SUMMARY:

Dedicated, innovative solution architect and data management specialist with a passion for financial technology and extensive experience in financial services environments. Analytical professional skilled in successfully navigating corporations large and small through periods of accelerated growth. Collaborative communicator continually focused on building relationships within an organization to drive new sources of stable revenue.

SKILLS:

• AWS Solutions Architect
• Scrum Product Owner
• Business Analyst
• Scrum Master
• Project Management
• Team - Oriented Leader
• Transparent Communication
• Entrepreneurial
• Business Development
• Sales Support
• Proof of Concept
• Analytic Problem Solving
• Task Priority & Focus
• Data Management & Analysis
• Financial Analysis
• Risk Assessment & Mitigation
• Solution Engineer
• Business Intelligence
• System Integration & Analysis
• Production Support
• Policies & Procedures
• Training & Development

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Engineering: Agile, Waterfall, RUP

Agile: Scrum & KanbanApplication Development

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB

Program Languages: PL/SQL, Java, XHTML, Python, XML, JSON

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows

Cloud Services: AWS, Azure Atlassian Product Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Principal Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Own the technical engagement and ultimate success around implementation projects.
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new and migrating existing applications.
• Analyze business needs to ensure integration solution meet customer objectives. Exercise creativity and independent judgment and business acumen in selecting methods and techniques to design non - routine and very complex business solutions.
• Design solutions that maximize the use of standard product capabilities to meet customer objectives.
• Lead the domain specific solution design aspects of engagement(s).
• Participate in various phases of the customer engagement from sales to execution along with ongoing solution enhancements.
• Maintain relationships with key stakeholders at various customer levels.
• Recruit ecosystem partners to help round out a go to market solution for a customer.
• Work closely with business strategy, product management, and the product engineering teams to help define and design leading product based solutions.
• Provide cross-functional technical leadership on project teams.
• Work closely with the product owner to actively support project objectives, schedules, and deliverables.
• Provide requirement and design support to product owner, network engineering, infrastructure engineering and operations.
• Interact with our clients' counterpart and internal teams to solicit system-level technical requirements and resolve technical issues.
• Create application architecture designs to meet requirements of customer projects.
• Lead the development and documentation of the technical requirements.
• Spend time as required on-site with clients helping them with their integration solution.
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge that future integration clients can leverage.

Confidential, Arlington, Virginia

Financial System, Integration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• P resented technology offerings to customers as well as C-Level executive members and stakeholders.
• Facilitated the participation in Promontory’s financial products and services.
• Successfully partnered with technical clients for the seamless integration of financial systems.
• Lead project manager on bank or service provider on-boarding and conversion projects.
• Thoroughly analyzed system and related financial data for accuracy and categorization. Realized a decrease of 90% in overall processing time and 75% reduction in risk.
• Spearhead the development of a web-based financial and technical analysis report. Combined reporting efforts and increased administrative efficiency in report creation by 100%.
• Deployed the use of commercial and custom integration tools and applications for external clients. Facilitated the participation in Promontory’s financial products and services.
• Lead business analyst and scrum master on integration projects and product enhancements.
• Performed duties of an Product Owner (Agile Scrum Environment) on cross functional team responsible for delivering an updated version of the integration platform used by over 800 banks and their third party service provider. Focused on distributing resources evenly and delivering project milestones within the specifications and timeline of the project.
• Provided technical support on sales initiatives, sales presentations, and at financial and technical conferences.

Confidential, Catonsville, Maryland

Supervisory Information Management Specialist & Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Saved the government agency roughly 5,760 man hours and approximately $500,000 after the implementation of strategic projects for streamlining data exchange.
• Championed the development of standardized reports that utilized automated data gathering techniques. Reduced manual input and manipulation of data by 95%.
• Organized data within Oracle databases to ensure the most efficient use of applications and related data. Introduced new projects to the infrastructure and boosted overall productivity by 70%.
• Uncovered useful data and information for customers in their decision-making processes after restructuring their data. Increased the availability and transparency of information to all users.

Confidential, Bethesda, Maryland

Senior Information Management Consultant / Software Engineer Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Strategically led a cross-functional team of multi-national application development specialists on proof-of-concept projects.
• Determined project requirements and identified resources necessary after development of the scope and initial design.
• Designed data management applications that were aimed at aiding in the decision-making process for support software. Increased the efficiency of all applications by 75%.
• Delivered all projects on-time and within budget. Discovered several areas for cost savings and implemented after approval from project stakeholders.
• Assisted JP Morgan Chase in upgrading their DB2 9.7 database. Streamlined customer information gathering and increased overall process efficiency by 75%.
• Lead team on PL/SQL to SQL/PL code conversion projects.