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Enterprise Cloud Architect Resume

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Virginia, DC

SUMMARY:

  • Software Architect/Developer with 20+ years of experience in architecting, designing, and implementing of innovative secure enterprise web solutions especially on The Cloud incorporating various technologies, advanced software and hardware approaches, databases, and applications. Expert knowledge and experience in Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Service Oriented Architecture, SDLC Development Methodologies (Agile/Scrum, Iterative, RUP/UML, CASE).
  • Management Talents are highlighted by inspiring leadership, polished communication with both executives and employees, creative problem solving, decision making, team building, aptitude for human resource issues, motivating teams to achieve complex objectives within schedule and budget.
  • Project Management experience includes 18 years of managing IT projects, multi - million dollar budgets, 20-60 people, project planning, requirements definition, WBS, schedule development, resource planning, budget management, risk mitigation, quality management, release management.
  • Technical Abilities include a wealth of experience in a variety of programming languages and technologies: Cyber Security, .NET Framework 1.0-4.6, C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, hardware, networking, SharePoint Server 2007/10/13, Office 365, Visual Studio 1.0 to 2015, TFS, Active Directory, Web Services, BizTalk. X/HTML, XML, Extensive database architect and development experience in SQL Server 4.21 to 2014, Oracle 8i to 11g, and Access 1.0 to 2016.
  • Work Style emphasizes integrity, commitment, creativity, innovation, and a focus on success. Recognized for athletic energy, enthusiasm, strong work ethics, and relationship building.

SKILLS:

  • IT Development
  • .NET Architect/Dev
  • SharePoint Architect/Dev
  • Management
  • ASP.NET/ADO.NET
  • C#( 17 ), C/C++ ( 5 ), Pascal( 5 ), Java( 2 )
  • N-Tier Networks
  • X/HTML(18), XML
  • SQL Server(20+),Oracle(10 ),Access
  • PC Hardware (20+)
  • Hyper-V(9 ), BizTalk(2)
  • VB.NET(9), VBA/Visual Basic(20+)
  • Windows (20+), Physics (5)
  • Visual Studio/Interdev (17)
  • Lisp(8),Prolog(1),Fortran(10)
  • UNIX( 7),Linux( 4),Novell( 2)
  • ASP/ADO/COM+ (4)
  • Firmware(3),Assembly(6),Perl(1)
  • CyberSecurity(8),TheCloud(5)
  • OOP/OOA/OOD (20+)
  • UML/Rational Rose/Visio (10)
  • My Cloud server/security lab with latest 2016 versions: SQL Server, SharePoint Server, Office, Access, Project, Visio, Team Foundation Server, Hyper-V, Visual Studio, Skype. Windows 10. Windows Server 2016. Oracle, BackTrack/Kali, Linux, encryption, networking, server hardware.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, Virginia, DC

Enterprise Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Architected an IaaS Azure Cloud solution that enabled super-users to create their own web reports
  • Researched mechanisms for control and data transfer in a hybrid Cloud environment
  • Contributed at meetings on data encryption, Cloud working group, software quality, and architecture
  • Wrote 40-page paper on Cloud Security for development in the Cloud with restrictions, mitigations
  • Wrote other papers on comparing Cloud vendors, performance, APMs, Kanban, specs on projects
  • Aided Business Development by helping to write winning proposals

DBA/Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Created Azure Cloud IaaS demos with SharePoint, C#, SQL Server, Excel PowerView/PowerPivot
  • Created/Administered SharePoint farms, site collections, sites, aspx pages
  • Secured the Cloud connections with DigiCert Extended Validation (EV) SSL/TLS certificates
  • Created data transfer mechanism in a constrained environment with Access, VBA, SharePoint
  • Installed KanBoard on an Azure VM for Kanban team use

Used: SharePoint/Designer 2013/6, SQL Server 2014/6, Visual Studio 2013/5/7, Windows 2012R2/16, Microsoft Azure Cloud, Office 2013/2016, Excel PowerView/PowerPivot, BI, C#

Cloud/Security Architect

Confidential, Springfield, VA

Responsibilities:

  • Investigated CyberSecurity considerations/solutions for IaaS Cloud and emerging 3rd party products
  • Researched use of hybrid Cloud with On-Premise products, such as: SharePoint and Microsoft CRM
  • Microsoft Azure Cloud, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud comparison and review
  • Created and modified Microsoft.NET public websites
  • Installed and utilized Microsoft Dynamics CRM
  • Video editing and production for marketing purposes; pushed to Vimeo
  • Office 365 and SharePoint Online for CyberSecurity organization

Used: SharePoint 2013, SQL Server 2014, Visual Studio 2013/2015, C#, Microsoft Azure Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Office 365/2016, Windows 2012R2, CyberLink PowerDirector 13, CRM

Cloud/SharePoint Architect/Developer

Confidential, Springfield, VA and DC

Responsibilities:

  • Proposed/Presented visionary IT solutions with calculated costs to executives
  • Acted as IT liaison, moderated meetings, negotiated between IT/customer/executive stakeholders
  • Business Process Management - mapped processes, provided automation recommendations
  • Compared Iaas/SaaS Cloud vendors, including licensing & GovCloud cybersecurity certifications
  • Invented/Architected/Baselined an IaaS Cloud solution for a Project Management Office
  • Designed data flows, cybersecurity devices, fail-over mechanisms, virtual machines (VMs)
  • Created Azure Cloud IaaS solutions from scratch using on-premise software versions
  • Created/Administered SharePoint farms, site collections, sites
  • Developed applications involving SharePoint, Project Server, TFS, C#, and Office
  • Innovated/Created connections between SharePoint, Project Server, TFS, LeanKit

Used: SharePoint/Designer 2010/2013, SQL Server 2012/2014, LeanKit API, Visual Studio/TFS 2013, Microsoft Azure Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Office, Active Directory, Windows 2012R2

Program Manager

Confidential, Arlington & Sterling, VA

Responsibilities:

  • As primary contact, met & addressed demands from government managers, COTR, C-Level execs
  • Evaluated, hired, inspired technical personnel that were team players. Counseled others as needed.
  • Created training plans that attracted widespread participation from the workforce
  • Pushed through Human Resource changes desired by the grass-roots employees
  • Aided company in acquiring CMMI certification
  • Monitored and participated in numerous Scrum standups including Scrum of Scrums
  • Imparted architectural advice on C#, SQL Server, Oracle, Confidential, VMs, Shared Services, Agile
  • Created SharePoint site that enabled personalized private training plans.

Used: Lync, SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2012, Visual Studio 2012, TFS 2012

SharePoint Architect/Developer

Confidential, Sterling, VA

Responsibilities:

  • Created project plan, schedule, Agile execution. Negotiated personnel needed for testing, migration.
  • Designed secure SharePoint 2013 farms with external databases in VMs
  • Successfully promoted use of latest SharePoint Point version - functionality and less user training
  • Created the SharePoint 2013 Confidential including project sites and secure development enclave.
  • Created executive dashboard for gathering project status directly from the project sites.
  • Created custom web part as a control for header information from several SharePoint sites
  • Migrated information and department sites on SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.

Used: SharePoint/SharePoint Designer 2013, Visual Studio 2012, C#, SQL Server 2012

SharePoint Architect/Developer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

  • Designed secure SharePoint 2010 application with external databases having data entry and reporting sites. This replaced processes depending on numerous attached spreadsheets in SharePoint 2007.
  • Created architectural vision with Visio diagrams/PowerPoints along with Project Plan and Schedule.
  • Promoted and explained this novel vision with teleconferences, boards, talks, governance, and emails.
  • Conducted process interviews with SMEs in activities of interest. Mapped process and data flows.
  • Addressed extreme scaling issues of very large SharePoint lists with filtering and metering.
  • Provided migration plan for moving from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.
  • Guided and alerted SharePoint Admins and Content Managers on error fixes, features such as BCS.
  • Created department site, wiki, Access/PerformancePoint/Visio Services sites, and ad-hoc reports.
  • Coded automated mechanisms for loading files from external systems to use as read-only reference.
  • Made databases to load data files, accommodate anomalous data, add high performance numeric keys based on character-based ones, create a set of SharePoint-friendly tables, upload to SharePoint lists.
  • Enabled dramatically faster online entry of reviews for financial transactions coupled with reporting.

Used: SharePoint Enterprise 2007 / 2010, Visual Studio 2010, PerformancePoint/Visio/Access Services, SharePoint Designer 2007/2010, SQL Server 2008R2 Management Studio, Access/InfoPath/Excel 2010

Database Architect/Developer

Confidential, Pentagon, Virginia

Responsibilities:

  • Created and followed a project plan in an Agile manner - potential future delays/risks were mitigated via small periodic adjustments and early starts with parallel design/development.
  • Modernized the development process by providing advice on Agile processes as well as specifications for the Team Foundation System (TFS) 2010 and SharePoint 2010 servers.
  • Created and updated a data migration plan (Oracle to SQL Server), test plan, risk management plan.
  • Determined the optimum approach for migrating data from Oracle to SQL Server.
  • Coordinated teams of varied DBAs (SQL Server, Oracle) and developers (.NET, JAVA, Cold Fusion) for conducting/ testing data migrations and also addressing migration issues for the front-end.
  • Created hardware and software specifications for a new Test Environment.
  • Gave cybersecurity feedback and advice regarding their processes and hardware/software systems.
  • Provided Information Assurance (IA) documents for SQL Server, My SQL, Oracle plus a security auditing program for SQL Server.
  • Migrated two Oracle 11g schemas to SQL Server (SS) 2008R2 databases using SS Migration Assistant (SSMA) for the primary migration with special changes via SS Integration Services (SSIS).
  • Aided construction and IA Assessments of Test and Production environments with clustered SQL Server, clustered Windows Server, Virtual Machines (VMs) - VMware, and demonstrated Hyper-V.
  • Enhanced Project Management and code storage in the Development environment by creating TFS 2010 server with WSS 3.0 sites, SQL Server 2008R2, Windows Server 2008R2.
  • Made new example Dev workstation having Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 with connectivity to remote SS2008R2 sandbox databases, TFS 2010, and SharePoint 2010 on separate Dev servers.
  • Created SharePoint 2010 server with remote SS2008R2 databases and made SharePoint test sites.
  • Proposed use, programming approaches, and layouts for departmental SharePoint sites.
  • Mentored developers on SharePoint 2010 and new Confidential layout and procedures.

Used: SQL Server 2008R2, Profiler, Oracle 11g, Toad, Visual Studio Business Intelligence, SSMA, SSIS, Windows Server 2008R2, VMware, Hyper-V, TFS 2010, SharePoint 2010 and 2007.

Information Assurance / System Architect

Confidential, Kingstowne, Virginia

Responsibilities:

  • Managed creation of Disaster Recovery procedures and Failover/Switchover planning with government and contractor teams of 30 third-party developers with iterative, agile-like development. Guided approaches by managing meetings, reviews, written feedback. Championed efficient and effective COOP (backup site) design, setup, and operation - with government Trading Partners.
  • Overhauled and streamlined the SAAR (System Authorization Access Request) process for privileged users. Added clarity, obtained consensus from Information Assurance Team members, on document usage and routing, via meetings and by writing an SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) and included team feedback ideas. Created executive / training briefing on the enhanced SAAR process and SOP. Added mechanisms included shared Outlook folders, SAAR templates, in-place digital signatures of PDFs, and a new Confidential website to download required documents by the requesting users.
  • Reviewed change requests as a member on many weekly approval boards: Change Control Board (CCB), Release Management Review (RMR), Security Working Group, Architect Review Board, as well as emergency reviews for proposed changes to Confidential headquarters acquisition systems, a nexus, across environments. Declared security gaps or incomplete technology as well as approvals.
  • Reviewed and provided feedback on many information assurance and architecture documents. Conducted a team review and assembled a library of security policy documents.
  • Independently discovered / noted SAP encryption issue and recommended mitigation path. Involved in security classification/marking, incident reporting, vulnerability assessment, blue/red teams.
  • Created the SAAR Dashboard, which tracked the SAAR approval process. Created metrics and charts in Excel such as filtered turnover days and mode/median statistics for system access requests.
  • Explored design approaches for accompanying Confidential website for SAAR and SDLC user downloads.
  • Reviewed the proposed use/change of SAP programs, JAVA libraries, and Oracle databases.
  • Examined software performance issues of SAP programs. Also created hardware performance metrics for the varied Solaris systems enabling a comparison of production and COOP capabilities.
  • Sanitized server and network diagrams for use in government Request For Proposals.
  • Aided the later design of DoDAF architecture for their nascent Manufacturing Execution System (MES). Upon determining early stage design flaw, informed management which restarted the project.

Used: Excel and the NIPRnet Confidential (Army Knowledge Online) network with its content mgmt system.

SharePoint Architect

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

  • Designed a WSS 3.0 SharePoint 2007 portal and system to automate Human Resource manual processes to collect and store data, calculate scorecards, and display reports.
  • Used Microsoft Access for modeling table relationships, list upload, and actual report generation
  • Presented designs and prototypes to stakeholders from governmental units. Refined with feedback in a weekly iterative Agile fashion.
  • Explored, with Microsoft engineers, considerations for the future SharePoint Server 2010 migration.
  • Created a WSS-based program to accept user inputs, compute metrics, and make graphs, dashboards, and reports. Set up program security to accommodate the proper, custom groups only.
  • Implemented classic Development, Test, and Production environments as isolated SharePoint portals.
  • As security policy blocked new web parts and other approaches, created a mechanism to generate PDF reports with a custom Access program that was transparent to the SharePoint user.
  • Designed a custom Excel control panel for control and to give users a means to select reports.

Used: Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0), data form web parts, SharePoint Designer 2007, Access, Excel, VBA, javascript, HTML.

Software Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Interviewed subject matter experts and leaders throughout the Confidential headquarters base from six major intelligence groups with a total of 100 members. This involved data with different classifications.
  • Designed the system including SharePoint for sharing data, Microsoft Access databases and reports (software available in combat area), and web services to intelligence data sources.
  • Presented designs and refined with feedback from stakeholders.
  • Created an Access database to handle sensitive intelligence for diverse groups.
  • Created a SharePoint 2007 portal for sharing the data discreetly with the stakeholders.
  • Created a switch-over porting map for other disparate data.

Used: Access / Excel/ PowerPoint / Visio 2007, SharePoint 2007, Skype, many classified networks

Software Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Managed creation of ATS Test Environment utilizing Agile/Scrum & PMP methodologies. As Scrum Master, facilitated scrum-of-scrums meetings with leaders of 70+ team members, and performed sprint & release planning. Augmented with side meetings, negotiations. Created project charter/docs. Obtained sponsor buy-in, go-aheads, support. Created implementation plans for Configuration Mgmt.
  • Managed app development with burn down charts, scheduling meetings, business analyst, testers, government manager, four developer/DBAs, release manager, and users.
  • Managed SharePoint administrators, business analysts, 5 other developers, clients, users.
  • Designed Test Environment for the classified .NET web 50,000-user ATS program in collaboration with major stakeholders including government managers and competing developer/DBA groups. Highlighted private versus public Oracle database schema issues. Addressed security and data privacy.
  • Drove design, priorities, and development on (undisclosed) app, a semi-autonomous portion of ATS.
  • Architected/designed SharePoint 2007 portals, with client feedback, for two specialty purposes:
  • Set up a core ASP.NET app, my responsibility of ATS program, to work with new Test Environment.
  • Did extensive primary ASP.NET/ADO.NET web development for (undisclosed) app with mostly C#, JavaScript, HTML, and PL/SQL in all tiers. Coordinated my code-reviewed deployments closely with ATS testers and managers to ride along with aggregate releases. Participated in scrum meetings.
  • Created two SharePoint sites:

Used: TFS, enterprise Visual Studio 2005/2008, SQL Server 2005/2008, T-SQL, huge Oracle 10i/11g databases, ETL, PL/SQL, VMs (Virtual Machines), Office 2003/2007, SOA, web services, BizTalk 2006R2, orchestrations/adapters/ports/files, SharePoint 2007, FAST, workflows, mainframe, sprint cards.

Web Architect

Confidential, Irvine, California.

Responsibilities:

  • Interviewed subject matter experts and directors in the departments for the Confidential including the Police Department, Community Outreach, and Information Services. Collaborated with the C# developer, database, and network groups.
  • Designed the ASP.NET software system with their legacy content management system (and a Microsoft SharePoint 2007 recommended replacement) for sharing data, collaboration, city site content edited directly by the departments, many calendars, and Access & Excel files. Web parts would use C# while the data repository would be in SQL Server databases.
  • Created hardware designs with the specifications of the server hardware requirements, server types and purposes. In addition, made complete network designs with DMZ and other zones specified, port usage, server connections, and recommended security measures.
  • Examined software licensing for optimum use of current licenses in conjunction with the terms for the expected new licenses.
  • Presented the designs, utilizing Visio/UML and PowerPoint, and refined them with feedback from the stakeholders including the CIO.

Used: Content management software, Office 2003, Visual Studio 2005, C#, SQL Server 2005, SharePoint 2007.

Chief Architect/Project Manager

Confidential, Hampton, Virginia

Responsibilities:

  • Managed 7 developers, 2 business analysts, DBAs, testers, and clients. Provided managerial feedback and specific tasks to the developers on a daily and long-term basis.
  • Gave direction to the team on vision, roadmap, work schedules, and overall goals.
  • Acted on feedback from superiors concerning team issues. Supplied status and release info to execs.
  • As Scrum Master, conducted daily Scrum meetings for the development team and held sprint & release planning sessions.
  • Directed exploration and presentations of the new .NET 3.0 features such as WCF, WPF, WWF, and Card Space.
  • Organized sales presentations, viewed by most stakeholders including the development team and the government manager, from competing software manufacturers: Microsoft (Hyper-V, SharePoint, PerformancePoint Dashboards), VMware, Oracle, Dundas, and others.
  • Created the design of a major ASP.NET government website, its server layouts, the database connections, the network configurations, and web service connections to other apps.
  • Coordinated migrating solutions and considerations with the production staff, which was managing the existing old ASP legacy system.
  • Wrote white papers, in conjunction with the developer staff, on Best Practices and design recommendations such as the desirability of the C# language. Persuaded execs on the approaches.
  • Drove the Business class development, communicated with the business analysts, and negotiated with the government managers to create effective, accepted business classes in their large middle tier.
  • Attended/participated in a Microsoft-sponsored 2-day event where their Architect gave a positive review of my designs.
  • Gave formal presentations to the government clients. Often utilized Visio/UML and PowerPoint.
  • Directed creation of specific WCF web services, communicated with a counterpart in a different department, and smoothly connected our Army systems to their JAVA web services in a controlled and secure manner.
  • Created C# prototypes to accompany presentation of designs for the government managers.
  • Created C# samples with the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern for the development team.
  • Explored new Microsoft.NET 3.0 features, especially WCF web services.

Used: Office 2003, Visio, UML, Reporting Services, SQL Server, SharePoint 2003, BizTalk, VMs, Visual Studio Team, TFS, C#, VB.NET, .NET 3.0, web services, patterns, sprint planning cards.

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