SUMMARY:

• Visionary IT leader with 25 years of experience overseeing software development, quality assurance, architecture design and systems integration
• Expansive background in consulting services and program/project management with expertise in supporting business transformation efforts through technology innovation
• Proven track record of leading compelling engagements and managing programs and projects up to $25M with 50+ resources
• Recognized for inspiring top talent along with building and managing right shore teams by fostering a collaborative, accountability - driven and performance-focused environment

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Technology Leadership | Software Architecture | Business Application Integration | Quality Assurance | Performance Engineering | Test Automation | Program & Project Management | Cloud & Big Data Technologies | DevOps Operations

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages/Tools: Java, J2EE, JAVA EE, EJB, POJO, SERVLET, Python, PHP, Ruby on Rail, C/C++, HTML, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, Eclipse IDE, Groovy on Grails, NetBeans IDE, CVS/Subversion, Cygwin

Microsoft: Visual Studio 2013 Enterprise, C#.NET, C++.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET

Adobe: Flex, Flash, Air, BlazeDS

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 7/10, LINUX, UNIX, APPLE iOS, MAC OS X, Google Android

Databases: Oracle 11i, MS SQL Server 2013, MySQL, DB2, SQL Server Management Studio, TOAD for Oracle, TOAD for SQL, ODBC, JDBC

Middleware: TIBCO, TOMCAT, JBOSS, Weblogic, Websphere, Windows Server 2012

Big Data: Hadoop

Network Monitoring: CA Willy CEM, CA Wily Intrascope, TIBCO, HP LoadRunner, Nagios, Splunk

CRM Application: Siebel, Remedy, ServiceNow, Support Works, Oracle ERP

Office Products: Microsoft Office 365, Open Office, Visio, Project 2013, Crystal Report, SharePoint

Learning Management System(LMS): Sum Total, Docent Enterprise

QA Testing Tools: IBM Rational Functional Tester, IBM Rational Performance Tester, IBM Rational Quality Manager, HP ALM, HP LodaRunner, HP Performance Center, HP QTP, HP UFT, Selenium, TMAP NEXT, TPI NEXT, Microsoft Test Management

DevOps/Continuous Integration: CruiseControl, Microsoft TFS, IBM BuildForge, Wise, ClearCase

Security Testing: IBM AppScan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Managing Consultant/Sr. Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead in maintaining the project scope, vendor deliverables and stakeholder communications/relations
• Ensure product delivery conforms to the originating analysis and mapping of business processes
• Identification of gaps in the Business, Functional, and Technical Requirements
• Manage of risks and issues and work on mitigation plan
• SME in development of Request for Information (RFI), Request for Proposal (RFP), Statement of Work (SOW) and Contract Pricing Analysis
• Establish an excellent professional attitude with strong interpersonal communications and presentation skills.

Program Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built quantitative measures to ensure all quality gates were measurable and visible
• Led and managed right shore teams to meet all quality gate standards with consistent and significant improvement
• Built constructive client relationship through effective project assessments, improved delivery efficiency and quality improvement
• Initiated and established DEV/QA policy manual that included quality gate standards, coding standard, deployment standard, development and quality assurance environment infrastructure diagram, build procedure and handoff processes
• Managed and collaborated with client on defect tracking, issue resolution processes
• Led the development and quality assurance teams’ performance to its highest level since its inception
• Provided timely resolutions on production issues
• Managed and monitored unit test, code review, test case review and execution processes to ensure all quality gates standard were met
• Reduced DEV/QA cost by 40%
• Reduced Technical Deficit by 44%
• Increased productivity by 33%

Manager and Strategist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Initiate d , develop, and deliver Oracle ERP12 Functional Systems Integration Test Strategy, Master Plan and Road Map for Record to Report, Forecast to Delivery, Procurement to Pay, Hire to Retire.
• Deliver ed defect tracking matrix and monitoring processes; utilized Oracle ERP 12 HCM HTR, PTP, RTR, FTD. HP ALM QC.
• Initiate, develop and deliver a Master Integration Test Strategy and Plan for major insurance warranty application and train client on Test Center of Excellence best practices and TCOE tools - HP ALM and QTP.
• Instrumental in securing a Managed Services deal with Confidential ; manage client relationships, staffing and budgeting.
• Utilize d HP Quality Center, LoadRunner, Quick Test Professional; Microsoft .NET Framework; VMWare; IBM TeamForge, Clarity, Remedy, SAP TAO, SAP BPCA, IBM AppScan technologies.
• Delivered BI and ETL Test Center of Excellence using the best practices on framework and delivery effectiveness
• Led module product test strategy and master test plan and mentor and coach both onshore and offshore teams.
• Deliver ed high quality testing results utilizing HP Quality Center, QTP, RESTClient Fitness, JMeter and Agile DevOps methodologies and cloud computing and big data technologies.

Engineering Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Established an Enterprise Systems Testing team from the ground up which included overseeing all hiring, mentoring, team building, employee development and training on new testing tools, procedures, technologies and best practices.
• Envisioned, established and developed the overall infrastructure architecture and testing system architecture; implemented the testing system infrastructure architecture using Java based technologies (Core Java, J2EE, IBM Websphere, Oracle 10g).
• Saved $6M by successfully negotiating with vendors to reduce costs of software, hardware and training costs.
• Completed strategic systems integration architecture design to integrate IBM Rational RQM with commercial and open source tools.
• Designed and developed appropriate architecture using cutting edge technologies to effectively and efficiently test IPTV, Adaptive Streaming, FVOD, SVOD, Set Top Box, Tomcat, Hibernate, Lucene and Spring technologies for Satellite industry.
• Initiated, conducted and completed Proof of Concept regarding IBM RationalTesting Tools, CI BuildForge, SDLC TeamConcert, CA Wily tools, and Spirent Avalanche tools; successfully evaluated, proposed and acquired IBM Rational Tools.

Senior Managing Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented strategic solutions to resolve complex LMS applications, database integrity, and user experience issues which established trust and built effective working relationships for the IS department across the organization.
• Synthesized and translated complex information in an easy, effective format that was audience appropriate by writing SQL queries, Crystal Report XI, and manipulating data in Excel.
• Evaluated, recommended, and implemented Open source Automated Web Application Testing Tools to reduce business costs, improve development productivity, quality, efficiency and effectiveness as well as eliminate any potential defects.
• Initialized and implemented CruiseControl for continuous integration to improve overall performance and cutting costs.

Senior Managing Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed and executed billing systems implementation of PayGo (pre-paid) and postpaid to production environment and provided strategic roadmap to support and monitoring it to ensure the sound performance achieved.
• Troubleshot and monitored live transactions to ensure smooth business operations and real-time alerts to avoid any potential disasters or business/financial impacts.
• Provided traffic errors analysis and optimization which included recommending product enhancements; monitored messaging traffic where TIBCO, JBOSS, J2EE, JMS and JAVA technologies were utilized.
• Provided expert level support on all production applications; mentored team members and provided leadership on production application support, defining operations escalation and root cause analysis best practices.
• Defined best practices and procedures for troubleshooting, creating tickets, monitoring/resolving web application server issues.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delivered BEA Weblogic portal, taxonomy and search engine optimizer services to telecom clients along with reporting services utilizing Crystal Report, Google Charts for user interface statistic reports.
• Provided leadership on SOA enterprise architect design, proof of concepts, utilized clustering servers, load balancer, high availability, highly scalable Web based application services to leisure industry utilize J2EE, EJB3, JPA, POJO, Java EE technologies.

Sr. Product Support Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed the implementation, release management, deployment, migration, delivery, and testing of variety LMS applications.
• Oversaw functional and systems architecture directions regarding products design and development.

Sr. Support Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed software applications, operating systems, servers and data warehouses; supported publishing applications and editorial end users.

Academic Dean, Professor, Engineering Technology Programs

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed the merger and acquisition along with the transition between Confidential and Denver Technical College.
• Spearheaded, implemented and led engineering technologies programs in DeVry Colorado that achieved the highest enrollment rate in the university; turnaround underperforming programs to become profitable in less than two years.

Sr. Supervising Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided architecture, integration solutions for B2B infrastructure Web-based e-commerce applications.
• Built TIBCO Adapters and integrated multiple platform applications; created, tested and packaged TIBCO adapter and documented the installation, configuration and administration processes.
• Specified, installed and configured all necessary TIBCO products on the development and production system.
• Designed, developed, tested, and implemented an OO based adapter middle ware using Java, HTML, XML, Corba and JavaBean in conjunction with TIBCO Adapter SDK, Administrator, Repository components in both Windows NT and UNIX environments.