Chief Technologist at Perficient
Houston, Texas Area
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- Chief Technologist at Perficient
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- Director Professional Services at TIBCO Software Inc.
- Managing Executive at marchFIRST
- Practice Manager at Deloitte & Touche
- Director Technical Services at Curtin Matheson Scientific
- Education
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- University of Maryland University College
- City University of Seattle
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Eric Roch’s Summary
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Eric Roch has over 20 years of experience in various aspects of Information Technology including IT executive level management within industry and consulting, technical architect, and application and systems development. He has over ten years of executive leadership in IT consulting services, and is currently Chief Technologist with Perficient (NASDAQ: PRFT) – a leading provider of business integration solutions. Prior to Perficient, he was CTO of ZettaWorks leading the technology strategy and product development for the company resulting in a $10.7M acquisition by Perficient. He has also been an IT industry speaker and author for many years.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: eroch2@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
B. S., Computer Systems, City University of Bellevue, Washington
M.S., Management of Technology, University of Maryland
PUBLICATIONS
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Blog - Blog Author
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/business
EAI Journal. “Application Integration: Business and Technology Trends”
http://www.bijonline.com/Article.asp?ArticleID=579
Business Integration Journal. “A Service-Oriented Architecture for EAI Quality Assurance”
http://www.bijonline.com/Article.asp?ArticleID=967
Business Integration Journal. “A Software Development Methodology for EAI: Part I”
http://www.bijonline.com/Article.asp?ArticleID=1008
Business Integration Journal. “A Software Development Methodology for EAI: Part II”
http://www.bijonline.com/Article.asp?ArticleID=1022
Business Integration Journal. “Guide to Migrating TIBCO IntegrationManager to BusinesWorks”
http://www.bijonline.com/Article.asp?ArticleID=991
Plan Your SOA: The SOA Strategic Services Blueprint
http://www.ebizq.net/topics/soa/features/7474.html?&pp=1
Regular Column at www.ebizq.net - search "Eric Roch"
Eric Roch’s Specialties:
Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Application Integration, Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategic Planning
Eric Roch’s Experience
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Chief Technologist
Perficient
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
January 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)
As Chief Technologist and National Practice Director for Business Integration, responsible for setting the direction of one of the world’s largest SOA and Business Integration consultancies.
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Director Professional Services
TIBCO Software Inc.
(Public Company; tibx; Computer Software industry)
February 2001 — January 2004 (3 years)
Responsible for the management of the consulting team that delivers Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) projects. These projects are often enterprise wide in scope and have multi-million dollar budgets. Manages all aspects of personal as well as P&L level responsibility for the group. Service delivery includes program level management across multiple million-dollar accounts for Fortune 50 size companies.
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Managing Executive
marchFIRST
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
August 1999 — February 2001 (1 year 7 months)
Established the Houston office for marchFIRST (then USWeb/CKS). Grew the office to over 60 people and $18M in revenue the first year while achieving 225% of revenue budget. Recruited key personnel and developed the organizational structure for business development, recruiting, technology and creative design departments. Created business processes for managing the sales cycle, accounts receivable and project delivery (methodology and project accounting). Built and oversaw the delivery teams and achieved very high client satisfaction levels through all projects as measured by the client survey process. Developed and successfully deployed many e-commerce, content management, customer self-service and e-procurement sites.
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Practice Manager
Deloitte & Touche
(Computer Software industry)
March 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 6 months)
Founder and Practice Manager of Deloitte’s e-Business Solutions consulting group. Developed practice business plan and marketing strategy. Responsible for engagement management, technical architecture planning, and the quality assurance of projects implemented by the practice. The practice is focused on delivering business solutions with leading edge technology including e-commerce applications and infrastructure. Also, formed and lead the Microsoft practice for Deloitte and managed the relationship nationally before founding the e-Business practice.
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Director Technical Services
Curtin Matheson Scientific
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1985 — March 1996 (10 years 10 months)
As manager and enterprise architect, developed the technical architecture plan to transform CMS from a mainframe development environment to one integrating both legacy systems and newly developed distributed systems. This technology plan included the client server development environment and tools, the design of the corporate LAN and WAN, and the database systems including the methods for distributing and replicating data between the mainframe, UNIX systems and Microsoft NT systems.
Eric Roch’s Education
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University of Maryland University College
MS , Management of Technology , 2001 — 2006
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City University of Seattle
BS , Computer Science , 1995 — 2001
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Eric Roch’s Interests:
SOA, service oriented architecture, integration, EAI, IT consulting
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