SUMMARY:

• A polished, forward thinking senior IT executive with over 18 years of experience in software development, implementation and systems architecture of large scale enterprise systems.
• A proven track record of leading onshore and offshore technical teams to develop innovative technological solutions that enhance business processes, increase productivity and contribute to the bottom line.
• In - depth understanding of IT organizations and operations coupled with the ability to understand organizational objectives and to develop and deliver a strategic vision to meet those objectives. Skilled at communicating IT strategies to senior management and partners in order to achieve organizational goals.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Project Planning and Budgeting
• Ability to align business and IT strategies
• Complex Systems Development, Migration and Integration
• Organizational Optimization/Outsourcing/Off shoring
• Team building/Personnel Development
• Vendor Selection/Negotiation/Management
• Business Continuity/ Disaster recovery planning
• Hands on development experience/Adept problem solver

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

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Principal

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed a full featured enterprise application for event planning and speaker bureau management. This system enabled users to track and manage every facet of event planning for over 75,000 pharmaceutical marketing meetings
• Attendee registration
• Speaker and venue management
• Expense management and customized reporting
• Architected and managed the development of an Enterprise iPad application designed to capture attendee and meeting data and persist it to Cloud storage. The enterprise data layer employs Windows Communication Foundation ( Confidential ) web services to link the iPads to a Microsoft SQL Server data tier deployed on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services. This app has been launched on the Apple Confidential app store.
• Designed, architected, and developed a full featured framework for releasing fully customizable data driven websites using MVC4 ASP.Net and MS SQL Server deployed on Windows Azure. These web sites are used to facilitate communication and knowledge sharing between Medical Education companies and their pharmaceutical clients and their field representatives.

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Application Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to Senior Management for full life cycle development of the Clinical Trial Publishing System directly supporting $5 million in annual revenue. This system imports Clinical Trial data from major pharmaceutical companies, manages the data through a customized workflow and then publishes the data to the Web and to various licensed data feeds. Supervised a team of 12 contractors.
• Authored comprehensive Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery plan to safeguard the Web Content Management environment for the Physician’s Desk Reference web presence (PDR.Net). This environment includes web servers, database servers, a Documentum CMS instance and Web Services. Successfully tested the plan.
• Technical Lead for Monograph Management Workflow project. Responsible for all technical aspects of a software application to track the production of the Physician’s Desk Reference book. Supervised a team of 7 contractors in an offshore development model. Developed the System Architecture, Technical Specifications and the project plan. Successfully integrated key COTS software components that enabled the project to come in on time and under budget.
• Technical Leader/Project Manager for the Thomson Physicians Database and Data Warehouse. Responsible for all aspects including data aggregation and reporting for a COGNOS and SQL Server 2005 based data warehouse and reporting tool to track medical professionals. Lead a team of 6 software engineers and one database administrator.

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Systems Architect/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Senior Consultant to the Confidential Program Manager for Distributed Common Ground Systems supporting the architecture effort to develop a Web Service Oriented Architecture for the mission critical Army Intelligence computer systems.
• Developed strategies to employ XML messaging to expose services from legacy Army Intelligence systems to enable data sharing and knowledge management in order to provide actionable intelligence to the warfighter.

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Senior Information Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consultant to the Confidential Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications directly involved in the development of complex System Architectures for the Confidential ’s effort to digitize the battlefield in the area of Command and Control. Responsible for integrating Unix, Linux and Windows platforms running software applications written in C, C++, Java, C# and VB.NET.
• Develop and present architectures to senior leadership designed to explain system interfaces, network structure and system deployments. Development tools used include Rational Rose and System Architect to develop UML and DoD Architecture Framework models.
• Promoted to Technical Team Lead to supervise the deliverables for 8 CSC contractors and sub-contractors to the client.

Confidential

Senior Director

Responsibilities:

• Managed all aspects of software development for a staff of 19 developers; including, object oriented software design, development, integration, testing, documentation, deployment and maintenance. Expert technical resource to development staff.
• Project Manager for web based telephone recruiting software development effort. Directed all aspects of software development life cycle including design, release and maintenance, which improved call floor efficiency by 45%. Employed ASP.NET for the GUI and developed the middle tier business objects in C#. Worked closely with developers as we implemented these new technologies. Used Object Oriented design and UML to model the software use cases and business logic for this application.
• Introduced RAD and JAD methodologies to decrease software development time by 60%. Implemented software standards and best practices by introducing source control and bug tracking software.
• Proven ability to perform complex data modeling, process modeling and relational database development. Spearheaded major data warehouse project that consolidated over 300 SQL Server databases into the primary data tier for all corporate Business Intelligence data and was used as a platform to integrate client data.

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Project Manager/Solution Developer

Responsibilities:

• Employed Unified Modeling Language (UML) to architect the Confidential Warfare Information System. This Human Resources system was successfully implemented for Confidential on time and under budget resulting in a net savings of $275,000 to Confidential . I served as Project Leader and senior developer. This application used MS SQL Server on the data tier, Visual Basic Classes as objects on the application tier and Active Server Pages for the GUI.
• Developed a Geographic Information System ( Confidential ) application used by Confidential Intelligence. This system was coded in Visual Basic and used COM interop to integrate with ESRI ArcGIS, which provided the mapping functionality.

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Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the computer operations for a 650,000 sq. ft. warehouse facility which tracked over $220 million worth of product annually. Successfully implemented a reporting system and several significant system upgrades. This system was written in DEC C and was running on Open VMS.
• Managed team responsible for integrating computer operations between IBM AS/400 midrange system and PC based systems.