Information Systems Architect / Technical Project Manager

• Project Recovery Cost Reduction Data Driven Solutions CMMI 3, 4 Agile Continuous Integration
• Over 20 years of experience in providing technical analysis, design, implementation and integration for complex information systems projects, from conceptual design to maintenance phase. Over 10 years in technical leadership positions, working with diverse teams across multiple projects. More than 60 systems delivered to Federal and commercial customers in Healthcare, Biomedical Research, MIS, and Banking industries.

Management EXPERIENCE

• Delivering multiple Federal IT systems under aggressive schedule 3 to 6 months per phase
• Managing multiple software projects using Scrum, Agile, Waterfall, and Rational Unified processes
• Serving as a facilitator between project stakeholders
• Cost reduction and continuous delivery in IT projects
• Managing integrated project schedule/plan IPS/IPP , budget, and staffing
• Assembling and leading cross-functional teams
• Supervising senior technical staff: objectives, plans, metrics, deliverables
• Defining processes, standard operating procedures, best practices
• Establishing performance metrics, providing consolidated reporting to the CTO and Program Office

ANALYTICAL EXPERIENCE

• Solicitation and acquisition of customer requirements, developing subject matter expertise SME
• Discovery, validation, and categorization of business artifacts
• Functional and gap analysis of business requirements
• Development of formal use cases, process diagrams, and technical specifications
• Process modeling and reengineering using SADT methodologies
• Analysis of technical risks and regulatory compliance SDLC/ELC, 508, SOX, OFAC
• Development and assessment of implementation strategies
• Aligning requirements and specifications to the CMMI model and to business-specific legislation
• Two-way tracking of requirements throughout the project life cycle RTM, test cases

ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE

• Advanced systems design for MIS and business process automation BPR/BPA
• Development of client-server, web-based, N-Tier, service-oriented SOA system architectures
• Relational and polymorphic database design MS SQL Server, ANSI SQL, Interbase, Oracle
• Systems and application programming Embarcadero RAD, Delphi, Visual Studio, ASP.Net, Windows API
• Object-oriented programming and analysis OOP/OOA
• Implementation of software and data interfaces, ETL routines
• Development of component libraries, application frameworks, and test harnesses
• Migration of databases and applications from legacy platforms
• Systems integration in Healthcare, Clinical Research, and Banking
• EMPLOYMENT, Projects, Clients

Enterprise Architect

Confidential

• As the Enterprise Architect for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services COPS in the Department of Confidential , responsible for the design, implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation of all software systems supporting the mission of the Office. This includes over 100 component modules comprising 12 major systems facilitating the work of approximately 250 Federal employees. The systems track over 100,000 current and historical Federal grants under 110 Grant Programs, for 25,000 police agencies nationwide, with a total value of US 2.5 BN US 1.2 BN in active grants . The oldest systems are in continuous production since 1994 the current version is now successfully in its third fiscal year cycle.
• As the Enterprise Architect, designed and implemented the Unified Grant Model, and a supporting service-oriented systems architecture, providing a common, reliable, cost-efficient foundation for all enterprise systems. The core elements of the architecture were implemented in the first 4 months of the contract. Since then, the systems have been in continuous operation under the new architecture, facilitating the FY 2013, 2014, and 2015 business cycles of the Office.
• As the Enterprise Architect, led the design of new systems, and the integration of legacy systems, under the new systems architecture. In the first year of the contract, this work completely eliminated paper forms and associated labor costs and errors, and reduced the processing time on the longest workflow grant modification from 8-16 hours to under 45 minutes. Presented the systems and architecture overviews in meetings with the CTO, senior COPS Program staff, and representatives from other Federal agencies.
• As the Enterprise Architect, mandated service-oriented, data driven, formally specified software designs with embedded unit testing, enabling multiple systems to be developed and deployed in parallel, minimizing the implementation and maintenance costs. As a result, all of the COPS systems can respond to individual changes in legislation within 15-30 days, can spin up new grant programs in less than 10 days, and maintain compliance with earlier legislation as appropriate over the years.
• As the Enterprise Architect and a data architect, designed and implemented the central database underlying all software systems, and performed data migration and reconciliation across several enterprise databases covering over 20 years of data. Designed and led the integration of in-house systems with a major document management solution from a Tier 1 vendor. Designed and implemented a data mart and core data queries to support Enterprise Reporting, providing data to COPS, U.S. Congress, Office of Inspector General OIG , Office of Justice Programs OJP , and other Federal agencies.
• As the Enterprise Architect and a senior software engineer, worked extensively with business analysts to solicit and capture business requirements from the Federal customers, defined functional requirements for individual systems, wrote technical specifications for individual modules and interfaces, and worked with product leads in the software development teams to implement, test, and deploy software. Wrote critical back-end code MS and ANSI SQL, XQuery , developed code samples and prototypes ASP.Net, web services, XML, XPath for the implementation teams, performed code reviews.
• As a project manager, executed multiple software projects under the contract with the COPS Office, using Agile and Unified methodologies. Developed and maintained Integrated Project Schedule for all projects under the contract. Oversaw work of several technical teams comprised of software and database engineers, user interface designers, technical writers, and testers. Supervised senior software engineers and product leads. Developed coding standards and best practices for the Project Management Office. Provided ongoing operational oversight. Established and tracked performance metrics on individual projects. Prepared and delivered daily and weekly reporting for the CTO and Federal stakeholders. Performed hiring interviews and on-boarding for new staff.

Product Architect, Principal

Confidential

• As a Product Architect and Principal, responsible for product development and release strategy for a set of CMMI level 3, 4 compliant process management solutions for Federal and commercial clients, in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Continuously obtained and updated product requirements from existing and prospective customers, and from market intelligence. Translated customer input into technical requirements. Identified functional gaps with existing products and generated change requests. Maintained requirements traceability matrix for each product.
• Designed new and updated existing process models, based on new requirements and strategic assumptions. Generated technical specifications. Work with programming teams to implement changes.
• Updated the core data model to accommodate new requirements. Generated DDE, DML, and test SQL scripts to maintain database schema integrity. Developed test cases to assure backward and forward compatibility of data model and codebase. Assisted programming teams in developing test harnesses and unit tests.
• Maintained systems architecture and feature matrix across products. Took part in ongoing code reviews and testing sessions to track requirements implementation. Provided analytical and strategy reporting for Business Development and Project Management for use in attracting new business.

Expert Consultant

Confidential

• Developed a CMMI-compliant Technical Integration Model for implementing the Affordable Care Act ACA Program at the IRS. Accepted by the Program Director, the model integrates approximately 30 software systems.
• Solicited and assembled input in meetings with Program Offices, MITS, and contractors. Generated initial sets of requirements based on customer input, agency guidelines, and external constraints.
• Designed a process model capable of accommodating existing and future systems subject to integration under the ACA. Iteratively worked with the stakeholders to validate the model.
• Presented the model and methodology to Program Director and won approval for implementation. Designed the principal data model for implementation by MITS and contractors. Held close-out meetings to hand-off the implementation to the MITS and ACA PO personnel.

Senior Systems Analyst, Software Architect

Confidential

• Worked on approximately 20 software and service-oriented projects over 11 years, addressing the needs of U.S. Federal Agencies NIH, DAIDS, CDC, AHRQ, USAID and the commercial sector. Highlights:
• Led reengineering of a management information system MIS that provided data management and OMB-compliant reporting for 2,500 NIH Clinical Trials. Facilitated communication between business and implementation stakeholders in regular meetings. Identified gaps between legacy software Delphi , existing database MS SQL Server, Oracle , recently added code ASP.Net and current customer requirements. Designed a middleware solution to close the gaps at minimal cost XML, metadata tables, .Net Interop, SOAP . Led the programming team during implementation. Presented technical justifications to senior management.
• Completely redesigned a document production system that originally was cost-prohibitive due to the number of reports maintained 400 and third-party licensing costs. Identified key performance criteria and generated a specification for an alternative system that could be developed in-house. Performed implementation of the new system Delphi, XML, HTML, CSS, MS SQL Server, Oracle and its subsequent integration into the company's MIS products and the NIH/DAIDS Enterprise system. The system efficiently produces complex nested documents for Web and Microsoft Office, and is entirely license free.
• Reengineered two systems Financial Disclosure and Institutional Evaluation supporting the Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance of about 4,500 specialists involved in NIH Clinical Trials across five international research networks. Identified technical requirements posited by SOX and agency reporting standards, and generated specifications for the new systems. Implemented new versions using Embarcadero RAD Studio and MS SQL Server. Supported the customers. The solution successfully supported the 2008-2010 grant management cycles.
• Designed and implemented two workflow-based, scenario-driven, process management systems to manage 1700 institutional contracts under two NIH grants total award value 50M , and 100 projects under the USAID Synergy task. Analyzed NIH, DAIDS, and USAID standard operating procedures SOPs and compliance requirements. Designed a hybrid polymorphic database to support storage of SOPs and user-defined data MS SQL, stored procedures . Designed and delivered the front-end application RAD Studio, Windows API, ADO, XML . Provided subsequent customer training.
• Addressed performance and reliability issues in a group of products for the NIH, DAIDS, CDC, and collaborating third parties, by specifying, designing, and implementing a web-based status monitoring system. The system performs user-designed integrity and completion tests and data validation on critical databases, servers, and software processes, and visualizes results as a detailed web site for use by the client's ITS and project teams. Developed custom software, test scripts, and web site layout RAD Studio, ADO, XML, HTML . Worked with ITS to deploy the system across several projects.
• Performed other duties across multiple projects: assured adherence to the software development life cycle process, provided project support services work breakdown, budgeting, risk analysis, resource planning conducted code reviews and analytical meetings with clients and development teams. As a senior staff member, participated in hiring interviews, staff performance evaluations, and new work assessments.

Senior Systems Manager

Confidential

Responsible for ongoing ITS operations for the Asset Management division. Proposed, budgeted, contracted, and executed IT infrastructure upgrades, and migration into new premises, without interruption in client services 4-month project, total value 350,000 .

Previous Employment

• Senior Software Engineer International Network Connections, Inc Healthcare automation
• IT Engineer Hewlett-Packard Moscow Supporting IT infrastructure in 4 regional offices
• Software Engineer Gloria Bank AG Developing a banking system, deploying SWIFT Interbank
• Software Engineer United Aerospace of Russia Developing software for joint projects with NASA
• Additional Experience
• Integration of medical systems from Hoffman La Roche, General Electric, Welch Allyn, Siemens
• Integration of legacy systems based on Intel x86 and proprietary platforms
• Migration of legacy databases from Btrieve, Datatrieve, VAX RDB, Interbase, Paradox, dBASE III/IV, FoxPro
• Migration of legacy software from C, Pascal, Fortran, DCL, proprietary languages
• Technical writing and presenting for Federal agencies at the Bureau/Office level