CEO, Elyon Enterprise Strategies, Inc. - Aug 2011 to present

Enterprise Transformation / Enterprise Architecture Practice Director

Serving clients through training, consulting, and strategy development for: 

California Medicaid Management Information Systems, Washington State’s EA Program Development, California Affordable Care Act readiness, Medicaid Information Technology Architecture assessment and roadmap, Arizona/Hawaii IV&V, California Health Benefits Exchange, Washington Department of Revenue RFP development, WA Business Hub, CA Department of Health Care Services Enterprise Architecture Office, WA Tax System Replacement Study, WA HIE Readiness, Hasbro EA training, and many more efforts. Carl serves as the company’s EA Practice Director and supports all consultants on major EA efforts.

Highlights of Elyon work include:

• California Medicaid Management Information Systems – July 2016 to January 2018 As CA-MMIS Transformation Integration Lead, providing Transformation Strategy for MITA maturity related organizational and modularization objectives with development of a customized Transformation Operating Model and Agency-wide Governance Model; Organizational Capability assessment, planning and implementation; Systems Integration Advisory support; Capability Maturity Assessment and Transformation Plan; Modularization Prioritization and Planning with Application Rationalization; Implementation of a model-driven analysis for the Modularization Priorities.
• California Department of Health Care Services– November 2015 to July 2016 Mature state Medicaid program and technical architecture to achieve MITA 3.1 maturity. Analyze, plan and create DHCS alignment to MITA maturity across business information and technical domains. Utilized Sparx Enterprise Architect Software as a business technology process modeling tool to streamline artifacts, perform export/imports and develop reports.
• California State Department of Technology – April 2016 to April 2018 Assessment of current governance structure and processes for support of the California Department of Technology (CDT) to all Agencies. Determining business case and EA services the CDT should offer along with the strategic and segment level Project Approval Life Cycle stage gates and criteria. Also led the Medical Cannabis Planning Task Force, a cross agency initiative to prepare the State of California agencies for January 2018 regulatory impacts.
  

• Washington State Office of the Chief Information Officer – July 2015 to March 2016 Under Elyon’s multi-year agreement with the State of Washington to provide EA Consulting Services State-wide, the first statement of work encompassed both the delivery of a state IT strategy for a Healthcare segment, as well as the assessment of the State’s EA Program. Carl’s assessment included recommendations for structure, governance, and skills, and provided a roadmap for implementation of the recommended strategic EA improvements.
  

• California Department of Health Care Services – July 2012 to July 2015 Established an Enterprise Architecture program for California’s Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). Carl led the development of Enterprise Architecture processes, assessments, project evaluations, development of strategic plans, IT standards, organization and governance development, communications and Enterprise Architecture Definitions used for future project procurements. The program required a “Framework Integration” approach blending the several linked and sometimes overlapping program elements from various EA frameworks. This work continues, including analysis and implementation of business, information and technology architectures resulting from the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) 3.0 State Self-Assessment (SS-A). Developed As-Is, To-Be and Roadmaps to achieve MITA Maturity Level 3 for business, information and technology architectures. This resulted in the creation of a “Health Care Innovation Strategy” (which won the 2014 Excellence in EA Award from the FEAC Institute and GovernmentEA), to ensure the necessary work can be done to achieve DHCS goals. It has also involved developing EA processes, such as governance and architecture assurance assessments, including conducting such an assessment for the California Medicaid Management Information System (CA-MMIS) System Replacement Project.
  

• California Health Benefits Exchange – September 2011 to October 2013 Developed enterprise, business, information and technical architecture, requirements and assessment of vendor RFI’s in conjunction with CalHEERS. CalHEERS serves as the central system to support California’s implementation of the ACA, supporting programs under DHCS and Covered California, the state health insurance exchange. During the planning and procurement stages of CalHEERS, Elyon also developed governance, requirements and evaluation criteria according to ACA, MITA and CMS 7 Standards & Conditions for key capabilities.
  

• Washington, Department of Revenue - August 2012 – March 2013 Assessment of Licensing and Revenue system replacement. The team researched, developed and delivered two comprehensive assessments of Business, Information and technology capabilities and established current state, target model and roadmaps.

Franchise Tax Board, State of California – May 2006 – July 2011                                                  

As Chief Architect, Carl created an award-winning Enterprise Architecture program, including governance structures for IT, EA and technical project assurance.

• Projects: Enterprise Data to Revenue Architecture, Feasibility Study development, Request for Proposal/Funding Development and proposal evaluation, Enterprise Business Problem Analysis, Developed Centers of Excellence for BPM, SOA, Security, IT Consolidation and Data.
• Recognized by Gartner as a leading EA Program, published case study and invited speaker
  

Other Related Experience – 1988 - 2005

• ‍Trinity Software Incorporated: Business Architect - Carl planned and designed new products for Medical Industry, including platform selections, standards and requirements.‍
• Unisys: Project Architect - Conducted project planning, design and implementation from a systems integration perspective.