SUMMARY

Innovative IT Leader with expertise in mobile, security, enterprise architecture and cloud. Extensive strategic planning and experience delivering global, mission - critical technology platforms and products. Proven skills coordinating global technical / business teams of up to 400 members for Fortune 50. Consistent program delivery on time and on budget for F500 - resulting in $350,000,000+ in IT savings and $ billions in incremental revenues. Managed the architecture, security and shared services teams for a Fortune 20 financial services firm with $1.3 trillion AUM and $2.3 billion in IT spend. Exceptional Product Management and IT Portfolio Management skills. Over 20 years’ Director-level or above experience in mobile, security, cloud, enterprise architecture, HW, SW, application development and networking.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MOBILE STRATEGY & TRENDS FOSTERING INNOVATION SECURITY ARCHITECTURE ANDROID
• APPLE
• BLACKBERRY ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE MOBILE / CLOUD ARCHITECTURE PING IDENTITY SSO & F5s MICROSOFT O365 INTUNE MAM * CLOUD ACCESS SECURITY BROKERS EMMs
• MEMs
• MDMs
• MAMs MOBILEIRON TOGAF
• CMMI
• SIX SIGMA
• SOX * IOT WEARABLES / FITNESS APPS VMWARE AIRWATCH PRODUCT MANAGEMENT AES
• SSL
• X.509
• RSA
• PKI
• VPN SINGLE SIGN-ON (SSO) / IDMaaS MYSQL
• ORACLE
• SQL
• DBs CLOUD - AWS
• SALESFORCE… HTML5
• XML
• SOAP
• SODA
• SOA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Architecture and Chief Innovation Officer

Confidential, Highlands, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Directly or via subcontracts with authorized vendors, helped large enterprise clients (e.g. Prudential Financial) maximize their Enterprise IT investment, foster innovation, manage risk, choose suppliers and effect strategic technology transformation.
• Managed and mentored consultants and vendors to provide mobile/security solutions and provided senior level consulting to clients. Created SOWs, project plans, budgets and contracts for the strategy, architecture, design, development, deployment, operations and support of secure mobile-enabled websites, portals and smartphone apps supporting billions $ in revenues.
• Played a leading role in our clients' technology-related visioning, innovation and strategic planning. Established Mobile COEs. Led appropriate R&D activities and POCs, did market research and surveys to drive Go-To-Market mobile strategies.
• Helped clients drive innovation and migrate securely to the cloud while fostering a “Mobile First” approach to systems access.
• Architected large scale B2E, B2B, and B2C mobile solutions including wearables, MAM platforms, enterprise appstores, MDMs, AWS, O365, BYOD/wrapping apps, IoT, introducing mobile testing and security tools, governance, CASBs, PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS.
• Helped clients establish or improve their enterprise architecture practices. Defined EA and security principles, roadmaps, blueprints, guidelines and best practices with our clients' personnel at all levels - including CxOs, Biz, IT and non-IT personnel.
• Helped define innovative digital products / services for our clients’ businesses to offer via mobile (B2E, B2B & B2C) and drove the mobile and omni-channel digital strategy, roadmap, and product launches. Performed Product Management activities.
• At this and prior roles, architected secure mobile apps/solutions and supervised / mentored developers using Kony, Worklight, Appcelerator, Adobe, MEAPs, MADPs, MAMs, Airwatch, MobileIron, Objective-C, Swift, Kendo UI, javascript, java, angular.js, node.js, J2EE, .NET, C/C++, SQL, ODBC, JDBC, mysql, cryptdb, mongo.db, SQLserver, Apache, IIS, REST, JSON, OAuth2, etc.

Associate Director/Enterprise Mobility Architect

Confidential, Teaneck, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Provided senior level computer consulting / digital strategy services to various Fortune 500 clients in Cognizant Mobility’s Digital Engagement Practice focused on Social , Mobile , Analytics , and Cloud (SMAC) transformations in Health vertical.
• Helped customers evolve their enterprise architecture incl. mobile / security / SOA / infrastructure / cloud roadmaps, blueprints, frameworks, standards, and guidelines . Fostered systems convergence, efficiency and best practices while increasing scalability and improving security, compliance and risk mitigation. Managed POCs and new systems’ rollouts.
• Helped define Aetna’s multi-billion $ Healthagen innovation subsidiaries’ strategies, systems, security and roadmaps.
• Selected/Architected secure, PHI-compliant, innovative solutions for integrating mobile devices and Fitness/Health wearables (Fitbit, Jawbone, Garmin, iHealth, etc.) and 3rd party mobile apps (UnderArmour MapMyFitness, MyFitnessPal, etc.) to increase patient wellness, patient care management and customer / consumer engagement.
• Managed, led or provided mobile SME to onshore/offshore scrum teams including architecting new or redesigning existing secure mobile applications, portals and other systems to radically improve cross-platform performance, ease of use, scalability, security, analytics, content, feedback and customer engagement. This improved mobile app performance by 10x for one healthcare company’s mobile apps and for another company saved over $16 million/year in revenues from business customers which were directly at risk and saved over $10 million in IT spend .
• Enhanced security architecture and solutions including IDM, LDAP, SSO, multi-factor authentication, encryption, secure B2B interfaces, PKI, certificate authorities, tokens, automated testing, compliance, risk mitigation and governance.
• For a Member Portal (which can be accessed by over 23 million users): enhanced availability, UI/UX, analytics, portal to PaaS and SaaS integrations, mobile/IoT enablement and migration to Responsive Web Design (RWD). Introduced mobile/security testing tools. Integrated interactive / on demand, cross-channel, PHI-compliant B2C & B2B video coaching/on-demand/eLearning. The Portal then received awards for UX design and saw rapid increases in mobile use.

VP, Mobile Strategy / Architecture & CIO

Confidential, Highlands, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managed consulting practice, consultants, and vendor partners to deploy advanced secure cloud and mobile solutions and strategies for our Fortune 500 client enterprises and government agencies. Worked with vendor partners to optimize designs factoring system design, security, compliance, extensibility, scalability, interoperability, cost and operational considerations. Rolled out advanced mobile security solutions such as pay-per-view streaming rock concerts to smartphones.
• Managed product development for clients’ Apple iOS, Android, mobile web sites; vision, design, development, QA, etc.
• 2010-2013: Through authorized vendor Artech Information Systems, provided consulting services to Confidential CTO and Advanced Solutions Product Marketing for strategy, product selection/evolution and product realization of various mobile platforms into AT&T’s Advanced Solutions portfolio which increased their revenues by $100,000,000’s. Provided SME / technical input to AT&T strategic partnering decisions (e.g. Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, MobileIron, AirWatch, Box, DirecTV, Akamai, SAP, IBM, etc.)
• Performed Product Realization activities of AT&T, OEM and 3rd Party Platforms to deploy for sale to companies globally. These products contributed significantly to a more than a 13.5% YOY growth rate in revenues for AT&T Advanced Business Solutions. Areas: BYOD, Containerization, MDMs, MEAPs, MCAPS, MAMs, MDAPs, MEMs, and other solutions. Specific examples:
• Airwatch, MobileIron, Good Technologies, SAP/Sybase SUP/Afaria, Enterproid, Verivo (Pyxis), Antenna, Kony, Netbiscuits, high availability, geo-redundant hosting (single-/multi-tenant) on OpenStack, VMware and Synaptics clouds, integration with portals, appstores, cloud Single Sign-On (SSO), Identity/Access Mgt, PKI, Certificate Mgt, Active Directory/LDAP, Exchange, Office 365, Salesforce, multi-factor authentication (MFA/2FA), Cisco & AT&T Global Network VPN integration, Juniper Pulse & F5 SSL VPNs, RSA SecureID, biometrics, tokenization, mobile video, DirectTV and Akamai CDN integration...
• Contributed to AT&T’s winning various awards (from Gartner, IDC, etc.) as a “Leader” and for UX.

Director/Principal Enterprise Architect

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Financial IT provided services for 13 Confidential companies. As a permanent member of the Global IS Architecture Committee which set the standards for all Confidential companies operating in 60+ countries, AXF Architecture & Standards Group potentially impacted $1.3T AUM and a global annual IT budget of over $2.3 billion.
• Defined enterprise architecture including guiding senior IT executives in the development of IT strategy, IT standards, reference target architecture, roadmaps, blueprints, frameworks, best practices, guidelines and vision. Helped with prioritization of IT projects across all areas of the company, setting appropriate expectations to drive results, administered the architecture review board, and ensured that projects were implemented in a highly coordinated and disciplined manner. Negotiated enterprise software deals which saved the company $1,000,000’s. Financial management experience, including analysis, budget management, and reporting for large scale programs. Effective management of IT professionals directly and non-IT indirectly.
• Standards & Shared Services Team: my team defined the development, engineering, support and operational procedures and standards. Defined hardware, software, methods, and best practices for the distributed Windows/Linux/Unix servers and later virtualized over 10,000 servers. The team reporting to me for many years also managed Tier 3 production support for Shared Services including Oracle IDM, B2E & B2C directories/LDAP, PKI, portals, email, B2B gateways, ETL servers, middleware/EAI/ESB, mobile, other Shared Services components. Managed a $1,000,000+ R&D/integration lab - which was critical to innovation.
• In 3 years, we cut over $350 million from our IT budget while tripling volumes and improving process maturity, DR, business continuity and compliance. We reduced the run rate by 10% per year reallocating resources from maintenance to new systems.
• Defined Mobile Strategy with stakeholders. Integrated UCM, portals, mobile, security services and CRM to enable Wholesale Distributors. This increased their productivity by over 36% - which added $100,000,000’s in profit to the bottom-line.