CAREER OBJECTIVE:

• I seek a career leadership position based Architecture & Cloud/Enterprise Transformation.
• I am hands - on technology expert with executive, management, & leadership experience plus a strong business acumen that includes branding, marketing, sales support, and sales.
• Industry Experience: Healthcare, Financial, Manufacturing, Retail, Oil and Gas, Education, Logistics, DOD as Executive, Chief Technologist/Architect, Trusted Advisor, leadership roles.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

App Technologies: Lead Enterprise Transformations and corporate cultural evolution;

• Technology range is “all things cloud”: AWS, Azure/ARM/Fabric, Azure Stack
• Web Programming: Web 2.0+ technologies; C# ASP.NET MVC 4/5/6,, HTML5, CSS 3, JSON, jQuery(UI and Mobile), Bootstrap, Angular 2, JavaScript, etc.
• SQL, NoSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Analytics/BI, GitHub, Ansible, BASH, MyGitHub, Code PoCs, participate in Design & Code Reviews, IoT CoE, Docker, Docker/Swarm, API Gateways, Microservices, ASP App migration, etc.

Architectures: Cloud, Infrastructure, and IT

• TOGAF, Zackman Framework, ITIL, HIPAA, SOX Compliance
• Cloud (Hybrid, HCI, Public, Private), AWS, Azure, OpenStack, *aaS, MEAN Stack
• Data Science, Analytics/Data, Big Data, Security, API /Microservices, etc.
• Web Application, SPA, Work Flow/BPM, CI, CAP, SOLID, and 12-Factor-Apps

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Confidential

Architect/Portfolio Management /Transformation Architecture

Responsibilites:

• Help define the Business Banking Groups Value Chains and develop technology strategy/roadmaps for elimination of duplicate processing
• Lead team defining the “new BoA” for decentralization of application, and infrastructure management. Goal is to reduce from ~ applications and define Infrastructure portfolio management for all business areas in BoA. In the new “Bank” structure recently created. This included internal strategy for transformation for IT infrastructure to hybrid cloud and PaaS/IaaS.
• Integral role in helping define strategic directions across a diverse infrastructure panorama and identifying key initiatives, measuring progress, and best ROI.

Confidential

Chief Architect

• Recruited to support main commercial products (provide background check of hospital personal and process claims information for the 77 hospitals that “owned” DFWHC) and start-up new revenue ventures to make DFWHC self-sufficient.

• Transformed data center to Hybrid Cloud

Confidential

ERP Architecture/Architect

Responsibilites:

• Responsibilities focused on risk mitigation causing customer failures in mortgage finance.

• Lead a massive & significant outsourcing project to provide scalability for digitizing and processing mortgage documents. Many COTS components were utilized e.g., Documentum, Atmos cloud mass storage appliance, WebSphere MQ, and development of a new bifurcated data strategy providing a internal/external processing scalability for cost effectiveness etc.

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SR Financial Systems Architect

Responsibilites:

• Architected solution for Payment System to converge into a single web based application

• Interface payments into existing supply chain and CRM systems
• Implemented application security, audit trail, and flexibility to address payment changes of thousands of payment/reimbursement codes that changed on a monthly or bi-weekly based depending on country
• Implemented user roles and payee profiles based upon payee entity type i.e., organization, person, male/female, country, and currency
• Converged 24 separate databases into a single database/data model

Confidential

Chief Architecture

Responsibilites:

• Started a new development group in Confidential charted by its parent company (WPP) to develop a project management tool that was tailored for advertising and tracked print, digital, and media based advertising campaigns from inception through fulfillment of thousands of resources. SharePoint technology was used for the initial application however the SharePoint application had numerous problems and limitations preventing roll out to production.

• I architected a web application and database that augmented/replaced the SharePoint application with a web based workflow engine that efficiently provided the capability to assign and track several thousand resources (people) across many projects and appropriately schedule and charge time, and manage advertising campaigns to meet budget and report progress.

Confidential

Chief Architect

Responsibilites:

• Architected and managed the next generation web based product to replace legacy COM based platform.

• Augmented staff and reorganizaed
• Built, and delivered the next generation .NET based training management system web portal, This product was morphed by my team into several additional products that included a learning management system used in a partnership with TEKsystems for outsourcing corporate technical training, a replacement for MTV’s SAP LMS module, and AMEX learning portal in Phoenix, Arizona which was integrated directly into their internal corporate learning management system.

Confidential

Vice President Architecture/Development

Responsibilites:

• Lead Development of business intelligence (BI) and activity based costing (ABC) solution providing hospitals with the ability to see patient episode costs and perform cost management, productivity measurement, capacity utilization, and quality improvement measurements.

• I published several articles on health care e.g., “Mitigating Risks with Price Transparency”. This application provided the quantitative measurements to improve quality, match medical protocols with financial protocols while comparing outcomes. Using public hospital data provided by the U.S. government and CMS the application could accurately predict hospital profitability at a 94% confidence rate.

Confidential

Strategic Architect

Responsibilites:

• Lead group of over 60 people and performed business and IT level analysis, re-engineering and development of five (5) web based applications that handled inspections and property preservation services for defaulted mortgages

• Identified (out of process) Blaze rules as major performance culprit and re-designed rules
• Fixed network security problems slowing network performance
• Redefined server virtualization strategy that “starved” critical applications of CPU cycles and memory.
• I architected new web based application services for handling Property and Casualty claims automatically and REO (Real Estate Owned) services.

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Chief Architect

Responsibilites:

• Architected and lead developed electronic documents for trading of oil and natural gas and basic trading functions including shipping, coordination center nominations, equity partner notifications, logistics from well to pipeline, to ship, to final destination. This included a sophisticated price forecasting model for “in route” oil and gas.

• Architected and lead developed logistical support, terminal management, nomination, and electronic documents that included electronic negotiable Bills of Lading, loading instructions, manifests, inspection documents, and banking documents
• Architected and lead developed external interfaces for the US gov’s AMD (Automated Manifest System) and back-end trading systems for TradeCapture and ICE. Web services were used to transmit transactions, document content information, and receive status or configuration information.
• Architecture included highly secure application architecture techniques to prevent intrusion, virus/worm infection, and to detect fraud & fraudulent documents
• Reshaped the Development and Technical Services groups, instituting a rigorous Agile development process for re-architecting the new flagship product using extreme programming methodology.
• Responsible for managing technical teams of QA, Product Marketing, Sustaining Engineering, IT infrastructure, and ASP operations that included 100K+ transactions per month
• Improved product stability and reliability to allow service roll-out to customers
• Added processing of electronic cash cards and retail processing.
• Insured full production system was Sarbanes-Oxley (ACT 2002) compliant, and was SAS70 certified.
• Reduced staff and hired needed expertise in development, market, and support

Confidential

Director of Consulting Architecture & Strategy

Responsibilites:

• Confidential is an $8 billion health insurance provider losing $ MM on $8.1 Billion in sales due to inability to manage identities. I performed analysis and developed data warehouse to determine replicate identities and potential previous claimants. I also architected a solution to qualify all existing and new applicates for replicated identities and/or alias and/or fraud. PoC results identified several hundred replicates/previous claimants with savings in $5+ millions

• Due to deregulation, Confidential was in a different market situation and was rapidly losing market share (35% of Confidential revenue was power generation, transmission, and distribution). My Charter was to provide an overall architecture for a suite of applications that allowed Confidential to market its products as an outsourced service to utilities. This included a comprehensive suite of applications & architecture for a comprehensive set of ERP class of applications.

Confidential

Responsibilites:

• Alar provided distribution logistics services, specialized pick/pack services, fulfillment services, and supply chain for manufacturing (JIT Just-In-Time) services for companies such as Confidential and hundreds of other high technology companies.

• Document interchange included inventories, manifests, bill of laden, warehouse receipt, import / export documents/agent/services, weight bills, airfreight bill, etc.