SUMMARY

• Wide - ranging experience in business transformation guidance 10+ years transforming businesses in several different industries to become more customer centric and improve internal efficiencies through the better usage of technology, data and information through continual incremental change and increasing system integration
• Maintaining Transition and communication plans for all stakeholders and improving expected outcomes; building roadmaps and transition plans from gap analysis for future state; recommending best practices and tools.
• Proven Enterprise Business Architecture/Business Process/Business Modeling Skills 25+ years of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN 2.0) Repository; Business Decision Management Solutions; Business Rules Requirements Management
• Application Architecture/IT Portfolio Management Repository; Business Process Framework/Re-engineering; Enterprise IT/Architectural Governance Processes and traceability/mapping (Operational Readiness Review Board, Architecture Review Board (standards), Application Retirement Readiness); Business Decision Management System; Enterprise Capability Reference Framework; Business Strategy to Capability to Business Process Traceability/Mapping. Several different modeling tools like Sparx Business Architect, Orbus iServer, Visio as well as expertise of Rational Tool Suite including Rational Rose, Rational Software Architect for Modeling and Use Cases (both Business and System Use Cases); Activity diagrams; Use Case diagrams; Sequence diagrams; Class diagrams; Package diagrams; Component diagrams; State diagrams; Interface diagrams.
• Solid Business/IT Enterprise Architecture Experience 15+ years with frameworks like the Zachman Framework, FEAF, TOGAF and Gartner, including the methodologies like the Federal Segment Architecture Methodology (FSAM) and federated architecture, ITIL V2. Almost all my projects and /or programs the last several years included several components of infrastructure including: Enterprise Service Bus (ESB); Role Based Access Control (RBAC); Integration Layer services using SOA; COTS Integration and interfaces; required deep understanding and knowledge of information and not just data (relational databases, data marts, data warehouses, reporting, logical and physical data models, Business Intelligence (BI), etc.
• Strong Project/Program Management Skills 25+ year’s extensive experience leading and working with full software life cycle development, from the business requirements' phase through deployment using several different methodologies. I Have supervised up to 32 individuals. Proactively managed the complex project/program relationships of time, resources, quality assurance and baseline budgets to meet or exceed customer expectations. Conduct performance evaluations of project/program team (coaching, monitoring, mentoring, developing skill sets, etc.). Manage requirements traceability matrix (mapping).
• Extensive Requirements Management Experience and Knowledge 25+ years of heavy requirements gathering and analyzing business operations, policies, and procedures (including Business Process Re-engineering and workflow improvements and use of agile methodology). Synthesizing and identifying different types of organizational information (processes, applications, data, technologies, other disparate sources of information, etc.), looking for common touch points, interdependencies of interrelated systems and processes and continually improving the business processes and minimize the pain points
• Diversified Broad-Based Experience 25+ years working in and exposed to a wide array of environments, technologies, platforms, languages, tools, operating systems, networks, relational databases, applications, functional areas for various industries (domestic and global) and several government agencies (State and Federal). General domain knowledge includes railroad transportation (Amtrak), supply chain (John Deere) and logistics (Lucent Technologies), Healthcare (Several Blue Cross Organizations), Health Benefit Exchanges (MD, VA, DC).
• Excellent Customer Interface and Strong Communications Skills 25+ years for multi-location and multi-discipline stakeholders; effective through multiple iterations, phases and releases for major, complex and multi-year software programs. Also, provided strategic direction, progress reports to CIOs, Business Vice Presidents and C-level management and other senior management, or other stakeholders in large, global organizations.
• Tenacious Analytical, Problem Solving, Conceptual, Issue Resolution and Negotiating Skills 25+ years of thinking globally, keeping continuous process, quality assurance, and performance improvement in mind. Seek out new challenges and concepts.
• Determined Facilitation Skills 20+ years’ experience facilitating JAD Sessions (High level and lower Design/Detail level), Requirements Gathering, Analyzing and Mining, Use Cases, User Stories/Design Sessions/Scrum meetings, Sprints.
• Convincing Mentoring Skills 25+ years mentoring more junior members of the Program Team, to both technical and business staff, utilizing several Methodologies and technologies (including agile); Business Architecture and Business Process Management/Modeling as well as Rational Unified Process (RUP) Principles, Use Cases, Best Practices, Tools, UML.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Business Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain a holistic portfolio view of business architecture by facilitating large scale workshops to develop various models - Term Model, Business Capability Model, Business Process Models, Value Stream Models, Future State Models, Product Rules, etc.
• Navigate the organization to ensure the right stakeholders from the business are engaged to reflect the appropriate level of artifact development
• Ensure business units are engaged in business architecture development and agree with overall approach and use
• Ensure business artifacts are developed on budget, on time and complete for the agreed upon scope of the project
• Facilitate any size group of diverse Stakeholder Discussions and manage the flow of conversation, keeping the group on task to meet discussion objectives and negotiate agreement.
• Manage Conflict among diverse cross portfolio Stakeholders related to conflicting interests and requirements. Help stakeholders objectively examine real needs versus wants and ways to collaborate to achieve win/win resolutions.
• Lead and mentor other Business Architects and Business Analysts in their development.

Senior Business Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Stand in for the Business Architecture and Process Manager as required
• Walk into a new, unknown problem and diagnose the underlying issue(s), and use judgment, creativity, and sound technical knowledge to develop and recommend solutions/resolutions
• Develop the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, guidance, and direction
• Independently plan and execute work tasks in a rapidly changing, fast-paced environment
• Required experience and knowledge of Mortgage loans for very large multifamily, large commercial building projects, from several different banks or Investment companies. Confidential then took several large projects and combined or syndicated multiple loans of more than $1 Billion dollars, and syndicates the package of loans into a huge Mortgage Back Security, which was sold on either the Bond market or the Equities market

Lead Enterprise Business Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Conducted several high level JAD sessions with their entire leadership team
• Documented high-level end-to-end business process analysis and process maps
• Identified a technology solution guiding principles and drivers
• Conducted a Customer Sales Process deep dive business process mapping to Level 2 and requirements inventory marking Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Customer Application and Design Studio process beginning and end solutions
• Identified guiding principles, key drivers and timelines and long-term business objectives impacting Rebel’s technology strategy
• Reviewed existing sales process maps with Rebel Athletic subject matter experts
• Expanded process maps to include end-to-end business process
• Identified high-level pain points for each area of the business
• Identified CRM/Customer Application/Design Studio integration dependencies
• Developed process map details and requirements for
• CRM capabilities
• Customer Application capabilities
• Design Studio capabilities
• Finalized end-to-end process maps for Rebel Athletic review and sign-off
• Identified ERP integration and feature/functionality dependencies (mapping) for overall technology solution
• Completed a high-level review of technology selection considerations including stability and product reliability
• Completed a Technology landscape review to analyze available solutions against key business requirements as well as integration needs
• Reviewed requirements vs. technology solution to evaluate technology solution as delivered and identify gaps between each solution and documented requirements
• Recommended application solutions and recommend strategy for implementation/integration of CRM (SalesForce), Customer Application, and Design Studio inclusive of scope, timeline, cost, resource requirements and risk analysis
• Included a high-level review of the overall ERP technology solution and related dependencies. This analysis included understanding the high-level ERP requirements that impact selection of the CRM, Customer Application and Design Studio solutions.
• Conducted vendor demo’s and product communication
• Conducted Product overview with Rebel SMEs
• Conducted Technology/Integration Reviews and fit-gap analysis for recommended solutions
• Review recommended technologies/integration with Rebel team (CRM/Customer Application/Design Studio)
• Developed a recommended solution and high-level implementation strategy
• Presented a separate SOW for integration/implementation of the recommended solution to include parallel efforts related to later phased technology solutions, such as the ERP solution.