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Principal It Architect Resume

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San Francisco, CA

SUMMARY:

  • Technology Architect leader with expertise in all facets Enterprise IT to include Solutions Architecture, Business Architecture, IT Security & Risk, IT Infrastructure, Project Management and Operational Technologies. Niche combination of Architecture and Security skillsets - Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance & Security related certifications (TOGAF and CISA). Recognized as lead architect resource for SmartGrid and Operational Technology domain. Seamlessly interface with multiple business organizations to drive functional & technical objectives. Excited to be open for new opportunities in technology architecture, IS governance, application portfolio management, security and risk management.
  • 10 Years Utilities Experience
  • Utility Control Framework
  • Compliance - NERC/FERC
  • Security Architecture
  • Mentor, Coach Project Team
  • Proactive Security Design Mindset
  • Active ISACA Member
  • IT Risk & Governance Enthusiast
  • SCADA/Operational Tech
  • Smart Grid and IoT
  • Control Center Technologies
  • Smart Meter/AMI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Principal IT Architect

  • Business Partnership: Translate Confidential business strategy and vision to implementable technical requirements and architectural designs. Electric Portfolio Investment program (EPIC) strategy and architecture.
  • Governance: Ensure IT design, data, software, and hardware decisions affecting projects are aligned to the enterprise standards. Align SMEs from multiple domains and provide directional guidance to Project Directors, Managers and Analysts, to help ensure the success of projects.
  • Risk Management: Effective partnership with Enterprise Technology Risk Management team to define relevant PG&E Control Framework (PCF) for projects, design and validate controls, project risk assessment/acceptance processes.
  • Standards: Liaise with Domain Architecture team in creating guidelines and best practices for developing, selecting, and implementing Confidential within enterprise.
  • Architecture: Provide winning solutions/blueprints, EA oversight, and best practices guidance to electric distribution, & transmission, gas distribution, transmission and work management, corporate IT projects. Key programs with direct IT architectural ownership;
  • Electric Distribution Control Center Consolidation Program, owner from concept to commissioning of very complex, first of its kind and geographically-distributed multi-site critical operations capability.
  • Electric Transmission and Gas control centers.
  • Gas SCADA integration with leak detection system
  • Gas As-built records management - digitization, attributing, vaulting & distribution - Enterprise Content management, Documentum project with 80TB+ content in scope.
  • Enterprise Network Operations Center
  • Multi-million, multi-year SmartGrid program - Volt VAR Optimization (VVO), Line Sensors, Fault Detection & Isolation.
  • Distributed Energy Resource Management (ABB Alstom DERMS Solution).
  • Smart Inverters and Behind the Meter Storage integration.
  • Grid Operations Situation Intelligence.
  • SCADA Consolidation and Advanced DMS strategy.
  • Ideation, PoC, pilot and production rollout of FAN - Wireless mesh based Field Area Network (ABB TropOS) solution for operational and mobility applications
  • Corp Security projects - AMAG physical access management system re-platforming.
  • Engineering application - Pole Loading Simplification & Automation, Flow Limit Tool
  • Operational Data Systems - Multiple enhancements to OSI PI application for GAS As Built Records.
  • Several infrastructure projects including VPN consolidation, Site Recovery manager, Axway ESFT, Lync, etc.
  • Technologies: Private and Public Cloud, SAP, EMC Documentum, Teradata, Operational Technologies - SEL RTAC, RT SCADA, ABB OMS, ABB DERMS, Alstom DMS, ESRI GIS, SilverSpring SmartMeter applications, LoadSEERs, CYME, Tollgrade, Sentient, DVI, Utilidata other corporate/shared services applications.
  • Execution: Deliver strategy and road-map for high-impact, multi-year, large and complex initiatives in excess of $30M. Provide close coordination with business leaders, portfolio managers, and SMEs to conceptualize, derive requirements, and to develop and implement architecture patterns to meet business goals. Explore alternatives with architecture-led innovations to ensure effective and smart solutions are adopted by projects

Confidential, Boston, MA

Financial Risk technologies Architect

  • Led architecture engagement on large and complex programs, including new Real-time/Multi-Channel Financial Transaction Fraud Monitoring and Compliance Platform. Led business requirement workshops, architecture development, complexity analysis, product evaluation, payment platform integration. Delivered solution blueprints and managed EA and IT Security liaising.
  • Architecture support for on-going enhancements for the Anti Money laundering (AML) platform.
  • Provided solution blueprints, oversight, and coaching to project managers, business analysts, and domain SMEs on best practice guidance for several bank M&A projects. Collaborated with the client IT and business teams to articulate requirements for the application consolidation and identify an approach to achieve the same. Ensured that IT design, data, software, and hardware decisions and issues affecting projects are aligned to the enterprise standards.
  • Ensured the overall integrity of the technical solution, including the selecting and approving appropriate technologies, processes, tools, methods, techniques, and standards. Presented solution blueprints, and sought approval from the bank’s architectural review board while identifying technology exceptions backed by a remediation plan.
  • Demonstrated strong expertise in creating guidelines and best practices for developing, selecting, and implementing information systems within the enterprise. Interacted with project and business teams to analyze functional and non-functional requirements and suggested appropriate infrastructure scaling, contributing to network impact analysis and business impact analysis.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Global Enterprise Architect

  • Engaged as the Enterprise Architect on initiative/programs to include NERC-CIP Compliance, GIS, Work Schedule Management, SmartGrid initiative, and general run-the-business projects. Ensured that IT design, data, software, and hardware decisions and issues affecting programs and projects were aligned to the Enterprise Architecture.
  • Managed the work of specialists across multiple SME domains and more than 50 projects; contribute to the design and exercise design control over the implementation; responsible for ensuring the overall integrity of the technical solution, including the selection and approval of appropriate technologies, processes, tools, methods, techniques, and standards.
  • Reviewed and approved, or otherwise rejected with comments, architectural exceptions submitted by Project Design Authorities that were within the delegated authority of the Architecture Governance Board. Owned the governance process for ensuring solutions conform with the Enterprise Architecture and provide leadership to better enable IS to exploit technologies to deliver benefits to Confidential .
  • Demonstrated strong expertise in creating guidelines and best practices for developing, selecting, and implementing information systems within the enterprise. Interacted with technical and business leads, program managers, and focus groups to minimize expenditure, avoid redundancy, and improve overall synergy within the organization.

Confidential

Senior Systems Consultant

  • Engaged with large corporate accounts as a trusted partner; translated and communicated technology into meaningful dialogue with senior executives, business partners, engineers, and customers, customer-facing, and highly-consultative.
  • Provided solutions around data protection, virtualization, consolidations, datacenter technologies and DR. Took a lead role on the technical side of the sale to ensure that the proposed Confidential solutions were comprehensive, achieved customer goals, and provided an outstanding customer experience.

Confidential

Professional Services Manager

  • Architect tailor-made services as per specific client requirements and supported the services field staff with scoping, quantifying work, and building proposals. Directed the complete services engagement life cycle including client requirement analysis, solution building, including 3rd party components and present effective to client team and supervise delivery.

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