PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• I have more than 20 years of decisive, action - oriented and result-focused professional experience in analysis, architecture, and full life-cycle leadership of enterprise-scale strategic systems.
• Extensive experience architecting and leading development of enterprise applications using state of the art technology platforms, specializing in Business Process Management, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and business process reengineering and optimization solutions.
• Expert in ETL integration.
• I am well versed in enterprise architecture design principles and best practices.
• I have a proven record of managing on-site, remote and offshore teams, delivering complex projects and executing process improvements to achieve large strategic initiatives and managing complex customer demand.
• I have extensive experience using various software development methodologies like Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, etc... in a diverse set of sectors/industries.
• Extensive experience within the Pega PRPC tool stack.
• Detailed experience generating rich UI with Pega UX/Mobility rules using Harness, Section, Layout, etc...
• Deep technical development experience with Process Flows, Activities, Integration rules, Decision rules.
• Extensive experience using Tracer, Clipboard, LiveUI, SMA for debugging, performance analysis and guardrail compliance.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to see the big picture and drill down to the details of a project or requirements.
• Broad experience in analyzing requirements and meeting business objectives through creative design and efficient implementation of enterprise systems.
• Excellent ability to manage deliverables in an onsite/offshore model.
• I have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and have led, trained and mentored high-performance teams.

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE:

• Financial Services Banking Healthcare
• Supply Chain
• Insurance Oil & Gas Public Sector
• DOD/Federal Government

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Application Architect/Team Lead for Large banking client on large Pega project using Agile/Jira.
• Involved in all aspects of Pega SDLC activities from creating class structure, developing UI, processes and flows, building connectors and services and deployment activities.
• WADL/WSDL consumption and integration using Data Pages, Data Transforms, JSON, REST and SOAP connectors.
• Executed projects as team and tech lead in varied projects covering all the stages of Software Development Cycle.
• Performed requirements gathering, technical design and Agile/SCRUM ceremonies such as story point estimation, backlog grooming.
• Performed code reviews, provided guidance, mentoring and support. Ensured compliance with app quality, coding, UI and corporate standards.
• Worked closely with remote, onshore and offshore resources.

Confidential

Lead Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consulting for CFO's in the areas of Finance and Information Technology. Specializing in the design, configuration and implementation of financial accounting systems.
• Focused on transforming financial operations to comply with domestic and international standards on revenue recognition, leasing, banking and insurance, as well as general sub-ledger implementation.
• Responsible for delivering automated financial solutions and consultancy services to clients within various industries and regions across the world Translate business requirements into process/system impacts/functional reqs, and assess potential data sources Gather and create comprehensive work products and facilitate communication between cross functional units
• Lead Technical Consultant for large telecommunications company on a Revenue Subledger Project with the Aptitude Accounting Hub to ensure compliance with ASC 606/IFRS 15.
• Traveled bicoastally to work onsite in Seattle. Lead a team of technical consultants delivering specialist solutions to CFOs and their finance teams.
• Utilized SQL and Teradata databases on Linux systems in an Agile environment utilizing CA Rally.
• Lead Technical Consultant on Revenue Recognition Project for large telecommunications company in Kansas City.
• Regulatory compliance project using Aptitude Revenue Recognition Engine (ARRE) to generate accounting revenue adjustments.
• Responsible for the on-site development and configuration of ARRE.
• Implemented revenue recognition application in compliance with IFRS 15 / ASC 606 Experience in Revenue Recognition (IFRS 15/ASC 606) and Lease (IFRS16/ASC 842) Accounting Standards

Confidential

Pega Lead Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assisting in the sales process, defining scope and resourcing and providing thought leadership
• Participated in sales discussions with C level individuals Running client presentations and workshops utilizing Pega deep domain knowledge
• Developed GTM sales assets for automotive sector - Vehicle/Lot management
• Primary focus was with an international automotive auction company to design a complex enterprise architecture to achieve reusability, scalability, and performance, and provide technical leadership during application implementation.
• Multi-year transformational project utilizing Pega v7, including Pega’s mobile platform
• Worked closely with Pega to implement Mobile offline case handling for users with poor wireless coverage
• Defined development guidelines/best practices for producing a reusable and scalable application framework
• Provided thought leadership in enterprise architecture, deployment strategies/best practices, and Pega DCO
• Designed a stand-alone custom configuration engine to maintain location-specific criteria separately

Confidential

Lead/Senior Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration, implementation and development of PRPC utilizing PRPC v5 - v7. Varied short and long term engagements included:
• For healthcare (pharmaceutical) client, developed Pega UX (portals, screens, etc…) for a new application on top of an existing Pega CPM implementation using PRPC v7, CPM Framework and Oracle.
• Provided Decisioning support for large telecom client developing call center application. Retro-fitted accessibility requirements into this production application (with 0 downtime) utilizing Pega’s Accessibility Toolkit and JAWS screen reader software.
• Redesigned UI to meet accessibility requirements and developed CSS artifacts for accessibility requirements and client’s corporate standards.
• For telecom client, developed/managed automated testing and deployment of artifacts through the testing lifecycle to production via a service to receive XML from Fitnesse test server and run tests on Pega decisioning strategies and interactions and report the results.
• Designed and built, for international oil and gas/oilfield services company, an oil well management system using PRPC v6.3, Oracle, and JBoss.
• Worked with clients enterprise architects to design system and presented to client leadership team.
• Developed MS SharePoint interface to store/retrieve content.
• Resolved numerous complex JBoss app server issues within client’s infrastructure.
• For major oil and gas client, designed UX and developed a C level incident management dashboard in PRPC v6.3 (beta) and Oracle utilizing only OOTB Pega components.
• Presented PRPC 6.3 reporting, charting & UI capabilities to client leadership team.
• Developed numerous complex reports, charts and other reporting/UI components via DCO sessions and developed reporting functions for complex mathematical calculations.
• For Confidential client, designed Pega rules-based invoice processing.
• App provided: capability to process in excess of one million commercial invoices per year, adherence to Prompt Payment Act, and support of Section 508 Disabilities Act, along with elimination of paper invoices, duplicate payments, wrong vendor payments, and interest on late payments.
• Ran DCO sessions for SME’s/executive sponsors and created a SOW. For Confidential client, helped build application for payment of veterans healthcare claims from external providers using PRPC and the healthcare framework.
• Built numerous web service and EDI trading partner interfaces.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As WebSphere/SOA SME, supported internal teams on internal SOA projects, providing and technical assistance as needed for WebSphere products, including DataPower, Message Broker, Monitor, Modeler, and Services Registry and Repository (WSRR). Also provided support and guidance for varied external clients including:
• Successfully implemented two integration projects for a Leading TV/Online Retailer using WebSphere products.
• Developed interfaces into SAP, various legacy systems and into i2 using beta i2 adapter. Configured Partner Gateway to implement trading partner connectivity and Data Interchange to process EDI transactions.
• High profile “On-Boarding” project for large investment bank to design as-is and to-be business process models using Modeler.
• Responsible for process mappings, process gap analysis, and process improvement and redesign. Worked closely with client teams to review and revise business process models on the fly.
• Managed process redesign workshops with client SMEs for national auto lender to review as-is business models and generate to-be models.
• Built KPIs, SLAs and other metrics into to-be business models.
• Lead on multi-year internal project to develop as-is and to-be business models using Modeler, utilizing knowledge of procurement processes and various industry-standard systems/services.
• Designed the proposed architecture. Worked on-site in Egypt and then off-site to build out BPEL models into Process Server components.
• Developer on multi-year project for large healthcare insurance provider to process SOAP messages from external clients to numerous back-end client applications.
• Developed XSLT code to provide off box storage and retrieval of reusable data. Processed inbound and outbound messages using DataPower.
• Primary developer for large state government to process SOAP messages with DIME attachments from internal clients out to various state and federal back-end services and applications using DataPower.
• Lead developer on internal project to redesign two complex DataPower gateways (XML and MQ) with extensive XSLT coding, to merge the production gateways into one without losing functionality.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Solution Architect in business development engaged in pre-sales and post-sales activities including product positioning, technical demos, proof of concepts and .
• Provided technical support and assistance to business partners as they developed applications and solutions on WebSphere infrastructure.
• Utilized extensive domain expertise to support business partners. Wrote contracts and proposals for various projects and initiatives.
• Architected and designed numerous joint customer solutions with partners.

Senior Lead EAI Consultant/Engagement Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As Lead Consultant and Engagement Manager, responsible for installation, configuration, and implementation of the SeeBeyond EAI/BPM toolset. Some highlighted projects:
• High profile engagement at large investment bank using SeeBeyond, Java, JMS, MQ with Oracle, SWIFT connectors.
• Architected and implemented interfaces to process SWIFT and XML messages into client’s back-end Java applications, MQ and Oracle/DB2 databases.
• Designed/developed interfaces and integration into external financial sources including DTC (using MQ) and the Fed (using Intranet’s MTS application).
• Designed and implemented interface/integration into Bloomberg Financial using MQ. Lead architect/developer on an integration project for large healthcare insurance biller to integrate HL7 and X12 HIPAA transactions into SQL Server backend.
• Lead architect for large, multi-national project to architect/develop integration of Black & Decker’s homegrown financial application and QAD warehousing/manufacturing (WMS) application into Siebel CRM. Architected/developed integration of various Utility industry apps into Siebel CRM for a Big 5 consulting firm.
• Architected/developed integration of external EDI partner data into PeopleSoft app for National Geographic.
• Developed as-is and to-be business models for Florida’s state licensing department and architected/developed integration from their homegrown IVR application and Siebel Call Center into an Oracle-forms based backend.