Vice President, Product Development & CTO for RLPTechnologies
LaFeir is responsible for the planning, design and development of RLPTechnologies’ software products. He has a proven track record delivering large-scale software solutions in several industries for more than 14 years, and is a key technology leader at RLPTechnologies. Lafeir provides thought leadership and vision for the development of world-class data management solutions.
Prior to joining RLPTechnologies, LaFeir was Vice President of Application Development and Support for Polk North America. In this role, he was responsible for setting the strategic direction for the application development and support organization, including the development, enhancement, deployment and maintenance of several strategic products.
Mr. LaFeir has led several major initiatives, including a major re-engineering effort for Polk – a system optimization initiative focused on revolutionizing Polk’s internal data operations.
While with Polk /RLPTechnologies, Mr. LaFeir’s leadership on several projects have been recognized by many in the industry as innovative. Acknowledgement includes; 2006 Innovator of the Year JBoss|RedHat, 2006 SOA Innovation JBoss|RedHat, Computerworld BI Best Practices Award, 2006 Innovation Award DataFlux, DMReview Innovation Award 2007, Computerworld Laureate Honors 2007 and Ventana Research Leadership Award 2007.
Mr. LaFeir is also the primary inventor of Polk’s proprietary web service orchestration technology, embedded on the OneView360˚ data integration platform, and currently has a patent pending on, Method and System for Data Processing Service Orchestration, Patent Application# 11/767,34.
Previously, LaFeir was a Senior Manager with Capgemini Ernst & Young, where he was aligned with the Critical Technology practice with a primary focus on the automotive sector and specialized in the custom development and integration of large-scale information systems. Lafeir’s experience includes leading the successful delivery of eBusiness, ERP, client/server and mainframe solutions across a broad range of industries involving automotive, energy/utility, retail, healthcare and government.