success strategy for the 280-person ($80MM) infrastructure, teaching, research and health sciences teams. Directly led a 200-person infrastructure and operations team reeling from multiple years of budget pressure, to construct a new datacenter, consolidate University compute assets from over 80 other locations, and simultaneously rebuilding hosting services to reduce supplier spending by $5MM. Instituted and trained a cloud migration & onboarding team to supply financial, data protection (HIPAA, NIST) and technical security guidance for the University’s research and critical DR program. Partnered with VP for Research to develop MSU’s first research technology support team by implementing an annual needs survey, a new consulting function, gaining grant funding for key infrastructure capabilities like a Science DMZ (100Gb links between labs on campus and peer institutions) and tiered storage for archival, and developing national partnerships with the NSF, DoE, and Internet2. Conducted design thinking with the academic tech team to reduce legacy physical classroom costs by 50% and created a faculty-led governance process for sustainably adding modern technologies, freeing up funding for online education. Supervises the clinical healthcare technology team to improve SLA’s and pilot new technologies like RPA for appointment management, while coordinating a partnership agreement and construction of a new regional hospital to grow MSU Radiology by 3x.
Vice President of Software Engineering, A. J. Boggs (2016-2017) Worked directly with the CEO to grow a pre-IPO, software startup to build a portfolio of solutions including the development of Lifia™ Electronic Health Records (EHR), an innovative cyber-security insurance, and upgraded hybrid cloud hosting. Quickly staffed team of 80 software developers plus call-center, combined existing assets and developed a $9M healthcare benefits portal for the State of California, Leadership Capabilities
Bias for action
Large program management
Product launch planning
Developing strategy with
multiple stakeholders
Vendor management and
contract negotiation
Personal Strengths
Focus on customer experience
Data-driven approach to value
and decision-making
Initiative-taking & community
involvement
-- “Brian is a firecracker, a self-
starter and has the highest
integrity,” client CEO
Industry Experience
Manufacturing 4.0
Healthcare payer, provider
Public Sector
High-Tech software and
hardware providers
Mergers, acquisitions, and
divestitures
Enterprise Architecture
IT strategy and business
capability
Leading software development
teams (SAFe/Scaled Agile)
Cloud computing
Finance & IT portfolio alignment
after earlier provider became insolvent. Established an agile team structure, updated coding standards and supervised hiring/onboarding personally to mitigate changing customer requirements, complete complex Medicare and provider interfaces and deliver in 5 months. Patient population was ecstatic about launch! Senior Enterprise Architect, Principal Consultant, Microsoft Corp. (1999 – 2016) Engaged directly with executive staff at major customers to supply enterprise architecture, IT portfolio assessment, business unit alignment, and project consulting. Key contributor to building Microsoft’s global EA practice, by defining KPI’s/metrics, setting up hiring guidelines, onboarding and training of senior resources, and supporting sales with brand marketing and expertise around the service offering. Completed the business profitability and technical analysis to choose Germany over Russia as the next country for deploying Ford’s Connected Vehicle program (IoT). Also, developed the DevOps pipeline to scale to multi-country Azure deployments while improving system performance and GDPR compliance. Solution architect for Dow’s manufacturing infrastructure team, leading the technical track on $6B acquisition and developing a multi-year productivity roadmap for a new JV in Saudi Arabia, integrating SAP work processes and MES systems. Led a “War on Cost” to drive 15% annual cost savings across portfolio of 600 systems. Director, WW Manufacturing Industry Group, Microsoft Corp. (2010 - 2014) Created the internal & partner community to develop solutions for global manufacturing customers, growing the team to 200 members, and 50 partners. Developed customer-requested reference architectures and solution blueprints for IoT, plant security, virtual reality (VR), and Industry 4.0 scenarios. Transformed the practice into a strategic line of business by coaching sellers, creating collateral and case studies with industry experts, with a P&L of over $200M in delivered solutions. Drove a cloud-based, global CRM solution for Amway, when regional CIO’s saw that they would not benefit from an on-prem upgrade. Prototyped in 3 months and successful user trials convinced the CIOs to scrap plans to build a duplicate system. Manager, University Relations, Microsoft Corp., Eastern US (2007-2010) Directly managed half of the US academic evangelism team, driving overall perception and usage of Microsoft technologies in engineering research and curriculum for 110 top-tier universities. Created national “go-to-market” approaches to focus on mobility, security, and emerging research areas. Established General Motors’ service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, working with Process Information Officers to solve plant-specific issues, adapting many of the 1000 applications with Microsoft technologies and reducing days of unsold inventory, Lead developer on J. D. Edwards’ flagship CMS product, shipping a first version internally to supply document customization and translation into 45 languages. Improved v2 for external ERP partners, with revenue of $2MM within 2 months. Other customers included Delphi, Blue Cross, Intel, GM, BASF, Colorado, Qwest, CH2M, Quantum, DSM, Hilton, Kaiser, and universities such as Harvard and MIT. Served as a Captain in the US Air Force, 1992-1998. EDUCATION
Computer Science & Engineering, Adjunct Faculty, Michigan State University 8/03-12/06 MS Computer Science, California State University, 5/96 BS Electrical & Computer Engineering, Princeton University 6/92
“Get-to-green” turnarounds for
troubled projects
Business continuity / disaster
recovery planning (BC/DR)
Process & Certifications
Microsoft Azure, GCP and AWS
cloud infrastructure
Certified Master Instructor &
Professional Architect
-- “Brian is one of the top
architects Iasa has ever worked
with,” Paul Preiss, CEO, IASA
Global
Organizational change
management
Certified instructor for Microsoft,
and ITIL v3
Agile / scrum leader
Project management
professional (PMP)
Prior TS-SCI clearance
Key Technical Expertise
Datacenter management
Internet of Things (IoT) and
connected systems
Software development including
mobile, Microsoft ASP .NET
and Core, HTML5, Java,
Jira/Trello, mockup tools,
testing, DevOps pipelines
Non-relational (Mongo) and
relational databases
CRM, Microsoft Office365 /
SharePoint / WebEx
SAP and ERP/financial
solutions; HR automation
VMWare/VDI platforms and
monitoring for private cloud
Infrastructure management for
Juniper/Cisco, Dell, Citrix,
Aruba, Avaya