Richard Rotella

About Richard Rotella

Rick has 20+ years’ experience as a management consultant (Accenture & EY), business leader, and technology executive, leading top tier companies to improve their operating models through business, application, process, organization, and information architecture to drive digital transformation, Agile transformation, customer-centric transformation, business process transformation, mergers and acquisition (M&A) integration, offshoring and outsourcing (BPO/KPO/ITO), risk management, business resilience, and business agility.The financial services industry is still in the early days of a digital transformation that will create unparalleled competition and opportunity at every link in the value chain. To thrive, mature companies need to adopt a more modular and open business architecture that reduces complexity and supports interoperability and agility both inside and outside their company walls. Rick specializes in holistic business design and working across Business and Technology teams to drive the organization towards a business and application architecture that is more agile, resilient, and scalable by providing the necessary context for designing/refactoring digital products and components that minimize dependencies and easily integrate to deliver measurable customer value at speed. Rick has a deep understanding of the financial services business, its products and services, processes, regulations, and changing business landscape that was cultivated through decades of enterprise level change leadership.Rick is an apt communicator, collaborator, learner, and coach, who can build and lead teams across the full strategy-to-execution spectrum by connecting the organizational dots to ensure the organization rows in the same direction. More than just executing transformation, Rick is effective in building organizational change muscle. Specialty Skills: Business Strategy, Business Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Business Process Management (BPM), Product Architecture, Business Modeling, Capability-Based Planning, Agile Lean Portfolio Development, Digital Operating Models, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business-IT Alignment, Information Arch, Application Arch, Solution Arch, Application Development, Blockchain, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Business Relationship Mgmt.Retail Banking | Wholesale Banking | Payments | Wealth | Insurance | Healthcare TOGAF | BIAN | BA Guild | FDX | SAFeARIS | Alfabet | Celonis | iGrafx | ServiceNow

Experience

1. Principal Enterprise Architect

   Fannie Mae

   Dec 2023 — Present

   Executing and maturing Business Architecture at Fannie Mae via the EBA COE.

Education

• The Ohio State University

  BSEE, Electrical Engineering

• Consumer Bankers Association Executive Banking School

  Advanced Education using BankCom

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  Strategy and Innovation Program