SUMMARY:

• Results - driven customer-focused executive level hands-on self-starting technologist with over 25 years of progressive experience leading organizations in defining the technology strategies and business orientation of architecture and software development in large complex Fortune 500 corporations and federal agencies.
• Extensive technology background complemented with diplomacy and business acumen.
• Possess a proven track record of successfully defining and building software applications for some of the largest and most diverse corporations.
• This includes the translation of business requirements into technical architectures that result in the successful construction, delivery, and deployment of commercial and large scale internal software applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java/JEE, C#, C++, C, Python, Perl, Ruby, Go, HTML5, CSS, Javascript

Cloud Platforms AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, VMware

App/Web Servers: Apache Tomcat/Jetty, JBoss, Weblogic, Websphere/Portal

Persistence: All Major RDBMS, Couchbase, MongoDB, Hibernate, Memcached

IDEs: Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio

MVC: ASP.NET (MVC3/4), Spring, Struts, Spark Microframework

UI Frameworks: JQuery, Angular.JS, Dojo, HTML5, CSS3, GWT

Cloud Techs: AWS Stack, Google App Engine Stack, Cloud Foundry

Big Data Techs: AWS EMR, Hive/Hue/Pig, Horton

Search Engines: Apache Solr/Lucene, Elastic Search, GSA, AWS Cloud Search

SDLCs: Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, RAD, Test-Driven

Methodologies: OO Analysis, Design and Development, Design Patterns, UML, SOA

Platforms: Web, Mobile, Desktop, PTC Thingworx

WS */Messaging: Active MQ, Mule ESB, EDA, JMS, IBM MQ, TibCo, Apache CFX

Miscellaneous: Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Chef, Maven, Ant, OAuth*, JAX-*, SVN, JUnit

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Technology leadership & transformation
• Proficient with all major app., web, & database servers
• Software architecture visionary
• Strategic roadmaps and business alignment
• Define a single architecture message
• Delivery of real-time highly transactional and available n-tiered systems with low latency
• Account for ROI, TCO, & Risk Mitigation
• OOA/OOD/Design Pattern methodologies
• Team Leader/Builder/Player
• Expert in UML/C#/Java/JEE technologies
• Large array of technology stacks
• Cloud and on-premise proficiencies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Chief Cloud Architect/Chief Technology Officer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Expert level experience re-architecting and re-platforming existing applications from monolithic to microservice cloud and on-premise implementations, leveraging all of today’s most popular technology stacks, as well as modern modeling and business description techniques.
• The platform creates applications by combining language agnostic templatized technology stacks either with a new business model (UML or JSON) or an existing model reversed engineered (POJO or SQL Script).
• The technology stack component options include, but are not limited to:
• Presentation: JQuery, Angular.JS, Ext.JS, HTML5. CSS3, JSP. .cshtml
• MVC: ASP.NET Core, Spring Boot, Apache Struts, Spark Microframework, AWS Lambda
• Persistence: Hibernate, nHibernate, MongoDB, Couchbase, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server
• Cache: Multiple Memcache implementations including Redis, Whalin, etc..
• Messaging: Apache Kafka, Sonic MQ, Rabbit MQ, IBM MQ, TibCO, J2EE JMS
• Deep knowledge in all levels of architecture, implementation, and tuning complex distributed scalable multi-tenant applications with requirements for high availability and deployments in hybrid environments.
• Platform available as an AMI on AWS, as well as a private Docker image to partners and clients.
• Architect and developed all core platform services as available Restful APIs.
• Experience in CI/CD Dev/Ops scenarios using all the major technologies including Jenkins, Chef, Docker and more.
• Vast working and hands-on knowledge of all AWS compute, storage, security, and application services, key to develop the right architecture for cloud native and hybrid application development and deployment.
• Product and client target cloud platforms include AWS, Azure, and Google App Engine.

Cloud Technology Partners

Principal Client Technologist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Bridged the technical gap between CTP sales and CTP delivery, requiring a vast knowledge of cloud technologies and delivery practices. The primary focus of cloud technologies was with AWS. Client solutions would include an array of AWS services, requiring an ability to speak to each within the context of how CTP would provision that solution.
• Assisted in the definition and establishment of IoT service offerings, primarily centered around AWS IoT technologies. Offerings included collaborating with AWS and GE to build out IoT workshops to target key clients.
• Serve as the initial technical CTP face to the client, providing guidance in terms of client’s requirements and CTPs Digital service offerings, which included IoT, Big Data, Application Modernization, and overall all project delivery.
• Assisted in the development of master level service-level decks for each area of the Digital Practice. These decks were used as the foundation for the more customized client specific approach decks crafted to communicate how CTP would instrument services to meet the client’s expectations and requirements
• Developed detailed Statement of Work documents to ensure clear communication of what the client can expect of CTP during all phases of delivery.
• Developed deal models to determine the actual delivery cost for an engagement, including CTP’s cost, margins, and final cost to the client. These models required knowledge of the delivery process, talent required, timing, phasing, and more.

Chief Architect, Scientist & Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Includes all major search engines and specific repositories such as Apache Solr, Elastic Search, Google Search Appliance, AWS Cloud Search, Apache Hadoop, Google Drive, and more.
• Developed a Big Data solution for a large pharm ingesting 1M+ records into an AWS Map Reduce cluster, using Hive/HBase for conventional querying and Pig for analysis. All this was expressed through Eureka in order to handle generating custom department specific search applications. Use Couchbase as a Memcache implementation for in-memory store of application entities and certain search result components.
• Targeted application architecture to leverage the following AWS Services: EC2, Cloud Search, AMR, RDS, IAM, Beanstalk, S3, and Elastic Cache.
• Client test and POC requirements included edge device connectivity to Parametric’s ThingWorx/IOT framework running in an AWS configuration.
• Platform is based off of realMethods App Generator and Framework and is used to generate search applications that can target Apache Solr/Lucene, Google Custom Search, Google Search Appliance, Elastic Search, Amazon CloudSearch, AWS Elastic MapReduce (Hadoop using Hive/Pig), NoSQL(Redis), and any RDBMS.
• Deployed the application as a SaaS n the AWS Cloud marketplace as a for cost reproducible image containing an EC2 Linux instance, Apache Solr, Apache Tomcat, Elastic Search, and connectors to Amazon CloudSearch.
• Provide clients with search architecture leadership and guidance with respect to platform decisions, Big Data analysis, HDFS architecture considerations, data/document migration strategies, and implementation oversight.
• In-depth architect and developer level knowledge of all major search platforms for the sake of query, facets, filters, highlighting, suggestions, and relevancy tuning where applicable.

Sr. Enterprise Search Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead architect and developer for Hanover Insurance GSA/Sharepoint/Intranet to Apache Solr Migration project. Leverage Search Technology in the engagement.
• Designed and coded a portal search solution migrating content and methods from the Google Search appliance to a cluster of Apache Solr instances. Solution was deployed to Apache Tomcat using Spring as the MVC framework. Leveraged connectors from Search Technologies to ingest content from the web, file system, SharePoint and other repositories.
• Developed a web services API for the sake of integration into an existing WebSphere Portal deployment, running on WebSphere App Server.
• Apache Solr/Lucene backend development work included query, filters, facets, suggestions, highlighting and tuning related to relevancy.
• Joined an existing team that leveraged Agile for development and Jenkins for continuous integration.
• All work was executed remotely using VMWare, with the code housed on GitHub and connectivity to a remote Jenkin s installation.

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting oversight to the Global Enterprise Architecture group by supporting the definition, roll out, and communication of the enterprise application architecture throughout the organization.
• Defined reference architectures, domain models, application frameworks, and enterprise application patterns to support their technology strategy.
• Participated on their Enterprise Architecture Council in the development of the models, architectures, and framework.

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Trained and mentored ING’s Core Architecture Group in the usage of MDA (Model Driven Architecture) principles and practices, using our framework as a foundation.
• Facilitated multiple training sessions to a mixed audience of Java and non-Java architects and developers.
• Assisted ING’s Core Architecture Group in defining, documenting, and rolling out a reference architecture based on the realMethods framework.
• Worked with an initial line-of-business as part of a proof-of-concept to build a multi-tiered J2EE application atop the reference architecture.
• Assisted in sizing the QA and production environments

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated round-table architecture discussions in defining a reference and solution architecture for a portal based n-tier service oriented architecture using J2EE as the core technology platform.
• This architecture included SOA governance, repository capabilities, and enterprise service bus middleware, along with standards, contracts, and policies for defining services.

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and mentoring to a key group of architects and developers in the definition and implementation of key enterprise and application design patterns.
• Led the development of an enterprise application framework based on realMethods framework.
• Led the design and development of an initial multi-tiered J2EE application, used by customers to download financial and tax information using Quicken or Microsoft Money. This application framework was then used to define and implement the architecture to support an Enterprise Application Integration strategy to migrate the organization from application silos to one that is flexible, loosely coupled, and expandable.

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• WebMD
• Department of Energy
• General Dynamics/Anteon
• Educational Testing Services (ETS)
• CoreValues

Application Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Spearheading efforts to define and communicate a single cohesive enterprise application architecture vision to enable cross - business Mission Systems Integration
• For the purpose of standardization and increasing re-use, act as the single point of accountability and spokesperson in all matters related to enterprise application architecture and software development.
• Responsible for corporate enterprise SOA, Portal, Collaboration, Content Management, App Integration, and Search architecture strategies and reference architectures that align corporate IT and six multi-billion dollar LOBs
• Developed/programmed scenarios to guide Portal software/hardware scalability and SLA requirements.
• Defined/executed a Federated Portal strategy to account for SAP and SharePoint in the deployment environment.
• Defined/executed a common discoverable services layer for security, presentation, personalization, content management and search.
• Defined and executed an SOA strategy that accounts for an enterprise messaging infrastructure, EIA initiatives, UDDI, common message patterns and a common data model.
• Developed CMMI-based maturity models that account for current and planned business initiatives, as well major COTS application consolidations and upgrades.
• Facilitate discussions and presentations in educating key stakeholders, technologists, and architecture solution providers with regard to the application architecture roadmaps.
• Upon receiving training and certification, applied DODAF, FEAF, and TOGAF framework principles to help define an appropriate enterprise architecture framework.
• Participate as lead member on the Enterprise Architecture and Standards Council to facilitate and uphold EA standards, policies, and governance as they relate to application architecture.
• Manage a substantial matrix of solution architects across corporate IT and each line of business.
• Articulate the application architecture strategy to C level executives, as well as gain the respect and confidence of peers, solutions architects, and all involved in the software delivery and enablement process.
• Work with PMO to help prioritize product execution in order to maintain strategic roadmap alignment.
• Made changes to in corporate better architecture inclusion in Raytheon s Integrated Product Development System.
• Educate/assist solution architects in using UML tools/artifacts for capturing as-is state of LOB app architectures, providing the gap-analysis and project execution steps to align with the to-be application architectures.
• Defined the business case for the purchase, selection, and deployment of an EA Platform tool.
• Mentor SAP developers in re-factoring existing J2EE code base to apply necessary principles of model-driven-architecture, design patterns, coding standards, and software development methods.