Experience
New Jersey Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA)
The Bornholtz Group used a collaborative process to deliver a website that meets the needs of the agency and the students of the state of New Jersey.
Mapping Your Future
http://www.mappingyourfuture.org
The Bornholtz Group worked with the Mapping Your Future staff and member organizations to develop a new website design that meets the changing needs of their members.
US Department of Education - Office of Federal Student Aid
As a Senior System Integration Architect I assisted in defining the long term strategic direction for integrating Federal Student Aid systems.
As the project lead for Enterprise Access Management I was responsible for defining the strategic direction for security and access within Federal Student Aid. A primary goal of the project was to work toward an enterprise single-sign-on system. Additionally Federal Student Aid was investigating federated authentication systems as a part of the GSA eAuthenticaion project. I served as a subject matter expert for the eAuthentication project and also worked to educate the business owners on the benefits of moving to a federated authentication model.
Through my work at the Department of Education I expanded my in depth knowledge of many student aid programs such as FFEL Loans, Direct Loans, Pell Grants, and Perkins Loans. This well rounded and detailed business knowledge enables me to understand the business drivers and problem statements of the education community.
While at Federal Student Aid, I was the technical lead for all XML related projects. This included the technical lead for the XML Registry and Repository for the Education Community and the technical advisor for the XML ISIR.
The Registry is a central access point for XML Core Components, XML Schemas, and supporting documentation for the Education Standards Community. The data has been created and reviewed through a collaborative effort between the Department of Education's Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), the Postsecondary Electronics Standards Council (PESC), and the education standards community.
The Meteor Project
Meteor provides a collaborative effort to provide financial aid professionals and students with online aggregated financial aid award information from various industry participants. I served as the chief architect of Meteor from 2001 to 2004. I directed the first production quality release of the project and architected a scalable solution that is meeting the needs of the Higher Education community.
Awards
2005 PESC Distinguished Service Award
Tim Bornholtz was awarded this for "work and efforts on the PESC Guidelines for XML Architecture and Data Modeling. Now part of the overall
Policies and Procedures Manual for PESC’s Standards Forum for Education, these guidelines mark a significant milestone for the community as PESC and FSA now share a unified methodology for XML."
-- Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council The Standard May 2005
2002 Nebraska's "Technology Guru of the Year" by the Applied Information Management Institute
As the chief architect and lead engineer for the development of the Meteor project, Tim Bornholtz was recognized as the "Technology Guru of the Year" by the AIM Institute, a consortium of business, education and government entities established to provide information technology leadership to the greater Nebraska community.
