SUMMARY:

• I am a distinguished IT professional, enterprise architect and technology planning and strategy executive with many years of IT leadership and hands on experience designing, developing and implementing technology solutions utilizing a host of development platforms and technologies.
• Ernst & Young employee - RPA Architecture - Robotics Process Automation and industrial implementations of RPA and the establishment of a virtual workforce. Hands on RPA/RDA/OCR solution architecture. Published RPA developer best practices guides for Blue Prism, UIPath, WorkFusion and Automation Anywhere as well as other AI and cognitive and Machine Learning platforms. Delivered over 1000 BOT’s
• My solutions are always driven by business requirements and aligned with business objectives with an eye towards innovative, emerging and disruptive technologies. Providing RPA to designers, developers and RPA infrastructure architecture standards
• I have over 10 years of experience implementing cloud solutions over a range of hosting and management scenarios from IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and IoT across public, private or hybrid cloud hosting implementations. Experience with hosting multi-BOT architecture in the cloud and provisioning processes
• Enterprise Architecture - Certified TOGAF, COBIT and ITIL practitioner with many years of experience implementing EA capabilities and processes that help translate enterprise level vision, strategy and digital process automation business requirements into highly efficient and re-useable enterprise architectures, supporting governance and roadmaps
• Cloud Transformation Architect - Azure Cloud migration architect with over 10 years of experience preparing organizations to take advantage of the capabilities and cost benefits of cloud implementations in Azure, AWS or RackSpace. Assessing the current state architecture, performing gap analysis across business and IT domains and developing transitional and target architectures for road maps and fiscal planning. These activities help to determine the scope of enhancements or re-factoring needed to migrate workloads to the cloud. Identifying the appropriate cloud model SaaS, PaaS, IaaS or a hybrid combination that provides businesses with the flexibility, scalability and cost savings for continued growth through technical innovation.
• DevOps - To support the continuous delivery and maintenance of SOA and micro-services, I developed the DevOps practice, model and target architecture and supporting standards and tools to help solution architects and developers more easily come up to speed in this emerging agile development model. Published standards to central architecture repository for consumption.
• Micro-Services Architect - Decomposing monolithic applications into scalable and maintainable micro-services along with the change management and governance infrastructure to support continuous delivery. I have in depth experience with business domain driven analysis and design that drive the requirements for successful micro-services and SOA solution architecture implementations.
• Data | DB’s | Information | Analytics and Reporting - Over 25 years of information management governance, data modeling, designing and developing transactional systems and data integration (ETL) to enterprise data warehouses that support BI and advanced analytic business applications. I have experience designing and orchestrating Cortana Intelligence Platform and processes delivering the right data pipeline architecture that supports the implementation of advanced analytics applications and other capabilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: Blue Prism; Automation Anywhere; UIPath, Workfusion; Pega Robotics; OpenSpan, C#, Python, MS Azure, AWS, Azure Data Lake, Azure Analytics, HDInsights, IIS Server, VB Script, VBA, XMLCSS, SQL Server, Transact SQL, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Oracle DB, PLSQL, Sharepoint, Crystal, Tableau, OBIEE, Citrix, Exchange, AD, TFS, TIBCO Active Matrix/EMS/ESB/Data Exchange, SpringCM, Service Now ITIL, MS CRM/ERP, JD Edwards, SAP, Cisco Networks Switches & Routers, ExtraHop, VMware, Linux, Hadoop, HBase, ZooKeeper, Hive, Flume, Sqoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, RPA Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, UI Path, OpenSpan, Pega

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Director / Enterprise Architecture / Robotics Process Automation

Responsibilities:

• Over 1000 RPA BOTS implemented in just 1 year.
• Created Blue Prism and Automation Anywhere, UIPath, and Pega Architecture and Development Best Practices and Guidance documentation to ensure standard development across all projects
• Robotics Process Automation Operating Model and Practice Guidance.
• Blue Prism v 5.0.23 Standardization.
• Automation Anywhere v 10.3 Standardization.
• RPA BOT Account Provisioning and Server naming Standardization.
• RPA BOT Desktop Template Standard - On-Premise and Azure-Cloud.
• RPA BOT Load-set VM and VDI Definition Maintenance.
• Desktop Load-set Level 3 support documentation.
• RPA application and Infrastructure Change Control Standards.
• In-Scope Application Profiling Process Standard.
• RPA Solution Architecture Documentation across all portfolios.
• Azure Service Fabric and target architecture / Azure Web Apps and target architecture.
• Azure Express Route / Networking / Load balancing / Traffic Manager and target architectures.
• Azure HA / DR / Storage and Back-up and target architecture.
• architecture for all advanced data and analytics platforms including Horton Works.
• Developed Target and architectures and best practices supporting Horton Works.
• Developed Horton Works Governance and Integration, Data Access & Management, Security, Operations and Scheduling applications to support Big Data Center of Excellence and operating model.

Confidential |Tallahassee, FL

Consultant Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Confidential Cloud readiness assessment initiative. Working with the agency Confidential under direction of the Florida state legislature I managed a team of cloud technology engineers to analyze over 900 applications across 43 state agencies. Performing in-depth application discovery and dependency interviews with each of the state agencies technology groups. Including documentation and analysis to determine each application’s readiness to be migrated to the cloud. Utilized “wire data” analysis tool (ExtraHop), and latency emulation tool (WANEM) to collect application activity, dependencies and metrics to compare performance latency between Internal hosting vs. Cloud hosting. Published public cloud provider RFP and obtained and evaluated information from hundreds of cloud service providers to understand and provide a range of options. Utilized Amazon Web Services (EC2, VPC, Compute, Storage, Database, Networking, Developer Tools, and Security services and containers) to conduct POC across a range of state agency applications and platforms. Provided future-state cloud architecture recommendation and implementation approach for each application and platform for all agencies. Developed pricing models, risk analysis and other documentation to support cloud migration assessment and implementation strategy and roadmap.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Consultant Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Apache Hadoop distributed big data environment, assessing petabytes of structured and un-structured data, and providing predictive analytics from system log files, and assembly line equipment sensors in the early adoption of IOT.
• This methodology and approach ensured that IT services are aligned with business requirements, goals & objectives. A few s.
• Order-To-Cash business process reengineering BPR, BPM, bill-of-sale micro-services to support acceptance of goods.
• Data Center and business process consolidation of two major ERP systems to support merger of Serta and Simmons.
• Conducted datacenter current-state assessment and target infrastructure including application capacity, performance.
• Softened governance silos MDM, CAB, ARB, CCB etc. to facilitate the introduction of DevOps.
• Implemented organization wide SDLC and change management processes including ServiceNow SaaS platform.
• Established data warehouse/ETL team to develop integration that supports financial, manufacturing and operations reporting, BI and predictive analytics. Utilized SQL Server, OBIEE, Tableau.
• Developed PaaS ESB architecture (MS Azure) that supports the de-coupling of critical manufacturing processes to achieve higher service levels and reduce impact of ERP single-point-of-failure events.

Confidential, NY, NY / Alpharetta, GA

Vice President IT - Senior Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Establish and lead the development of the Enterprise Data Hub, consolidation and standardization of business operating data. I implemented the IEM (Information Engineering Management) group. Staffed Data Architects, Business Systems Analysts and ETL developers. Performed vendor and software product selection activities. Provided hands-on data and technology architecture conceptualization, ETL design patterns, project management and team leadership. I designed and coded SSIS data integration pipelines, data quality engine, and checksum algorithm based on business rules and automation. Managed initiation and executive presentation of program, cost benefit, risk assessment, budget, approvals and overall strategic direction through implementation.
• Data Profiling - Coordinated the execution of non-disruptive business data profiling, data lineage discovery and data cleansing activities. Architect and documented all Data Models; data landing topology, Data HUB, Operational Data Store, Warehouse and Divisional data marts, dimensions and fact tables. Documented and delivered Corporate Data Dictionary, and established the data governance committee (IGO) to centrally manage business data life cycle.
• Data Integration - Managed the development of near real-time data integration of all Insurance business legacy systems across (Party, Submission, Agreement, Policy, Claim, Endorsement and Cash) business domains including, Reinsurance and A&H business divisions and products. Developed data quality rules engine and automated notification system to trap potentially bad data for manual analysis prior to being released to downstream financial and GL systems.
• Business Domain Driven Development - Defined and implemented the COE for partnering with the business for the purpose of decomposing legacy systems into bounded context to support the scalable design and maintenance of SOA and micro-services affectively.
• Micro-services - These data services provided the data layer and business logic for SOA and eventually micro-services, which were partly orchestrated via an enterprise service bus ESB using Tibco.
• Designed, developed and provided support and maintenance for many .Net, J2EE, AJAX, SharePoint applications and services.
• Responsible for implementation and on-going support of the Service Now ITIL system. Custom development of the service catalog, incident management, and employee administration modules. Including integration with the corporate HR system, corporate intranet and active directory synchronization. Baseline implementation of automated discovery CMDB to support CI relationship with problem management and incident resolution processes.
• Implemented ESB utilizing.Net services and Tibco Active matrix business events and service orchestration. Purchased hardware, software, implemented topology and capacity planning. Developed infrastructure that supported loosely coupled architecture, which enabled ease of scale for acquisition initiatives as business increased in size and systems complexity.
• SharePoint Team - Designed global topology and architecture to implement SharePoint 2013 as the enterprise document and content management ECM repository wich was integrated with the SpringCM SaaS solution. Designed enterprise insurance taxonomy to support CRUD and Search capabilities for both structured and un-structured data. Developed Sharepoint user and adoption strategy. Positioned SP2013 platform to support many critical enterprise wide initiatives (ie. BYOD, Corp Shares Restructuring, Data Leakage Protection, Content Storage Cost Reduction etc.) Lead the re-branding initiative for the externally facing company website worldwide.
• SDLC - Standardized IT operations support protocols and maintenance procedures across all applications. Implemented business continuation, back-up and recovery procedures to ensure SLA’s were more than satisfied. Facilitated the development of incident management measurements and performance metrics. Implemented consistent SDLC processes with full accountability.
• Managed the purchase, design, implementation and configuration of Tibco Enterprise products to support the infrastructure message bus and service bus architectures. Asynchronous and synchronous service orchestration designs and solutions architecture. Includes the staffing and management of project and operations support teams. In all SOA and Data warehouse initiatives using Tibco suite products Active Matrix, Data Exchange etc.
• Ceded Re-Insurance Platform Architect, (Critical Calculations, Reports and Financials). Automated many manual data entry processes and activities that provided a tremendous cost efficiency in terms of resource reduction and increased data quality. This reduced data correction activities during month-end and year-end financial reconciliation processes.
• IRIS Policy Administration AS400 - IRIS is the company’s primary policy creation platform. Implemented real time data replication of policy data to downstream systems. Avoided potential business catastrophe and long-term business outage by identifying and executing the isolation of production hardware from non-prod hardware. Managed the purchase of software, hardware and the configuration and coordination of hardware dedication, OS and Version upgrade.
• Source Code Repository TFS - Secured enterprise source code library through implementation of Team Foundation Server Platform and code migration coordination. Introduced ALM framework and templates to support Agile, CMMI and other custom SDLC Implementation options.
• Customer Relationship Platform CRM - Implemented MS Dynamics infrastructure and platform. Utilized by many lines of business. Supports central repository of Broker customer relationships.
• Enterprise Integration Team - Developed the Axis Web Services Library (AWS), which was published to support the service oriented architecture (SOA). Managed the procurement and implementation of Tibco ActiveX platform, developers and support staff.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Director IT - Treasury Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• As Director of IT, I designed, developed, and deployed, Financial solutions for Prudential’s Treasury Division ( Corporate Banking, Cash Management, Funds Transfer, Money Market Investment, Finance etc.). Managed all operations, maintenance and project teams through transition to production usage. Created Master Data Management committee to manage the MDM data life cycle change management.
• Corporate Cash Flow Forecasting Systems - Using SQL Server, ASP.Net, XSLT, DCOM, Cognos, Crystal Reports to develop highly interactive financial systems. Designed Conceptual, Logical and Physical database models that provide a real-time data repository for (Enterprise Cash Flow Forecasting, MMIP, Funds Transfer, Bank Account Administration and Analysis) functions, all accessible via Corporate Web Interfaces. Developed the ETL and system integration architecture to support these systems.
• Financial Reporting - Provided full suite of financial reporting and business intelligence services to Corporate Cash Management Division, including adhoc on-demand Cash reports, Metrics and Forecasting data.
• B2B - Developed many on demand cash movement processing services, including tri-daily bank account cash position and balance information that are critical to Corporate Treasuries financial decision making.
• Prudential Secure Bank File Transfer - Designed and developed secure, encrypted data transfer services and protocols to manage the daily file transfer of hundreds of bank files (BAI) from Prudential’s external banking partners using ConnectDirect API coding. Staged the files, extracted and loaded the transactional data into target databases (Gateway Treasury Workstation, Cashflow, MMIP etc.). This allowed Prudential to understand the cash position of all of its bank accounts throughout the day, every day. Thus providing the capability to Corporate Treasurer to make accurate and timely investments, lending and borrowing decisions both internal business units and external. Final end of day cash results were automatically fed to Oracle Financial System.
• Business Intelligence - Automated Dashboards and Excel Cash Reports (QtrBusBorrowing, MMIP reporting, Cashflow Reports, Cash Variance, Enterprise Scorecard. These services our critical to Treasury executives decision making pertaining to “cash rich”, or “cash poor” lines of business and their lending and borrowing positions and cash efficiency rankings. Developed the ETL and execution jobs to move this data by batch as well as change data capture processes. VB6.
• Internal Data Feeds - Developed extensible services that provided data to many different systems (General Ledger, SMART Wire, Bank Fees Sys Admin, Charms System, etc).
• Corporate Banking On-Line - Account opening and approval system - Gathered business requirements, provided specifications for approval developed web based bank account management system with full integration with Prudential bank partners.
• Money Market Investment Plan - Internal cash investment system - Developed application that allowed internal lines of business to manage investments. Funds Transfer and Approval System Implementation - wire transfer and approval system - developed B2B funds transfer application that provided business real time management of cash transfer functions.
• Corporate Scorecard System Implementation – senior management reporting system.
• Corp Treasury Workstation Implementation – cash position management system – Baseline implementation of corporate systems. Also, upgraded this system to web based version. Custom Bank Fees Payment System – Developed in-house bank services payment management system.
• Regulatory and Compliance - Managed mandatory system documentation update of all applications to ensure all systems meet company standards as well as annual SOX Roll forward testing of all external and internal data feeds.
• DR/BCP - Defined and documented all Disaster Recovery, Business Continuation plans for all Corporate Treasury businesses and systems. Conducted quarterly live DR/BCP failover for duration of 1 week each quarter to ensure process is smooth and transparent to end users, and seamless systems recovery.
• IIS/Web Services - Implemented the topology and Initial setup and configuration of Prudential’s web server hardware and managed routine maintenance on all SDLC environments. Install and configure IIS Web services, Cyberfusion, Connect-Direct, FTP services, vendor and in-house software installations.
• Change Management - Manage the change control process and ensure signoffs and approvals for each phase of the software development cycle. Properly store and promote database objects using Serena VM Web Client and PVCS library management. Utilize enterprise Change Request Database to document and track business requirements, systems specifications. Approve, unit testing, QA and UAT results. Manage software implementation staging and provide detailed database and application install instructions for all new development and routine application maintenance changes.
• Operations Team - Managed and lead team providing systems operational support to business, including monitoring and execution of batch procedures which ftp incoming bank files to staging areas, clean and load financials into Treasury Workstation Systems that provide daily and intra-day enterprise account cash positions to allow business units, desk managers, corporate traders, and corporate account managers to make the best decisions on cash disbursements and concentrate funds on behalf of the Prudential General and Subsidiary Accounts.
• Manage and lead team of Sr. Systems Analysts and Senior Developers providing daily production support priorities. Introduce new project development, review bus requirements and systems specs, and provide project scope. Develop and implement detailed project plan conduct weekly meetings with team to ensure deliverables are on scheduled.
• Manage team of SQL Server DBA’s providing daily priorities including; dump and loads; code staging; database security management; business continuation guidelines; enterprise patch installs; research, analysis and purchase of 3rd party software, production issues analysis and resolution.

Confidential, Morristown, NJ

Consultant IT Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed the design, development and implementation of the International Long distance netting contract application and database (Saffire). Developed the conceptual, logical and physical database designs. Designed and developed the Master Data Management architecture and the supporting governance framework. Designed reporting and BI interfaces and user interaction capabilities that allow for simple report maintenance and creation. Documented and presented current and future state comparisons and impact analysis. Presented road map to executive leadership for approval. Managed team of VB, SQL, Oracle developers, business analysts, technical writers, and stakeholders to successful platform and application implementation. I developed and published user, on-boarding and transitioning program.

Confidential, New York, NY

Enterprise Data Architect and Applications development

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Human Resources Director and CEO to obtain detailed business requirements around subject areas of employee compensation. Principals of long and short term compensation, 401k, and profit sharing. Integrated the Towers & Perrins salary and bench marking data and guidance to provide baseline for executive salary considerations. Designed the Master Data Management repository and the governance principals to maintain current master data.
• Developed and maintain the enterprise Executive Compensation Tracking database. Developed 401K monthly tracking database and reports which ETL the data from over 40 subsidiary companies under the parent company WPP. Developed the discrimination tracking database which managed the testing of employee benefits data to track and highlight any potential trends toward financial discrimination in regards to highly paid employees vs. all other employees, as required by government. Developed SQL Server, MS Access, VB, Novell Netware and Excel VBAABC.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Manager and Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented Confidential’s business facility furniture tracking and machines re-use database (SLURP). Developed Building and operational personnel tracking database which tracked all of the owned and leased AT&T property in the world. Developed and managed the building operations financials, reporting and monthly statistical reporting. Developed and regularly published the AT&T Facility Operations manual, financials and guidelines. Consolidated and standardized all data types and codes and provided Master Data Management repository as well as Data Cross-Referencing to support data lineage and traceability.

Confidential

Applications Developer

• Automated the return premium insurance process. Developed Return Premium application that standardized the operations and governance of direct billing department activities. Developed the budget reporting applications and adhoc reporting systems.