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John Bouchard

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✓ Certified Enterprise Architect · TOGAF / Zachman / FEAF ✓ Certified PMP ✓ Certified ITSM · ITIL Masters ✓ Founder · Splendor Technologies
[email protected] (734) 775-6560 linkedin.com/in/johnbouchard2020 splendortechnologies.com Flat Rock, MI
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01 · Professional Summary

Building the AI systems other architects only diagram.

Architect and hands-on builder of production AI systems shipping today — LLM applications on Azure OpenAI and Anthropic Claude, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic search and recall, and agentic development with rigorous agent evaluation and validation. Customer-facing Enterprise Architect and Forward Deployed Engineer with 25+ years owning every phase of delivery: requirements gathering and stakeholder workshops, architecture and design, hands-on development, performance tuning and optimization, and end-to-end production deployment and operations. Proven pre-sales leader for Fortune 100 accounts — technical discovery, proof-of-concept delivery, reference architectures, and executive-level business value engineering — with deep cloud transformation expertise across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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Years of Delivery
Full lifecycle
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Quota Organization Supported
Dell Technologies
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State Cloud Transformation
Unisys · 10 architects
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Exclusive Services Engagement
Metropolitan Police
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Servers Migrated to Cloud
Dell Technologies
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DR Cost Reduction
Unisys · corporate-wide
02 · Career Highlights

Signal, not noise.

AI · Now
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Ship production AI today: LLM-powered platforms on Azure OpenAI and Anthropic Claude — RAG and semantic-recall retrieval patterns, agentic workflows with evaluation and validation harnesses, and LLMOps pipelines deployed to Azure via CI/CD. (American Public Education Systems)

Pre-Sales
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Field CTO for Fortune 100 automotive and financial accounts, supporting an organization carrying a $6 billion quota. (Dell Technologies)

Leadership
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Led a 10-architect team delivering an $860 million state-government cloud transformation, consolidating 4 datacenters to 2. (Unisys)

Advisory
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EA advisory to Europe's largest police force that grew into an exclusive €15 million services engagement. (Unisys · Metropolitan Police / Scotland Yard)

Optimization
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50% corporate-wide disaster-recovery cost reduction (Unisys); 25% ETL performance gains, 20% cloud cost savings, 500+ server cloud migrations. (Dell Technologies)

Founder
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Founder of Splendor Technologies — independent consultancy delivering enterprise architecture, cloud, and AI solution engineering from requirements through production. (2023 – Present)

03 · Core Competencies

The toolkit. Filter it.

04 · Professional Experience

Three decades. Every phase, hands on.

05 · Credentials & Education

Certified. Verified.

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Certified Enterprise Architect
TOGAF · Zachman · Federal EA Framework (FEAF)
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Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute
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Certified ITSM Professional
ITIL Foundations · ITIL Masters
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IBM Certified Infrastructure Architect
IBM
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Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
MCSE · Microsoft Operations Framework
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BBA — Computer Information Systems
Davenport University · Dearborn, MI · 2000