PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

A Chief Architect and Technology Leader with over 23 years of experience providing organizations with technology leadership, vision, and strategy. During my career, I have been able to rapidly adapt to new industries and have experience in the banking, pharmaceutical, healthcare, publishing, legal, and insurance domains as well as for Confidential and Confidential . My hands - on technical and management expertise includes Advanced Analytics, Big Data, Content Management Systems (CMS), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Workflow Solutions, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cloud Computing, E-Commerce, Software Development, and Enterprise Architecture. I have proven accomplishments working as a federal contractor, startup operation, technology consultant, pre-sales and proposal technical lead, and strategy technologist.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Williamsburg, VA

Chief Architect consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supporting a Big Data modernization effort as Chief Architect. Reorganization of existing teams to promote Agile methodologies, hired additional SME consultants to augment legacy staff, established proper design and data flow patterns, remediated platform misconfigurations and issues, and mentored staff about Big Data, Cloud, DevOps, and API technologies.
• Collaborated with the client to develop a Big Data Strategy, Roadmap, & Confidential Architecture in support of the creation of an Enterprise Data Management solution and Data Science Center of Excellence.

Key Technologies: Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), Hortonworks Data Flow (HDF) / NiFi, Teradata Data Warehouse, Teradata Aster, JBoss Fuse, SAS, Tableau, and SharePoint 2013.

Confidential: Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Supporting an existing Big Data / Data Lake effort as a Big Data Architect. Performed discovery phase, established new use cases, promoted proper design and data flow patterns, remediated platform misconfigurations and issues, and mentored staff about Big Data technologies.
• Collaborated with the client to develop a Big Data Strategy, Roadmap, & Confidential Architecture in support of the creation of an Enterprise Data Management solution and Data Science Center of Excellence.

Key Technologies: Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), Hortonworks Data Flow (HDF) / NiFi, Microsoft R Server, & Tableau.

Chief Architect / Principal of Data Practice

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities:

• Chief Architect responsible for establishing the Big Data and Enterprise Services practice, assisting with business development, and leading Strategy, Architecture, and Solution efforts for Healthcare, Finance, and Engineering clients.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Client Lead / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Develop a Confidential Framework and Destination Platform Suite in order to transition from their legacy Microsoft ASP solution to a more robust solution providing Big Data Services and Analytics, Data Virtualization, Business Process Management, Enterprise Content Management, Semantic Processing of Unstructured Data, SOA/RESTFUL Services, and Real-Time Medical Record Data Exchange within a Cloud Hosted Environment.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Client Lead / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design and development of a Pilot Data Lake in support of centralization and historic archive of all unstructured, structured, and geospatial data for one very large client project in order to apply machine learning and advanced analytical methodologies to answer project planning, execution, and design question to achieve optimum efficiency to reduce costs and delivery timelines.
• The development and delivery of Confidential ’s Strategic Big Data Roadmap & Confidential Architecture in support of an enterprise-wide next generation business initiative.
• Interviewed over 20 executives and stakeholders to order to gather and score high-value use cases to determine which use cases should become pilot projects.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Client Lead / Architect

Responsibilities:

• responsible for on-site administration team, architecture assessment and review, and leading the development of an IoT device and network message parsing solution utilizing Hortonworks Data Platform, Spark, & Kafka.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Advisor

Responsibilities:

• responsible for assisting Confidential with their Big Data project and managing on-site xScion staff.

Key Technologies: Hortonworks Data Platform, Cloudera Enterprise Hadoop, MapR, Cassandra / Datastax, NoSQL, Hadoop, HBase, HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Python, Phoenix, Scala, Spark, Solr, MATLAB, Kafka, Storm, Flink, Apex, NiFi, Databricks, Zeppelin, Anaconda, ESRI, Tableau, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SAS, Vagrant, Docker, Oracle VirtualBox, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon AWS.

Sr. IT Manager / Solutions Architect

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• responsible for the development of bank project architectures, platform integrations, technical design review, project intent and grooming, and assisting with the resolution of technical issues.

Key Technologies: JBoss Suite (EAP, Fuse, jBPM, MQ), Spring Framework, Spring Batch, Oracle 11g RAC, Teradata, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Cloudera, GITHub, VersionOne, IBM Rational Asset Manager (RAM), FIS Systematics, FIS Profile v6.2 & 7.5, FIS VisionIP, DDS Trips, Fiserv Float Pricing System, Argo Teller Platform, NCR Aptra ATM & RDC, Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

Project Lead / Chief Architect

Confidential, Hampton, VA

Responsibilities:

• responsible for the development of the Confidential ’s enterprise vision and roadmap.

Key Technologies: DCGS-A, MarkLogic, MetaCarta, Janya Semantex, AppTek, Kapow, Attensity, Ozone Widget Framework (OWF), ESRI ArcGIS, Java, WSO2, Thetus Savanna, Vivisimo Velocity, Adobe Flex, Apache Solr, Apache Tomcat, Apache HBase / Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) with MapReduce, Microsoft SharePoint 2010.

Chief Architect

Confidential, Newport News, VA

Responsibilities:

• Developed an Enterprise Architecture plan and solutions design to support the operational and support requirements of the Finance and Travel Offices.
• Project advisor responsible for the delivery of a project and technology roadmap to achieve a consolidated data reporting and dashboard solution based on disbursed sensor data, audit logs, and databases.

Key Technologies: Microsoft VB & C#, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft SharePoint 2010, and Crystal Reports 12.0, SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI, Oracle, MySQL, SAS, and Teradata

Associate - Project Manager / Sr. Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• To deliver a web - based Financial Decision Analytical Support System and Scoring Engine within a 4 month time span.
• The system provides financial sponsors and decision makers with attribute based insights about their programs. The presented program insights allow decision makers to create analytical profiles, which score and rank programs, allow funding adjustments, and are exported as analytical reports.
• To deliver a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007-based analytical solution to provide project stakeholders with clear statistical insights about their project before making decisions.
• To deliver a RFID/RTLS solution for monitoring and tracking individuals locations as they navigated internal building locations.
• To deliver a web-based Critical Asset Management System (CAMS), which allowed users to dynamically analyze, monitor, and manage mission critical assets, organizations, and contact.
• To deliver an Enterprise Collaborative Case Information and Document Management solution as an upgrade to an existing Oracle Forms 6i and Visual Basic 6 data management application.
• Work with the client to redevelop key operational processes and terminology.

Key Technologies: Microsoft VB & C#, Team Foundation Server 2008, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, AJAX, Amazon AWS, WSO2, ESRI ArcGIS 9.3.1, Oracle Database 11g, AeroScout, Cisco, DevExpress WinForms Controls, MindFusion FlowChart.NET 5.1, Ext JS, jQuery, EMC Documentum 6.5, EMC Captiva, and Citrix Presentation Server.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Develop Analyst-Centric solutions and architectures for the IRS, AARP, FTTTF, and other intelligence gathering organization designed to allow the analysts to search out and retrieve unstructured and structured data from various resources while persisting the extracted data into an intelligence repository.
• Once the data has been persisted the analyst would be able to filter the data and send it to various analytical tools for additional processing.

Key Technologies: InXight ThingFinder, SmartDiscovery Awareness & Extraction Servers, SRA NetOwl, RDF Stores, Tibco Spotfire, i2 Analyst’s Notebook, Attensity, Visual Analytics, Aduna Software, Tildenwoods Centrifuge, Jena, Carrot2, Apache Lucene, Intellidimension RDF Gateway, OpenLink Virtuoso, Microsoft SharePoint v3.0, Microsoft Office SharePoint Service 2007, SharePoint Web Parts, AJAX, MS.NET, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Office 2007, Java, Tomcat, Python, Postgres, and mySQL.

Enterprise Architect / Senior Developer / Oracle DBA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed a content management and workflow portal allowing operational and engineering SMEs to capture, process, and manage all in theater IED incident and engineering data.
• I used the collected data collected to create a read-only research portal where viewers could read about IED incident and technical data as well as view geospatial trending reports about incidents in the areas they could travel. Instructing them on what to look for and how to protect themselves.
• Forward deployed liaison and support for NAVEODTECHDIV fielded software.
• Create an application suite for automated acceptance, processing, validation, and importing of large quantities or varied 3rd party external data; normalizing and transforming the data into a standardized XML structure, manage the corresponding content files, and injecting them into an Oracle database.
• Provide DBA support for Oracle 8i, 9i, & 10g databases and develop data transformation SQL scripts.

Key Technologies: Microsoft VB.NET and C# .NET 2003 / 2005, Java, JBoss, Oracle 8i -10g, SOA, Exchange, AJAX, XML, and XSLT.

Confidential, New York, NY & Washington, DC

Consultant: Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Used as a lead resource for application development, business systems decisions and other I.T. best practices reporting to the law firm’s Chief Technology Officer.
• Primary responsibility was enterprise architecture, hiring a new staff, project management, and as an accounting and human resources departments resource for maintaining and enhancing the current solutions.
• Developed Synergy; a rules-based financial web application used to gather Pfizer-Pharmacia merger related data from worldwide sources for NY management to report to Wall Street. Synergy has a security hierarchy, a data repository, and over 60 complex reports.
• Redeveloped Pegasus 2.0 - Converted an existing web data warehouse application to support worldwide regional settings, enhanced ActiveX grids, and a user-friendly interface.

Key Technologies: Microsoft Visual Basic & C++ 6, Crystal Reports Enterprise, IIS 4, ASP, COM, ActiveX, and Oracle 8i.