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Tom Clancy CBA®
President
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Tom Clancy CBA® is a business executive with a blend of management consulting, business development, program management and technology background. Tom brings more than twenty-five years of hands-on experience in managing, planning and implementing business transformation projects to improve businesses’ financial return and strengthen business portfolios. The focus of Tom’s business value is realignment of core business processes with new customer needs and market demands.
Successes:
A Senior Business Architect with enterprise experience as a facilitator between business and IT, Tom’s expertise has allowed him to find the root causes of business problems and to provide overall leadership, guidance and definition, and deliver innovative solutions that contribute to the growth of the company. As a member of Accenture’s Business Architecture team, Tom was responsible for transitioning them to a “hoteling” work environment. Tom’s has also reengineered end-to-end operations for luxury hotels and architected a major system overhaul for a large e-commerce provider. Tom’s unique blend of skills has allowed him to successfully implement business transformation solutions in the Healthcare, Hospitality, and Consulting industries.
Specialties:
Tom specializes in Business Transformation Projects requiring a blend of Business Architecture, Technology and Program Management. Tom delivers his results by partnering with executive stakeholders and building teams focused on solutions that align business and technology.
Education/Certification:
Tom holds a Bachelor of Management of Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and an MBA in Finance from DePaul University. Tom is also a Certified Business Architect (CBA®) and the current president of the Business Architects Association.
Contact Tom at Tom.Clancy@businessarchitects.org
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Shawn Parkes CBA®
Business Architect
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Shawn Parkes CBA® is a Managing Business Architect with a 30 year career background spanning the areas of management consulting, enterprise governance, business modeling, program management and software delivery. Across all areas of experience, Shawn’s value has been focus helping organizations transform their operational readiness and business delivery effectiveness to obtain on both strategic and tactical high-value initiatives. His clients reside in the insurance, healthcare and web-business start up markets.
Successes:
Shawn is a highly accomplished Business Architect and Program Manager with an extensive history of enterprise-wide leadership in large-scale business architecture initiatives, alignment of corporate strategy to target business architectures, delivery of detailed architectures and mentoring of best practices to senior business leadership and below. Shawn delivers his results by partnering with executive leadership to devise delivery frameworks which maximizes an organizations personnel skill base, culture and organizational goals.
Specialties:
Shawn specializes in the optimization of Business Architecture practices, Program/Project Management, Business Process Management and IT Enterprise Architecture to accelerate the delivery of strategic and tactical high-value initiatives. A strong believer in the alignment of goals, measurements, practices and personnel, Shawn focuses on transforming these key areas to disengage biased cultural beliefs and practices within organizations and realign them to quality and customer centric principles.
Education/Certification:
Shawn holds a Bachelor of Science in Quantitative Business Analysis from the Indiana University Keller School of Management. Shawn is also a Certified Business Architect and the head of strategic direction for the Business Architects Association.
E-mail: Shawn.Parkes@businessarchitects.org
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Jack Hilty CBA®
Past President
Relationship Services
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Jack Hilty CBA®, PMP, CBPP, is Managing Principal and founder of SentientPoint, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in consulting, mentoring and professional training in Business Architecture and Business Process Management. Jack has over 25 years of experience leading IT departments in the design and development of and transition to Business Architecture environments.
Successes:
Jack is a highly accomplished Business Architect and Business Process Architect with an extensive history of enterprise-wide leadership in business architecture and business process design and development. Jack has a proven track record in designing business architecture, developing and implementing industry standards and aligning organizational processes with regulations for many notable Fortune 500 firms, resulting in improved business operations and reduced costs.
Specialties:
Jack specializes in Business Architecture, Program/Project Management, Business Process Management and Change Management. A strong believer in lifelong learning and the value of maintaining a realistic and relevant perspective and keeping current in an ever-changing business environment, Jack shares his extensive depth and breadth of knowledge as course creator and instructor of Business Architecture, Project Management and Business Process Management classes at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. In 2011, Jack received the prestigious Faculty Excellence Award from Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies.
Education/Certification:
Jack holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from DePaul University and has earned certifications as Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Business Architect (CBA®) and Certified Business Process Professional (CBPP), and completed the University of Chicago Project Management Strategy certification program. Jack is past president of the Business Architects Association and is a board member on the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Business Process Management Professionals (ABPMP).
Contact Jack at: jack.hilty@businessarchitects.org
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Nhat Tran CBA®
Relationship Services
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Nhat Tran CBA® is a global business executive with a blend of management consulting and entrepreneur background. He has a track record of creating new business capabilities to enable growth. Mr. Tran has over twelve years in the Health and Life Sciences Industry and over twenty years of business and technology consulting experience with Fortune 500 companies. He is currently serving as a business architect, in a consulting capacity, for large corporations across different industries.
Successes:
Nhat served as a partner in a big-five consulting company. During that time, he helped to increase market share for a large medical device company through a strategic capability that remotely monitors heart patients with implanted device over the Internet. Mr. Tran created a new business architecture for a large health plan to enable a new patient-centric strategy. He improved operational efficiency for a large health plan by creating a retail/distribution strategy with real-time claims processing. Mr. Tran also helped to increase top-line revenue for retail, publishing, and financial services companies through improved CRM capability.
Specialties:
Nhat specializes in bringing new products to market, leveraging the value of existing assets, lowering IT operating expenses, accelerating system integrations, and adapting to changes in market and regulatory environments. His industry specialization includes medical device and health insurance industry. His management expertise includes large scale transformation program management and technology planning / operations. His technical expertise includes business intelligence, eCommerce system development, offshore development and legacy system modernization.
Education/Certification:
Nhat is a Certified Business Architect. He is trained and experienced in large scale program management, enterprise architecture, and business architecture. He holds a MS in Computer Science and two Bachelor degrees, one in Applied Math and the other in Computer Science.
Contact Nhat at: nhat.tran@businessarchitects.org
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Keith Leust CBA®
Certification
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Keith Leust CBA® is a global business executive with a blend of operations, strategy, management consulting, technology and human resources. Over his 25 year career, he has a track record of transforming business capabilities to enable growth. Keith is an advisor to several venture start-ups providing operations, marketing and technology advice.
Keith is currently a senior business architect, in a consulting capacity, for large corporations across different industries. His role is to work with the "C" suite to ensure strategic alignment between leadership, organizational capabilities, business processes and the portfolio of initiates in place to drive revenue and growth.
In addition Keith is the co-chair of the Business Architecture Association (BAA) Educational Committee.
Successes:
By applying the business architecture framework Keith helped re-architected and transform Motorola IT reducing costs by $450 million. In addition he lead Motorola University including all Leadership Academy’s, launched a new direct distribution channel for Prudential, helped create a shared services capability for Wolters Kluwer and was a trusted business partner as a senior executive at American Express.
Specialties:
Keith specializes in business transformation and change management, leveraging the value of existing organizational capabilities, adapting to shifts in market and regulatory environments and building leadership capabilities to meet the demands of an increasing pace of change.
His industry specialization includes Telecommunications, Financial Services, Management Consulting, Manufacturing, Defense and Import/Export industries. His management expertise includes large-scale transformation program management, global change management and operations rationalization. His technical expertise includes business intelligence, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, enterprise asset management, supply chain and legacy system modernization.
Education/Certification:
Keith is a Certified Business Architect. He is trained and experienced in large scale program management, business architecture and organizational change. He holds an MBA in Finance and a second MBA in International Business, and an Engineering degree. In addition Keith is a Six Sigma Black belt, certified in Myers Briggs and is certified in HR/OD.
Contact Keith at: keith.leust@businessarchitects.org
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Dan Morris CBA®
Certification
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Dan Morris CBA®, CBPP is an executive manager with over 25 years of experience in business and IT transformation. He is recognized internationally as an expert in operational improvement and serves as a member of the Forrester International BPM Council.
Dan is currently a Managing Principal with Wendan, Inc., a firm that specializes in business improvement and offers the first BPMS-based business optimization methodology. Prior to this position, he served as the US Practice Director for BPM and SOA Consulting (this included Business Architecture) at Capco Consulting, the US Practice Director for Business Transformation in Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences for Infosys Technologies, an Executive Consultant for IBM, and a CIO for a major publishing firm.
He is currently a member of the Business Architects Association (BAA) Board of Directors and the co-chair of the Educational Committee.
Successes:
Dan has led large and small business transformation efforts in a variety of industries, including Insurance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, High Tech, Retail, Publishing and Food Processing. Individual projects have delivered up to $65,000,000 in savings.
In addition, Dan led the startup of successful practices in the Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences industries at Infosys. These practices were based on BPM and Business Architecture, and included consulting and solution development/delivery. Teams were multi-national and included members from India, China, Europe and the US.
Specialties:
Dan specializes in business improvement. He has pioneered numerous business transformation approaches and techniques that have been shared in his books, articles and speaking. Today, he combines Business Architecture with Business Process Management to provide an ability to deliver broad scale change with improvement that can be sustained through constant rapid evolution.
Education/Certification:
Dan is the author of three books on business transformation and over 50 papers and articles. He has spoken internationally at over 25 conferences and he has presented and moderated Webinars for the Association of Business Process Management Professionals. Dan has been a guest lecturer at the University Of Illinois School Of Business and has provided both classroom and video training. He is a primary author of the BAA Certified Business Architect (CBA®) certification test and the Association of Business Process Management Professional’s Certified Business Process Professional practitioner’s certification test (CBPP). Dan currently writes a monthly column for IQPC on BPM and business improvement and is a “Frequent Contributing Author” for BPMInstitute. Dan holds a BS in Geology
Contact Dan at: dan.morris@businessarchitects.org
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Norman Kwong CBA®
Past President,
Nominating Committee
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Norman Kwong CBA® currently serves as a Board Director for the Business Architects Association®. He has held the roles of President and Vice President of Marketing on the executive board of directors for the Business Architects Association®. He is also one of the founding members of the organization and has served as Nominating Committee Chair. Norman works in the retail/distribution industry, specializing in Business Strategy and Planning and Project/Program Management. He has extensive experience in both business and technology management in the corporate and entrepreneurial arenas. He has founded two successful businesses: a telecommunications training and consulting company and a Tennis Academy . Norman holds a BS in Business Information Decision Sciences from the University of Illinois, and a MBA in E-Business Strategy from DePaul University 's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business.
Contact Norman at: norman.kwong@businessarchitects.org
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David Martin CBA®
Member Services
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David Martin CBA® is Senior Designer at OCC, the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. David has more than 20 years of software development and project management experience in the financial trading industry. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA in MIS from DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. David has been a Certified Business Architect (CBA®) since 2007 and is the Director of Membership Services for the Business Architects Association.
Contact David at: david.martin@businessarchitects.org
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Mueed A Mohammed CBA®
Marketing & Communications
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Mueed A Mohammed CBA® is a entrepreneur and currently Serves as Co-Chair of Marketing and Communication for the Business Architects Association. Mohammed is a Certified Business Architect (CBA®) with Excellent business analysis skills with an ability to understand and translate business associated challenges with an IT solution. Mueed has over 8 years of experience of progressively challenging successes in Business Architecture, Business Analysis and Project Management in Marketing, Finance, Health Care industry with extensive Knowledge in Analyzing and managing complex IT projects with a cross-functional team of engineers, account managers, and sales support.
Mohammmed has a Bachelors of engineering degree in electronics and communication from Gulburga University, India and a Master of Science in Information Systems from Depaul University.
Contact Mueed Mohammed at: mueed.mohammed@businessarchitects.org
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David DeWitt CBA®
Corporate Affairs
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David DeWitt CBA® is Practice Director for NueVista Group’s IT Leadership Practice, which assists clients in strengthening their Business Analysis, Quality Assurance, and Project Management functions. NueVista Group provides a suite of expert IT consulting, support and staffing services designed to drive maximum value from technology systems, applications, and strategies.
David is a frequent speaker at professional associations and conferences, including Project Summit / BA World and Wisconsin Business Analysis Development Day, and has contributed articles to practitioner oriented-publications in his areas of interest, including Dr. Dobbs Journal and BA Times.
Contact David at: david.dewitt@businessarchitects.org
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Burt Covnot, PhD CBA®
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Burt Covnot, PhD CBA® is a Senior Vice President of Enterprise Architecture at Bank of America. Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small- and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. Burt has been with the bank for over 12 years.
As a Certified Business Architect, Burt creates and implements strategies to further business and IT agility leveraging SOA and BPM technology. He co-leads the bank's SOA Center of Excellence, consults with business/technology partners and works with senior leadership teams to develop scalable target architectures. Burt has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. A B.S. in Computer Science was earned from the University of Oklahoma.
Contact Burt at: burt.covnot@businessarchitects.org
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Scott Harris CBA®
Chicago Chapter President
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Scott Harris CBA®
Contact Scott at: scott.harris@businessarchitects.org
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Pat Johnson CBA®
Finance
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Pat Johnson CBA®
Contact Pat at: pat.johnson@businessarchitects.org
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Greg Suddreth
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Greg Suddreth
Contact Greg at: greg.suddreth@businessarchitects.org
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George Letavay
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George Letavay
Contact Gearge at: george.letavay@businessarchitects.org
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