SUMMARY:

• An IT professional experienced in on premise and cloud technologies with a primary focus on methodologies, strategic planning, SOA, enterprise architecture, enterprise application integration, modernization, digital transformation, data center consolidations, cloud migrations and DevOps.
• Expert Enterprise Architect, Solution Delivery Methodology Architect, Project Manager, Lead Developer and IT executive.
• Very skilled in the ability to work with business stakeholders to help relate technology to business processes, in being able to communicate and explain technology to non IT persons, and in mentoring IT staff.
• Strong decision making, vendor management, strategic thinking, planning, stakeholder management, communication, problem solving, leadership, training, IT management, governance and teamwork skills.
• Works hard at keeping abreast of new and emerging technologies to help the business take advantage of ever evolving digital revenue opportunities, and IT to support the business in an ever increasing agile and cost effective manner.

TECHNICAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE:

• HIPAA compliant Telemedicine technologies
• Full SDLC (Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, DevOps)
• UML, OOD, Web Services
• E - Commerce, EDI
• Web hosting/E-Mail services
• HTML, XHTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript
• Open Source Technologies (LAMP, JAVA)
• Microsoft Technologies (.NET, Sharepoint, SSRS)
• Mainframe Technologies
• On/Off Prem, Hybrid Cloud - Confidential, Azure, AWS, Oracle
• Services, Micro Services, API’s
• SOA/EAI/ESB Technologies
• Linux Sys/Network Administration
• Firewall/Application/Data Security
• DB2, Oracle, Informix, MYSQL, SQL Server
• C, C#, Shell, Java, PHP, Adobe Air, Ruby
• Technology Assessments
• I/HaaS, PaaS, SaaS… XaaS
• TOGAF, Catalyst, GAME, ITIL
• Cloud Migrations, Application Modernizations/Transformations
• Digital Transformations
• Data Warehousing, Analytics
• Big Data, HADOOP
• Hospitality
• Non-Profit/Faith
• CRM, SAP
• Railroad
• Supply/Logistics
• Telephony
• Crime Prevention
• Restaurant Mgt
• Training
• Insurance
• Banking
• Retail
• HR
• Financial
• ERP
• IT Process, Planning & Management
• Film Processing
• Education
• Military

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Principal Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of the solution delivery methodologies and assets for Confidential ’s portfolio of solutions.
• Lead enterprise architect on Application Portfolio Assessment, Cloud Migration, Application Modernization, Enterprise Application Integration, Digital Transformation, DevOps and Data Center Consolidation engagements using cloud services, mainframe, Open Source, Java and .Net.

Confidential

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the technical leadership of application modernization, enterprise application integration, DevOps and cloud migration projects using cloud services, mainframe, Open Source, Java and .NET

Confidential

Principal Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected enterprise solutions for enterprise application integration, cloud migrations, application and infrastructure modernizations, business analytics, big data, Agile/DevOps, Enterprise Quality Assurance and SDLC, IT Strategies, application portfolio management and assessments using on and off shore resources.
• Responsible for the development of the solution delivery methodologies and assets for Confidential ’s portfolio of solutions.
• Software technologies include SOA/EAI/ESB architectures as well as cloud services, mainframe, Open Source (LAMP, JAVA) and .NET software stacks.

Confidential

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed solution delivery methods for modernization and data center consolidation solutions.
• Participated in the consolidation and modernization of data centers (infrastructure and applications), located worldwide, and consisting of over 25,000 servers, spanning all major platform and software stacks. As an architect, my role consisted of infrastructure, network, application and database analysis for the purpose of developing consolidation and migration wave plans.
• Software technologies include SOA/EAI/ESB architectures as well as cloud services, mainframe, Open Source (LAMP, Java) and .NET software stacks.

Confidential

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Methodology/Best practices identification, Pre-implementation planning and preparation of SOA Roadmap and modernization efforts for an international retailer.
• Artifacts/Deliverables:
• Architecture Vision
• Architecture Definition Document & Capability Roadmap
• Requirements Management
• As-is/To-Be Gap Matrices
• Services Standards Specifications, Business Process Relationships
• Types of Services, Service-Categories
• External Services/API specifications, Security
• Communications-Plan
• SOA Consumer-Access Specifications
• XML Schema Specification guidelines, Service-Design Patterns
• Service-Registry/Discovery Specifications
• SOA Contract Specifications
• Platform-Service Specifications
• Service-Monitoring/Management Specifications
• Service Alert Specifications
• Service Implementation and Migration Plan
• Service-Virtualization Specifications
• Service-Mediation Specifications
• Proof-of-Concept Planning
• Disaster-Recovery guidelines, Architecture Repository guidelines, Response-Caching guidelines, Tools & Testing guidelines
• Roles/Labor/Skill Requirements, Training/Presentation Guidelines, Interfacing with ensuing ESB and Application projects.
• Software technologies include cloud services, mainframe, Open Source (LAMP, Java) and .NET software stacks.
• Methods and best practices included components from TOGAF and Catalyst, resulting in GAME (Good Enough Architecture Methodology).

Confidential

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Defined the standards and methodologies for product packaging of SOA services and frameworks used in the modernization of insurance applications.
• Technologies involved included some legacy mainframe systems, but mostly JAVA on Open Source platforms with Oracle as the DBMS. MULE was used as the ESB.
• The set of applications had well over 1000 developers dedicated to it, both on-site and off-shore.

Confidential

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated strategic enterprise planning sessions and architected enterprise level IT infrastructures and web applications employing both open source (LAMP, Java) and proprietary technologies on cloud services. Architected the modernization of financial applications. My specialties included the design and development of EAI and SOA hybrid architectures, DevOps and the engineering of anything as a service (XaaS).
• Was contracted to a world-wide organization where I fulfilled the roles of Enterprise Architect and Lead Developer.
• Designed and developed a custom SOA and Enterprise Service Bus using the LAMP stack on off premise cloud services. Methods and best practices included components from TOGAF and Catalyst, resulting in GAME (Good Enough Architecture Methodology). The SOA was used primarily to enable the integration of legacy, .NET and open source applications employing a variety of DBMS’s.

Confidential

Owner, Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided Enterprise, Modernization, EAI, SOA and Solutions Architect consulting services.
• Designed, developed and hosted Internet, Intranet and Extranet applications for clients nationwide. Among these were applications that employed database, E-Commerce and HIPAA compliant TeleMedicine technologies using the LAMP stack and Java.
• For hosting services, I built, maintained and administered my own network of 23 physical Linux servers.

Confidential

Principal, Architectural Expert

Responsibilities:

• Provided marketing support by participating as lead architect in numerous proposal development efforts for mainframe backend E~Business projects using EAI and IAI technologies.
• Developed delivery solutions/methodologies for EAI and IAI engagements.
• Provided architect and full life-cycle project management services to GM’s OnStar project using object oriented technologies and CSC’s Catalyst methodology.
• Provided modernization architecture services to a major insurance carrier in order to enable them to provide rate quotes and policies via the Internet.
• Developed web applications using LAMP, Microsoft and JAVA technologies
• The 2002 financial crisis caused CSC to lay off over 2000 employees, including me.

Confidential

Project Manager/Sr Internet Architect

Responsibilities:

• For a major provider of insurance services, worked with business units as the senior Architect to help develop their E~Commerce and EAI strategies. Worked with IT to architect their development methodologies, security and network infrastructures in support of those strategies.
• For a major hotel chain, provided lead architect and full life-cycle project management services for the development of a set of branded web sites that offer internationalization, customizable user preferences, and functionality that requires interfaces with numerous backend client/server and legacy systems.
• Developed web applications using LAMP, Microsoft and JAVA technologies
• Served in the capacity of Sr. Internet Architect on engagements in the financial, healthcare, travel, Y2K and retail/catalog sales industries.
• Developed web applications using Unix, Microsoft and JAVA technologies.
• Provided E~Business architecture and strategic consulting services to Confidential, AT&T, Mercantile Bank, Wholesale Depot, RCI, and TTX
• For a large communications company, was responsible for the design and development of communications software between applications on computers worldwide, and for the interfaces of these applications to other systems.
• For a restaurant and nightclub chain, architected and managed the development of a systems encompassing personnel, payroll, inventory, food ordering, liquor ordering and control, reservations, membership, billing, financials and cash register point of sales applications using UNIX based technologies.
• For Confidential, was the DBA responsible for the design of and development of large-scale Informix and DB2 databases.
• For Confidential, was the manager of the technical architecture team for a major film processing client. The team was responsible for all systems and network administration, and the development of all middleware for the applications.
• As lead architect, designed and developed a telemarketing support system for one of the world's largest non-profit organizations.
• For various clients, designed and developed software tools to help automate IT processes (DevOps), such as tape reservation systems, messaging systems, and release management systems.
• Developed video training courses for various IT technologies.

Confidential

President, Founder

Responsibilities:

• Developed ITDC into a multi-million dollar Information Technology training and consulting business.
• In addition to managing the day to day activities, personally developed the textbooks for over 42 different courses, and taught these to hundreds of corporate and government students. These include Unix, Shell, SysAdmin, C, Informix SQL, Esql/C, and Informix 4GL.
• Personally developed all software for the automation of our in-house processes using UNIX based technologies.

Confidential

Project Manager, Architect, Developer

Responsibilities:

• As a methodology and process consultant, developed the standards and procedures used by Xerox to develop a nationwide order admin system.
• As a full-cycle project manager, managed the development of mainframe based interagency reciprocity applications.
• As a project manger, managed a team of programmer/analysts, systems programmers and operations staff in the DOS to MVS conversion of all systems for a large metropolitan school system.
• As project manager, managed a team of analysts in the requirements analysis and design of a mainframe system to automate passenger and freight train operations for the German National Railway.
• Designed and developed a custom software development methodology for the German National Railway.cial mainframe applications.