Profile

• Successful career analyzing business processes, centralized Data Warehouses and designing the associated data architectures including using the semantic Web Ontology Language OWL an extension to RDF, to enhance analytical capabilities using SPARQL when retrieving large, disparate databases. Constantly updating domain and technology knowledge in order to utilize emerging industry technologies to deploy state of the art applications. Recently I was the Program Manager of a team defining the data requirements for an OSD data warehouse allowing analysis of major acquisition programs. Assisted in migrating the data from relational to OWL. Currently was asked to move to QNA headquarters to be the Senior Data Architect overseeing the development of the Executive Data Store as a Warehouse for executive data analysis and reporting.
• Outstanding success in providing data architectures and semantic ontologies that meet process requirements and industry or federal standards. A recent achievement included, as the Program Manager, evaluating disparate systems and creating a federated solution through a common data model using SOA services for data and web service integration into a centralized Data Warehouse. Defined the architecture in terms of RDF/OWL. Used SPARQL for enhance data analysis.
• Well educated in current Program Management procedures including ITIL and EVM ensuring the highest quality customer service. Proficient in Agile methodologies from Scrum to Kanbn, providing support for a highly dynamic environment with ambiguous and constantly evolving requirements.
• Expert in analyzing business processes BPMN and other methodologies and collaborating with the customer to create more efficient processes using a variety of methodologies. Using SOA methodologies and guidelines to align business with applications.
• Proficient in designing analysis environments to turn data into useful information for the business or agency to make future strategic and tactical decisions through Ontologies and Data Warehouses. Proficient with data analysis including SPARQL.
• Extensive involvement in Enterprise Architecture projects specializing in the Business Reference Model BRM , Data Reference Model DRM , and some with the Performance Reference Model PRM . Can provide expertise in the Zachman, DoDAF, and TOGAF frameworks.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Pilots Analyst

Supporting the Army's CTO in identifying, evaluation, and recommending software to help consolidate or bring up to current standards all of their network applications. This ranges from patch management, vulnerability analysis, and enterprise architecture as a means to ensure the end results are integrated within the Army suite..

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Technical Data Manager

Utilizing a hybrid SDLC/Agile approach we initiated a data modernization task for the educational branch of the VA.

Confidential

Senior Data Architect

Successfully created financial analytic tools used across the accompany to not only provide required government and civilian reporting but also tools to analyze the business and allow senior management to make better decisions. Created a data model for all executive systems and the current and needed interfaces between them.

Program Manager

Program management oversight for the Acquisition Visibility SOA Technical team including: team oversight, sub-contractor coordination, scheduling, project planning and task assignments, timesheet and invoice approvals, and other PM tasks as required. Updating Program Management Plan and other subsidiary management documents to a constantly set of changing contract requirements. Updating all documents and implementing practices that fully support our companies CMMI level 3 practices. It is also the Program Manager's responsibility to work with the team and ensure DoD standards are maintained. In addition to these responsibilities, maintaining my role as the chief enterprise architect for our solution architecture and the BEA DoDAF as well as working with the data team to create a semantic ontology RDF/OWL and the design of a data warehouse based upon our logical data model that supports all the statutory reporting and analysis requirements for major acquisition programs using SPARQL to enhance the analytical capabilities.

Strategic Architect

Providing subject matter expertise on the future of acquisition visibility with the AT L community for both Acquisition and Technology. Working very closely with the Business Enterprise Architecture BEA documenting in DoDAF format the processes and data architecture used to manage and monitor the Dod's major acquisition programs as defined within the DoD 5000 series, both for weapon systems and Information Technology. Facilitating across teams changes within the architecture to support ontologies and BPMN primitives with various working groups to provide advice on such as common vocabulary within the DoD and other strategic decisions to improve the efficiency and direction of the acquisition processes and coordination with other DoD areas such as the Comptroller community. Supporting the change to the End-to-End framework.

Business Process Consultant/Data Architect

• Provide process review of several applications for the GSA Public Building Service related to inventory management, occupancy, and leases. Current task is designing an operational data store ODS to serve as the interface between several applications. Task includes authoring the policies and agreements for data governance and management. Also tasked with defining the interfaces and metrics to ensure data integrity and availability. This includes support for a PBS wide data warehouse and business intelligence solution from standard reports to management dashboards.
• Provide subject matter expertise and program management support for tactical level business process reengineering project for the USDA as part of a larger application consolidation project using service oriented architecture SOA . Provide for the Enterprise Architecture team an analysis of the current data architecture to design a common data model for 8 disparate applications. Design the implementation strategy for their Business Intelligence solution.
• Delivered an AS-IS set of deliverables with recommendations leading to TO-BE documentation and oversight of the agency's implementation of the process changes.
• Designed a common data model tactical DRM supporting the existing model, business requirements as reengineered, and enhanced analysis.
• Utilized BPR and database architecture to design a SOA/SOI framework.

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Director of Engineering

• Program manager and data architect using emerging ontology methodologies such as the Semantic Web RDF/OWL to analyze the relationships between several data sources within the Intelligence community including the FBI , create a semantic Operational Data Store ODS in order to provide the customer with state of the art analytic capabilities. Provided a proof of concept using SPARQL to demonstrate the capabilities of semantic technologies. IT director overseeing 4 project managers in the data analysis IT domain.
• Delivered a research prototype showing the value of semantic technologies to increase data analysis capabilities. Worked with the customer to initiate a project to implement a live solution.
• Utilized agile management methodologies to oversee 4 projects and assist the project managers in the design and development of a secure Federated SOA environment with stakeholders from a variety of agencies and locations. Assisted in the design to add cross-domain functionality.

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Lead Business Process Engineer

• Lead Business Process Engineer for a SOA implementation working as a sub-contractor to Booz Allen Hamilton on a contract to centralize all of the FBI Security Division's applications into a single system.
• Extended the Agency's Enterprise Architecture with Business Process Execution Plan BPEP to document the BPR approach and project plan for the FBI's security division. Provided Enterprise Architecture and Business Process Engineering subject matter expertise for the SOA team and sub-project.

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Chief Software Architect

• Chief Software Architect for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA directly supporting the Director of IT by providing Enterprise Architecture support, specifically in the business process BRM and data analysis DRM to support re-engineering all new applications and changes to existing systems into a SOA infrastructure, making recommendations on software products, responsible for defining a common development environment utilizing current industry standards and serving as the liaison between the various organizations and the applications that they utilize. The Chief Software Architect serves as DARPA's Enterprise Architect, SOA Architect, Business Process Engineer and Database Architect.
• Trained in ITIL and utilized this with SOA methodologies to author the software and SLA requirements for DARPA's seat management re-compete. This was based upon using metrics and other artifacts from the Performance Reference Model PRM , Key Performance indicators KPIs and BSCs .
• Management oversight over all software projects.

Confidential

Chief Application Engineer

• Lead technical role in analyzing business processes and data requirements and re-engineering them to create a system having many components including portal technology, business intelligence tools, predictive analysis tools, security tools, GIS tools, incident management tools, data distribution and recovery tools, and others.
• Created the process and architecture to provide data from 54 states and territories for the National Guard's daily briefing.

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Professor evenings part time

Taught Microsoft Certified System Engineering classes

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Business Technologist

• Subject Matter Expert for all of their Business Reference Model BRM tools, Data Reference Model DRM tools, and other Enterprise Architecture tools.
• Business technologist for CA's largest software sale in the BI business area.

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Senior Technical Associate

• Senior software consultant assigned to various accounts to provide consulting, analysis, project management, and architecture services.
• Enterprise Architect, Business Process Engineer and Data Architect for the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI .
• Project Manager over a development team for the Department of Commerce DOC .
• Analyzed requirements and business processes for the Freedom of Information Act for the FBI and architected a solution for redaction and publication of documents being released to the public.

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Senior Database Analyst/Database Developer

Worked as a database developer and system analyst to consolidate systems and maintain existing systems.

Previous summary

• Worked at Boeing in a variety of capacities from graphics operator, database developer and analyst, business process engineer, task lead, and project management. Successfully implemented several engineering database solutions involved in all phases of the software development life-cycle SDLC .
• Previous to that, college, part time jobs, and the Air Force as an Air Traffic Controller. Then 3 years at Emmaus Bible College and part time work as student center manager.