STRENGTHS:

• Technology Strategy
• Application Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• Integration Architecture
• Solution Architecture
• Data Warehouse Design/Development
• Technology Innovation

SKILLS:

• AWS and SAAS
• Agile Methods (SCRUM)
• Innovation Program
• Technology Strategy and Roadmaps
• Solution Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• Application Architecture
• Information Management Architecture
• ETL Architecture
• Enterprise system design and analysis
• ITIL
• RDBMS
• Decision support reporting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Account Chief Technologist

Responsibilities:

• Lead on - going innovation initiatives including Big Data, Mobile, Security, Cloud and Modernization
• Lead a Healthcare Systems Correspondence opportunity utilizing Confidential ExStream for both Claims and Membership.
• Developed and lead a technical quality assurance program.
• Work closely with the Confidential CTO to bring the greater Confidential to Confidential for competitive advantage.

Technologies: DB2, DB2 CDC, Claims, Membership, SOA Integration, ETL Architecture

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead an engagement to perform a Health Check on Aramark’s E-commerce system to determine if the system could survive the upcoming black Friday demand. The engagement included multiple load testing / analysis cycles and culminated with tactical recommendations to get them through Black Friday, but strategic recommendations to re-architect the system.
• Lead a follow up engagement to determine Aramark’s requirements and needs and recommend an e-commerce platform to build the new strategic Confidential and B2C system. This Engagement included interviewing key business and IT stakeholders to determine the system that would best meet their strategic needs.

Confidential

Account Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Technology leader for a team of 100 consultants
• Solution Architecture
• Lead on-going innovation initiatives including Big Data and Modernization, SAAS and Cloud architectures
• Developed a technology innovation program that was a coordinated program between Confidential and Confidential Arizona that lead to several technology and social innovation programs that are on-going.
• Developed and lead a technical quality assurance program.
• Delivered a technology futures presentation at the Confidential Associations annual conference.
• Evaluated applications for SAAS opportunities

Technologies: DB2, DB2-CDC, SQL Server, Business Objects.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technology leaders for a team of 150 consultants
• Lead the architecture and implementation of a modernized Membership system using SCRUM. The solution reached across Confidential DB2 and IMS hosted systems using CDC and DataStage into to the customer midrange Data Warehouse.
• Implemented the modernizing of Confidential ’s membership application transforming it from PACbase and IMS to Websphere Java and DB2.
• Designed a future state enterprise architecture roadmap including an SOA, ESB and J2EE solution from their mainframe COBOL/Assembly language application for claims and membership.
• Integration and leadership of account and customer governance processes
• Created a blueprint for transformations of large systems
• Mentoring and career advising for both Confidential and customer staff

Technologies: DB2, IMS, CDC DataStage, Business Objects, Websphere JEE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead technologist in a project to evaluate the systems of Americans 3 regional carriers and make recommendations for remediation including moving to a SAAS model
• Lead a team to interview critical airline employees and IT staff in the evaluation of the systems
• Used modernization techniques and methodologies to evaluate rate and rank the critical airline systems.
• Presented findings and recommendations to the 3 regional presidents of the airlines including the appropriate operating model for each class of application (SAAS or Inhouse)
• Lead a team to stabilize/ Aramarks Confidential and B2C ecommerce platforms to withstand the black Friday and seasonal demands
• Remediated issues found and load tested until complete.
• Presented findings and recommendations to the CIO and direct reports
• Improved the ecommerce throughput over 100% in a successful remediation and had an excellent black Friday
• Lead a team to stabilize/modernize a worldwide drug trial system that would allow the customer to double and triple the drug trial volume and provide an expanded reporting facility to accommodate the new business. The project included a current state, future state and gap analysis as well as a roadmap for implementing the new architecture that included both infrastructure (storage and server) and application modernization.
• Developed a testing strategy for both functional and performance testing

Confidential

Principal Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected a solution to modernize a mainframe reporting solution to an Oracle data warehouse solution using Informatica and Oracle data warehouse technologies. The solution involved moving a legacy reporting system to a more sophisticated multi-dimensional analysis capability to give the marketing department a competitive advantage with existing data.
• Architected a solution to take the Cognos reports in the marketing datamart to a mobile solution using smart phones and implementing the Cognos mobile solution.
• Facilitated a disaster recovery review for key applications
• Wrote a whitepaper on capacity planning for AA Architects
• Created a modernization strategy and proposal for a Customer Loyalty for several mainframe applications to be re-architected to lower cost state-of-the-art systems.

Technologies: Oracle, Cognos, Informatica. Oracle

Confidential

Director of Applications, BI and Integration

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for 4 e-commerce websites including Confidential .com, Confidential ’s Confidential site and Amazon.com web services SAAS model.
• Responsible for Confidential ’s worldwide Business Intelligence strategy and Implementation using SAP BW and Cognos ETL and BI toolsets.
• Implemented BI solutions in the Americas, Germany, France and Hong Kong.
• Lead integration team for 19 interfaces with Webmethods/Business Connector for the initial SAP implementation.
• Architected Confidential ’s integration of SAP Retail to SAP wholesale using SAP XI and IBM WBI.
• Responsible for enterprise architecture and integration.
• Responsible for project and application architecture for migrating Confidential .com to Websphere Commerce.
• Developed and implemented an architectural design methodology for making architectural decisions.
• Migrated Confidential ’s technical staff from an RPG AS400 environment to SAP/Unix/DB2
• Created a three year architecture roadmap for moving Confidential to J2EE via SAP Netweaver and Websphere including a SOA architectural design.
• Designed and began phase 1 implementation of an enterprise architecture using SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) per the roadmap.

Confidential

Director of Technology

Responsibilities:

• Developed a startup e-commerce site as a spin-off company for a Fortune 500 energy enterprise.
• Delivered a multi-channel call center self service employee benefit application for a major airline.
• Developed an application and integration architecture for a major energy company to connect a J2EE customer self-service application to a CICS CIS application.
• Developed and proposed a technical architecture to support a petroleum pipeline tracking application for a Fortune 500 energy company.

Confidential

Technical Director

Responsibilities:

• E-commerce and integration practice lead for the southwest region
• Responsible for e-commerce and CRM projects technical architecture development and implementation, including software development, middleware/interfaces and database systems.
• Led a large process and technology re-engineering effort at a major computer retailer. The project included the re-engineering of business systems division of the company and included the package selection of both sales force automation and Confidential e-commerce systems.
• Conducted a project assessment of both application and architecture for a large construction company. The assignment included the state of the project and its possibility of success. The assessment looked at the team, technology and architecture of the system.
• Lead designer of a telecom billing system for a major wireless company using Forte, a distributed object development tool.