JON A COHN

511, Anthonys Drive

Exton, PA 19341
[email protected]

CTO / VP / Sr Director

Enterprise Architecture & Application Development

Thought leader with strong strategic as well as execution experience

Senior IT executive with over 18 years of experience in Healthcare, Pharmacy, Financial Services and Insurance sectors. Skilled
strategist who blends deep technical expertise with an enterprising business sense to create competitive advantage.
Change agent with the ability to transform Information Technology into a growth engine. Works seamlessly across multiple
cross-functional teams to solve business problems, drive innovation, and deliver world-class solutions in complex environments.
Has proven track record of innovation and operational excellence.
Goal oriented, ROI focused thought leader, strategic and hands on innovator. Skilled in grasping the big picture, conceptualizing,
developing, and implementing solutions, while partnering closely with business leaders and top leadership. Possessing a broad
depth of technical experience coupled with a unique balance of business acumen, insights and management skills. Extremely
successful in a variety of corporate technology and consulting leadership roles. Demonstrated success in leadership, strategic
decision-making and budget responsibilities. Ability to lead and work with geographically diverse teams, and managing
individuals in multiple locations. Excellent track record of delivering and managing solutions services. This includes multi-level
architectures across large, global organizations with distributed, domain specific IT functions.
Ability to work with all business stakeholders and gain respect of both business community and technology groups. Implemented
multi-year strategic plans across many industry segments and technologies. Proficient in technology program implementation
directing and motivating success through highly collaborative processes; managing staffing initiatives and retention of critical IT
personnel. Built teams from scratch or upgraded to improve the capability to deliver to strategic plans on time and on budget.
Application of domain knowledge, architecture and software experience to define and lead multiple large, complex integration
architecture efforts.

SKILLS AND EXPERTISE

Sectors / Industry
Healthcare, Pharmacy, Financial Services, Insurance
Leadership & Management
Full P&L Responsibility & Budget Management, Aligning Technical Vision & Business Strategy, Contracts / Vendors Negotiations
& Management, Business Process Re-engineering & transformation, Innovation & Growth, Lean, Six Sigma and Process
Improvement, Team Building, Relationship Development, Program / Project Management, Large Scale IT Project Delivery, Cost
Optimization
Information Technology
Next-Generation Technologies, Enterprise, Business, Application, Data, Infrastructure and Integration Architecture strategy
and planning, road-mapping and blueprinting, design and implementation. Enterprise Application Development. E-Commerce,
Web Application Development, Agile, RUP / other methodologies, Strong SDLC, Project /Program Management Experience.
Data architecture, BI strategy and implementation, Database administration. business unit alignment. Ability to map strategic
goals to business and systems capabilities from the enterprise level through domains and constructing the associated
architecture diagrams required for support. Extensive usage and expertise of IBM, Red Hat and Microsoft product lines

ACHIEVEMENTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Directed a highly visible, three-year global risk management, Basel II / RAROC program with a core team of 20+ direct
resources, and 70+ matrixed resources with many sub-projects touching most processes, all applications and systems in the
organization. Program revolutionized the way the organization budgeted, regulated and produced profit on capital.
Defined Services and implementation SOA Model for a large, home delivery pharmacy to enable e-prescribing. Solution
involved integration to over 20 custom and packaged systems in addition to 3 new ones. Solutions positioned the business to
up to a double capacity expansion with no staff increase.
Built and led the Global Integration Services / Global SOA team as a program architect to support the implementation of a large
Oracle ERP effort through the design and deployment of an IBM Global Enterprise Service bus.

 Definition, staffing and design and implementation for Data Storage Management (DSM) initiative at AAA Mid-Atlantic then
led program
Developed a future state Business and Technology Architecture Roadmap for aligned business capabilities and legacy home
delivery pharmacy system replacement while incrementally providing business value and opening / scaling the platform The
small first project implemented created added profits for the company of 6mm in 1 month.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Evolution Technologies Inc, Exton, PA

Dec 2010 - Current

Evolution Technologies Inc is a provider of outsourced and co-sourced web, e-Commerce and data centric application
development, support and management consulting services.
Managing Director, Solution Delivery

As an Managing Director, responsibilities include all aspects of designing, creating, staffing, and managing the Software/IT
organization. Pursuing this path requires embracing new ways of doing business, adopting disciplined innovation and
investment methodologies, building agile development and delivery capabilities, and cultivating strong internal and external
ecosystems.
Achieve business results through P&L ownership, transformational technology investments and analytics. Practice and solutions
delivery director for numerous business and IT solutions & services to support client needs primarily within the pharmaceutical,
financial and insurance markets. Solutions range from web content, document and contract management, portal integration,
pharmaceutical validation, as well as enterprise, data and application architecture and integration.
Responsibilities include IT budgeting and financial management, IT quality improvement initiatives, PMO, Contractor
management, IT purchasing.
As a consultant to Cigna Home Delivery Pharmacy, defined future state conceptual and logical enterprise and application
architectures for legacy MailRX system and interfacing requirements
Implemented enhancement to legacy Pharmacy system for enhanced DLE (Drug List Education) that resulted in a one year
income return of more than four times pre-project goals and an ROI of more than 1000% in six months
Developed a large, encompassing architectural analysis and methodology approach, and other parts of the proposal to win a
50MM, 5 year IDIQ with the FDA for the complete replacement and integration of their nationwide LIMS systems for Laboratory
Management
Implemented advanced DevOps Cloud solutions that dynamically built and deployed multiple IIS, Apache, and SQL Server
instances with auto-scaling on the Web server layers. Leveraged Amazon AWS and Rightscale.

Cigna Pharmacy / Pro-Unlimited, Philadelphia, PA

Aug 2011 - Jun 2013

PRO Unlimited is a consulting firm specializing in the management of contingent workforce. PRO Unlimited is CIGNA's source
for experienced Business Validation. PRO also provides payroll services for most referred or retired professional contingent
workers.
Lead Solutions Architect and PMO Strategic Consultant

Responsibility for leadership and vision to the Information Technology Division, delivered through effective planning, innovation,
management and communication to advance the strategic adoption and optimization of IT in support of Cignas vision. Acted as
the strategic, tactical and hands-on technology consultant. Responsible for defining the future state (Cigna Home Delivery
Pharmacy) Enterprise Architecture strategy and roadmap aligned with Cigna overall pharmacy and Global Enterprise Roadmaps
and driven by business strategic and operational drivers. Focused on driving business benefits aligned with achieving
enterprise goals in collaborative partnership of all stakeholders
Led the SOA architecture design and solutions design phases of a large e-Prescribing and Image Encryption / Portal solution for
Cigna Pharmacy that served as first main driver and model project for the implementation of many of the Future State
Architecture road map components providing added stability, scalability and value to the business. This resulted in a 25MM
annual cost saving while to improving customer service
As a business thought leader, provided functional as well as technical leadership on multiple program work streams by working
closely with business, developers and PMs to drive BPM efforts to completion

Designed and implemented 3 new, best of breed technology stacks comprising a custom C#. Net User Interface, JBoss EAP 6.0
/ JEE Services Layers, and IBM Message Broker for integration services that integrate with and begin to incrementally migrate
functionality from the legacy system
Driven enterprise alignment and reduced operational costs by leveraging wide variety of existing Cigna Enterprise Assets such
as Datastage for ETL, Datapower for Gateway services, Spectrum address standardization, and many other shared
infrastructure services and platforms

e-brilliance, LLC, Conshohocken, PA

Oct, 2009 Nov 2010

E-Brilliance, LLC was founded in 2001. The company's line of business includes developing or modifying computer software and
packaging.
Managing Director, Technology & Architecture Services

Leadership responsibility for all activities related to Information Technology operations as well as administrative leadership
through participation in strategic planning, budget management (CAPEX and OPEX), operations improvement and human
resource issues. Management of Information Technology operations by ensuring successful communication, service level
performance and workflow/efficiency gains by implementation of multiple strategic initiatives that integrate high standards, best
practices, financial modeling for good business decision making and process improvements.
Responsible for the strategic development, staffing and team building, project management, P&L and resource management for
the Solutions Architecture, Infrastructure practice and related app development projects. Devise and implement competitive
advantage technology strategies enabling delivery of world class solutions
Was brought on to focus on the improvement of delivery, quality and processes for projects across the organization. Impacted
project success rate from under 50% to 98%+ for 2010
Led multiple concurrent project teams at multiple locations ranging from 400K - 6 MM in the successful delivery and delivery
engagement management for each
Built infrastructure practice through sales and recruiting from 5 resources to an average of 20 over a one year period
Delivered solutions for clients including: AAA Mid-Atlantic, West Pharmaceutical, Endo Pharmaceutical, Lincoln Financial,
Macquaire Group and Wedgewood Pharmacy.

E D U C AT I O N A L Q U A L I F I C AT I O N S
Bachelor of Science, Quantitative Business Analysis GPA: 3.5/4.0
The Pennsylvania State University 1994

O T H E R C O N S U LT I N G E X P E R I E N C E

Project Management Institute (PMI)

2007-2009

Enterprise Architect and Technical Program Lead - Successful delivery of customized Virtual Communities platform released
SharePoint 2007. Architected taxonomy design and mapping to management and governance process and implementation to
PMI.ORG. Overall solutions architecture positioning and planning for subsequent enhancements.
De Lage Landen Financial / Operational Services
2005-2007
Lead Architect and Global Integration Services Technical Lead - Responsible for all integration and external application services
for a large 300 mm, Oracle ERP implementation. Responsibilities included resource planning, budgeting, organizational
positioning, rules of engagement, process and methodology definition and audit compliance.
US Program Director and Global Solution Architect

2003-2006

Lead of a multi-year, strategic compliance project surrounding credit risk, led multiple large project teams to the successful
delivery of RAROC driven budgeting transformation driven by opportunities for reduced loss provisioning as well as
implementing a fully Basel II Compliant Process in the larger US locations consistent with the European locations.
Lead Architect and e-Commerce Development Manager

1999-2003

Responsible for the design, development, infrastructure, architecture and team management of the e-business web applications
and legacy systems integration including applications such as remote credit application entry, application inquiry, document
inquiry, security and system administration modules.

RMH Teleservices Services

1997-2001

As a consultant DBA Manager, responsible for implementing a team of DBAs for this global Tele-services organization with 30+
call centers whose responsibilities included the staffing, technical management, and the configuration management for a midsized IT department. Provided hands on operation support, DR design and implementation and DB scaling strategies on MSSQL
Server
Chemical Leamann Tank Lines / MTL Inc

1998-1999

Lead Data and Technical Architect during the acquisition and integration of Chemical Leamann and Montgomery Tank Lines.
Responsible for the logical and physical data models, analysis, project plans, development, testing and implementation of
multiple n-Tier Client/Server and Web based applications in MS VISUAL Basic 6.0 and Visual C++ with MS SQL Server 6.5
under Windows NT.
Tokai Financial Services

1995-1997

Senior Consultant for the Object Oriented Analysis (OOA)/ Object Oriented Design (OOD) effort that was underway to replace
the legacy system. Initially, senior OO analyst on a project team for an assigned business segment including Accounts
Receivable, Invoicing, Accounts Payable and Insurance Administration
McNeil Consumer Products - Johnson & Johnson

1997-1997

Senior Consultant to migrate the existing trade allowance system for the Tylenol product lines from a legacy mainframe
application to a client server solution for the elimination of data processing charge backs.
Becket and Lee LLC

1995-1997

Application consultant for a large specialty law firm and worked on the development of the Client/Server, Bankruptcy Tracking
and Billing Systems using PowerBuilder and MSSQL Server 4.2 and 6.0
J P Morgan Bank [ Keane Employee]

1994-1995

Developer on an application support team who was responsible for production support, reporting requests, and system
enhancements to J.P. Morgan's Asset Processing System using COBOL II with DB2 and EASYTRIEVE.
Telenet Communications

1993-1994

Developer on an application support team who was responsible for production support, reporting requests, and system
enhancements to J.P. Morgan's Asset Processing System using COBOL II with DB2 and EASYTRIEVE.
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