About AVO Chief
AVOChief.com represents the lessons learned, best practices and opinions of IT professionals on how the use of key technologies have or should be used to solve business problems and how key products or processes could be improved in order to resolve gaps or issues. The focus should always be on what is best for end users and the enterprise rather than technology for technologies sake. This site also hopes to evangelize the role of the AVO Chief or CBO which serves to partner with CIOs (almost like paired programming) and whose focus is solely on business agility and alignment.
The AVO Chief focuses on integrating processes, products and technologies into a roadmap that works with business initiatives to reduce costs and develop new profitable products and services. The AVO Chief helps evangelize AVO principles, develop strategy and deliver the successful implementation of AVO projects through effective project portfolio management in order to reduce costs and improve IT efficiencies. The AVO Chief also focuses on meeting ISO17799 compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley, IT Governance, and other regulatory issues.
Efren Duarte currently serves as the Director of Products & IT Services for Avocera Digital Solutions Consulting and as a Small Business Agility Coach (IT/Strategist/Evangelist) at www.avochief.com . Efren Duarte’s extensive work experience includes Fortune 500 companies such as Cisco, Toyota, Amgen, Ameriquest and Capital Group. With over 12+ years of business & IT experience, Efren Duarte is experienced in the implementation, configuration, design, development and delivery of e-commerce, internet/intranet and client server applications, imaging, information security and content management systems. He also has excelled in providing focused research and analysis, business requirements gathering, gaining client and/or team consensus, vendor selection process, developing project scope, timelines and delivery dates, as well as continuous design improvements, waterfall and agile development, six sigma and other project management methodologies.