Vince Fletcher

December 1989

Job Title: Enterprise Architect
Employer: INTEL Corp



Job Description:
My role at Intel is within the Information Technology organization setting strategic vision and direction as it relates to computing capabilities for the corporation. More specifically, I am responsible for working with a variety of architects within the Information Technology world to architect and engineering the most cost effective and productive systems that integrate into Intel's collaboration and portal environment.


UWP Experience:
I received my BS in EE in 1989. My focus was in the digital space. I was fortunate to have not only received a quality education from UW-P but also was able to participate in the Co-operative learning program where I was able to apply my engineering principles learned in real-time. While my current job does not deal with circuit design or LaPlace transforms, the concepts and discipline that I experienced at UW-P is leveraged on a daily basis ranging from basic troubleshooting to advanced research of emerging capabilities.


TYPICAL WORK DAY:
Much of my day is spent either in meetings or directly in support of a meeting (Intel is very meeting oriented - best to make your mistakes in a meeting before it gets into production ...). Much of my time is focused on understanding the emerging technologies (mainly collaboration and portal-based) and mapping them to known business requirements. Powerpoint is the tool of choice these days as much of my collateral is designed for presentations to other architects for approvals, upper management for budgetary approval, or to designers and implementers for practical application. Much of the collaboration that occurs on these documents are done cross-geography so often times the presentations are made over the phone to individuals within the US but also in the Asia region, the European region, and the middle east region.


Sample Project Description:
Just finished up on seeing the "fruits of my architecture labor" as it pertains to a collaboration framework capability: the largest enterprise deployment of Microsoft's Sharepoint product to date. The 5 geographic deployments consist of 80 servers world-wide servicing 80,000 internal customers consuming 55 Terabytes worth of data space. This multi-million dollar project lays the foundation for collaboration services for years to come within Intel and is the keystone for emerging client and server technologies and integrating business process to computing capability.