Jordan Willms' Resume (Last updated July 13th 2008)

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Jordan Willms
Deptford, London SE8 3EX United Kingdom
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jordanwillms

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OBJECTIVE

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

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Accenture
Strategic IT Effectiveness Consultant

Jan 2008 - Current
London, United Kingdom

I am currently based in London, UK with Accenture's SITE practice where I focus on early stage IT Transformation, IT Governance, and IT Transparency for several FTSE 100 organisations. Effectively, managing change, and invoking it.

I work directly with senior IT management to align IT and business strategies, bridging the gap between CEO expectations and CIO realities.

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Accenture
Consultant, Technical Team Lead (Client: BCTC)

August 2007 - Dec 2007
Vancouver, Canada

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.

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Accenture
Market Simulation Preperation and Execution (Client California ISO)

July 2006 - August 2007
California, USA

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.


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Accenture
Business Process Analyst (Client California ISO)

March 2006 - July 2006
Vancouver, Canada

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.

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Accenture
Business Systems Analyst (Client: BCTC)

September 2005 - March 2006
Vancouver, Canada

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.

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Donat Group
Lead Developer

January 2005 - October 2005
Vancouver, Canada

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.

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Simon Fraser University
Research Assistant

March 2002 - May 2005
Burnaby, Canada

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.

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SKILLS

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.


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EDUCATION

Simon Fraser University
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology

2000 - 2005
Vancouver, Canada

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INTERESTS & HOBBIES

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

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PROJECTS

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

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