Jeff Clayton

About Jeff Clayton

Jeff Clayton is a retired IBM Executive IT Architect with over 42 years of IT experience. He has over 24 years of experience in the banking and financial industry, and was serving as an Executive IT Architect for Payments in the IBM Watson Financial Services Solutions organization working with financial institutions across North America. Jeff takes a pragmatic approach to designing new solutions and improving existing architectures using a \"progressive renovation\" approach. This approach first looks at the overall business and IT requirements, and then develops an overall architecture to address these requirements. He then creates an architectural roadmap that breaks the required changes into multiple phases to be implemented based on the prioritization of the business requirements. This \"progressive renovation\" approach reduces the risk, accelerates the benefits and spreads the cost over the multiple phases.Jeff served as the Lead Architect for IBM Global Services (IGS) Payments Practice. In 2006, Jeff led the first customer implementation of IBM’s new payments integration infrastructure at the 4th largest bank in the U.S. and published the first white paper on the solution. In July 2008, Jeff became the lead architect for the IBM Payment Solutions group in IBM’s Financial Services Sector (FSS) where he focused on banks throughout North America. He also been asked to help with payments opportunities at banks in Europe and in China, and co-authored an article on payment analytics published in the Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems. Additionally, Jeff served on IBM’s IT Architect Certification Board for the Americas. Jeff was also certified as a Distinguished Architect with The Open Group.

Experience

1. Executive IT Architect for Payments, North America, Ibm Watson Financial Services Solutions

   IBM

   Jul 2016 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to financial institutions across North America to help modernize their payment systems, and integrate new technologies such as cognitive solutions, analytics and Blockchain to enhance business results.

Education

• Bowling Green State University

  BS, Infromation Systems & Accounting

  1973 — 1977

Skills

• Technical Architecture
• Aix
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Websphere Application Server
• Integration Architecture
• Systems Management
• Payment Systems
• Middleware
• Togaf
• Websphere Message Broker
• IT Strategy
• Esb
• Db2
• Application Architecture
• IT Transformation
• Business Architecture
• Technology Integration
• Business Process Design
• Payments
• Integration
• Websphere
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Banking
• Soa
• Eai
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Websphere Mq
• Business Analysis