SUMMARY:

• Self - motivated and innovative Solutions Architect and Team Lead working with Fortune 500 healthcare company. Able to articulate complex scenarios in user friendly terms to senior management. Problem solver selected by the CIO to lead the creation of the Legal IT organization for a $4 billion healthcare startup, Baxalta. More than 17 years web app development.
• Expertise in SDLC, systems development concepts, implementation methodology and business analysis. Extensive project management and cross functional team lead experience. Detail orientated with excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Solution Architecture, Project Management, Leadership, Web App Development, Strategic Technology Planning, Major System Implementations, Business Process Mapping, Technical Writing & Training Material, Business Data & Systems Analysis, Systems Security Analysis & Review, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Modeling, Data Flow Mapping & Integrations, Testing & Scripting Documentation, Vendor Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: .NET/C#, HTML5/CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery/AngularJS/ReactJS, NodeJS/ExpressJS, SQL, XML/XSL, PowerShell, PHP, Java/JSP, MVC/REST/APIs, OAuth/SAML

OS: Windows 7/8/10, Windows Server2008/2012, Linux

Databases: MSSQL 2008/2014/2014 (T-SQL), Oracle 10/11 (PLSQL), MongoDB, MySQL

Software: IIS 7/8, SharePoint, Visual Studio 13/15, GIT/SVN, Eclipse IDE, Cognos BI, Tomcat, SQL Developer, SSMS/SSIS, Toad, MS Office

Miscellaneous: Mitratech TeamConnect, iManage WorkSite, Intellectual Property Management Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Solution Architect / Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Key figurehead regularly interacting with senior leadership
• Program/project manager delivering multiple simultaneous complex projects, including managing budgets and internal/external resources.
• Plan, design and build technical systems and roadmaps with integrations between disparate Legal and non-Legal systems.
• Integration lead planning and executing the Legal system separation from Baxter and migration into Shire.
• Member of Shire’s Architecture Community, driving organizational architecture and governance standards.
• Lead the planning and deve lopment of Legal application portfolio strategic 1-3 year roadmap.
• Lead separation of 5 large complex applications from Baxter, over 2 TB of data, and their migration into Shire’s infrastructure within a twelve month period.
• Developed overall program plan for the Legal application integration into Shire.
• Directed internal/external resources in RFP for replacing an Intellectual Property Management System.

Senior Manager / Solution Architech

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Department lead managing 3 technical resources.
• Designed, coordinated, installed and implemented systems end-to-end for a full suite of Legal applications.
• Communicated strategies to senior management, hiring/training/developing employees, forecast planning and annual budgeting, vendor management, and project management.
• Business partner and thought leader developing new relationships and business process improvements with regular interaction with senior leadership (both IT and business).
• Managed all areas of Legal and Compliance software and business processes.
• Built new Baxalta Legal IT team from the ground up.
• Department lead managing the project execution of the Legal application separation program in Baxter’s split into two companies; managed 5 resources with a $3MIL capital project budget and the separation of 18 applications simultaneously over a 24 month period.
• Lead the planning and deve lopment of Legal application portfolio strategic 1-3 year roadmap.
• Developed overall program plan for the Legal application separation from Baxter.
• Interviewed and hired new resources, set the strategy and future direction of the team, Legal software and architecture.
• Mentored new hires and intern, providing guidance and training.
• Established a new Legal Technology Steering Committee whose purpose was to align technology with business objectives, establish a long range technology roadmap, and to allocate resources to key strategic and operational needs.
• Created 18 business cases and presented each to the Architecture review board; all were approved after first review.

Confidential

Solution Architect / Sr Systems Consultant / Sr Manager

Responsibilities:

• Team lead and supervisor, built development plans, leadership, forecast planning, and budgeting.
• Transition lead managing the Legal app separation projects in Baxter’s split into two companies.
• Lead technical developer and mentor for team members.
• Member of Baxter’s Architecture Community.
• Selected by the new Baxalta CIO to lead the creation of the Legal IT organization.
• Developed a detailed mapping of Legal business capabilities to software applications leveraging TOGAF.
• Managed multiple simultaneous separation projects with a capital budget > $3MIL including 5-8 internal/external resources.
• Integrated numerous applications with SharePoint 2013 web services API, CSOM, and workflows.
• Developed innovative .NET web applications, designed and built enterprise and NoSQL databases.
• Lead a highly motivating internal program (AskIT) educating end users on technology by presenting tips and tricks on various software in a simple easy to understand way, and presented during several events/town halls in settings of 50-150 people.
• Assisted with establishing architecture standards and regular software architecture reviews.

Confidential

Systems Consultant / Application Developer / Manager I

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager, leading several complex projects.
• Lead Developer and mentor involved in all aspects of Legal system implementations and configurations.
• Lead B usiness Systems Analyst tasked with gathering business process requirements.
• Cognos v10 Framework and Report Studio writer.
• Managed a cross-functional team of 8 including vendors and project resources with a budget of $600K+ implementing the IP replacement system.
• Led the project, development and architecture of an innovative SharePoint contract warehouse, including designing several process improvements. Integrated apps with SharePoint API.
• Developed several .NET web applications with backend SQL/Oracle databases, following the SDLC.
• Built a Cognos BI data warehouse for critical daily/monthly IP system reporting by reverse engineering the IP system database; a database that included 700+ tables. Managed on/off shore resources.

Senior Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• System administrator and implementer of several Legal systems including, TeamConnect and WorkSite.
• B usiness Systems Analyst tasked with gathering business process requirements.
• Application developer building key system integrations between Legal systems leveraging Java.
• Data Center consolidation lead tasked with migrating Legal IT server infrastructure to new data center.
• Fully trained in Cognos v8 Framework and Report Studio
• Technical lead on Cognos reporting data warehouse for the TeamConnect app.
• Successful migration of Legal databases and applications from old data center to new.
• Leveraged SDLC to develop several JSP web applications with SQL/Oracle database backend.