SUMMARY:

• Accomplished, dedicated Technology Executive with more than 30 years of continually progressive experience in leading business and technology innovation, spearheading development efforts, and aligning the corporate vision with technical solutions for industry - leading organizations
• Excels at aligning technical objectives with business needs for global business growth and success
• Effective technology leader with a reputation for staying ahead of the curve with the identification and implementation of the most advanced system architectures, technology trends, and applications required to cut costs, lead global teams, and create advancements in today's fast-evolving market
• Strategic thinker with particular expertise in: Infrastructure Security, Data Integration, Strategic Planning, and taking business requirements to design/develop technical product solutions
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud computing infrastructure and services.
• Strong healthcare industry exposure and experience working with customers like: UHG, Medica, BCBS and other health plan providers

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Application Development
• Budgeting & Cost Management
• Business Development & Technical Strategy
• Cloud Computing (Amazon Web Services)
• Enterprise Architecture
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity planning, implementation and execution.
• Intimate knowledge of datacenters and IT infrastructure
• Information Security and Risk Management
• Operational Security and Risk Management
• Managing Internal and Third Party Control Assessments
• Security Integration
• Policy, Standards, and Procedure Development
• Team Building & Process Improvement
• Strategic Technology Planning & Assessment
• Vendor Relations
• Vendor Data Integration

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Architecture: Hibernate, Web Services, API gateway (Microservices), (REST/SOAP), Spring Framework, Rules Engine Technology, MVC, SOA, ESB, Queuing, NodeJS, AngularJS

Auditing: PCI, SSAE 16 and SOC 2

Big Data: Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, MarkLogic, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive

EDI: X12, HL7, NCPDP

Infrastructure: Storage Area Networks (SAN), Servers, Networking, Security

Languages: Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, Swift, C#, Scripting

Networking: (Firewalls, Switching, Routing, VoIP, VPN, LAN/WAN)

Platforms: Apple, Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Debian), UNIX (AIX, Solaris), Windows

RDBMS: Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL

Software Applications: JBoss, Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, Splunk, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, Talend, PingFederate

Virtualization/Cloud Computing: VMware, XEN, Amazon AWS - EC2, S3, SQS, RDS, ELB, VPCs, Auto Scaling, Lambda

Security Integration: Java, PingFederate, SAML 2.0, OAuth, Identity and Access Management(IAM), Single Sign-On (SSO)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect

• Collaborated with the business to evaluate business goals, identify business problems, and propose solutions.
• Drove strategic and transitional planning of applications, information and business functions across the enterprise.
• Modeled the enterprise and business landscape to analyze the alignment of business capabilities with delivered technology and IT solutions.
• Provided leadership, decomposing business objectives, goals and technology into an actionable set of project activities, which included Solution Analysis options and recommendations.
• Provided direction on project execution assuring successful delivery of new or enhanced capabilities.
• Facilitated change and process improvement within software development and business organizations

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Technology Consultant

• Confidential provides architectural consulting, software development and professional services.
• Performed multiple data center migrations to a newly architected AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Architected and implemented call center application to provide home delivery of oxygen tanks to homebound customers.
• Architected and implemented IoT proof of concept for a single pane of glass controller for multiple IoT devices using NodeJS and AngularJS.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Enterprise Architect/Chief Technical Officer

• Mentored and supervised project/product managers and programmers to ensure timely and cost-effective development of systems and services that support business objectives.
• Conducted in-depth technical analysis of all systems, including the governance framework, architecture, and disaster recovery and business continuity; delivered gap analysis and recommendations, attaining 99% up time.
• Managed day-to-day datacenter operations.
• Providing leadership in Disaster Recovery development planning and execution.
• Reduced the development lifecycle 30% by streamlining processes through the implementation of the Agile methodology, instilling accountability and teamwork.
• Designed and implemented enterprise infrastructure and application security solutions.
• Designed phased infrastructure migration strategy to move legacy applications from a “green screen” application to a modern enterprise application and services platform (Microsoft SharePoint, Windows, JBoss, Linux, Oracle 11g) with best of breed components. The result was increased end-user satisfaction and enhanced productivity.
• Led initiative to evaluate and implement cloud (AWS) computing for all locations and applications reducing monthly operational costs by 42%.
• Led initiative to connect personal devices (FitBit, Withings, ..) to collect data for analysis.
• Coordinated detailed requirement gathering sessions, conferred with business owners and product management to establish priorities, overcome concerns and determine roadmap.
• Achieved and maintained compliance by implementing PCI-DSS, and SSAE-16 (formerly SAS70) across information assets and existing processes.
• Led initiative to re-architect EDI claims processing, resulting in a 30% reduction in call center call volume.
• Managed and coordinated third-party hardware and software vendors.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Director of IT Operations/Chief Security Officer

• Lead all information architecture activities and managed data governance, data quality, and data warehousing.
• Managed day-to-day datacenter operations.
• Reduced risk by initiating business continuity plan in a cloud/hybrid environment.
• Built consensus among business and development teams to design a scalable product to meet the changing needs of the market.
• Led initiative to implement cloud (AWS) computing for customer facing applications.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior Virtualization Architect

• Determined customer requirements and designed VMware-based solutions architectures utilizing VMware’s product portfolio.
• Educated customers and internal staff on VMware products offerings and best practices for combining solutions to create private and hybrid clouds.
• Mentored and provided quality assurance oversight to professional services engineers during the course of technical engagements to ensure that VMware solutions were delivered in accordance with best practices and professionalism.
• Performed hands-on technical implementation, troubleshooting, and remediation on complex client projects requiring high-touch or strategic vision.
• Customer engagements: Schwan Food Company, Prescription Solutions (OptumRx), Regis Corporation

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Security Consultant

• Confidential provides architectural consulting, software development and professional services.
• Performed corporate wide security audit that included penetration testing, policy and procedure auditing and infrastructure auditing for Blackbox Communications.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Director IT Operations/Chief Security Officer

• Architected and designed Cardtronic's initial generation of the smartcard card platform.
• Performed risk assessment surveys to identify security requirements.
• Drafted security requirements to comply with HIPAA guidelines.
• Responsible for day-to-day datacenter operations.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Director IT Operations

• Planned and managed day-to day IT operations for company with 500+ employees, including budgeting, forecasting, and professional development of technical staff.
• Architected, implemented and tested of disaster recovery plans for operating systems, databases, networks, servers and software applications across multiple geographically disperse datacenters. Managed and coordinated third-party hardware and software vendors.
• Established standardization policies and procedures for datacenter operations.
• Administered operating systems, hardware, and peripheral components, and maintained databases.
• Performed software installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, and maintenance on UNIX servers.
• Analyzed and resolved system issues on Sun, HP-UX, and AIX systems.
• Responsible for capacity planning, including allocating storage, providing hardware and software redundancy, and planning future expansion requirements.
• Participated in root-cause analysis of recurring issues, system backup, and security setup.
• Maintained Web servers, file servers, SAN, firewalls, and directory services.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Systems/Network Administrator/DBA

• Administered firewalls, routers, operating systems, hardware, and peripheral components, and maintained Oracle databases.
• Performed software installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, and maintenance on Sun and AIX systems.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Systems/Network Administrator/DBA

• Administered operating systems, hardware, and peripheral components, and maintained databases.
• Performed software installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, and maintenance on AIX servers.

Confidential Minneapolis, MN

Systems/Network Administrator/Engineer

• Performed hands-on technical implementation, troubleshooting, and remediation on complex client projects.
• Responsible for Cyber mainframe and AIX systems.
• Participated in quality assurance testing with customers in both pre and post ship of power systems control platform.
• Team leader of Customer Install Group focusing on the Asian and European customer base.