PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Technical Architect

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Senior Technical Architect responsible for design, reviews of functionality, and governance of projects infrastructure & operational technologies in PMW220 and PMW250 program offices
• Responsible for design of infrastructure and operational solutions to evolve the technological landscape of the organization and provide highly responsive and reliable support for the Navy/Marine Corps enterprise
• Senior consulting technical architect for migration and integration of 10 Navy legacy systems hosted on - premises to a single cloud-based Electronic Procurement System (ePS) applications suite based on AWS, Linux, Oracle, and Weblogic/JEE/Java on a custom ESB providing EDI across multiple systems (XML, RTF, JSON)
• Program added a Joint element with inclusion of legacy Army systems integration
• Responsible for working with engineering and operations teams to ensure the smooth functioning of solutions and to gain understanding of what is occurring “on the ground”
• Collaborated on system interface definitions and ensuring API designs met program requirements; regularly reviewed API definitions with vendors & partner organizations providing gap analysis and status to all stakeholders
• Worked with data team on integration tools (IPaaS, Snaplogic) & languages (Python, ksh, Ruby, Powershell)
• Responsible for ensuring product quality through frequent collaborative discussions and design/code reviews
• Prepared briefing decks and regularly communicated with program leadership and key project stakeholders including owners of legacy systems undergoing modernization
• Worked with architects across several disciplines and project teams to ensure standardization of infrastructure and operational platforms, CI/CD implementation, techniques, procedures, patterns, frameworks, processes, and better practices across the Navy Information Warfare (NAVWAR) enterprise
• Collaborated with engineering, operations, and projects teams to gather best practices to be leveraged by NAVWAR to ensure that best practices are followed, and that domain knowledge is not siloed across teams
• As acting Cloud Architect conducted analysis of alternatives (AoA) for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud hosting for portfolio of projects; led capacity estimation and configuration planning for production and non-production deployments, vetting of Navy and Joint options & selections
• Consulted on analysis of alternatives for cloud services and deployments (AWS, Azure, AWS serverless vs server/EC2), containers (ECS/EKS, Docker, Kubernetes)), and leveraging microservices
• Collaborated with the Naval Aviation (NAVAIR) enterprise on configuring for Navy ePS AWS fault tolerance, identity & access management (IAM), and common monitoring & alerting
• Integrated a common cloud/network operations center, call center response training, standard operating procedures (SOP), and Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline framework for ePS utilizing existing NAVAIR infrastructure and procedures
• Consulted on applying better practices to Agile/Scrum software development and DevSecOps integration with NAVWAR/NAVAIR development & operations teams, mentoring data engineering and development staff
• As Senior Data Architect for Navy ePS system migrations, responsible for assessment of data quality, defining migration scope of work, ETL design, ETL implementation, EDI validation, migrations planning, migration readiness, and data cleansing, for 10 Navy legacy systems moving to the new applications and infrastructure
• Gathered migration requirements and collaborated on inputs from legacy system owners & users, regularly briefing stakeholders on statuses, issues, resolutions, and risk mitigation
• Led validation of legacy systems data models, data mappings, and data definitions including allowed values and defaults (ERStudio, Altova); responsible for ensuring data integrity and protection of PII & PHI
• Lead data architect for implementation of ETL processing pipelines that include staging, analysis, and cleansing
• Consultant on ETL design and implementation, and data cleansing techniques & procedures, for the ePS project team, and Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic (NIWC Lant)
• Identified and communicated desirable data engineering patterns, frameworks, procedures, processes, and practices for the NIWC data engineering practice

Information Scientist / Consulting Data & Technical Architect

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Consultant on MarkLogic development and integration projects, including cluster specification and design, operational planning, cluster & application server setup, cluster configuration, development of automation for operational processes, configuration by containers, and administrative procedures & processes
• Helped solve challenges with transformational projects, including data security, providing data gravity, compliance with regulations, cost management, and the need for organizational change to accommodate new technologies
• Harmonized enterprise wide data models and built master data models, working with governance & stewardship
• Validated legacy systems data models, data mappings, and data definitions and led creation of master data models
• Supported integration of external systems in new & modernization projects, consulting on EDI (XML, JSON, RTF), and providing design and implementation assistance with API development (Snaplogic, Boomi, DataHub)
• Consulted on DR failover strategies and procedures, including hybrid on-premises and cloud options
• Built supervised automated configuration, administration, and troubleshooting tools
• Consulted on containerization and analysis of alternatives (AWS ECS, EKS, Fargate, Azure container service, Docker, Kubernetes), microservices, and serverless architectures
• Provided better patterns, frameworks, procedures, processes, and practices to assist in growing more mature technology organizations

Senior D ata Architect / Senior Solutions Platform Architect / Lead Senior Data Engineer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• As senior solutions platform architect responsible for delivering high performance OLTP and OLAP implementations
• Supported multiple online information services and many partners (patent offices, publishers, chemical suppliers)
• Responsible for solutions design, governance of projects infrastructure, and selection of operational technologies
• Led evaluations of and implementations on relational, NoSQL, and in-memory databases
• Evaluated serverless and microservices options for new product and modernization implementations
• Lead architect for bringing to production a headless content delivery system, serving multiple online services and products from a distributed cluster NoSQL platform (MarkLogic, XQuery, Xpath, XML, SOAP, REST)
• Platform architect for successful implemention of a common enterprise Java and Perl framework for content ingestion, curated content intake, and editorial feeds
• Lead solutions architect for enterprise content delivery pipelines modernization projects integrating more than 170 intake/ingestion pipelines into a single data platform, responsible for interface design & specification, API development, and definition of batch and real-time interfaces common frameworks
• Architect for the Java based world patents pipelines implementation and integration (API, Java, XQuery)
• Integrated enterprise editorial processing, batch extraction, custom search, and headless content delivery from a single central content repository serving all online services for the enterprise, implementing interfaces/APIs for developers, platforms, and partners
• Leveraged existing enterprise cloud and container domain knowledge to migrate on-premises SOA architectures to RESTful cloud-based microservices, facilitating prototyping & rapid proof of concept development
• Lead architect and engineer supporting enterprise new services development and partner integration projects (NewSTN, Supplier Catalogs, World Patents Integration, SciFinder extensions), providing custom interfaces for search and content delivery, and creating RESTful interfaces for internal users and external partners
• Architect for disaster recovery (DR) planning, DR procedures, failover monitoring & criteria, failover validation tools, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for failover and restoration to primary hosting, and DR site specifications
• Negotiated and managed Service Level Agreements/Obligations for data platforms and content delivery pipelines
• Managed vendor support agreements, platform budget lines for hosting/software/services/staffing, and growth estimation for enterprise capacity planning
• As lead, brought content and integration (content delivery pipelines, world patents hosting, content delivery platform) projects to successful deliveries on-time and under budget
• Cloudera trained Hadoop administrator and integrator, experienced planning, deploying, and integrating map/reduce and big data (IBM IIB (ESB), HDFS, Kafka, Flume, Hive, map/reduce, MarkLogic, AbInito, Impala, Spark)
• Experience conducting network and storage planning and deployment for highly performing distributed data systems and application servers (MarkLogic, Hadoop, MSSQL clusters, Weblogic, JBoss, Tomcat)
• Established SLA and SLO targets and services agreements for data platforms and hosting
• Identified actionable business intelligence & new service features and designed & implemented solutions to leverage same, regularly reviewing information products & dashboard metrics for gaps and accuracy
• Worked closely with new product development in monetizing data assets
• Led frequent collaboration sessions & design walkthroughs, and conducted formal design & code reviews
• Managed and led full SDLC projects using Agile, Agile+Scrum, Waterfall, and RUP
• As senior data architect for NoSQL & relational platform specification and design, responsible for operational planning & platform selection, and developing operational procedures & processes (technologies including MarkLogic, Cassandra, RDS, Redshift, Snowflake, Power BI, MongoDB, Hive, Impala, Spark, map/reduce)
• Mentor for data engineering and data governance staff, advocate of dedicated enterprise data governance
• Led integration of partner systems in modernization projects, providing design and implementation of batch and real-time interfaces APIs (utilizing tools including Snaplogic, Boomi, DataHub, and evaluation of Mulesoft)
• Validated legacy systems data models, data mappings, and data definitions, designed new data models, harmonized new and legacy models, and created master data models (ERStudio, Altova Mapforce, ERWin)
• Identified and communicated desirable patterns, frameworks, procedures, processes, and practices, working with architects & developers across disciplines and teams to document better practices, ensuring that information is available across the enterprise and not residing in organizational silos
• Led DevOps integration into the enterprise and managed DevOps activities, mentoring staff in data engineering and Agile techniques, including introduction of containers & automated deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, Chef)
• Led operational support teams for enterprise database and distributed file system platforms (MSSQL, MarkLogic, Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, Hive, MongoDB, Cassandra, Couchbase, Postgresql, MarkLogic clusters, and Hadoop)
• Worked with business development teams to obtain actionable business intelligence and leverage information and data assets to create new services and features, collaborating on proof of concepts, prototyping, and data mining
• Worked closely with new product development to monetize data assets
• Managed successful project deliveries using Agile and Waterfall methods, routinely briefing leadership
• As acting Information Scientist supported the enterprise as patents schema SME
• As Lead Senior Data Engineer led data engineering team supporting enterprise initiatives with responsibility for database design, data modeling, data mapping, schema reviews, code reviews, data mining, performance analysis, tuning, monitoring, defect tracking, documenting resolutions & better practices, and metrics/dashboards
• Key data initiatives include data warehouse design & creation, implementing data lakes for business intelligence, and analysis of alternatives for hosting (on-premises/VMWare, hybrid, Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, Dell)), including evaluating/specifying cloud resources (Redshift, Snowflake, Glue, Power BI, EC2, S3, ECS, etc.)
• Key contributions include introducing Tableau for decision support visualization, implementing Hive on Hadoop, leveraging MarkLogic for improved responsive access to data on Hadoop, and streamlining processing of data to both data warehouse and online services (including tools/technology selection)
• Managed DevOps/DevSecOps teams providing operations and tools support for approximately 2500 production and more than 6000 non-production databases, including configuration & deployment tools, CI/CD pipelines, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), enabling first-line help desk to provide automated diagnostics & resolutions, and standardized process & platform monitoring and alerting
• Provided enterprise MSSQL, MSSQL Clusters, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, SSMS consulting and support
• Led team supporting DR, providing capacity estimation and platform requirements
• Directly supported operational data stores (MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle, MarkLogic, MySQL, MongoDB, Hana, HBase, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Redis, Hive, etc.); lead engineer for evaluations of Azure CosmosDB and AWS Redshift
• Led use of MSSQL SSIS for ETL from operational data stores (ODS) to reporting and business intelligence stores
• MarkLogic subject matter expert (SME), MSSQL and Sybase SME
• Responsible for SQL and NoSQL support and implementation, including developing queries, performance monitoring, metrics, alerting, stored procedures, query profiling, data access optimization, and data access code & APIs (Python, Ruby, Perl, ksh, Powershell, Java, RDF, XML, JSON, Snaplogic, DataHub)
• Led introduction of Git/GitHub, Jira, Confluence for enterprise use
• Supported SAP and SAP Hana implementation, upgrades, and operations
• Led DevOps and DevSecOps (Agile+Scrum) teams, providing supervised automation of manual tasks and processes

Principal Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As data architect harmonized enterprise legacy schemas/mappings to master content data model
• Implemented common content management schema strategy, simplifying and clarifying the enterprise data model
• Led NoSQL platform design for a single integrated content delivery operational data store (ODS) to provide headless content delivery, custom search, and concurrent highly performing OLAP
• Led solutions architecting for the content pipelines modernization program
• Implemented and managed the evaluation of XML content repository options
• On selection of MarkLogic, set the objective cluster topologies, configurations, and interfaces designs
• Operations architect for MarkLogic introduction, subject matter expert for MarkLogic and MSSQL
• Created MarkLogic administration tools and procedures for operations support/network operations center (NOC)
• Implemented common monitoring and metrics framework for database and content delivery operations (Perl, shell/ksh, MarkLogic, Hudson/Jenkins, Weblogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Sybase, MSSQL)
• Built deployment automation and pipeline troubleshooting tools (ksh, Perl)
• Helped negotiate software licensing and support agreements including setting SLAs/SLOs
• Helped manage full SDLC projects, variously using RUP, Waterfall, and Agile methods as appropriate
• Routinely briefed leadership and stakeholders
• As lead Principal Software Engineer led tools creation and was principal troubleshooter for the online services content pipelines and build/delivery system
• Supervised development teams implementing new content pipelines and associated tools & monitoring (Java, Perl)
• Implemented new continuous integration system for content delivery teams
• Led team supporting disaster recovery (DR), providing capacity estimation, platform requirements, standard operating procedures (SOPs), post-failover systems validation tests, fallback procedures, and DR deployment tools
• Introduced centralized build, delivery, and tasks scheduling (Hudson, Jenkins) to development teams
• ClearCase subject matter expert (SME) and build administrator providing team and enterprise support
• Weblogic & JBoss SME assisting the enterprise with JEE deployments and development
• Created and maintained enterprise better practices and "lessons that should be learned" site (Sharepoint)
• Led DevOps team providing supervised automation of manual tasks and processes

Principal Database Architect / Solutions Engineering Architect / Lead Database Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As principal database architect led harmonizing enterprise legacy schemas/mappings to master content data model
• Implemented common content management schema strategy, simplifying and clarifying the enterprise data model for content and catalogs, facilitating rapid partner onboarding and exchange of data
• Led enterprise design and implementation of relational, object, and NoSQL platforms (MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle, Informix, Poet, MarkLogic, MySQL, etc.) operational data stores (ODS) and pipeline software (AbInitio, custom)
• Architect for solutions including introducing SOA/SOAP/XML to the enterprise (including news & entertainment content delivery, local weather, merchandising platforms, customer information (CIS) platform implementations)
• Managed enterprise data engineering group including tier 3 database administration (DBAs), database design engineer, ETL/ELT engineer, and operations tools development teams (varying size from 6-20 developers/DBAs)
• Responsible for ensuring highly available content and reliable performant interfaces
• Led cross-functional team providing regular review of interfaces designs and specifications, conducting gap analysis and ensuring API implementations met enterprise and partner requirements
• Consultant to Marketing and Marketing Analysis on actionable business intelligence and metrics/dashboard development, leading gap and capabilities analysis for executive dashboards development
• Regularly met with enterprise stakeholders to gather business intelligence requirements, conduct gap analysis, create prototypes & story boards, mine data, and gain feedback on provided reports and dashboards
• Brought numerous projects to successful implementation and sustainment on-time and at or under budget (including customer registry/IAM modernization & upgrades, merchandising reconciliation, news & weather content curation, content delivery for news/weather/entertainment, Giftminder, ICQ hosting, email platform modernization)
• Routinely briefed executive leadership and stakeholders
• As data solutions architect provided support for enterprise modernization initiatives and new product/service development, including data description & modeling, database design & implementation, and data engineering
• Supported new product development includes online merchandising, music streaming, video content streaming, partner site creation, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ messaging, broadband access support, partner customer acquisition, billing micropayments processing, and "internet service in a box" for turnkey online business solutions
• Key modernization work includes several iterations of email platform development, news and other curated content delivery, customer registry (access and identity management (AIM)), customer service integration with customer registry (customer information system (CIS)), billing system updates, billing and CIS modernized infrastructure
• Introduced data warehouses/data marts for use by marketing and executive dashboards
• Led implementation of common data engineering infrastructure & frameworks, procedures, and processes
• Provided direct development support for database enabled code, mentoring enterprise developers in better practices, and collaborating across the enterprise to share domain knowledge
• Led team introducing Java to the enterprise, directly supporting database access
• Managed dashboard requirements gathering, analysis, and implementation
• Regularly met and collaborated with executive leadership and key stakeholders on dashboard use, information interpretation, data mining, and business intelligence exploitation
• Provided direct support for Marketing Analysis metrics, reports, and information interpretation
• Led systems audits, gap analysis, and reconciliation projects for enterprise revenue generating systems
• Frequently engaged in "get well" projects for legacy systems
• As lead database engineer, stood up the first enterprise data engineering group
• Managed the database engineering team supporting both database design and implementation
• Supervised training and support of Network Operations Center (NOC) staff
• Led first enterprise database administration (DBA) team, providing tier 3 support including tools & monitoring development (MSSQL, Sybase, Oracle, Informix, POET, Postgres, ObjectStore, XML, EDI)
• Leader of the integrated database engineering and administration teams, providing database design & implementation, host/server platform support, ETL/ELT development & administration, NOC tools development for tier 1 & 2 support, creation & maintenance of standard operating procedures (SOPs), budget input on database & data server line items, and enterprise consulting on data access & stored procedures/query development & tuning
• Mentored enterprise technical staff in data access techniques and better practices
• Negotiated software licensing and support agreements including setting SLAs/SLOs