SUMMARY

• Business / Enterprise Solutions Architect. 25 years as Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect / Technical Director
• 15 of the last 20 years as an independent consultant managing major program initiatives. Significant breadth and depth of experience - strategy and roadmap solution leadership; business process design; management of very large, complex, and challenging programs
• RFP response and new business development; end-to-end solutions architecture; hands-on detailed design and delivery of high performance systems-of-systems - across a wide range of business and technical domains..
• Thought leader in end-to-end solution design approach, taking into consideration not only technology, but all aspects of Solution Architecture: people (organization), process, technology, and data (transactional and analytical).
• Optimizes designs for Total Cost of Ownership including implementation and operating costs, scalability, maintainability, sustainability, and end-user experience.
• Drives design solutions to deliver measurable business outcomes. Increases probability of success by identifying and mitigating risks associated with implementing complex, comprehensive functionality supporting effective execution of business processes spanning systems and organizations.
• Excellent communicator with strong facilitation skills; able to synthesize disconnected information and ideas into articulate, relevant and precise points of view; able to communicate complex and challenging ideas to broad set of audiences, technical and non-technical alike, with communication context appropriate to audience / stakeholders’ perspective and concerns.
• Partners at all levels of the organization to evangelize and promote best practices in solutions implementation and technology architecture across enterprise programs. Ability to deal with ambiguity and change and still drive to needed outcomes.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Strategy & Planning
• Business Process Design
• Informatics / Big Data / BI eBusiness / CRM / Marketing
• Legacy Systems Migration
• Enterprise Security Architecture
• Program/Project Management
• Facilitation
• New Business Proposals
• Enterprise Architecture Roadmap
• End-to-End Solutions Architecture
• Enterprise Information Architecture
• Content / Knowledge Management
• Mobile systems
• Cloud / Hybrid Environments
• Performance Engineering
• Verbal, Written, and Presentation Communication

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Architecture Domains: Enterprise Architecture, Roadmaps & IT Strategy, Solutions Architecture, Business Architecture, Application Architecture, Enterprise Data Architecture, Big Data / Analytics Architecture, Security Architecture

Enterprise Architecture Framework: Zachman, DoDAF, TOGAF, FEA/FEAF, ITIL / ITSM, SOMF

Modeling: UML, business process modeling (BPM, BPMN, IDEF0), BPR (CSC BPR COE), data / information modeling, multi-perspective taxonomy and IA content modeling, semantic nets, ontologies, KADS, cognitive models, stochastic process, probabilistic graph models

Knowledge Management / WCM / ECM / Experience Management / Electronic Publishing: AEM, CQ5,Drupal,FileNet, Documentum, Interwoven, ExStream, OpenText, SGML based DCM, Vignette, IBM Content Manager, Digital Asset Management, Digital Library

Cognitive Architecture Framework: Agent-based, Swarms, OpenCog,Encog, Neuroph, probabilistic logic networks, neural network architectures, machine learning, decision support

Enterprise (Big) Data Architecture / Data Management: EDW, Data Lakes, O/R/MOLAP, near real-time Data Marts (Kimball), distributed data processing, in memory data grids, metadata management, MDM, data governance

Business Intelligence / Data Mining: Business Objects, Tableau, MicroStrategy, Cognos, Pentaho

Analysis Tools: MATLAB, Mathematica, LabView, R, SPSS, Blaze, Joone, Apache Arrow

Search / Data Mining: KDD, SOLR, RapidMiner, search architecures, DB kernel architectures, machine learning algorithms / frameworks

Database / Data Processing Frameworks: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server / AS, MySQL,NoSQL (Mongo, Cassandra, Oracle, CouchDB, Graph DBs), Coherence, Spark, Storm, HortonWorks, Hadoop, MapReduce, Kafka, metadata, data mart & warehouse, Netezza (appliances), DTP, OLAP, OLTP, Complex Event Processing (CEP), rules engines, data governance, Apache Atlas, TensorFlow

ETL / Data Movement: DataStage, Ab Initio, Talend, SSIS, Informatica, Goldengate, Kafka

Enterprise Application, Integration, & Orchestration Middleware: ESB, MuleSoft, DataPower, WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, JMS, MQ, ActiveMQ, Workflow, Web Services (SOAP, REST), EII

CRM and Marketing Platforms: SalesForce, ExactTarget, Hybris, Pega

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux, Android, OS X, Mach, Ubuntu, Ultrix

Languages, Frameworks, SOA, and Environments: C, Java, J2EE, OSGi, Javascript, Javascript templating, AJAX, Node, Angular, React, TOGAF, Python, Scala, SQL, SQL PL, R, Perl, SGML, XML, WS-BPEL, WSDL, SOAP, REST, HTML5, VMware, AWS, Apache Beam, DevOps

Security: OAuth, SAML, X.509, PKI, KMS, encryption, security protocols, cryptocurrency, blockchain, Fortify, WebInspect

Systems: capacity planning, disaster preparedness, change management, high availability, clustering, security architectures, penetration testing, SANs, data center, AWS cloud, 3rd party cloud integration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Big Data Architect / Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Data analytics in biomed domain, prospective research / POC, using AWS Big Data Analytics stack.
• Digital financial forensics on a state government revenue collections and distribution system.

Enterprise Solutions / Data Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed knowledge management system architecture (Drupal) and detailed information architecture for educational assessment and learning systems framework.
• Designed and led implementation of a new “data lake” and big data analytics environment for learning systems measurement data. (Hortonworks, Hadoop with NiFi, Kafka, Storm).
• Led team in extending enterprise reporting architecture to incorporate new analytics environment including B2B shared data environment.
• Created reference architecture for data publishing / data exchange platform for both B2B as well as open source repositories for research purposes.

Enterprise Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Overarching responsibility for cross-functional integrated teams of multiple vendors, business, and enterprise system tech leads to define the AEM and integration architecture for new Confidential eCommerce site - application, services layer, data, security, systems monitoring.
• Led internal Confidential team in architecture, detailed design, and SCRUM implementation of new AEM technology for rules-based data-driven business document assembly and rendering service, business rules management GUI - mini-POCs, delivering bi-weekly detailed design, sample code, and performance test specs for each new sprint. Received commendations from business Directors, sent to CTO as well as Enterprise and Solutions Architecture Directors.
• Identified critical flaw in payment gateway new PCI product architecture, ($7 M new business area for vendor, product designed and developed for Confidential program). Designed alternative simple and elegant architecture to address PCI use case without incurring expensive change order to eCommerce SOW.
• Led the Enterprise Security Architecture & detailed design for integrated enterprise identity and policy management, including authorization and credentialing services; key management (CI-CD); rationalization and management of Cloud RBAC with legacy authorization and audit systems; credentials propagation across the Cloud PaaS, Web Services / Gateway, and Data Centers. Worked with teams to ensure implementation of architecture as templatized platform service at each tier. Engaged DRB & PMO governance to assure continued roll out of enterprise architecture across programs.
• Partnered with Dvlpt Director, Dvlpt Mgr, and Delivery Exec, to initiate and lead DevOps CI - CD initiative, defining a common platform service with implementation blueprints for common project type patterns. Brought to EA Review, added to standards, DRB governance, and program playbooks.
• Worked with Marketing & Revenue Mgmt Directors and new BI Director to define Business Capability Map to meet strategic goal of transformational use of data within Confidential .
• (SalesForce, Hybris, ExactTarget, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Adobe DTM, SQL Server, Microsoft Analytics Platform, MuleSoft, Java, REST, EDW, MongoDB, Cassandra, AWS Cloud)

Enterprise Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for end-to-end system-of-systems Enterprise Solution & Platform Architecture - working closely with tier-1 consulting partner and smaller custom app vendor - for GM’s new mCommerce (Mobile Commerce) line of business, including automobile and “traditional” mobile apps, bidding / campaign management backend, CRM, mCommerce application services, and Analytics subsystem which uses driver / customer commerce & behavior data for market segmentation and predictive analytics. (Custom, ArcGIS, Oracle Coherence, SOLR, SalesForce, ExactTarget, R, HortonWorks, Apigee, REST microservices)
• Consulting architect on globalization (EU) architecture for OnStar CRM including telecom and telematics product catalog, billing, accounting, case management, telematics web services design, CRM application workflow performance architecture, and microservices billing architecture on top of low-level Zuora API.

Business Intelligence Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built marketing and sales management data mart and BI platform including business operations re-engineering, sales / marketing / operational reporting, predictive analytics engine & implementation framework, KPI dashboards. (MySQL,Talend, Java, Crystal Reports, Python).
• Hands-on design and development work to train my apprentice, (daughter, English major).

Technical Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Head domain (managing) architect for 3 enterprise domains over the course of 7 years with Confidential, including Behavioral Health; Informatics (EDW, BI, Predictive Analytics); and Pharmacy - which domain included health payer services as well as actual pharmacy businesses, i.e. Specialty (small, specialized) and Mail Order Delivery (very large-scale highly automated pharmaceutical business).
• Led teams of 8 - 14 architects, on average, (application and data / information, consultants for re-architecture).
• Accountable for the delivery of technology solutions within domains with annual budgets of $10 - $28 M.
• Worked with Portfolio Management and senior business and technical team to create domain technology roadmaps and map out multi-year programs.
• Led the implementation of Medicare Part D (pharmacy benefits) program.
• Led the in-sourcing of Behavioral Health into Confidential, including all supporting IT systems (plan development, plan management, claims processing, accounting, revenue management, customer service integration, intranet portal, integration with medical management, informatics, reporting (regulatory and operational), business intelligence, and predictive analytics.
• Led cross-functional team in re-architecture of all EDW and Informatics domain IT systems, IT program methodology, and business governance processes and toolsets.
• Led near real-time data integration architecture and implementation for joint venture with CVS Caremark in which most of pharmacy daily operations were owned or managed by CVS Caremark.

Enterprise Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Member of the TRP Technology Steering Committee for electronic publishing.
• Led RFI and RFP process requirements for template-based, multi-channel, database-driven, electronic publishing management system for regulatory financial reports across the full content life-cycle.
• Worked with director & functional managers to design and lead change management for successful transition from manual to ePublishing process for all customer and regulatory publications.
• Developed business taxonomy in business JAD sessions to provide a robust and consistent foundation for business communication architecture across multiple channels and strata of audience.