SUMMARY:

• Certified enterprise architect and technology leader with over 15+ years’ experience leading teams and delivering solutions.
• Technology strategy and planning
• Solution, software, business and data architecture, design and development
• Enterprise architecture (multiple methodologies TOGAF, Zachman, Gartner)
• Pre - sales and business development
• Large and small team formation, transformation and leadership
• Near-shore and off-shore delivery
• Business process improvement and modeling (multiple methodologies such as Lean)
• Technology governance and operations
• Technology/solution evaluation and recommendation
• Vendor relations

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Windows
• Linux (Ubuntu)
• .Net (C#)
• Java
• Java EE
• Classic ASP
• ASP.Net
• SQL
• Grails
• Spring
• ORM (Hibernate/nHibernate myBatis/myBatisnet
• MS Entity Framework)
• Oracle Fusion
• SQL Server
• Oracle
• Oracle EBS
• Design Patterns
• Enterprise Patterns
• BPM
• BPML
• BPEL
• BPMN
• ESB
• XML
• SSO
• Source Control and Management (Git
• Subversion
• Team Foundation Server)
• Configuration Management
• Full Lifecycle Testing
• Domain Driven Design
• Domain Specific Languages (DSL)
• Apache Tomcat
• IIS
• Jenkins
• Gradle
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• DevOps
• Open Source
• Visual Studio
• Eclipse
• REST
• WS-*
• Atlassian tools - JIRA/Confluence/Stash
• Rational System Architect
• Sparx
• Software AG Aris
• JIRA
• SOA
• UML
• TOGAF
• Zachman
• Gartner/MEGA Enterprise Architecture Framework
• Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• Agile (multiple frameworks)
• Lean
• Data Modeling
• REST
• SOAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irving, TX

Interim Chief Architect

• Improved the efficiency, traceability and consistency of solution delivery process. Key techniques included: selecting and implementing an agile development methodology, rolling out application management lifecycle platform (JIRA, Confluence, Git), training staff, evangelizing process and defining improvement roadmap
• Improved consistency and quality of technical solutions by establishing architecture guidance and reference architecture for use of design patterns, exception management, logging and instrumentation, security, third-party frameworks/libraries/tools and software structure
• Increased delivery capacity while controlling cost by integrating off-shore development resources into project and support/maintenance delivery teams
• Team and organizational leadership
• Hands-on development of REST-based web services using Java (Spring Framework)
• Pre-sales and sales solution architecture

Confidential

Technology Evangelist

• Researched, evaluated and explained emerging technologies to technical and non-technical leaders. Created reference implementations.
• Created original technology content such as white papers, blog articles, proposals and pre-sales sheets for multiple online publications and corporate clients such as CMSWire.com, SiliconAngle, Hopper, IBM, TechHive, TechAxcess, Gilbane/Outsell, Nuxeo, Lucid Imagination, SilverStripe and Kentico.
• Interviewed and facilitated discussions with technology vendors and industry leaders
• Defined and implemented enterprise content and information management strategy (enterprise data modeling, business process modeling)
• Analyzed and model key external facing business processes, defined enterprise information models for structured/unstructured data and recommended a customer relationship management solution (Sugar CRM)
• Identified most common pre-sales scenarios and created pre-sales technical collateral (user stories, cost benefit template, reference architecture, white papers, competitive landscape analysis) to explain the value proposition of eXo’s solution.

Confidential, Irving TX

Enterprise Architect

• Defined software and business process enterprise architecture in multiple business domains
• Defined roadmap for migration to a service oriented architecture (SOA) and led the SOA Center of Excellence (COE) and produced several key deliverables: technology standards, service maturity model, service lifecycle model, reference architecture and governance strategy
• Communicated and championed the value of proposed enterprise architecture strategy to C-level technology and business stakeholders
• Implemented a peer-to-peer training program for introducing new concepts and improving developer buy-in/adoption of recommended architectural practices
• Defined a training and assessment program for solution architects, Confidential and application developers
• Redesigned core supply chain process to eliminate redundancies, reduce wait time and identify opportunities for automation using a Six Sigma-based methodology.
• Defined source control and continuous integration strategy, standards and physical server architecture (DevOps) for execution on Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010
• Led the architecture and development disciplines for Confidential ’s transition to an agile application lifecycle management (ALM) methodology. Defined relationship to related methodologies such as CMMI and PMI.
• Designed the hardware, service and software taxonomy for configuration management (implemented in EMC)
• Defined enterprise level information (data modeling) and domain model (business modeling).
• Designed and developed (hands-on) .Net integration to legacy web based single sign-on (SSO) solution

Confidential, Irving TX

Director of Application Development

• Managed a budget of ~$6 million and led a team of 50+ resources for a small business health insurance provider with over $2 billion in annual revenue and 6,000 field sales agents
• Defined and implemented a project portfolio management process to better align IT delivery with business strategic objectives. Implemented Serena Mariner.
• Led transformation of 5 separate IT groups into a single shared services team
• Formalized staff role and responsibility definitions, training plans, knowledge management and peer-to-peer mentoring program
• Established a strategic relationship with an offshore delivery partner to increase capacity for new development and control cost for operational fixes
• Defined and implemented an Agile/Lean-based development methodology to better align IT delivery with the pace of the sales and marketing organization. Maintained a 94+% on time and budget delivery of projects.
• Evaluated and selected master data management (MDM) and incentive compensation management platforms
• Created a multi-disciplinary architecture advisory team to develop a strategic technology road map for modernizing application and infrastructure architecture (COE)
• Architected a real time B2B lead delivery system processing in excess 100,000 leads daily using web services, WS-BPEL, ESB (Tibco and Oracle Fusion)
• Led the definition software development and architecture standards for web services development (REST & SOAP), XML schemas, .Net, Java, build and deployment and unit & acceptance testing
• Reduced the time required to on-board new trading partners by creating a service-based solution to consume data from external suppliers

Confidential, Dallas TX.

Sr. Managing Consultant, Java Practice Lead

• Defined technology strategy and drove project delivery across a variety of engagement types
• Staff selection, evaluation and mentoring
• Pre-sales support including proposals, white papers, statements of work, project plans, RFQ responses and strategic road maps. Also engaged with director and C-level technology leaders to communicate the value proposition of the firm’s services.
• Managed vendor relationship for partners such as IBM and BEA
• Senior technical architect responsible for defining service oriented architecture (SOA) standards to optimally support a multiplatform, decentralized environment. Led delivery of a solution to integrate multiple billing, ordering and customer management systems. Java, Oracle 10g, Oracle Fusion, GIS, BPM, SOA
• Technical architect and engagement manager for a $2M project to build a solution for centrally managing and analyzing retail pricing. The solution provided integrated visibility into multiple data sources, produced econometric models and allowed analysts to create and evaluate multiple pricing scenarios to determine optimal product price. The platform improved the efficiency of the corporate pricing team and allowed a team of six to recommend prices for 2,500+ retail stores and 40,000 products without additional staff. The project resulted in 14% increase in gross profit across multiple product categories and improved the organization’s ability to manage retail prices proactively. KhiMetrics, Business Objects, .Net, Oracle 10g
• Led a team of six resources, defined the architecture and design of an automobile loan origination solution responsible for $130M in receivables annually. Measurably increased the speed, data accuracy and efficiency of the new loan process. ASP.Net, DCOM, SQL Server, C++, MSMQ
• Led the delivery of web-based workflow application for managing private mortgage quotes from brokers. Reduced the amount of human intervention required to process mortgage applications. Faster processing reduced the number of loans lost to competitors due to processing delays. Java, Oracle, MQ Series
• Performed an in-depth competitive environment evaluation of content management platforms. Presented the buy vs. build analysis and recommendation to an executive committee.
• Led the delivery of an Internet-based platform for a Business-to-Consumer loyalty program.
• Served as process engineer on a team to implement software quality improvements in the requirements and design phases of the software lifecycle. Rational Unified Process, Rational Tool Suite
• Designed an Internet-based insurance quoting application that required integration with a mainframe application. Reduced the staff resources and time necessary to quote premiums and increased the information consistency.

Confidential, Dallas TX

Sr. Developer

• Designed and developed a bill reporting system integrated with the client’s legacy mainframe billing system. Trained and mentored staff developers. Visual Basic, SQL Server 7, Access, MQ Series, COM/MTS
• Designed and developed an integration solution that eliminated the need to manually email spreadsheets of operational data.
• Technical program manager for a $4M IT portfolio management initiative that sought to improve visibility of IT assets to technology managers and enable more proactive management.

Confidential, Dallas, TX.

Sr. Consultant

• Led a team of 3 technical resources. Designed and delivered a real-time web-based reporting application that replaced Cognos for external sales staff. Reduced production and training cost, sped field access to sales data and eliminated software licensing cost. ASP, IIS, Oracle, ActiveX
• Designed and developed a data translation solution to transform customer data from multiple receipt formats to a single layout format without manual intervention by an analyst. Improved responsiveness to customers, reduced process errors and lowered process cost by $832K annually. Visual Basic, Oracle

Confidential, Dallas, TX.

Sr. Consultant

• Awarded Consultant of the Year for outstanding performance
• Mentored junior developers
• Pre-sales support
• Developed a web-based reporting tool to analyze store sales data, which eliminated the need to send physical reports to field offices globally. Sped delivery of decision data, eliminated mailing and production cost, reduced FTE requirements. ASP, Jscript, SQL Server, Visual Basic, COM

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Developer

• Developed a browser-based sales automation solution for sales volume and profit forecasts. The tool resulted in a 13% lift in gross profit during the pilot. Perl, ASP, Microsoft IIS