SUMMARY:

• Innovative & Expert Senior IT. Manager and Architect
• A proven IT Professional with 20 years of successful experience.
• Solution and MuleSoft Architect experience delivering quality projects while maximizing ROI through innovative and high performing designs.
• Adopts innovative technologies to solve real world business problems. Incorporates a collaborative approach between business and IT.
• Extensive experience working with senior management.
• Experienced with most IT design, development and management processes.
• Able to lead cross - functional teams to spearhead needed initiatives.
• Mentors and coaches new and existing team members on technical and process enhancing skills to optimize delivery outcomes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership, analysis, and guidance on process improvements in the areas of: requirements gathering, design and architecture, software development, and quality assurance (QA). Cultivate software architecture documentation.
• Focus on native cloud microservices, omni-channel/360 degree view based integration strategies, commoditization of API strategies, software development processes, and agile/lean transformations.
• Conduct POCs and POTs of integration platforms and methodologies with a particular expertise in requirements, design, development, and delivery of MuleSoft based projects.
• Mentored intern software developers to understand company standards and to learn process-enhancing skills that optimized operations and increased code quality.
• Analyzed technologies to support the corporate IT initiatives and corporate vision.
• Architected mission-critical applications in numerous industries.
• Oversee architectural requirements for system integration initiatives.

Confidential

Senior Director

Responsibilities:

• As Practice Lead of the API and Cloud Integration Practice, advised top-tier financial institutions in banking, insurance, and capital markets regarding strategic and tactical initiatives for planning their digital, cloud, integration, and API strategies and projects.
• Assisted account managers to promote and articulate the capacity and capabilities of the practice; assist delivery managers in assuring the right people with the right skills are engaged.
• Assure developers, testers, architects, business analysts are all properly trained with the skills that clients both need today as well as in the near future.
• Worked with global financial clients on cloud, hybrid, and onsite architectures around MuleSoft and the Anypoint Platform.
• Designed and oversaw training program for developers new to Domain Driven Design, microservices, cloud migrations, and MuleSoft and the Anypoint Platform.
• Worked with global financial clients in a pre-sales capacity who were considering or comparing MuleSoft.
• Worked with global financial companies around non-MuleSoft integration platforms such as Tibco, IBM, Redhat, Camel, Apigee, and Spring Integration.

Confidential

Director of JD Edwards Professional Services

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the creation and management of a new line of business focused on providing services to Oracle JD Edwards customers needing advanced administration and development expertise.
• Managed team of JD Edwards CNC and functional developers whom provided the necessary expertise needed.
• Managed the development of our JD Edwards connector products that worked in conjunction with MuleSoft’s Mule integration platform.
• Handled sales opportunities related to both the JD Edwards professional services and products.

Confidential

Director of Client Engagement

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the successful delivery of projects developed by our engineering group.
• Address issues that affect customer satisfaction with our products or services.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and guidance on application development best practices and, conduct training in MuleSoft products as well as the Scrum development methodology.
• Organized and lead the knowledge sharing and internal training for development staff.
• Designed, developed, and performance tuned Mule ESB applications for both on-prem and CloudHub deployment using the Anypoint platform development tools.
• At Fortune 500 beverage company, created the center of enablement documentation for best practices and guidelines around the installation, design, development, testing, and maintenance of MuleSoft ESB based applications to build an enterprise wide integration strategy.
• These best practices covered the entire SDLC and API-led architectural approach including, API development, ci/cd practices, performance tuning, source control management, project dependency management, security, testing, data management and ETL processes, distributed team management, workflow orchestration, requirements management, and API governance.
• At a regional commercial bank, designed and delivered an enterprise-wide solution to connect banking systems across a variety of work groups including mortgage applications, customer POS banking, online banking services with the goal of synchronizing data across different legacy and modern systems.
• At a top 5 cancer research network, designed a solution to implement a user authentication system connecting to patient record systems and backend databases.
• At a top 5 fitness chain, piloted a project to prove the ability to integrate a retail POS system to backend databases using an ESB.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Introduced and provided leadership in the transition from waterfall to scrum development process.
• Trained inter n so ftw ar e deve loper s on ob ject- or iente d progra mm in g bes t pract ice s an d techn ique s to meet or exceed operational needs.
• Was principal architect in designing the company's Architect 4.0 initiative (API and micro services based).
• Introduced the use of an ESB (Fuse ESB) and Rules engine to administrate intricate business processes and rules distributed in SOAP based service.
• Researched, conceptualized, and led enterprise integration initiative utilizing a open-source integration platform.
• Promoted the need for architects and development team members to collaborate with business analysts, development managers, directors, and other business stakeholders to ensure business initiatives, concepts, and system requirements were accurately articulated into technical specifications and software code.
• Key influencer in significant cultural and operational changes in the areas of requirements gathering, project management, development methodologies, underlying technology stack, and development tools.

Confidential

Vice Director of Development

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership in the development of the company’s business vision by cultivating a conducive environment and implementing a “Quality First” philosophy.
• Established the technology stack for the development teams to have a platform for constructing advanced business applications.
• Designed numerous web-based business applications in ASP.Net technologies.
• Prepared and led basic and advanced training courses; mentored junior and senior developers to be successful within operations.
• Helped grow the company by 400% in 2 years by introducing largest customer and establishing Manao as a high-quality software development company.

Confidential

Vice Chief of Development

Responsibilities:

• Created the company’s outsourcing capabilities allowing the company to greatly expand and shrink as client demands dictated.
• Developed relationships with external software development teams in Vietnam and Egypt to augment capabilities outside of the home development center located in Bangkok, Thailand.
• Managed Java-based and mobile application projects.
• Designed numerous mobile and web-based applications.
• Greatly extended the skill set of the Java development teams by providing first-hand trainings in object oriented programming, domain driven design, and numerous Java open-sourced frameworks, as well as overseeing the Scrum practice.
• Delivered numerous mobile applications for the forensic science industry.

Confidential

Director of Business Development and Internet Technologies

Responsibilities:

• Designed systems to implement internet-based marketing strategies.
• Assisted in determining what system requirements were.
• Created system architecture to fulfill those requirements.
• Managed development and internet marketing team.
• Designed relational database systems to manage CRM data, property details, development schedules, marketing and sales tools, financial transactions, and investor communications.

Confidential

Director of Product Development

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the delivery of the company's suite of award-winning, java-based software development tools.
• Managed over 100 direct reports co-located in Bangkok Thailand and Kaunas, Lithuania in the areas of effective development processes and software development best practices and techniques.
• Coached and mentored 5 development managers responsible for supervising the different development teams as well as QA.
• Worked directly with Chief Architect to assure that development was innovative and adopted by the development teams.

Confidential

JSEE Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided leadership and gu idance on tra in ing programs, an d standard s, fo r senior IT manager in developing th e roadmap fro m trad it iona l w aterfa ll to ag ile.
• Cultivated and instructed training curriculum for .Net and Java Developers.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Re-architected a failing call-center application project.
• Responsible for assessing the on and off shore development resources regarding team composition and quality of code.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead the evaluation and technical design for replacing home-grown JMS messaging with Confidential in order to meet stricter performance requirements of currency trade price quote request-reply to 250ms.
• Responsible for the architectural oversight, upgrade, and maintenance for 25 middleware systems allowing client banks to process price quote requests and trades through to backend pricing and trading systems.