Richard Zulewski
As a retired IT Executive, I now volunteer my computer expertise to explain and demystify technology solutions in exchange for a cup of coffee and dinner conversation.
Infrastructure Architect for BAE Systems Intelligence & Security sector, Office of the President. Responsible for leading the development of innovative, compelling solutions for IT infrastructure engineering and sustainment opportunities being pursued by business areas within Intelligence & Security sector. Served as the Solution Architect and technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) for acquisitions conducted by our customers across the Intel, Defense, and Civilian markets covering both enterprise-wide as well as point solutions for full life-cycle IT infrastructure engineering and sustainment requirements.
Recent Solutions:- DoJ FBI Unclassified Network Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (UVDI)
- NATO Information Technology Modernization (NATO ITM)
- DISA Virtualization Platform RFI
- DoDIIS & GEOINT Presentation: Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
Recruited by SVP, Strategy & Business Development as a key member of proposal team pursuits, leading teams to develop technical solutions resulting in competitive costing approaches and winning proposals. Developed solution strategy, selecting criteria, business requirements, and win themes for services delivering reliability, quality and cost containment. My focus was the automation of business processes that rely on documents containing unstructured information.
Architected Wins:SEC- Palantir Technologies, DOL- IT Service Desk, TSA- Integrated Logistics Support, SSA- Work Incentives Planning & Assistance
Thought Leadership:USPTO- Patent Data Capture, DHS- High-Performance Graph Analytics Engine, DOJ- Intelligent Character Recognition Handprint to ASCII Data
Innovation:Keyless Signature Infrastructure (OpenKSI) to replace PKI, Fraud Detection with unstructured data, Crowdsourcing validation of optical character recognition using Amazon Turk, Scanning with mobile devices
Joined the company as a Systems Architect in 1994 when it was known as SSDS, Inc. Built and led an award-winning Microsoft Practice consisting of Microsoft-certified engineers and developers; assisted government and corporate customers both nationally and internationally with the accelerated adoption and productive use of proven solutions in a heterogeneous enterprise-wide technical landscape.
Representative Scope:- Army: 12,000 users, across 80 agencies, 24x7, classified and unclassified networks
- Air Force: 40,000 users, 900,000 email messages per day, 900 servers
- Unified Command: 98,000 users, 600,000 email messages per day, worldwide
- Executive Office of the President