SUMMARY

• Senior Architect Manager and Senior Solutions / Systems Architect Lead offering over 25 years of experience supporting critical financial systems in Fortune 100 financial institutions.
• Experienced and motivated IT Leader and technologist, with strong financial services experience, possessing a balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal skills.
• Recognized for ability to design and implement highly scalable, resilient, mission - critical systems that reduce cost, maximize efficiency, enhance quality, and increase margins.
• Adept in integration solutions and enterprise architecture industry standards.
• Experienced working with C-Level officers in delivering Executive- and Decision-Support Systems.
• Experienced managing a global workforce, directing application development efforts, providing support, establishing technical direction, and strategic corporate planning.
• Provided Solutions Architecture support to the Wealth & Trust lines of business in Confidential . Architected numerous solutions in the Next Paradigm SWP Program to enable the business to move from a 40-yr old MF platform to a new distributed vendor solution.
• Architected critical Enterprise Risk Financial Systems of Confidential, N.A. that supported various Risk Domains (Compliance, Consumer Risk, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Liquidity, AML, Corporate Security, Legal,

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: AS400, z/OS, UNIX/AIX, Linux, Windows, SAP R/3, SAP HANA

ERPs: SAP R/3 (FI/CO, MM, PP, SD), MS Dynamics, Oracle Financials, Peoplesoft, Cloudera Hadoop, Salesforce

Development Languages: ABAP/4, COBOL, CICS/JCL, VMS, SAS, Visual Basic/VB.NET, C, C++, C#, Java, Python, VBA

Web Languages: Classic ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, JavaScript/VBScript, AngularJS, Ajax, jQuery, Knockoutjs, PHP, CSS, HTML5.0, JSON/XML

Databases: MS SQL Server (6.0 - 2016), Oracle (8i -12c), Sybase, Teradata, Netezza, ParAccel, MongoDB, MySQL, MS Access (Jet, ADP), DBase, FoxPro

Hardware Appliances: Netezza (Twinfin/Striper), Google Search Appliance (GSA), Oracle DB Appliance X4

Middleware: MQ Series, JMS, BPM (IBM, Pega), WebSphere, IIS, eSb, EDI, Cisco Data Virtualization (CDV)

Open Source Frameworks: Struts, Spring, Hibernate, NHibernate

Big Data: Cloudera Hadoop, Ambari, Flume, Sqoop, Pig, Hive, Hbase, HDFS, MapR/Yarn, Spark, Impala, Flink

Business Intelligence: Tableau, Cognos, MicroStrategy, SAS

Cloud/Dev Ops: Azure, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, KMS, Lambda, IAM, Kinesis, Redshift, Cloud formation)

CI/CD Tools: Git, GitHub, Jenkins, SVN, TFS, Subversion

Mobile Development: CF 1x, 2x

Other: SOA, Web Services (SOAP/RESTful), Microservices, Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture.

Frameworks / Methodologies: ITIL, Zachman, TOGAF 8/9, Six-Sigma, Agile, Iterative Dev, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Solutions Architect Lead

Responsibilities:

• Led architecture for complex, cross-LOB projects over a large number of related projects in three different program workstreams, involving complex integration and deep understanding of business processes.
• Served as the Primary Solutions Architect on select projects with accountability for the project architecture direction and the completion of all required Architecture deliverables.
• Provide strategic direction to Business and IT leaders, project teams and program stakeholders in defining the architecture and design of IT systems and, where required, defining solution alternatives to ensure system design meets business objectives.
• Delivered Architecture Guidance and Governance for assigned projects ensuring alignment to Architecture Strategy, Roadmap and Patterns, and properly leverage the appropriate development frameworks.
• Collaborated with other architects in defining architecture patterns and technical capabilities.
• Contributed to strategic planning and definition of the strategic vision for complex IT solutions to fulfill LOB goals and objectives.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Architect Manager

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for the IT strategy development, IT technology standards definition, and application portfolio planning of select Risk Domains.
• Managed and led a Solutions Architecture Team managing delivering strategic and tactical solutions for a portfolio of large Enterprise Risk Management Systems, supporting the following Risk Domains: Compliance, Consumer, Credit, Markets, Liquidity, AML, Corporate Security, Legal, Audit and Operational Risk.
• Defined the Portfolio Plan and Strategic Roadmap for complex systems of several Risk Domains, identifying the technical gaps, providing technical and strategic direction to Risk development teams on enterprise technology platforms such as Cloudera Hadoop, SAP/HANA, Netezza and Teradata. Led integration efforts across several platforms, simplifying and enhancing the technology landscape.
• Spearheaded the architecture of several mission-critical systems for Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance, avoiding a costly ($600K+ $1MM) implementation PCI remediation effort, implementing sound development processes, rhythms and routines to supported mission-critical development.
• Responsible for the translation of complex business problems into sound technical solutions. Ensured development efforts for 100+ developers adhered to architectural design and development standards and best practices.
• Provided insight and guidance on overall system design and provided technical leadership to development staff as required. Responsible for application architecture. Developed technology road maps, recommending proactive courses of action to maintain cost effectiveness and competitiveness.
• Spearheaded Strategy and Architectural discussions with architecture managers, IT managers, lines of business, and Senior IT Executives.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Senior Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Delivered the SOR solution that served as the central repository for the project’s artifacts and collections.
• Assisted application development teams with re-architecting their solutions to lessen the technical dependencies that exposed the bank to unnecessary risk.
• Provided technical architecture support to mission-critical payments systems of the bank.
• Participated in the merger and acquisition (M&A) efforts of integrating Confidential and Confidential systems.

Confidential, New York, NY

Manager Application Development / Chief Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Directed software development efforts of global and multi-site, cross-functional development teams ranging from 10-15 individuals working in the construction of an internal ERP Solution.
• Responsible for providing strategic direction and roadmaps for entire business units.
• Set expectations for corporate information strategies and contributed to strategic corporate planning decisions.

Senior Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Devised the architecture for enterprise business solutions and mission-critical applications, including the implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm in the enterprise.
• Integrated company’s global HR systems using ESB, EDI and BizTalk solutions.
• Commun icated with corporat officers and to ensure proper alignment of technical deliverables with business needs. Developed Executive- and Decision-Support Systems for Corporate Officers and Sr. Execs.
• Provided consulting support and database security/performance tuning for financial and banking processes.
• Performed technical analysis, development, delivery and maintenance of technology-based solutions.
• Developed new software solutions and maintained legacy systems for the company’s diverse business units.
• Conducted business analysis and requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders, establishing strategies to guide the final implementation. Interacted with management and stakeholders on a daily basis.