Enterprise bridge-builder
Connects executive intent, legacy system reality, cloud architecture, identity, integration, and production delivery.
Available for worldwide contract engagements
Robert Harvey Curtis
Principal / Lead Solutions Architect for enterprise systems, cloud transformation, ERP modernisation, managed services, and practical AI integration.
Thirty-five-plus years across IBM, Lawson / Infor, Velocity, Navisite, Accenture client environments, and independent consulting — bridging legacy production reality with cloud, RAG, LLM, and agentic AI delivery.
Emailrob@solynth.net
LocationSintra, Portugal · Global work
Portugal+351 911 029 174
United Kingdom+44 7930 972984
35+Years enterprise technology
100+Projects and transformations
40+Enterprise customers
5Computing eras bridged
Enterprise architect with production scars and AI-era fluency.
On-site · Hybrid · Remote · Portugal · UK · Worldwide
On-site · Hybrid · Remote · Portugal · UK · Worldwide
Executive profile
Built for recruiters, hiring managers, programme leaders, and customers who need a senior architect who can turn messy enterprise reality into deliverable technology.
Hands-on senior delivery
Works from whiteboard to go-live, with experience across healthcare, government, retail, financial services, utilities, and managed services.
AI without fantasy
Applies RAG, local LLM deployment, knowledge architectures, automation, and governance to practical enterprise problems.
Animated career timeline
One career spanning mainframe, UNIX, distributed systems, ERP, managed cloud, and enterprise AI.
Account Systems Engineer
Configured and delivered enterprise server solutions, grounding the career in hardware architecture, systems stability, and customer-facing technical delivery.
Head of Technology
Led enterprise infrastructure across mainframe, AS/400, UNIX, PC environments, WAN/LAN, support, and operational technology.
Founder / Consulting Systems Engineer
Delivered open-systems and systems-management implementations for major telecommunications, energy, and consumer-goods environments.
Technology Practice Director & Lead Consultant
Led technical consulting teams delivering major retail, distribution, and COTS ERP implementations across North America and Europe.
Lead Technical Architect & Certified Instructor
Principal field architect and certified instructor on large-scale ERP deployments, security, interoperability, performance, stabilisation, and managed-services formation.
Principal / Lead Solutions Architect
Led enterprise cloud, ERP, managed services, disaster recovery, identity, cloud transition, and practical AI/RAG integration across 100+ projects.
AI Integration & Enterprise Architecture Consultant
Independent practice focused on enterprise AI, RAG, knowledge systems, cloud modernisation, and trusted architecture for production organisations.
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Architecture & delivery strength
Enterprise architecture98
ERP / Infor Lawson96
Cloud / managed services92
AI / RAG / LLM integration86
Executive communication94
Technology map
AWSAzureGCPVMware
LinuxAIXWindows ServerIBM i
Infor LSFLandmarkInforOSLBI
IPAMSCMWebSphereADFS
KerberosSAMLREST APIsPython
OllamaRAGLLM workflowsServiceNow
Representative customers
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Baptist Health
Tufts Medicine
EAMC
UHS
Brooklyn Hospital
Jackson Memorial
City of Santa Ana
City of Greensboro
Oglethorpe Power
Bed Bath & Beyond
SuperValu
Coop Sverige
Jumbo
Pep Boys
Unilever Brazil
Expandable project case studies
Concise recruiter-friendly case studies for complex enterprise situations where architecture, delivery, and recovery mattered.
Enterprise re-platforming accelerator
Designed a repeatable migration approach for Windows-based ERP estates moving from Windows Server 2012 to 2019 onto new infrastructure across on-premises and AWS environments.
- Problem: long-running, high-risk enterprise re-platforming programmes.
- Approach: reusable migration pattern, clear sequencing, testable cutover, and governance checkpoints.
- Outcome: shortened delivery from more than a year to roughly three-to-six months across multiple health-system environments.
At-risk customer stabilisation
Created a stabilisation method for early Landmark defects and fragile integration paths in healthcare ERP environments.
- Problem: production risk, customer confidence issues, and fragile dependencies.
- Approach: defect isolation, integration rework, and repeatable recovery patterns.
- Outcome: retained at-risk customers and removed a brittle integration dependency in one major environment.
AIX multi-product go-live
Led the migrate-upgrade of multiple Lawson products through to production where platform constraints ruled out a simple cloud path.
- Problem: AIX components could not run in the target public-cloud model at the time.
- Approach: identified the constraint early and designed around it using a hosted on-premises cloud model.
- Outcome: clean production go-live on time and under budget.
Corrupted go-live recovery
Recovered an ERP upgrade after data corruption threatened the go-live.
- Problem: stalled go-live and unreliable converted data.
- Approach: investigated the upgrade process itself and designed a remediation method.
- Outcome: customer returned live with accurate data.
Architecture operating model
A simple view of how Rob connects enterprise reality to practical AI and cloud outcomes.
Legacy ERP
Infor / Lawson
Infor / Lawson
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Secure Cloud
AWS · Azure · Hybrid
AWS · Azure · Hybrid
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AI Knowledge Layer
RAG · LLM · Governance
RAG · LLM · Governance
Searchable skills matrix
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Recommendation themes
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“Understands the old estate and the new target architecture, without losing sight of production risk.”
Enterprise delivery theme“Bridges business, project management, and engineering teams when the situation becomes complex.”
Stakeholder theme“Practical about AI: useful, governed, measurable, and connected to real systems.”
AI delivery themeContact Robert
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Available for worldwide contract engagements — open to on-site, hybrid, and remote. Best fit: enterprise architecture, cloud transition, ERP modernisation, Infor/Lawson recovery, managed services, AI/RAG integration, and complex programme stabilisation.