About Pat

I call myself a Chief Thought Translator. By the technical community, I’m referred to as a Business Architect. Someone that helps business executives: define, articulate, and initiate a change in their business model to create profit opportunities. I lead technologists with a blueprint and plan to build flexible solutions to enable the profit-making opportunities.

All my successes can be attributed to effectively communicating between the business community and information technologists. I speak both languages. I’ve always been able to understand what the business wants, documenting it in a flexible architecture so that the hard-core techies could build it.

In the past, I’ve helped develop some complicated systems for medium to large size companies. I started out as the bridge between business and IT but evolved into managing the projects through design and implementation.

Nowadays,

1. I speak (keynotes and seminars) to audiences representing either the business side (How To Communicate with Geeks) or the Information Technology side (How To Engage the Business Community). 
2. I work with the business community to communicate what they want from Information Technology.  I document their needs in different level of details needed by the Information Technology organization to build what the business wants. I will help architect a flexible IT infrastructure to support business growth.
3. I listen to the vision of the business executives of medium and large size companies. I review their current information systems and design a roadmap that will help them transform their existing systems to achieve the new vision.

I hope you will participate in this blog. It is time to talk about how you can convey your wants to the information technology community. I can help you navigate through information technology organizations whether they are in-house, hired guns, near-shore or off-shore development organizations. I will help you initiate new development, enhancements, major conversions, or implement a package.