SUMMARY:

• Delivering strategic innovation & revenue maximization through technology leadership Over 17 years of architecture practice experience, designing and developing advanced data - intensive systems. Has worked within and consulted for major ( Confidential 500) global institutions in Insurance, Banking, Capital Markets, Healthcare, and Retail.
• Designed, led development and delivered multiple cloud-based, high-performance advanced data centric enterprise IT systems.
• Architected, Designed & coded Platform-as-a-Service and A.I/Machine-Learning/Natural Language Processing platforms
• Experienced in cloud-native microservice-based, event-sourced, CQRS systems architecture, development & delivery.
• Hands-on architect who still performs full-stack coding in Java, C#, Python, Scala, R, etc. as appropriate.
• Accomplished at achieving strategic and operational alignment of advanced data & A.I. technologies with business goals.
• Mentor for business and technical executives on data science & A.I. technology issues and future direction.
• Strong international background includes coordinating with, coaching and training geographically & culturally distinct teams.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• A.I, Big Data, Real-time Data Streaming Cloud Architectures - Amazon, Azure, Salesforce Certified
• Data, Science, A.I., Machine Learning DevOps, Continuous Integration/Deployment, Microservices
• Strategic IT-Business Alignment Enterprise Architecture - TOGAF Certified
• Agile Development - Scrum, XP, RUP Server & Container Virtualization Architectures

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Big Data Technologies: Hadoop (including Hive, Pig, Sqoop), Storm, Spark, Mesos, HDBase, MongoDB, Cassandra

Cloud Technologies: AWS, Heroku, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, CloudFoundry, OpenShift, OpenStack, Docker, Azure

Container & Container Orchestration Platforms: Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes, Docker Swarem, Data Center Operating System (Mesosphere)

Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Technology: Machine Learning (algorithms), Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web Services, Jena, OWL, WSMO, Protége

Enterprise Search &Data Analysis: Lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch, R (the language), CliqView

Databases & Data Tools: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, SQL, MySQL, PostGreSQL, ERWIN, Cassandra, CloudDB, MongoDB

Dev. Methodologies: Full SDLC, Waterfall, Use Cases, Rational Unified Process, Agile Methodologies Scrum, XP, TDD

Strategy Analysis: Value Chain Analysis, Strategy Map, SWOT Analysis

E-Business Technologies: Web Architecture, Web 2.0, Mobile, XML Data Modeling, HTML, Web Services EAI/SOA Technologies Microservices Architecture, ESB, SOA & EAI Patterns, Reactive and Event-Driven Architectures, IBM WebSphere Products, MS BizTalk Server, Software AG WebMethods, Oracle SOA Fusion Middleware Suite, Red Hat SOA Middleware Platform, Tibco

Ent. System Technologies: J2EE, Microsoft .NET, Model-Driven Architecture, UML, TOGAF (Certified)

Enterprise Applications: Salesforce, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Microsoft Dynamics, MS Sharepoint Server

Programming Languages & Environments: Java (JEE), C#, Scala, C++, C, Python, Closure, Javascript, Visual Basic, Perl, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio 2010

Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora), MS Windows Server 2012 & 2008, MS Windows 7, Unix (Multiple)

Data Center Systems: Blade Server Architecture, LAN/WAN Integration, IBM System Z, IBM AS400

OPEN SOURCE PLATFORMS EXPERIENCE:

• Application Servers - Apache Tomcat, Glassfish, JBoss Application Server, Wildfly
• Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning - Mahout, Weka, Protégé
• Big Data/Real Time Data - Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Storm, Esper, Kafka, Mesos, Kubernetes, Cacading, Flink, Mesosphere DCOS
• Business Process & Business Rules Engines- Activiti, JBoss BPM Suite, JBoss BRMS, Intalio, Drools
• Cloud - Apache OpenStack, Red Hat OpenShift, CloudFoundry, Apache Stratos
• Content Management/Enterprise Search - Alfresco, Lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch
• Data Platforms - Terracotta, Infinispan, JBoss Data Grid, JBoss Data Virtualization, Talend
• Development, DevOps - Docker, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Git, Cucumber, Puppet, Chef
• Java Frameworks - Spring (Base Framework, MVC, Data, Cloud, Boot), Java Server Faces, RichFaces
• NoSQL Data Stores - MongoDB, HBase, Couchbase, Cassandra
• Portal Frameworks - Liferay Portal, JBoss Portal, eXo
• SOA Platforms – Apache MQ, JBoss Fuse, MuleSoft, WSO2 Carbon, ServiceMix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Principal Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Chief architect for A.I./Machine Learning platform as basis of new product line development.
• Chief architect for an Openstack/Mesos/Kubernetes/Docker based PaaS/Private Cloud to support Confidential ’s current and future Asset Management products.

Sr. Program Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Chief technical advisor (in an ‘embedded’ role) on Salesforce Cloud Platform usage and roadmap to Confidential 1000 clients.

Manager, Sr. Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Data Architecture, and Integration Architecture, COTS product selection and integration, performing other major systems integrations as well as mobile, Big Data and enterprise systems development projects.

Sr. Manager, Sr. Integration Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a senior member of Confidential ’ SOA/Integration practice, worked on systems integration proposals for multiple state Confidential Departments.
• Developed Big Data stream/batch processing platform.
• Delivered architecture of portal system for major Investment Management firm.

Manager, Sr. Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a senior member of Confidential ’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) & Integration practice, delivered systems integration and development projects as well as EA practice maturity enhancement for major financial firms.
• Member of new executive team brought in to execute initiatives to enhance and transform business performance, diversify and multiply business revenue streams.
• Led project to replace internal company IT infrastructure.
• Upgraded company’s data center to fully virtualized (VMware) server and virtualized storage platform.
• Introduced CMMi Level 3-compliant procedures for several KPA’s into internal SPS processes.

Manager, Sr. Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led combined Confidential and client teams (onshore and offshore) to deliver SOA and Integration Architectures for Confidential 500 clients. Interfaced with client IT and business members up to CIO level.
• Responsible for ensuring and maximizing project value drivers.

Chief Architect

Confidential, Confidential, NH

Responsibilities:

• Architected submarine non-combat IT systems integration platform.
• Re-energized and grew Confidential development team.
• Transformed development methodology to agile, achieving CMMi Level 3 certification. Created multi-level security architecture for defense and intelligence sector clients.
• Delivered integrated service architecture for Confidential, utilizing Open source frameworks (JBoss, Spring, Mule ESB, Linux, PostgreSQL, TomCat, Apache) and resulting in 80% reduction in time to introduce new capabilities and perform systems integration.
• Grew and re-invigorated Confidential team, introducing an agile (Scrum), iterative (RUP) development approach while achieving CMMI Level 3.

Principal Consultant

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• Performed system analysis and created an architectural and security assessment for an MS .NET-based Internet voter registration system in production for the Indiana state government.
• Managed multi-vendor EAI evaluation and led North American rollout of selected product (WebMethods). Resulting in increased development effectiveness, increased business agility and reduced business process re-alignment (BPR) costs - saving $2M over 3 years.
• Led program to put in place integrated data warehouse, operational data store and business intelligence architecture. Consolidated multiple systems under selected set of vendor products (Cognos, Oracle, SAS).
• Developed replacement approach and migration plan for RCI IBM Mainframe (OS/390, COBOL, CICS) legacy components to multi-tier clustered architecture. Managed multi-project replacement program. Reduced mainframe support costs by $2.5M over first 2 years of implementation.
• Directly responsible for $2.5M in project and departmental budgets.

Sr. Manager, Technology

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Completed re-architecture of legacy components of EOL system, migrating functionality to Grid-Computing-based architecture. Utilized advanced distributed caching and load balancing approach with a blade-based architecture.
• Worked with EOL Weather Options/Futures traders to develop application that delivered real-time weather data feeds and live forecast model updates to them during trading sessions.
• Introduced re-designs that decreased system infrastructure costs by 25% ($4M), increased transaction rate by 5X, data-handling capacity by 4X.
• Led adoption of throughput-based software development process using techniques from Lean Manufacturing and Agile methodologies. Increased code development velocity by 50%.

VP, Product Development; Chief Architect

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Designed, led development and delivered (on-time, on-budget, on-quality) Web-based B2B Enterprise systems featuring a layered and component-based architecture.
• Built and led 25+-person high-performance engineering and operations support staff; managed $3M+ budget.
• Designed and implemented proprietary throughput-based Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC) process based on Lean Manufacturing techniques. Achieved industry-leading software development productivity metrics.