SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented, client-focused leader with extensive experience in strategically developing, managing and delivering the information technology portfolio of large corporate businesses.
• Exceptional communication and inter-personal skills together with strong technical and management abilities have resulted in leadership roles.
• I have created many technology solutions in these industries and in the process dealt in detail with many Finance business processes and Federal Requirements.
• Some of the key solutions. I have provided strategic vision, solution expertise, staffing leadership, SOW contract blueprints and technical and Business Architecture governance, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, Cloud Delivery in Azure and AWS.
• I have led enterprise initiatives from concept, to solution and created service delivery models.
• I have led a global team (England/ Germany/ Mexico/ India/ Australia/ New Zealand/ Argentina).
• Responsible for all technical and development delivery solutions provided to the client. I was primarily instrumental in creating the portfolio strategy for C-Level (Executive Vice President) leadership and advised them on portfolio management and new development spending initiatives.

STRATEGY:

• Guided a wholistic effort to move to the cloud with multiple strategic applications
• Balanced multiple priorities and provided a roadmap that the corporation could follow
• Provided a matrixed model to motivate the roadmaps priorities to build upon each other.
• Developed a Business process and Technology roadmap to consolidate overlapping technologies and combine technical solutions into a cohesive solution still accommodating all the business functions.
• Provided spending guidance in all solutions justifying the Return on Investment and Time to Market incentives.
• Provided Portfolio estimates and Order of Magnitude estimates
• Provided vendor reviews and product guidance through multiple RFPs (Requests for Proposals)
• Provided Business consulting as it related to the technologies we invited into a partnership with us.
• Developed Cloud Comparison between Azure (Microsoft Cloud) and AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• Provided a Cloud migration plan to develop a Cloud footprint
• Provided Cloud component leadership to solution the Cloud components being deployed in Azure for the NM sales tool
• Automation techniques created to provide better DevOps solutions
• CI/CD pipeline developed to allow for continuous deployment
• Created the Mobile Strategy Roadmap for FORD Motor Company’s Mobile Strategic App.
• Fully functional Native and Hybrid Migration of Multiple versions into one holistic global app servicing the entire Ford Landscape.
• Created a Global Integration strategy for the global components servicing the Mobile app.
• Multi-faceted application landscape. Deployment via Mobile Iron MDM, MAM, and Designed the Confidential corporate App store to deploy to both Internal and Client facing apps.
• Created a new Identify Management solution to provide a fully functional solution. Complete from Federated Authentication through to Authorization of internal access.
• Provided a step by step delivery of the migration plan to the new platform in a cloud serviced solution with secure government regulated information controls
• Architectural leadership to the Business Client C level clients and Sr. Executive Vice Presidents.
• Developed and reviewed innovations within the landscape to accommodate needs that were unaccounted for previously (Encryption of Audit needs, Social media collaboration, Cloud big data)
• Approved the Project Tollgate work products prior to presentation to the Confidential architectural leadership
• Granted approvals for New IT Solutions and Project Tollgates for the Enterprise Technology Office
• Redesigned the Documentation standards to align with both the Client perspective/Sr Management priorities/Technical engineering and support team needs.
• Designed New Technology solutions into the Enterprise
• Mobile Applications Deployment and Life Cycle Management
• Hybrid / Native Mobile Apps
• BPM
• Transmission Architectures
• Business Banking Payment Architecture
• Financial Trading platform channels
• Developed multiple business and IT solutions to accommodate new Federal Requirements that governed the industry.
• Provided Mobile Strategic solutions for AMTRAK and Ford
• Lead Teams through crisis IT management of Federal regulations.
• Developing solutions/staffing/procedure changes to comply with the SOX (Sarbanes Oxley), ITAR (International Trades and Arms Regulations), SEC (Securities Exchange Commission), CCAR (Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review) and Dodd Frank Regulations, country privacy laws, and other Federal compliance requirements.
• Designed, built, and deployed in Azure. Created a template design to be leveraged by the enterprise.
• Designed a strategy for the migration of the 2 TB of Data, and new application upgrade and deployment
• Provide the technical leadership to deliver this solution to the entire team involved.
• Guided the team through all the project phases resolving both escalation; security, performance, functional and Go Live validation processes.
• Provided Guidance throughout the project oversight of all the business process to technology solution.
• Provided Process flow design for each payment transaction throughout the lifecycle of the payment.
• Provide the technical leadership to deliver this solution to all the applications across all business units.
• Guided the team through the contractual obligations and all the technical hurdles that were impacted by the process flow changes and the Vendors involved in the solution.
• Provided Solution leadership to a large team as we moved through the Mobile Application Functionality Concepts to Development for a Global Enterprise Mobile application.
• Designed multi-layer Authentication model
• Designed the Backend System Integration
• Designed the Web Service Level Integration using Microsoft AZURE as the primary Cloud
• Security policies were upgraded, prohibiting projects from delivering. With my work changing our security processes, the enterprise was then able to deliver this service.
• Defined the requirements with the Client Security team
• Defined the deliverables to comply with the policies.
• Developed the service within the greater organization
• Defined the process of engagement
• Defined when it was required
• Defined how it was to be delivered
• Promoted the process through the Executive leadership down to the project teams
• Included transition issues for in flight projects.
• Resolved issues with the Client Security leaders
• Provide the technical leadership to deliver this solution by the Architecture teams, both in house, client and Architecture Review Board.
• Mobile, Corporate social media, print/Imaging, payment/Wire processing, workflow, eDiscovery
• System Architect in an Agile SAFe 4.0 framework
• Developed business needs into business requirements and system requirements
• Reviewed architectural designs and system detailed designs and provide improvements, corrections and recommendations to project architects
• Approved the Project Tollgate work products prior to presentation to the Confidential architectural leadership
• Provided guidance and input to project plans (tasks, sequence, duration, resources)
• Granted approvals for New Deals and Project Tollgates for the Enterprise Technology Office
• Architectural Delivery face for Confidential clien
• Reviewed architectural designs and system detailed designs and provided improvements, corrections and recommendations to project architects
• Approved the Project Tollgate work products prior to presentation to the Confidential architectural leadership
• Provided guidance and input to project plans (tasks, sequence, duration, resources)
• Granted approvals for New Deals and Project Tollgates for the Enterprise Technology Office
• Architectural Delivery face for Confidential client
• Developed Global Sales Proposals with Best Shore resources in China, Brazil, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and Mexico, with a 70% offshore model.
• Ensured consistent deployment of security policies, architectural standards, data movement & control, firewall policies, etc. throughout the application sector for all projects and interfaces from business logic through to transport technology
• SOX (Sarbanes Oxley), ITAR (International Trades and Arms Regulations), SEC (Securities Exchange Commission), CCAR (Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review), country privacy laws (China Germany), and other Federal compliance requirements (Brazil/USA/many others).
• Detailed knowledge of delivery processes across the IT (hardware, procurement, promote to production, change management, hosting, process delivery)
• Detailed understanding of staff model, cost model and pricing model
• Excels at identifying root cause and marshaling the correct resources around the obstacles
• Skilled at communicating complex technical issues to non-technical audience
• Able to balance competing priorities of contractual commitments, technical integrity, compliance requirements, client needs and delivery constraints to determine deliverable and profitable solution
• Calm voice of reason and optimism in difficult situations

TECHNOLOGY:

• Enterprise level Design and Implementation experience Microsoft products. Active Directory, MS SQL, IIS, .NET. Integrated them into the client’s environment, with other applications and the Active Directory.
• Enterprise level design and Implementation of Linux, based applications such as WebSphere, J2EE COTS and custom code.
• Enterprise Mainframe Design and Implementation COBOL, PL1 code and application changes.
• Storage Solution Design EMC and IBM products
• Extensive knowledge of Process and Technology integration points
• Interfaces, within an MQ platform with Queue managers, Message Broker, MQFTE,
• Designed, recommended and executed integration simplification measures to minimize environment complexity
• Developed software, hardware, storage and network standards
• Developed global, regional and local solution standards
• Strong knowledge of integration technologies
• Transport protocols, scripting architecture, business logic, technological limitations. SFTP, SOA, DMZ, interior standards and exterior standards, encryption Symmetric, Asymmetric, based, Apigee, Mulesoft,
• Continuous Delivery tools - TFS, Team City, Urban Code, Github, Jenkins
• Created my own company to offer my services and that of my colleagues in the Architecture and SAP community to the market.
• Providing Business leadership and Solution Architecture to Corporations domestically.
• Interviewed, hired and developed architecture team
• Hands-on coach and mentor; provided practical guidance and direction to project architects
• Provided performance reviews and initiated bonus decisions
• Gained trust and confidence of client at all levels
• Presold and prepared the client for upcoming decisions and hurdles
• Supported client in strategically and tactically producing deliverables for their leadership
• Received and managed points of escalation from leadership
• Advised client on portfolio management and spend recommendations
• Detailed understanding of contractual and compliance requirements
• Assessed risks and established mitigation plans
• Escalated and expedited issues as required directly with counterpart leaders

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed the regional and tactical approaches to the Enterprise Mobile strategy building a Roadmap through the current state to a Unified Mobile Application strategy with multiple releases and global variables.
• Authentication strategies with IBM lighthouse and Azure Cloud tokens
• RESTful and SOAP based interfaces to the backend applications
• Functional solutions for Vehicle Health, Service Scheduling, and other Marketing strategies.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed the Global Capital Markets and Treasury business process functions from business to code development and deployment.
• Allowed for the Check/ Card/ Confidential / Account Transfers / Federal and Foreign Wires creating a holistic enterprise wide payment solution.
• Combining 12 current systems into two and eliminating the footprint of these remaining systems.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Lead the daily step by step process of delivering a full upgrade of both O/S, Software application and all integrations with a critical 8 server footprint in each environment Production, Disaster Recovery, and Quality Assurance
• Worked with multiple teams to assess and align all the necessary solutions to migrate without documentation or time to design through normal processes.
• Provided the bank with the necessary modeling tools to effectively provide the CCAR (Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review) documentation when allowing 6 weeks to go by would have meant a significant penalty and a market impact.

Confidential

Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• The cultural understandings of the implementation requirements were getting in the way of the team’s ability to move the project through the project tollgates. They failed the preliminary architecture review.
• Reviewed the architecture from the Brazil team, which had failed the preliminary review tollgate. I worked with them and improved their documentation. Changing a review cycle from unapproved to a clean approval with all the components needed to address the architecture concerns. The project was federally mandated and required to be on time. The original architecture documents were good information but not the information that the client’s architecture leadership was interested in reviewing. At the time of the failure, the project was being considered a failure and the business was looking at an impending fine of 50 million, due to the setback in the schedule. I gathered the team and led them through the document adjustments to bring more information to the presentation and documentation. Some of the information they had to go and get other information was not presented properly. Within 2 weeks we went from a RED project to a Green approval that sent the team through the gate to the implementation cycles with all their approvals in place. The documentation was so well done that they sailed through the next design review and made up for lost time in the implementation phase because they had such clear directions in the documentation.
• Directed the team through deviations procedures for both architecture and security policies that were roadblocks to their project moving forward. Provided the team with the leadership to find the right approvers for all of these delicate decisions and presented the business case to the (C-Level) principle decision makers directly.

Confidential

Project Architect

Responsibilities:

• This requirement was newly enforced and the client was now under a 4 month timeframe to deliver this .NET solution.
• I was asked to lead the effort and design and create a solution for this need. Below are just a few of the highlighted unique solutions I needed to design, in 2003 before encryption was common place as it is today.
• Due to the ITARegulations we needed to change not only the typical design for this solution but also the backup solution, and the support model.
• A new Backup solution had to be designed to apply personnel restrictions that were necessary.
• A design for secure communication had to be designed so that all transmissions were encrypted
• A dedicated storage system had to be designed so that data at rest was secure.
• A solution for system access/support personnel was compliant. HR was engaged to manage the legal separation of the employees into an ITAR compliant group

Confidential

Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created a new offering for the client to allow them to drastically expand their business value. Provided the technology solutions to allow discovery documents to be provided to the courts.
• This solution required new infrastructure designs and new transportation designs to provide the connectivity to outside firms and clients.
• Within the EDS offering for storage which was shared with all their clients, to accommodate the ITAR requirements I designed a Confidential dedicated storage metavolumes within a shared hardware solution that could be defended in a court of law for Confidential Legal.
• As a result of this new solution. Confidential corporate developed plans to create a Confidential only Storage offering, using the principles I had implemented for Confidential Legal.
• Due to the high volume of storage needed and the need for a data NAS, I created the first VERITAS Clustered Windows solution. This was the first clustered windows solution that could handle dynamic disk groups which was the limitation with window clustering.

Confidential

Lead Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created a design for Global PC encryption with the Point Sec product with the multiple countries and compliance laws that were required.
• Collaborated with Legal counsel to ensure we were able to deliver this encryption solution in a centralized manner. This required several legal sharing agreements to provide the rights to remove rmation out of the country.
• Built SQL cluster DB
• Integrated into AD throughout the Enterprise.
• Token security solutions had to be specifically designed to handle the 2 factor authentication.

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed the migration path for Confidential Legal’s 40 applications and translated the security model from Novel, Oracle and WindowsNT based to Windows Active directory.
• Worked with the Confidential corporate team to integrate the Confidential Legal specific requirements.