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A Window into the LGBT World.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As a Transgender Woman who transitioned later in Life, Debbie has experienced life as a gay man, a bisexual man, a heterosexual man, a lesbian woman, and a transgender woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debbie has published 12 books, as well as numerous articles for the LGBT community.  Debbie has also written thousands of articles in support of Linux and Open Source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of her books are focused on the experiences of LGBT people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debbie’s professional experience is shown below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Deborah R Ballard<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Profile<\/span>
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Debbie Ballard is a Senior IT Architect in
Business Automation<\/p>\n

Business Integration<\/p>\n

Cognitive Process Transformation
Cognitive Process Automation
Cognitive Process Management, Watson Integration.
IBM Certified IT Architect
IBM Certified BPM Architect
IBM Certified Cognitive Practitioner
OMG Certified Master IT Architect
Design Thinking Practitioner
Hyperledger Fabric & Blockchain
Cognitive Machine Learning
Data Visualization with Python
Robotics Process Automation
Blockchain<\/p>\n

Debbie has depth and breadth of experience including knowledge of BAW, RPA, BPM, ODM, IIB, WPS, WMB, IBM Cloud, Automation Anywhere, Blockchain, and Watson.\u00a0 Debbie also has a strong background in overall integration including Windows, Distributed (Linux\/Unix), and some Mainframe.\u00a0 She has a knack for finding effective solutions to difficult or complex problems, drawing on her breadth and depth of knowledge.\u00a0 Debbie is also an effective leader and has strong team-building skills.<\/p>\n

Debbie still has lots of ?Hands On? experience in problem resolution, root cause analysis, using her range of skills to move the action forward, then delegating to specialists to complete the resolution.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Employer History<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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02\/1999 – 12\/2019 (Retired)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

IBM Global Services, United States of America<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Sr IT Architect<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Consulted for Clients, established requirements, and planned solutions. Led engagements, including Project Management, coordinated of IBM, Client, and 3rd party resources.
Solid Solution Architect with a strong record of integration assignments using Business Automation Workflow (BAW, BPM, WPS), IBM Integration Broker (IIB, WMB), and WebSphere Application Server (WAS). Debbie is very effective at dealing with complex environments where the solution presents unusual challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n

Technical Lead for Implementation ? turning Design into Implemented reality. Often brought in as ?Fire Fighter? ? getting projects back on schedule or meeting aggressive deadlines. Provides mentoring and support for fellow practitioners. Business to Business Integration between companies. Engagements included Business to Business, geographic, and enterprise integration solutions. Designed and led the implementation of remote operations and management subsystems. Engagements ranged from 2 weeks to 2 years to provide implementation strategy, support for follow-up provided by other members of the team, and full life-cycle support from initial solution design to production roll-out and post-production support.<\/p>\n

Coordinated Windows, Unix\/Linux\/osX, and Mainframe teams. Implemented solutions, mentored, coached, and trained others within Client and IBM staff. Provided for large multiple organization solutions. Part of the new product offerings development teams. \u00a0Lead early deployments of new IBM products. \u00a0Debbie has also pioneered technologies to support effective offshore development and support teams. Debbie has also implemented project accelerators based on Open Source technologies which improve the productivity of the implementation and testing teams.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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09\/1997 – 02\/1999<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Prudential Insurance, United States of America<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

IT Architect & Technology Evangelist<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Corporate Information Technology division in support of all other divisions including Banking, Securities, Real Estate, Life Insurance, Health Insurance, Mutual Funds, and Compliance Management. Introduced new technologies including Linux, ActiveX, Java Beans, and RMI. Was accountable for overall connectivity of 100,000 workstations, several thousand servers.\u00a0 Cost\/Benefit analysis (ROI, ROE, TCO, Risk Analysis), including identification of competing technologies. Provide both tactical and strategic recommendations and guide their implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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01\/1997 – 09\/1997<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Computer Sciences Corporation, United States of America<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

IT Architect and Consultant<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Member of the Center for Systems Architecture. Performance Engineering team on a series of benchmarking and performance enhancement assignments. \u00a0Led team for performance tuning of Web Servers for E-Commerce, Switching Systems for PDA\/data collection systems, and Financial Services functions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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05\/1995 – 11\/1996<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

McGraw-Hill Standard & Poor?s, United States of America<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Director of Electronic Distribution<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Led using hands-on project management and overall responsibility for distribution of all electronic products. Products included MarketScope, Stock Reports, feeds to numerous wire services, and custom databases. \u00a0Coordinated efforts with Clients and Vendors. \u00a0Initiated Transition to the Internet and World Wide Web. Coached other divisions in Internet adoption.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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01\/1993 – 05\/1995<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Dow Jones Information Services, United States of America<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Alliance Developer Program Manager<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Managed 25 concurrent project teams totaling over 200 people.
Responsible for developing new distribution strategies including; Publish and Subscribe news feeds via Satellite, FM, CD-ROM, and the Internet. Led the effort to put the first national brand publisher on the Internet on the World Wide Web.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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11\/1991 – 12\/1992<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Consulting for IBM Boulder, Softtronics, IBM Kingston, United States of America<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Unix, X11, and Internet Consultant<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Commercialization of the Internet, Unix\/Linux, and Open Source.\u00a0 Open Source Software and Software Reuse Strategies by IBM, and implementation of UNIX on Mainframes.\u00a0 Led development of ?Internet For the Rest Of Us? package, including discussions, which led to Lynx, Opera, and Cello HTML browsers (predecessors of Mosaic and Netscape).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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02\/1990 – 11\/1992<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Great West Life Assurance Company, United States of America<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Senior Technical Specialist \/ IT Architect<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Responsible for technical infrastructure and architecture of 5 divisions.\u00a0 Recommended, Promoted, and Established Enterprise IT Standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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11\/1987 – 12\/1989<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Federal Express aka FEDEX, United States of America<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Senior Programmer Analyst<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Led the effort to make the ?SuperTracker? (mobile devices) reliable.
Team efforts led to Malcolm Baldridge award.
Awarded 3 Bravo Zulus, including 1 personal, and 2 team awards.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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07\/1982 – 11\/1987<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Computer Consoles Inc (now Northern Telecom), United States of America<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Senior Software Engineer<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

This work led to many of the standards now used on the Internet and Intranet. Part of a ?special forces? unit dedicated to quickly resolving breakdowns resulting from capacities that doubled every 6 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Assignment History<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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09\/2018 – 07\/2019<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

11 months<\/span><\/p>\n

MetLife<\/span><\/p>\n

SMB Integration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Integration Architect and Technical lead for integration of various integration between IBM Portal team, Majesco Third Party solution, and MetLife Legacy systems.\u00a0 Lead squads, conduct scrum meetings, coordinate reporting and progress management with PMs and help resolve technical issues, making decisions where necessary.\u00a0 Applied Agile methods to design stages as well as code and test stages.\u00a0 This project was recognized as ?Best Turnaround? for 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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05\/2018 – 08\/2018<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

4 months<\/span><\/p>\n

Watson Public Safety Client<\/span><\/p>\n

Watson Public Safety for Celgene<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Testing and Architecture support for Watson, BPM, IIB, and integrations.
Writing test scripts and helping with actual testing efforts.
Provided root cause analysis and support on some defects.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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03\/2018 – To date<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

18 months<\/span><\/p>\n

Roche<\/span><\/p>\n

Watson Public Safety for Roche<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Integration and Process Architect.\u00a0 Provide assistance and expertise in the high level design and integration design for the Roche interfaces to the Watson Public Safety product for Pharmacovigilance.\u00a0 This included participation in high level design, interviews with clients to identify and confirm requirements, identify and resolve gaps and risks, and provide design details on certain integration modules.\u00a0 Experience with Watson Public Safety, Cognitive technologies and, Document Processing.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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09\/2017 – 03\/2018<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Intelligent Automation Integration Center – IBM<\/span><\/p>\n

Intelligent Automation Integration Center<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Develop intelligent automation solutions using integrations of Robotics Process Automation (RPA), Business Process Management (BPM), Operational Decision Manager (ODM), Bluemix offerings including Cloudant, Database, DB2, Node.js Node-Red, Watson Analytics offerings, and various integrations as needed including SOA and REST interfaces as well as RPA interfaces to UI and Microsoft applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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08\/2017 – 09\/2017<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Mercedes Benz Financial Services<\/span><\/p>\n

MBFS IIB Modernization<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description:\u00a0 <\/span><\/u>Engagement lead.\u00a0 Perform assessment of IIB and make recommendations for improvement. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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01\/2017 – 07\/2017<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Banorte Bank Mexico City<\/span><\/p>\n

Sumando BPM and Integration Architecture<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Define large scale development, test, and production configurations for large clustered BPM systems on Cloud based technologies including integration strategies for Mobile devices and OCR systems.<\/span><\/p>\n

Debbie attended and participated in meetings conducted in both English and Spanish, working with team members who spoke primarily Spanish.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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06\/2016 – 12\/2016<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Ford SCA-C Integration Lead \/ Architect<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: In this engagement, Deborah took on responsibility for leading both the on-shore and off-shore integration for the SCA-C project, which was an MDM and Quality Stage-based solution.<\/u> These were micro-service integration solutions for roughly 100 web services connected to 190 proxy services (REST).\u00a0 Led the offshore and onshore teams, providing guidance and hand-off support between the systems.\u00a0 Played a role in addressing several management issues within the project, including deliverables, change management, decision management, scope management, and using agile techniques to meet aggressive document and code delivery schedules.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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04\/2016 – 06\/2016<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Bid & Proposals Excel Energy, HCSC<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Assisted IBM partners in creating bid and proposal documents including drafts of Statement of Work.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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08\/2015 – 03\/2016<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Morgan Stanley<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Grapevine Remediation Project.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Debbie led a team that was asked to convert a 25-year-old legacy mainframe CICS app to Web Services for CICS and WebSphere MQ. Debbie was the primary on-site client-facing team leader, leading teams in Bangalore, Pune, India, and Lansing, Michigan. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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07\/2015 – 08\/2015<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

IBM Legacy Modernization Group<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Bid and Proposal work.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Worked with IBM Legacy Modernization group to provide support for bid and proposal efforts for Atradius, JPMC, and Morgan Stanley.\u00a0 Won the bids.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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06\/2015 – 07\/2015<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

IBM Internal Project<\/span><\/p>\n

C-Suite Survey and Socialization.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Debbie functioned as project manager on this internal project.\u00a0 She also helped team members collaborate with each other more effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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01\/2015 – 05\/2015<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

EY (fka Ernst & Young)<\/span><\/p>\n

ATM PE\/RE Tax Space<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>As an Infrastructure Technical Team Lead, Debbie was responsible for identifying the technical and non-functional requirements for the project and work with the IBM Cloud Services organizations to design and implement a solution that would enable a quick entry at a lower cost, with the ability to scale to roughly 100 times the load and performance over the next 5 years.\u00a0 The solution included BPM, DB2, MDM, ODM, and Netezza, to optimize performance and flexibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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04\/2014 – 12\/2014<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Oncor Electric Delivery<\/span><\/p>\n

Mainframe Migration Program – BPM Integration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Legacy Modernization – mainframe application to CC&B using BPM, WPS, Sterling Business Integrator, and ODM.\u00a0 Led the effort to resolve defects and design change recommendations. Responsible for coordinating developer, tester, and management efforts.\u00a0 Responsible for Triage and Root Cause Analysis on numerous defects, then coordinating the efforts to resolve the issues, defects, and changes to completion.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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10\/2013 – 03\/2014<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

PECO<\/span><\/p>\n

Meter Failure Analysis and Repair Tracking -IoT<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Lead Architect and technical lead for BPM project. Automate a complex process for reviewing leads that indicated possible meter failures base on IoT meter data, to help determine cause and remediation. In addition, the process would reduce the workload by automating the identification of false positives and duplicate leads. Train client staff in the technologies used.\u00a0 Used Kanban Agile for management.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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01\/2013 – 09\/2013<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

State Farm Insurance<\/span><\/p>\n

Legacy Migration of Customer Support Systems<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Implement roughly 44 integrations between the STG product and the various Enterprise Data Centers (DCs).\u00a0 Reviewed and supported the rest of the team in high-level design, detail design, and infrastructure configuration to support the desired integrations.<\/span><\/p>\n

As lead architect, coached, mentored, supported, and empowered the other architects and specialists on the team. Also provided support, coaching, and guidance to IBM project management teams and provided communications to State Farm management, including updated plans, progress tracking, and issue tracking and reporting.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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11\/2012 – 01\/2013<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Nestle Waters<\/span><\/p>\n

Bid & Proposal – Legacy PICK\/U2 Migration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Bid and Proposal work – assess RMS application and identify ways to improve performance, stability, and better integration.\u00a0 Provided a blueprint & solution to improve performance of both UI and Web Service performance substantially, eliminating the need to create manually coded custom ad-hoc reports.\u00a0 Lead architect on the project. Solution and approach accepted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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08\/2012 – 10\/2012<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

LL Bean<\/span><\/p>\n

Sr Integration Consultant<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Provide documentation for staff and processes for an Integration Center of Excellence based on WMB, WSRR, DataStage, InfoSphere, and IIS.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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02\/2012 – 08\/2012<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Fannie Mae<\/span><\/p>\n

Business Process Management & Integration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: Technical Lead and Lead Architect for multiple projects BPM, including integration with Documentum and TIBCO.<\/u> Provided technical leadership and project management and scrum master.\u00a0 Led a team of 10 developers, 4 IBM Business Process Analysts, client technical leads and project management leads working on-site and remotely.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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05\/2011 – 02\/2012<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

New York Life<\/span><\/p>\n

BPM for WebSphere Portal OBA<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: Led initial BPM effort at the New York Life Service Portal project.<\/u> This included several overlapping Agile projects.\u00a0 Also worked with NYL to build and mentor their support staff as well as help them develop a COE.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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03\/2011 – 05\/2011<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

IBM<\/span><\/p>\n

Procurement Systems<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Provide a solution for integrating IBM’s procurement systems, including integration with front-end user interfaces, IBM data warehouses, and SAP systems.\u00a0 Led a team of WMB specialists integrating to the various back-end systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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01\/2011 – 03\/2011<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Husqvarna<\/span><\/p>\n

Business Rules Proposals<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Review client requirements, as well as future plans and “Wish Lists” in terms of business rules and asses the ability of JRules, in combination with WebSphere Commerce Server, to help meet these special business rule requirements.\u00a0 This included providing some examples of how the client’s business rules would be implemented using JRules in combination with WebSphere Commerce Server.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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12\/2010 – 01\/2011<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Walmart<\/span><\/p>\n

Managed Web Services<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Help Walmart and IBM team integrate external Walmart Managed Web Services and other legacy services into BPM.\u00a0 Primary responsibilities included gathering initial requirements and coordinating them, as well as high-level solution design and detailed design.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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07\/2010 – 11\/2010<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Bid & Proposal Solutions<\/span><\/p>\n

Bid & Proposals IoT<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>IoT Solutions for:<\/span><\/p>\n

HealthNow – Proposal for Modeler and WPS solution to help them streamline their Rate Letter negotiation process, coordinating both regulatory and business requirements while still being responsive to the customer in a timely manner.<\/p>\n

Caterpillar – Mining Equipment Monitoring System – using SCADA MQTT IOT real-time data collection, business rules, statistical analysis, and business intelligence – worked with IBM Research (Watson Labs), Software Group, and Global Services to help create a proposal to introduce a new product to Caterpillar.<\/p>\n

Sanofi Aventis – Diabetes Monitoring system using smart glucose meters, cell phones, process management, and business intelligence. The goal was to proactively monitor glucose readings and meter usage, especially for patients at risk for complications.<\/p>\n

IBM Software Service & Support\u2014BPM Proposal to more effectively plan renewals to keep customers. The proposal would proactively alert sales and renewal service reps so that customers were comfortable with the new terms and renewal process.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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03\/2010 – 06\/2010<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

NJ Courts<\/span><\/p>\n

PDT Integration – IoT<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Create integration between hand-held devices and corporate servers using WMB and MQTT transport. This allowed reliable messaging from the device to the administration database, as well as the ability to search the servers for outstanding warrants and send out alerts for stolen vehicles.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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09\/2009 – 03\/2010<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

QVC Cable Network & Web Sales<\/span><\/p>\n

QVC Order Commerce Server Portal<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Responsible for configuring high-performance clusters based on MQ, WMB, and servers to support high availability and high reliability.\u00a0 Worked with client and IBM teams from various divisions.\u00a0 Also supported Commerce Server and Message Broker to use VMs to access Client environments securely.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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06\/2009 – 08\/2009<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Various Clients<\/span><\/p>\n

Bib & Proposals<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Evaluated RFP and RFQ requests and worked with IBM teams to provide solution design and pricing for solutions based on WPS, FileNet, JRules, and SAP.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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03\/2009 – 04\/2009<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Federal Reserve Bank<\/span><\/p>\n

Cash Processing modernization<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Analyzed the viability of the Standard Cash Application and related cash applications. Identified the risks and provided mitigation strategies. Provided plans that would extend of the viability to 2014 if necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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01\/2009 – 03\/2009<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Moodys Financial Services<\/span><\/p>\n

Report Distribution Integration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: Provide web services to clients and notify those clients when a rating has changed.<\/u>\u00a0 Used FileNet, JRules, MQ, and WMB on Linux, AIX, and Windows.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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11\/2008 – 12\/2008<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Ericsson<\/span><\/p>\n

WebSphere Process Management & Integration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Next Generation Information System (NGIS) based on SOA, SOMA, and Virtualization. Using WAS, WMB, WESB, WPS, and WSRR.\u00a0 \u00a0My role was to interview the client, identify their actual needs, determine which products among IBM’s offerings would best fit those needs, and formulate a plan to deploy this solution based on their current and planned infrastructure and IT Architecture.\u00a0 Won the bid also resulted in the successful signing of a substantial support contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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06\/2008 – 11\/2008<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Al Inma Bank ? Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/p>\n

Banking System Financial IT Architecture<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Provide leadership in developing architecture and infrastructure for a large banking system, including integration of solutions provided by several vendors providing industry-specific solutions such as regulatory compliance, integration with ATM and Credit Card vendor networks, and exchanges (SWIFT, SAMA, SARIE, and FOREX).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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01\/2008 – 06\/2008<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

General Motors<\/span><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Lead management system to capture leads from dealers, and manage those leads, and allocate incentives based on delivery. The goal was to turn more of the “Be Back” shoppers into buying customers.\u00a0 This project required the integration of legacy systems using the Automotive Dealer (ADF) format to industry-standard STARS SOA transactions.\u00a0 Used DataPower, RSA, and WMB.\u00a0 Responsible for the infrastructure and system configuration details, as well as root cause analysis for defects during the testing phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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10\/2007 – 01\/2008<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

California Department of Corrections<\/span><\/p>\n

Bid & Proposals<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Coordinate with multiple vendors on the implementation of an SOA-based solution to help coordinate and monitor health care in jails, prisons, and other correctional facilities.\u00a0 Formulate hardware and core software requirements for the proposed solution and coordinate the pricing and performance.
IBM won the bid.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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09\/2007 – 10\/2007<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

National Australia Bank<\/span><\/p>\n

NAB Farm Mortgage Processing<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Review business requirements, formulate architecture, document architectural choices, price recommended architecture, and evaluate alternate solutions. The client chose one of the alternate (lower initial cost) solutions based on SOA (WAS, WMB, and SaaS components) and ECM (FileNet and DB2 Content Manager).
Bid was accepted<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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08\/2007 – 09\/2007<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Federal Reserve Bank<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: Project Description: Bid and Proposal for Architectural Review of BCS-3000 currency counting system and it’s interfaces to the rest of the bank’s auditing and control systems.<\/u>\u00a0 Bid was accepted.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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03\/2006 – 07\/2007<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

ViewPointe Check Image Exchange<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: Primary responsibility as Lead architect to create a high-performance archive using clusters of databases to achieve 8,000 transactions per second performance on a 1-petabyte archive used to exchange check images between banks in compliance with Check21 regulations.<\/u> Architecture included integration with established Information On-Demand Database\/Tape archive libraries to access long-term storage. Access included interactive access via WAS and bulk access. Used C++ (client request) Objects on AIX.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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SunTrust<\/span><\/p>\n

B2B Audit and Enhancement Proposals<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: Audit the current B2B architecture, identify the available documentation, organize it, and summarize it in a manner that would allow an offshore team to quickly assess issues and contact the appropriate support teams.<\/u> Systems WMQ, DB2, WAS, WMB, and Infrastructure, including networks, server configuration, and SAN configuration.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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11\/2004 – 09\/2005<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Missouri Department of Transportation<\/span><\/p>\n

Identity Management and SSO<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Primary Responsible for implementation of Portal security based on IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Access Manager, Identity Manager, and Directory Integrator. Provided support for WMQ, DB2, AIX, and Windows administration. Coordinated multiple agency departments, multiple vendors, and multiple subcontractors.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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07\/2004 – 11\/2004<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Bloomberg Financial Services<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: My primary responsibility was to train and support a team of developers creating a business-oriented clustered solution for providing time-sensitive information to users and reliable interactive support. This included supporting the Portal Team and<\/span><\/u>\u00a0training and supporting teams to use MQ on C, C++, Java, Solaris, Linux, Windows, and proprietary systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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03\/2004 – 08\/2004<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Department of Homeland Security<\/span><\/p>\n

Intelligence<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Details are Top Secret – generally:
Primary responsibility for the generation of tools to generate the DDL, Extraction and Load, Integration, and other support tools, as well as support and training. In addition, often assumed responsibilities for AIX, MQ, Network, and Security, including coordination of these teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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08\/2003 – 03\/2004<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Zurich North America<\/span><\/p>\n

P&C Claim Management & Integration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Pioneer real-time offshore connectivity solutions. Providing teams in Bangalore the ability to interactively develop and test Client development and target systems, including WMQ, WMQI (WMB), DB2, Unix, and mainframe development systems. Due to the demands of both environments, the solution required detailed attention to security, network connectivity, availability, automated recovery, and minimal operator intervention. Costs also had to be kept to a minimum to maximize the benefits of offshore development and testing.\u00a0 Became the foundation of future off-shore efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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07\/2001 – 08\/2003<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

IBM<\/span><\/p>\n

BTCIO Business to Business Integration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Business to Business solution, focusing primarily on the gateway technologies between the manufacturer and various client companies. Provided recommendations for implementation, platforms, security, performance, and availability, as well as enhanced remote administration and diagnostic capabilities to minimize travel requirements. Coordinated the efforts of up to 100 people in various locations, including the UK, NC, CT, CA, CO, Canada, and India.\u00a0 Helped develop remote collaboration tools and techniques to manage global teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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04\/2001 – 06\/2001<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Banorte<\/span><\/p>\n

Integration Strategy<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Review IT Architecture projects within the bank. Formulate an Integration strategy and formulate a proposal. Won bid.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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02\/2001 – 04\/2001<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Amica Insurance<\/span><\/p>\n

Enterprise Integration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Provided a complete architectural review of several divisions and formulated an architecture to integrate the various divisions.\u00a0 Developed integration solutions and led performance enhancement efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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05\/2000 – 12\/2000<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

MetLife<\/span><\/p>\n

Enterprise Integration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Provided architectural design for implementation of integration between Client Company and financial information provider. The solution involved a combination of CICS, CORBA, XML, and MQSeries using Java RMI\/IIOP, SAX, and DOM. Led the implementation of the solution and integration into the client enterprise environments. Coordinated with teams in NYC, Colorado, and Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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01\/2000 – 04\/2000<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Quest Communications<\/span><\/p>\n

IMS Legacy Integration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: Provided architectural review and proposal for integration of Telephone company systems to external web and MQSeries-based interfaces for Pressler Act Compliance, allowing other carriers to offer combined services.<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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06\/1999 – 12\/1999<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Alaska Communications Company<\/span><\/p>\n

Pressler Act Service Integration<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: <\/span><\/u>Provide a complete architectural review of the customer service infrastructure and design architecture for providing secure integration of the two companies to comply with the Pressler Act. This allowed both companies to sell both cable and phone services and to request service from each other without giving away marketing information.\u00a0 Led the Implementation team, including both IBM and Client resources. Trained client staff in operations, diagnostics, technical support, and security procedures.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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04\/1999 – 07\/1999<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield<\/span><\/p>\n

Architecture Review – HIPPA<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: Based on preliminary specifications, the IGS team provided a complete architectural review of health insurance and recommendations for integration and HIPPA compliance. The team implemented a proof of concept and implementation framework<\/u>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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02\/1999 – 05\/1999<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

AT&T Wireless<\/span><\/p>\n

Enterprise Architecture Review<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Project Description: Provide a complete architectural review of the supply chain, including network, infrastructure, platforms, security, and middleware, as well as applications.<\/u> Formulate a recommendation for architectural enhancements and a budget and schedule for implementation. The recommendation was accepted and successfully implemented by an IGS team.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Debbie has most recently been doing work in
– Cognitive Process Transformation – Blueworks Live
– Cognitive Process Management – Watson Health
– App Connect & API Connect
– Design Thinking Practitioner
– RPA including Automation Anywhere
– Integration Broker (WMB, IIB) & MQ
– Operational Decision Manager, (ODM)
– Cloud (KVM, VMWare, vSphere, Box, Docker, Kubernetes, BlueMix)
– Cognitive – Machine Learning
– IT Infrastructure
– Mainframe & Legacy Modernization
– MDM (Integration)
– Agile Project Leadership<\/span><\/p>\n

Debbie has functioned as an Architect in various roles, including
– Infrastructure Architect, Solution Architect, Integration Architect
– Project Management – Waterfall and Agile projects.
– SQL, Database, Web Services, Data Analysis, some NoSQL
– Cloud, Clusters, Open Source, Linux, AIX, Unix.<\/p>\n

Debbie is actively engaged in
-Cognitive Process Transformation and Management (BPM),
– IIB, WMB, ESB, WMQ, SOA, REST
– IBM Cloud IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS solutions, including Watson
– Projects include integration for Cognos, FileNet, and JRules\/ODM.<\/p>\n

Debbie is a ?Hands On? Enterprise\/Solution Architect with hands-on experience in both breadth and depth across the industry and the ability to translate her experience into solutions for Corporate Enterprises and Government Agencies, on large-scale, high performance projects. Debbie also communicates well and effectively, both written and oral communications.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Key Courses and Training<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Certified BPM Developer
Certified Cognitive Practitioner
Block Chain Essentials Badge
IBM Automation Practitioner Badge
Data Visualization with Python Badge
IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer Badge
Python for Data Science Badge
Machine Learning with Python Badge
Enterprise Thinking Practitioner Badge<\/span><\/p>\n

Debbie has taken formal corporate courses in Project Management, Engagement Management, IT Architecture, Design methodologies, and numerous IT development products. Training in Unix, Database, Network, Windows, and mainframe, including programming, administration, and architecture.\u00a0 Debbie has also taken a number of leadership training courses as well.<\/p>\n

Debbie also trained up to 1000 hours\/year since 1976, in addition to regular assigned tasks. This keeps Debbie pushing the envelope of technology and bringing new technologies to the corporate enterprise.\u00a0 She has worked on a few garage projects and pilot projects as well.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Python for Data Science Badge in Training and experience using Python for Data Science<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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IBM – ACCLAIM, United States of America, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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IBM – ACCLAIM, United States of America, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Hyperledger Fabric tools on Watson Studio., 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Machine Learning with Python I<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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IBM – ACCLAIM, United States of America, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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IBM – ACCLAIM, United States of America, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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IBM – ACCLAIM, United States of America, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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IBM Automation Practitioner in Training and Experience using Automation Tools<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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IBM – ACCLAIM, United States of America, 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Architect Profession Certification I in Recognition of 30 years as IT Architect<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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IBM – ACCLAIM, United States of America, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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OMG Master Architect certification since 2001<\/span><\/p>\n

IBM Certified Architect since 2001<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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SELP, ILP, TMLP-I, TMLP-2, Wisdom Program in Leadership Training<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Landmark Education Corporation, United States of America, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Thesis Title: CEUs (200 CEUs) in Leadership Training Landmark Education, US – Community to Global leadership., 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Certified Master IT Architect in Certified Master Architect<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Object Managment Group, United States of America, 2001<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Bachelors in Business, Performing Arts Management<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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IBM Certified IT Architect in Architect Certification<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Deborah Ballard: Regular Contributor to BPM Practitioners E-mail List<\/b>, in: email list, BPM Practitioners, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Deborah Ballard: Various titles<\/b>, in: 8 Novels, Amazon, 2015-2019<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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as Rex Ballard: 8000 articles on commercialization of Linux and Open Source Software<\/b>, in: Comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.*, Usenet News, Google Groups, 1996<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Rex Ballard: Blogs and Internet\/web history<\/b>, in: open4success.org, Web Site, 1996<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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as Rex Ballard: 7,000 articles on Internet Commercialization<\/b>, in: Online Newpapers Mailing List, Online News Mailing List, E-mail – invitation only list of 8,000 publishers, 1992<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Legal Name & Gender Change May 2014
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Speaker and Blogger – Transgender Support Groups<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Mentor & Coach – Coach and train subordinates and coworkers in leadership and technical skils designed to increase their value as leaders and delivery on current and future projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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