SUMMARY:

• Strong desire to continue as a liaison between customers, sales, marketing and technical staffs.
• Leverage customer facing communication skills, product and project management, personnel management, as well as design & engineering leadership for project success.
• Maintain a state - of-the-art awareness and apply new technologies with both marketing and business Confidential while mentoring others as to its adaptation.
• Over twenty years experience in managing, architecting, and developing software systems.
• Experienced in presenting system solutions to customers, senior management, and peers with audiences as large as 300.
• Responsible for up to $5 million projects involving public and corporate project reviews.
• Directed and mentored architects, project engineers, and developers.
• Experienced in soliciting the required end user interaction for success.
• Selected and managed vendors, subcontractors and contractors.
• Proactively introduced and managed process improvement and quality driven product development, deployment, and service.
• Successfully moved companies from Water Fall to Agile methodologies.
• Instituted software development practices that increased product quality and reversed the trend of returned products, and moved the company onto many preferred vendor lists
• Technical manager and lead architect of a flexible manufacturing system that has been in service for over 20 years and is still being sold and deployed
• Coached and professionally developed Project Leads for their own technical development teams
• Initiated and successfully achieved adoption of object oriented analysis, design, and programming for a team of 28 developers with formal training, mentorship, and coaching
• US Patent #5,373,205 - Motor thermal digital filter control for robotics & Confidential machine tools to adjust path trajectory and speed avoiding motor overheating and damage
• Saved a large trucking company a $1,500,000 hardware investment by redesigning their mobile communication system software and enhancing the ruggedness of in-truck hardware

SKILLS:

• Management
• Methodology/Tools
• Team Development
• Project Lead Development
• Coaching/Mentoring
• Hiring/Staffing Practices
• Performance Reviews
• Salary Administration
• Software & Product Development Project Management
• Waterfall & Agile Project Management
• Subcontractor/Vendor Management
• On-shore/Off-Shore Teams
• Agile, Scrum & Kanban
• QA Metrics & Analytics
• Atlasian - Confluence, Jira, Fisheye, Crucible
• Oracle, SQL Server, Liquibase
• Glassfish, Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty, WebSphere
• Java EE 8, Junit, Maven, Jenkins
• Spring Framework, MVC, Web Flow, AOP
• Git, Subversion, TFS
• Oracle SOA Suite, OSB
• IBM BlueWorks Live, BPM/ODM
• IBM IIB, Oracle OSB, TIBCO
• UML, OOA/OOD/OOP
• ERP/MRP/CRM Data Warehousing
• Business Sectors
• Languages/Formats
• Discreet & Continuous Manufacturing
• Transportation & Logistics
• Healthcare | Pharmacy
• Insurance & Bonds
• POS & Inventory
• 24/7 Service Management
• Sales/Service Decision Analytics
• Education/Learning Systems
• C/C++/C# .NET Microsoft Stack
• Java 6-8 Full Stack
• XML/XSLT/XPATH
• SOA, SOAP, Rest, JSON
• T-SQL, PL-SQL
• EDI, HL7

EXPERIENCE:

Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with business owners, enterprise architects, and PMO during solution development
• Worked directly with enterprise architects and governance structures to create context, conceptual, logical, and physical models of proposed solutions
• Worked directly with application leads constructing detail design artifacts
• Enhanced customer usability and satisfaction for main customer portal
• Guided technical direction for implementing mobile messaging and notifications enhancements to increase customer satisfaction with legacy .Net apps
• Authored Solution Design integrating TIBCO EMS with existing and new apps, as well as a third party messaging provider for mobile communication with customers
• Reimplemented legacy Java and .Net apps after security audit & breach report
• Maintained TFS repository and created TFS reports for change and release management

Technical Architect/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed offshore development team and provided solution approaches in design and java code
• Acted as scrum master and project manager in agile development team
• Implemented web service security on 3rd party SOAP and Rest interfaces
• Implement web service Spring controllers and supporting business tier java
• Implemented user experience with Spring Web Flow and MVC
• Artifacts submitted to git repositories and incrementally built and integrated with Jenkins
• Created and maintained architecture/high-level design UML models of applications
• Establish deployment plans for applications to over 2500 retail stores
• Deployed apps to Tomcat, Jetty, and JBoss
• Web servers integrated by IBM’s IIB Message Broker

Application Architect Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained architecture/high-level design UML models
• Member of scrum deployment team
• Worked directly with stakeholders and business owners for each sprint’s user stories, backlog grooming, and sprint demos
• Executed project work in the Atlasian tool suite - Jira, Fisheye, Crucible

System Analyst/Architect Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed Sprint planning and Backlog for Business Owner and Management
• Performed Cloud based proof of concept projects
• Architected the migration of an LDAP implementation in Apache Cassandra to the cloud (AWS - Amazon Web Services)
• Increased performance of user authentication in a 4 million user database
• Redesigned a core business Oracle database schema for consistency, quality, security, and performance
• Re-authored a B2B interface for 3rd party API developers supporting secure B2B purchasing

Solutions Architect/Project Manager Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Gathered requirements and authored Business Intelligence data visualization solutions
• Created interactive reports of customer data from disparate artifacts to facilitate business decisions in sales and customer service

Project Manager/Business Process Architect Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided project management and business analysis expertise to an international company
• Authored all schedule and status/progress reports for customer’s management
• Managed the interdepartmental communications and delivery of current business process flow
• Gathered requirements and constructed BPMN models in BlueWorks Live and Process Designer
• Executed, verified, and optimized process flow in BlueWorks Live with Analyze & Playback tools

Sr Industry Consultant/Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead all requirements meetings to the creation of required documents
• Drove the creation of technical design specs from a project’s functional specs, resulting in an understandable and realizable system for the development team
• Drove all Scrum sessions as Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager and provided Backlog & Burndown Rate reports to management

Business Analyst Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Engaged client in interpreting functional design documents and translating them into complete workable solutions using their platform
• Provided customization of .Net based Confidential platform: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Service Management

Confidential

Product Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed offshore resources for co-development using JAD/Agile process
• Hosted weekly scrum meetings with offshore and Canada based teams.
• Assigned tasks to offshore scrum masters for weekly development cycles
• Coordinated and contributed to java development task in hibernate, Struts based MVC, and supporting business logic
• Provided expertise in best practices for java implementation approaches, and standards
• Managed technology transfer between the companies
• Audited and maintained security implications of HIPAA on system development & implementation including external medical interfaces (HL7/XML) in java

Confidential

Lead Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided strategic planning, budgets, and weekly reports to management
• Proactively solicited face-to-face business analysis and requirements gathering to identify business objects, workflow, and stakeholder identification and roles
• Hired staff to implement the required service components
• Supported and enhanced Java based product with new features and incident resolution
• Refactored existing java base to integrate into new Web Service architecture
• Provided architectural vision in eCommerce, SOA/SOAP, and BPM solutions for a 24/7 call center service organization providing remote DBA support for companies across the country
• Incorporated strong security models in each supported database technology to keep client data separate and inaccessible from client to client