Summart

Highly accomplished technical visionary leader with record of leveraging in-depth technical acumen to provide creative business solutions. Expert at facilitating the stakeholders of business processes to increase enterprise-wide agility. Experienced in strategic planning, guiding technology architecture and design, and managing large 30 teams of engineers. Proficient at executing the full lifecycle of technology projects, and providing concise but lithe project execution. Polished professional with superb communication talents. A forte for technical creativity and leadership.

Selected Achievements / Qualifications

• Created the data strategy to manage 8 petabytes of data for Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Relations technologies at Bank of America
• Revamped Bank of America's consumer integration strategy to focus on meeting business agility, resiliency and accountability needs
• Helped Bank of America create strategic solutions for problems identified during the financial crises.
• Provided workgroup leadership in the Bank of America's SOA Center of Excellence
• Leader in the FINMAN project responsible injecting technology into the treasury departments of counties in Organization of Eastern Caribbean States OECS
• Executed from vision through deployment a large 100M project consisting of a large 50 engineering team for the Department of Veteran Affairs.
• Created enterprise architecture processes that provide an evolving roadmap of how technology can be used to execute business strategy.
• Skilled at presenting merits technical solutions to business problems as part of an executive audience.
• An expert in healthcare enterprise interoperability using technologies. Influenced IBM decision to support HL7 in all of their middleware appliances.
• Conference Speaking: Agile Governance: Is it an Oxymoron
• Experience in healthcare, financial and public sector domains, with success at fostering creativity where regulations are consequential.
• Solid experience with the Affordable Care Act's effect on health insurance payers.
• Innovation partner at The University of Waterloo's CCNG. Pioneer in the creation of public key cryptographic algorithms and chip fabrication where received two NSERC research awards.
• Considered a foremost expert in enterprise software agility and the SOA paradigm.

Technical Skills

• Architect/Design Tools: Sparx Enterprise Architect, Visio, Rational Architect
• Databases: DB2, INFORMIX, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB
• Development Tools: Visual Studio, Eclipse, Spring etc Computer Languages: C , Java, C, C , Smalltalk, Pascal, VB, PHP, Perl, Fortran, COBOL BI Tools:TeraData, SPSS, Cognos, OBIEE, Comshare, SSIS ESB Middleware: IBM Websphere MQ, MB, Process Server, DataPower, Hadoop, SAP Netweaver, MS BizTalk Reporting Tools: Cognos, Crystal Reports, XBRL Methodologies: Customized, LEAN, agile, SCRUM, XP, CMMI
• Document Standards: X12, XBRL, EDIFACT, CCTS, HL7, NIEM, UMLS, SNOMED
• Web: AJAX, ASP.NET, J2EE, SOA, XML, HTML, SOAP, EJB's, Websphere MQ, Sharepoint, Web Services, UDDI Modeling Languages: UML, XBRL, BEPL, BPMN Operating Systems: Windows Family Unix: AIX, SCO, HP/UX, Solaris Linux, CMS, MVS

Professional Experience

Confidenital

One of the 5 largest banks the US, Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions.

Strategy and Architecture - Legal, Compliance and Regulatory Relations

• Developed a data strategy to manage a portfolio of 8 petabytes of data, including the banks legal, compliance, audit, corporate security and operational risk technologies.
• Created an analytics and reporting strategy for Financial Crimes Technologies, including AML, fraud and sanctions
• Introduced several alternate technologies to solve some very unique problems of scale that very few financial institutions are challenged by, including Hadoop 2, columnar databases, large scale learning software and complex metadata management technologies
• Part of the enterprise data management strategy committee.
• Pioneer of a method using entity registries to as a fundamental component to solve risk data aggregation challenges.
• Confidenital
• Reshaped the large scale data integration strategy at the consumer bank.
• Exhibited to senior leadership that by following sound principles an integration strategy can be a major factor in creating project agility, resiliency and accountability.
• Demonstrated how better metadata management could reduce project cost, time to market and create accountability across the integration landscape service reuse can happen in a matter of minutes, instead of days
• Confirmed that making use of native functionalities with existing products simplifies integration by significantly reducing the code base, while improving the functional offering. ie. < 1000 lines of code, instead of 20,000
• Established better gateway infrastructure architecture that reduced hardware needs increase TPS 600 per device group at the same time as increasing resiliency through simplicity.

Confidenital

The fourth largest healthcare insurer in the US, managing Blue Cross Blue Shield for TX, IL, OK, MT, NM..

Senior Enterprise Architect Consultant

• Lead an enterprise architecture effort to create a strategic approach and governance for HCSC's financial systems concentrated on Affordable Care Act ACA compliance and the changing business environment it has spurred.
• This project created a roadmap and the oversight to evolve HCSC's financials using SOA concepts ESB pattern and business analytical tools to improve flexibility in financial reporting, compliance with focus on ACA compliance , and financial risk management.
• The roadmap involved a significant change to the governance policies of HCSC's financial data. It introduced a technical governance method and tools. It simplified the business process and improved financial oversight by reducing the financial control points required from 29,000 to just over 800 at a huge cost savings.
• Assisted in acquiring hierarchy management, metadata management, MDM, DataPower and a suite of BI tools.
• The resulting program is estimated at 75M and would pay for itself in less than 2 years.

Confidenital

The Department of Veteran Affairs is the second largest healthcare system in the world.

Vice President, Enterprise Architect

• Both enterprise architect and software technology leadership responsibilities. This involved collaborating with the executive management team to set the technical vision for new product development, technical solution development and governance, supporting existing products active at customers and supporting new business development efforts
• As the enterprise architect modified the EA framework to fit the program culture, created the architectural vision and worked with the business on the architectural scope. I created the programs enterprise architecture practice by hiring five EA's to help with the information, application and technology views.
• As a technology leader, collaborated with executive management team to develop a very large and complex enterprise level project breaking new ground in rich media delivery and innovative services. Working in the latest technologies and methodologies, attracting the best and brightest people and created a highly collaborative SOA environment. Created the application middleware architecture using a combination of DataPower and other media delivery mechanisms the new converged medical media solution.
• Lead a team of 35 professionals, responsible for governance, technical mentoring, functional design and overall success of a 30M project.
• Provided hands on oversight to the software support team for The Department of Veteran Affairs' national CDN network as part of a managed support contract, this team was 8-10 people

Confidenital

Global banking company with 115 billion in revenue and largest US consumer bank with 350,000 employees

Vice President, Sr. Architect

• Developed the reference architecture for the commercial banks strategic middleware. And created the strategic architecture for the Integration, Payments and Shared Services group. This involved educating the solutions architects and application architects on new technology ideas such as the SOA paradigm and how we need to govern them. I had many tasks as a result, that were application/solution architect oriented.
• Provided workgroup leadership in the Bank of America's SOA Center of Excellence
• Architectural responsibilities for the strategic middleware for their Global Commercial and Investment Banking group GCIB . The middleware processes all GCIB messages including all payments throughout the Bank of America
• Fulfilled a new applied architect role for the incorporation, to the commercial banks strategic middleware, hardware appliances DataPower , as a more agile and less costly alternative to their software middleware Message Broker, Process Server .
• Provided strategic direction and technical research for many project teams including the revamp of the BAC payment systems, Merrill Lynch transition, middleware remediation, payment clearing and global liquidity.
• Created a strategy for documenting and representing integration functions as services so they can be governed in a service registry and repository enabling a move to an SOA environment from an EAI environment this included consolidating and documenting all message exchange patterns used in within GCIB strategic architecture group.
• Defined the commercial banks, integration service model and helped pilot the run-time governance model.

Software prototyping Resume Profile

Global software and services company having offices in Europe and North America with over 1000 employees

Principle Enterprise Architect

• Created architectural framework at the State of Washington TOGAF for the process and FEA for the content/taxonomies . The scope of the EA engagement was to help the DIS agency to be more effective to get them perceived to add value to the agencies engaging them. The massive web of interoperability was at the heart of the business architecture. The Business Architecture was done by a third party company.
• Chief architect and mentor in the creation of an SOA and ESB for the Office of Financial Management
• Developed a strategic plan for OFM to use an ESB to dramatically improve organizational flexibility and significantly reduce cost within the agency.
• Pioneered Sierra Systems SOA Architecture practice leading a group of 10 technologists.
• Architect for the Washington Health Authority ESB, using HIPPA X12N and HL7 standards. This was a series of exchanges to make the authority HIPPA compliant as well as leverage existing legacy systems.
• Created technical and strategic plans giving Sierra a strong foundation to drive their systems integration business.

Confidenital

500M global software and services company with offices in 80 countries and over 5000 employees

Senior Integration Specialist

• The company did not have an enterprise architecture practice at the time. I was actively involved in evangelizing EA at Misys. The main selling point was a paper I wrote, called Agile Governance: Is it an Oxymoron We did a very successful pilot in the organization to show how governance and the measuring of governance improved productivity.
• Architected the now open source product called Misys connect, design on HL73 to help existing Misys and many third party products interoperability.
• Introduced the SOA paradigm to the company. Converted from a mindset of point-to-point integration scenarios to scalable and robust messaging utilizing an innovative governance framework.
• We were challenged with integrating custom developed in-house solutions, third party COTS systems, SaaS services and numerous B2B providers including banks and payroll organizations.
• Heavily involved in many technologies, including .NET architecture, SharePoint, Netweaver XI/PI, etc

Confidenital

Provider of solutions to technical software and process problems focus on large business and government clients

Enterprise Consultant

• Created the technology for advanced inventory exchange project that allowed Misys to outsource warrantee / non-warrantee replacement service for entire customer base and produce significant annual cost savings.
• Authored and taught two enterprise architect courses: EA: What is it and why is it needed and Practicing EA.
• Continue to perform application architect duties with Misys projects to streamline accounting and distribution systems and began the process of evangelizing SOA at Misys.
• Integrated legacy ERP system at Misys to improve many aspects of data delivery, including accuracy of tax / financial recording and simplified auditing.
• Implemented system that traced field inventories and improved oversight of Field Engineers and communications between inventory accounting and Engineers.
• Helped form SOA environment with linked applications through web services for Oakwood Technologies improved adaptability to change and created a more agile development environment for the company.

Software prototyping Resume Profile300-person management consulting company with a proprietary consulting system

Senior Information Systems Consultant

• Software team lead at PCS now Caremark Rx engaged to solve interoperability problems with their electronic heath card systems.
• Contributed to the early X12N standard a predecessor to HIPAA X12 5010
• Played major role as project leader for Misys Healthcare Systems, which was experiencing EHR system disrepair due to high Company growth.
• Pinpointed severe technical problems in financials within three weeks exceeded expectations and significantly improved trust in EHR systems.
• Successfully monitored and maintained technical stability of Misys financial systems to significantly improve systems uptime i.e., 242 days without a restart.
• Implemented a distribution system enhancement that decreased missed shipments to under 3 , which dramatically improved customer satisfaction levels.

Confidenital

Independent software development and consulting company

Founder and CEO

• Founded company evaluated / prioritized daily projects and schedules, and collaborated with consultants to locate necessary resources. Key projects included:
• FINMAN: Directed pilot of treasury project that grew to include the entire eastern Caribbean economic union OECS and its central bank conducted initial feasibility study, created architectural specifications, authored initial design document, and automated treasury departments. Ultimately, provided governments with moneyless voucher system, more accountability to their people, and less corruption throughout the treasuries.
• Website International: architected and managed full lifecycle of a new tracking system concept for use by hotels across the U.S. and Canada on-time / budget project allowed for added monthly revenue of 3K per booth for trial hotels.
• Virtuality PLC: Contracted by the world's leading virtual reality developer to lead 100K project to refine movement of virtual reality pod guns using proprietary hardware added vending capabilities to virtual reality pods and enabled external computers to control the pods.

Confidenital

The world's largest nickel producer, with market capital of 10B

Consultant

Confidenital

• The foremost authority in Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics in Canada. Comparable to MIT in the US.
• 1987 Hardware Designer
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Confidenital

Geovision is an early pioneer of GIS and cartographic systems in Canada. They are a spinoff of System House Ltd.

Programmer/Analyst