SUMMARY:

My career objective is to provide worthwhile and longstanding impacts not only with my years of diverse technical experience in the realms of Architecture, Software and System Engineering, and Software Design, but also with my capabilities of written and verbal communication, my ability to quickly build relationships and teams with both technical and non - technical colleagues, and my ability to lead.

RECENT RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE:

Principle Software Engineer (Architect)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As Project Architect and Lead, produce user interfaces and enhanced web services to enable end users to easily manage aspects of an Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service project. Immediate knowledge ramp-up on systems and tools was required, along with performing task duties as the project was inflight and nearing a deliverable, along with producing release candidates for the subsequent deliverable. Produced Technotes (solution architecture documents), Detailed Designs and Display Descriptors, and UI wireframes and mock-ups. Provided guidance on service development and desired functionality. Analyzed processes and provided meaningful feedback to improve said processes.
• Additional duties involved analyzing coding and development processes in order to augment such with low-overhead and automated capabilities for documentation for development resources, maintenance teams, and for the end customer, along with DevOps practices.
• As Component Architect, produced artifacts related to modifying an third party application to work upon and integrate with a native framework and API, replacing third party capabilities with those provided by the native framework.
• Developed architectural documents and work estimate for integrating existing product with an existing customer system in a fashion not supported by the current product design.
• Produced and developed numerous Crystal Reports reports and Database artifacts (functions, views) for project to increase customer resource tracking and auditing abilities.
• Architect/Lead for Program Engineering Sharepoint based consolidation effort. Main effort goals were to consolidate disparate sources of department and division data and provide a singular site for colleagues to interact with PE information and one another in an improved manner. Solution resulted in reduced overhead and cost for project owners while providing future enhancement and extension capabilities.
• Designed and produced numerous concepts applicable to Raytheon capabilities from the project to the corporate level. Projects were mainly concerned with increasing ROI from individual projects, providing a sellable and licensing capable component software library for Raytheon commercial efforts, and improving internal project and development processes and practices. Additionally produced a concept for a command and control capability relying on blockchain ordering and ledgers to provide verification and retention, and allowing for non-dependable communications between peers.
• Modified, transformed, and enhanced existing project specific Process Architecture to generalized PA to allow for use by any business unit or program, along with adding AGILE capabilities.
• Mentored and assisted new-hires and employees in early stages of their careers.

Technologies utilized include: OpenStack, Chef, Python, Ruby, Wikia, MS Visio, MS Office, Crystal Reports Enterprise, Oracle, MS Sharepoint 2010 and 2014, Atlassian AGILE Suite, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML/XSD/SOAP/REST, JSON, Eclipse, Nginx, Docker.

Enterprise Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Americans with Disabilities Act ( Confidential ) modifications to high availability and high reliability bus transit booking system called TRIPS (akin to SABRE) operating on Tandem NonStop systems. Developed architectural artifacts across numerous systems involved (customer-facing mobile, web, and kiosk systems, alternative payment and external booking systems, ESB, homegrown frameworks, etc).
• Greyhound Parcel Express (GPX) migration from one 3 rd party package tracking and management functionality to another to better serve corporate and customer needs. As part of this effort, tracking of shipping locations was brought in-house. Analyzed legacy rating/pricing engine for migration capability from in-house systems to externally hosted and operated systems and vendors. Interaction with all principles from USA and Canadian directors and vice presidents to development teams. Laid out roadmap for migration efforts, duration estimates, and costs.
• Developed roadmaps to re-integrate numerous codebases and versions of the TRIPS high-availability application and its constituent ESB and SOA components in-order to have no downtime and to eliminate rework being conducted between the codebases and over-utilization of personnel for those efforts.
• Developer of Architectural Group Processes, Workflows, Documentation, and Functions. Creator of Enterprise Architecture documents, templates, processes, procedures, duties, and deliverables. Provided insight and feedback to other architects to bring their products up to standards.
• Process standards creation, updates, implementation, evangelism, and stewardship for coding, development, and deliverables. Created coding standards based on OWASP and related security imperatives.
• Utilization of TOGAF Enterprise Architectural frameworks, along with company-specific EA frameworks, and tailored TOGAF/In-house hybrid frameworks, based on an evaluation of applicability, implementation, and adoption feasibility. Led move to industry standards from custom corporate-developed standards where applicable and effaceable.

Technologies utilized include: TOGAF EA, Agile Scrum, SAFE, Tandem NonStop, Visual Studio 2015, Core Java, Java/J2EE/JEE, Glassfish AS, Tomcat AS, SQL/Stored Procedures, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Microsoft C#/Mono/.Net, MS Visio, MS Office, MS Sharepoint, Atlassian AGILE Suite, WebMethods ESB, MS SQL Server, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML/XSD/SOAP/REST, and JSON.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead and guided numerous projects requiring high availability and high reliability systems. Systems consisted of internal software utilized to maintain business operations 24/7, systems to allow for exchange of medical and financial information with providers, insurers, and corporate level customers, and to allow for supporting customer facing platforms such as web and mobile, along with clinical systems to provide customer interaction and exchange with internal systems and data.
• Founding member of Enterprise Architecture group, and creator of group Operational Processes, Workflows, Documentation, and Functions. Creator of Enterprise Architecture documents, templates, processes, procedures, duties, and deliverables.
• Chief Architect on numerous large - scale Inter- and Intra- Corporate enterprise initiatives and projects.
• Process standards creation, updates, implementation, evangelism, and stewardship for coding, development, and deliverables. Created coding standards based on OWASP and related security imperatives, along with industry Best Practices.
• Lead initiatives into heterogeneous and bleeding edge technology for expansion of current capabilities and enhancement of future capabilities, while considering Buy or Build for new initiatives and legacy and on-hand capabilities.
• Streamlined corporate processes and reduced process costs, in addition to workflow analysis and implementation to allow reuse of effort into related and parallel processes.
• Serve as Point of Contact to internal and third party customers to gather requirements and feedback and provide communicate status for in-process development and consultation on possible uses and reuse of developed technology.
• Management and mentoring of projects, project resources and colleagues along with providing guidance and oversight to all corporate areas on an at-large basis.
• Project oversight and management from initial idea or business driver to final delivery, including architecture, project management, development team oversight, resource review, resource, recommendation, resource procurement, deliverable review, and production release.
• IT and Development advocacy. Empowerment of colleagues to more ably voice issues and concerns.
• Utilization of TOGAF Enterprise Architectural frameworks, along with company - specific EA frameworks, and tailored TOGAF/In-house hybrid frameworks, based on an evaluation of applicability, implementation, and adoption feasibility.
• Developed of Load and Performance Test processes, documents, guidelines, metrics, and KPIs. Lead load and performance testing sessions. Performed analysis of load and performance test results, resulting in the production of reports utilized for infrastructure sizing, SLA compliance, user responsiveness, and possible fault detection.
• Lead Confidential -centric efforts on SDLC remediation and updates with Security-focused directives, along with integration of Enterprise Architecture oversight, review, guidance, and deliverables into the SDLC process.
• Created and maintained dialog between management, project management, and development colleagues to identify, clarify, and resolve possible issues, roadblocks, and showstoppers during project phases to better leverage architectural and development capabilities and resources.
• Lead move to industry standards from custom corporate-developed standards where applicable and effaceable.
• Created both project and corporate level access and identity and access management policies, capabilities, and application role integration with CA Siteminder and Sailpoint IdenitityIQ. Capabilities developed include role and role activity creation and integration into COTS and custom applications, user provisioning and management, user self-management and sub user creation, single sign on, and password management.

Technologies utilized include: TOGAF EA, Oracle Database, BEA WebLogic 8, Sybase Powerbuilder, SVN/Subversion, GIT, Microsoft Windows Server, Active Directory/LDAP, Core Java, Java/J2EE/JEE, Glassfish AS, Tomcat AS, SQL/Stored Procedures, Redhat Enterprise Linux, C#/Mono/.Net, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Rhapsody, Abacus Architect and Designer, MS Visio, VMWare, SiteMinder WAM and IM, LifeRay Portal, HP ALM, Atlassian AGILE Suite, Tibco ESB, GE Centricity, AllScripts, R, MATLAB, MS SQL Server, UltiPro, SailPoint, Kronos, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML/XSD/SOAP/REST, JSON, and HL7.

Senior Technical Consultant/Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Received Powerbuilder application codebase for review to determine viability of existing code and libraries, and to determine what functionality would need to be rebuilt for the transition to Java, and to make non-functional code work.
• Re-estimated project in terms of manpower, cost, and schedule due to codebase review.
• Revised SOW with sales team for client company and provided pre-sales communications and expertise for client questions and requests.
• Gathered requirements from client company for project goals, including tangential goals for usability and functionality, and created a conceptual architecture and design for approval by the client company.
• Provided development standards for the client company and for the project team.
• Solutions Architect
• Refined conceptual architecture and design into a detailed design.
• Created new frameworks and classes for use by development teams to build the new application upon.
• Provided detailed documentation to client and project teams on approach to migration for different codebase artifacts, library utilization, code reuse, issue tracking, build management, and client review and feedback.
• Oversaw and provided guidance to individual teams and team members.
• Created environments for hosting DEV, INT, and TEST with full setup and configuration of OS, Weblogic Application Server, Oracle Database, and application frameworks.
• Project Manager
• Oversee project teams and individuals to determine deliverable alignments, review deliverables, and staging.
• Provide guidance and answers on team issues that arose related to development efforts, and with issues that arose with the client.
• Provide status and updates to all management on architecture, design, and development initiatives.
• Manage partitioning of project efforts to specific teams and resources, both onshore and offshore.
• Developer
• Develop Java, HTML, CSS, JS and SQL code from Powerbuilder sources.
• Document code functionality and identify deltas for client updates to functionality.

Technologies utilized include: Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic 11/12, Sybase Powerbuilder, SVN/Subversion, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Active Directory/LDAP, VirtualBox, Core Java, Java/J2EE/JEE, SQL/Stored Procedures, Eclipse, Enterprise Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Axis2 Web Services Framework, C#/Mono/.Net, PHP.

Architect/Application Developer Lead and Platform Framework Developer/Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Legacy applications supported core publishing functions both for media websites across the country, but also for print media across the country. As such, the publishing system could only be augmented to add additional (required) capabilities while also maintaining fault tolerance and “five 9s” uptime so that users would have continual access to information and business operations would not be delayed or stymied.
• Lead development for Newspapers In Education, including workflow encapture of user and publishing system processes, resulting in significant cost reductions to the company.
• Lead development of numerous frameworks and libraries, including a XML Parsing and Rendering architecture and framework.
• Development standards creation, implementation, evangelism, and stewardship.
• Creation of numerous Java and OOPHP based web services utilized to create complete mobile sites and iPhone application content for most Confidential and Confidential Corp properties.
• Development of multiple format dynamic content feed generation platforms.
• Lead development of cloud based (EC2) computing architecture, administration, and application development.
• Lead initiatives into heterogeneous and bleeding edge technology for expansion of current capabilities and enhancement of future capabilities.
• Workflow capture and implementation into enterprise applications to allow for streamlining of corporate processes and cost reduction, in addition to service creation to allow reuse of workflow into related processes. Initiatives resulted in increased productivity and reduced redundant efforts for processes involved.
• Serve as Point of Contact to internal and third party customers to gather requirements and feedback and provide communicate status for in - process development and consultation on possible uses and reuse of developed technology. Demonstrations and presentations were conducted as needed for internal and external resources.
• Management and mentoring of project resources and casual mentoring of coworkers when help or consultation is requested.
• Work in conjunction with all members of process teams to deliver applications through all development strata (development, test, QA, and production) quickly, yet completely, to production.

Work utilized: LAMP, RHEL, CentOS, HTML/DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, OOPHP, Java/J2EE/JSP, OOA/OOD, JSON, JDOM, Struts, Perl, TCL, ASP.NET, C++, C#/Mono/.Net, Metaprogramming, Oracle, MySQL, SQL (queries, schema, and stored procedures), Lyris Listmanager, Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML/XSD/SOAP/REST, Linux, UNIX, UML, Model-View-Controller (MVC), Content Management Systems, Eclipse, Resin, JBoss, Cloud Computing, EC2, S3 and proprietary software related to newspaper, print, and media generation and publishing processes.