Resume - Ron Bennett

Ron Bennett, PMP, ITIL
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Summary of Experience and Qualifications
Over thirty-five years of technology development with nearly half focused on consulting
sophisticated organizations through discovery of opportunities, challenging business
initiatives, institutionalization of governance processes, modernization of automated
solutions, and delivery of consumer service innovations. A proven transformative leader,
objectives-driven visionary, and results-oriented project delivery manager with
consistent success across multiple industries, clients, and technologies. Operates well in
the ‘C’ suite, along with business operations, automation architects, developers, and
system administrators.
Architecture excellence concentrated in service-orientation, object-oriented Java, Portal,
and Process frameworks, software development methods, and their application to
government and health care. Transformed legacy systems through service-enablement,
establishment of model-driven application development approaches, and automation of
those methods using multiple vendors’ technologies.
Designs yielded scalable case management systems supporting tens of thousands of
users. His frameworks are reused in dozens of implementation. Crafted collaborative
commerce and the integration of Portal, Orchestration, Human Task Management,
Document Management, and legacy applications using advanced tools and techniques.
Systems architect for large public assistance delivery platforms, child support
incremental renewal, health care payer and medical systems projects. Innovated
software development processes and configured multiple vendor products with open
source tools for governance, modeling, development, verification, configuration and
change management, deployment, securing and hosting complex automation solutions.
Expert in user experience design, process automation, business intelligence, and other
human-to-system integration patterns. Produced portal strategies enabling automated
collaborations with consumers, distributed contact centers, telecommuting work forces,
analytical decision makers, and policy administrators. Converged several consumer and
internal facing applications into a cohesive transactional and interactive solution that
improved consistency, predictability, and quality of customer service while reducing
operational and automation maintenance costs.
Founder and President of Architunity®
LLC, a leading professional service provider for
discovery of architecture opportunities and innovation – by design. Author of the lauded
Architecture Body of Knowledge™ (ABoK™). Delivers enterprise architecture,
organizational governance, and product development services based upon this set of best
practices mined from decades of experience.

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Technology Leadership – Innovation by Design
Texas Health and Human Services Commission November 2010 – Present
Enterprise Architect
Project: Public Assistance Transformation
Accomplishments: Led design and delivery of enterprise style guide, Portal
frameworks, workflow frameworks, and methods for incremental renewal of computing
assets with low risk. Pioneered user experience reuse across Portals and devices, driving
responsive design and mobile delivery. Frameworks enable composite Portal applications.
Coordinated requirements and design across several state agencies and software delivery
vendors. Developed a comprehensive health care reform strategy for the State of Texas,
including evolution of existing assets to meet the requirements of the Patient Protection
and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010. Selected products and cloud-based services for
use in consumer Portal. Innovated multi-system integrations, including Portals;
orchestrations; human task workflows; document generation, storage and retrieval
services; rules engines; and case management. Designed analytic and real-time business
monitoring dashboards and infrastructure. Directly contributed to solving production and
new development issues in a highly sophisticated model-driven and service-oriented
computing environment. Initiated critical process improvements that enabled staff to
become responsive to business needs and deliver quality products on schedule, within
budget.
Technical Environment: IBM Cognos, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Software
Architect, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Unified Change Management,
WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, Business Process
Management, Operational Decision Management, WebSphere Registry and Repository,
WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, Web Content Manager, WebSphere
Process Server, WebSphere Advanced Enterprise Service Bus, Content Manager; Adobe
LiveCyle Suite; Oracle 10g and 11g RAC; Informatica; HP Quality Center, Performance
Center, QuickTestPro, LoadRunner, Diagnostic, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM);
JProbe; ITCAM for SOA, Wily, i3, Splunk; EMC; Solaris 10 and 11
Deloitte Consulting July 2000 – November 2010
Boston Scientific Corporation
Systems Architect – 8 months
Project: SOA Custom Development Regulatory Tracking System
Accomplishments: Conduct architectural assessment and lead deployment topology
changes that partitioned Web applications, human task management BPEL flows, and
asynchronous bulk processing. Assumed control of application development and
implemented configuration and change management processes for large conversions and
multiple builds. Established comprehensive load and stress testing process to verify
performance, stability, and scalability of several distributed applications.
Technical Environment: Rational Software Architect, WebSphere Business Modeler,
WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Process
Server, Oracle 11g, HP Quality Center, QuickTestPro, LoadRunner; p-series/AIX

Texas Office of Attorney General Child Support Division
Systems Architect and Executive Advisor – 15 months
Project: Business Process Re-engineering and Custom Development Enablement.
Accomplishments: Lead development of service-oriented development lifecycle
management build-out, including selection of tools, creation of methodology, and
delivery of advisory services. Enabled business requirements collection and
documentation that facilitated validation, development, and verification processes.
Technical Environment: IBM Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Software Architect,
Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Unified Change Management, Rational
Quality Manager, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester for SOA,
Rational Policy Tester, Rational AppScan, WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere
Integration Developer, WebSphere Registry and Repository, WebSphere Application
Server, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Process Server, InfoSphere Information Server,
InfoSphere DB2, iLog; HP Quality Center, QuickTestPro, LoadRunner; p-series/AIX;
z9/10
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Systems Architect – 36 months
Project: Custom Development J2EE Welfare Eligibility System.
Accomplishments: Transitioned large scale Java application (> 4M lines of code) from
maintenance vendor to Deloitte Consulting, including re-badge and hire staff, facilities
build-out and move, contract amendment development, and project/quality management
planning. Helped achieve Capability Maturity Model Integrated Level 3 for the Systems
Development practice. Managed quality, testing, performance, technical support, and
framework development. Service enabled application to participate in SOA. Orchestrated
major upgrades (Solaris, WebSphere, Oracle) and data center migration.
Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Unified Change Management,
WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Registry
and Repository, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Process
Server, WebSphere Advanced Enterprise Service Bus, InfoSphere Information Server; HP
Quality Center, QuickTestPro, LoadRunner, Diagnostic; JProbe; Oracle 10g RAC; EMC,
Shark, Veritas, Solaris

Project Manager – 12 months
Project: Custom Development J2EE Welfare Eligibility System
Accomplishments: Managed analysis and design team in delivery of architecturally
significant change orders to the State of Texas Integrated Eligibility system, TIERS. The
team includes experts in the TIERS application, Java, and service-oriented architectures
with web services. Change orders included service enablement of both batch and online
functions, allowing other agencies to access and modify information processed by TIERS.
Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Unified Change Management,
WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Registry
and Repository, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Process
Server, WebSphere Advanced Enterprise Service Bus, InfoSphere Information Server; HP
Quality Center, QuickTestPro, LoadRunner, Diagnostic; JProbe; Oracle 10g RAC; EMC,
Shark, Veritas, Solaris
Maine Department of Human Services
Quality Manager – 8 months
Project: Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS)
Accomplishments: Assessed project processes for quality deficiencies that lead to
product quality defects, missed delivery deadlines, and exceeding budget by MMIS
development vendor, project management office vendor, and their state government
client. Reported findings and delivered recommendations for improvements. Led advisory
team through implementation of three quality initiatives: Scope Control, Activity
Tracking, and Testing. Developed strategic release plan, work schedule, and lead a team
through the first release following these new quality initiatives. The release was deployed
on time and within budget and quality was verified through extensive testing.
Technical Environment: JDeveloper, Visual Source Safe, WebLogic, Oracle 9i, Oracle
Financials, COBOL Legacy

Application Architect, Quality Manager, Performance Lead – 48 months
Project: Custom Development J2EE Welfare Eligibility System.
Accomplishments: Managed technical software development for a $100M+ J2EE
WebSphere application as the Application Architect and Framework Track Manager.
Designed, managed and helped implement Java frameworks, code generation tools and
messaging services. Developed architecture that was evaluated by Sun Java Center as
one of the best. Introduced core J2EE patterns and applied Java patterns during design
and implementation. Evolved application to standards-based Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) including web services (SOAP/HTTP and SOAP/JMS), business process
execution language (BPEL), and Portal. Application included integration to mainframe and
third-party applications through IBM WebSphere, MQSeries, MQ Integrator and Partner
Agreement Manager; employed extensive use of XML; online and batch Java services
with integrated framework support; Servlets, JSP and EJB; Oracle (connect accounts,
replication, partitioning); custom eligibility rules engine interpreter using XML decision
tables; and, a persistent driver workflow engine. Crafted and enforced modeling
standards that defined requirements management, traceability, and design constructs in
Rational tools as QA Manager. Orchestrated load and stress testing of a large scale J2EE
application (12,000 users), analyzed results and managed improvement changes.
Integrated performance metrics collection and analysis efforts between client and
consulting using tools, such as OpenSTA, Mercury, PerformAssure and Empirix.
Represented Deloitte on an Integrated Eligibility architecture team that re-engineered
automation and technical infrastructure during a major agency reorganization occurred.
Technical Environment: IBM Rational Requisite Pro, Rational ClearCase, Rational
ClearQuest, Rational Unified Change Management, WebSphere Studio Application
Developer Integrated Edition, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal,
WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere MQ
Broker; OpenSTA, PerformAssure, Empirix; HP LoadRunner, Diagnostic; JProbe; Oracle 9i
RAC; EMC, Shark, Veritas, Solaris
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Application Architect – 45 months
Project: Playbook & Framework Architecture Solution and Tools for Java (FAST4J™)
Accomplishments: Designed and lead implementation team to develop productivity
enhancers for use by the systems integration service line. The suite included a unified
process methodology (FASTup™), enterprise resources (FASTer™), and a Java
framework with code generation capabilities (FAST4J™). These processes, best practices,
frameworks, and tools were incorporated into the Systems Integration Delivery
Transformation (SIDT) organization for firm-wide standardization and use. Several
engagements have successfully used these productivity enhancers, achieving cost
savings and mitigating substantial risk for project profitability. The Health and Human
Services (HHS) practice leveraged FAST™ to build a new service-oriented solution.
Technical Environment: Eclipse, PostgreSQL, CVS, Ant, Maven, FAST™, Linux

Michigan Department of State
Enterprise Architect – 5 months
Project: Enterprise Architecture
Accomplishments: Lead team through modeling essential use cases, business
components and component interactions for customer, driver, voter, title owner and
vehicle registration processes along with licensing of dealerships, repair facilities, salvage
agents and mechanics. Used UML notation and custom use case specification template
for requirements capture. Authored enterprise architecture governance processes,
project methodology based upon Rational Unified Process (RUP), technology catalog,
selected standards and products for e-government initiatives and applied software
patterns to design of e-government application frameworks. Assembled a client-
independent Enterprise-Wide Technical Architecture (EWTA) for use within the firm.
Developed and delivered curriculum that transferred UML and technical architecture
capabilities to client.
Technical Environment: IBM Rational Rose
Northwestern Mutual
Enterprise Architect - 3 months
Project: Customer Service Application Portfolio Management and Road Map.
Accomplishments: Delivered best practice web development approach and techniques
for redesign of Customer Service on the Internet, including architecture patterns, design
methods and capability transfer. Performed quality assurance on use cases, business
rules, architecture scenarios and UML diagrams. Involved in creative design and wire-
frame production.
Technical Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM MQSeries, IBM S/390
PL/1
Allmerica Insurance
Application Developer – 3 months
Project: Universal Channel Integrator Proof of Concept.
Accomplishments: Designed enterprise common business logic framework for large
financial services corporation that integrated customer-facing applications (VRU/IVR,
Web, Siebel) with back-end systems (CICS/COBOL, CORBA/C). Universal Channel
Integrator used Java technologies, including JMS, XML SAX, JDOM, Servlets and EJB.
Developed application in VisualAge for Java version 3.5 Enterprise Edition. Deployed to
WebSphere Application Server and integrated with MQSeries and MQSeries Integrator
(MQSI). Designed migration path for EJB 2.0 MessageDrivenBean. Used Rational Unified
Process for development lifecycle.
Technical Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM MQSeries, IBM
MQSeries Integrator (MQSI)

Health Nexus
Requirements Manager – 1 month
Project: Health Care Supply Chain Business-to-Business (B2B) Integration.
Accomplishments: Led requirements definition for major Health Care Supply Chain B2B
Exchange following Rational’s Unified Process (RUP) and Unified Modeling Language
(UML). An eight-person team defined over 40 use cases with as many activity and state
models in two weeks.
Technical Environment: IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM MQSeries, IBM
MQSeries Integrator (MQSI)
Ameriprise (formally American Express Financial Advisors)
Project: Web Analytics of Customer Service Web Sites.
Accomplishments: Automated WebAnalytics tool in PERL, DOS Batch and UNIX Crontab
at large financial services corporation. Crafted relational and dimensioned databases for
reporting and analysis. Built Visual Basic (ADO) application to filter database and
programmatically populate Excel pivot tables.
Technical Environment: HP-UX, DOS, PERL
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota July 1998-July 2000
Enterprise Architect – 12 months
Project: Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Road Map
Accomplishments: Composed technology strategies in the form of an Enterprise-Wide
Technical Architecture (EWTA) that specified principles and goals for each domain of a
large health care insurance company. Strategies included application integration
techniques, data migrations to Operational Data Stores and Data Marts, e-Business
exchange (EDI and XML) standards, security solutions and portal middleware. Assembled
a technology catalog, framework patterns along with an architecture capture and
reporting facility.
Technical Environment: COBOL, J2EE, Visual Basic; Oracle, DB2
Project: SAP R/3 Implementation for Finance and HR
Accomplishments: Orchestrated architecture definition and installation of SAP R/3 on
Windows NT with S/390 DB/2. Designed conversions, interfaces and enhancements to
enable rapid retirement of, and integration into, multiple legacy systems. Orchestrated
R/3 Administration processes while managing development efforts. R/3 installation was
accomplished in five months with all Finance and HR modules implemented within a year.
Designed and developed Java Swing/Servlet time accounting application that extended
SAP to the Intranet using SAP Internet Transaction Server and Java RFC class library.
Technical Environment: SAP R/3, Windows NT, DB2 on z/OS, J2EE

West (formally West Publishing Company) September 1994-July 1998
Projects: Customer Information Systems, Mergers/Divestitures, Modernization
Accomplishments: IT Project manager for major divestitures and migrations of legal
information companies involving millions of customers, subscriptions, A/R open items
and pending orders. Evaluated business practices of multiple companies and integrated
rules into corporate business systems or recommended changes to business processes
that often affected customer relationships. Folded publishing and manufacturing
operations of small companies into large corporation, including Internet-based online
services, CD-ROM, floppy disks and book products. Crafted world-class customer care
processes, integrating all lines of communications, including voice, facsimile, electronic
mail and Web interaction. Processes were extended for customer support operations of a
leading online research service and added a knowledge-base repository. Developed
mainframe customer information system for large legal company including capture and
posting of attorney and judge resume information on the Web. Redeveloped several
applications from legacy mainframe (PL/1, CICS, VSAM, ADABAS) into Web-based
systems (Visual Basic (ADO), Oracle) with legacy interfaces.
Technical Environment: Visual Basic, Oracle, PL/1, Natural, CICS, VSAM, ADABAS
US Navy Submarine Force June 1985 – September 1994
Officer – 111 months
Projects: Military missions abroad, development and testing of mission-critical
technologies.
Accomplishments: Chaired Quality Management Board that implemented secure
networking environment for large military installation following Total Quality Leadership
practices. Streamlined automated systems lifecycle (planning, procurement, use and
disposition) processes. Achieved security accreditation of distributed systems
environment as Automated Systems Security Officer.
Technical Environment: PC, Networks in Security Sensitive Areas

System Experience
Software / Products: SAP R/3 4.5b, JavaRFC, COM/BAPI-RFC
Development Tools / Languages:
Host-based Languages: PL/1, COBOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL, Natural
Distributed Languages: Java - JSE / JEE (Swing, Applets, Servlets, Portlets, JSF, JNI,
JNDI, EJB, JMS, JDBC, JCA), Visual C++, Visual Basic, InterDev, PERL, HTML, SQL
Tools: JRun; WebLogic; IBM Cognos, WebSphere (Application Server, Server Foundation,
Process Server, Portal), Web Content Manager, Content Manager, BPM Process Center,
ODM Decision Center, WBI Modeler, WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Studio
Application Developer Integrated Edition (WSADIE), WebSphere Integration Developer
(WID), Rational Application Developer (RAD), Rational Software Architect (RSA),
VisualAge; JBuilder, JDeveloper, Eclipse; LiveCycle Designer, Workbench; Visual Studio
Hardware / Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows 3.x, 9x, NT4, 2000, XP; UNIX -
AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux; z/OS, OS/390-MVS
Middleware / Databases:
Middleware: CORBA, DCOM/COM+, EJB, RPC, MOM: MQSeries (WMQ), MQSI/WMQI,
MSMQ/BI; WAS, WESB, DataPower, WPS, Weblogic, Aqualogic, BlueStone, GemStone,
SilverStream
Data: XML, DB/2, Oracle, SQL Server, ADABAS, VSAM, Sequential
General Tools: Microsoft Office, Project, Visio; IBM Rational Unified Process,
RequisitePro, Rose, XDE, RSA, ClearCase, ClearQuest, and Unified Change Management
(UCM), Composer, Concert; Wily, i3, OpenSTA, PerformAssure, Empirix, Splunk; HP
Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Education
Bachelor of Arts – Physics/Astrophysics
University of Colorado, Boulder
Advanced Nuclear Engineering
US Navy
Professional Affiliations / Certifications
 Project Management Institute (PMI), Project Management Professional (PMP)
 Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation
 IBM Rational Software Subject Matter Expert
 IBM Modeling User Group (IMUG)
 Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
 Medicaid Information Technology Architecture Technical Architecture Committee
(MITA TAC)
 IBM Rational Software Architect & Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management
Beta Programs
 Master Training Specialist, US Navy Submarine School

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Training
 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
 Languages: Java, C++, Visual Basic, PL/1, Natural, COBOL, Basic Assembler
Language (BAL)
 Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD)
 Rational Unified Process (RUP)
 Unified Modeling Language (UML)
 IBM Rational Requirements and Analysis
 IBM Rational Design and Construction
 IBM Rational Tools (Composer, Concert, QM, ReqPro, RSA, CC/CQ/UCM)
 IBM WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) and Process Server (WPS)
 IBM Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and DataPower
 Adobe LiveCycle Suite Administration and Development
 Center for Creative Leadership, Leadership Development Program (CCL LDP)
Publications
 Enterprise-Wide Technical Architecture (EWTA), 2000
 Framework Architecture Solution and Tools for Java (FAST4J™), 2003
 SOA Principles and Characteristics, 2005
 Services Doing, Game Changer in Public Assistance Delivery, 2008
 Architecture Driven Playbook for IBM Tools, 2009
 What’s So Special About Specialists?, 2010
 Architecture Body of Knowledge™ (ABoK™), 2011
Presentations
 Oracle Fusion, SOA, Austin, TX, 2005
 New York Public Sector CIO, Principles and Characteristics for Service Orientation,
Albany, NY, 2006
 Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) Conference, Eligibility Rules
Management, San Diego, CA, 2007
 Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS) Conference, MITA Beyond MMIS,
Nashville, TN, 2008
 IBM Exceptional Web Experience Conference, Portal 2 to Web 2: Productivity
Transformation, Austin, TX, 2012
Foreign Language Skills
 Russian - Basic Conversation
References
Available upon request

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