John Cosmas | Solutions

Hybrid solutions can withstand anything

Solutions built on a hybrid platform are designed to succeed, not prone to failures of surrounding components

The Hybrid sees each Journey as Means to Meet Success

Here is list of solutions that have been delivered to many clients, with some applications and assets still in operation throughout the globe.

Hybrid Platforms

I am an evangelist of hybrid platforms which gives organizations the advantage of partial on-prem, with leveraged cloud services to streamline data & operational services while retaining regulatory and data protection requirements.

Hybrid Deep Learning

The rise of Machine Learning & Deep Learning is expected to see an emergence of Hybrid Deep Learning that improves predictive technology to aid help robotics, deep neural network, transformations benefiting how understand the world better.

Intelligent Data Management

Intelligent data management is the process of managing both seemlingly structured & unstructured data throughout its lifecycle with analytics and intelligence. The impetus includes the need for for an analytics-driven solutions that can leverage contemporary ingestion & transformation technologies to consume data into meaningful forms that can be used to perform analysis & inform us of its behavior for practical applications.

Cloud/Hybrid Platform

The rise of the cloud platform also saw the culmination of hybrid technologies that allows corporations to rely a completely secured digital environment to host, process & service data with support for radical AI-enabled solutions allowing intelligence services to traverse multiple vendors, & accelerate their journey towards Hybrid Data Management.

Business Intelligence

Not so long ago, simple analytics paved the way that combined business logic, data mining, data visualization, tools & infrastructure that have us dynamic dashboards, intelligent reporting promising a competitive edge on the markets allowing businesses to make informed decisions based on actionable evidence, offering insights into an organization's strategic & tactical roadmaps that are firmly based on data.

RowNum	Title	Img	Txt	Details
1	LMS/GAP	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_hanes.png	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_hbigap.jpg	Labor Management System GAP Analysis Tool	Integrated directly with warehouse management (WMS) at Hanes, this revolutionary tool provides an analysis of gaps in activities of the skilled worker so that a proper pay-for-performance calculation can be completed. The same analysis is used to identify worker performance losses in an effort to improve production performance that increases yields, when applied against incentivized payment calculation. The cognitive algorithm developed also takes into account team or collaborative work scenarios to ensure gaps are excluded in such cases while measures are only applied to valid activities. The learning feature of the application allows the Ergon team to develop proper efficiency models that improves skill based performance.
2	STBT	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_stbt.png	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_stbt.jpg	Short Term Business Travel	All large organizations are impacted by travel which requires workers to traverse the globe to incur taxes. The necessary advice that drives employee taxes can make a difference at the end of the tax cycle & impose upon individual payroll. The traditional model for T&E has been re-designed to alleviate individual taxes, wage withholdings while improving the way taxes are managed that reduces employer resources so that the overall tax compliance issues are equally met. The employee is also presented with better tax, immigration, policy when assignments are properly mananged by an integrated solution, that factors schedules, length of stay, assignment & visa conditions. Employees can plan, appropriate length of stay, fulfiil any compliance documentation, handle exceptions & reduce their overall tax burdens proactively because the system provides a concise view of all travel elements.
3	EEOC	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_wfwht.png	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_aaeeoc.jpg	Affirmative Action Equal Oppurtunity Compliance	AAEOC is an integrated solution that helps meet compliance reporting obligated to the EEOC to ensure the company's practices, movements & policies meets regulatory requirements. Periodically, the talent acquisition & management data must be processed & prepared for reporting against live organizational profiles to demonstrate that equal oppurunity pracitices measures against standards so that any adjustments to EEOC planning units can be appropriated to exact corrections. This solution is a culmination of various HCM applications built in past organizations that offers a journalized view of changes over time providing a sustainable audit platform, that is both sophisticated, yet lightweight enough to operate efficiently.
4	EBTA	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_wells.png	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_ebta.jpg	Wells Fargo Governance & Practice Management	Designed & built an entire governance portal using customized SharePoint platform for the Enterprise Business Technology Architecture group that features end-to-end architecture processing with document management/control function, process breakdown, & an intuitive portfolio management console. The integrated platform includes account/portfolio management, project office reporting, architecture reviews consoles, attendance module & scheduled reviewing panels allowing the Architecture Review Board (ARB) to approve artifacts while off-line. Organized tables, dynamic views, visualization charts & search tools allows servicing architects to navigate the entire system easily, while it guides new members on how to engage assignments without training because configurable consoles are so intuitive.
5	LMS/OWS	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_hanes.png	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_ows.jpg	Operational Work Standard (OWS)	The basis for ergonomics based pay-for-performance models relies on standard work processes that helps measure efforts against real work efforts in production. This tool enables engineers to integrate work/time studies into computable standards that helps direct the skilled worker in completing tasks accurately with little or no supervision as a documented model, that is managed under control can be traced directly to any project over time. The configured database with its front-end application, along with security features exacts workflows that also captures changes into auditable logs used to support cloning functions to ease replicating new standards with little effort. This diverse tool also allows costs, effort, time & forecasting for future clients & processes to help assess efforts whenever special projects arises by means of simple ROI calculation feature.
6	DQM	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_dqc.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_dqc.jpg	Data Disposition Tool	A dispositioning tool that consumes logs from monitored event hubs & channel services as part of an Intelligent Data Management platform was developed to discern data usage profiles, to determine which database objects, its consumption metrics & data lineage that supports standard provisioning standards. Its principal objective was to determine how much data & which consumers used it frequently so that data can be assigned to its respective foundations, and whether it should persist in the operational, analytical or big data archive platforms/repositories. The analysis, measures & profiles also helped drive the transformation effort to design, scales, mechanization of views, retention logic/policies to improve the overall service performance, while defining the proper data regions that optimizes how it provisions consumers. The valuable logs, patterns & models documented allowed DBAs to conduct tests during the target state transformation efficiently while ensuring data views performed less its inherited skews.
7	BTO Portal	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_boa.png	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_bto.jpg	BTO & Portfolio Management	The Build-to-Operate program was made successful by implementing a highly intuitive governance portal that allowed portfolio & information architects to navigate the entire LCRRT landscape, while allowing the weekly governance to support compliance/regulated architecture reviews for approval. The program featured detailed dashboards, scheduling, reporting, coordinated lists, inventory of applications, portfolio of resources, list of assets that allows assigned architects to service accounts and prepare compliance reports for every executive. Aside from serving as an integrated governance tool bound to corporate projects, assets, problem/issues logs, build engines, the tool revolutionized DevOps functions by offering an approval platform for achitectural & risk acceptance that could be audited against corporate requirement, regulatory changes & consent orders. It also facilitated corporate programs such as Greenfield, Asset Management (OS/Hardware) Compliance & Sunset (retirement) efforts while valuating financial reporting in COMIT.
8	LMS/Promo	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_hnsprm.png	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_promo.jpg	Promotions Work Process	Integrated directly with warehouse management (WMS) & the Operational Work Standard (OWS) tool previously built at Hanes, thie workflow driven tool enables engineers to document work processes for direct application against their promotionals & value added solutions. It has the unique ability to capture individual tasks using existing models, calculate total consumed time for operations, & performs comparitive time analysis to support studies for future or special projects. The wizards included in the design process ensures accuracy during process construction, and allows patterns validation to alleviate any in-correct or in-compatible standards. Coupled with detailed reporting, the underlying journals offers advanced capabilities such as audits, & the unique ability to revert to an older model for rapid designs & analysis.
9	AMS	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_boaflg.png	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_grnfld.jpg	Greenfield & Modernization Analysis	An effort to reduce the overall footprint of declining technologies, upgrading platforms to meet compliance, while modernizing solutions to ensure continued operations, the strategy adopted to Greenfield solutions ensures existing & new services are optimized for excellence. The entire program required a deep-dive study, documentation & analysis of assets, platforms & resources to ensure compatibility while the target state continues to meet demands, in all configurations from production into LLE environments. It successfully met the goal of dynamic processing demands, while reducing the overall cost and footprint of the componentized application. The tool was integrated directly into the BTO Portal to allows architects & technology executives to view the analysis, asset transformations, infrastructure landscape, platforms metrics, effort, & cost savings benefited over time, which was also used to facilitate studies, & provide real-time updates to Health of Plant dashboards.
10	RFAD	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_baml.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_rfad.jpg	Regulated Funds & Credit Risk Platform	RFAD was revamped to allow governed access by portfolio managers with a dashboard driven, intuitive view of portfolio funds, with currency based net asset values & performance data, that enables productive support to accounts creatively. The new database is transformed to respond rapidly, with cached reports to improve overall performance globally. New interfaces to Lexis Nexus, Interbank & credit risk partners helped the system achieve compliance quickly with prospects to support additional feeds in the future. The application which began as a simple application took long cycles against the datasource improved dramatically to reduce data & processing overhead which would later evolve to include a data governance feature, complex charts, account security, extensive journal, data audits, portfolio centric dashboards & managed workflows to increase the quality of accounts, & achieve the quality of service that Bankf of America is well known to provide.
11	CRM	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_mtb.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_mtb.jpg	Commercial Lending CRM	Assisting through the M&T mergers & acquisitions process while helping partners identify risks & issues that effects the business banking. Part of the effort included developing a risk rating service that assesses & prioritizes commercial accounts upon the integration of M&A records, that allows debt counselors to address & manage accounts to see to its resolution delicately while maintaining the integrity of the bank. New interfaces were built to help streamline the way accounts are reviewed and services to improve how M&T proves itself while earning the trust of acquired businesses. It also reduced the time required by new counselor training by assigning & grading cases progressively to the quality of service is not compromised. The wizards built to structure the way cases are handled also measured time, activities while capturing problems offered performance analytics that was factored against underlying data to validate the quality of loan data received from the supply chain with great prospects of improving the overall process.
12	CRM	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_uline.png	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_sales.jpg	Sales Order Management System	Developed a consolidated data analytics & management framework featuring replicated Manhattan Associates WM system datawarehouse to SQL stack technologies to include department hubs supported by data stewards to help organize data standards to reduce footprint, while ensuring the right data segments are provisioned to consumers by reducing query processing overhead, eliminating redudant reporting and improving overall end-to-end performance. This significally improved analytical processing while customer private data, and ensuring data sharing arrangements were in compliance between departments. The application also featured wizard based models to ensure accuracy, alleviate order quality hazards & improve the time to market capabilities, while allowing junior staff members to take on responsiblities quickly to meet growing consumer demands.
13	LMS	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_hanes.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_lms.jpg	Labor Management System	The existing warehouse management system along with it's legacy systems where incapable of calculting pay data which must take into account, peformance, quality, standard labor activities, coupled with special conditions such as borrowed labor & incentives. The solution developed would provide a foundation for a series of connected applications that would help drive the pay output, such as Operational Work Standard (OWS) and GAP Analysis. The integrated database application interfaces with various WM implementations for acquired distribution centers & timekeeping plaforms with configurable rules utiliizing a base data model that can calculate pay across the region. An automated job engine performs imports, ETL operations and generates reports daily allowing production clerks to make adjustment necessary, which reduced the overall administrative staff from 3 to 1 per distribution center.
14	EPMS	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_onemd.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_pmoc.jpg	Portfolio Central	As Managed Dynamics built project & integration offices, a portfolio management tool was developed that leveraged Microsoft's EPM system called Portfolio Central. The resulting ecosystem combined governance, project & portfolio management, document management, issue management & reporting services into a comprehensive system that took advantage of SSRS, Exchange, SharePoint, BackOffice, Project Central & Microsoft Project to empower project members. The tool featured extenstive automation functions that produced pitchbooks, drill-down reports, generated invoicing, and trading partner billing documents. The document management feature also enabled project teams to engage controls with audit capabilities to impose versions with detailed journals of changes. The best feature is the traceability matrix that provides a clear lineage between requirements, issues, risks, meeting action items all the way into executable tasks that points to generated code sections. This key audit function was crucial to the process of identifying changes, helping forecast new requirements & issues.
14	Blackberry	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_bberry.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_bberry.jpg	Mobile Case Management System	Part of the re-platforming effort to migrate the popular TrialWorks case management system to the web involved the development for the BlackBerry platform. The first generation webapp featured a comprehensive tool allowing case workers & attorneys to travel with cases into courts to alleviate bulky prints & artifacts, while enabling them to conduct productivity tasks such as entering notes, updating case status, attaching evidence, scheduling appointments, assigning tasks to paralegal staff & searching content with relative ease. The underlying code is optimized to limit redundant data from traversing the mobile network making it a lightweight design at a time when data costs were still expensive, leading to enhanced case portability economical & most sensible.
15	TrialWorks	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_lawex.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_twrks.jpg	DOT.NET Case Management System	A popular matter management application called TrialWorks needed to migrate to the DOT.NET platform in an effort to compete with the market. An ASP.NET platform along with an entire SQL ecosystem featuring BackOffice automation was developed to offer a wide range of productivity services that also performed extensive document management functions, that made secured document sharing possible between business parners possible for the first time. A configuration based system allowed for easy customization while licensing enabled & disabled functions, & activated 3rd party integration to vendors such as LexisNexis, ProLaw, TimeSlips, CaseMap, ACT. A slew of new functions such as SSRS & Cognos enabled the DOT.NET solution to offer consumers integration capabilities to traverse reporting & data exchange services. The established standards, patterns & models allowed the target system to interact with emerging technologies such as Blackberry.
15	Automation	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_enty.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_enty.jpg	Automated Testing	An automated testing tool coupled with structured AD repository allows the test team to conduct coordinated testing using canned, and prepared test data against the WebMethods, GenTran platform. The framework allowed a set of data files to be configured using case & scenario based tables that will be properly capped, cataloged & processed to provide accurate evidence of completion. Entire set of cases can be packaged into a executable test bound to schedule for testing whenever a new release is deployed into various environments. This allows for the un-attended testing efforts to be completed so that engineers could devote their valuable talents developing cases, while saving so much time averting repeatable work mechanized through an highly configurable tool. The time to market was radically increased while new test cases could be delivered and executed during off-peak or non-production hours late into the night so engineers can afforaded rest to allow them to inspect results in a for more productive manner.
16	Automation	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_cxt.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_cxt.jpg	Sales Tracking Automation	Build a sales tracking & automation tool that allows the CXT Concrete team to schedule, plan, review, approve & deliver concrete building to customers throughout the country with integrated CRM features designed to meet delivery goals, while ensuring orders are properly reviewed by regional architects for approval, inspect for quality, planned to traverse parks or adhere to state/park compliance requirements and meets all necessary artifacts for transportation accross boundaries. The application reduced the tedious weekly problem of gathering statuses, event/schedule conflicts, delays at state engineering offices, and permit problems while providing a color coded dashboard for planners to review orders quickly which was done previously with poorly sychronized spreadsheets. The weekly productivity increased and orders were processed in a timely manner, while backlogs could now be forecasted with a better understanding of yard availability, supplies & work resources.
17	Y2K	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_ustel.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_y2k.jpg	Y2K & Automated Testing	An automated testing tool employing Mercury Interactive was implemented at U.S.Steel to enable the corporation to complete their Y2K certification to support their WebMethods, and other web based applications. The effort enabled for continous integration which did not exist previously, and lead to the adoption of Load Testing to qualify the product beyond Y2K requirements. Testing was applied to web application, data extraction layers (DAL), database objects to ensure date calculations & constraints were functioning correctly, and reporting data was working as expected. Alarms, notification, alert data was also monitored, while load tests ensured that data integration operations continues consume inbound sources with no failures. A detailed test framework was designed with specific test patterns, models, cases & scenarios to ensure all types including forced negatives were applied.
18	Automation	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_foster.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_foster.jpg	Sales Management & Automation	A simple sales ordering system evolved into an automation tool that improved the services offered by LBFoster to their customers reducing the overhead of micro-managing tracking, updates & supply chain management. Offering intuitive dashboards & work view panels allowed department heads & skilled workers direct access to most current activities which regulated their otherwise dis-organized workflows on daily basis because the system featured a hybrid event-driven & scheduled based model, allowing real-time activities to drive deliverables. This synchronized model also allowed the sales team to make field calls & replicate status with a distributed database to supply critical information between remote centers & their respective agents. Intuitive work panels & automated tasks improved the quality of work, while ensuring compliance so all engineering artifacts are completed in accordance with quality control operations.
19	Integration	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_cmdalkn.png	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_gpln.jpg	Accounts Receivable Integration	Built an integration portal to support data integration between 3rd party & trading partners to provision, consume & feed billing data onto the Great Plains platform which radically improved the billing & invoicing process. Invoices were published online for ease of distribution, while partners were able to transmit receivables into CommandAlkon for bills could be resolved electronically. The model was also extended under consulting arrangements to business customers so they may repeat the same process for their use efficiently. The solution developed provided standards for deploying Great Plains to the CommandAlkon enterprise and it's customer base allowing for standardized support, updates & backup which was also offered by CommandAlkon collectively. The future prospect for centralized billing was the impetus of this effort which allowed CommandAlkon to publish, print & distribute billing to supplement the business partner operations where infrastructure & resources were lacking.
20	CommandConcrete	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_cmdalkn.png	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_uface.jpg	CommandData	Refactored & re-platformed the UNIFACE based production management system into the VB environment with an Oracle database host. A set of standards, models & patterns were developed to help ease the development effort so that designs, code constructs, tables, services, APIs would always remain consistent to offer a manageable platform for supporting future generation of coders. Leveraging the Software Unification Framework that I developed unique to this organization offered a seamless method/flow of requirement, functional designs, test cases, acceptance & documentation ready for use by support personnel which required minimal inputs because change controls were put into place to ensure consistency. This significantly improved speed-to-market capabilities in an already demanding industry seeking solutions that embraced emerging technologies integrating with on-board computer/devices, radio phones & 3rd party appliances.
21	InterDev	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_tmb_cmdalkn.png	images/cmp_jcin_solpg_pan_idev.jpg	InterDev Development Platform	Developed VB, ASP, BackOffice framework for developing solutions using the InterDev platform, including a set of patterns, code standards, form designs & database objects in an effort to migrate a set of business applications adopting standards that facilitates seamless ingestion of project centric artifacts that will radically improve code to market, while increasing quality control capabilities. The enhanced VB platform allowed the software firm to develop integrated solutions that leveraged BackOffice applications that features order tracking, sales automation & document generation with minimal coding in the advent of DDE technologies. Advancements & established standards allowed CommandAlkon to compete directly with providers to lead the way into building new solutions that allowed intelligent interfaces with 3rd party vendors, and increase its business value and create a strong sense of leadership in the industry & globally.