SUMMARY

• Proven technical director with over 20 years of experience leveraging a multitude of key development tools and technologies in the Insurance, Banking and Technology domains.
• Successful technology leader designing and delivering of the country - wide recognized/used National Change Of Address (160M+ addresses) service of USPS.
• Contributes and supports planning and execution of Enterprise-wide initiatives and projects leveraging Agile, Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprises (SAFE), Iterative Development, CMMI 3, Waterfall processes.
• Accomplished people manager of several teams totaling 35-40 developers, with success building and nurturing high performance teams. Key duties include providing ongoing guidance and direction in addition to coaching and performance management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Distributed System Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus, Business Rules Systems, Machine Learning (Decision Trees), N-Tier Architecture, Web Services, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, SOA, RESTful Services, IBM MQ Series, WCF, Citrix, Windows, Solaris, Unix, Amazon Cloud (API Gateway, Lambda, Kinesis, NoSQL database - Elastic Search)
• C#, C++/CLI, C/C++, Node.js, .NET Framework, ADO.NET, .NET Remoting, WPF, XML, HTML, SQLite, MS SQL, Oracle ( AQ messaging, PL/SQL, Pro C)
• Visual Studio, IBM WebSphere, SPARX, ArchiMate, seeking TOGAF certification, ElasticSearch, Business Rule Engine (Drools, InRule)
• Performance analysis for .NET: RedGate (ANTS), DynaTrace, Splunk,
• TFS, GIT, PVCS, CVS, Subversion, Hudson, Cruise Control, in-house tools
• Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprises (SAFE), Iterative/Incremental Development/Delivery, Agile (Scrum, Rally, ALM), Waterfall, CMMI 3

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, SpringFiled, IL

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Leading the process to define system roadmap: functional requirements, transitional phases and target architecture. Presented the overall design and proof of concept in Architecture Review Meeting with CIO, VP and architects.
• Working with technology teams to overhaul eisting technologies and bring new (for the customer) technologies: Amazon Cloud ( API Gateway, Lambda, Kinesis, NoSQL database-ElasticSearch), Business Rules Engines (Drools, InRule)
• Guiding onsite and offshore teams for few Proof Of Concepts presented to steakholders as opportunities to improve business process, automate tasks and leverage data to extract more meaningful insights

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Director / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Defined system road map, long term solutions, functional requirements, designs and priorities for internal and external projects while partnering with, Product and Business owners, QA teams and Enterprise Architects
• Trained, supervised, assigned projects to, evaluateed and responsible for career development of staff to maintain optimal performance of job duties for offshore (10-12) and onsite 25-30 staff.
• Evaluated and improved internal delivery process and procedures, resulting in about 1 deployment issue per year
• Successfully leverage advanced technologies including N-Tier Architecture, Web Services, C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, SOA, RESTful Services, MS SQL Server, WCF, WPF, Citrix, Machine Learning, MS TFS, GIT, XCode and Xamarin (mobile dev. proof of concept) for both: internal and external customers and vendors.
• Cultivate trusted business relationships between the teams and business partners during the transition to newly adopted SDLC process: Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprises (SAFE). Defined/improved KPIs to quantify and manage the transition.
• Leveraged my Machine Learning knowledge for developing Proof Of Concept for predicting customers who would default on monthly payments as well as customer offer acceptance during loan origination process

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Director Software Engineering / Principal Developer

Responsibilities:

• Technical System Owner and System/Solution Architect for Servicing dept. fleet of applications. Interacts with Product Managers, Enterprise Architects and business clients to define project expectations, requirements and deliverables, responsible for entire SDLC process and day to day work of the Agile teams, including deployments.
• Successfully leveraged N-tier architecture and Microsoft technologies including C#, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, Web API, SOA, RESTful Services, MS SQL Server, IBM MQ Series, WPF, Visual Studio, MS TFS, GIT, Citrix, DynaTrace, Splunk for developing Servicing Teams fleet of applications (for both: internal customers and external customers and vendors)
• Recognized and identified potential where existing policies and procedures require change, or where ones need to be developed, especially regarding future business expansion
• Provided Production Support (establishing KPIs, SLAs) for Servicing fleet of applications in addition to coordinating software development teams activity and deliverables. Teams used DynaTrace, Splunk for advanced troubleshooting.
• Trained, supervised, assigned projects to, evaluates and responsible for career development of staff to maintain optimal performance of job duties.

Confidential, Arlington, TX

Consulting Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Delivered several multi-million dollars projects for United States Postal Services (USPS) deployed in around 300 nation-wide locations: National Change Of Address - a USPS service used by everybody who changed his/her address.
• Received special commendation from Confidential for exceptional work which was featured in Confidential ' monthly newsletter in November 2012.
• Coordinate development team activities both locally and internationally (Germany)
• Leveraged Distributed System Architecture, Business Rules Systems for letters management using C#, C/C++/CLI, multi-threading, TCP/IP, Oracle ( AQ messaging, .NET Framework, PVCS, CVS, MS Visual Studio, Windows, Continues integration, Hudson, RedGate, TFS, CVS
• SDLC process: Iterative/Incremental Development and Delivery, Waterfall, CMMI 3