SUMMARY:

• Goal driven, customer focused and result oriented Enterprise/Solutions Architect with 20 years of experience in corporate, state and federal IT initiatives. Experience includes:
• Strategic leadership and project management in highly visible federal government agency initiatives.
• Enterprise architecture, strategy and governance
• Highly available and secure Solution/System/Application Architecture and development
• Cloud, Architecture, Migration Strategy and Roadmap (Amazon Web Services/AWS)
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
• Traditional and Agile Development Processes and DevOps
• Automation and DevOps
• Legacy System Modernization
• CMMI, ITSM/ITIL, FEAF
• Corporate Strategic Planning, Marketing, Sales and Business Development
• Marketing, Thought Leadership and Corporate Communications
• Capture Planning and Solutions Development to federal government solicitations (RFP, RFI, RFQ, IDIQ)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Chief Solutions Architect

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Responsibilities:

• Providing Enterprise Architecture support to the Confidential CTO by providing architectural design, review and recommendations for a variety of projects related to USPTO s Next Generation technology effort
• AWS based cloud architecture, cloud economics and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Assess customer needs, technical and budgetary constraints, and existing infrastructure landscape to create AWS cloud migration strategy and roadmap
• Design, review and recommendation of AWS based highly scalable cloud architectures.
• Automation and DevOps
• Product and technology evaluation, proof of concept (POC), product development planning, strategy and roadmap for technology adoption, migration and upgrades, thought leadership.
• Review and recommendations of USPTO s Enterprise Architecture initiatives.
• Establishment of architectural guidelines for better project deliverables.
• Management of Task Orders belonging to the IDEAI - 2 contract with USPTO.
• Leading Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) initiatives.
• EA base-lining and streamlining of EA Implementation and Governance.
• Responsible for growth initiatives for Confidential and its Innovation Lab
• Development of Strategic Partnerships with cutting - edge technology firms identifying new opportunities to add to and enhance Confidential offerings in the Federal market
• Supporting Confidential s business development efforts through capture planning and proposal response development for US federal government agency solicitations.
• Streamlined Confidential s business development/capture planning processes to enhance PWIN.

Solutions Architect

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• As a member of Solutions Delivery group, work with Account Executives and Business Development Managers and develop winning solutions for U.S. Federal entities.
• Capture Planning for complex business development.
• Maintain a current knowledge of the technology industry and Federal IT marketplace and determining the impact of emerging policy, infrastructure and/or applications software on new and existing solutions
• Develop and manage key internal/external relationships across sphere of influence.
• As a member of Enterprise Architecture Group ( Confidential ) provide technical oversight of existing Confidential contract.

SOA Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SOA System architecture and design based on Oracle Fusion Middleware/SOA products.
• Service specification, design and implementation, Service virtualization.
• Integration with internal systems (Siebel CRM) and external systems (TCS Services of Pay.Gov) using Web Services, Oracle Service Bus (OSB) and Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM)
• Business Process implementation using Oracle BPEL.
• Security Architecture and implementation.

Systems Architect

Confidential, Hyattsville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Integration of two IRS systems ( Confidential Forms Acceptance ( Confidential ) and Confidential Information Return (AIR)) using SOAP based web services
• Creation of Interface Control Documents (ICD) in collaboration with the Solutions Engineering, Enterprise Architecture and the Requirements teams
• Web Services were designed following WS - Basic Profile 1.1 specifications such as WS-Security, WS-Addressing and Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM)
• Ensuring compliance to IRS Enterprise Architecture, IRS Enterprise Data Model, applicable security policies (NIST-FIPS), policy mandates and Internal Revenue Manual (IRM).
• Contributed to corporate business development efforts by selecting potential candidates for bidding, teaming partner identification, capture planning and led proposal responses to Federal Government solicitations (RFI, RFP, RFQ) Was a member of Confidential s Enterprise Architecture Group ( Confidential ) and ensured that responses to RFPs were sound and superior
• As part of the Confidential facilitated discussion and sharing of information such as latest trends in the industry and degree of EA implementation by the Confidential agencies and identify gaps within the scope of the contracts.

Systems Architect

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and presented the proposal and won the Benefit Management Applications (BMA) contract valued at $30 million
• Was instrumental in 2 concurrent projects
• Architected and implemented a SOA solution that was based on Service Component Architecture (SCA) and used Oracle Fusion Middleware/Oracle SOA 11g Suite of products such as Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Service Virtualization using Oracle Service Bus(OSB), Oracle Service Registry(OSR), Oracle Business Activity Monitoring(BAM), Oracle Enterprise Manager(OEM), Human Task, Oracle ADF, JDeveloper, Weblogic Application Server
• Implementation of design time and run time SOA Governance using Oracle SOA Fusion Middleware Products
• Adherence to PBGC s Enterprise Architecture goals and guidelines
• System integration using RESTful Web services
• Integration with Oracle Web Center CMS over web services
• Strategy and approach determination during development, testing and deployment so that dependencies and risks are taken care of
• Provided technical leadership and oversight in a System Modernization effort which was running in parallel to other efforts
• Systems analysis and process modeling to create AS - IS and TO-BE business processes to achieve processes & business alignment of information systems
• Data modeling and adherence to PBGC s Enterprise Data Model using Erwin and Oracle RDBMS
• Business reporting using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)
• Assisting Operations and Maintenance (O&M) team in resolving critical problems and developing resolutions.
• Coordination and integration between systems and projects owned by different vendors
• Market research on Data Exchange Formats and preparation of White Paper
• Migration of applications to virtual servers that were virtualized using VMWare tools
• Coordination and integration between systems and projects owned by different vendors.

Information Technology Specialist

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Architected a Business to Business (B2B) system for interactions between SSA and Accuity (a business partner).
• This involved asynchronous messaging using IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and MQ (WMQ) and perimeter security implementation using IBM Data power and Certificates.
• Development of WSDL and XML message formats for web service calls. SOAP based Web services were developed following JAX - WS Document/Literal specifications.