SUMMARY:

• 35+ years IT experience with over ten years of experience producing successful, high quality products for startup and high growth companies and have been consistently successful in producing products under budget and within time constraints.
• Over eight years of technical managerial responsibilities.
• Telecommunications, Real Time - Embedded Systems, Software Development Management, B2B, Agile/Extreme Programming/SCRUM Master, Defense Systems, Utilities, Oil Exploration Systems, Decision Support Systems, OOADP, Cryptography/Identity Authentication, Banking Systems, Retail Systems, Financial Systems, Travel, Insurance

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java, C, C++, VC++, C#, STL, PHP, Python, Ruby (familiar), Perl, GO, VB, Assembler, Fortran, OpenCOBOL, PL/1, Unix Shell Scripting ksh/bsh, JCL JES2/3, TCL/TK

Open Source: PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby (familiar), openstack (neutron, cinder), swift, Camel, Spring Framework/Cloud/Boot

Operating Systems: Solaris 9, Linux, Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS, Embedded Linux, HPUX, Interactive Unix, Windows XP/2003/2000/NT/98/95/CE, MVS, OS390, VRTX, pSOS, Versados, Stratus Unix/VOS, Harris Vulcan, Flex 32, HP 9000, AIX, RSX11M

Cloud:: Azure Ubuntu/Windows2012R2/Sharepoint/Team, AWS Lambda, Openstack, Qemu emulations, Linux LXC/LXD, Full/Partial Hypervisors, Dynamic Binary Translation.

Mobile: IOS 5, Andriod 4, Objective-C (familiar)

Object Oriented Development:: UML, AGILE, XP, SCRUM Master, SOA, SAAS, Web Services, OMT, Design Patterns, Analysis Patterns, .NET, COM, DCOM, Remoting, Visio UML

Communications: TCP/IP, UDP, ISO8583, Sockets, WinSock, X.25, IPC, RPC, MQ Series, SOAP, JMS, RMI, AX.25, RS232, RS422, IEEE 488, 1553B, BlueTooth

Security: SSL, Acegi, Cryptography, SSH, NAT, PAT, OAuth2, SAML

BPM: jRules, ODM, Activiti

Web Technologies: Tomcat 6, Apache, SOA, Microservices, TCServer, Sun Java App Server, GlassFish, JBoss, Weblogic 4.0, IIS 4/5/6/7, Netbeans, Eclipse, Visual Studio, JBuilder, EJB, Hibernate, Oracle 9i AS, ASP.Net, ASP, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, Node.js, emberjs, augularjs, dojo

J2EE: Spring Framework, Applets, Servlets, Struts, Swing, JSP, JSTL, XML, EJB, JSF(Fragments), XSLT, JNI, JNA, JDBC, JMQ, JNDI, JUNIT, ANT, XPATH, ANTLR, AngularJS, BootStrap,AJAX, AXIS, JAX-WS, WSDL

Database: Oracle (6, 7, 8, 9i, 10, 11), MySQL, SQL Server (7, 2000, 2005, 2008), LDAP, DB2, Informix, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures, Performance Tuning, Normalization

GUI: JFC, MFC, ATL, X Windows, Motif, Curses

Hardware Systems: 1553 BUS, S100 Bus, VME Bus, Sun, IBM, DEC, Motorola Multiprocessor, Stratus, Flex 32 Multiprocessor, HP9000, Vax, Apollo, Gould, PC s and Compatibles, Several Microprocessor systems (680XX, 8088, 6803, 8051,8049, z8000), Logic Analyzer, Bus Analyzer, Digital O-Scope

Source Control: Subversion, Source Safe, CVS, RCS, Clear Case

Big Data: Cassandra, Mongo, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, JBoss ESB, IBM Integration Bus, DataPower

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Digital Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for driving the digital transformation architecture of clients entering the digital economy focused on solutions that anticipate digital disruptions. Domains include financial, insurance, banking and retail.
• This effort allows me to exercise my abilities to lead not only on-shore resources but also off-shore resources. I am involved in architecture, design and management to motivate resolutions to complex problems involving B2C, Financial (PCI) and CRM domains. This has been a very exciting and rewarding effort and promises to provide even more complex issues to solve in the near future.
• Solution technologies centered around Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Apigee API Management, Spring Cloud, Eureka, Hystrix, Zuul, App Fabric and various infrastructures including VMWare, Open Stack, Spring-Cloud, Eureka, Hystrix, Java 8, SoapUI, Rest, Eucalyptus, Cassandra, Spring Boot, AWS (Kenesis, SNS, SWF, DynamoDB), Google Cloud and Azure utilizing PCF 12 factor guidelines for converting monolithic applications to microservices.
• Additional activities include 12 factor evaluation of applications for lift-n-shift for Java, .Net and mainframe based applications to various stacks including AWS, Azure and Open Stack including site provisioning for PaaS, vNets and load balancers.
• Design activities in Dynamic Network Analysis, Queuing Theory/Graph DB, Mesh Networks(LinkerD, ISTIO).
• Recently authored a white paper on Zero QA for continuous integration/deployment/testing/automation & reliability/monitoring of an enterprise ecosystem to identify and mitigate emergent behavior in distributed systems. Published (2017).

Confidential, Plano, TX

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Review and refactor Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (application and infrastructure) Plans for major global apparel distributor headquartered in the Richardson area. Technology includes various SAP components (PI, Retail, HR, SCM, BW, and AFS), Cognos, ADP Payroll, POS and ecommerce systems.
• Design and develop a B-to-C pharmacy distribution microservice proof of concept for a major national retailer headquartered in Arkansas. Technology stack included Spring-Cloud, Eureka, Hystrix, Java 8, SoapUI, Rest, Eucalyptus, Cassandra and Spring Cloud/Boot.
• Design and develop B-to-B, B-to-C multi-tenant loyalty services for a major provider headquartered in Minneapolis. Technology stack included MySql NDA cluster, WildFly cluster, Kafka, Zookeeper, AWS, Spark, JBoss BPM, Rest, Camel ESB, SoapUI and Java 8.

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Manager/Sr. Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architect and refactor Infrastructure topology
• Architect new communications functionality
• Provide leadership and collaboration across the enterprise
• Design/Develop tcp/ip protocol sniffer for SEO evaluation
• Architect data topology for federated data Big Data implementation.
• Design/Develop/Admin vFabricGemFire on Mule ESB and IIB for enterprise eSOA environment with geo-spatial and distributed considerations including developer mentoring.
• Design/Develop proof-of-concept for cloud microservice based implementation using Eucalyptus, Pivotal, AWS, Cassandra, Mongdb, Openstack cinder/neutron and GemFire persistence models
• Design/Develop proof-of-concept for visualizations utilizing nodejs, amberjs, and web2.0 guidelines
• Engaged in operational analytics for root cause analysis and recovery.
• Engaged in analysis for identification of airline domain ontologies.
• Engaged in analysis for efficient storage and recovery of complex ontologies.
• Design/Develop various python web crawlers for data ingestion and site evaluation using eclipse Luna, PyDev, PyQt4, Selenium, Mechanize and MySQLDB and included GPS position analysis for localized markets.
• Evaluate Apache Spark for NLP recognition and normalization for real-time ACARS messages and corpus accumulation.
• Design/Develop probabilistic analysis of ACARS messages to optimize n-gram selection for Spark.
• Liaison with business units
• Architect/Design/Develop proof of concept for scheduling process using ODM, Activiti.
• TOGAF initiative, Troux custom meta model and dashboard templates.
• Design/Implement department CI (Jenkins) and build automation
• Process improvement for Agile, project documentation, Jira,
• Architect/Design/Prototype Spark CEP utilizing Kafka consumer/broker pattern with IBM Integration Bus component integration and GO log scrapers.
• Mentor developers and assess technical abilities and recommend

Environment: Ontologies, Big Data/Hadoop, Operational Analytics, Solr, Cassandra, Troux Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Architect 10, WebSphere 7, Mule ESB, Message Broker 8, Message Broker Integration Service Bus, TibcoBusinessWorks CEP, Oracle Exadata, Python, Java, C, C++, GemFire, Microservices (Spring Cloud ), OAuth,Mosaic/Data warehouse (TerraData) SOA Enterprise Registry, SOA Policy Manager, SOA Security and Service Manager, IBM Data Power X150, Big IP, F5, Linux VServer, OpenVS.

Confidential, BLOOMINGTON, IL

Manager/Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design and implement Point of Sale software for various business entities.
• Architect, design and implement enterprise infrastructure topology using F5, Pivotal, Oracle VM, HyperV, vBlock, Virtual Box, Xen, VMWare.
• Architect, design and implement CRM website for POS system.
• Architect/designed TOGAF framework.
• Architect/design jRules components for PCI and CRM processes.
• Architect and design Tridion implementation to aggregate language translation for labels, data and security
• Engage teams and provide technical leadership to foster collaboration.
• Systems Analyst/Architect for CRM/CEM refactor with a major insurance company in the Midwest utilizing SOA over Mule ESB.
• Design and implement data mining applications to generate business leads for POS sales.
• Design and implement mining application tool for the POS system.
• SVN and Apache2 administrator (including mod security, mod python and mod php).
• Manage onshore and offshore teams including design reviews, code reviews and scrum team management.
• Design and build individual test environments.
• Design/Develop CI automation using Jenkins, Git, SVN
• Architect/Design/Develop Cassandra big data capture for client analytics involving customer experience and instrument utilization.

Environment: Virtual Computing Environment(VCE private cloud), Customer Experience Management(CEM), Spring MVC 3.0, Tridion CMS GemFire, SOA, Microservices, Selenium, PMD, CheckStyle, SPLUNK, QPid, tcServer, Tomcat, CXF, Mule ESB, Data Power X150 ESB extender, WSRR, jRules, PCI Compliance, Spring STS, SFX, Ubuntu server, VirtualBox, Java JDK 7, Visual Studio 2012 Beta, PHP, CURL, C, C++, Python, Java, R, Ruby, MySql, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery(core/UI), Dhtmlx, NetBeans, Eclipse(Indigo),PHPDesigner, Perl, Python.

Confidential, Westlake, TX

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architect solution to aggregate data entry, provision multiple contingent systems and provide a data access layer based on a federated data base architecture and SOA.
• Design web based solutions utilizing Search Engine Optimization and web analytics including CPC and ROI.
• Responsibilities include mentoring junior developers and developing JSP, Spring MVC3 with annotations.
• Implemented Kanban(similar to Agile) project management strategy and performed SCRUM Master duties.
• Perform design reviews and code reviews.
• Design and build individual test environments.
• Design/Develop test automation using Jenkins CI.

Environment: Carnot BPM engine, Sungard Interation Platform, xpdl, SOA system services(JAX-WS), ehCache, Terracotta Big memory, Federated DB based on Oracle DB systems, Eclipse Indigo, Spring STS, Java 1.6, JavaScript, DOJO, AJAX, Checkstyle, PMD, FindBugs, Enterprise Integration Patterns, TDD and Spring ERS(Tomcat/Apache)

Confidential, Las Colinas, TX

Technical Lead/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead development effort to create an initial framework for processing airline PSS system.
• Responsibilities include mentoring junior developers and developing ADF, JMS applications using Camel orchestration.
• Provided SEO analytics analysis for existing and refactored websites.

Environment: JBoss 5.1, Eclipse, Oracle ADF, Google Guice, Android, Apache Camel, Enterprise Integration Pattern, Java, JavaScript, Rally, FindBug, PMD, CheckStyle, SOAP, JMS, ActivMQ and Pegasus database, Agile, 2 week sprints, Test Driven Design

Confidential, Bedford, TX

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project management, cost control, customer relationship management.
• Design/Architect next generation debit card processing system.
• Analysis and modeling to increase system performance and auto-scaling of resources utilizing Transaction and Operational Analytics with slope field analysis.
• Lead development effort to add Bank ATM transaction acquisition and transmission to network (ISO8583) including ACH file generation for Bank/Fed reconciliation with banks. Utilize Tomcat 6, Netbeans 6.7, Spring, JSF, JSF Fragments, Swing, JSTL, EJB, Hibernate, OpenGL, JBossESB, AGILE, Dibold/Synergy, C, Java web services, JUNIT, ANT, ASP.Net, C# Web Services, IIS6,CSS, ASP.Net, SOAP and Java 6 with generics/TCP-IP/Sockets/Threads/JMS, MySQL, Client-Server, Perl, Embedded ATM Services and SQL Server 2005 database (SCO, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris, MS Server 2003).
• Transaction velocity requirement was 15 seconds max but the application turns transactions in 750ms.
• Implemented new technology protocol monitor to evaluate system performance and component outages.
• Implemented integration system for testing various components by developing simulators for many system components.
• Researched different ways of applying analytics to the operational components of the system including transactional system load and resource scaling.
• Strategic planning for product development for banking core accounting system and ATM switch subsystem utilizing java j2ee and .Net technologies.
• Architect enterprise systems to reduce costs and improve performance in customer interface, reliability and maintainability.
• Lead effort to implement web access to ATM reporting using VS2008, ASP.NET, .NET2.0, and C# utilizing J2EE SOAP interface to ATM systems.
• Suggested implement strategy for SCRUM and paired programming paradigms for a potential AGILE development environment.
• Lead effort to develop a security token java web service utilizing JBoss and Hibernate persistent objects.
• Lead effort to develop cryptogram maintenance web site utilizing JSP, EJB, JBoss and Hibernate.
• Performance tuned several SQL Server queries and table indexes.

Confidential, FISCO, TX

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead (A2A 5 members, Small Business 3 members) effort to extend capabilities of B-to-C websites components in C, sockets, threads, Java 5.0, JSP, Netbeans 5.5, ANT, Spring Framework/MVC (Core, DAO, Web, Context), JUNIT, tomcat 5, CSS, Unicenter, AGILE, SCRUM Master, CVS, C, PL/SQL, SQL Developer, Perl, ksh, csh and VB utilizing Oracle databases (10g) for customer data and SWACHA / ACH (XP,Solaris). Transaction velocity requirement could not exceed 3 seconds.
• Provide analysis of code base for compliance with SWACHA/ACH guidelines.
• Evaluate new hardware and software technologies for product inclusion.
• Provide project documentation and establish guidelines to move software process toward CMM level 2.
• Prepare SDLC artifacts for internal and external audits.