Most of us that have worked for large organizations could list hundreds, if not thousands of projects that we have worked on. Professional life is about projects and it's these projects that define our career. As Tom Peters remarked: "Wow Projects": projects that add value, projects that matter, projects that make a difference, projects that leave a legacy. Distinguished project work is the future of work -- for the simple reason that more than 90% of white-collar jobs are in jeopardy today. They are in the process of being transformed beyond identification -- or completely eliminated. Here is a small list of projects, roles, and responsibilities that have defined my career over the years.

Currently, I am working with AT&T for the Evolving Technologies group which are rolling out Collaborative and Social Software applications to the enterprise. These applications include team collaboration, blogs, wikis, book marking, professional profiles, intranets, rss, as well as traditional Metadata repositories still in production. The area that I am most interested in is the deployment and mass adoption of these products in a large enterprise. Understanding what works and what doesn't. Additionally, I helping with the architecture for Wireless Networks, Office Productivity, and other collaborative environments.

AT&T Corporation

I joined AT&T when they purchased BellSouth in 2007. Since that time, I have worked in the Evolving Technologies organization as a Sr. Technical Architect.  I currently has responsibility of 21 products from a architecture and governance perspective.  In the past, I owned the Sharepoint client-support environment which was commented on by a Microsoft representative that this was the best he had ever seen.  In addition, my internal blog "Enterprise 2.0" is the number one blog in the company.  I continue to expand into other areas such as cloud computing and social communications.

• Enterprise Architect
• Collaboration and Social Software: Sharepoint, Confluence, and Connections
• Desktop Software including Adobe, Microsoft, and Corel
• Cloud Computing Strategy, Communications, and Support
• Social Software Strategy

BellSouth

In late 1999, I moved from Cingular to BellSouth which proved to be a poor choice in retrospect from a title and level perspective.  Still, BellSouth was a wonderful experience and a major jump in my career.  One of the best know accomplishments was the development and deployment of our Enterprise Repositories.  As we progressed in our development and experience, we added online ordering, collaboration tools, and several others.  For myself, I gained a new perspective on ownership, leadership , and running my group as a business.

• Enterprise Architect
• Collaboration and Social Software
• Communications Tools (i.e. Web Conferencing, video conferencing
• Enterprise Architecture and Resue
• Enterprise Metadata Repositories (Industry Awarded)
• Patents
• Online Ordering Systems

Cingular

Cingular was looking for a AS/400 DBA and that looked like a great opportunity to expand beyond the traditional development role.  We focused on automating the deployment and upgrade of a variety of applications where we reduced the time from several days to hours. 

• Enterprise Data Architect
• Installation and Deployment of Large Scale Applications
• Developer and System Analyst

Georgia Pacific Corporation

With my MBA in hand and 13 years of experience, I thought it was time I moved into a management role.  For some reason, the company gave me responsibility of 45 people and a department heading downhill.  We turned it around in about 6 months with little fan fare.  Our backlog dropped by 83% and our customer survey improved by 77%.  I learned a lot about leadership and management.

• Lead Analyst
• Human Resource Applications
• Tax and Retirement Applications
• Leadership and Management
• Business Minded Leadership
• Desktop Application Support

Coca-Cola Company

Almost six years as a consultant until ownership greed got in the way of 30 people's employment.  We owned the back end communication system for the entire organization.  Not sure if consulting is the right word when you stay in one place for six years but I met a lot of great people an dlearned a lot as well.

• Consulting
• Communications
• Client-Server Computing
• Development / Programming

Other Employment and Roles

The remaining organizations would simply add roles and responsibilities of long ago.  The Georgia Company remains my favorite business simply becuase it gave me the chance and opportunity to learn a new craft.

• Southern Linen - Assitant MIS Manager
• Fannie Mae Software Systems - Sr. Programmer Analyst
• Lummus Industries -  Sr. Programmer Analyst
• The Georgia Company  Assitant Vice President