SUMMARY:

• Accomplished, results oriented IT executive with success in spearheading organizational and technical transformations. Decisive leader experienced in delivering high volume mission critical systems on time, on budget and while maintaining supportability and containing operational expense. An innovator with a successful track record of tackling hard problems and finding viable solutions. Experienced technologist with broad areas of expertise including; SOA, virtualization and e - commerce.
• Vision & Leadership
• Organizational Management
• Complex Implementation Management
• Enterprise Technology Strategy
• Mentoring & Staff Development
• Financial Accountability
• SOA Architecture
• Distributed Systems
• Middleware & Integration
• Virtualization
• High Volume Mission Critical Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Cleveland OH

Chief Architect & Director Infrastructure Solution Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of architects responsible for creating a data center strategy incorporating six U.S data center locations.
• Managed the development of a comprehensive e-commerce hosting strategy and implementation.
• Developed business architecture for Basel II compliance and an ongoing architecture governance process to support future initiatives.
• Provided governance and oversight to key initiatives in the fund accounting, retail banking and healthcare spaces.
• Drove to consolidate several key operational processes and technologies across the footprint.
• Developed multi-year capability roadmaps and strategies across infrastructure, software and operational processes.

Confidential

Director Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Developed a multi-year virtualization plan that reduced distributed hardware spend by $7 million dollars annually and reduced new server purchases by 87%.
• Reduced middleware annual middleware contract spend by $4 million while increasing capacity and processing performance by 40%.
• Four time recipient of the Excel for operational effectiveness and innovation.
• Keynote presenter at JBoss Road Show and a presenter RedHat Summit 2008.
• Work d by several case studies and presentations; Gartner, InfoWorld and Celent.

Confidential

Sr. Architect

Responsibilities:

• Principal architect for Electronic Funds Transfer and ATM systems which reduced mainframe utilization by over 20% and financial exposure by $800 thousand monthly while improving fault-tolerance by leveraging WebSphere and webMethods.
• Principal architect for Points by National City which is an winning loyalty program based on open source tools such as JBoss, Drools and Seam.

Confidential, Indianapolis IN

Practice Manager, E-Commerce

Responsibilities:

• Managed total customer lifecycle for several key accounts including; a major pharmaceutical company and an international tool manufacturer.

Confidential, Cleveland OH

Practice Manager/J2EE Architect

Responsibilities:

• Directly contributed to over $2 million dollars in revenue via direct billing, client relationships and sales support for fiscal year 2004 and $1 million in 2003.
• Architected the rewrite of a healthcare claims processing system from JRun and AS/400 to WebLogic and Oracle.
• Architected and directed the upgrade of Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister and Abercrombie Kids WebSphere Commerce 5.1 environment to WebSphere Commerce 5.6.
• Architected and implemented the conversion of a major vision services provider system from JRUN to WebSphere Portal 5.0
• Developed common messaging framework and object factory for JMS, MQSeries and web services used throughout many clients.
• Founded Cleveland WebSphere User's Group
• Authored several whitepapers and roundtables on various topics including: web services and Service Oriented Architectures.
• Contributor to IBM product and developer documentation.

Confidential, Cleveland OH

Web Systems Engineer (FTE)

Responsibilities:

• Designed document archival system in WebSphere using EJBs.
• Engineering of the enterprise single sign on solution with Tivoli Access Manager 3.9 for customers and employees. Solution includes VeriSign processing, firewalls, reverse proxy servers and OS hardening.
• Built IPSec Tunnel based messaging infrastructure for WebMethods SOAP/XML transactions.
• Designed common servlet framework for the internet banking application based on the command pattern and XML.
• Developed centralized logging using JMS, EJBs and CICS that were deployed in WebSphere.
• Developed database access framework using facade pattern.

Confidential, Alexandria VA

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the IBM development labs (Austin and Toronto) in addressing WebSphere bugs and configuring WLM and Clustered systems.
• Configured and designed integrated WebSphere Global Security for a major financial institution.
• Designed and implemented private banking solution using WebSphere 3.0.2 and Tibco Mercury/Rendezvous.
• Responsible for application compliance with Swiss privacy laws including one-way hash based encryption, SecureID Tokens and secret key algorithms.

Confidential, Cleveland OH

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed Internet banking infrastructure for Confidential (Charlotte) which addressed performance, availability and security concerns.
• Contractor and Developer, Cleveland OH 9During various consulting engagements and internships, gained familiarity with many programming and architectural tools, models and processes. Throughout this period, engaged in projects of increasing complexity, risk and size.
• Architected and implemented customizations to GEAC purchasing and payables modules using PowerBuilder 4.06 and Sybase 11.2.02 to encapsulate defense industry data. Developed check-processing system using ASP and MTS (VB).
• Migrated leasing system from OS/390 to SQL. Responsible for SQL Server database design and implementation.
• Created lockbox-imaging application for an international bank.
• Developed and trained staff on medical systems management software.
• Developed quarterly tax system using Fox Pro 2.5 and PowerBuilder 3.0.