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GREGORY BEAMER

Nashville,TN

Summary

Pragmatic professional with solid experience in leadership roles. Adept at implementing strategic business plans, driving growth and improving software development practices. Skilled in development of productive global teams, simplifying architectures in complex organizations, and social interactions. Collaborative and dedicated to building and leading talented and motivated individuals.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Director of Cloud Architecture

LTI Mindtree
03.2021 - Current

Provided architectural and technical oversight for a large client across numerous business lines.

  • Led tiger team efforts to turn around failing efforts and improve relationships in various client accounts.
  • Led technical pre-sales efforts or numerous Requests for Proposal (RFPs), aiding in win deals ranging from half million to more than $3.5 million over 4 years.
  • Built and Managed multiple distributed Agile teams for various clients, primarily new logos or new business lines in existing clients.
  • Initiated and managed a developer program for a large Enterprise client.

IT Management Consultant

Independent
07.2020 - 03.2021

Independent consulting work after working out an exit strategy with previous employer due to work being termed non-essential during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Aided a healthcare services company in revamping its SDLC processes and procedures, including Agile practices, software delivery through DevOps, and adherence to best practices.
  • Consulted companies on developing highly performing distributed teams.

Vice President, Technology Ventures

Atlas LiftTech
05.2018 - 05.2020

Strategic role to re-envision a healthcare company with a turnkey staff augmentation model into a technology focused company providing multiple offerings, including software platforms.

  • Re-architected and managed development of the primary field operations platform, improving utilization of the system by more than 50% and data quality by 2 to 3 times, yielding higher quality analytics.
  • Managed vendor relationships for building the new platform, with some hands on cloud administrative duties.
  • Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
  • Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
  • Managed software upgrades, analysis and resolution of end user hardware and software issues.

Senior IT Architect - Global Consulting

UST Global
03.2015 - 05.2018
  • Led portfolio rationalization discovery for a large manufacturing client. Focus on rationalizing applications prior to move to the cloud.
  • Led or participated in numerous pre-sales activities around RFPs, RFIs, and proactive proposals. Personal contributions included creation of presentation materials and leading orals.
  • Provided architectural guidance and leadership in tiger team operations for failing engagements. Some hands on work in data query optimization.
  • Senior member on a team developing a technology roadmap for the state of Oklahoma. Lead on the application development portion of the roadmap.
  • Developed and wrote corporate position papers on microservices.
  • Developed numerous frameworks and corporate offerings around DevOps, Application Performance Monitoring, and microservices. Focus on repeatable efforts and factory models.
  • Developed framework for modernization of IBM mainframe applications using a strangulation pattern to migrate workflow by workflow.
  • Developed RFP process and application security standards for a major healthcare services company.

Senior Architect - Office of the CIO

UST Global
02.2013 - 03.2015
  • Reported to CIO on building company presence in the Media & Entertainment vertical.
  • Led technical efforts on a tiger team operation on a failing scheduling application for a major television corporation. Hands on efforts focused on optimization of data queries.
  • Built and managed distributed team on efforts to analyze a vendor solution and offering recommendations on improvements to better match client needs.

Senior Architect

UST Global
03.2010 - 02.2013
  • Managed multiple workstreams for an initiative exposing warranty data to partners. Initially responsible for one workstream, but inherited others after delivering ahead of schedule and under budget.
  • Helped develop partner and public API strategies for a Fortune 500 manufacturing client.

Previous Professional Experience

Various
01.1997 - 03.2010
  • Architected solution for HIPAA remediation. Altered project direction from a reactive tracking application to a proactive system built on government vulnerabilities lists. Responsible for hiring the development team responsible for completing the work.
  • Architected and led development on applications to aid a financial company in divesting in a stored value card business unit.
  • Improved user experience on multiple applications for the Department of Children Services, reducing training efforts and improving system utilization. Developed reusable .NET framework libraries for additional applications developed in the department.
  • Developed strategic plans for consolidation of IT resources for the State of Tennessee.
  • Acted in a CTO role for a company specializing in GPS and RFID technologies in the transportation vertical. Role include vendor management for business and consumer websites.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Mass Communications

University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
08.1986

Skills

  • Out of the box thinking
  • Adaptability and Flexibility
  • Fast Learning
  • Team Builder
  • Conflict Management
  • Team Collaboration

Accomplishments

  • Improved performance in various systems, often by a factor or more. Efforts include architecture and development improving data loading from 7 days to less than 3 hours, site building from 1 hour to 1.5 seconds, and a complex query from 10-20 seconds to a faction of a second.
  • Led efforts to rebuild an operations platform yielding a 50% improvement in utilization and a 2 to 3 fold improvement in data quality.
  • Led and managed efforts to build a developer program, improving corporate adherence to best practices and proper adoption of newer technologies.
  • Built and managed multiple globally distributed teams. Management efforts eliminated overtime, increased employee satisfaction, and improved delivery time and quality.

Timeline

Director of Cloud Architecture

LTI Mindtree
03.2021 - Current

IT Management Consultant

Independent
07.2020 - 03.2021

Vice President, Technology Ventures

Atlas LiftTech
05.2018 - 05.2020

Senior IT Architect - Global Consulting

UST Global
03.2015 - 05.2018

Senior Architect - Office of the CIO

UST Global
02.2013 - 03.2015

Senior Architect

UST Global
03.2010 - 02.2013

Previous Professional Experience

Various
01.1997 - 03.2010

Bachelor of Arts - Mass Communications

University of South Florida
GREGORY BEAMER