Jim Parnitzke

Current

• Independent Management Consultant at IMC, Ciber, Xcelligent, FTI LLC, eVerge, others...

Past

• National Practice Director, Chief Architect at Encore Development
• Sr. Vice President Information Technology at CitiGroup
• Practice Leader Core Technologies at PriceWaterhouseCoopers

• Managing Director Enterprise Data Services at CSX
• Vice President Research and Development Unlimited Processing, Inc. at Unlimited Processing, Inc.
• Senior Management Consultant at Price Waterhouse

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Education

• University of North Florida - College of Business Administration
• University of Miami

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63 people have recommended Jim

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Jim Parnitzke’s Summary

- Results-oriented difference maker
- Trusted partner and advisor
- Software Publisher
- Database Management and Architecture Expert

Resourceful leader with a flexible, innovative, and intensely customer focused operating style 25 years of successfully managing large-scale computing, software development, and integration initiatives across a broad range of industries.

Seven (7) large scale (over 5TB) data warehouses, over 20 data marts designed, built, and deployed. Example: Management of successful project completed 1 year earlier than planned producing approximately 12M dollars annually in benefits calculated by the business. Another created cost saving of over 2 million dollars realized within the first year with demonstrated business value in excess of 56M dollars over the life of the product.

Commercial off-the-shelf products developed and marketed worldwide including commercial shrink-wrap Relational Database and Report Writer, PM (Pain Manager - Baxter HealthCare), Communications Products, and Analytics for Claims Processing.

Six (6) Enterprise Architecture engagements to improve or adopt effective business operating models. Example: Engaged to turn around an under-performing architecture, data, and middleware unit of over 65 professionals and 20 contractors serving a business with over 64 million active accounts. Managed 12M in operating expense, 15M in capital budget expenditures. Reduced professional turnover during tenure to 0%, improved business partner satisfaction index to a 95% rating.

Five (5) SOA and Event Driven Architecture (EDA) integration environments designed, built, and deployed. Example: Delivered the first large-scale clustered queuing and broker based topologies into production at a Fortune 50 client improving online availability to 99% and rapid customer adoption of the first transaction-based web service brought to market by this client.

Jim Parnitzke’s Specialties:

Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Software product development (VLDB, EAI, BPM, SOA), CDI, MDM, PLM, Corporate IT Executive, "Big 4" Management Consultant, Practice Director, Software/Services Channel Development, Enterprise Architect

Jim Parnitzke’s Experience

• Independent Management Consultant

  IMC, Ciber, Xcelligent, FTI LLC, eVerge, others...

  (Computer Software industry)

  September 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)

  Engaged as an independent management consultant to a variety of engagements representing both provider and client organizations in Enterprise Architecture, BI/Analytics, and COTS software development. Sample engagements have included:
  
  GM/GMAC – Detroit, MI
  Intercontinental Hotel Group – Atlanta, GA
  AstraZeneca – Philadelphia, PA
  ThyssenKrupp North America - Detroit, MI
  CIBER, Corporate – Denver, CO
  Ford Motor Company – (NYSE F) Detroit, Michigan
  HighMark (PA. BCBS), UCCI - Pittsburgh, PA
  King County DNRP - Seattle, WA
  GlaxoSmithKline - (NYSE: GSK Consumer Healthcare US)
  EDMC - Pittsburgh, PA
  NELNET – (NYSE: NNI) Jacksonville FL, Indianapolis IN
  Hughes Supply – (NYSE: HD) Orlando, FL
  Main Street American Group - Jacksonville, FL
  Tennessee Valley Authority - Chattanooga, TN
  OneDOT – Jacksonville, FL
  Scolastic - (SCHL – NASDAQ) Orlando, Florida
  Visteon - (VC - NYSE) Detroit, MI
  Relex Software - Pittsburgh, PA
  LexisNexis - Dayton, OH
  Proctor Financial - Detroit, MI

• National Practice Director, Chief Architect

  Encore Development

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 1999 — September 2004 (5 years )

  Served in EAI and ESI practice roles as well assisting in delivery of systems software and sophisticated messaging solutions. Engaged by Fortune 50 company to design, build, and test a large scale message broker environment to abstract back-office systems from web-based and B2B client access. This project brought one of the first large-scale clustered queue manager topologies into production in late summer of 2000. In addition to the EAI messaging infrastructure, also introduced an online XML based toolkit to enable rapid client adoption of the first transaction-based services (Order Entry and Available to Promise) brought to market by this client. Successfully engaged to architect a distributed call center using VOIP (Voice Over IP) and messaging technologies to link telephony and operational systems. Introduced and developed Enterprise Architecture process improvements and governance organizations with a variety of large clients.

• Sr. Vice President Information Technology

  CitiGroup

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

  Responsible for Data Base Management and System Architecture for North American Bankcards business unit with over sixty two (62) million active accounts including Citibank, UCS-ATT, and private label cards. Managed over sixty-five (65) professionals in the MVS DB2 DBA, Oracle DBA, Systems Architecture, Enterprise OLAP services, and Production Support in an environment of over twenty terabytes of disk storage. Direct participation included the Apollo NA Bank Cards Credit Decisioning application (6 Terabytes ORACLE 8.0.5), MIS Data Warehouse (8 Terabytes - Oracle 8i), and ATT-UCS and Citibank Web sites. Introduced first Storage Area Network to the organization to more effectively manage disk storage pools.

• Practice Leader Core Technologies

  PriceWaterhouseCoopers

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1996 — 1998 (2 years )

  As technical leader of the Core Technologies Practice, his engagements included Technical Project Leadership for a large southeastern Public Utility (Implementation of a complete Oracle Financials project), Database Tuning and Performance, E-commerce Wed based software product development, management consulting, and technical advisory services to several of the firm's clients. While at PWC the core technologies practices grew to generate approximately eight (8) million dollars in annual revenues. During this period, also served as an interim Department head, Database Management Services for a financial services firm managing over sixty five (65) professionals in the Data Administration, DBA, Architecture, Middleware, and Production Systems Support organizations.

• Managing Director Enterprise Data Services

  CSX

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  1994 — 1996 (2 years )

  Served as acting Director of Enterprise Data Services for this Fortune 500 transportation company. In 1995, the company earned $10.5 billion of operating revenue and $1.2 billion of operating income. Responsible for Data Modeling, Mainframe DBA (IMS, DB/2, and Adabase), Mid-tier DBA (Oracle, Sybase, and SQL Server) and the Data Warehouse practice groups.
  
  Placed into production the company’s first data warehouse. Direct participation in the TM project completed almost one year earlier than planned and produced approximately twelve million dollars annually in benefits as calculated by the business partners. Cost saving of over two (2) million dollars realized within the mainframe database environment from operating efficiencies and performance improvements.
  First organization enterprise data model completed with organization reuse in excess of 70%.

• Vice President Research and Development Unlimited Processing, Inc.

  Unlimited Processing, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1989 — April 1991 (1 year 11 months)

  As Vice President, Research and Development, Mr. Parnitzke was responsible for all research and development activities for both systems level product development (a database management system designed for Local Area Networks) and commercial business applications. He provided directional support in a management capacity for the research, systems development, technical support, and training departments. His role required extensive project management skills and control expertise as these systems were developed and implemented.

• Senior Management Consultant

  Price Waterhouse

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

  January 1987 — June 1989 (2 years 6 months)

  As Senior Consultant for Price Waterhouse, his engagements have included a $2 million custom software development project for the nuclear power industry. This included the custom development conducted in a multi-state, VAX cluster environment with 24 personnel on the development team. He provided sophisticated project management experience performing sensitivity analysis, resource leveling and forecasting project progress to client management. This engagement included an effectiveness review to identify and correct deficiencies in the development effort. Performed requirements definition analysis for a Fortune 100 manufacturer to integrate a capital project tracking system with an existing financial system to monitor and control large capital expenditures.

Additional Information

Jim Parnitzke’s Groups:

Past member of following associations and SIGs:
- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- Member IEEE, Computer Society for IEEE
- Member Technical Committee, Office Automation
- Member Technical Committee, Software Engineering
- Member Technical Committee, Data Base Engineering
- Member DPMA (Data Processing Management Association)
- Member AMA (American Management Association)

•    Executive Suite
•    International Association of Software Architects
•    PricewaterhouseCoopers Alumni
•    Business Intelligence
•    PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) employees and alumni
•    The Enterprise Architecture Network
•    CMMI Adopters
•    Business Intelligence Professionals
•    Technology Leaders Association
•    SharePoint Experts
•    VMware Virtualization & Cloud Computing Group
•    Database Experts
•    Data Warehouse Architects
•    Private Equity Investment Group
•    SAP PLM group
•    CIOs.com: Chief Information Officer Network
•    Master Data Management Interest Group
•    SAP Professionals (Globally).
•    Links to Jacksonville
•    ! Most Recommended - Gold Award!
•    Certified Project, Program & Portfolio Managers
•    ORACLE PRO
•    TOGAF for Architecture
•    Database Developers and Architects Group
•    Supply Chain Optimization
•    MDM Experts
•    Enterprise Architecture Group
•    Business Process Professionals
•    The IT Architect Network
•    Venture Capital Group
•    Data Migration/Integration & ETL Group
•    Enterprise Architecture & Processes
•    CIBER
•    Database Marketers
•    Oracle Data Integration: Warehouse Builder (OWB), Data Integrator (ODI), Data Profiling and Quality
•    Selling to BIG Companies
•    Venture Capital – Private Equity – Funding – Investment
•    MIKE2.0 Methodology
•    Data Quality Pro.com
•    Supply Chain Network International
•    BP Group
•    Social Network Analysis in Practice
•    Strategic M&A - Profit Identification & Improvement Partners
•    WhereScape RED
•    Data Management Professional

Jim Parnitzke’s Honors:

InfoWorld 8.2 score awarded for database product developed
Product of the Year, Leadership Award (CSX)
"Highest Chargeability", PWC 1998, 1999
Smithsonian Award for Innovation (Encore Development)