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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

TECHNOLOGIES

  • PROTEGRITY DSP TERADATA/BIG DATA
  • BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PORTAL/REPORTING ,SQL STATION, , ALLFUSION CCC/HARVEST, ALLFUSION ERWIN DATA MODELER, WINDOWS, ECLIPSE, MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO .NET, PERL, GEL, XMLSpy
  • GRC GOVERNANCE, RISK and COMPLIANCE MANAGER
  • CLARITY PPM PROJECT AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
  • BUSINESS OBJECTS
  • UNICENTER SERVICE PLUS SERVICE DESK, DESKTOP and SERVER MANAGEMENT UNICENTER SOFTWARE DELIVERY- ASSET MANAGEMENT- REMOTE CONTROL
  • ALLFUSION PROCESS MODELER, MODELMART, ALLFUSION COMPONENT MODELER, CLEVERPATH PORTAL, CLEVERPATH FOREST TREES
  • IBM 3090, 3081, 3033, 370/168 AMDAHL V7, V8 COBOL, BAL, IDEAL/DATACOM, COBOL II, C , VB.NET, HTML, XML OPAL, JASMINE, ALLFUSION ENDEVOR, EZTRIEVE, OS/390, VSAM, IMS, CICS, DB2/UDB, MS SQL SERVER, ORACLE, INGRES, POSTGRESQL TSO/SPF-FSE, CMS, UNIX, EDF-INTERTEST, VIASOFT, EXPEDITOR PANVALET, LIBRARIAN, METHOD 1 - INSTALL/I- DESIGN/I MVS JCL AND IBM UTILITIES

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