PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• I have extensive experience applying advanced computing technologies to enable strategic business goals.
• Worked in the commercial and in the government sectors: telecommunications, financial, pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, as well as in federal agencies such as the department of Health and Human Services, Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense (DoD).
• Have managed the implementation of services using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud - based services, business architecture and solution architecture.
• Experienced in in architectural frameworks such as Zachman, FEAF, DoDAF, TOGAF, as well as the RUP and Agile development processes and the UML and Archimate notations.
• Experienced Enterprise Solution Architect/SOA/Business Architect and strategist with broad-based experience IT Transformation and architecture technology problem solving

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Enterprise Architect / Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Defining global solution architecture projects by gaining a clear understanding of business and technical requirements and of the business strategy and deriving high level solution designs.
• Leading the exploration of technology approaches to develop the IT solutions and to drive organizational change and support business process design.
• Leading design and selecting information system solutions, considering functionality, data, security, integration, infrastructure and performance
• Develop the Architecture Definition Documents. Develop and maintaining application models and artifacts as per TOGAF standards
• Working with the technical teams to evaluate and select the technologies and integration required to implement a solution design.
• Working with the business and systems architecture team to align the Business architecture with the Application, Information, Data, Technology and Infrastructure architecture.
• Effectively communicating the architecture to business, IT staff and the Architecture Governance Board.

Technologies and standards involved: TOGAF, Archimate, UML, PCI, CyberSource, Mitek, Experian, FileNet, Mainframe, Oracle SOA, Microservices. Point-of-Sale (POS) technologies, Data Warehousing, Cognos reporting.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designing solutions around the Oracle Fusion middleware products

Technologies and standards involved: Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Siebel portal, ETL

Confidential, Washington DC

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Leading the effort in modeling the enterprise architecture, business processes, capabilities, applications and enabling technologies for the purpose of:
• Business transformation
• Re-Engineering
• Operational excellence
• As an Enterprise Architect, I was responsible for strategic planning of the enterprise with the participation of stakeholders, and the linking of organizational objectives with the desired business capabilities.
• Conducted interviews and facilitated meetings with technical and business executives to derive/validate performance goals and business functions and processes.
• Derived the business architecture of the organization in terms of its hierarchy, business capabilities (what the organization does), business processes (how they do it) and business information.
• Created hybrid enterprise architecture deliverables with the combination of TOGAF ADM and the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA).
• Modeling the as-is and the to-be in line with the vision, mission, strategy and goals of the Confidential HBX enterprise architecture of the integrated eligibility system for Medicaid, private health insurance and other programs with case management capabilities that span programs and agencies, in compliance with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) requirements. Using a combination of architectural frameworks consisting of TOGAF, Archimate, FEA and the Business Motivation Model (BMM).
• Modeling the Business architecture, Application architecture, Infrastructure architecture, Data Architecture, Services Architecture and Information architecture, in compliance with the CMS MITA-based architecture with scalability, flexibility and core services and functions common to all federally mandated exchanges.
• Assisting in the delivery of the Confidential HBX solution architecture based on architectural and design principles that are compliant with the ACA and other federal and District of Columbia requirements. Confidential integrates to existing state systems and commercial carriers.
• Planning the migration of HBX to the Amazon (AWS) cloud.

Technologies and standards involved: Curam, Oracle Weblogic, Oracle SOA Suite, Microservices, REST API, Drupal, NGINX, Unicorn, RabbitMQ, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, FEA, TOGAF, Archimate, Avolution Abacus, Visio, Kanban

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developing a Data Management and Strategy Framework to align the IAE data management and governance with the three other domains of the IAE enterprise architecture.
• Developing a conceptual data information model
• Identifying needed artifacts for the implementation of data management
• Developing a data security model
• Developing TOGAF matrices, catalogs and diagrams

Technologies and standards involved: API Management, TOGAF, Archimate, Agile process, GitHub, Hadoop. NoSQL

Confidential, Reston VA

Enterprise Architect/Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Providing support planning Confidential and Center of Excellence for DMIX
• Participating in the decision making process around SOA architecture strategy and driving the organization to adopt SOA Technology Standards. Influencing client’s SOA architecture to define organization-wide policies and procedures to further client's agenda.
• Developing SOA Reference Architecture
• Providing support to the DMIX PMO for the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record (VLER). VLER allows the multidirectional exchanges of health information among private health care organizations, the VA Medical Centers and administrative offices, and the DoD Military Treatment facilities.
• The DoDAF models were developed with the IBM Rational System Architect.

Technologies and standards involved: SOA Governance, SOA Policy, SOA Center of Excellence. OSMMI, IBM System Architect, IBM WMB, IBM WSRR, DoDAF 2.1.1

Confidential

Business Architect / SOA Architect

Responsibilities:

• The strategic business architecture
• The alignment of the business services models derived from the business architecture with various processes and component-oriented industry models for the achievement of enterprise architecture vision
• A strategy for a Service Oriented Architecture with timelines in order to achieve the bank’s business strategy.
• Organizing and running Business Architecture workshops which included representatives from IT and from business management. The goal of the workshop was to build a relationship with the business stakeholders and to derive business drivers, establish the mission, vision, goals, objectives and KPI’s of the SOA.
• Defining the b usiness architecture showing the current state and future state
• Supporting the Business Architecture team in defining business services
• Working with the Chief Architect and CIO, defined a SOA Roadmap for the Confidential ’s Russian Federation Retail Division.
• Evolving the existing Integration Competency Center into a SOA Center of Excellence (CoE).
• Leading a SOA maturity assessment
• Developing the SOA Reference Architecture
• Establishing the Confidential strategy which defines processes for SDLC, services reuse, exception management, portfolio management.
• Establishing a methodology for service identification and design: From corporate strategy through the business architecture, service modeling, service specification and realization.
• Mentoring the team on best SOA practices, standards, principles and implementation

Technologies and standards involved: TOGAF, BPMN, SOA, design patterns, SOA Governance, SOA Center of Excellence, OSMMI, UML. SoaML, IBM SOMA. BIAN, IBM: Confidential, Process Server, WSRR., BizzDesign

Confidential, Cranford, NJ

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assessed the current state of the AT&T IaaS cloud services provisioning orchestration architecture. Identified areas in need of improvement.
• Researched and recommended the best practices for Cloud IaaS based on the rapid developments of the industry.
• Recommended a conceptual future state for the cloud provisioning architecture based on a convergence of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with Cloud Computing. This required developing an understanding of the direction being taken by the Cloud Technology industry in terms of standards and cloud players strategies.
• Provided AT&T a transformation roadmap for achieving a better performing cloud provisioning architecture.
• Worked on an implementation proposal that resulted from the recommendations that the team provided to AT&T.

Technologies and standards involved: SOA, REST, Design Patterns, Cloud Computing (IaaS), VMware, API.

Confidential

Senior Architect

Responsibilities:

• Identified and analyzed enterprise business drivers;
• Derived enterprise business information, t echnical and solution architecture requirements;
• Translated business needs into enterprise architecture requirements.
• Mapped business capabilities
• Defined the high level view of the to-be technology architecture.
• Identified the As-Is technology
• Defined the target Integration standards, platform, and recommended a technical architecture aligned to the business architecture. (covering target business process, services, the technology architecture and stack)
• Identified the interface services to be exposed by each of the systems.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Recommended the Open Group’s Archimate architecture notation as a standard notation for all architectural representation
• Derived the Target Operating Model based on the MIT CISR approach
• Defined business capabilities required by the organization

Technologies and standards involved: SOA, SOA Governance, TOGAF, BPM, Archimate

Confidential

Senior Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Providing independent verification and validation (IV & V) of the DHS/USCIS enterprise applications modernization agency-wide effort to move services from a paper-based model to an electronic environment built around COTS products (Documentum, Siebel, Tibco, Adobe Lifecycle, etc.) that adheres to a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm. (Transformation cost > $500M)
• Mapping services for the development of a services interdependency model.
• Documenting findings risks and suggesting risk mitigation strategies
• Analyzing High Level Design (HLD) and Low Level Design (LLD)

Technologies and standards involved: SOA, UML. IBM Rational System Architect

Confidential

SOA Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed an Confidential architecture strategy as a means to realize the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) SOA Enterprise Architecture, known as the “This CMS Technical Reference Architecture - Enterprise Service Bus Supplement”, which provides the approved guidelines and standards for Confidential usage in accordance with CMS’ technical architecture approach and technical reference standards.
• Leading architecture team resources to satisfy customer requirements and meet project deliverables for a Health Information Exchange (HIE)/EMR/EHR system for DHS/ICE correctional facilities
• Identifying, analyzing, and defining the Health IT technology forthe Electronic Health Records (EHR)
• Providing strategic, vision and thought leadership necessary to identify and design scalable COTS EMR/EHR solutions consistent with the defined EHR Program architecture and the goals and objectives of the DHS/ICE Enterprise Architecture.
• Recommending EHR products based on HIT standards and the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Ensuring that projects technical architecture requirements are in line with the Agency’s Enterprise Architecture and Governance Standards, and consistent with the Agency Enterprise Technical Architecture (ETA) and Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA).
• Working with a wide spectrum of stakeholders such as EHR system owners, health professionals, DHS/ICE acquisition and contracts specialists.
• Participating in the development of a Request For Information (RFI)
• Developing strategies for the utilization of NIHN Connect for the integration of EHR’s with ICE detention facilities, external medical organizations and law enforcement agencies,

Technologies and standards involved: SOA, HL7, FEAF, HIPAA, CCD, EMR/EHR products, NHIN Connect, CCHIT, HITSP standards, IHE standards, XDS.b, DHS/ICE infrastructure.

Confidential, McLean, VA

Senior System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team in the design and development of collaboration applications deployed in the IaaS of the Amazon public cloud (AWS) aimed at Homeland Security (DHS). The applications were developed jointly with Northrop Grumman.
• Developed SOA-based Cloud Computing Reference Architectures
• SOA Governance
• Identified technologies and tools to implement the critical elements of cloud computing architecture. Research, analyze, design and proposed solutions that are appropriate for the business and technology strategies.
• Participated in the writing of responses to RFP’s for DHS
• Designed Amazon AWS cloud-based serviced-oriented solution to be tested by the Navy’s SPAWAR Trident Warrior 10 program.

Technology Involved: Amazon (AWS) Cloud Computing, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Beehive, geospatial technologies, UML, Sparx EA, DoDAF, Net-Centricity, BPMN, SOA Governance

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Solution Architect /System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Contributed to the design of the high level architecture of the NHIN Gateway and associated adapters, a federal initiative to facilitate the electronic health information exchange (HIE) between the DoD, Veterans Administration (VA), CMS and SSA.
• Contributed to the selection of services of the federal NHIN Gateway include: patient lookup, patient query and retrieval, information routing and delivery, connection management, consumer access control and security.
• Selected open-source technologies developed at NIH for reuse on the NHIN project.
• Specified key elements of the Gateway’s architecture around a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that included: Interoperable WS-I Basic Profile Web Services, (MTOM SAML, WS*.)
• Selected the service discovery framework (UDDI and/or ebXML)
• Selected Enterprise Service Bus (Mule, ServiceMix, OpenESB/Glassfish) for the FHA’s NHIN Gateway implementation.
• Recommended technology stack for the NHIN Gateway
• Specified the development environment of Netbeans and GForge development collaboration server.
• Recommended the business development options for Confidential ’s Health Care organization.
• Authored responses to RFI for state Medicaid requests.
• Formulated a go-to-market strategy for a new health information interoperability offering that generated significant customer demand from the first proposal. The strategy included a compelling plan and transitional roadmap for moving the new offering from an initial services approach to a multiple revenue stream model of services, products, and support.

Standards and Interoperability Specifications: HITSP, HL7, HIT, HIE, HER, PHR, HIPAA

Technology Involved: XML, Web Services, SOAP, P2P, SOA, WS-Basic Profile, Grid, OpenESB, JBI, GlassFish, NIH’s caBIG/caAdapter