Van A Dorsey
107 Springbrook Court, Southlake TX 76092
817-709-4195
vandorseyRemoove@client1st.com
Objective
To achieve a leadership position applying a broad set of Enterprise
Architecture disciplines to help a business become more successful.
Profile
· Over 20 years as a critical thinker with the experience to achieve realization.
· Ability to process complex business concepts and apply them to different contexts.
· Results oriented individual with pervasive leadership capabilities.
· Proven ability to work with management, technologists, and business specialists.
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Equally comfortable working as an integral part of a team or as a force of
one.
Relevant Experiences
· Demonstrated breadth and depth in consuming and customizing frameworks.
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Adept at realizing success using available resources and tools.
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Provided architectural leadership for all phases of various delivery
life-cycles.
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Strong experience turning concepts to models to communications.
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Mentored technical and non-technical peers on the effective use of
architecture and analysis skills.
Work History
Principal Architect, SIBRIDGE Ltd. (2001
to Present)
Contextual Architecture consulting for multiple SIBRIDGE Clients. Projects
include "standing-up" Business Architecture teams for multiple industries,
including Logistics, Telecom, Server Hosting, and Professional Services.
Develop and refine SIBRIDGE Business Architecture methods, frameworks, and
modeling processes. Work with internal and external clients to customize
Business Architecture efforts to suit specific needs without sacrificing
best practices. Approach emphasizes clarity, simplicity, and existing
architecture process maturity.
Server Hosting
– Provided Business Architecture expertise to multiple projects which
include IP Management, DNS Administration, Hands Off Provisioning of
Servers, and Usage Collection / Billing. Developed and maintained required
architectural artifacts in Sparx Enterprise Architect tool. Artifacts
include Business Objectives and Requirements, Process and Information
Models, and Use Cases where needed. Presented periodic Project design
reviews to leadership team, summarizing the project’s end state
functionality and the roadmap to get there.
Large IP Equipment Manufacturer
- Developed Product Architecture models which communicate
Organizational direction and drive Software Development, using Casewise
Corprate Modeler, Requisite Pro, and Sparx Enterprise Architect UML tools.
Made use of the multiple facets of IT architecture, including business,
process, information, and technology modeling to help create a cohesive set
of plans and requirements that drive all product and IT development.
Responsible for creating architecture best practices to be used across
Product/Software Releases using a combination of different Frameworks in
order to bridge communication of requirements to management, operations, and
development. Aspects of Zachman, FEAF, ITIL, and the eTOM are combined to
provide a best of breed architectural process.
Big 4 Professional Services
- Provided Enterprise Architecture mentoring and incremental project level
skills. Provided guidance and input to the Enterprise Application Roadmap
and Blueprint utilizing the Zachman, FEAF, and NASCIO frameworks,
specifically focused on the functional business areas involving Risk and
Compliance. Providing guidance for the establishment of a Business
Architecture Life Cycle. Working with CASEwise Corporate Modeler to create,
maintain, and communicate Enterprise Architecture deliverables. Worked to
help train and implement a new Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) by
helping new development projects ease into new guidelines using contextual
examples and one on one mentoring.
Sprint International
- Providing Conceptual Architecture consulting for Operations and
Planning/Engineering Groups by facilitating the definition of TTI-Telecom
NetCap (Inventory) short and long range requirements through the use of
facilitated user requirement sessions and use case diagrams.
Acting as internal subject matter expertise for Sprint International,
provided day to day guidance, training support, and 2nd level bug
resolutions for TTI Netcap in the production environment.
Sprint International
- Provided Enterprise Architecture guidance to Sprint International’s OSS
development team, who provides Service Delivery and Service Assurance
capabilities to their off-shore optical mesh networks. Participated in the
vendor evaluation and selection processes for COTS NMS/EMS, network planning
tool software packages and 3rd party professional services.
Worked with Team Telecom International (TTI) on architecture, configuration,
and integration of the Netcap and EWO (workflow) applications with CRM and
Billing applications. Fully participated in the system and product testing
phases of the project. Helped bring the TTI application into production.
Worked with Sprint’s Advanced Technology Lab to create a realistic test
network configuration, using the Ciena CoreDirector and Tellabs Focus LX, in
order to complete integration testing between the Netrac NMS and the element
interfaces. My primary internal customers are in the network planning,
provisioning, and operations groups.
Sr. Architect, McLeodUSA (2000
to 2001)
IT Architecture for the deployment of OSS and Back Office applications to
support the roll out of the McLeodUSA National Mesh Fiber Network. Was
responsible for a broad set of architectural and development approach
concerns including vendor hardware/software evaluations, high level business
requirements from all organizations, shared data architecture, network to
OSS integration, application integration, hands on optical lab setup, and
network planning/modeling/simulation tools. Facilitating development of
Optical Transport Equipment northbound interfaces, including Ciena
CoreDirector, Cisco 15454, and Nortel, in order to integrate functions into
back-office FCAPS applications. My primary internal customers are network
engineering and operations.
CIO/Vice President,
Raceway Parks Inc. (2000 to 2002)
Technology Infrastructure planning and development. Responsible for all
aspects of the infrastructure to support the planning, construction, and
operations of the Raceway Parks complex. This included telecommunications,
computer operations, security transport, video transport, and
application/database development.
Consultant, Metamor Consulting (1999
to 2000)
Conceptual
Architect working with Sprint on the Integrated On-Demand Network (ION)
product. Was responsible for articulating strategic business objectives to
the system development, information architecture, and technical architecture
organizations. Facilitating architectural communications between program
managers, release teams, Business and I.T. management teams. Arbitration of
strategic versus tactical application and interface approaches. Specializing
on Service Delivery, bandwidth on demand, ATM, Frame Relay, Digital Cross
Connect, and SONET transmission systems.
President, Sole Proprietor, Client 1st Corporation (1996
to 2001)
Working with clients to develop an Application Service Provider (ASP)
infrastructure to support multiple internal and external IT initiatives.
Working to develop and deploy a variety of Web Services based on highly
available messaging technologies, emphasizing the use of UML, message
brokers, application servers, and relational databases.
Provide Data
Warehousing and Decision Support experience to major Telecommunications
companies as well as hardware and software vendors serving the
Telecommunications industry.
Projects include demonstration development, data modeling, query tool
selection, use of hierarchical storage systems, and vendor software
evaluation. (Sprint, Unisys, WorldCom, US West)
Delivered a wide range of consulting services for small to medium sized
businesses from all industries, enabling them to better utilize their
Information Technology investments for day-to-day business processes.
Services include hardware, operating systems, and application
selection, configuration, and maintenance, development of inter/intra-nets,
and planning for future business growth. (Badger Meter, Castleton
Properties, Enlow Ford Tractor, OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine)
Planned and implemented the successful startup of Gorilla Internet, a local
Internet Service Provider. Duties included selection and implementation of
hardware (CPU, modems, disks, NICs, routers, CSU/DSUs…) and software
(Operating systems, email, news, web servers, backup, administrative
tools…). Participate in on-going upgrade and administration issues as well
as on-site network installation and configuration.
President, Inter@ctive
Technologies, Inc. (1998
to 2000)
Formed corporation to provide full
service hardware, software, and consulting to businesses as well as
individuals. Duties include
managing, accounting, marketing, and financing.
Setup and maintain internal Computer/Communications technologies.
Working with banks and major vendors to establish credit.
Acquired office space for showroom, computer assembly, and training.
Provide clients with business and technical consulting services, telephony,
LAN/WAN, one on one instruction, network planning, setup, and
administration. Specializing on Windows NT, BackOffice, Internet/intranet,
and custom/packaged software solutions.
Director Solution Development, UNISYS
(1995 to 1996)
Created and managed the Data Discovery and Demonstration Center. Duties
included the creation of demonstration databases and queries using various
databases and front-end tools. Demonstrations are telecommunications
industry related and can be access by remote dial up by the Sales and
Marketing teams. Data discovery and data mining is accomplished using
samples of actual customer data, which is evaluated and the findings are
presented to the customer.
Program Marketing Manager, responsible for vertical marketing programs
concerning Decision Support and Data Warehousing for the telecommunications
industry. Duties included
technical program management, business discovery and analysis, Independent
Software Vendor product evaluation, and responding to RFIs and RFPs. Acted
as a technical resource for Customers, management, and peers regarding
telecommunications industry Decision Support requirements, logical business
modeling, and applicability of software tools. These tools were developed
for uses such as Executive Information Systems, end-user query, data mining,
multi-dimensional analysis, and Geographic Information Systems. Hands-on
experience with Oracle Parallel and Redbrick databases running on Unisys'
Open Parallel Unisys Server and SMP platforms as well as a number of
software packages such as the Information Discovery Suite, Business Objects,
Andyne GQL, MapInfo, and Brio Query.
Staff Analyst, WilTel
(1993 to 1995)
Responsible for gathering user input and creating Business Requirements
documents which serve as the basis for system development staff to create
new or enhance existing applications which provide systematic solutions to
business needs and problems. Involved in the Analysis and creation of
Business Requirement documents, which cover business functions such as Order
Administration, Billing, Provisioning, Trouble Reporting, Asset Management,
and Network Management. Member of internal re-engineering team established
to focus on frame relay service delivery. Member of the ATM Implementation
Team, responsible for project managing the integration of WilTel's ATM NMS
to the Administrative Business Systems. Member of the Object Oriented
Business Analysis team, focused on the migration of WilTel's network and
inventory systems to object oriented application development technologies.
Sr. Project Manager, SPRINT
(1988 to 1993)
Responsible for project management of systematic solutions to time consuming
and/or labor intensive business processes in the Access Management group.
Duties include acting as a liaison between users and system developers,
developing and presenting requirements, development of ad hoc reports using
QMF, SAS, COBOL, PAS/2, Q+E, Foxpro, and Access to act as prototypes for
incorporation into the Access Management Decision Support System.
Sr. Engineer, member of the New Business Ventures group representing I/S
Network Management and Administrative Applications providing scope and level
of effort documents for Senior Management to evaluate the impact of new
ventures.
Program Manager, responsible for project management and planning functions
of the Transmission Optimization Program. Duties include facilitating
planning meetings, determining sizing, benefits, and scope, producing
regular status reports, maintaining an issue log, and preparing management
presentations. Maintain a high level of awareness concerning the
telecommunication industry's direction, particularly in the area of
transmission network technologies.
Sr. Engineer, responsible for definition and analysis of technical business
requirements for incorporation into the Sprint Facility Management System
(FMS) using the IE-STRADIS development methodology. Project management of
every phase of the development life cycle, including requirements gathering,
program coding, acceptance testing, documentation completion and application
delivery.
Analyst III, responsible for DS1 and DS3 citypair design for the east
region.
Installation Engineer, TRANSGLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS
(1983 to 1988)
Worked for Sprint in Reston, Va., tasked with ad hoc report generation and
database maintenance. Supervised field technicians removing facilities from
Sprint's analog network.
Designed and maintained on-site equipment and facility database.
EDUCATION
National Institute of Technology, Cross Lanes, WV
October 1983
Degree: Associates in Electronics Technology
GPA: 3.9
TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS
Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Professional
+ Internet (MCP+I), Microsoft Certified Solution Provider. Attended courses
including: UML Essentials, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Internet
Usage, Introduction to ATM, SNMP Basics, Intro to UNIX, Intro to IE-STRADIS,
Intro to ADW, Process Modeling, Data Modeling, PM with ADW, DM with ADW,
CRUD Process Modeling (Wm. Smith), Data Modeling (Wm. Smith), Sprint
Management Assessment Center and Facilitative Leadership, as well as
participation in National Communications Forum 1992 and the Western
Communications Forum 1994.