Jordan Willms' Resume (Last updated October 15th 2009)

I want to change the world. In work, at home, at play.

Strategic IT Effectiveness (SITE) aligns IT and business strategies, bridging the gap between CEO expectations and CIO realities. SITE consultants achieve this by bringing a boardroom perspective to IT and by focusing the dialogue and action on improving business value and performance.

Accenture's IT Strategy practice has been ranked #1 worldwide by Kennedy Information (Source: "IT Strategy and Planning Consulting Marketplace 2006-2009").

As part of a 6 month transfer to the SITE practice in London, joined a variety of IT transformation projects for FTSE 100 clients such as BG Group, Anglo American and Smiths Group. Highlights included:

- Led the IT capability assessment primary research for locations in the UK, South America, and India and constructed a baseline for the CIO and further IT transformation projects
- Developed a "IT transparency" tool, which enabled Accenture consultants to easily and accurately audit and coalesce IT spend. This tool was used at several major clients in the UK
- Responsible for defining and executing IT transformation workshops and training for key IT senior management from locations around the world.
- Led the Analyst and Consultant team responsible for winning the SITE-wide innovation competition against Partners and Managers

As Technical Team Lead
My responsibilities included assisting the sale of the work, developing the project plan, managing the client, reporting to the overall programme manager and managing the technical development team through the entire development lifecycle.

Acted as the liaison between the a very large transformation project and external Market Participants on behalf of a very large California Energy Market Operator. My responsibilities included identification of the scope of people, processes, and technology needed to prepare the organization and its participants for multiple phases of external testing (i.e. 'Market Simulation'). After the preparation for a particular simulation phase, I also facilitated and directed execution of the simulation phase.

My responsibilities included leading the design documentation activities (including process swim-lane, definition and impact assessment documentation for specific processes), one on one discussion with client process owners, and facilitating of informal and informal workshops regarding to-be processes. In addition, senior subject matter experts were utilized to expand the thinking of client team members in order to help create high-performance "To-Be" business processes. I also maintained process standards and quality assurance across the 6 person project project team.

Responsibilities spanned the breadth of a power market system enhancement and implementation project which involved the design, build and test of numerous custom components in a variety of programming languages. Furthermore, I developed and delivered knowledge materials for the transition of the system changes to the sustainment team.

As lead developer, I worked on a wide array of projects, including helping co-found the music social network Projectopus.com. The role involved the planning, design, implementation, and subsequent testing for ever project that came through the demand pipeline.

In addition to helping with potential sales, my responsibility was also to analyze various existing open source offerings, and make business recommendations on those that we could leverage to provide more value for our customers.

Staffed on a variety of research projects for the LORNet labs at Simon Fraser University. Team Projects included a web-based ontology editor, a federated search application which brought together various learning object repositories, and a team-based project creating semantic audio-enabled museum guide using visual interaction tools.

Under to guidance of Dr. Griff Richards, and Dr. Marek Hatala, I learned a valuable lesson: that there is always a way around every problem -- you just have to take a step back and approach things from a different angle.

Business/Consulting Skills & Expertise:

Project Management, Primary research best practices (Conducting interviewing and workshops), Sourcing, Business Relationship Management, Vendor Management, Issue Based Problem Solving, IT Transformation, IT Governance, Portfolio Management, SOA, ITIL v3, COBIT, Energy Markets and Transmission.

Development Skills:

PHP, Java, MySQL, Apache, J2EE, Drupal, Podcasting, SDLC Management, "web 2.0" technologies and concepts, XML/XSLT, XHTML/Javascript/AJAX, SOA/REST/SOAP, Web Services.

Blogging (slowfortune.com), squash, tennis, snowboarding, traveling, hiking, playing guitar, african drumming, dance music production, DJing, piano, and living as a life long learner.

gimme20.com

• Fitness Social Network and tools for building and tracking workouts
  

projectopus.com

• Social Network for musicians and fans, including tools for commerce and viral distribution