​Larry Beser

Larry@LarryBeser.com

Executive Summary

Larry retired after 24 years with DXC Technology in November 2022 where he enjoyed a unique leadership position as a Master Technology Consultant in the DXC Global Modern Workplace Delivery organization. His technical, networking, and communications skills enabled him to fulfill many (often simultaneous) critical leadership roles over the past 9 years connecting DXC Global Workplace Delivery Services, Global Sales, and Offering Management organizations in uniquely useful and enduring relationships. Larry is open to new leadership opportunities on a part-time basis wherein his deep experience and unique talents can tame complexity and accelerate transformational programs.

In the role of Chief Architect for the top DXC global Enterprise client transformation projects he enabled diverse stakeholders amongst the client organizations, strategic partners, and internal DXC groups. Together they formed high-performance delivery collaborations that were leading edge and exceeded expectations. For a large American Pharma account, he architected and designed the implementation of “Modern Management” for Device Management, as well as driving the necessary pivot to the WaaS lifecycle, something few have accomplished to date in DXC.

In the role of Delivery Chief Technologist, Larry provided thought leadership, uniquely successful collaboration and co-invention venues, global mentorship, and practical strategies for new business pursuits, delivery-led growth initiatives, and the creation of new DXC service offerings.  Engaging in a close collaboration with DXC Strategic Partners led to a mutual growth in revenue and efficiencies fueled by insights generated by Power BI, mind maps, and other creative visualization tools.

In the role of Enterprise Architect, he focused on partner technology services development, delivery readiness, and acceleration through the creation of emerging technology service wrappers, inter-organizational operating model transformations, and much more. Larry successfully executed global boot camps in Redmond with Microsoft, and in Ft. Lauderdale/Sydney/London with Citrix.

In the role of Global Leader for many years, he enjoys the respect and support of his global peers and leaders as a mentor, enabler, fearless inventor, confident decisionmaker, educator, sounding board, collaborator, friend and confidant. He is well known globally as a “Jack of all trades, Master of some” with a passion for not simply personal growth but more so for the growth of everyone on his teams.

Larry joined EDS in 2001 as a part of their ITO agreement with MCI/Worldcom and saw it become HP, then HPE, and then DXC, spending a few years with Cisco Advanced Services along the way. Larry has 41 years in the technology industry, beginning in Mainframe, winding through Mid-Range and Distributed Compute Systems Engineering, and now advising Global Enterprises on Digital Transformation in a Mobile and Cloudy World. Larry is truly a “been there done that” Enterprise Architect and Technical Advisor who can be dangerous in any corner of the sandbox.

Skills & Experience

Top Skills

• Enterprise Architecture – 19 years
  
• Solutions Architecture – 32 years
  
• Technology Consulting – 29 years
  
• ITIL/ITSM/SMF – 34 years
  
• Enterprise Strategic Planning, Transformation, and Governance – 17 years
  
• Virtualization technology integration and architecture – 20 years
  
• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity – 19 years
  
• Loving what I do – 41 years
  

Engagement Scenarios

• Microsoft Ecosystem Migration Strategy & Planning
• Workplace and End User Services Architecture, Device Management and Automation, Cloud enablement
  
• Windows as a Service Lifecycle Adoption Strategy & Planning
  
• Remediation and implementation of Microsoft 365 Modern Management encompassing all aspects of the Modern Workplace including AutoPilot, co-management, Desktop Analytics and Endpoint Analytics, as well as strategic planning for automating the Windows as a Service lifecycle
  
• EUS Transformation Strategy, Solutions, and Solutions Integration
  
• Azure, AWS, GCP, Citrix, and VMware cloud solutions
  
• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DaaS, VDI and eVDI
  
• MDM, and MAM
  
• Federation and IdAM
  
• Identity and Access Management in a Mobile and Cloud World
  
• “Modern Management” and Hybrid Operations
  
• Secure Collaboration and Productivity in a Mobile and Cloud World
  
• What to do about Win 11 and is there a short-cut along the Road to There???
  

Key Roles Performed

• Enterprise Architect – 19 years
• Chief Technologist/Architect– 19 years
  
• Technology Advisor – 29 years
  
• Lead Architect, Strategic Partner Solutions – 17 years
  
• Lead Architect, End User Services Transformation –9 years
  
• Global Lead, Mobility & Workplace Microsoft Advisory Services –6 years
  
• Practice Lead, Data Center Energy Efficiency Modeling – 3 years
  
• Leader (and sometimes Founder), Global Knowledge Sharing, Innovation, and Collaboration virtual groups – 17 years
  

Industry Experience

• US Public Sector – 17 years
• Telco & High Tech – 30+ years
  
• Energy – 6 years
  
• Healthcare & BioTech – 7 years
  
• Consumer Products – 5 years
  
• Financial – 9 years
  
• Retail – 7 years
  
• Media & Entertainment – 2 years
  
• Manufacturing – 5 years
  

Certifications

• TOGAF 9 Certified (Levels 1 and 2), 2011
  
• TOGAF 8, 2008
  
• ITIL Foundations, 2007
  
• Master Innovator & Thinking Guide, 2006
  
• Lean Six Sigma, 2006
  
• Distinguished Systems Engineer (EDS), 2005
  

Awards/Recognition/Publications

• EDS Distinguished Systems Engineer, first-ever group selection, September 2005
• Enterprise AS Business Excellence Award for Customer Impact (Q1/Q2FY12, 10/12/11)
  
• “Cable Operation – Q3 Strategic Win” award, Q3FY12
  
• “Cloud Deployment Considerations for Service Providers”: Accepted for presentation at International Conference on Advances in Cloud Computing, July 26-28, 2012, in Bangalore
• “Hybrid Cloud and Hybrid Data Center Strategic Considerations”: Internal Cisco white paper, 2012
• Cisco Live 2012, 2013 Speaker, “Energy Efficient Data Centers: Best Practices”
  
• “White Paper #52 - An Integrated Approach to Operational Efficiency and Reliability”: The Green Grid, March 2013
  
• Co-inventor of the Cisco Cloud Application Migration Planner (CAMP) tool, a practitioner's tool for profiling application portfolios in preparation for migration to cloud based hosting models. Added to Cisco Consulting Services practitioner’s library September 2013
• HP ES Making a Difference FY14 award in the category of “Making a Difference: Innovation”
  
• Contributing Author, Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing (Western Sydney University, Australia, University of Maryland University College, NIST, IEEE Press, IEEE Computer Society, and Wiley & Sons), Chapter 7 “Cloud Reference Frameworks”, 2016, John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
  
• DXC awarded Citrix Global SI Partner of the Year, Citrix Summit 2019, for Larry’s DXC-Citrix Delivery Readiness project
  

Education

• University of Maryland:  B.A. (Psychology/Economics)
• Graduate Level Coursework at Loyola College: MBA Program, Colorado Technical University: Masters In Management, Information Technology Program, Westinghouse School of Applied Engineering Sciences:  Computer Science Program
• Extensive coursework in Computer Science and Management with SUN, IBM, DEC, H/P, Amdahl Corp., SAS Institute, Unisys Corp., Westinghouse, MCI, EDS, Cisco, HPE, Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, Dale Carnegie
  

Languages

• English
• Translating Business-Speak into Techno-Babble (and back again)​