Convergent Informatics
Cross Industry Experience
Business Due Diligence
Convergent Informatics reviewed the state of a business' IT infrastructure before acquistion. After purchase, Convergent Informatics mapped out the core systems, business processes and identified key staff training needs. Created report mapping out the potential improvements and their relative importance. (client comment)
Acquisition and IT integration
During the acquisition of a large out of state BioTech in 2002 led the computer infrastructure group at a large BioTech firm. Computer infrastructures were successfully merged on day one of the acquision.
Business and IT Change Management
Implemented a Business and IT change management program for the Commercial Function of a large BioTech. Resulted in a dramatic reduction of outages to less than one per quarter and enabled the IT department to support a five-fold expansion of sales without a budget increase.
Information Architecture
Prepared first company wide IT architecture strategic plan for a large BioTech company. The plan allowed IT senior management to prioritize projects and support five-fold increase in company's size.
Project Management
Implemented a Project Management Web Portal capability to provide access to Product Program metrics, status tracking and shared calendar. As a result Project Managers were able to more effectively communicate and share information with their leadership, peer groups and sub teams.
Created approach to management development
of a multi-billion dollar, multi-country implemented deep
space mission to Saturn. Enable NASA/JPL to understand at
all times the risks to the development schedule. An
article describing the process was published
AN INNOVATIVE DISTRIBUTED PROJECT CONTROL APPROACH: A CASE STUDY OF THE CASSINI MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (CMIS) by Michael W. Hughes and Reed E. Wilcox, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Engineering Management Journal Vol 8 No 1, March 1996. View PDf
