Brian K Seitz
Managing Director and Consultant
Biographical Synopsis
Brian
K. Seitz is Managing Director of Intellectual Arbitrage a business
management and technology consulting firm and Sr. Consultant/Analyst in
Cyon Research.
He specializes in Business Performance Improvement of Corporations,
Strategic Business Units, Groups, Functions and Departments.
Previously, Brian served as chief process manager and architect for
IBM’s marketing process.
During his five-year tenure, he applied six sigma techniques to improve
the quality of planning throughout the corporation.
In addition, he adapted and applied CMM to the marketing process
for further improvements to the process and its deployment that is now
being marketed for sale by IBM Business Consulting Services worldwide.
In 1999, he was a Director at DMR Consulting Group Inc. in
Prior to joining DMR Brian served in two positions at Microsoft
Corporation Industry manager and Senior Technologist.
In his role as Industry Manager, he reestablished Microsoft as a
viable technology provider in the Engineering Software market.
In his role as Architecture and Methodology Senior Technologist,
he established the Enterprise Architecture Practice, developed MSF’s
Enterprise Architecture Planning and Rapid Economic Justification
Methodologies.
Immediately prior to Microsoft, Brian was independent consultant where
he focused much of his attention consulting automation.
His list of accomplishments include the development and
deployment of several manufacturing systems, software products such as
RiskCalc™ (Risk Assessment
calculator) and B.A.S.E.™ (Business
Analysis System & Environment), as well as author to numerous white
papers and contributor to NIST's
Opportunities for Innovation program monograph entitled Software
for Manufacturing.
A guest lecturer at COFES, AUTOFACT, IBM Guide, and AIAA conferences in
the fields of enterprise architecture, integration, and reengineering.
Starting in the 1980's Mr. Seitz had forecast and spoke at AIAA's
Design and Operations Conferences, AUTOFACT, and client meetings upon
the need to redesign and rebuild corporations (BPR) in order to remain
competitive in the future.
Beyond sounding the call to businesses, he has dedicated much of the
past ten years identifying, developing, and teaching the methodology and
tools needed to design and construct an enterprise with the same
precision and creativity that architects enjoy building dwellings.
A past senior member of SME/CASA with over fifteen years experience in
manufacturing and information technology.
He has worked for corporations such as Rockwell International,
Honeywell and IBM in the application of information technology.
During his tenure with Rockwell International, he was a
contributor to IR&D and USAF ICAM
projects developing and using tools for
IDEF0 methodology support of
Mfg.0 -- the early roots of business process reengineering.
At IBM Mr. Seitz was responsible for the initial design and
development of several software products.
He has served on numerous advisory boards in the field of
computer-integrated manufacturing.
Brian has been an in-house consultant to IBM's Industrial Sector
Consulting Services (ISCS) group and an advisor in the fields of project
management and business process reengineering (BPR) to software
development groups.
As a consultant, Mr. Seitz's clients have included Lockheed, McDonnell
Douglas, and the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST),
assisting each in technology and business transformation challenges.
Brian currently resides in Eatonville, Washington with his wife Dana and
their sons Jason and Austin, where he researches, writes and consults to
a select group of high tech professionals and executives.
He enjoys cooking as a hobby and is considered a gourmet chef by
friends and associates.
These skills are put to good use during weekends when he hosts Executive
retreats at his home by Mt Rainier.
Brian is considered a voracious reader, having two to three books
in progress at any particular time, with an extensive business and
technical library at home.
A casual backpacker, Brian, his wife, and sons enjoy sightseeing and
camping during available breaks in national parks, forests, and
wilderness areas.
Accomplishments
Deployment of packaged process at Samsung Electronics Corporation.
Reengineering and Deployment of IBM's Marketing Management Process.
Contributor to "Speed of Thought" by Bill Gates, Digital Nervous System
Conceptual Design of Active Directory
Co-Developer Microsoft's Rapid Economic Justification (REJ) methodology
Contributor ISO STEP/PDES Product data exchange architecture
Design of IBM Santa Monica Graphics Lab product planning process
Design and Development of Rockwell B-1b shop floor control system, tube and cable harness manufacturing cells