PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• I am an experienced professional in the field of technology designing, implementing and managing the creation of customer solutions to address business issues to increase revenue and reduce operating expenses through architecture upgrades, consolidation or replacement of existing hardware and software with new strategic, state - of-the-art, more cost effective enterprise solutions.
• I have successfully designed and managed projects for large local, regional and international corporations while working for Confidential as a senior architect.
• My responsibilities vary by project and generally involve a hybrid role of enterprise architect and manager throughout the Agile and systems development life cycle.
• My primary focus has remained within the data management, project management and business intelligence domains, I in corporate my many years of enterprise hardware platform implementation, software integration, application development knowledge and management experience into the architectural design to provide a strategic, state of the artend-to-end solution.
• I have managed teams from 5 to as many as to 26 associates and implemented architectural solutions utilizing the latest in virtualization, private cloud, SOA, middleware, data securityand eCommerce based technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: COBOL,Java

Operating Systems: z/OS, DOS, VM, VMWare VMotion, Unix, Aix, Linux,Windows

Job Control: Cron, Rexx

Data Bases/Access Methods: IMS/DB/DC, CICS, Oracle 12C, DB2 LUW, DB2 Connect, DB2 z/OS, VSAM, SQL/DS SQL Server, Postgress, Cassandra, Red Cap, MySql, NoSQL, Big Data(unstructured)

Security/Masking: Oracle Encryption, Oracle Redaction/Masking, RACF, Active DirectoryLDAP, Cognos Access Manager, Oracle Advanced Security Feature

Business Intelligence: Cognos Report Studio, Cognos Analysis Studio, Tableau BusinessObjects(SAP/BO),SSRS,SSAS, QMF

Development: TSO, ISPF/PDF, Visio

DW Appliances: Oracle Exadata

Extract Transform Load: Datastage,Informatica, SSIS, SAP/BODS

House Holding & Profiling: DataFlux, QualityStage, Informatica Data Quality

Data Modeling/OLAP: Erwin, PowerDesigner, Concensus for OLAP Design, Dimensional Modeling Star/SnowFlake), Normalized(3NF), Data Vault

Packaged Software: Guidewire Insurance Suite, SAP/ERP, e-Commerce on Confidential Websphere, Quickbooks

MS Office Tools: Excel,Word, Powerpoint, Sharepoint

Web Development: HTML, XML, SOA

Project Management: MS Project, Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, MADP

System Monitoring: Hyperic, Strobe

Application Server: Jboss, Websphere

Process Improvement: Six Sigma

Confidential Mainframe: Operating systems, MVS, VM, JCL, JES, RACF, CA-7, LPAR, Z-Series Processors and ZIPP Engines

Project Manager: Successful project manager with Confidential and other consulting companies

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential

Enterprise Architect Executive/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed the data profiling team to evaluate the actual content, structure and quality of the data by exploring relationships that exist between value collections within data sets to produce metrics scorecards and profiles utilizing the Informatica Data Quality software.
• Managed the data discovery process to determine where Personal Identifiable Information is stored and how it conforms to specific rules and processes where obfuscation or data masking is needed.
• Designed the meta data repository processes and data stores to enable the creation, capture and sharing f the full business context around critical business data elements including attributes, coded values, business rules, policies, reference data, links and data lineage utilizing Informatica Metadata Repository software.

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Enterprise Solutions/Project Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created the strategy, processes, design, integration points and project plans to migrate client I/T systems from an in house infrastructure model into a Confidential hosted environment.
• The overall client goals of outsourcing the systems supporting the banking and insurance applications is to reduce I/T costs and risks, implement new and emerging technologies including but not limited to big data, cloud computing, cyber security, mobilitysocial networks and web based services while maintaining core business systems.

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Enterprise Solutions/Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Implemented a multi-tier scalable Cognos Business Intelligence Infrastructure
• Created an industry standard property and casualty enterprise data model
• Implemented an enterprise, self serve reporting and analytic data warehouse
• Implemented an Confidential Business Glossary metadata solution within the enterprise
• Defined an architecture to support master data management and data governance
• Implemented 3 Oracle Exadata Appliances for the Guidewire Suite and Enterprise Data Warehouse

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Project Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Defined the business requirements, functional design specifications, integration components and candidate services within a service oriented architecture for the digital customer loyalty program.
• Defined data integration flows from the electronic point of sales systems into the dunnhumby analytical environment for customer product purchase analysis and product ranking
• Designed intersystem and intra-system integration points and data stores
• Implemented Cassandra partitioned data stores supporting structured, unstructured and semi-structured customer analytic data
• Defined, documented and presented all design patterns to the technology review board for compliance and fulfillment of the overall corporate software implementation strategy

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Enterprise Data Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a set of dashboards to track the manufacturing process of coated specialty paper products across the paper mills

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Data Base Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created a data base architecture to fulfill the corporate directive to provide a private cloud based shared resource infrastructure in support of a highly available, scalable, reduced hardwaresoftware and environmental cost solution with automatic failover for all Confidential products and services.

Confidential

Integration/Data Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented a marketing and sales data mart and business intelligence reporting solution to track the revenue and marketing activity of their medical biopsy instruments.

Confidential

Cognos BI Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Completed the design and consolidation of two distinct Cognos business intelligence reporting environment: s and associated data stores into a single, hardware and software platform secured by a single sign-on active directory network.

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Data Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and constructed a consolidated data mart populated from 4 separate data sources to trackreport and analyze Treasury core products sold and managed by the various 5th/3rd officers.

Confidential

Solutions Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Migrated three Confidential e-Commerce web and database servers

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Business Owner / eCommerce Architect

Responsibilities:

• Selected sporting goods and apparel products and suppliers
• Established product pricing and inventory
• Created product catalogs and order tracking dashboards on both Amazon and company website
• Designed and installed the company e-commerce website and associated shopping cart software
• Installed, customized and integrated PayPal software with Amazon and the company website
• Optimized search engine ranking on Google and other major search engines

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Architect Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Created and implemented a strategic design to consolidate four IMS claims processing systems into a single centralized DB2 operational data store using real time messaging services to support query and analysis of member claim data
• Reduced the number of physical web servers by implementing virtualized servers using Confidential ’s Virtual Machine software and the z/Linux operating system
• Created the strategic directional roadmaps and upgrade paths for the enterprise data management software to support future Service Oriented Architectures and Z Series Processors