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Craig Henne
Information Technology and Services Industry
Executive Vice President
Greenville, SC
Craig is Executive Vice President for the Cogentes Enterprise Architecture practice. He is an innovative, results-oriented architect, educator, and executive with over a dozen years of experience using technology to reach business objectives and eliminate barriers to business growth. Craig manages and contributes to consulting engagements that require architectural services at the enterprise, business unit, or project/solutions level. These services can include the setup, facilitation, or performance of the architecture roles and practices for client organizations.
Craig has held multiple technical and non-technical roles within service delivery organizations, has served as a math and computer science educator, and held executive positions including Executive Vice President, Director of Infrastructure Architecture, and Director of Hosted Application Services with companies including Cogentes and Ceridian Corporation.
He has a unique ability to bridge the gap between business and technology—and is a catalyst for delivering business value from IT investments. This ability is the result of his varied experience and in depth knowledge of both the business and technology domains, coupled with his passion for solving complex problems. Craig is a master problem-solver, able to deliver positive outcomes under mission critical pressure by blending his lengthy experience with an implacable resolve to identify and address root causes that stand in the way of business success.
Craig’s organization has developed an approach called Business Strategy Realization that connects business strategy to enterprise architecture frameworks including FEA, The Open Group, Gartner/Meta, Zachman, and others. This connection provides direct traceability from information technology principles, models, and reference architectures back to the fundamental business goals and objectives. His team includes accomplished application, data, and infrastructure architects. These individuals can engage at the solutions or project level to perform design activities or facilitate the use of consistent life-cycle management processes - thus ensuring that the architecture leads to solutions that meet business needs.
In his previous roles with Ceridian, Craig was instrumental in the solution architecture, implementation, and operations of Ceridian’s hosted application services. Under his leadership, he combined his team of infrastructure and operational architects with the development architects to create a true enterprise architecture practice that spanned all information technology resources. He knows first-hand what it means to be accountable for 24x7 operations, and how to create and operate reliable hosted application services.
Key accomplishments include:
- Growing the hosted services business from the first customer with one application (1999) to over 2000 customers with one to four hosted applications each (2006)
- Architecting and implementing a data center infrastructure reference model for Internet hosted applications that was later incorporated into both Cisco and F5 standard deployment models for Internet Data Centers. This work is referenced in a cover story in F5 World magazine (Winter 2007) and later in Network World
- Participating in Gartner’s Enterprise Architecture Council during their transition of EA from an academic theory to an actionable framework
- Creating and managing an enterprise data architecture team to establish the data management discipline and governance model for application development and systems integration
- Providing presentations in partnership with Microsoft and Unisys on the architecture and challenge of large scale database infrastructures for Internet facing applications
Craig holds a Bachelor’s Degree with a double major of Economics and Operations Research from the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO. Craig also earned an education certificate at Georgia State University