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The Orthocorp Ltd.

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Sharkaroo

A Digital Securities Product Management firm with operations in Paris, Bangkok & San Diego.

Co-Founder / CEO

Focusing on investment opportunities for blockchain related technology companies and tokenized assets.

Director, Sharkaroo Alpha Ventures

ICO Expert - Coin Governance System

Speaker at several conferences & keynotes on Distributed Ledger Technologies: Soi Blockchain, AWS Big Data & Blockchain conference, Sasin University, Chulalongkorn University, ...

Consulting, Advisory Roles & Public speaking

Jetsetcrypto.com - A streamlined travel ecosystem built on blockchain technology.

Advisor To The Board - JetSetCrypto

Advisor (Tech lead, ICO) - Conscious OS

DevOps Factory

DevOps application architecture, engineering support, infrastructure, troubleshooting across SME, and FinTech applications on AWS, Google, Azure, and IBM Cloud.

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Paychant

Advisor To The Board

NUXOS

NUXOS PUBLISHING TECHNOLOGIES

DISCLAIMER: Crispin Courtenay's latest AI gerbil has written my profile bio. Let's see how it goes.

Richard Piacentini (1) is a highly respected industry thought leader (2) and international (3) Software Development and Blockchain speaker. 

(1) Yep, that's me! That's a good start!
(2) The AI mistakenly identified my friend Keir Finlow-Bates as me, even though I didn't say anything.
(3) If you're interested, I live in Thailand as a French national, hence the "international" part.

With over 25 years of experience (4) as an extreme (5) software engineer and architect, Richard has a proven track record of delivering innovative and highly scalable solutions for his clients. 

(4) & (5) Let's not focus on that too much.

He has also coordinated multiple international conferences (6) focused on the Ruby programming language, cementing his status as a leading voice in the industry. 

(6) It started from 2006 to 2012, at first with 20 people meeting in a pizzeria restaurant; the significance of this now is questionable.

Richard is the CEO and co-founder of Sharkaroo (7), a Software Development firm with operations in Paris, Bangkok, and San Diego. 

(7) Sharkaroo? Brilliant! Crispin found the name, and I wish it was me; he was (moderately) drunk, however.

He is both a Blockchain Solutions Architect and a Senior Software Development Architect, which has helped him become a successful tech entrepreneur and investor with over 25 years of leading development teams in five different countries. (8) 

(8) This sentence has 36 words and only one comma! 

An expert on blockchain technology, smart contracts, distributed ledger frameworks, digital assets, securities tokenization, software architecture, and software development, Richard brings high-level experience working with government, banking, media, and start-up partners. (9)

(9) Who gave you that list?

 In addition, Richard has worked closely with Crispin Courtenay (10) on numerous projects over the past five years, including developing cutting-edge blockchain solutions.

(10) Did you ask the AI to add your name to my profile?

In January 2022, Richard teamed up with Keir Finlow-Bates to engineer the largest NFT airdrop ever on the Ethereum mainnet. They distributed 1.5 quindecillion, which is 1.5 followed by 48 zeros, unique virtual land tokens, one for each Ethereum address that has existed, exists, or will exist in the future. (11)

(11) Still one of my best moments ever!

That began their experimental metaverse project, "The Orthoverse is Doomed!". (12)

(12) In the end, we all are, memento mori! 

Richard Piacentini

Cloud Weaver Solutions

Providing leadership support services for digital transformation projects. 

> Primarily focused on Workday Phase 1 and Workday Phase X projects providing advisory services across a variety of pillars of human capital management and user experience design. 
> Specialized on Workday's Cloud Platform, a suite of technical tooling to enable people process improvements and data automations. 
> Supporting 1-on-1 knowledge sharing sessions, Workday app prototyping and build sessions, and ongoing governance for a variety of Workday Cloud Platform projects.

Founder

Customer Sharing Movement

Assisting with initiatives related to sharing knowledge. Also joining monthly ICHR info session and regular contributor to r/Workday forum.

Knowledge Sharing Volunteer Member

Angelus Advisors LLC

Engaged clients on their digital transformation journey along with the rest of the Angelus Advisor team supporting various aspects of their projects.
> Provided guidance to client project team members on various fronts including Workday Launch deployments.
> Followed through to identify and resolve project Risks, Actions, Issues, and Decision (RAID) items.
> Advised on cross-functional Workday design and requirements from core HCM, Time, and Payroll through to Reporting and Integrations.
> Helped developed Workday Integration Requirements template and Workday Integration Deployment planning documents with AA team.

Digital Transformation Advisor

Alight Solutions

As a configuration manager, I lead all aspects of configuration to support ongoing maintenance and enhancements of the Workday application for clients. From initial scope discovery through to deployment and overseeing ongoing processes. I am currently fully aligned to one client that uses Agile methodology to queue and deliver work. My responsibilities include:
•	Assist in refining features and user stories prior to consideration for a sprint.
•	Prototyping and data mining to determine feasibility and impacts of solutions.
•	Partner between the business, the client technical team, and my team to assess capacity.
•	Lead requirements gathering sessions, assist in design, and review code for quality.
•	Coordinate with other groups to handle cross-workstream dependencies.
•	Help deliver over 700 sprint points throughout the year.

Cloud Optimization Professional Services Manager

As a Solutions Architect I provided essential support to the Sales team in pursuing opportunities requiring on-the-spot technical expertise as well as fully expressing the capability of the Technical Delivery team. My responsibilities included:
•	Liaise between the sales organization and the delivery organization to identify appropriate solutions for a given opportunity as part of a sales pursuit.
•	Provide concise responses to request-for-proposals (RFP) and supported sales on-site and virtually throughout the pursuit process.
•	Generate estimates for small, medium, and large anticipated scope for several thousand to multi-million dollar opportunities.
•	Conduct scope discovery workshops and perform deployment readiness activities to enable clients to align resources and information for a smooth project kick-off.
•	Prepare and lead technical knowledge transfer sessions to the project leads to ensure all information from sales is carried into delivery.
•	Provide input on the over 70 opportunities throughout the year.

Technology Solutions Architect

Aon Hewitt

As the integration architect for each client assigned, I am the point person for all technical solutions. In support of the internal and customer deployment teams, I identify and drive these technical solutions ensuring Workday as a platform is leveraged to the maximum.

In addition to ensuring the implementation of all integrations fall within well-established standards, I also encourage and guide clients in taking ownership of these deployed integrations and build upon their experience to derive additional value in a post-Production world.

-Responsibilities-
•Deliver superior service through experience and skills in guiding clients through the implementation of Workday in all things integration through each phase of the projects from scoping, planning, analysis, design, build, deploy, and support.
•Provide the integrations team support through all project-wide integration tasks including configuring shared integration services, security, and authentication.
•Maintain and enhance skill set in specialized integration areas; focusing on custom ESB solutions, SOA, big data, SSO, and other authentication methods as well as integration security.
•Deliver exemplary speed and quality of service to clients.
•Leverage existing tools and improve upon templates to increase the efficiency and speed of the wider practice.
•Consistently prove to be an asset to the team by bringing a wealth of knowledge, experience, and analytic skills into play.

-Accomplishments-
•Workday Authentication Product Lead and Workday Mobile Product Lead
•Led the technical deployment of 530 interfaces spanning approximately 210 vendors and internal applications across nine Workday Phase 1 projects.
•Developed and deployed 20 identity management integrations, 5 data warehouse enterprise integrations, 9 service-oriented architecture integrations, and established 14 single sign-on connections.

Workday Integrations Architect

OmniPoint is an Aon Hewitt company that focuses on Workday deployment for organizations looking to leverage Workday's SaaS-based solution for HR, Payroll and Financials. Having deployed Workday to over 140 organizations in over 110 countries, OmniPoint is a recognized leader in the global deployment of Workday solutions. In addition to pure Workday deployment projects, OmniPoint can also offer Workday BPO solutions as part of Aon Hewitt's offering.

Senior Integrations Consultant

OmniPoint Inc

-Responsibilities-
•Lead technical aspects of the Workday solution throughout all stages of multiple on-going projects from planning, analysis, design, build, deploy, and support.
•Maintain and enhance skill set in specialized Integration areas; focusing on custom ESB solutions, user reporting needs, and post-production support.
•Deliver exemplary speed and quality of service to clients.
•Leverage existing tools and document processes to transfer knowledge to the greater practice.
•Consistently prove to be an asset to the team by bringing a wealth of knowledge and analytical skills into play.

-Client Projects-
•As part of an annual compensation process, worked closely with functional stakeholders and client technical team. Designed and developed a custom Workday integration to generate and deliver individualized equity grant letters (with differing country formats). This effort saved the functional team days of manual mail merges and human error while also delivering a seamless integration to 8000+ employees.
•As part of a global Workday HCM deployment, configured  and tested multiple benefit integrations for the following benefit vendors: VSP, Metlife, Unum, and Kaiser. Worked extensively with the benefit admin and benefit vendors in ramping up and completing these delayed integrations.
•Worked closely with client and 3rd party teams alike in gathering requirements, defining functionalities, and deploying solutions.
•Lead a post-production project to evaluate, fix and improve upon an existing suite of integrations developed by a competing firm. Interpersonal interactions and the quality of work delivered proved a key factor in winning additional work from client.

-Internal Initiatives-
•As part of a high-growth strategy, directly trained more than several dozen new resources and designed a training regiment replete with various technical deliverables. 
•Also updated the internal wiki (Central Desktop) with relevant updates and changes to the Workday solution.

Integrations Consultant

Workday Wizard 🧙‍♂️ | Solutions Architect | Empowering people, processes, and systems with 14+ years of digital transformation expertise.

I am a trusted adviser and information systems consultant with over 14 years driving digital transformation and digital adoption. 

I have provided Workday consulting support to over 200 clients, 8 of which were Fortune 50 companies, over the course of 8 years leading Workday HCM and Payroll project technical deployments through a variety of leadership roles. For the past 6 years, I've been  focused on post-production optimizations and Workday Extend deployments.

I leverage my deep and broad experience across the enterprise technology space to push innovation and teams forward to improve systems, processes, and people alike. 

If you're embarking on a digital transformation or have been stuck in a rut with Workday, drop me a message!

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