Principal Architect Resume
SUMMARY:
- I am seasoned technical architect experienced with leading large enterprise scale initiatives.
- I am able to transform high level business capabilities into actionable designs that can be implemented across teams with minimal dependencies and regular measurable deliverables.
- I want to help companies leverage technology and development best practices to succeed in achieving their business goals.
- 3 years: - Principal Architect
- 15 years:- Solutions Architect
- 18 years:- Defining Business and Technical Strategies
- 10 years:- Agile development processes and tools
- 25 years:- Software Development
- Architecture, System Integration and Driving Implementation
EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Principal Architect
Responsibilities:
- Technical Advisor to senior leadership
- Setting technical direction for Stores, Contact Center and eCommerce checkout team
- Setting technical direction for Confidential tokenization of credit card data to prevent future data breaches; Systems involved include Confidential, Bloomingdales.com and POS systems
- Technology evaluations of ISO8583 middleware vendors including Apache Camel and jPOS
- Collaboration with Worldpay to design scalable solutions
- Define product roadmap and architecture for e-Sign vendor SoluM’s ESL product to address scalability and functionality issues
- Define security around PCI/PII systems and collaborated with internal PCI governance team and enterprise security team
- Oversee proof of concept activities and set direction based on their outcome
- Provide technical guidance to application teams and gain consensus on additional project spend with senior management;
- Size project costs for senior management
- Produce technical decision documents
- Define high level work breakdown structure
- Mentor technical staff
- Led design efforts for migrating mainframe pricing system’s batch processing to pub/sub event processing
- Training team members on cloud native design with Spring Boot
- Integrated 3rd party products
- Work with business owners on product requirements and roadmap
- Worked with application teams for password rotation for Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 databases spanning .Net and Java applications
Technologies: GCP, GKE, Dataflow, Comforte, Java, Kafka, Spring Boot, OpenCensus, RestAssured, Pub/Sub, Git, Cassandra, Docker, Microservices, HashiCorp’s Vault and Consul, CyberArk
Confidential, Georgia
Solution Architect - Stores/RFID
Responsibilities:
- Designed data warehouse, tools and ETL processes
- Defined product roadmap and architecture for Tyco TrueVUE
- Translated requirements into detailed technical documents
- Defined detailed work breakdown structure
- Projected project costs for senior management
- Transitioned product owners and development teams to agile development processes
- Moved all team members to agile development tools (Jira, Confluence, Fisheye, Crucible, Jenkins)
Technologies: Java, .Net and SSIS
Confidential, Georgia
Solution Architect - eCommerce Order Management
Responsibilities:
- Implemented Jenkins pipelines and automated nightly automated regression testing and reporting
- Reduced build time from over twenty minutes to less than one minute
- Converted teams off of ClearCase
- Converted eighteen projects over to new system
Technologies: Java, Jenkins, Junit and uDeploy
Confidential, Georgia
Solution Architect - Merchandising
Responsibilities:
- Worked with Microsoft architects and account managers to architect the system and minimize licensing costs
- Led large program level efforts composed of multiple sub projects
- Designed system integrations to major systems
- Designed ETL processes
- Purchased and deployed Atlassian product suite for company and rolled out within Merchandising business unit
- Mentored mainframe developers on correct software design and construction practices
Technologies: .Net, SSIS, SSRS and SSAS
Confidential, Georgia
Solution Architect
Responsibilities:
- Implemented change data capture from Oracle to MS SQL Server
- Migrated to SSIS for ETL for Confidential ’s TradeStone integration
- Worked with TradeStone on their product roadmap and performance improvements
- Used AnthillPro for continuous integration of applications within the business unit
Technologies: WebSphere, Tomcat, Java, SSIS
Confidential, Georgia
Solution Architect - Marketing
Responsibilities:
- Technology evaluation of Microsoft .Net and IBM WebSphere
- MQSeries implementation
- Messaging lifecycle management including correct dead letter queue management and message versioning
- Extensive interaction with business owners to understand needs and design the right solution
- Architecture and implementation of executing AppleScript on a Mac via a button click in the browser
Technologies: Java, WebSphere, AppleScript, Anthill Pro, MQSeries