SUMMARY

• 13+ years of experience consulting to Fortune 100 companies with a specialty focus on Web Content
• Management and Enterprise Architecture. CEO, Founder of Arbory Digital, a consulting company focused on Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). Natural leader with strong interpersonal skills.
• Chief Architect and Team Lead for Confidential ’s Application Services for the AEM team, responsible for team mentoring and vertical development.
• Instrumental in the 2012 launch of confidential in leading the migration from CQ 5.3 to 5.5.
• Worked closely with multiple internal Adobe R&D teams including architect of the initial (v1.0) Machine Translation API in AEM 6.0. Beta tester for every AEM/CQ release since CQ 5.5.
• Architected some of the largest AEM implementations worldwide which consist of repositories in the hundreds of millions of nodes and 10+ Tb in size with a focus on performance tuning, stability, and security.
• These environments were all designed to meet an industry leading 100% uptime SLA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technology Platforms: AEM (CQ) 6.5, 6.4, 6.3, 6.2, 6.1, 6.0, 5.6.1, 5.5, 5.4, 5.3, 5.2.5, 4i; DCTM 6.5, 6, 5.3, 5.2.5; WP/DA 6.5, 6, 5.3, 5.2.5; MOSS '10, '07; SQL Server '08, '05, '00; MySQL 5; IIS 7, 6, 5; Apache 1, 2, 2.2, 2.4; Dispatcher; Varnish; Drupal; Django; Tomcat; Apache Felix; Jetty; nginx; JBoss; BEA Weblogic; IBM WebSphere; WSO2 Carbon;

Monitoring/Support Tools: AppDynamics, New Relic, Introscope, Splunk, Nimbus

Related AEM (CQ) Areas: git, Oak, CRX, Eclipse, InteliJ, VLT, SVN, P4, CRXDE|Lite, CQDE, QueryBuilder, JCR, Ansible Tower|AWX, Chef, Puppet, Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP, JIRA

Languages: Java, C++, JSP, ASP, .NET, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, jQuery, HTL, Handlebars, Sightly, YAML, ECMA, OSGi, AJAX, XML / XSL, PHP, SQL, DQL, Ant, MVN, VBScript, Visual Basic, COBOL, vi, MATLAB

Operating Systems: Mac OSX, Windows '95, '98, NT, '00, XP, 7, 8, 8.1, 10; Windows Server ’00, ’03, ’08, ‘12; Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, OpenSuse, FreeBSD; iOS; Android;

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Architect and Team Lead

Responsibilities:

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• Architect and Team Lead for Confidential ’s Application Services for AEM offering
• Led a team of 24x7x365 engineers in supporting some of the world's largest Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) implementations.
• Leveraged deep application expertise and experience to advise, architect, install, monitor, and troubleshoot customer’s environments.
• Architected, supported, and monitored environments on Confidential Dedicated, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure infrastructures.
• Supported sales teams by participating in on - site pre-sales visits
• Developed automation to install, upgrade, and maintain AEM with zero customer facing downtime
• Administrator for entire Confidential JIRA system

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architect of v1.0 Translation Integration Framework (TIF) for AEM 6.0, com.adobe.granite.translation.api, which provides a standardized API for Machine Translation (MT) and Translation Memory.
• Participated on the AEM 6.0 and 6.1 internal development life-cycles.
• Worked with the Adobe Communities development team to enable MT components for social collaboration and moderation.
• Developed the initial TIF Connector, shipped with AEM 6.0, which provides real-time MT by leveraging Microsoft's Bing translation engines.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architected Avis website (web, and mobile app) which allows users to connect to their Avis hybrid vehicles to control (lock/unlock, start/stop), manage (charge times, warm-up "go" times), and locate (GPS position, charging stations) their car.
• Architect/Lead Tech for a 30+ team of CQ 5.5 (SP 2.1) developers.
• Designed solution that leveraged CQ for both a desktop website and mobile application published from single CQ repository.
• Developed a content extraction process which pulled from CQ and built a mobile application (Android, iOS) using PhoneGap (Cordova 2.2).
• Helped Adobe test and integrate PhoneGap with CQ (first project worldwide).
• Designed solution leveraging jQuery "single page" front end interfaced with an Oracle DB backend via WSO2/Carbon Web Service calls.
• Tech Lead responsible for migration of Adobe.com from CQ5.3 to CQ5.5 (RC1)
• Helped influenced Adobe CQ’s central engineering team on the newest release CQ5.5 during testing cycle.
• Accountable for upgrading all components, classes and workflows during migration.

Confidential

Architect and Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architected in-house server infrastructure with HA 24/7 required up time.
• Lead upgrade efforts from Adobe Day CQ5.3 to 5.4.
• Designed customized backup solution to meet Confidential ’s strict backups requirements.
• CQ and SiteMinder SSO integration.
• Designed integration with Confidential ’s internal search engine repository which centralizes search among all of Confidential ’s internal systems and repositories.
• Architected and implemented a new Web CMS based on Day CQ 5.3. Neiman Marcus migrated to this from a legacy custom DB solution.
• Created an XML feed component to import all of Neiman Marcus’s product, and promotion data from their central DB (SQL Server 2003) into the CRX repository.
• Created templates for products, and promotions that, upon import of the data from the central DB, automatically created pages to display all of Neiman Marcus’s data from the CQ website (over 4000+ pages).