Solution Architect Resume Profile
PROFEESIONAL SUMMARY
Over 15 years of experience in IT with recent experiences as Technical Delivery Manager, Solutions Architect and Pre-Sales. Extensive programming background in mainframes and dotNet utilizing Microsoft SQL Server, ORACLE and DB/2 databases.
Key Skills:
- Pre-Sales, Sales Enablement
- Data Security Tokenization and Encryption
- GRC Governance, Risk and Compliance: Compliance, Risk and Policy
- PCI, COSO, COBIT, SOX, GLBA, HIPAA, NERC, FERC,
- PPM Project and Portfolio Management
- Investment Banking Back-Office IT Analysis/Assessment
- CCM - Change and Configuration Management
- System Integration Planning and Configuration
- Multitier Architectures
- Application Development
- Quality Assurance
SECURITY CLEARANCE:
Social Security Administration
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- SRS Software Requirement Specification
- Project Plan / Work Breakdown Structure
- LLD Low Level Design
- HLD High-Level Design
- Entity Relational Modeling
- Impact Analyses IA's
- Interfaces CRF, ARCat, etc.
- UML Modeling
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CONFIDENTIAL
Solution Architect
- Project: Project-based Security, Assessments
- A privately-held company specializing in information security, compliance, and overall IT program management.
- Project-based IT consulting concentrating in
- Security Encryption/Tokenization
- GRC Governance, Risk and Compliance
- Change and Configuration Management
- Assisted brokerage firms seeking value added capital expenditure justification Including, but not limited to impact analyses, assessments, proposals, tool selection and best practices
- Prototype, proof of concept, application roadmaps
- Utilized SalesForce and SharePoint
- Conducted architectural reviews aligning IT with the Business
- Interfaced with third-party vendors and cross-functional teams
- Managed concurrent projects
CONFIDENTIAL
Solution Architect
Software/Tools:
- MSSQL, ORACLE, Teradata
- A privately-held company specializing in data protection and security.
- PCI specific customer savings averaged 600,000/ year 350,000 in QSA - Qualified Security Assessor - audits and 250,000 utilizing internal resources
- Presales focus with Services responsibilities
- Assisted the Sales team in qualifying opportunities and positioning the solution
- Interfaced with the customer in discovery activities and requirements gathering to determine customer needs
- Provided Protegrity unique differentiators versus other solutions Tokenization, Hadoop, Big Data
- Information gathering, SOW Statement of Work creation and other customer oriented documentation
- Technical resource throughout the sales cycle
- Service support for early adopter customers
- Managed the presales engagement including SalesForce
- Responded to RF x 's
- Install and implement solution
CONFIDENTIAL
Technical Delivery Manager Clarity Upgrade Program
Software/Tools: Clarity, ORACLE
- Technical Program Manager for Clarity upgrade from release 7.5.3 to version 12.1.1
- Responsible for and managed the technical portion of the 6 million dollar upgrade project. Tool is used by all 25,000 bank employees for resource and project management
- Managed 20 virtual resources Charlotte, Atlanta, Orlando and India including Bank Associates, Consultant Contractors and CA Technology Professional Services
- Provide a seamless successful upgrade to the latest supported release of Clarity within all environments Development 3 environments , UAT User Acceptance Testing , SIT System Integration Testing , Contingency and Production
- Devised and implemented action plans based on results of meetings
- Owned all program artifacts
- Owned the project plan and responsible for modifications due to program changes
- Addressed all technical issues TAR's
- Daily virtual team meetings - Status, Activities and Objectives
- Conducted and participated in meetings with other virtual teams common services
- Reported progress and status to the Enterprise Technology Applications team, the Service Delivery team and the Business Partners
- Infrastructure team hardware builds: interfaced with the datacenter, database racks, bandwidth and performance
- Web services team Ensured that web requirements were in sync with the application requirements
- Java Virtual Machine team Interfaced and supervised that each JVM was created to specifications
- Business Objects team verified that BO configuration was within application specifications for both Linux and Wintel environments
- Database team ensured id's and database configurations were matched with the applications specifications
CONFIDENTIAL
Engineering Services Architect
Project: GRC Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager
Software/Tools:
GRC Manager, ORACLE, MSSQL
GRC Field Specialist for Governance, Risk and Compliance Manager, SME augmenting CA Services. Activities involved
Savings for a 10 Billion dollar customer with 1500 controls
6-month ROI
Annual savings of 2.75 million for the first three years
Authoritative Advisor
- CA Sponsor for Acxiom, an 'early adopter' GRC Manager customer
- Briefed customer's executive sponsors in solution value, capabilities and overall project status
- Demonstrated expertise in client's industry and understood their competition
- Demonstrated domain knowledge and assisted defining GRC requirements
- Provided consultative presentations, white board discussions and GRC demonstrations
- Effectively communicated solution value proposition and differentiators
- Demonstrated effective knowledge of Governance, Risk and Compliance domain knowledge
- Consultative recommendations for GRC processes, controls, workflow automation and GRC role based dashboards
Customer Advocate
- Managed customer's high priority issues
- Organized, lead and delivered support/development responses
Collaboration
- Coordinated internal and external resources to effectively pursue opportunities
- Consulted with Product Management, Development and Marketing in identifying business requirements to incorporate into future solution releases
- Consulted with Sales, Services and Support in qualifying and identifying issues and concerns associated with the delivery lifecycle subsequently collating and delivering suggested responses
- Persuasively communicated solution capabilities and future roadmap capabilities
Best Practices
- Performed control mappings for COSO and COBIT frameworks
- Provided recommendations for customized portlets and hierarchical informational rollups
- Lead cooperative workshops JAD sessions in capturing client requirements and defining objectives
- Assisted Sales and Services in identifying and assessing opportunities
- Created and performed ROI analysis for GRC projects
- Highly detailed and process oriented
CONFIDENTIAL
Senior Business Consultant Transformation Services
Project: Clarity
Software/Tools: Clarity, ORACLE
- Clarity IT Governance Subject Matter Expert for General Motors GFIMS Global Financial and Indirect Materials Services project. A 275 million dollar SAP Worldwide implementation project.
- Member of BearingPoint's IT Transformation practice and one of the lead technical liaisons for the ERP-ITG Solution Offering. Responsibilities included supporting Clarity's tactical operations and strategic positioning.
- both Linux and Wintel environments
- Database team ensured id's and database configurations were matched with the applications specifications
CONFIDENTIAL
Business Development Owner and Other Positions/Roles
Program Manager:
- Project reduced internal change management costs by 10 million per year
- Co-managed and coordinated the Consolidated Source Code Management project CSCR .
- Responsible for timelines and reported on progress of the BU's to the Executive VP of Development
Business Development Owner:
- Solutions Strategist for large accounts
- Technical liaison for Sales and Technology Services for the Coca-Cola Company
Atlanta Solution Center Owner:
- Responsible for 25 million dollars in new product quarterly sales
- Managed the Southeast's largest technology production showcase center
- Managed Solution Center meetings and coordinated sales, pre-sales presentations and demonstrations
SWAT:
Platinum Technologies acquisition prompted creation of team for Harvest, ERWin, Component Modeler and Process Continuum
Senior Consultant:
BSO Business Service Optimization business unit presales / sales enablement SME for Endevor and Harvest CCM, POC's, RF x 's, sales positioning and customer satisfaction
CONFIDENTIAL
Senior Business Requirements Consultant
Project: TIRKS and Billing
Software/Tools:
- Mainframe/Wintel/UNIX
- BellSouth Telecommunications Planning and Provisioning Re-Engineering Project
- MCI Telecommunications Corporation Contract Billing Solutions / Special Customer Arrangements
- BellSouth Long Distance Customer Billing Applications
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