Welcome! I'm Graham Shevlin, an I.T. solution delivery practitioner with 28 years of I.T. experience in a wide variety of industries, delivery process contexts and cultures.
I currently reside in Irving, Texas. I relocated here in 1998 from the UK, and to prove that I have put down roots, I married a Texan (see here for her consulting business) and acquired 2 stepkids. I am a partner in Centerface and its parent, Magean LLC. I function as the CFO, sounding board and occasional whipping-boy for that corporate entity.
My main area of expertise is I.T. Solution Delivery methods and model-driven tools consulting. I was a consultant on IEF/Cool:Gen/Advantage Gen/AllFusion Gen for a number of year, and I still peripherally support delivery and evolution of solutions built using that toolset.
My current role is that of architect/process SME/tools/futures guru for a solution delivery group here in Dallas, supporting a major airline. Recently, I worked on a number of process and procedural changes to the group's delivery and support activities in order to allow us to achieve CMMI Level 3 certfication by the end of Calendar 2005.
This blog will contain my thoughts and musings on several subjects that I have a deep interest in, principally the often-broken relationship between project team members and corporate leadership, and the continuing inability of the software industry to make the much-needed jump to a higher level of abstraction when conceptualizing, architecting, building and delivering solutions.
In my spare time (I seem to still have some), I also maintain a Current Affairs blog, an aviation blog where I discuss my plane ownership and piloting activities, and a music blog where I discuss and gather information and insight about music.
Those of you looking for juicy titbits and rumours about my current employers can give up digging right now. Professional discretion and courtesy requires me to be more than circumspect when discussing details of my current employment and my current employer. Names may have been changed to protect the guilty, the innocent and the wrongly accused.