VP Strategic Technology at Thomson Reuters
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
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- VP Strategic Technology at Thomson Reuters
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- VP Architecture & Business Systems Infrastructure at Thomson Reuters
- Vice President, Technology at Thomson Web
- Vice President and Chief Architect at Thomson Learning
- Vice President Enterprise Architecture at Thomson Prometric
- Director Reasearch and Development at OBF Labs (UK) Ltd
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Christopher Crowhurst’s Summary
Experienced Technology Executive with Entrepreneurial Spirit and Advanced Technology Background. Focus on cost effective innovative problem solving and solution execution.
Christopher Crowhurst’s Specialties:
Enterprise Architecture, Infrastrructure, Green IT, Agile development, Web Search, Relevancy, Folksonomy, Social Networking, SOA, WS Security, Architecture Governance, Federated Identity
Christopher Crowhurst’s Experience
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VP Strategic Technology
Thomson Reuters
(Public Company; TRI; Information Services industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Leading the Divisions Strategic Technology initiatives which currently include: Global Data Center Strategy, Sustainable IT programs including Server Virtualization, Storage Tiering and Thin Provisioning, Storage Virtualization. Additionally responsible for the divisions Infrastructure Architects and the Business Systems Application Architects. Their scope includes Server Platform, OS, storage, network, desktop, application server, database, ERP, CRM, ecommerce architectures, SAP and Siebel Infrastructure.
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VP Architecture & Business Systems Infrastructure
Thomson Reuters
(Public Company; TRI; Information Services industry)
April 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Leading the Data Center Infrastructure and MIS Architecture teams for the Professional Division, the Project Management Office, the Business Systems Infrastructure teams globally and responsible for the divisions sustainable computing initiatives. Scope includes: Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization, Platform, OS, storage, network, desktop, application server, database, ERP, CRM, ecommerce architectures, SAP and Siebel Infrastructure.
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Vice President, Technology
Thomson Web
(Information Services industry)
August 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Build and led a technology team to develop industry specific vertical web search solutions, and social networking systems leveraging Web 2.0 business models and technologies , implemented as internal SAAS initiative across Thomson business units.
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Vice President and Chief Architect
Thomson Learning
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TOC; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2004 — August 2006 (2 years 4 months)
Responsible for bringing together the diverse architectures of many business units to provide best of bread learning solutions to higher education and businesses alike. Driving the adoption of SOA, and rolling out governance processes.
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Vice President Enterprise Architecture
Thomson Prometric
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TOC; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2000 — May 2004 (4 years 5 months)
Principally responsible for developing the integration strategy to move disparate technology silos to a flexible orchestration and web services model, developing SOA best practices around security, web service management and BPEL orchestration.
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Director Reasearch and Development
OBF Labs (UK) Ltd
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Medical Devices industry)
September 1990 — December 2000 (10 years 4 months)
Researched, designed, and managed the construction of computerized ophthalmic diagnostic equipment, both hardware and software. Patenting several advances in diagnostic technologies for the leading causes in blindness.
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