SUMMARY:

• As a consultant, my primary goal is to help management achieve business objectives through technical solutions in the most time and cost effective manner. Be it a $30M dollar project or a $2M dollar effort, there are always opportunities for more effective definition, more efficient build, smoother delivery and higher quality functionality.
• The blend of my strong, experienced management and deep technical skills help me communicate well with both business users and technical resources.
• Developing relationships with all project members is a natural result of my enjoyment of both technical projects and the people that make them happen.
• I subscribe to the school of ‘no surprises’ and deliver status to my management in a direct, timely manner, regardless of the message.
• Driving projects to completion and meeting business goals defines my success.
• Strong technical leadership skills across the project spectrum from database, web services, web applications, security, architecture and infrastructure.
• Utilizes broad multi - industry experience in all facets of technical projects
• Recent completion of Masters in Software Engineering with Honors provides strong technical background in database, network, Enterprise Architecture, security and development.
• Extensive business experience enables a quick grasp of process and compliance needs.
• Proven experience leading and contributing to technical projects in many technologies.
• A history of quality technical plan development to forecast completion.
• Can quickly build high performance teams to get the job done.

SKILLS:

• MS Project
• Agile
• Waterfall
• Java
• Visio
• MS Office
• ERP
• Manufacturing
• Retail
• Airline
• Financial
• Health Care
• Distribution
• Confidential Software Validation
• Entertainment
• Software Provider

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: OS390, Solaris, UNIX, Linux, Windows 8, Mac OS X, Google App Engine. MS IIS

Packages: Gentran EDI, MS Office, JDK 1.7 J2EE, MQ Series, JMS, RepliData, Weblogic, Tomcat, glassfish, Eclipse, Xcode, Netbeans, SoapUI, Enterprise Architect, MS Project, JIRA, Rally, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, wireshark

Languages: JAVA, HTML, Spring MVC, C, Perl, SQL, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, XML, Soap, SAML, Ruby, Python, REST SOA, JQuery, Javascript, JSTL, Bootstrap, Numpy, Pandas, Bandicoot

Databases: Oracle 11g, Access, Informix, DB2/UDB, Lotus Notes, VSAM, DATACOM, MySQL, Big Table, Intersystems Cache, GraphDB

CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• As Solution Architect for this Confidential 100 Airline, I lead various technical, business and vendor contributors from design through delivery of application solutions.
• This includes Mobile applications used by approximately 25,000 In-flight service providers, a complete custom Mobile device inventory management system, new credit card reader device selection and implementation, Confidential audit support, Analytics Big Data integration for customized service indicators on mobile devices among 20+ projects.
• This position requires strong project management skills for planning, meeting facilitation and vendor management as well as technical know-how.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• As the Architect for this new Enterprise capability, responsible for the implementation of Ping Federate and Ping Access to provide security and Single-Sign On for a new SaaS product and Azure implementation. This included custom development work to provide Enterprise login and password management capabilities that leverage the Ping software functionality integrated with proprietary identity stores and applications using OpenID Connect and WS-Federation with Active Directory.
• Working with Enterprise Architecture, Security and various Application development teams we have delivered the first iteration.
• Responsible for the Enterprise Confidential direction, currently designing an Enterprise Identity Store to provide a future ID store for hundreds of other custom applications as well as transition architectural designs to support other existing, high volume products.
• I provide technical leadership for a team of .NET developers for the custom components and Ping configuration, automation, Splunk monitoring and operational considerations. Working with infrastructure we have created multiple environments to support secure application integration for both internal and external customer users.
• Additionally, I support the project and platform managers with advice on technical debt prioritization, resource hiring and project estimation.
• Currently developing integration guides to provide a step-by-step guide to Confidential integration services currently provided while designing future Use Cases we will eventually support.
• Implemented Ping Identity on Azure for global expansion.

Confidential

Sr. Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led SCRUM teams of Java and .NET developers for the WestLaw Next program.

Confidential

PM/Scrum Master G360 Mobile Field Application

Responsibilities:

• Lead multiple teams of approximately 65 resources through sprints to complete the North American development of the Global field support application in this consulting role.
• This team had not been able to deliver a working release to the QA environment and was significantly behind in development.
• The initial North American release was pushed to QA under my leadership.
• Re- assigned to lead the team including change management, release management, developers, testers and customers to implement the new application in a severely limited time frame for this program at risk.

Confidential

Technical Project/Program Manager & Web Developer

Responsibilities:

• Converted team to agile methodology, consistently delivering functionality throughout the year.
• Implemented new processes to improve content and development coordination resulting in significant cycle-time and defect reductions.
• Coordinate multiple platform integrations including Cache, EPIC as well as proprietary applications with the web customer portal.
• Provide oversight to extended team of approximately 30 resources including Java developers, infrastructure, security, database and web services areas Quality Assurance and accessibility testing.
• Implementation PM for Truven Analytics Treatment Cost Calculator
• Developed Java Web functionality for Wellbeing and Provider Portal.

Interim IT Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Consulted to support small IT operation for this $20M brewing supply company.
• Recommended staffing and IT vision for future growth.
• Assisted hiring permanent IT Director.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager/Program Manager/Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• PM for Customer Identity Management (CIM) program providing web based security for 24M customers.
• Provide oversight of emerging and existing CIM operational concerns for 14 customer facing web sites.
• Integration Architect facilitated integration with existing Web Services and managed development of new capabilities for 10 projects across 16 multi-vendor delivery groups, both on and off-shore.
• Provide project planning, scheduling, risk/issue and change management and capacity planning of infrastructure. Negotiation of support contracts and staffing needs.
• Manage Security Architecture and Security Assessment engagements for each project with principle security architect. Developed processes and procedures to improve ease of integration, quality and cost management.
• Program manager for Rewardzone mobile and cloud web application enhancements.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed three internal IT projects for the Tools Team. Provided project planning, resource selection, and weekly, monthly and quarterly financial reporting.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• As Project Manager for the strategic CTC (Circle The Customer) project, I managed several projects for this $20 Million dollar value proposition initiative.
• Directed a team of 28 resources to deliver a Customer Sales information system integrating source data from a variety of platforms.
• Developed project plans for new efforts, led Stakeholder meetings, reported status to Executive level.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Manager implementing the Confidential AssurX Web-based quality management system for this global manufacturer reporting to the executive level.
• This $1.1M project is expected to return an annual $400K in savings and provide an Confidential CFR 21 Part 11 Validated system.
• Led a joint configuration team of Quality Engineers, Chemists and IT personnel to implement North America and Europe on-time and under-budget.
• Extended to complete global EMEA implementation.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Technical Project Manager for SOX Infrastructure and other compliance related initiatives including UNIX account management and fulfillment.