Alumni Snapshot: Oscar Chappel

Title:
Principal Consultant

Current Organization:
ILOG, Inc.

Perot Systems Experience:
Perot Systems Technical Resource Connection from 1997 to 2004.  Information Modeler and Information Architect.  Worked on a number of projects including USAA, Raytheon’s Athena project, Nationwide Insurance Financial Services and Automated Underwriting projects, Automated Sales Planning and Distribution System for Best Foods Baking, Exelon systems integration project, Edit analysis and Business Rule design for Tenet Healthcare Claim Clearing House, Business Rule design for Disney’s Room Availability application.

What do you like most about your current role?
The opportunity to help clients design business rules solutions that push the technology envelop.  The opportunity to meet and work with a diverse group of business experts in a variety of business domains.

What experience did you gain from Perot Systems that helped lead you to where you are today?
The analysis work that was needed to design and build the Sales Planning and Distribution System for Best Foods Baking.

The interactions with the business and compliance experts at Tenet Healthcare as I developed the capability to analyze healthcare claim edits.

The opportunity to work with business experts and analysts at Nationwide Life Insurance and demonstrate that the life insurance business is a supply chain business.

Who was your role model or mentor during your career at Perot Systems?
I had several role models and mentors.  John King (TRC), Joe Policella, Joey White, Dave Marchand, Hans Wolf.

Where did you go to school and what did you study?
Unites States Military Academy, West Point studied general engineering (earned a BS and was commissioned a 2LT of Field Artillery in the U.S. Army, The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, studied military management, Kansas State University, studied Industrial Engineering with emphasis on Operations Research Systems Analysis.

What do you like to do outside of work?
Play golf and build stained glass lamps and panels.