SUMMARY:

• Experienced, results focused Technology leader skilled at aligning IT projects to business goals. Driven to motivate and empower, building teams and building bridges to deliver business value Confidential expectations. Consistently demonstrates outstanding interpersonal, organizational and technical skills to ensure on time and on budget delivery.
• Budgeting & Financial Reporting
• Hosting & Systems Management
• Mission Critical IT Operations
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
• ITSM, ITIL & COBIT
• Multi - Site Tech Operations
• End User Computing & Messaging
• Managed Services
• Service Management Solutions
• Highly Available Infrastructures
• Enterprise Architecture
• Matrix Management
• Solution Architecture
• Storage Engineering & Backup
• Cloud Computing Architecture

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Technology: Azure AWS Google Cloud IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, CAAS, IDAAS Pivotal Cloud FoundrySolution Architecture: Development Methodology Agile (Scrum KanBan) Waterfall Infrastructure Architecture

CI/CD Automation: Jenkins, GitHub, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, Python, Powershell, Vagrant PythonIdentity: Microsoft Active Directory LDAP (SAML, Auth0) Cloud Identity (OneLogin) Oracle Identity Management

Development: Ruby on Rails, Java .NetOther: Office 365 Windows 7, Windows 10 L inc One Drive

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Enterprise Architecture/Digital Transformation Strategy (Consultant)

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architecture/Digital Transformation Strategy (Consultant) Responsible for providing Digital Transformation Strategy focused on advance integration of Identity and Access Management/Security Strategy in a highly matrix organization. Responsible for leading strategic planning, road mapping, leading ideation, leading tactical activities, technical development, and planning/launch of new integration of application and infrastructure for provisioning systems, data store systems, access management systems, and federation systems with business partners, customers and internal application using role based access and attribute access to provide single sign - on.
• Responsible for agile development of preliminary production business cases to align to business requirement capabilities, Responsible for long term architecture direction, & customer demand while establishing a shared vision with IT Portfolio Product Owners, systems engineering and stakeholders by building consensus on priorities and product design, developing plans, overseeing and monitoring infrastructure and team investments across the portfolio and provide support for Identity and Access Management services and systems.
• Successfully implement Identity Management Services that supported rollout of My Rockwell Self Service Portal supporting over 200 applications

Technologies: Microsoft Active Directory, Virtual Identity Server, SAML, LDAP, ServiceNow, OAuth, Firewalls, AWS (IAAS), API, Micro-services, JAVA, MuleSoft (PAAS), GitHub, Tomcat, VMware, Azure (IAAS and PAAS), Identity Federation include Ping, Microsoft Federation, OAuth, and SAML, Google Cloud (IAAS and PAAS), Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Micro-Services (API’s), IOS, Androids, Windows, CI/CD, Redis

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Director Enterprise Architecture/Technical Operations

Responsibilities:

• Director Enterprise Architecture/Technical Operations Responsible for providing full life - cycle management for the Infrastructure area focused on advance integration of solution in a cloud based infrastructure. Responsible for leading strategic planning, road mapping to tactical activities, leading ideation, technical development, and launch of new infrastructure projects/products, developing preliminary production business cases to align to business requirement capabilities, Responsible for long term application and infrastructure architecture direction, and management of customer demand while establishing a shared vision with IT Portfolio Product Owners, DevOps, systems engineering and stakeholders by building consensus on priorities and product design, overseeing and monitoring infrastructure and team investments across the portfolio and provide support for IT financial management of projects while coordinating
• Infrastructure offering for Platform, Data, UI/UX, Back End Services, analytics and Infrastructure product for strategic corporate projects.
• Successfully implemented an agile methodology resulting in quicker delivery of product and infrastructure. Successfully defined, built, and managed Solution Architecture and DevOps team while performing hands on solution and enterprise architecture for 53 products. Successfully reduced Infrastructure cost by approximately 40% by implementation of 100% cloud based technology with an annual 35% growth in supported .

Technologies: Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, OneLogin (IDAAS), OAuth, AWS (IAAS, PAAS), API’s, GitHub,Tomcat, Azure, Jenkins, GitHub, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Docker, Python, Powershell, Ruby on Rails, Google Cloud (IAAS and PAAS), ElasticBeanStalk, Micro-Services (APIs), CI/CD, IOS, Androids, Redis

Confidential, Oakbrook, IL

Contracting - Solutions Architect - Workplace Solutions

Responsibilities:

• Solutions Architect / Project Manager - Workplace Solutions (Consultant) Solution Architect / Project Manager responsible for leading agile development, strategic planning, road mapping to tactical activities, leading ideation, technical development, and launch of new infrastructure for workplace solutions, developing preliminary production business cases to align to business requirements and capabilities for implementation of International Workplace Solutions including Windows 7, Office 365, Windows 10, One Drive Professional, Identity Management and Security in addition to other corporate Workplace Solutions.
• Identified Workplace Solutions, built Architecture for rollout including Service Now, SMS for successful roll out of Windows 7 Windows 10 pilots, Office 365, and additional workplace solutions within the United States and piloted the rollout into 20+ additional countries successfully.

Technologies: Microsoft Active Directory, Virtual Identity Server, LDAP, SAML, OAuth, GitHub, Tomcat, VMware, Azure, CI/CD

Confidential, Naperville, IL

Contracting - Solutions Architect/Project Manager Workflow Systems

Responsibilities:

• Managed IBM Business Process Management (BPM) upgrade across a matrix environment include hardware, middleware, and software upgrades for mission critical systems. Managed upgrade of Thunderhead system to latest supported hardware, operating systems, middleware and application software while delivering on time, and under budgets. Managed the business requirements, estimation, and design for the conversion of business applications from Lotus Notes Based System to a Business Workflow based systems. Managed from a matrix model for following team members for all projects: Business Process Analyst, Systems Analysis, Systems Architect, Systems Developers, Systems Testers, and Systems Engineers.
• Created Standard Operating Processes (SOP) for business requirements gathering, architecture designs, test, and implementation across of Business Workflow Management. Providing problem management resolution for day to day support of Business Process Workflow systems. Implemented an agile methodology which provided for quicker delivery of applications in the BPM process development. Successfully upgraded 40 plus BPM financial applications and implemented 10 additional applications within BPM.

Technologies: Microsoft AD, LDAP, Business Process Management, Mainframe, Github, Tomcat, VMWare, Azure, AWS, CI/CD

Confidential, Deerfield, IL

Director Enterprise Integration Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned sourcing strategy and reduced contractor spend by 30%, staffing with an appropriate mix of contractors, employees and managed services which added flexibility in business demand delivery model and improved work life balance. Introduced Agile methodology, Automation, improved processes, change management standards, with IPAS that provided a 36 month return on investment on $9MM investment with cost avoidance of approximately $1.5MM annually while increasing speed of delivery of infrastructure from an 10 weeks average to a 2 week average while reducing implementation costs by 50%. Introduced, managed and delivered an Enterprise Directory Service program that collapsed over 24 active directory domains into a single active directory, reduced the overall infrastructure by 60%, provided a single unique user id for the corporation and the subsidiaries and aligned to corporate security requirements.
• In addition provided the base for single sign - on for over 250,000 users. Added support for 10 new technologies without an increase in staff by existing team members, implementations of automation, process improvements, and change management process changes Designed, built, and supported infrastructure for that supported over 100M loyalty members across both the ESB, and Web Services teams. Designed Disaster Recovery / High Availability standards and implemented for mission critical applications providing high availability and disaster recovery for Web applications, SOA, Identity, and ETL across two datacenters and offsite disaster recovery.

Technologies: Microsoft AD, Ldap, Business Process Management, Mainframe, Websphere, Analytic Tools, Tomcat, VMWare, Azure, AWS, Mainframe, VMWare, Azure, AWS (IAAS and PAAS), Vendor management, Security management, Automation, CI/CD, Redis, Micro-Services

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Technical Architect - Enterprise Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Provided architecture leadership and strategy for the integration, middleware, monitoring, and application domains. Created project implementation designs against corporate standards and verified implementation meets the corporate architecture standards. s: Designed the infrastructure design for HCSC integration with McKesson systems that provide an annual cost avoidance of $10M a year with an Return Of Investment of 12 months.s: Created agile integration re-engineering process for design, build, and implementation of high availability/disaster recovery infrastructure model for all “Tier A - No Outages” and “Tier B - 15 Minutes Outage” applications across two data centers.
• Assisted with creation of a logical build of material process that provided for documenting all existing architecture, created high availability designs for existing projects, and adding all the specific CI items to the CMDB. Lead Architect for Change Management process improvement that improved overall delivery process and reduced incident problems by 10%. Successful Solution Architecture, leadership, design, and implementation of over 40 Projects.

Technologies: Microsoft AD, Ldap, Business Process Management, Mainframe, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere ESB Server, MQ, ETL, Analytic Tools, Tomcat, VMWare, Azure, AWS, Mainframe, VMWare, Azure, AWS, Vendor management, Security management, Agile, CI/CT/CD

Confidential, Oak Brook, IL

Manager Systems Integration Architecture

Responsibilities:

• : Redesigned the SOA (MQ/MBR) environment into a centralized model from a distributed model that reduced overall cost model by 45% and provided for a high available/disaster recover model for McDonalds Corporation. Reduced cost models for our customers by 50% by redesigning of the WTX infrastructure from a distributed model to a centralized model
• Provided estimates, designs, and lead implementation across McDonalds, Havi, and other clients including Nike that reduces overall cost models by 30% over a three year period. Implemented McDonalds Oracle EBS system that had a 3 year ROI with an annual year over year cost reduction of approximately 10%. Lead architect for integration of logistic system for delivery for Havi with McDonalds using an agile transformation methodology.

Technologies: Microsoft AD, LDAP, Oracle DB, Oracle ERP, Mainframe, WebSphere, Analytic Tools, Linux, Tomcat, VMWare, Azure, AWS, Mainframe, VMWare, Azure, AWS, Vendor management, Security management, Agile, CI/CD