Resume

Corinna Cohn

Enterprise Architect | Integration & Modernization Strategy

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Enterprise Architect with deep insurance-domain experience governing architecture standards, shaping business-capability strategy, and directing integration and modernization programs across a delivery organization of 20 teams and roughly 100 managed solutions. Recognized for identifying governance gaps and building the structures needed to fill them without waiting for top-down sponsorship.

How I Work

The toolkit is standard EA fare: TOGAF and Kotusev frameworks, ArchiMate modeling in ADOIT, business capability and domain modeling, event-driven architecture and API strategy, and lately AI-assisted analysis. The through-line is integration governance: building the standards, committees, and roadmaps that keep a middleware stack coherent while it modernizes.

Three Stories

Governance, built from scratch. No structured EA practice existed, and integration compliance had no oversight. Established the organization's first EA framework as its product owner, a repository of architecture decisions, standards, and patterns grounded in Kotusev and TOGAF, then founded the Integration Governance Committee and designed its charter and compliance monitoring. The committee's baseline work surfaced missing API contracts and informed platform rationalization decisions.

Modernizing the messaging backbone. The legacy message broker couldn't support the organization's event-driven, cloud-native direction. Directed a cross-functional evaluation with parallel assessment tracks, producing a consensus recommendation for Solace PubSub+. Then led the acquisition, vendor and internal developer training, and publication of the event topic naming and metadata standards teams needed to build on it.

The 90% problem. Mainframe searches and record retrievals were consuming expensive CPU and slowing customer-facing response times. Delivered a materialized-view system that cut mainframe CPU utilization for those operations by 90% and response times by 95%, improving customer experience while easing infrastructure cost pressure.

Elsewhere on the Record

Business capability and domain models adopted into strategic planning and distributed to business-unit leadership. AI-assisted documentation of legacy COBOL systems that surfaced logic gaps and became a repeatable discovery methodology. Developer training in architecture diagramming and AI-assisted development for roughly 40 developers, with a 100% post-session recommendation rate.

Publications & Speaking

Manning Books technical reviewer; conference speaker (CamundaCon).

Education

BS Economics, University of Nevada, Reno