Donald Tallo

About Donald Tallo

Cross-functional business leader with tenured experience in technology consulting and professional services. Entire career focused on the Information Systems and Information Technology Industries. Trusted technology advisor and strategy consultant to business and IS/IT executives at all levels (Directors, VPs, CIO/CTO/COO). Strong technical foundations with extensive and diverse implementation experience. Participated in a principal or leadership role on more than 300 Professional Services engagements. Diverse experience in multiple IT/IS Consulting Service roles: • Principal consultant and solution architect, knowledgeable about both the technology and the business drivers for successful IS/IT solutions. • Services manager, responsible for margins and P&L for multi-million-dollar services organizations. • Contract negotiator, focused on mitigating risks by way of robust services contracts and precise descriptions of services, deliverables, assumptions, and RACI in Statements of Work (SOW). • Program manager, experienced in scoping, planning, staffing, pricing, and overseeing multiple (as many as 17) concurrent projects and services engagements. • Sales-support consultant, sought after by sales executives for assisting with the conceptualization of proposals and authoring of statements of work. • Practice leader, principal in the development and leadership of 3 Consulting and Professional Services organizations. • Strong technical background in solution architecture for business decision systems, Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS), Artificial Intelligence, and Engineering Computer Sciences.

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Consulting

   Rsi

   May 2019 — Present · Prmbroke, MA

   Responsible for providing vision and leadership for multiple medium-to-large complex IT projects that involve multiple vendors, system platforms, and technologies. Responsible for managing a diverse set of team members with a wide range of skill sets, comprised of a mix of RSI employees, client personnel, contractors, and supplemental vendor resources. Key Projects Include:The Comptroller of Maryland COMPASS Program, Integrated Tax System (ITS) Project. Principal in the development of an integrated system solution that incorporates existing and emerging IT applications and technologies to enhance business processes that currently use little or no technology, and to improve the infrastructure for efficient implementation of these new technologies.+ Named project lead in charge of business rules.+ Oversight, vision and leadership of efforts to translate application requirements into the design of complex web sites and applications for the ITS Solution using Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) technologies.+ Works in partnership with client resources to develop and execute the interface plans between the ITS and external systems, including the Data Warehouse, image capture, image storage, FMIS, lock box, the IRS, web applications, offset partners, SMART (for unconverted data), and third party collections.

Education

• The University of Akron

  Graduate Studies

• The University of Akron

  Baccalaureate of Science