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James Mcgovern

Bloomfield,CT

Summary

Passionate technologist with an outstanding track record in technology management consulting, business transformation and customer success. Strong industry expertise with a demonstrated history of leadership excellence. Fluent in multiple technology topics to help clients with strategy, innovation and business development insights. Recognized as an ardent problem solver with excellence in leading cross-functional teams.

Overview

22
years of professional experience
4
Certification

Work History

Oracle
Bloomfield, CT

Executive Architect
08.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • The strategic client group focuses on Oracle's Top 200+ Global Clients, helping them solve their most complex business challenges, unlocking value across business functions, and partnering to accelerate revenue streams and develop new services
  • Translate Ideas into actionable Enterprise-wide Architectural Approaches, collaborating with various solution engineering and consulting architects—Lead Architecture engagements in Strategic Accounts
  • Lead and influences customers' Oracle Architecture decisions
  • Lead detailed discovery sessions, assist client enterprise architecture teams in creating target future state architectures, present and demonstrate the value of modernization, develop migration roadmaps, and work with delivery organizations to migrate successfully to modern cloud platforms.

Wipro

Open Source Strategy Advisor
12.2020 - Current

Job overview

  • Director in the Open Source Consulting Practice, I provide global open source, security, and enterprise architecture strategy consulting and advisory services to Wipro's top customers
  • I participate in multiple open-source consortiums, including the Financial Open Source Foundation (FINOS) and other entities promoting the growth and adoption of open-source software.

Gartner
Bloomfield, CT

Research Director
02.2017 - 08.2020

Job overview

  • Published over 20 Research Notes on Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture, Vendor Management, and Lean Thinking topics and among the highest client-rated research on both views and value.
  • Highly rated Speaker at Multiple Gartner Conferences in Europe, India, and the United States.
  • Helped close sales opportunities, leading to more than $2 million in additional revenue
  • Guided over 600 clients in aligning enterprise architecture to business outcomes
  • Steered over 200 clients in determining optimum investments to minimize security risks to organizations and their customers.

Mass Mutual Financial
Springfield, MA

Business Technology Partner
01.2016 - 02.2017

Job overview

  • Provided IT advisory to Enterprise Risk, Actuarial, Strategic Communications and Law departments
  • Engage the business to provide strategic consulting on their technology needs that will help enable them on their overall business strategy
  • Delivered technology roadmaps and that demonstrated reduction in overall IT costs
  • Matrixed reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and Chief Legal Officer (CLO)
  • Currently leading modernization efforts around Actuarial, Enterprise Risk Management, and Legal (Inside Counsel) capabilities
  • Guided launch of the first Cloud application on AWS focused on Economic Capital Management and Modeling (internal risk capital models). Included alignment to the well-architected framework, AWS access control, data encryption methods (involving personally identifiable information), and how network access to AWS infrastructure would be secured
  • Manage all aspects of issue resolution related to project delivery of Transformation Projects and manage any escalations as necessary.
  • Achieved high senior executive satisfaction
  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on achieving business objectives in an accelerated fashion.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Chief Architect
04.2011 - 01.2016

Job overview

  • Advise Line of Business and IT Executives to guide them in transforming their business by executing against long-term strategies and roadmaps for pragmatic technology adoption.
  • Broad responsibilities for growing the insurance and capital markets practice, communicating the value of services to our customers, aligning product/service offerings with customer strategy, collaborating with all levels of leadership, and ensuring best possible service and support for our customers
  • High client satisfaction and increased year-over-year revenue growth
  • Repeated ability to complete projects on time and within budget
  • Deliver year-over-year improvement to margin across insurance accounts
  • Steward of Architecture focused on the Disability Income lifecycle from policy to claims for MassMutual.
  • Defined and developed market opportunities, investment costs, risks, competitive analysis and key success factors for new service offerings
  • Focus on recognizing efficiencies identified through process improvements for underwriting and claims delivered to the client with high satisfaction.

Virtusa
Windsor, CT, CT

Director
08.2010 - 04.2011

Job overview

  • Delivered bespoke Enterprise Architecture consulting services for Alterra Capital ( Bermuda based Insurer)
  • Aided Prudential in product evaluation and selection of ane-signature platform

The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc

Chief Security Architect
03.2001 - 08.2010

Job overview

  • Active contributor to a cross-divisional security team bringing a multi-disciplinary approach to cyber and information security and compliance, operational risk management, and business resilience
  • Helped develop innovative passticket functionality integrated with Siteminder and RACF to enable secured sign-on functionality
  • Set the vision and drive transformational change to the IT portfolio via application modernization.
  • Recruited and managed dispersed staff of differing cultures geographically and weaved them into cohesive delivery teams
  • Led implementation of an e-signature platform which enabled the digitalization of business processes and conducting secure enterprise transactions that touch the customer
  • Significant cost reduction compared to traditional paper document flow
  • Spearheaded the implementation of Federated Identity within the insurance vertical, which increases security while also enabling cost savings and increased productivity. Participants include Top Ten Insurance Brokers and Agency Management System Vendors
  • Managed Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance comprising twenty-two applications.

Education

Charter Oak State College
New Britain, CT

from Business Administration

University Overview

Skills

  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Security Architecture
  • IT Governance
  • Management Consulting
  • Business and Technology Transformation
  • Business Intelligence
  • Roadmapping
  • Strategic Roadmapping
  • Business Storytelling
  • Cybersecurity
  • Technology Leadership
  • Public Speaking
  • Leading Geo-dispersed teams
  • Lean Thinking
  • Cloud Security
  • Identity Management,\
  • Security Architecture
  • UML
  • Cloud Computing
  • Change management
  • Negotiation
  • Analysis skills
  • Business development
  • Service-oriented architecture
  • Blockchain
  • Agile
  • Data modeling
  • Executive leadership experience

Accomplishments

Accomplishments

OWASP Hartford Chapter Leader

Facilitate discussions with security practitioners of Fortune 100 organizations in the Hartford CT area on:

  • How to acquire and maintain a working knowledge of relevant laws, regulations, and organization policies, standards and procedures
  • How to create reference architectures for identity and access management ecosystem approaches
  • How to effectively perform Security Architecture Risk Analysis (SARA) / Security Design Reviews (SDR) of applications and assess their designs against known and emerging threats
  • Knowledge of what constitutes a network attack and the relationship to both threats and vulnerabilities
  • Knowledge of network security architecture concepts, including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth)
  • How to Conduct deep-dive sessions with development teams and understand attack surface, threats, encryption, privacy, security controls and security design flaws

Publications

  • Author – Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture – Prentice Hall
  • Author – Enterprise Service Oriented Architectures – Springer
  • Author – Java Web Services Architectures – Morgan Kaufmann
  • Columnist – Ask Doctor Java – Java Developers Journal
  • Sample Application – Advanced Graphical Techniques that shipped with PowerBuilder 4.0 in the box, Published Gartner Research
  • Vendor Rating: Tata Consultancy Services
  • The Questions Enterprise Architects ask most often about Agile and Lean methods
  • Maverick
  • Research: Being Human 2040 — The Life of the Architected Human in a More-Than-Human World
  • Predicts 2020: Enterprise Architecture Enables the Intelligent Organization
  • Critical Capabilities for Enterprise Architecture Tools
  • 5 Ways EA Can Help the Organization Focus on Security
  • Create Roadmaps That Support Decision Making and Communicate Strategy Effectively
  • Use Enterprise Architecture to Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes
  • Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Architecture Tools
  • 5 Ways EA Leaders Can Help Their organization Sustain Lean Adoption
  • Enterprise Architects and SRM Leaders Can Work Together to Harden Cybersecurity
  • 5 Techniques EA Can Use to Improve Solutions Resiliency
  • Use Principles to Shape Culture and Enable Digital Business
  • Market Guide for Business-Outcome-Driven Enterprise Architecture Consulting
  • Four Techniques EA Can Use To Make Smarter Strategic Decisions
  • Architecting for Blockchain Ecosystems: A Business-Outcome-Driven EA Approach
  • How to Use Consultancies in Enterprise Architecture Efforts
  • The Distinction Between Enterprise Architecture and Application Architecture Makes a Difference to Business Outcomes
  • Focus Enterprise Architecture and Application Architecture on Distinct but Complementary Business Outcomes
  • How Enterprise Architecture Can Use Lean Practices
  • Best Practices for Delivering Targeted and High-Impact Roadmaps
  • How Architecting for Next-Generation Experiences Helps to Deliver Customer and Business Outcomes
  • Rethink EA Governance, Assurance and Review Boards in the Digital Business Era
  • Buyers' Guide for Enterprise Architecture Consulting Services
  • How Enterprise Architecture Can Lead Diversity and Inclusion Efforts for Digital Organizations
  • Use Quality Attributes to Align Business Requirements and Guide Solution Architecture
  • Cool Vendors in IoT Security

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified Professional – Jul 1994
  • Certified PowerBuilder Developer Associate – Sep 1994
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer – Dec 1997
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer + Internet - Jun 1998
  • Microsoft Certified Trainer – Aug 1998
  • Microsoft Certified Database Administrator – Dec 1999
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional – Feb 2004 – CSCO10007835

Timeline

Executive Architect
Oracle
08.2021 - Current
Open Source Strategy Advisor
Wipro
12.2020 - Current
Research Director
Gartner
02.2017 - 08.2020
Business Technology Partner
Mass Mutual Financial
01.2016 - 02.2017
Chief Architect
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
04.2011 - 01.2016
Director
Virtusa
08.2010 - 04.2011
Chief Security Architect
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc
03.2001 - 08.2010
Charter Oak State College
from Business Administration
James Mcgovern