John Cosmas | Success

Success is a journey, not merely a destination

Success in the eye of hybrids requires constant effort, heartful vigilance, and ever refreshing re-evaluation of one's self knowledge.

The Hybrid sees each Journey as Means to Meet Success

Governance

The many years of working in large corporations & small businesses helped me create & manage various practices to support enterprise governance operations that includes practice management, architecture & build-to-operate programs.

Startups

I have successfully employed my entreprenuerial skills to help build multiple startup firms throughout the west & east coast.

JEATZ.NET

In early 2000, the restaurant industry saw a mass decline in the industry, so a revolutinary marketing engine was developed to embrace a cognitive analytical program designed to deliver savings & deals to consumer while benefiting both patronage & productivity solutions to restaurants throughout major US cities.

Managed Dynamics

A post 9/11 firm that was built to support customized oversight, securitization, program management efforts to handle special projects on behest of Oracle, IBM and large organizations not limited to SOW, proof-of-concepts & delivery management to meet the growing demand of emerging technologies.

McElroy & Associates

MASTAFF.COM is a staff augmentation firm that provisions highly skilled professional with exclusive backgrounds in research, complex developments, patent designs and licensed creations that are hard to locate but is available through this agency that supplies to speciality organizations such as Bellcore, Oracle, SAP.

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1	GDPR	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_stbt.png	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_gdpr.jpg	GDPR Data Governance	GDPR was implemented at Wells Fargo Technology throughout the HR portfolio in a an effort to reduce risk, but more importantly, to reduce the data footprint that has been accumulating over the years. The adoption included data governance & retention policies that will ensure LOBs are protecting private data, and employs permissble views alongside directory file services to regulate access. Periodic audits and reviews also ensures applications are restricted after policy expires. The effort also focused on rules, regulation & processes for other jurisdictions such as California.
1	Transformation	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_wfylo.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_hrtrans.png	HR Digital Transformation	Implemented digital transformation effort that modernizes the HR landscape in preparation for integration with 3rd-party providers that are continuning to move towards cloud-based platforms in the benefits, compensation & payroll platforms. This effort required the adoption of data governance, retention, efficient data collection, data controls, and general provisioning services to ensure protected supply chain.
1	Migration	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_wfwht.png	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_elrn.jpg	eLearning Ecosystem	The move to a cloud-based System of Record, coupled with an Azure hosted database creates a Hybrid environment that allows a large corporation such as Wells Fargo to rapidly integrate with a web-based learning system while ensuring all corporate reporting requirements are met, while protecting organization's sensitive information. An ecosystem with service components ensures all courses are assigned, completed & reported on time, while it reduces the traditional overhead of a hosted platform that resides & places demands on corporate infrastructures.
1	Governance	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_wells.png	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_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 control, process breakdown, and portfolio management console. Platform includes account, reporting, architecture reviews, attendance module and review scheduling allowing Architecture Review Board (ARB) to approve architecture views off-line.
2	Intelligence	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_boafree.png	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_idm.gif	Intelligent Data Management	IDM is a transformation strategy that supports regulatory practices that enables data platforms to adopt governance, lineage, segementation, standards, provisioning, logging, security, persistence while leveraging permissible views, archiving, metadata repository, dictionaries, aggregations, modeling to reduce the overhead of enterprise data redundancy, replication, termporal data stores, inconsistencies & quality. The great benefit of a highly organized data platform is the reduced footprint, standardized data reporting, accurate logging of feeds & processing, and the ease of integrating new data sources into data lakes.
2	Transformation	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_dqc.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_dqm.jpg	Card Technologies Transformation	Card Technology adoption of the Intelligent Data Management effort required the extensive dispositioning of the existing platform to re-design the target state to transform data to reside onto a DB/2 (operational), Teradata (analytical) & Hadoop/Big Data (warehouse analytics) that resulted in an overall reduction of redundant data, while improving performance and retention that supports a vastly smaller footprint.
2	Dispositioning	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_lydbnk.png	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_eudata.jpg	European Divestiture	Provided aid during the European Divestiture by conducting a deep dive into the Card Technologies platform by identifying data utilization, query patterns, historical analysis accomplished via a thorough data dispositioning exercise as part of the EU effort. Held daily calls & coordinated issues, problems, connectivity/configuration & data transformation sessions with European partners to ensure successful access, provisioning & design of access policies, proper storage, cross border data movement, data controls, permissible views, application portals & reporting services.
3	Governance	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_boa.png	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_legal.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.
4	Modernization	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_boaflg.png	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_grnfld.png	Modernization & Greenfield Programs	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.
5	Acquisition	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_coke.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_ccbc.jpg	Consolidation HR Services	The CONA program enabled Coca-Cola to acquire bottlers within the southeast region and allow for the seamless integration of critical employee data into the consolidated bottling company with the added requirement of ensuring HCM services such as benefits, compensation, taxes are poperly handled. Consequently, data transformation, replication & sychronization had to be supported end-to-end while HR operations continued support for the partnering employees. The successful integration of SAP instances allowed seamless acquisition and continued provisioning of payroll, compensation & benefits services with little or no interruptions.
5	Integration	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_baml.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_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.
6	M & A	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_mtb.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_mtb.png	Business Banking Commercial Lending	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.
7	Transformation	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_bmw.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_bmw_rept.png	Sustainable Global Reporting Hub	Designed a global reporting hub to support the various LOB reporting & downstream needs to ensure a standard SOR/SOS provisions the correct information critical to BMW's operations worldwide. Strategy includes governance, retention, dispositioning, archiving & AD based access to govern protected data, and ensure privacy. Hub service enables use of SSIS, SSRS, replication, MDM, primitive automation to include MicroStrategy & Tableau to provide cutting edge reporting functions. The established framework for on-boarding applications, reporting agents enabled the accurate distribution of important data while protecting critical information.
8	Analytics	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_uline.png	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_uline.jpg	Data Analytics for Warehouse Management	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.
9	Integration	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_entgy.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_entgy.jpg	Market Mechanics	Entergy de-regulation meant that utility company had to support the provisioning of power from out-of-state sources including FL, LA, TX & AK. To help discern the consumer & retail landscape, the Market Mechanics program was developed to obtain a detailed understanding of the provisioning, billing & payment services to ensure that service execution will occur with limited risk & issues. The established model will be extended for production implementation as successive cycles are tested thoroughly & metrics meets compliance goals.
9	Integration	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_wcho.png	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_wachovia.jpg	Wachovia & First Union Bank Merger	The merger that occured in early 2000 required my assistance in helping identify applications, platforms & technology assets that will be consolidated, while maintaining the level of service expected by consumers to ensure continuous business activity.
9	Migration	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_blcore.png	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_swfra.jpg	Operation Support System	Loop Maintenance System replatform effort (LMOS) was multi-phased program enabling the roll-out of a replacement solution into the Oracle Java enabled platform that is more efficient, and has the ability to interface with a suite of existing OSS components. LMOS enables customer phone services, coupled with a CRM to ensure wires, lines, switch centers & dial-up services are all working while allowing scheduled repairs, restoration, notification leveraging master data bus technology to ensure accuracy of customer data.
9	Unification	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_cmdalkn.png	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_swfra.jpg	Software Unification Framework	Suited for fast growing organizations such as CommandAlkon seeking to standardize & streamline the way software is developed, tested, deployed & supported, the framework adopts the German V-Model to enable total quality management from requirements through seamless documentation with an added emphasis in automated testing to reduce defect introduction rates. This model was introduced to improve how solutions are delivered with the highest grade of satisfaction for the consumer, support staff & installers.
9	Practice	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_bllabs.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_swfra.jpg	Testing Community of Practicing Experts	TCoPE was created at Bellsouth Corporation to establish a set of practices, standards, patterns, tools and goverance processes to ensure total quality management in anticipation of Y2K programs. The principal goal was achieved in supporting the Y2K effort, but it laid the necessary groundwork for automated, load and inter-operability testing while ensuring a standard set of tests, data, end-points, metrics & patterns are met, allowing many projects & systems to achive its corresponding CMM/CMMi certifications. The great joy was having to influence to corporation to adopt contemporary PRINCE, PRINCE/II, COCOMO, COQUALMO, JAD & V-Model practices & principles.
10	Integration	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_tmb_mdptnr.jpg	images/cmp_jcin_sucspg_pan_mdptnr_cbo.jpg	Central Billing using SAP	Built & implemented the CBO operations for a Birmingham based medical provider that acquired practices throughout the south east that employed SAP billing on the AS/400 platform. Established a frame-relay private network infrastructure with workgroup workstations that supports billing consoles with centralized printing services, and rapid system deployment, backoffice functions, relying on standardized on-boarding to ensure seamless integration of facilities & practices in the region.