Professional Overview
Fran Clark has spent the last 23 years involved in semantic exchange and representation of information. He has had technical leadership
positions at Intel, Boston Gas, University of Vermont, UNUM and John Hancock; and conducted enterprise projects for clients such as GTE,
IBM, AIG, Liberty Mutual, Washington State, Major League Baseball, Iron Mountain, Freddie Mac and General Electric. Recently, as VP of
Technology at Swingtide, he led the design and development of a software product for modeling and monitoring service oriented architectures.
Fran's areas of expertise include Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Portal Technology and Application Design, and Semantic Technology.
Specialties
- Enterprise SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
- SOA Roadmap, Planning and Design
- Portal Architecture, Technology and Application Design
- Semantic Technology
- Data Management Architecture and Technology
- Enterprise Information Integration (EII)
- Semantic Modeling and Technology
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
- SOA / Web Services Management
- Web Services / SOAP
- XML
Experience
SOA Consultant
Freddie Mac : Financial Services Industry
Currently providing guidance on the application of SOA design principles and technology in producing a next generation data management
architecture.
SOA Consultant
Iron Mountain: Electronic Records Industry
Developed set of customized SOA design principles; helped implement first SOA application for transferring large volumes of digital
assets.
SOA and Portal Architecture Consultant
Washington State Department of Labor & Industries : Insurance Industry, Government
Provided leadership and hands-on guidance in the evaluation of portal architectures and technologies to fit into an
SOA framework.
SOA Consultant
AIG : Financial Services Industry
Developed service oriented architectural plan for one of world's largest insurers to facilitate orchestration of
disparate CRM touchpoint channels.
Portal Architecture Consultant
Major League Baseball : Sports and Entertainment Industry
Designed and implemented portal applications and databases to support operational integration and efficiency improvements
for one of world's premier professional sports leagues.
VP, Technology
Swingtide
Head of engineering for Swingtide Monitor product, monitoring tool for managing application assets and tracking business
activity in XML Web Service networks.
Senior Director, Service Technology
Wheelhouse Corporation
Directed the design, development and implementation of Wheelhouse's first two software products. Principal architect for content
management database (ORACLE) and system (Vignette) for large multimedia outdoor enthusiast website. Co-authored Customer Profile Exchange
(CPExchange) specification in October 2000. CPExchange (www.cpexchange.org) is the first XML standard to provide comprehensive data model
to facilitate privacy-enabled exchange of customer profile information.
Senior Technology Director
Epsilon Data Corporation
Led design, development and deployment of very large marketing data warehouses. Directed construction of primary data warehouse used
for analysis of "business to business" marketing data by one of world's largest computer companies. Architected and directed construction
of principal marketing data warehouses for one of world's largest communications companies.
Manager of Client Server Application Development
Boston Gas Company
Led development, deployment, integration, and support of all client server applications at Boston Gas.
Client Server Project Manager
Intel Corporation
Led diverse international team in on time delivery of a sophisticated data warehouse and decision support system. Received Intel's highest
award (Intel Achievement Award) for leading client server portion of one of most successful projects in company history. anGLe project was
completed in under 18 months, replacing several malfunctioning mainframe legacy general ledger systems with single integrated system for
entire Intel enterprise.
Conferences / Speaking Engagements
DAMA International Symposium & Wilshire Meta-Data Conference
May 2-6, 2004
Metatopia 2004: A Symposium On Metadata and Data Management
November 4-5, 2004
Semantic Technology Conference 2005
March 7-10, 2005
DAMA International Symposium & Wilshire Meta-Data Conference
May 22-26, 2005
Semantic Technology Conference 2006
March 6-9, 2006
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