SUMMARY:

• Enterprise Architect with expertise in analysis, design, development, and delivery of technology solutions for clients in the banking, trading, private equity, investment management and insurance industries. 20+ years of experience includes:
• Proven leadership abilities: Collaboration with executive - level project sponsors, providing architectural vision, leveraging technology experience, supporting realization of business objectives.
• Direct management of project teams (5-50 persons), onshore, offshore and near-shore.
• API Management, Microservices, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Hosting and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) vision & strategy for enterprise-wide, complex, mission-critical initiatives involving transformative, multi-year re-architectures and governance frameworks to achieve maximum business advantage.
• Authoring of program and project artifacts such as design specifications, full life-cycle development plans, implementation roadmaps, and governance/compliance methodologies.
• Analysis and modeling of business, functional, and data requirements, with delivery of use cases, process models, logical and physical data models, technical designs, prototypes, templates & code.
• Mentoring on enterprise architecture standards, principals, tools and practices, bridging traditional Zachman-TOGAF frameworks with Agile, iterative, pattern-based, process-driven design and development methods.
• Architecture assessment of M&A targets with discovery, analysis & recommendations regarding IT practices, technologies and key personnel against industry best practices, TCO and strategy goals.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Evanston, IL

Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architect responsible for the future-state security strategy for portal- and API-driven microservices in support of Hadoop, Cassandra and MicroStrategy hosted data analytics.
• Defined security architecture strategy for implementing OpenID Connect 1.0, OAuth 2.0 and JSON Web Token (JWT) technologies in a multi-vendor (CA Identity & Apigee Edge), cloud-based (Azure & AWS) environment.
• Planned and participated in Proof-of-Concept (PoC) for implementation of security policy and entitlement provisioning architecture using Apigee Edge, Apigee Microservices Gateway, CA Identity Suite, Azure B2B solutions using OpenID Connect 1.0, OAuth 2.0, JWT, Swagger and YAML standards.
• Design and prototype Docker-based app operating environment to prove Azure-to-AWS portability.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

API Architect

Responsibilities:

• Produced a Cloud Feasibility Analysis & Recommendation that identified cloud vs. on-premise implementation architecture risks and mitigation strategies.
• Authored key API Program deliverables including: API Architecture, Governance Strategy, Developer Best Practices and Implementation Roadmap.
• Supported API Cloud Proof of Concept and Pilot projects by providing expertise in architecture and development of API proxies utilizing key open-source technologies including: Swagger, JavaScript, PERL, Node.js and JMeter.

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Sr. Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Acted as a “Proxy Architect” for a group of Europe-based platform services architects by representing their interests in time-zone in North American meetings and architecture strategy sessions.
• Provided expert guidance on API management (Apigee vs. IBM), cloud hosting (AWS vs. MS Azure) and mobile development (Cordova vs. Electron) solution provider alternatives.
• Specified a phased architecture implementation roadmap based on Agile methods for cloud-hosted, high-availability, API-driven shared services and in-pharmacy, mobile worker user environments.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Delivered architecture strategy and multi-year budget forecast for SaaS-based Java Case Management solution supporting public-policy research projects, integrated with vendor-based survey solutions (IBM SPSS Data Collection & Voxco Acuity4 Survey) and REST-interfaced partner services.
• Developed multi-year technology strategy roadmaps for respective lines-of-business, including: resource & budget estimates, vendor product & technology alignment, risks & mitigation strategies.
• Led the solution architecture for Amerispeak.org, a multi-client, probabilistic, Web-based research platform for 70K U.S. households, in a 7x24-available, highly-secure Internet-exposed portal based on Liferay Enterprise Portal and Node.js.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Global Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led architects and developers to deliver complex, mission-critical platform configurations (AWS cloud-based and on-premise) and custom-coded API proxies, policies and callouts to meet demanding performance, scalability and manageability challenges.
• Specification of architecture blueprints, roadmaps and RESTful API design artifacts.
• Agile solution delivery of API proxy Proof-of-Concept and Production-level code based on XML, Java, JavaScript, PERL, Cassandra, Node.js and various open source technologies.

Confidential, Lisle, IL

Responsibilities:

• Designed low-latency, real-time energy trading analytics solution based on C#, HTML5, ZeroMQ and MS-SQL technologies, implemented in a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud-hosted environment.
• Led team of developers in the delivery of ESB-based, pub-sub solution, including custom message formats for energy load forecast pricing, outage, transmission congestion and weather forecast data.
• Analyzed and designed custom C# and Quartz.net-based ETL solution for real-time acquisition of energy trading data from 150+ data sources, including HTML screen scrape, CSV, XML, SOAP and TCP socket-based interfaces.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed logical & physical data models for instrument authoring, margining, pricing, and risk management systems.
• Implemented credit derivative Master Data Management (MDM) solution based on Markit RED data.
• Resulted in capture of 99% market share and $32T notional value of cleared instruments over 3 yrs.
• Supported compliance initiatives under Federal Reserve (USA) & FSA (UK) regulatory regimes.
• Developed application specifications, data architecture, and infrastructure components for Oracle 11g data warehouse and Pentaho ETL transformations.
• Modeled & designed REST-based XML data interfaces for clearing participant pricing and margining.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led team of 10 local architects and 100 offshore developers in delivery of financial data warehouse, MDM & BI (Hyperion), and ETL tools (Informatica) to meet Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II requirements.
• Designed Risk Management solution for bank-wide assessment of relative operating unit credit risk exposure, with integration to the Capital Management solution to ensure appropriate capital reserves based on Basel II Tier 1 & 2 Capital Requirements.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led team of 20 client and vendor architects & developers assessing existing applications & infrastructure for the Norwegian Central Securities Depository (CSD).
• Defined multi-year SOA roadmap to transition from legacy mainframe to SOA, J2EE, and Web Services architecture, reducing time-to-market for new business services by 9-12 months.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Led the design and delivery of custom-coded applications & services using Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) and related open-source technologies, including Spring, Struts, Hibernate, JQuery, OAuth and RESTful APIs.
• Evaluated client requirements and recommended vendor-based and open source Java platforms & tools, including IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic and Red Hat JBOSS.
• Performed due diligence analysis of M&A target technology architectures, applications, lifecycle processes, tools and key resources, providing documentation and value-added recommendations.
• Delivered risk management, alternative investment & regulatory compliance solutions and related intellectual property for Capital Markets & Trading practice.

Confidential, Arlington Heights, IL

Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed 10 application architects and developers to deliver J2EE-based services and frameworks for messaging, exception handling, and Java Server Faces (JSF) GUI-based value-added services.
• Specified life-cycle Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) methodology using AndroMDA for code generation & ERwin for logical and physical data model & schema generation.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Responsibilities:

• Advised SVP-level executives on migration strategy from monolithic application architecture (CICS/RACF/DB2) to agile Service-Oriented Architecture (thin client, web services, WebSphere, Hibernate, Java, UDB) to implement business processes and dynamic rules engine (iLog JRules).
• Mentored technical design team in definition of Service-Oriented Analysis & Design (SOAD) methodology and related proof of concept for BPEL, BPM, SOA, and Web Services architecture.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led teams of 20-30 architects and developers in delivery of strategic client projects.
• Acted as liaison between product engineering and early-adopter customers, translating critical business and technology requirements into competitive product offerings in Sun’s key product suites.
• Developed infrastructure for Sun Identity Management System and Sun Java Enterprise System.
• Planned and developed new professional services offerings for global delivery by Sun Professional Services architects, involving creation of field delivery guides, templates, and training.
• Results: $25 million new revenue generation, $130 million infrastructure and license cost savings.
• Authored new intellectual property, including architecture and technical white papers, best practices guides, client case studies, customer presentations, and training materials.
• Presented Sun's architecture strategy, products, and services at symposia and customer briefings.