SUMMARY:

• Principal enterprise architect / senior manager with many years of professional experience in information technology and business in Wholesale / Distribution, Telecom, Consulting industries on a strategic, tactical and operational level.
• As a strategist, Mike has many years of enterprise architecture experience in creating business value added processes, governance standards and roadmaps used to guide enterprise from current state to target state. Provide architecture, organizational and technical solutions to fulfill business needs/requirements, proactively research and recommend technologies that are relevant to the business.
• On an operational/tactical level, Mike has extensive knowledge of enterprise architecture including enterprise architecture strategy, architecture planning, information architecture, solution architecture, technology scan and research, technology POC (evaluation and assessment), application roadmaps, upgrades, architecture governance (ARB), application portfolio management (APM) and architecture standards.
• Mike excels as a leader and manager of not only information technology but also of projects and project management. He has managed teams and projects from 1 - 20 resources (internal and external resources) under the most popular SDLCs (Agile, Waterfall, Iterative, RUP). Mike has excellent communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Other skills: TOGAF, Cloud Computing (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS), SAP Technologies, SAP Portal, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), OpenText, DevOps, Agile Methodologies, Business Transformation, Application Architecture, Information Architecture, Architecture, Application Portfolio Management (APM), Architecture Review Board (ARB), Design Patterns, Federated Enterprise Architecture model (FEA), Technical Model (TRM), Business Architecture, Appitio, CMDB, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Mobile Architecture, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Project/Program Management, Salesforce.com (SFDC), Java, AS400, COBOL, JCL, Spring MVC, Hibernate, JSON, XML, Eclipse, Web Services, ARIS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Principal Enterprise Architect / Sr. Manager

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Solution Delivery (ESD) lead. Lead architect providing solution and project review of all enterprise projects through Confidential work-intake process. Started as the lead on Confidential Business Technology (BT) Work-Intake process and weekly lead Confidential Enterprise Solution Delivery (ESD) project assessments across BT. Facilitate the weekly project review, solution architectures, solution designs and works closely with all technical teams to ensure proposed project solutions are vetted and sound, stakeholders are engaged and alternatives are considered in the best interest of architectural direction and architectural best practices.
• Manage enterprise architecture team of internal Confidential and external partners in various strategic projects by providing leadership direction - example: Microsoft Enterprise Strategic 
• Domain enterprise architect for areas of order management (e-commerce), enterprise portal, enterprise content management, mobile technologies, marketing and human resources. Responsibilities include: strategy, architecture planning, information architecture, solution architecture, technology scan and research, technology POC, application roadmaps, upgrades, architecture governance, application portfolio management and architecture standards.
• Domain lead for technology scan and research. Mike developed and lead Confidential ’s technology evaluation and insertion project of new technologies.
• Assist with architecture governance within the specific domains mentioned above and those outside. Facilitate architecture reviews of proposed solution and ensure architecture is capable and sound of supporting current and future business objectives. Help address design flaws and make better systems by mitigating performance issues, security risks, availability problems, etc.
• Develop architecture standards and guidelines to ensure Confidential solutions are built with consistency, are high quality, are less risky to maintain, and support the current solution. Specifically, Mike collaborated and created with others Confidential Cloud Computing Strategy and SaaS Guidelines.
• Lead and developed first enterprise wide application roadmap, application upgrade and decommissioning process & methodology for Confidential . This provided Confidential a much needed way to provide a consistent and standardized process across the enterprise.
• Application Portfolio Management co-lead on Confidential APM with core focus on specific domains (Portal, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Marketing, HR, and Mobile). Helped to refine APM by defining a common structure for Technical Model (TRM) leveraging best practices established from the Federated Enterprise Architecture model (FEA). Drove application portfolio rationalization assessment in an effort to reduce technology debt and simplify redundancy within the landscape (i.e. enterprise content management (ECM)).

Confidential

SAP Portal Lead

Responsibilities:

• Served as Confidential Enterprise SAP Portal Team Lead as part of Confidential Business Transformation effort.
• Managed and lead team of portal leads and developers.
• Assisted in defining portal strategy and scope.
• Captured requirements and business processes. Designed, build and deployed technical SAP portal solution. Specific focus on SAP Supplier Portal with minor focus on SAP Associate Portal.
• Developed supplier portal information architecture.
• SAP Portal Business Packages technologies: ESS, MSS, SRM, SNC, e-Sourcing, Vistex, VIM,

Other technologies: OpenText WCM, OpenText Archive Server, SAP ECC, SAP SRM, SAP SNC

Confidential

Enterprise Architect / IT Strategist

Responsibilities:

• Developed and lead technology evaluation and selection process.
• Identified disruptive technologies and oversaw the introduction of new technologies into the organization including identifying emerging key technology trends using emerging trend research, such as Confidential and other research.
• Researched, evaluated and recommended new technologies across the enterprise including technology prototyping and piloting.

Confidential

Team Leader System Analyst & Design

Responsibilities:

• Team Leader in the Applications Solutions team. Managed thirteen senior object oriented developers with a diverse set of skill sets in numerous technology set: Java/J2EE, .Net, C##, VB, ASP, and WebSphere, MS SQL Server, Oracle, and more.
• Responsible for all development solutions which required object oriented development.
• Evaluate, manage, and facilitate POC (Proof of Concept) projects relating to new technology, products and/or services. Serve as a technical advisor for development team on Java/J2EE, web development, WebSphere, project management, and best practices.
• Set strategic direction and guiding principles for Object Oriented development team to follow.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Team Leader of the Confidential team. Managed a development and support resource team of 7 - 9 Java/J2EE and RPG developers based on an iterative methodology for an order entry system called Confidential . The application generates over $100 million in sale revenue on a weekly basis and is based on the Java/J2EE object oriented technology running WebSphere on an AS400 platform.
• Led and managed the adoption and implementation of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology.
• Manage sub-team which develops and supports an internal application called Confidential . This is an internal workflow approval system based on Java/J2EE and EAI/middleware software (i.e. MQ, MQ Integrator, and MQ Workflow).

Confidential

Lead Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Serve as technical lead/liaison and perform development for new Inventory module for Confidential application.
• Develop, debug, resolve Java Servlets, JSP, JSP custom tags, JavaScript on AS/400 and Windows 2000 platform using WebSphere Application Developer ( Confidential ) and WebSphere for Confidential . Also supported Confidential (Capital Investment Process) application.
• Serve as team mentor for java 9 developers. Typical functions include: technical guidance, prototype new ideas and design like guestbook persistence, session persistence, introduce new technologies and methodology like JSP custom tag, Junit, Use Case.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed Java Servlets and JSP Tag Library for a club website called ItsBetterLive.com for Confidential Channel Incorporated using Use Cases on a development team of seven Java developers.
• Designed and constructed testing environment running on Linux operating system for Confidential Channel Incorporated, largest owner and operator of radios, televisions, and outdoor advertising displays in the United State.
• Engaged in performance and load testing on JRun and WebLogic to determine which option was better suited to support their 1200 online radio station environment.

Technology: Apache, JRun, WebLogic, Linux, Visual SlickEdit, Servlets, JSP Tag Library, HTML Oracle 8X.