David Rogers

My name is David Rogers, and I am Optimizer-in-Chief at Coalescence CIO Advisory.

My passion is helping people to run their business while growing their business.

My experiences have led me to two areas where I believe I have a niche play:

1. I examine challenges in the context of the business, specifically snapshots of the company – past and present – to suggest planning, resources, tactics, and roadmaps that are strategically informed and aligned.
2. I focus on where business and technology intersect directly in the workplace – the data – and the people who create it, collect it, curate it and consume it. We map the data and the people to the organization’s processes, tooling and control frameworks to reveal opportunities to improve performance.

I have supported C-level sponsored initiatives as a Management Consultant for firms in

• Life Science / Biotech (Celgene, Novartis, Sanofi), 
• Insurance (Guardian, The Principal, Zurich Insurance) and 
• Cable/Cloud/Telecom (Comcast, Cox, Rogers, Sprint, Virtustream - A Dell Business). 

I often served as a Business Architect, Governance Architect, Master Data Management SME or as Project or Program Manager. Many of these engagements were post-merger IT integrations, divestitures, and joint venture start-ups.

I have also been entrusted with three vertical (global, organizational) transformations through a position as the inhouse IT stakeholder.

• I led a cross-functional team for three years to transform IEEE’s $130 million conferences business from a support team chasing tickets to a strategic partner of the organizers enabled by automation. 
• We modernized data management, product management and user support capabilities worldwide (and in multiple languages) while I was Head of Information for Morasha Olami. 
• We professionalized internal operations supporting clients and Backoffice teams as CIO / Director of Corporate Development at Knowledgent, where I also led tip of the spear client engagements, specifically for those companies adopting big data and advanced analytics into their operations.

It has not mattered whether this was in the for-profit or nonprofit sectors. Their business lifecycles are similar enough in essence.

This includes in the public sector, where I began my career as an urban planner. That position required working across jurisdictions (townships, counties, NJ state, federal) as a matter of course. Specifically, while at NJTPA, I worked directly with staff at NJDoT, NJT and FHWA, and independently with the Rutgers Transportation Institute.

If you have not experienced these kinds of transformations at work, it can be rough on people, companies, and markets. They rapidly adjust, or they don't. Either way, the turbulence deeply affects livelihoods of those affected first-hand as well as profits, regardless of how orderly it may seem to proceed from the outside.

I have gone through these periods my entire career. I learned some time back that Change and Uncertainty do not concern me. They look like Opportunities to me. I apply this characteristic to mitigating the strain of processing change on people and organizations through my work.

I'll take on the complexity for any sensible and dependable partner willing to back me. Whether it is driving change outcomes, stabilizing operational environments, or building new teams, tell me what you want, why and what that looks like for you and I can help you with the rest.

Head of InformationMarch 2020 – April 2022

Morasha Olami, Inc. a global community of Jewish organizations committed to inspiring young adults

• Cultivated alignment and rational investment during a pandemic induced transformation to balance business as usual with innovation employing Business Architecture
  • Assembled a shared business blueprint that creates a common framework for understanding and prioritizing resources for strategic investment, specifically where they intersect with IT
  • Mapped functional processes, underlying value streams, data flows and stakeholder touchpoints
  • Architected a global solution of the business across regions and strategic innovation initiatives
• Transformed our worldwide portfolio of software development, data management and IT services into a seamlessly integrated three-tier operations model for our stakeholders in three languages globally
  • Integrated Scrum Agile Product development practices into operations under transformation
  • Groomed a BizOps team providing product development, testing and operations services as well as enabling innovation and is used to self-organizing to task
  • Introduced Jira Product Management & Jira Service Management to collaborate globally
  • Staged and drove implementation of a data migration and quality management program 
  • Enabled judicious reporting & dashboard development in SFDC by a master & his acolytes 
• Program managed and architected our five-zone automated warehouse built for rapid adoption by a wider audience that ensures data quality and dependability of our reporting and dashboards 

Business Architect, Product Manager April 2017 – January 2020

Virtustream, A Dell Technologies Business

• While supporting a DevOps team, we increased stakeholder confidence in the data quality of our Lead to Quote (LTQ) systems, integrating SFDC, SAP and SNOW with the cloud configuration tool we cared for, greatly simplifying and accelerating the process.
• Delivered three master data hubs and data stewardship operations across a dozen organizations

Knowledgent Group, Inc, an Industry Information Consultancy July 2012 – January 2016Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Risk Officer

• Drove key initiatives that re-launched the firm directly increasing revenue 33% in the first year 
• Improved operations and recruited amazing teams to establish departmental foundations for building culture, revenue, and scalability 
• Developed the Saas-based architecture that once implemented transformed IT service delivery to our field, offices and partners, creating safe places in which surplus bandwidth could be used to innovate
• Directed an effort to identify & mitigate security / continuity risks to operations 
• Aligned the organization’s security operations with industry standards (NIST, ISO 27001, PCIDSS, HITRUST) and legislation (HIPAA, EU Privacy) 
• Oversaw HITRUST certification & annual organization control attestations (SSAE16 SOC 2 Type II)

Client Engagement Lead

• Served consulting teams that architected and built proofs-of-value for emerging Big Data and Advanced Analytics design patterns, methodologies and technologies solving executive stretch goals, creating competitive advantages for our clients, 
  • Example clients: Celgene, Citi, Guardian, The Principal, Sanofi and Zurich Insurance.
  • Gained familiarity with data design patterns including acquisition programs, data exchanges, data fabrics and meshes, ETL/ELT data pipelines, federated operational data stores, master data management, semantic technologies, syndication hubs, unstructured data and warehousing. 
• Launched Citi’s Innovation Office, managing their newly created internal big data service bureau until permanent management could be onboarded into the position.

Senior Manager, Conferences Business and Technology OfficeJune 2008 – July 2012Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)

• Directed the $10m transformation of IEEE‘s back-office teams and their technology to provide world-class capabilities and support to the thousands of volunteers running $130 million per year and growing in global conferences
• Architected the solution that would replace legacy ones over a four year three-phase program schedule and oversaw its delivery, including cleansing, enriching and synchronization of data
• Managed the legacy home-grown solution and the support operation through its retirement
• Facilitated cross-departmental adoption of SOA Governance by mission-critical IT teams

⮚ SOA Architect, SOA Service Governance Specialist, Arcitura

⮚ Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC)

⮚ Certified Business Architect (exam pending)