SUMMARY:

• Has over 25 years in building successful Enterprise and Solution Architectures.
• Builds effective and productive Architecture teams.
• Highly skilled in the creation and implementation of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA); has created enterprise - wide SOA Centers of Excellence.
• Experienced in enhancing existing and building new technology initiatives across multiple disciplines such as middleware, Microsoft stacks, Unix stacks, mainframe, identity management including SSO, and cloud computing.
• Extensive experience in creating traceable business-driven architectures and corresponding test-driven large scale implementations (full SDLC).
• Has expert level skills in object oriented analysis and design including service modeling; also in data modeling, both ER and dimensional.
• Expert Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA) meta-modeler.
• Highly skilled in modeling TOGAF compliant architectures.
• Knows and has adhered to the use of best practices and structured methodologies for which she also has taught and mentored, including building formal training programs. Examples include BABOK, UP/RUP, BPMN, EAI, IAA, CMMI (SEI), TOGAF, COBIT/COSO, ITIL, and PMBOK (PMI).
• Responsible for developing and translating enterprise standards and directives into workable solutions based on time, cost and future benefits.
• Experienced in assessing current state architectures and developing future state architectures; creates effective business and technology roadmaps (short term, multi-year) to achieve viable execution paths.
• Has built re-use centers for UML, BPMN, and TOGAF models, including integration and design patterns.
• Experienced in creating Work Breakdown Structures, time/cost estimates, issue management, and risk management of programs. Has managed up to 30 architects/developers.
• Collaboratively creates solutions across various groups within an organization, both on-shore and off-shore.
• Skilled in presenting business and technology solutions to executive management and building governance structures to support resulting implementations.
• Has experience in the following industry verticals: insurance (healthcare, P&C, life), banking (retail, Treasury), energy (petroleum, electric, wind), motor vehicles, airline, government (foreign, domestic), telecommunications, and aerospace sectors amongst others.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java (JEE, JSF), JSP, JSON, CSS, C#, C, C++, HTML, XML, XSD, XSLT, XPATH, PL/SQL, BPEL, COBOL, Assembler (various).

Protocols: WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Federation, RSA, DES, SAML, SOAP, REST, HTTP, HTTPS, TLS/SSL, TCP/IP, SNA, X.25, SNMP.

Security and Network Management Software: ADFS, WIF, WCF, PicketLink, Oracle Identity Manager, Fiddler, NetMon, Wireshark, HP OpenView, Tivoli, Netview, SiteScope.

Notations: UML, BPMN, Archimate (TOGAF), Errickson-Penker, SOMA, SPEM.

Modeling/Case/Design Tools: Sparx Enterprise Architect (EA), Rational Product Suite including RSA/RSM, Erwin, jBPM, IBM WebSphere Lombardi.

Methodologies/Management Standards: BABOK, UP/RUP, EAI, IAA, CMMI (SEI), TOGAF, COBIT/COSO, ITIL, Zachman, and PMBOK (PMI).

Specialty Modeling Techniques: Agile UP methods and tools, SCRUM, Model Driven Architecture, Event Driven Architecture, Service Driven Architecture (SaaS), Design Patterns, and Business Process Transformation.

Middleware: WebSphere ESB, WebSphere DataPower, Oracle Service Bus (OSB), Red Hat SOA-P, JBossESB, Orbix, MQ.

Application Servers: JBoss AS, Apache Tomcat, IIS Manager, WebLogic Server, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), WebSphere Process Server (WPS).

M/F Transaction Processing Systems: CICS.

DBMS and corresponding frameworks: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, JDBC, Spring.

Operating Systems: Windows/Windows Server, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, MVS, Z/OS.

Configuration Management/Problem Management: Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Clarity, CVS, Ant.

Development Tools: Visual Studio, Eclipse, JBuilder, IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer, Rational Application Developer for WebSphere.

U.S. Government Standards: Sarbanes-Oxley 404, HIPAA.

Project Management Tools: MS Project/Enterprise Server, Niku.

IT Strategy: Strategic Planning, IT Governance, SOA Governance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created Confidential Enterprise Architecture Program, based on TOGAF, received buy-in from horizontal and vertical colleagues.
• Developed Business Capability Maps.
• Developed Architecture Layer diagrams, including dependency maps.
• Architected and implemented Enterprise Integration Patterns (including service layer).
• Assisted in transition from Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) to Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM).
• Created asset management catalogue.
• Co-architected CISCO ACI implementation.
• Assisted in cloud computing implementations including Disaster Recovery.
• Built SharePoint sites so that non-technical colleagues could add meta-data to be imported into Sparx Enterprise Architect.
• Created corresponding Sparx models (UML, ER, Relational, TOGAF), teaching all architects along the way, through course training that I created, and one-on-ones.

Confidential

Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• WebSphere architect for many initiatives, including Prescription history (WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphereESB). Created web services (SOAP and REST) for corresponding initiatives. Used Cognos to generate analytics on prescriptions used by various age groups.
• Wrote SAML modifications.
• Wrote RAD/Java cookbook for site development standards to help co-software engineers.
• Mentored WebSphere and Java on many of the top tier projects, including standardized design patterns.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing standard requirements management structures (Sparx EA) to facilitate clear definition of both business and technical architectures at an enterprise level. This includes clear structures for functional and non-functional requirements.
• Responsible for defining UML and TOGAF meta-models that can be used standardly across an enterprise to jump-start service oriented architecture (SOA) definitions (Sparx EA).

Confidential

Enterprise Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for business and technical integration of seven vendors that comprised the Confidential to comply with new business requirements as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
• Evaluated vendors as a best fit and responsible for identifying key business and technical requirements to support a Cloud/service based environment. Produced the following deliverables:
• Co-created Functional and Non-functional requirements for all vendors.
• Created current and future state architectures for all vendors (TOGAF).
• Created use cases, domain models, and sequence diagrams to ensure clarity of vendor responsibilities including scenarios and service definitions for 820 and 83 4 transactions defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
• Domain models followed IAA, with key elements such as Insurance asset, Insurance contract, and Insurance liability, and corresponding relationships to business rules and design models.
• Co-created Statements of Work for each vendor.
• Matured common integration patterns for Application integration to work in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud architecture.
• Developed JBossESB, OSB, and WebSphere ESB implementations, both SOAP and REST services.
• Assisted in defining multi-vendor test cases and execution of initial test cases.
• All models were created in Sparx EA.

Confidential, Oklahoma, Texas

Lead Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for MDM and Enterprise Data and Analytics (BI, Data Warehouse).
• Selected and developed initial prototypes of Master Data Management (MDM) products:
• Identified gaps within BCBS’s Operations and Data Lifecycle Management standard.
• Developed requirements for new suite of MDM products.
• Created current state and future state architectures (Sparx EA: TOGAF).
• Led technical calls with vendors to identify relative strengths, weaknesses and appropriateness of MDM products (IBM InfoSphere, Initiate, Informatica MDM).
• Developed roadmap for adoption of InfoSphere V. 10 platform in an IBM WebSphere Datapower (SOA appliance) environment.
• Defined and participated in InfoSphere Proof of Concept.
• Created Cognos reports to assess various demographics required by the ACA.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned to role as Enterprise Architect/Sparx Enterprise Model Master in fulfilling ACA requirements.
• Standardized solution architectures for 32 projects.
• Evaluated business rules and model elements for HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley 404, and IAA compliancy. Focused on risk and uncertainty elements as provided by IBM IAA model for specific plan offerings.
• Developed UML, BPMN and TOGAF standards including standard requirement formats, naming conventions, tagging, standard service contracts structures, standard ontology for UML and TOGAF constructs, change log format and notations, interim version control and security standards.
• Created common components for use by all. Created and documented processes for adding additional components, updated architectural component change log, and held weekly meetings with all architects and management to validate additions to the enterprise component catalogue.
• Created single site re-use Sparx EA Repository (SQL Server based); developed and tested instructions for accessibility to the Sparx Repository from multiple sites based on Citrix (VDI).
• Held training sessions on UML, BPMN, TOGAF and corresponding repository standards including hands-on workshops.
• Developed checklist to achieve CMMI L4 adherence on all models. Created scoring model and dashboard to show model quality improvement, presented to members of the executive team.
• Created websites for distribution of solution architectures to operations, application groups, and business units.

Confidential

Lead Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Brought in as a Solution Architect for the BMO Harris merger and acquisition.
• Responsible for business and technical architectures of Federal Reserve Settlement projects and Image Exchange projects.
• Defined Functional and Non-Functional Requirements.
• Created assessment of migrating existing M&I platforms to standard BMO Harris platforms. Articulated and identified key gaps on projects involved and developed a migration strategy that met BMO Harris’s enterprise standards.
• Developed current and future state business and SOA architectures; participated in procurement of future state technologies (AIX upgrades, WebSphere ESB, additional OC-3 to add to backbone, porting of applications from Windows Server environments to service-oriented application platforms on WebSphere suite).
• Provided performance metrics and capacity planning for software and hardware.
• Created test plan and participated in execution of test cases.

Confidential

Enterprise SOA Architect

Responsibilities:

• Brought in as an Enterprise SOA Architect for We Energies’ Center of Excellence for SOA technologies:
• Created SOA Architecture Guiding Principles.
• Created SOA Roadmap to articulate assessment sequence of SOA technologies.
• Created SOA Application Design Principles. Created web service design methodology in Sparx EA which included process, guidelines and checkpoints for the following: Requirements Management, Use Case Models, UML analysis models (service-based), UML design models, UML component models, and traceable test models.
• Created Sparx Re-Use Repository for all architectural artifacts and established modeling standards (UML, BPMN, Errickson-Penker, Archimate TOGAF ).
• Developed full requirements assessment and recommended enterprise Registry and Repository products (UDDI compliant SAP Registry and Repository, JBoss Registry and Repository). Assisted in configuration.
• Assessed and recommended ESB technologies (JBoss ESB, Mule ESB, Oracle Service Bus OSB, SAP ESB), supported roll-out of JBossESB.
• Led an effort to standardize Identity Management architecture for business applications and develop a transitional architecture for lowering total cost of ownership.
• Assessed and recommended an enterprise security architecture based on WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Federation, and SAML. Recommended ADFS 2.0 for short term needs and Oracle Identity Manager for longer term needs.
• Developed an enterprise SSO prototype between the most commonly used platforms (Windows and JBoss). Products used were JBoss EAP, Red Hat SOA-P, JBoss ESB, PicketLink, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Windows Server, ADFS, .NET, WCF, WIF, Verisign.
• Developed roll-out plan for SSO technologies, supported roll-out.
• Set up Verisign certs.
• Integrated ADFS 2.0 and Oracle Identity Manager in Oracle Fusion environment.
• Created BPMN 2.0 models in Sparx EA and IBM WebSphere Lombardi for various business units; created corresponding BPEL.
• Developed best practices for requirements management, web service design best practices, and web service run-time best practices; held weekly reviews for adherence.
• Built SOA governance structure and mentored management and executive teams.
• Mentored executive level members in aligning overall IT Governance structures to specific SOA Governance structures.
• Created Strategic Models (Norton/Kaplan) to align business strategy to forth coming projects.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Brought in for a re-construction of a BCBS claims access system nationwide to adhere to new SOA enterprise standards and upcoming HIPPA regulations. Developed future state architecture model in Archimate (TOGAF).
• Responsible for creation of UML based Analysis and Design Models (RSA/RSM) and implementation (RAD):
• Created requirements management standards.
• Held JAD sessions with key stakeholders to jointly develop OOAD models.
• Established traceability from business requirements and use cases to design model and test cases.
• Worked with developers to use common design patterns such as Party, Composite, and Validator.
• Mentored RUP and Rational Tool usage and configuration.
• Built various example prototypes for hands-on demonstration (JUnit, JSP, JSF, Struts 2, Spring, Hibernate, Cognos, WebSphere Suite, AIX, and DB2).

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created full Functional and Non-Functional requirements to integrate new insurance initiatives into standard Confidential architectures.
• Created business and technology roadmaps for future state initiatives.
• Developed technical architecture adjustments for new initiatives.
• Developed integration plan for re-construction and movement off existing application platform (Microsoft-based) to AIX based platforms.
• Developed recursive OO design model and prototype to adapt to inclusion of multiple business initiatives in addition to the insurance vertical (Rational Suite, Eclipse, Java, Ant, JUnit, Tomcat, and Grinder, with the data repository being Oracle on Sun servers).

Confidential

Lead SOX Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created Risk Assessment Matrices, process flows for security processes (RSA, WebSphere apps, Microsoft apps), and determined IT controls.
• Created the testing approach for IT Controls and created individual test scripts.
• Identified deficiencies and assisted in performing remediation.
• Performed QA reviews on Sarbanes-Oxley application testing and validated subsequent results.
• Reported progress weekly to Infrastructure Directors, Application Directors and Test Managers, as well as Business Unit Managers throughout the course of the project.

Confidential

Lead Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the integration of a major Oracle Financial System for into existing GAP systems.
• Responsible for all migration of mainframe data (DB2) to the Oracle Financials (Solaris).
• Assessed all data models and DDL, developed ETL strategy to map data.
• Created base code (JAX-RPC) for and mentored off-shore team (15 projects) for data conversion.
• Defined and executed a re-definition of business and technical processes in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in accordance with COBIT/COSO. Definitions were required to be in adherence with RUP and CMMI structures for requirements, design, implementation, and configuration processes.
• Created current process flows and future state process flows.
• Performed a gap analysis (worked with application and technical divisions using JAD formatted sessions, consolidated results, and presented re-engineered processes to business and technical owners).
• Implemented future state process flows.
• Performed QA reviews on Sarbanes-Oxley application testing and subsequent results.
• Identified deficiencies and assisted in performing remediation.
• Updated Infrastructure Managers, and Executive Management throughout the course of the project.
• Brought in to identify enterprise identify root cause problems and solve them.
• Performed a technology assessment to lower cost of ownership.
• Identified highest cost problems.
• Solved the most costly problem, which was DB2 Contention (25% of problems reported through the help desk involved this root cause).

Confidential

RUP Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented full RUP roles, processes, and artifacts for the upcoming business transformation to various outsourcing partners.
• Developed and implemented website to automatically generate customized RUP roles, processes, and artifacts.

Confidential

Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for a derivative implementation based on the Libor rate.
• Created Functional and Non-Functional requirements in RequisitePro and developed Rational Rose models for the following future state architecture: .NET framework, C#, XP Pro, Intelligent Clients, and NT Servers.
• Led process and workflow creation through structured JAD work groups on daily basis.
• Co-creator of the original prototype in .NET.

Confidential

RUP Methodologist

Responsibilities:

• Helped their largest project achieve CMMI level 3 status by creating analysis, design and development processes based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP). This included detailed Requirements Management model construction and implementation in RequisitePro, OO analysis and design process definition and corresponding standards (Rational Rose), OO development process definition and corresponding code standards including configuration management (ClearCase), and problem determination, process definition, and standards (ClearQuest).
• Customized RUP processes for the client and rolled-out the processes through work group rotations to attain knowledge transfer to the team.
• Created and ran the Change Control function of the PMO by assisting them in achieving CMMI level 2 status. This was accomplished by putting project management constructs in place such as a Change Control Board charter, Change Management processes, and corresponding PMBOK mechanisms that were integrated into RUP and the Rational toolset.

Confidential

Lead Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created a prototype for an enterprise portfolio management portal. This working model was comprised of Servlet, JSP, and Enterprise JavaBean technologies in a BEA WebLogic 4.51 environment.
• Created the OOAD approach for the project based on RUP and set up analysis, development, and test environments. She used standard business process re-engineering techniques to achieve requirement and design consensus. All analysis and resulting re-engineered processes were stored in RequisitePro.
• Created the object architecture in Rational Rose.