Leadership Partner
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
- Current
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- Leadership Partner, Enterprise Architecture at Gartner, Inc.
- Past
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- Vice President IT, Senior Technologist at Raymond James & Associates
- Vice President Information Technology at Raymond James & Associates
- Vice President Information Technology at Eagle Asset Management
- Associate at Technical Resource Connection
- Consultant / Architect at Perot Systems, Inc.
- Senior Technical Consultant, Senior Systems Consultant at Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (CBIS)
- Systems Analyst, Software Analyst at Intergraph
- Education
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- University of Alabama in Huntsville
- University of Central Florida
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Sam Joseph’s Summary
Career Focus: Strategically significant senior leadership roles leveraging deep technology and broad business experience and expertise.
Technology career started in 1981 and includes positions with Martin Marietta Orlando Aerospace (now Lockheed Martin), Intergraph Corporation, CBIS, The Technical Resource Connection. Perot Systems, Raymond James Financial, and independent consulting.
Roles include programmer/analyst, database specialist, consultant, system architect, application developer, team manager, MIS director, sales engineer, head of research, and vice president IT.
Bachelor of Science in Engineering – Computer Engineering - at the University of Central Florida.
Sam Joseph’s Specialties:
Enterprise Architecture
Emerging Technology Assessment
Technology Architecture
Research & Analysis
Technology Leadership
IT/Business Strategy Development
BCP
IT Operations
System & Network Engineering
Service Orientation
Vendor Relationships
Contract Negotiation
Software Development
Database Technologies
Industry experience in financial services, software, telecommunications, professional staffing services, government, defense, mapping, real estate, healthcare, and manufacturing.
Sam Joseph’s Experience
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Leadership Partner, Enterprise Architecture
Gartner, Inc.
(Public Company; IT; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
Responsible for Architecture & Planning best practices program delivery including coaching and adivising, on site events, virtual member work groups, online delivery of content and networking, client relationship management and member retention.
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Vice President IT, Senior Technologist
Raymond James & Associates
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; RJF; Financial Services industry)
November 2006 — July 2007 (9 months)
Roles/Responsibilities:
• head of IT research
Accomplishments:
• Established IT research and emerging trends practices, built a portfolio of valuable research resources, and created a new value-added delivery capability. -
Vice President Information Technology
Raymond James & Associates
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; RJF; Financial Services industry)
January 2002 — October 2006 (4 years 10 months)
Roles:
• chief enterprise and technology architect (2004-2006)
• senior technology consultant (2002-2004)
Accomplishments:
• Key leader in senior leadership team to establish IT vision and ‘reinvent’ the organization for business alignment. Crafted IT’s inaugural vision and strategy, leading to new organizational structure, business servicing model, and prioritized project focus. Introduced and established new paradigms, including centers of excellence, architecture program, core principles, service oriented architecture (SOA), and virtualization.
• Chartered and established enterprise architecture practice, introducing previously non-existent levels of alignment of IT and business. -
Vice President Information Technology
Eagle Asset Management
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; RJF; Financial Services industry)
September 1997 — December 2001 (4 years 4 months)
Eagle Asset Management is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial.
Roles/Responsibilities:
• Senior manager of ITO for portfolio asset management company, overseeing all operations and development activities.
Accomplishments:
• Architected and directed replacement of core business systems. Increased availability by 40%, reliability by 400%.
• Successfully updated systems for Y2K with zero date defects.
• Established initial business continuity capability for core systems, ensuring core business function in the event of evacuation. -
Associate
Technical Resource Connection
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years )
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Consultant / Architect
Perot Systems, Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PER; Information Technology and Services industry)
1994 — September 1997 (3 years )
This position was originally with The Technical Resource Connection, Inc., which was acquired by Perot Systems during my tenure.
Roles/Responsibilities:
• Acting MIS Director for Eagle Asset Management, overseeing all operations activities
• Senior Consultant to various clients, including GTEDS (Verizon) and Poe & Brown Insurance Co.
Accomplishments:
• Executed an organizational ‘turn-around’ for a mismanaged ITO, improved systems and services availability by orders of magnitude.
• Technical assessments for application architecture.
• Reduced client’s production system downtime by two orders of magnitude. -
Senior Technical Consultant, Senior Systems Consultant
Cincinnati Bell Information Systems (CBIS)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CBI; Information Technology and Services industry)
1989 — 1994 (5 years )
CBIS is a subsidary of Cincinatti Bell
Roles/Responsibilities:
• Project manager for client engagements
• System architect
• Database specialist (architect and administrator - Oracle, Informix, SQL)
• Programmer (C,C++,SQL)
• Business analyst
• Technical analyst
Accomplishments:
• Defined advanced architectures for very large relational database servers
• Led development of public records indexing application used by title industry (first product in industry to use relational database technology)
• Optimized membership production database performance on a large membership application, improving application performance by up to 30 times
• Developed strategies for high performance transaction processing for billing systems -
Systems Analyst, Software Analyst
Intergraph
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
1985 — 1989 (4 years )
Roles/Responsibilities:
• Topological mapping software designer and programmer (FORTRAN)
• Unix internals / systems programmer (C)
• Rapid Prototype programmer, advanced cartographic processing researcher (C,C++, proprietary)
• Prototype team leader
Accomplishments:
• Led team development of prototype and production geographic information systems (GIS) applications
• Designed and led development of leading edge data integration software for merging maps
• Published papers on GIS data integration, and thematic map overlay processing
Sam Joseph’s Education
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University of Alabama in Huntsville
Engineering and Management 1986 — 1988
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University of Central Florida
BSE , Computer Engineering , 1980 — 1985
- Activities and Societies:
- Lambda Chi Alpha, Omicron Delta Kappa, Student Senate, Peer Adviser
Additional Information
Sam Joseph’s Websites:
Sam Joseph’s Groups:
Boy Scouts of America, Pack 475, Troop 475, Order of the Arrow, Timuquan Lodge 340, Jamboree Troop 2025, West Central Florida Council,
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Great Strides Walk,
Pinellas County Schools, TBTLA
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GARTNER (Employees…. Current and Former) -
University of Central Florida Alumni -
Computerworld’s Premier 100 IT Leaders -
Lambda Chi Alpha Alumni
Sam Joseph’s Honors:
• Selected as a 2001 Premier 100 IT Leaders honoree by Computerworld
• Lead speaker at international Enterprise Architectures Conference (March 2005)
• Keynote panelist at US National Architect Forum 2006
• Speaker at Burton Group Catalyst 2007
• Certified and registered as an Engineer Intern by the State of Florida (#1084ET240)
• Awarded first Oracle DBA Certificate (worldwide)
• Member of Oracle Education Customer Advisory Board (CAB), 1994 & 1995
• District Distinguished Service Award, Calusa District, West Central Florida Council, 2006
• Member of HP Customer Advisory Council (Midwest), 2007
• Order of the Arrow Vigil Honor, 2008
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