SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years of IT experience with exposure to multiple industry domains, in progressive leadership roles. Broad - based enterprise architecture and sales experience with strong technology background in Cloud, Java EE, Web/ Distributed/Object technologies, SOA, and Messaging Middleware.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology Sales: Pre-sales engagement, customer relationship, prospecting & opportunity building.

Enterprise Architecture: Strategic IT vision and alignment, Operational efficiency, TCO/ROI, Vendor management and negotiations, Product vision

Communications: Executive level communication, business cases, technology mentoring

Application Development: Full SDLC implementations, design and architecture, project management

Technologies: Middleware and Web (Oracle SOA Suite/BPEL/ESB, Oracle Application Server & B2B server, Java EE, Web Services, Spring/EJB, CORBA, XML/XSL, LDAP, Vitria, MQ/JMS, JSP/ Servlets, Javascript), Methodologies/tools/frameworks (Agile, Waterfall, RUP, Use Cases, UML, J-Developer, Rational Rose, TOGAF), Databases (Oracle, ObjectStore, TopLink)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Middleware and Cloud Sales Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Multiple sales engagements with enterprise and mid-size customers in selling Oracle’s middleware and cloud products. Deal sizes from $200K annual renewal to multi-million dollar licensing deals. Various pre-sales responsibilities including prospecting, discovery, architecture definition, solution presentation, proof-of-concept, and on-going customer relationship.

Principal Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Strategic architectures to ensure conformance to organization’s business vision, including SOA roadmap and implementation, technology roadmaps to support international business growth, architecture to support new product ventures, and IT cost containment and efficiency enhancement initiatives.
• Executive communications on architectural initiatives, infrastructure acquisition, and IT rework proposals, including business case preparation, TCO/ROI/Cost-benefit analysis, and acquiring executive buy-in.
• Architecture roadmap and technology strategy for CCC’s first international business growth venture in China, led by CCC’s Vice-Chairman. Worked closely with customers and vendors in China in conceptualizing and developing product suite, negotiating strategic alliances, and selling to prospective customers.
• Vendor management & negotiations, requirements analysis, and business case definition in upgrading CCC’s data center infrastructure to support business growth and lower TCO. On-going vendor relationship to ensure timely support and problem resolution in key technology areas
• Technology due diligence on potential company acquisitions/partnerships
• Definition, review and approval of application architectures for new projects, and technical mentoring of project teams. Technical management of off-shore development teams in ensuring successful project delivery.
• Evaluation of new products and solutions to streamline and optimize CCC’s product development and IT operations organizations.
• Development of standards, guidelines, and best practices for all web and middleware development

Independent Technology Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed a web application to allow Citadel's counterparty users to access various fund reporting functionality (Weblogic, Struts, Java Servlets, JSP, Javascript, HTML Toplink)

Lead Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of a schedule and tracking application to provide customers with online access to order-entry, shipment tracking and other supporting functions. Responsibilities included requirements analysis, architecture definition, application design, and technical management of the project (J2EE/Weblogic, XML/XSL, LDAP, HTML/Javascript, Vitria, MQ-Series, Oracle, TopLink)

Lead Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead architect in the development of a web-based application to facilitate access to market research information by IRI's customers. Primary responsibilities included analysis, architecture definition, application design & implementation, mentoring, and overall technical guidance of the project (J2EE/JRun, XML/XSL, Oracle)

Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing a trouble ticket administration system for administering problem reports generated by various internal departments and external customers of Confidential . (J2EE/Weblogic, VisualAge, Oracle)

Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the development of EZNet2, CCC's business to business e-commerce back-end for the insurance industry. Responsibilities included architectural design and implementation, requirements analysis and technology evaluation for CCC's next generation systems (JAVA, COM/MTS, MSMQ, XML, LDAP)

Application Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architectural lead in developing a POS system to integrate a CAD visualization and electronic catalog front-end with a Java gateway to legacy business systems. Managed a team of developers and vendors towards successful implementation of the project. (Java, C++, CORBA/Orbix)

Application Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided architecture and design leadership in the development of the CASA application, a refinery design & modeling tool used by Confidential engineers to integrate and store design data generated by external applications such as simulators, design tools and spreadsheets. (Visual C++/MFC, PowerBroker (CORBA), ObjectStore database)

Senior Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in developing a Cathlab system, consisting of real-time display and analysis of cardiac data, and management of medical and demographics data (Windows NT, Visual C++, MFC, Delphi)

Information Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager and tech lead for Confidential 's turnkey implementation of prepaid calling projects for international clients. The base configuration consisted of 808x based Voice Response Units operating under a real-time variant of Unix and interfacing to a Tandem server over TCP/IP.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Major contributor in the design and development of the complete software suite of PPG's cardiac monitoring and analysis product. (C/C++, UNIX, SunOS RPC, TCP/IP, NeWS, PostScript, X Windows)