OBJECTIVE:

Director or VP of enterprise systems product delivery team

SUMMARY:

• 2 years Federal contracting experience
• 15 years in the financial industry working at Confidential
• 9 years in the health insurance industry as a consultant
• 15+ years leading the scoping, design and development of software products
• Directed all stages of the solution management lifecycle from initial concept to development and delivery
• Create and communicate the architectural vision
• Develop product road maps
• Facilitate requirements gathering and analysis
• Drive technical solution establishing policies and best practices for design and development
• Strong decision - making skills, ability to consider multiple options, complete with pros, cons and risks
• Establish relationships with multiple departments (Product Managers, Operations, Business Stakeholders)
• Transformed many teams from traditional SDLC to Agile Best Practices
• 20+ years hands on software development expertise
• Java, JEE, Objective-C (including the iOS stack)
• SOA including SOAP and RESTful Web Services, Web Applications
• 8+ years Delivering Services to clients in a consulting role
• Drove Application Development and SOA architecture
• Data integration and data architecture services and HIE services
• Completed numerous Architecture reviews including a transition plan to Cloud Computing
• Production support transition plans
• Identified new business opportunities with existing clients
• Recruited technical staff for many client engagements
• 8+ years Business Development and Sales Support experience
• Prepared responses to RFPs and Proposals
• Generated Statements of Work (SOWs)
• Provided Budgetary Estimates

EXPERIENCE:

Director Lifecycle

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Director of a talented team (4 directs and a total team of approximately 50) responsible for a grants management system for the Federal government.
• Responsible for driving the system development process, maintaining all aspects of the overall software development lifecycle and ensuring the on-time, quality delivery of software product releases for the federal government's GrantSolutions system
• Report to the CTO of Confidential
• Directing the following teams (approximately 50 people):
• Development
• Testing - Manual, Automated and Performance
• Change Management - Release Management and Configuration Management
• Work with Enterprise Architects, CTO, and Product Managers to sequence/coordinate development activities within an Iterative-style development environment
• Produce and present Weekly Technical Status briefings
• Participate in CMMI assessments

Sr. Product Development Manager / Sr. Delivery Manager

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Leader of an entrepreneurial group - leading teams to delivery Health Informatics Solutions (infrastructure, interoperability, and applications) to improve health care quality, affordability and outcomes
• Serve as Program Manager, Product Manager, Project Manager and Engagement Manager for clients
• Support Sales group by writing: Responding to RFPs, Proposals, Statements of Work, Budgetary Estimates
• Assist Recruiting group by conducting technical interviews of staffing candidates for clients
• Advocate for Re-use. Led adoption of ETL load process across multiple teams, eliminating need for each team to incur cost of a unique load process
• Lead multiple concurrent teams: Applications, Web Services, ETL, Reporting, System Administrators and DBAs
• Accountable for an enterprise Health Information Exchange (HIE) / ETL process combining medical records from Providers via Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and claims data from Payers
• Architected, Managed and Developed solutions for client engagements (State of Alaska) - Exceeded client’s expectations - this has led to additional work from the client and adding additional resources to the team
• Proposal development which led to being awarded a HEAL 10 and 17 grants from the state of NY
• Architected and implemented several solutions using SOA best practices using an ESB, that process HIPAA 837, 276/277, 270/271 X12 transactions (internal SaaS platform and at BC/BS of Western NY)

Sr. Software Development Manager

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Held positions of increasing responsibility managing teams of 6 to 25 people building technical solutions
• Selected and served on the Enterprise Architecture Steering Committee
• Enterprise architecture team member - Confidential
• Instrumental in the adoption of SOA, Reuse, Shared Services and Best Practices at the enterprise level
• Contributed to many successful production Applications - Desktop Originator, Desktop Trader, Instant Pre-Approval and many others (Restatement, MCODES, CLM, Shared Services, etc)
• Technical and Team Leadership - SOA and J2EE architect - Ensured high quality of code (reusable and maintainable) for Shared Services and Applications by providing extensive J2EE architecture and development best practices and hands on development
• Led several development teams (5-25 developers) using the XP/Agile methodology
• Consulted to multiple application teams on Java, SOA, J2EE architecture and BEA WebLogic Server
• Managed an Application Architecture team where I successfully led the development, delivery and production support of multiple releases of a set of reusable components developed in Objective-C / AppKit
• Managed the design, coding, testing, and implementation of many projects with a staff of 6 to 25 developers
• Staff evaluation experience and Vendor relationship management with NeXT/Apple and SUN Microsystems