SUMMARY:

• Technology leader with more than 20 years of experience designing, building and delivering innovative, high - tech solutions for businesses and consumers.
• Focused on removing the lines between business and technology with strong strategic and long-range planning abilities; skilled in setting product and technology strategies in B2C, B2B, and Product Delivery environments.
• Serving as a strategic technology leader, my experience includes leading information services for large-scale organizations with extensive expertise in architecting, directing, and managing the development of Service Oriented systems with a focus on highly scalable and maintainable systems design that realize business strategy.
• Key driver for transformational change and strategic technical leadership for multiple organizations, transformed processes for operational excellence, managed senior teams of highly integrated technical professionals, managed systems applications architectures and infrastructure, while serving both internal and direct customers.
• My broad range of industry experience provides for unique perspectives on how technology could and should be used at the enterprise level to augment and leverage existing resources and enhance new business opportunities both on premise and in the cloud.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• C, C++, C#
• VB.NET
• JAVA
• Perl, Ruby, Python
• WCF, WebAPI, WF, LINQ, TPL
• Azure, AWS
• XML, XSL, XSLT, JSON
• ASP.NET, SOA, REST, HTML5, JS, JQuery
• SAP (ABAP, PI/XI)
• MVC, MVP, MVVM, SPA
• ERP - SAP / JDE / PS
• SalesForce
• Microsoft TFS, BitBucket, Mercurial, GIT
• Service Fabric
• IBM WebSphere
• React, Angular
• Virtualization
• CHEF, ARM
• MS SQL, AzureSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL
• CAT, Analytics
• Lucene

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Chief Cloud Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Realize business strategy as a set of both process and technical blueprints to move the company forward towards competitive a cloud platform.
• Plan and prioritize architectural initiatives.
• Set and evangelize the long-term architectural vision and develop short and mid-term roadmaps to deliver on that vision.
• Define, document, and enforce the technical architecture and its design standards.
• Define and manage the technical Cloud strategy, lead cloud application architectural design, identify trade-offs, and determine risk-mitigation considerations while driving the architectural integrity of the platform.
• Direct and advise junior architects on implementation, integration, and design of new features and functionality targeted for the cloud platforms.
• Lead R&D efforts and develop Proof of Concept solutions on wide-ranging initiatives with a large scope of impact in the existing product and its cloud-based counterpart.
• Provide direct architectural oversight on product development efforts to enable a performant cloud solution - including conversion to microservices, service bus implementation, operationalization of auto-scaling and real-time monitoring solutions.
• Establish formal training to 200+ development staff on new technologies and how it will impact their efforts.
• Identify and address operational challenges to delivering software continuously along with health monitoring to ensure maximum flexibility.
• Primary focus has been on Microsoft Azure with the implementation of technologies such as Service Fabric, Service Bus, Azure functions (serverless computing), API Gateway, RESTful Services, SQL Azure, Azure Storage (AFS, Blob, and alternate storage such as Samba), as well as more traditional WebApps, Workers, etc. for the last two years. Also developed a number of early POC efforts using AWS. Efforts focused on .Net framework versions 4.5+ through the most current version 4.6.2.

SENIOR Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide solid technical leadership to align business needs with technical solutions
• Provide guidance in best practice and tool use in the design and build of technical frameworks and the applications built on them
• Architect and implement technical solutions supporting identity management and single sign-on across all corporate systems and the entire suite of next generation financial and collaboration products.
• Develop and communicate a technology roadmap encompassing software architecture, program architecture, design, and development standards for data architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and code management for developing custom web, mobile, business intelligence and business applications.
• Research, recommend, and implement Proof-Of-Concepts of new technologies, development tools and development methodologies that allow the organization to remain adaptive and maintain a consistent architecture while providing quality products and services to our customers.
• Partnered with key stakeholders and senior partners to define and conduct competitive market analysis and user research to develop long and short term website and application strategies.
• Develop and facilitate implementation of architectural policies/procedures for use in conducting enterprise system operations and development efforts, and analyze their overall effectiveness to ensure best practices are incorporated to successfully meet the strategic goals.
• Lead cloud application architectural design, identify trade-offs, and determine risk-mitigation considerations.
• Defined and implemented the Cloud strategy for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and working across all IT domains and with both internal and external business partners to deliver enterprise Cloud capability - focused exclusively on Microsoft Azure for 2 years (Azure WebApps, RESTful APIs, Azure Storage, SQL Azure, Service Bus, and Azure AD).

DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and technological expertise to align technology investments with business goals. Go-to senior resource for developing solutions.
• Accountable for creating and realizing architectures to expedite delivery of new products and services to market while meeting company's cost and risk reduction objectives. Coordinate with senior management and business experts to translate key strategic objectives into actionable and governable roadmaps and designs.
• Design and execute hands-on proofs-of-concept for critical enterprise capabilities, including building business case with costs, benefits, and efficiency measures along with coding the solutions - leveraging C#, SOA / Web Services (WCF), virtualization, and proven Microsoft technology solutions.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and internal teams to define enterprise architecture principles, standards, guidelines, and blueprints.
• Translate business requirements into systems qualities and repeatable design strategies and patterns - focused on adaptability, scalability, availability, and reusability. Personally developed or managed the development of corporate frameworks, key services, and solution templates. Directly accountable for all Schwab integration efforts.
• Perform design reviews across company and collected enterprise architecture performance metrics to assure continuous improvement. Identified bottlenecks and improved site performance by nearly 500%.
• Partner with leadership teams to evaluate technology challenges, define new structures, and build governance model of Enterprise Architecture for business, data, applications and technology within IT Organization.
• Design and code trading integration platform with Business Partners as well as all functionality for FOREX and other integrated trading platforms using C#, WCF, Web Services, and advanced threading (TPL) in .NET 1.1 - 4.0, C++, and JAVA.

MANAGING ARCHITECT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design a fully integrated medical scheduling and encounter capture system for use on remote tablet PC’s and tablet devices using various technologies.
• Design and implement a secure, high transactional volume messaging system for distributing information and medical records information and real-time billing systems.
• Coordinate development efforts to align with HIPPA/CCHIT requirements for medical records information.
• Coordinate with the CEO and CIO, along with all key business stakeholders on project implementation.

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Enable SAP implementation with 80% less integration cost than initially budgeted - nearly a $4M savings compared to traditional integration approaches.
• Develop custom tools to speed SAP integration from weeks or months to hours using the .NET 2.0 and 3.5 frameworks - supporting well over 1 Million transactions per day.
• Directly manage corporate Integration team and coordinated efforts with Tier 1 SAP consulting firms for systems development.
• Authored numerous white papers on SAP integration techniques and the .NET framework and featured as a regular speaker and trainer on SOA technologies and techniques within the ERP Community and SAP specifically.
• Ensure strategic goal identification and alignment of development initiatives with corporate focus.

CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directly responsible for founding and day-to-day management of a company specializing in custom development focused on integration solutions and tools.
• With managing partners, support full lifecycle of a small consulting and tools firm - from sales through delivery.
• Notable customers using our services include Confidential.

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage all general software development and directly managed a number of special technology initiatives including Data warehousing, video systems, GIS mapping, and electronic reporting systems.
• Train and direct staff in IT audit procedures - perform and guide IT audits and risk assessments along with developing mitigation strategies for senior command staff.
• Implement and manage to Program Management Office (PMO) standards with full SDLC methodologies in a mixed environment with 6 different development platforms across 23 distributed sites - technologies included VB6, C++ Oracle PL-SQL, Oracle Forms, ASP, and ASP.NET.
• Coordinate and design integration solutions for new and existing ERP systems at all levels of City government.
• Revitalized and motivated the civilian programming staff and instituting policies and procedures for efficient operations - effectively “turning around” years of stagnation.
• Manage a P&L with a development budget worth over $20 million - generating estimated savings of more than $12 million per year.
• Review and negotiate with vendors concerning contracts, services and SLAs.