Don Estes

Current

North American Representative at RainCode
Solution Architect/Consulting Employee at SAIC
Senior Consultant at Cutter Consortium

Legacy Modernization Solution Architect at Don Estes & Associates

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Education

The University of Texas at San Antonio
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Don Estes’s Summary

Consulting solution architect with diverse technical and business experience across the range of industries and technical environments. Works with end-user functional as well as performance design characteristics of application software, hardware and systems software, technical staff and business executives, sales and marketing. Strong analytic, strategic, and leadership abilities. Interdisciplinary background. Well published. Sought after for clarity of writing and technical presentations. Has reputation for state of the art solutions. International experience.

Don Estes’s Specialties:

Modernization of legacy IT assets, IT management consulting, IT risk identification and mitigation, Business Process Management (BPM), agile programming and agile project management, vendor selection and management, systems integration in mixed technology environments, and computerized general education instruction.

See legacy modernization analysis methodology linked from my home page.

Don Estes’s Experience

North American Representative

RainCode

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Responsible for solution architecture and project management on Raincode projects in North America, including Progress to Java or C#, IDEAL/Datacom to COBOL/SQL, Pacbase, COBOL refactoring, and customized modernization solutions.
Solution Architect/Consulting Employee

SAIC

(Public Company; SAI; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Solution architecture for 6 legacy modernization project proposals, including hardware, software and technical development strategy. Expanding SAIC legacy modernization practice to US east coast, and introducing new technological options to improve profitability while reducing risk.

Completed 6 month assignment planning a complex data conversion solution for mainframe Adabas + Oracle and SQL Server. Plan includes provision for real-time synchronization of data between old and new databases.
Senior Consultant

Cutter Consortium

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — Present (11 years )
Legacy Modernization Solution Architect

Don Estes & Associates

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1995 — Present (14 years 3 months)

Don Estes’s Education

The University of Texas at San Antonio

M.A. , Educational Psychology , 1975 — 1978
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SB , Physics , 1967 — 1971

Activities and Societies:

"Technique" yearbook & photography community; disciple of Minor White, photographer; participated in experimental instruction program with Educational Research Center and physics professor John King.

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Don Estes’s Interests:

Family, re-engineering the education system, photography, clinical psychology, physics, astronomy (eclipse junkie), hiking and outdoor activities in general.