Jay Ferguson
Vice President of Cultural Excellence
He has been involved in all phases of system/software development, integration, and testing for DoD/Navy real-time command and control systems and numerous commercial enterprise systems. Throughout his career, he has worked with high-reliability, fault-tolerant real-time enterprise systems demanding high performance, information assurance, cybersecurity, and safety requirements. Currently, Jay is working on navigation radar, imaging, and electronic warfare systems used on the 688, Virginia, and Columbia submarines.
Previously, as a State of Rhode Island augmented employee, Jay served for three years as Enterprise Architect for the Unified Health Infrastructure Project (UHIP), providing the State technical oversight of the architecture and technical operations conducted by Deloitte. UHIP is a System of Systems Integrated Eligibility System (IES) using multi-tier web-based application architecture that is highly available and scalable across five portals accessed by distinct types of UHIP customers.
Mr. Ferguson also served as Project Manager on a General Electric Healthcare (GEHC) initiative to completely re-engineer the system and processes GE’s global services team uses to support critical and life-saving medical devices (CT, MRI, PET, PET-CT, Ultrasound, X-Ray, Vascular, etc.) for their vast customer base around the world. Working closely with GEHC, he developed the information system requirements then designed a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that is scalable and highly available, and developed web applications that can support thousands of end users 24/7 worldwide with different functional job requirements.
Mr. Ferguson holds an AS in Engineering from the Community College of Rhode Island, as well as a BS in Electrical Engineering and MS in Computer Science from the University of Rhode Island.