Dave Charles

About Dave Charles

Provided strong IT and architecture leadership for enterprises within Financial Services, Retail, and Transportation industries. Proven history of developing technology strategies and architectures that maximize business value and are cost-effective. Applied knowledge of various architecture and design styles such as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), N-Tier, Object Oriented, Component-Based, Layered Architecture, Message Bus, and Model-View-Controller to ensure quality, performance, and flexibility of delivered solutions. Worked closely with stakeholders representing a wide range of viewpoints including C-level executives, business partners, clients, suppliers, and project delivery and support teams as a trusted advisor, partner, and collaborator. Drove IT and business performance improvements by leveraging best practices to establish technology standards and governance.The postings on this site are my own and do not represent in any way Western & Southern Financial Group\'s (including its member companies) positions, strategies or opinions.

Experience

1. Enterprise Architect

   Western & Southern Financial Group

   Jun 2015 — Present

Education

• The Ohio State University

  Computer and Information Science, Engineering

  1983 — 1992

Skills

• Information Technology
• Software Development
• Oracle
• Systems Analysis
• Governance
• Architectures
• Virtualization
• Unix
• Integration
• Soa
• Disaster Recovery
• Management
• IT Strategy
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Infrastructure
• Architecture
• Itil
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Business Intelligence
• Process Improvement