William Genovese
William Genovese
is Principal / Chief Technology Architect at WGroup and
Executive Board & CTO at Saving Promise.
Bill is a Senior Executive IT Architect, Client Technical Leader, IBM
and Open Group Distinguished Certified IT Architect, and IBM Certified
Technology Consultant. He has 25 years of experience consulting, designing, and delivering
financial, analytical, and systems management applications, core systems, and
underlying infrastructure.
His technical expertise is focused on defining and raising architectural
maturity for Enterprise Architecture by aligning business and technical
strategy, while focusing on critical architecture definition and
delivery for Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing (HPC),
financial systems, Information & Analytics, systems management, systems
engineering and datacenter architecture.
WGroup was established in 1995 to help Fortune 1000 companies optimize
business performance, minimize costs, and create value. They believe in
teamwork and are passionate about intellectually challenging projects.
They blend rigorous, fact-based analysis, and creative thinking to deliver
solutions that exceed their clients’ expectations at every step.
Saving Promise’s core mission is to decrease intimate partner violence
and engage America in the promise for change. Their
pioneering triple strategy (Awareness, Prevention, Community
Mobilization) coupled with their collective impact approach (engaging
thought leaders, committed advocates, private and public sectors, and the
community at large) comprehensively and collectively address this
national crisis.
Prior to WGroup, Bill worked at IBM for over 10 years. In his most
recent role, he was the Executive Architect and Client Technical Leader
at TIAA-CREF where he provided technical counsel to the CIO and other
key business and technical executives on strategy, direction and
critical programs and projects. In this role, he was responsible for
increasing the value that clients derive from the application of new and
existing technologies in order to accelerate innovation.
As the Senior Chief Enterprise Architect, Client Technical Architect and
Advisor at IBM, he worked with C-level executives at TIAA-CREF, BB&T,
Raymond James Financial, and Lincoln Financial Group to define their
Enterprise Technical account plans and strategies. This led him to
deliver the technical strategy aligned with business drivers in the
areas of enterprise innovation, cost reduction, mobile, IT
optimization, stabilization, cloud computing, DevOps, big data &
analytics, shared services, service-oriented architecture, and
realization of reference architecture development and deployment for
front office, back office, payment and revenue distribution channels.
Bill had held numerous additional key roles including, but not limited to:
- Senior Managing IT Architect and Engagement Leader, IBM
- Chief Enterprise Architect, major top tier global bank in Singapore
- Senior Managing IT Architect, major global top tier bank in Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Senior Managing Consultant, Senior Consulting Architect, IBM
Read his LinkedIn profile.