Leadership
- Mentoring
- Strategic planning
- Professional staff involvement, engagement, fulfillment and development
- Highly performing team strategies
- Maximizing technology investments (e.g., ROI & TCO optimization)
- Organizational integration and flow
- Information Technology consultant
Public Speaking on topics such as:
- Effective education delivery and management
- Native American education
- Institutional service delivery transformation and sustainability
- Change - effectively managing the natural resistance to change
- Organizational transformation to effective service delivery mindset
- Risk Management
- Public and private partnerships
- Business operations
Risk Management
- Assessment and tolerance analysis
- Mitigation strategies and tactics
- SDLC (Systems/Software Development Life Cycle) risk
assessment and evaluation - Risk analysis process facilitation and implementation incorporating various methods including SWOT and DESTEP
Quality Assurance Management
- Project
- Audit and oversight
- Solutions
- Cross departmental and/or inter-organizational dependency management
- Systems integration and workflow
- Data management and credibility
Change Management
- Organization cultural alignment framework
- Workflow, process, procedures and best practice creation and management
- Board creation, policy generation and oversight
Financial Management
- Revenue generation models
- Grant writing
- Budgeting
- Fiscal oversight, accountability and responsibility
Governance, Policy, Procedure and Process Engineering
- Technology
- Data and information
- Security
- Project
- Policy generation and compliance
- Governance Board organization and process
Relationship Management
- Public and private partnerships
- Client partners
- Vendors
- Constituents
Donald Houde, Information Technology Consultant and President of Houde Consulting
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Business Intelligence Analyst
- Organization requirements harvesting and documentation
- Streaming Big Data expertise
- Source data profiling, credibility assessment and gap analysis
- BI solution(s) architect, design, development and implementation
- BI solution data/information delivery analysis, design, development and implementation
- Federated, geographically disperse stakeholder methodologies
- Stakeholder Identity Access, Identity Matching and Provisioning management
- Business Consulting firm
Data Coaching and Engineering
- Organization and stakeholder effective use of information gleaned from data
- Optimized logical and physical data modeling methodologies
- Optimized data flow and transformation approach and framework
- Standards, open source and best practice alignment
- Information usage socialization and training plan design, organization and implementation
- Collaborative technology and data visualization expert engineering methodologies
- Enterprise Master Data management planning
Implementation Strategies
- Enterprise configuration strategies
- Communications frameworks for teams and stakeholders
- Accountability, transparency and auditability planning framework
- Focus group management
- Enterprise standardized project management framework
- Operations integration
- Sustainability
- Project job costing best practices
- Revenue collections and recognition management
- Long term visionary approach to short term tactics
Architectural Design
- Application/tool architectural design emphasizing a balance between ROI, high availability, scalability, operational excellence, code reuse and reliability (i.e., Cloud, SaaS, SOA clusters, web services, geographically disperse sites, backup strategies)
- Physical and logical storage model architectural design and implementation (e.g., federated, SAN, NAS, etc.)
- Logical information architectural design and implementation (e.g., federated, file, database, etc.)
- Enterprise database server architecture, development, administration and optimization
- Data ETL process engineering including architecture, development, administration and optimization
Security
- Securitization planning and implementation related to applications, infrastructure and critical information (i.e., IDS, IPS, encryption, firewalls, virus, auditing, event logging/review, etc.)
Business Management
- Disaster Recovery (DR) planning, testing and review (hot and warm sites, off-site vault storage, geographically disperse DR facilities)
- Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
- Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
- Sustainability planning and implementation
- Enterprise configuration management