Don Teiser

IT Architect
Tucson, AZ USA
donteiser@gmail.com
+1-520-339-2782
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Donald Teiser

Professional Profile

Over 40 years experience in product strategy, product delivery strategy, application architecture, software development, IT strategy, technology trends, architectural standards/processes/best practices, infrastructure architecture, outsourcing, SaaS, IaaS, management, management consulting, program management, project management, and technical consulting. In recent years, concentrated on the architecture and development of secure web and mobile applications and infrastructures.

Managed dozens of successful projects for state governments and universities, and for medium and large firms in the software publishing, taxation, insurance, banking, consumer electronics, chemical, medical, real estate, and the automotive sectors.

Sold and managed projects at the executive level in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Japan, France, the Netherlands, Germany and Great Britain.

Taught data communications, computer graphics, operating system theory, and computer languages at the undergrad and post-baccalaureate level.

Employment History

Jan '12 – present
Teiser Associates
Owner and CEO
Sept '08 – Dec '11
Intuit Inc.
Solutions Architect Product Development IT (80%)
Enterprise Architect Enterprise Applications Development (10%)
Creator and manager of the Enterprise Application Review process
Lead architect and key voting member of the Application Architecture Review Board
Voting member of the Technical Standards Review Board
Jan '99 – Sept '08
IBM Corporation
12/06 – 09/08 Senior Solution Architect, IBM Global Services, Applications on Demand™
09/05 – 11/06 Technology Access Program Manager, IBM Systems and Technology Group
06/04 – 09/05 SI Relationship Manager, IBM Systems and Technology Group
01/99 – 06/04 IT Architect, eBusiness Integration practice, IBM Global Services
University of Louisville
Associate Professor, College of Business and Public Administration
Senior Systems Programmer, Information Technology
Mgr. Administration, Computing and Telecommunications Department
Client/server & web architect, teacher, administrative manager, and systems programmer
CADTRAK Inc.
Vice President, Engineering
Accountable for all product specification, selection, design, development and quality control for this CAD/CAM software firm.
Atari Inc.
Director of Advanced Engineering
Accountable for all strategic product development for the Atari Products Co., including new game machines, new computers, interactive video-disks, optical products and other new hardware systems.

Managed the group of Assembly Language programmers who designed, developed and debugged the game programs produced by the Consumer Products Group.
Transunion Financial Corp.
Vice President, Acquisitions & Administration
Responsible for all corporate acquisitions, human resource management, facilities management, financial analysis and general administration.
Leahy and Associates
Vice President and General Manager
Chief Operating Officer of the firm's management consulting subsidiary in the US
Specializing in organization strategy and change
Hay Associates
Principal
Generated and successfully managed consulting projects in organization strategy, organizational change, executive compensation, and sales incentives.
Biomedical Electronics Firm
President
Designed and manufactured medical electronic instruments for the OEM market.
University of British Columbia
Researcher, Faculty of Medicine
Monsanto
Project Chemist, Organic Research Laboratories
Norton Memorial Infirmary
Founder and Manager, Radioisotope Technology Lab

Education and Background

Fellowships, grants and scholarships
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Carnegie Foundation
University of Louisville Trustees
Medical Research Council of Canada
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare

Dual Citizenship: USA and Canada

Skillsets

Industries:

Industrial (automotive, electronics, chemical, pharmaceutical), Public (state and federal, healthcare), Financial (taxation, banking, insurance, credit card, leasing), Communications (entertainment), Education, Charities

Project Domains:

Security, Infrastructure Re-engineering, Network Architecture and Strategy, Financial Management Solutions, Systems Integration, Performance Improvement, Financial & Cost Management, Corporate & Operations Strategy, Business Process Re-engineering, Application Development, Disaster Recovery

Hardware:

Dell/Intel, HP 9000 and Alpha, SUN, IBM, pSeries, IBM Mainframes, PCs, Macs, compatibles

Operating Systems:

Linux, UNIX, HP/UX, AIX, SUN Solaris, Microsoft Windows Server/SQL/11/10/NT/W2K/XP/7/8, IBM OS/390, z/VM, Mac OS/X, Android, ChromeOS, IOS, iPadOS

Hypervisors:

KVM, Xen, Parallels, UTM, VirtualBox, QEMU, Gnome Boxes

Cloud Administration:

Google Workspace, Office365

Hosting Services:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Hosting.com, Squarespace.com, Siteground.com, GoDaddy.com, Vutr.com, Linode.com, DigitalOcean.com, Hostinger.com

Computer Languages:

HTML, XML, CSS, Java, Javascript, C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, Unix shells, CGI, SQL, Pascal, FORTRAN, BASIC and Visual Basic, FORTH, REXX, Xedit, sed, Tcl/Tk, awk, DCL, Assembler, and a variety of special purpose languages for database management, text editing, statistical analysis, CAD and presentation graphics, and forecasting.

Middleware:

WMQSeries, WMQI

Databases:

ORACLE, MS SQL Server and Access, DB2, MySQL, MariaDB

Applications:

WordPress, Drupal, SSL web servers (Apache, Stronghold, GO Domino, Oracle), POP/IMAP, SMTP, FTP, SSH, BOOTP/DHCP, DNS named (BIND) servers, TCPwrappers, Wireguard, MQseries, NFS, DCE, Kerberos, PKI, LDAP, Tivoli Netview and HP Openview systems, Tivoli Identity Manager (TIM), Tivoli Access Manager for eBusiness (TAMeb), and various SSO tools (ActivCard Trinity, Passlogix vGO, etc.), Microsoft Office, Apple Mac applications, etc.

Methodologies:

Agile, UML, OOAD, GS Method, MASS