SUMMARY

• Solutions Architect specializing in delivering custom Enterprise and Cloud based solutions.
• Over 20 years of software architecture and development experience with fortune 500 companies and industry leaders.
• Strong architecture and development background combined with big data analytics expertise.
• Extensive experience in the creation of web based architectures, security designs, and the overall design of cloud solutions using cutting edge technologies.
• Has strong experience in the High Tech, Financial, Legal, Data Center, Telecom, Manufacturing, Construction, Oil & Gas, Education, Entertainment, Insurance, Medical, Retail, Commercial Software, Aerospace, and Defense industries delivering advanced solutions to challenging problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cloud Security Architectures (OpenID, OAuth, Claims, NSG, UDR, ARM Templates)
• Micro Services
• Cloud Models (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS)
• DevOps (Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, Chef, & Puppet, & OpenStack)
• Microsoft Azure
• Cloud Services
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Cloud Templates (Cloud Formation & ARM)
• Google Cloud
• Hadoop/Yarn (HD Insight, hBase)
• Apache Storm
• Machine Learning
• Analysis Services
• Reporting Services
• SQL Server (2012, 2008, & 2005)
• SSIS
• Master Data Services (MDS)
• Data Quality Services (DQS)
• OLAP Cubes
• JavaScript (JQuery, AngularJS, KnockoutJS, & NodeJS)
• Java
• C#
• C++
• Python
• Perl
• R
• Go
• SQL
• Software Architectures (Security, Multi - Tenancy, High Availability)
• Web Client Technologies (AngularJS, JQuery, Ajax, JavaScript, JSON, Bootstrap, and CSS3)
• Web API’s (REST, OData, and SOAP)
• HTML (HTML 5, XHTML, DHTML)
• Responsive Web Design (RWD)
• Search Architectures
• Custom Workflows
• Custom UI Design (Web Controls, Master Pages, Page Layouts, and Themes)
• Portal Object Models (.NET Server, CSOM, JSOM, and REST API)
• Big Data (Kafka, Storm, Flink, Cassandra, hBase, & Hadoop)
• IoT (MQTT, CoAP, & Protocol Buffers)
• MEAN Stack
• Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 & 14.04)
• Windows (2012, 2008, & 2003)
• Power Shell Scripting
• Visual Studio .NET (2013, 2012, 2010, 2008, and 2005)
• .NET Architectures & Design Patterns
• Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF)
• SQL Server (2012, 2008, & 2005)
• ASP.NET (4.x, 3.x, & 2.0)
• Governance Compliance
• Container Based Architectures
• Mentoring
• Agile Methodologies (Scrum, XP)
• OOA&D and Design Patterns
• ISO 9000
• CMM Level III
• Virtualization (VMWare & HyperV)
• Performance Testing (LoadRunner)
• Networking (IP, Routing, & Load Balancing)
• Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
• Asynchronous Programming
• Message Oriented Middleware (MOM, AMQP, ESB, & BPM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Principle Consultant

• Architected and designed a cutting edge Cloud Based, IoT Portal enabling the tracking, analysis, and automated tuning of wifi access points and management of IoT devices. This cutting edge system combined the best of breed in cloud, big data, and IoT technologies, and integrated AWS’s suite of services (EC2, VPC, Auto Scaling, S3, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Route 53, ELB, IAM, API Gateway, Pinpoint, SQS, SNS) to create a truly state of the art system. Service platform for these technologies included Kafka, Flink, Cassandra, eMQTTd, and Micro Services to maintain device loads coming from millions simultaneous connections. For strong IoT interoperability the design leveraged MQTT and CoAP technologies with globally enforced JSON schemas which resulted in an ideal protocol for IoT connectivity.
• In this effort, lead a team of developers and architects in addition to providing the principle architectural direction for the vice president of development and senior teams at Cisco with presentations and architectural documentation. The TOGAF framework was utilized for the project and the architectural effort focused primarily on the Information Systems and Technology Architecture phases. Also as a part of the development of the system used the state of the art in tools, languages and techniques: Scrum, Docker, Ansible, NodeJS, Eclipse, GIT, Nagios, Monit, Collectd, and ELK Stack. Docker was particularly important here providing the foundation for a Container Based Architecture. Kafka was also fundamental in providing the backbone messaging for all activities occurring in the system.

Confidential

Principle Consultant

• Architected and developed a cutting-edge Cloud Based, Real-time, IoT enabled, Big Data Scale system enabling the tracking and analysis of construction equipment ranging from huge mining equipment to ship based engines. This cutting-edge system integrated the full range of Azure’s suite of services which included the latest DevOps capabilities, IoT capabilities, real-time processing, big data processing, and analysis, in addition to the handling of 1 million devices transmitting telemetry data in real-time. Some of the powerful technologies integrated here in the creation of this innovative new application were: Apache Storm, Kafka, Docker, ELK, Data warehouse, Datalake, HD Insight, hBase, Machine Learning, Key vault, Visual Studio Online, Resource manager, Cloud Services, Enterprise Service Bus, API Management, Virtual Networks, Web Apps, and Web Jobs. Kafka with ELK was fundamental to the implementation of ad hock asset monitoring and troubleshooting.
• In this effort, lead a team of excellent Developers and Architects in the Development, Architecture, and Design activities to provide the architectural foundation for 4 development only teams located both onshore and offshore. The TOGAF framework was utilized for the project and the architectural effort focused primarily on the Information Systems and Technology Architecture phases. Within these phases significant emphasis was placed on the Data Architecture and Application Integration Architecture parts of the Information Systems Architecture phase. Importantly also cutting edge container based architecture was utilized to host all Micro Services Applications. All activities were conducted using a Scrum methodology and the projects incorporated all of the latest in continuous integration technologies highly recommended for Azure.

Confidential

Principle Consultant

• Architected and developed a cutting-edge Oil & Gas system enabling the tracking of Well operations via the cloud. This cutting-edge system integrated the full range of Azure’s suite of services and leveraged the latest DevOps capabilities for automated deployment and buildout of PaaS services and virtual servers. Some of the powerful technologies integrated here in the creation of this innovative new application were: Key vault, Remote App, Visual Studio Online, Market Place, Resource manager, Cloud Services, Enterprise Service Bus, Automation, API Management, Virtual Networks, Web Apps, and Virtual Machines.
• Conducted Development, Architecture, and Design activities using a Scrum methodology in collaboration with an excellent team of cloud developers and oil & gas industry experts. Architecture and design activities were conducted integrating TOGAF and agile approaches to integrate enterprise architecture design efforts with the needs of our current project. Leveraged a large number of Azures most powerful cloud capabilities in the project efforts including: Key vault, Remote App, Visual Studio Online, Market Place, Resource manager, Cloud Services, Automation, API Management, Virtual Networks, Web Apps, and Virtual Machines. Conducted cloud to cloud migration migrating existing AWS systems to Azure equivalents using the best practices in migration standards. Utilized security measures in development and configuration of the systems using best practices in security approaches and a 3rd party security system Aunigma to be on the cutting edge of security. Advanced database technologies utilized include Master Data Services, Data Quality Services, and Azure SQL Server.

Confidential

Principle Consultant

• Architected and developed cutting edged systems for the top computer forensics company in Dallas and provided architectural direction for executives of a high-tech radar device firm. The cutting-edge systems created for the computer forensics firm used automated creation technologies in AWS to dynamically create high availability servers when needed with a highly-secured network infrastructure. The application architecture created utilized powerful big data technologies with virtually unlimited capacity (Petabytes analyzed within hours) to process a vast number of server logs. Utilized SQL Server 2012 with always on availability groups for high availability and to leverage database Replicas providing real-time reporting without any impact on transaction times.
• Developed web pages using Responsive Design techniques with Bootstrap, HTML5 & AngularJS to create a great viewing experience for the user, whether they are viewing on a Laptop, iPad, or mobile devices. Leveraged NoSQL with a Redis server for lighting fast servicing of REST calls from the AngularJS web pages. Created a dynamically report generation application pre-rendering reports from the data processed on Hadoop clusters. Also initialed and managed the lifetime of Hadoop jobs using AWS EMR API’s to provide hands free processing of log data. As a fundamental component of the security Kafka with ELK were used for activity log management to handle activity log management for security purposes. Docker was a fundamental component in the Container Based Architecture aspect of the system providing a perfect environment for the micro services running on the system.
• Reviewed a high-tech radar gun company’s mission critical and corporate systems for potentials in modernization of system and general improvements in departmental communications. Performed an in depth review of data models, system interfaces, web servers and Windows frontend software. Developed architectural prototypes to prove out recommendations provided using the newest Windows frameworks integrating with advanced windows workflow systems.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

• Advised Microsoft program managers and lead developers on Cloud API overall quality, usability, capability, and extensibility for presentation to Bill Gates. As a part of this process provided guidance on areas of API comparison, an analysis methodology for API comparison, and created testing applications for Microsoft Cloud comparable Google Cloud API’s.
• Developed cloud based applications using the Azure and Google Cloud systems creating end-to-end JavaScript, and C# implementations demonstrating how the Cloud API’s stack up to each other. Evaluated both the Azure and Google Cloud API’s using the same process. First utilized cutting edge OAuth API’s for Authentication and Authorization following on by synchronously and asynchronously calling into their most important cloud API’s. Each of the API’s were called into using JavaScript & JQuery on the client side and Python, NodeJS, and C# on the Server Side and then ranking and categorizing how impressive each API was.
• For a final presentation and summary report provided recommendations on strategic improvements to Microsoft’s cloud systems. The analysis focused on Microsoft’s Office 365, Exchange Online, and Azure systems.
• Developed cutting edge dynamic web sites utilizing KnockoutJS (i.e. MVVM) creating impressive and highly responsive user interfaces using responsive design techniques. These web sites interacted with backend servers using a combination of server side code for a lightning fast display of initial pages using cached data and REST calls to dynamically update the users pages based on their changes and real-time system changes occurring on the backend.
• On earlier projects developed scores of applications including: Automated generation of Advanced Reports, Office 365 and Azure Hosted Applications, Externally Hosted Apps, Multi-Language Applications, Responsive Design based HTML5 Frontends, and IPad based workflow systems. On the systems side created Auto Deployed AWS virtualized Private Cloud based, VMware based, and high availability high security virtualized environments.