John Manecke, Topotag LLC

Objective

Contract positions supporting Enterprise Architecture, SOA Integration, IT technical strategy and IT governance with government or commercial clients.

Significant executive-level experience with Enterprise Architecture and IT Investment Management for US Government customers. Currently developing architecture for Health Care IT at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Considerable work with Department of Defense (DOD) enterprise architecture, SOA transformation and investment management. Demonstrated success in chief architect roles and leading architecture teams on enterprise-level architecture for multiple DoD Mission Areas. Experienced software development manager and project manager.

Work Experience

Manager/Owner

12/2009 - Present, Topotag LLC, Arlington, VA

Lead Business Architect on contract supporting Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Business Architecture. Build Enterprise Architecture repository of health care business processes.
Lead BPMN Modeler for Medication Management and Medication Reconciliation processes. Manage stakeholder engagement and customer expectations. Analyze patient encounter, medication reconciliation, and pharmacy processes and model using BPMN. Develop visualization of applications and business processes using iRise. Advise on archtiecture and modeling tools and tools configuration.
Owner and Manager of Topotag LLC. Manage daily operations, business development, services delivery and customer satisfaction. Deliver consulting engagements with customers at the Veterans Administration (VA). Provide proposal writing services (RFP responses) for customers seeking business with US Air Force, DoD, Veternas Administration.

Service Area Manager/Enterprise Architect

10/2002 - 12/2009 IBM, Fairfax, VA

Enterprise Architect for US Army Human Resources Command. Define SOA integration strategy to drive system migration for Army HR systems. Create IT strategic governance processes for system modernization and consolidation. Develop strategic technical direction and system migration plans. Lead Technical Solutions Process Action Team (PAT) for client’s CMMI effort.
Enterprise Architect and Project Manager for DOD Business Transformation Agency and DoD CIO. Managed teams to develop multiple releases of DOD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) using DODAF. Developed and implemented plans for stakeholder engagement. Chief Architect for development of Enterprise Information Environment Mission Area (EIEMA) Architecture for DOD CIO. Defined architecture evolution and segment architectures.
Department Manager at IBM leading team of 15-20 consultants engaged on multiple projects. Responsible for project staffing, career development, pay, promotion and HR actions. Responsible for business metrics for department.
Additional Clients: US Census Bureau, US Air Force, IRS

Principal Consultant

10/1998 - 10/2002 PricewaterhouseCoopers, Fairfax, VA

Software Development Manager leading four concurrent development teams on commercial software releases. Developed software adapters for EAI vendor to sell as part of their product portfolio. Managed offshore development effort using team of landed and offshore resources.
Team lead for eCommerce and new initiative development team. International project developing internet channel for European Telecommunications Company. Managed split development between US and European teams. Advised on strategic partnerships between customer and other companies in telecommunications and internet markets in Europe.
Additional Customers: US Air Force, US Postal Service

Senior Information Systems Engineer

4/1997 - 10/1998 Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA

Developed Levels of Information Systems Interoperability (LISI) model used to evaluate and manage interoperability of DoD systems. Compliment to DoD C4ISR Architecture Framework (forerunner to DODAF). Created publication quality documentation and evangelized the concepts to DoD community.

Intelligence Officer

5/1992 - 4/1997 United States Air Force, Multiple Locations in US and Europe,

Multiple positions in project management and information systems acquisition of intelligence computer systems. Managed budget and expenditure of $20 million for information systems through the US Department of Defense budget and spending process. Responsible for resource planning for systems development life cycle. Led system installation team in international environment - conducted user training and provided technical support. Planned for technology insertion and legacy system migration into target enterprise architecture.

Contract Engineer

9/1991 - 5/1992 General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY

Conducted analysis of combustion in gas turbine power plants using computer modeling tools. Participated in software evaluation and selection for flow modeling tools.

Education

May 1991 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Bachelor's Degree
B.S. Aeronautical Engineering

December 1998 University of Maryland University College, College Park, MD

Master's Degree
M.S. Telecommunications Management

Skills

BPMN Modeling, iRise Visualization, International Classification of Diseases 10th Edition (ICD 10) Migration, Medication Management and Medication Reconciliation Business Process, DOD Business Transformation, Mission Area Architecture, Segment Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, DODAF, IBM System Architect, Visio BPMN, Project Management, SOA Governance, SOA Integration Architecture, Web2.0 Collaboration, Open Source Software, Active DOD SECRET Clearance