James Gibson

Technology Director - DT Business Systems Technology at Amtrak

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

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Experience

  • Technology Director - DT Business Systems Technology at Amtrak
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • BNSF Railway (30 yrs 7 mos)
    • Sr Enterprise Architect
      Sep 2021 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Currently serving as the senior enterprise architect for a major initiative to re-engineer a 30-year-old legacy mainframe transportation system to a modern, cloud-ready platform. My role includes the full spectrum of working with senior leadership to set strategic program direction to final product delivery and support. Working closely with a team of five enterprise solution architects representing each of the major business systems, I am responsible for identifying functional and non-functional opportunities which impact the overall program and ensuring each is addressed by the appropriate delivery and/or support teams.

    • Sr Enterprise Architect
      Sep 2013 - Mar 2024 · 10 yrs 7 mos

      Principal enterprise solution architect for Transportation Planning and Scheduling business systems. Responsible for translating business architecture to conceptual and logical solution architecture and ensuring the systems are implemented as designed.

    • Sr Consulting Systems Engineer
      Sep 1993 - Sep 2013 · 20 yrs 1 mo

      Lead for WebSphere and Middleware segments of the Development Tools team. Responsible for supporting our application development teams with appropriate tooling, middleware, runtime environments and consulting services.

  • Systems Analyst at ConocoPhillips
    Jun 1990 - Sep 1993 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Analyst supporting Payroll, Retirement and Taxation systems.