SUMMARY

Confidential, Boston MA, New York, NY

Principal / Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Engaged to deliver IT Strategy review for newly created IT Shared Services Organization (SSO). Strategy review o proposed an over - arching 3 year plan ranging from quick wins to alignment with Manulife Corporate 3 - 5 year strategy. Discovery process consisted of face to face interviews with key leaders and employees within the SSO, a review of financials, software and solution inventory, client engagement model, catalog or services provided, and an overview of outsourcing and consulting arrangements.
• Principal Architect in Office of the CTO. Evangelized Aetna Enterprise Technology Strategy by developing trusted relationships with key stakeholders in both business and IT organizations.
• Worked directly with procurement and Enterprise Security Architecture to develop risk profiles for candidate vendors based on Aetna’s Technical Questionnaire, Security Attestation, and vendor interviews. Developed Power Point presentations, and Excel Score Cards to rank vendors in terms of corporate standards and peer vendors.
• Partnered with Business Units and Technology organizations to discuss risk vendor profiles and suggest options for risk mitigation and ways to balance business requirements with vendor’s ability to meet Aetna’s published standards.
• Conducted research to identify emergence and adoption of new technology and provided key updates to Strategic Technology Plan that informed firm-wide technology posture for a 1 - 3 year period
• Conceptualized end-state architecture for domain blueprints including Financial and Regulatory Reporting, Human Resources, Human Capital Management, Identity Management and Security, IT Service Management, Health Care Reform, Legal Matter and Legal Spend Management.
• Led matrix organizations to identify, evaluate, and conduct Proof of Concept/ Proof of Technology for new solutions and new technology.
• Provided architectural oversight and pre-implementation support for an update to the Total Merrill Retirement Calculator. This tool is hosted on The Bank’s public facing IRA/Retirement website
• Led a forensic study of system that tracks positions > $1B, as well as trades on those accounts, in preparation for a system replacement. The study yielded information on security concerns, audit issues, and use of non-permitted and non-supported technology.
• Developed proof of concept for the Operations Control Program Relationship Diagrams that were implemented into the corporate EGRC solution
• Rescued a time critical Compliance / Audit project that had to be completed before year end 2007.
• Led a team of 30 including Developers, Project Managers, and Business Analysts responsible for major redesign of client facing web applications. Responsible for application architecture, staffing, delivery schedules, and project planning.
• Organized evaluations of UI Toolsets/Libraries including YUI, .NET, SilverLite, Component Art, and Infragistics across development teams.
• Chaired discovery sessions toward the goal of translating Business Requirements into Software Requirements.

Confidential, NJ, New York, NY

Architect, Development Manager, Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated COTS software against internal products
• Prepared software requirement specification for desired functionality
• Prepared TCO comparison
• Conducted hands on proof of concept use of commercial software and internal products

Managed Performance Engineering Team

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and delivered time and material estimates to clients
• Execution and management of test plan
• Review and analyze test results, present findings and recommendations to management, clients, and peers
• Web Service interface to WMI classes to gather server and workstation configuration and policy data
• Automated testing framework
• Multi-threaded windows application to monitor software distribution to over 30,000 workstations
• Web application to monitor and graphically depict status of development, test, and deployment environments
• Windows Service to watch environments and automatically launch Web Application upon event onset
• Automation add-ons for Microsoft Office and Minitab in support of Six Sigma Initiatives
• Conducted Proof of Concept to migrate Dashboard Applications to SharePoint

Confidential

Leader

Responsibilities:

• Hired and Led a team of eight employees and consultants
• Creation of job descriptions, staffed and trained the PE Team
• Evaluation of test tools, development of test tools using C++, stubbing devices
• Creation and presentation of testing methodologies and best practices
• Pre-production scalability and stress testing, post test analysis
• Liaison to Development, QA, Infrastructure, Networking, and Management Teams

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: C#, C/C++, C++/CLI, ASP, VBA, Visual Basic, HTML, PHP, SQL, MASM, XAML,XML

Databases: SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, MySQL, DB2, DB2/6000, Oracle, UDB

Operating Systems: Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP/2000/NT, DOS, OS/2, UNIX, Linux, AIX, MVS

Tools: Visual Studio .NET .NET Framework, ADO.NET, SQL Server, Win32 API, WMI, LoadRunner, WinRunner, ChartDirector, Dundas, Rational Robot, Quick Test Pro, Microsoft Office, Minitab, Telerik

Communications: NetBIOS, Sockets, TCP/IP, HTTP/S

Web: IIS, ASP.NET, HTML, XML, Javascript, HTTP/S, REST WebServices, XML WebServices, PHP

UNIX/AIX: CICS/6000, DB2/6000, C, Korn Shell

Mainframe: BAL, C/C++, CICS, COBOL, CLIST, DB2, DB2I, IBM Language Environment (LE370), JCL, MVS, QMF, REXX, SQL, Syncsort, QSAM, TSO, VSAM, XPEDITER, IBM Utilities