Senior Software Architect

• The whole package a technology master with extensive experience in all technology realms coupled with strong communication and business acumen. Self-motivated, results-driven, tactical leader, and experienced manager able to add real value from pre-sales/inception through implementation and support.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication capabilities including producing and presenting solution and application architectures, system designs, proposals, technology strategies to audiences at all levels of technical knowledge and the organization. Able to work with teams across business and technical disciplines to collaborate on solutions and achieve consensus decisions.
• Skilled in all phases of the software development lifecycle expert in quickly analyzing existing systems and translating business requirements into technical solutions serious about quality, usability, security, and scalability.

Professional Experience

Senior Enterprise Architect

Currently on contract for the Maryland Health Exchange ACA Website project. Brought on after the problematic October 1 launch to help stabilize and streamline the application and architecture. Leading several aspects of the efforts to re-engineer the middleware and SOA/ESB platforms supporting multiple COTS product integrations and extensive B2B/EDI interfaces including the main Federal Hub. Facilitated the knowledge transfer exercises from the prior offshore development team in Kiev. Working with the chief architects in designing the necessary modifications for best practices and improved application performance and usability. Leading teams in the reverse-engineering and re-engineering of key application components. Extensive use of current open source software heavy Redhat stacks and commercial products heavy IBM WebSphere, DB2, WTX .

Confidential

ACI is a global financial software and services firm that acquired ORCC in March 2013. ORCC was an online Bill Payment and Banking software and service provider.

Senior Director, Enterprise Technology Services and Banking Development

As a technical hands-on director, reporting directly to the CTO, originally leading the Financial Gateway and Application Architecture development teams, expanded to all of the Banking and Bill Payment product line development organization and Enterprise Technology initiatives and teams. As the founder, leader, and principal architect of the Enterprise Technology Services area, increased productivity, collaboration, stability, and customer satisfaction by over 100 across the entire company by developing and implementing enterprise tools and processes that meet and exceed the varying demands of the entire organization including major improvements in technology areas.

In development role, provided the technical leadership and managed the development and architecture teams to bring the online banking and bill payment ASP/SAS operation including the web front-end to a competitive level in the space, quadrupled the potential market base by delivering B2B interfaces with financial institution core systems and ATM networks and brought continuous improvement to customer satisfaction and cost savings through the back-office and support systems.

Mike Augustine

Accomplishments:

• Selected, architected, and implemented enterprise level tools using low cost, well supported, industry standard products and developing customized applications and add-ons to directly address serious widespread issues with inconsistency, auditability, and overall collaboration and communication. Tools included Enterprise Issue Management, Customer Enhancement Requests tracking, Support Requests, Change Management, Agile development management, change and release management, collaboration and centralized master document repository, infrastructure and application monitoring and alerting capabilities. Customizations coded in Java/J2EE with variety of open source frameworks , JavaScript, HTML, shell scripts, Perl, and proprietary languages/facilities.
• Architected and administrated the virtualized infrastructure environments used for the Enterprise Technology applications and tools. Involved fully managed virtualized servers, SQL Server database servers, Linux and Windows server VMs, SAN Storage. Developed server management processes including redundancy, backup, disaster recovery, user and shell management.
• Technical leader and architect of the modernization of the entire application stack including developing J2EE infrastructure and frameworks with a robust and true Services Oriented Architecture SOA from scratch. Led to an incredible ROI where applications and services became easily scalable, stable, reusable, and developed and tested with tripled efficiency and reliability.
• Organized, orchestrated, and executed on business, technical, and SDLC process re-engineering efforts that brought the improvements in development and enterprise tools together to provide the total package. Assisted with bringing Agile development methodologies into the organization, resulting in the entire company being fully converted to an Agile mindset leading to realizing the associated productivity and quality gains.
• Participated directly in the establishment of a wholly-owned India Development Center IDC . Organized and participated in the hiring, knowledge transfer, and management of the IDC staff to create a semi-independent extension of the US staff.
• Prepared and delivered presentations on the architecture and organization to potential buyers of the company, resulting in the decision by ACI Worldwide to proceed with the acquisition.

Consulting Experience

Confidential

owner and principal consultant for a highly successful software and services consulting practice with well-known clients primarily in the Washington, DC area. Demonstrated advanced technical abilities and consistent delivery of high quality software and services resulted in constant repeat client engagements and referrals.

Example Clients and Engagements

Architected and implemented a B2B application to provide a messaging interface for BCBS Plans across the country to exchange healthcare and insurance information and processing transactions BlueExchange . Performed all aspects of project planning and management, including supervising and leading the technical resources.