PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

IT Strategy and Systems Architecture Professional with extensive experience designing, architecting and leading complex IT projects with specialization in service oriented and event driven architectures. Strong understanding of the role of technology in achieving strategic business objectives. Exceptional problem solving skills and a proven ability to provide timely solutions without compromising IT or business strategic direction. Demonstrated ability to quickly adapt to new environments, industries, applications, and technologies, with a broad range of experience from mainframe to N - tier systems.

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES INCLUDE:

• Thought Leader in Next-Generation Technologies
• Application Assessment for Vendor Selection
• Development of Standardized Integration Patterns
• Build vs. Buy Evaluation
• Creation of Architecture Strategy
• Scrum Agile Methodologies
• Integrating Mobile Applications with Enterprise Systems
• Leading Integration Competency Center
• Technology and Knowledge Transfer

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:

• Java / J2EE
• UML
• Tibco Hawk
• JSP
• BEA WebLogic
• CA Wily Introscope
• Eclipse / Net Beans
• Tomcat
• AmberPoint
• Servlets
• JDBC
• Javadoc
• JMS
• Hibernate
• SOA Test
• Web Services
• Oracle
• Scrum
• SOAP
• Novell eDirectory LDAP
• CSS
• XML
• SQL Server
• HTML
• XML Spy
• Tibco BusinessWorks
• Java Script
• Xerces
• Rational Unified Process eXtreme Programming (XP) soapUI
• Ant
• CaseWise
• DB2
• C++
• COBOL
• IMS
• CICS
• JCL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Lead Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for integration standards and strategy for all global applications. Work with business leaders to understand and translate business requirements into architectures and technical designs. Instrumental in identifying opportunities to bring software products to market faster, while improving overall software quality.
• Participate as a member of an enterprise architecture team, reviewing business requests against current capabilities, identifying gaps and risks, and recommending strategies and approaches.
• Translate requirements into technical solutions, validate development and staffing estimates, and reviewing implementations.
• Perform application assessments and recommendations for improvement.
• Assess technical capabilities of systems and companies for suitability for acquisition.
• Assess new technologies to determine how they may be used to solve business problems.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate integration standards and best practices.
• Review and approve all internal and Confidential application interface designs.
• Responsible for creating standards and documenting best practices including: architecture, integration approaches, messaging, application security, XML, WSDL, and service monitoring
• Standardized all Confidential integration and reduced overall integration time, with new partner systems, from more than three months to just over two weeks, while increasing system reliability, performance, security, and flexibility.
• Created canonical models for major enterprise business objects.
• Created architecture, high level design, and provided over sight for the development a system to guarantee the delivery of transactional updates from master sources to required downstream systems and external partners.
• Implemented Scrum agile methodology with development teams; strong supporter of continuous integration methods.
• Work with vendors and suppliers to negotiate and design Confidential integrations.
• Created strategy for consolidation of user identities into a single identity management system.
• Created strategy and approach to gain control of fragmented data using a virtualized data model.
• Integrated mobile application with other enterprise systems including information sources and identity management systems.

Solutions Architect 

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Business Travel Portal - Lead Architect responsible for a portal to provide access to business travel related services.
• Project included specification of the architecture and design and supervision of the development and implementation.
• Defined the strategy and approach to implement an SOA in support of global products.
• Performed analyses to identify existing services and their suitability for enterprise use and identify gaps where new services were necessary.
• Performed evaluations and created proof of concepts to aid in the selection of vendor products.
• Defined design time and runtime governance rules for all global applications.
• Redesigned a portal prototype to deliver a production quality portal.
• Led efforts to identify and resolve production performance and resource consumption issues.
• Educate IT and business staff about the value, costs, and benefits of an SOA.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Principal Consultant - Senior Architecture Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Developed and documented a logical future state design, based upon a Services Oriented Architecture, with a focus on Business Process Orchestration.
• Defined migration path to incrementally realize the future state architecture.
• Worked directly with business development staff to understand new business initiatives, derive technical requirements, and understand the current system’s functionality and implementation.
• Prepared and conducted presentations for team members, management, and client executives.
• Designed and developed the capabilities for an integration platform to operate in an occasionally connected environment.
• Balanced competing priorities of business users, IT department, and budgetary constraints.
• Led efforts to develop strategies for application security, application management, implementation of business rules, Web Services, source code packaging, configuration management planning, and project standards.
• Mentored, trained, and instructed team members in object oriented analysis and design, Java, XML, Services Based Architectures, and design principles.

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Senior Information Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented application security layer and external interfaces.
• Designed and implemented the quoting and policy maintenance processes for workers compensation.
• Act as a part time Database Administrator to review and coordinate database design modifications and implementations.
• Responsibilities also include some database tuning.
• Train and mentor team members.
• Developed and implemented processes, procedures, and standards for source code management and promotion.
• Development and implementation of processes and procedures for network security and disaster recovery.
• Performed all network engineering and upgrades for departmental level LAN.