Objective

My true passion is designing, implementing and integrating enterprise applications. I am seeking an information technology leadership role within the healthcare industry

Experience Summary

Management and Leadership

• Provide management, supervision, leadership and technical vision for hosted infrastructure
• Effectively model, present, and communicate software architecture to various project interest groups consisting of both technical and non - technical leadership
• Responsible for all aspects of security within the hosted infrastructure including certifications and audits such as PCI-DSS and SSAE-16

Technical Leadership

• Experience architecting high performance large-scale enterprise applications
• Understanding of software architectural techniques and implementation practices to satisfy non-functional and functional requirements of complex software systems
• Responsible for judging architectural tradeoffs between competing operational/non-functional needs of the system
• Ability to research, evaluate, and apply emerging technologies to a software product
• Analytical, problem solving skills, critical thinking and decision-making ability

Architecture and Development

• Hands-on experience with J2EE / JEE, SOA, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, SqlServer, Derby, WebLogic, JBOSS, Spring, Guice, Struts 2, iBatis, Hibernate, Oracle, MySQL and SOA
• Knowledge of J2EE Core and GOF design patterns and their applicability to software architecture and development
• Software Development Life Cycle Definition and Implementation experience such as agile and test driven development
• Invented the cloak p-mvc i open source framework
• Over 16 years of software development experience

Recent Employment History

Confidential

Manager / Architect, Infrastructure and Security Operations

• Responsible for all aspects of system infrastructure architecture for a hosted enterprise pharmacy environment l
• Direct management responsibility for senior technical employees
• Management of all infrastructure hardware servers, storage, networking and system software. Monitoring and management of systems capacity, performance, and availability. Data backup/recovery execution. Infrastructure disaster recovery planning and preparedness. All aspects of infrastructure security operations and security standards compliance. Confidential Chief Software Architect
• Lead and manage the design and implementation of a world-class architecture for a commercial enterprise pharmacy management system. The position is a combination of management, architecture and hands-on coding. The system is hosted in a centralized data center and services thousands of pharmacy sites.
• Designed, developed and implemented an encryption framework. The framework is utilized for credit card encryption, certificate caching and keystore management. This is an enterprise framework used in an n-tier application. Furthermore, the framework provided the necessary security measures for PCI compliance.
• Implemented J2EE services for shipping and manifesting interface, payment interface and hardware automation.
• Designed service, client and integration components for mail order pharmacies.
• Manage a team of software architects, each focused on specific application layers
• Responsible for research and development capital expense budget of 1.5 million
• Developed a process to evaluate competing software architectures
• Constructed a Software Architecture Blueprint for the next generation suite of retail pharmacy management software
• Facilitate discussions and lead collaborative sessions to define and gain consensus on technology principles and standards
• Develop operational best practices through the Software Excellence Committee
• Mentor teams of software application developers onshore and offshore
• Conduct high-level and low-level architectural design reviews and provide overall architecture direction governance
• Research emerging technologies and apply to the application architecture
• Responsible for architectural PA-DSS and PCI-DSS certification and compliance

Confidential Application Architect

• Developed a service oriented solution to facilitate the consolidation of Ford Credit business units. The system provides services for every major application within the Ford Credit infrastructure. Interfaces included Web Services, EJB, COBOL subroutines and file feeds.
• Hands-on coding with Java, Weblogic and DB2.
• Provide consulting to senior management and developers in all phases of the software development life cycle.
• Design and implement reusable frameworks for the client, presentation, business, and integration layers.
• Conduct Architecture Assessments.
• Research emerging technologies and apply to the application architecture
• Confidential Framework Architect
• Develop high performance and scalable application frameworks, shared by all Ford Credit application development teams.
• Create Frameworks focusing on specific layers of enterprise applications, such as client, service, integration and resource. Also developed cross cutting frameworks such as messaging, validation and error handling.
• Technology includes Java, JEE, DB2, and Weblogic.
• Confidential Integrator
• Mentor application teams on the use of J2EE and application frameworks.
• Lead project teams through the Ford Credit software development life cycle, which is based on the Rational Unified Process.

Technology includes Java, JEE, DB2, and Weblogic.