Joe and several colleagues joined together with CEO Richard Barnett to found Blue Slate Solutions in 2000. Since Blue Slate’s start, Joe has been the leader of the information technology team. He is an enterprise system architect with over 20 years experience in designing, implementing and maintaining financial control applications and decision support systems.

As Managing Director for Blue Slate, Joe combines his leadership skills with his technical acumen to ensure success with client solutions in healthcare, financial services and higher education. He often works as a part of project teams while also leading development efforts. His greatest strength lies in his talent for communicating even the most complex technical strategies in a simple, concise way to clients and team members alike.

Joe has led many projects at Blue Slate, with a particular focus on data management solutions. For an enterprise data warehouse, he led a team engaged in designing a complex metadata repository for a Fortune 10 company. His solution included a Web-based multi-layer information mapping tool to centralize, reuse, and support data and intellectual property assets. Joe has also served clients in development and design of desktop-based business process management solutions and countless data-intensive business intelligence solutions.

With another client, Joe developed a knowledge management strategy that incorporated business rules, document management, workflow and reporting components to provide powerful end user applications under a set of common master files. Joe has been a technical search report analyst and designer in the migration of a major PegaWorks application, including the transparent retirement of the PegaSEARCH archive, for a large financial services organization. His responsibilities included requirements analysis, solution design, build and test, and defect management along with performance analysis and optimization of both the PegaWorks application and Java SOAP services.

Joe’s background prior to Blue Slate includes entrepreneurial start-ups like Integrated Partners- and large, international conglomerates such as Phillip Morris. As an Enterprise Data Manager for GE Energy and GE Corporate, he correlated, centralized, and disseminated business and technical data. Joe started his career as a lead developer for a venture capitalist backed PC software company.

Joe earned his Master’s in the Mathematical Component of Computer Science at Binghamton University and his Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Math at the State University of New York at Potsdam.

At A Glance

Skills

• Project Leadership
• Expertise in all phases of the software engineering life cycle
• Expertise in a broad range of technologies
• Data Management
  • Data Integration
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Transformation
  • Reporting
• PegaRULES Process Commander application knowledge

Degrees / Certifications

• Bachelor of Arts, State University of New York at Potsdam
• Master of Arts, State University of New York at Binghamton

Projects

• Creation of an entity management data model for an international Fortune 10 company.
• Development of a knowledge management strategy for a client.
• Led a data warehouse team to provide a Web-based multi-layer information mapping tool.
• Development of functional requirements for Web-based wellness team challenge applications that promote nutrition, body mass reduction and exercise.
• The lead systems analysis for a system designed to support the management and control of intellectual property assets.
• Migration of a major PegaWORKS application, including the transparent retirement of the PegaSEARCH archive, for a large financial services organization.