SUMMARY:

Visionary, innovative, seasoned and passionate software architect, technologist, developer and evangelist with results - proven achievements in directing enterprise architecture and infrastructure technology teams, championing and leading a broad range of initiatives and strategic projects, focusing on aligning business strategic objectives with IT capabilities, system integration within complex distributed environments, using SOA principles, as well as designing, developing and implementing SOA and cloud computing large-scale enterprise-wide adoption programs within federal government and private sectors.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Solid architectural capabilities: EA, SOA, integration architecture, cloud architecture

Integration design patterns: messaging frameworks, business process modeling, rule-based systems BPMN, BPEL, open source implementation platforms

Enterprise architecture tools: IBM System Architect, DOORS

Languages and APIs: Java/Java EE, Java Servlets, JSPs, JSF, JPA, EJBs, JDBC, JMS, JNDI, JavaScript, Perl, Python, C++, VBScript, IBM Assembler, XML, XML schema, XML data processing, XQuery, XPath

Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, Struts, AJAX, JSON, AngularJS, NodeJS, Drupal, CORBA/IDL

Web Services standards and implementation platforms: SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, WS-*, JAX-WS, JAXB, SAAJ, Apache CXF, Apache Axis, webMethods Glue, RESTful web services, JAX-RS API, Restlets, Apache Jersey

IDE and testing tools: Eclipse, NetBeans, ITKO Lisa SOA testing tools, SoapUI, TcpMon

MoM: Oracle WebLogic, IBM MQ Series, Apache Active MQ, Camel, Fuse and ServiceMix

Web Application Servers: Oracle WebLogic Server, JBoss, Apache Tomcat, Jetty

Wide variety of desktop and server-based DBMS: Apache Derby, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle DB, MS SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, IDMS, CA-INGRES, and CA-OpenINGRES product lines, MS Access

NoSQL DB and Big Data technologies: Cassandra, DynamoDB, Apache HBase, MR, MapReduce, Hive, Pig

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior EA SOA Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide support to FAA Programs in implementing business capabilities as technical services, designing, developing, testing and rolling into FAA operation environment, utilizing SOA principles and SOA infrastructure capabilities.
• Using Drupal framework, develop enhanced SOA Service Registry/Repository capabilities that improve user experience in publishing and discovering metadata about business and technical services.

Senior EA SOA Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide advisory to the office of FAA CIO and executive management, SWIM PM and government task leads in making strategic decisions on ongoing enhancements and technical solutions, spearhead enhancing SWIM capabilities in “to-be” state. Led team of architects to develop and to deliver SWIM EA views and artifacts (following DODAF 2.0 framework).
• Developed SWIM Messaging Capabilities Gap Analysis document, allowed to bridge “as-is” and “to-be” messaging functionality. Prototyped technical solutions to SWIM messaging infrastructure based on bridging WebLogic Server and Active MQ JMS Server platforms.
• Implemented technical solution of use of ESB with content-based routing capabilities.
• Stood up SOA Governance practices across FAA based on developed SWIM SOA Governance
• Strategic Plan, SWIM Governance Training package, SWIM Service Lifecycle Management
• Processes, SWIM Governance Policies, and NAS Service Registry/Repository (NSRR) Data Model, SWIM Service Design Principles Handbook.
• Spearhead an effort of standing up the FAA SWIM Community of Excellence, hosted numerous technical knowledge sharing sessions with SWIM stakeholders.
• Led development and delivery of the FAA Cloud Computing Program, including FAA Cloud Computing
• Strategy and Implementation Plan.
• Led a team of eight SMEs and business stakeholders in developing the FAA Cloud Computing
• Governance Plan that includes guiding principles, design and run-time policies, and life-cycle processes of cloud services and practices.
• Led prototyping project for deploying highly available SWIM messaging infrastructure as cloud service utilizing SaaS delivery model.
• As a member of the CTO team, working closely with Dovel CTO and company’s executive leadership on:
• Facilitating realization of company’s technical vision and presenting the best technical solutions in proposals, RFP responses, client’s briefings, and technology showcases.
• Discussing prospective partnerships with vendors, evaluating external software products, and adopting best practices in software design and development.
• Facilitated acquisition of Zapthink Inc. (zapthink.com), industry analyst firm, resulting in expending Dovel’s presence on the marketplace, its capabilities and thought leadership in SOA and Cloud Computing and related technologies. As Zapthink Senior Analyst, provided training and professional services to variety of clients from federal government and private sector.
• Prototyping technical solutions based on COTS products and home-grown software. Developed a prototype for demonstrating big data capabilities with Hadoop based data analysis and Centrifuge and Tableau data visualization platforms.

Senior SOA Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton

Responsibilities:

• Championed development and execution of SOA adoption program and SOA roadmap, prioritizing inventory of reusable services, establishing practices of modeling, designing, developing and deploying services, and exercising technical responsibilities in delivering enterprise scale application and business process integration implementations using commercial and open source products and platforms.
• Served as technical visionary in developing cross organization capabilities for integration architecture and SOA technologies, evangelizing, educating and sharing knowledge, mentoring and leading project teams. 
• Developed and rolled out effective SOA practices based on proven application development methodologies.
• Led development of proposals for clients, and RFP responses for technical consulting opportunities.

Senior Service Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented company’s first enterprise web services delivering mission critical business capabilities.
• Led an effort to establish technical architecture for SOA infrastructure, service management and SOA governance.
• Defined and prioritized business use cases as service candidates, while managing business service portfolio.
• Led a team of up to 10 IT architects to develop the Enterprise Service Design Principles and Guidelines.
• Reviewed and updated SDLC and PMLC processes and practices to reflect and address a service oriented approach; created Integration Patterns and Solutions catalog for upcoming service development projects.
• Established consistent, rapid application delivery by defining application development standards, patterns and enterprise technology stack, reducing development time by over 30% across company.
• Evaluated and selected SOA Governance infrastructure components (Service Registry and messaging mediation ESB to enable enterprise-wide SOA infrastructure.
• As a member of Software AG Product Advisory Board, provided directions on desired enhancements for the CentraSite Service Registry 8.x.
• Trained Enterprise Architecture team on service oriented principles, design solutions, technologies, current industry standards and guidance, and existing products and tools.

Technical Analyst Lead

Confdiential

Responsibilities:

• Led cross-organizational adoption of Java and J2EE platform, establishing best practices for design and development of complex enterprise systems on the Java EE Platform.
• Led large and complex team effort to define requirements, design and develop highly-available, secure web infrastructure with failover capabilities for hosting Loan Prospector (LP) and Project Enterprise (PE) families of systems and applications. Web based LP system provided high-quality data and process efficiency which ensured data integrity; integrated front and backend systems provided more flexibility and control when selling loans to Confidential which presented tangible business benefits.
• Engineered testing environment, evaluate and selected COTS tools for service testing and validation (based on ITKO LISA).
• Led engineering effort of developing Freddie’s web application server (based on BEA WebLogic Server) and integration server (based on webMethods Integration Server platform).
• Championed the creation of Freddie’s Community of Practice, focused on adoption and use of service riented architecture and integration as well as web services. Evangelized development of a support model for web services and associated technologies across CTO Group organizations and TSE&I partners.
• In collaboration with WM PS organization, designed and implemented technical solution for integrating WM Glue SOAP processor with WM IS as Java Service running with WM IS Workflow framework.
• Led education planning and course delivery for over 40 developers and operation support personnel.
• Represented Confidential at various vendor conferences, specifically at webMethods, BEA and Software
• AG user forums and customer councils to impact proper and timely technical design and implementation of product capabilities based on Freddie’s needs and requirements.