SUMMARY

• Over 17 years of architecture practice experience, designing and developing advanced data - intensive systems
• 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.

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, Azure

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, Python, C++, C, Javascript, Perl, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio 2010

Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu), MS Windows Server 2012 & 2008, MS Windows 10, Unix (multiple versions)

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Manager, Sr. Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led combined Confidential and client teams (onshore and offshore) to deliver SOA and Integration Architectures for Fortune 500 clients. Interfaced with client IT and business members up to CIO level.
• Responsible for ensuring and maximizing project value drivers. Clients included major financial services (Aegon Insurance, Travelers Insurance), retail (Best Buy) and pharmaceutical (AstraZenneca) companies.

Chief Architect

Confidential, Portsmouth, NH

Responsibilities:

• Delivered integrated service, utilizing Open source frameworks (JBoss EAP, Spring, Mule ESB, Linux, PostgreSQL, TomCat, Apache) and resulting in 80% reduction in time to introduce new capabilities and perform systems integration.
• Architected multi-level security system and presented to major DOD and National Intelligence clients.
• Grew and re-invigorated Portsmouth team, introducing an agile (Scrum), iterative (RUP) development approach while achieving CMMI Level 3.

Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Responsibilities:

• 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 Confidential 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.