SUMMARY:

• A seasoned senior level professional with solid business acumen coupled with valuable insights and abilities. Can ascertain and analyze social, cultural and business needs, define strategic technical vision, forecast goals and streamline technical operations leading to successful solution delivery and demonstrated business results.
• An accomplished IT professional with experience in developing enterprise - scale client solutions focused on data sharing, leveraged infrastructure, integration and multi-tenant/multi-instance IT solutions. Is business savvy while having a diverse background with information technology life-cycles including: planning, architecture, engineering, deployment, operation, and support roles. Highly effective in developing new concepts and solutions for clients while following Enterprise Architecture methodologies.
• Has leveraged prior large mainframe systems integration, application development and project management experiences that provide an ideal architectural foundation for rolling out successful, enterprise-wide, Internet technology and cloud-based solutions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, York, PA

President & Senior Enterprise Architect

• Engaged on a multi-year IT Compute Service project that will migrate all PA state agencies to the cloud,
• Helped to define future compute platforms while migrating agencies away from today’s monolithic architectures,
• Led agency specific Application Development-driven migrations away from current AD Methods and Cultures, Application Architectures, Application Deployment and Packaging, Application Infrastructure and AD Tools and Techniques to current and evolving Cloud-Native and cloud-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings.

Confidential, Hamilton, NJ

Senior Manager

• Engaged as lead EA on a multi-year IT modernization project that replaces numerous legacy applications,
• Business areas included Vehicle Titling/Registration, Driver Licensing/Enforcement & Business Licensing, Finance,
• Led TOGAF-based project that defined future IT strategy and architectural models for all MVA capabilities across multiple domains including Business, Application, Data and Technical with the primary goal to create a 360-degree view of customers via enterprise CRM (SalesForce.com, etc.) capabilities,
• Strong SOA and hybrid-cloud SaaS orientation with agile DevOps methods utilized,
• Created technical portions of the “Project CORE” RFP including detailed functional and non-functional requirements.

Confidential, York, PA

President & Senior Enterprise Architect

• Performed definition and implementation of the ISE Reference and Logical architectures,
• Worked closely with end-users and stakeholders to identify and define ISE requirements,
• Lead Phase 1 agile deployment efforts to deliver pilot ISE functionality.
• Provided thought leadership, guidance and technical definition of county/local-level solutions,
• Stayed abreast of advances in technology, while developing and interpreting organizational goals, policies, and procedures,
• Analyzed user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints,
• Developed compute resources, provided for data security and control, strategic computing, and disaster recovery,
• Managed projects, reviewed project plans, planed and coordinated program/project activity.

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Manager

• As Chief Architect - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Justice Network (JNET), created an internationally recognized platform for secure criminal justice information sharing,
• Facilitated Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis sessions focused towards gathering input from all major JNET stakeholders,
• Managed and coordinated the rollout of an entire financial application suite to over thirty remote locations on a large statewide Department of Health Financial Management information System Implementation project.

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Senior Systems Engineer

• Architected a re-hosting effort for a large, state student loan-processing agency (PHEAA),
• Analyzed, designed, and coded a common GUI front end for separate CICS mainframe applications,
• Performed the planning, analysis and design of a new tax case refund docket management system,
• Led and managed several application development projects and facilitated five Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions.

SKILL:

METHODS/TECHNIQUES: Overall Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Application Architecture, Enterprise Information Architecture, Cloud Computing, OASIS, TOGAF, USG FEA, FedRAMP, FISMA, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), ITIL Framework, IT Architecture, IT Security, IT Strategic Planning, Application Development, Application Design, Application Consolidation /Migration /Virtualization, Systems Transition and Transformation, Collaboration, Web-Based Analysis, Communications, Mentoring, Solution Development, Team Leadership, Consulting, Systems Integration, Systems Engineering, Information Assurance, Gap Analysis, JAD, Logical Data Modeling, DevOps, Microarchitectures

SOLUTIONS/PLATFORMS: Computer Security, W3C, Data Exchange, Event Processing, STP, Web Services, Semantic Web, Web-of-Data, MDA, UML, OWL, RDF, Linked Data, SPARQL, WebHooks, Service Hook, MQ Telemetry Transport (MQTT), Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), APIs, Hadoop, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, Lucene, Commercial and Open-Source Software, Case Tools, SOAP, REST, COBOL, CICS, S/390, DB2, Client/Server, GUI, LAN, Microsoft Windows, RDBMS, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Golang, Hybrid-cloud, Cloud-Native Applications, Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Cloud-based distributed systems, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, nginx, OpenStack, AWS, Google Cloud (GCE, GAE), Android, IoT, Docker, Git, DigitalOcean, OVH

BEST PRACTICES: Change Management, Configuration Management, Planning, Budgeting, Project/Program Management, Business Process Management, Business Activity Monitoring, Business Requirements Gathering, IT Leadership, Secure Federated Information Sharing, Systems Integration & Interoperability, Architecture Solution Documentation, Mobile Data Access, Cloud-Native solutions based on state-of-the-art AD Methods and Cultures, Application Architectures, Application Deployment and Packaging, Application Infrastructure and AD Tools and Techniques, “Big Data” approaches, Business Continuity, Cross-Boundary Collaboration, Digital Government, Business Development/Opportunity Management

INDUSTRIES/SME: Logistics Systems, Asset Management, Inventory Control, Student Loan Origination & Servicing, Business Intelligence, Transportation, Financial Management, Law Enforcement, Justice, Public Safety and Homeland Security, Vehicle Titling & Registration, Driver Licensing & Enforcement and Business Licensing