Summary

I am a seasoned computer systems professional that has been successfully managing, designing, constructing, and delivering software technology and business system solutions for over 25 years. Expertise includes: Senior Technical Staff Member, Technical Delivery Manager, Software Architecture Enterprise, Solution, Application, Integration, Security, and Contact Center , Middleware Software Systems Design Engineering, Software Communication Systems Design Engineering, Operating Systems Engineering, Programming Course Work Development, Programming College Instructor, Systems Administration, and Technical Writing. I have attained strong design and implementation skills with a proven track record of delivering complex innovative solutions in both the business and the technology arenas. I am skilled in leading teams for complex software development, delivering solutions that span multi-layers of a computing environment.

Summary of Areas of Expertise

• Software Architecture Enterprise, Integration, Solution, Contact Center
• Technical Delivery / Project Management TDM, PM
• Internet / eCommerce, B2B
• System / Application Integration
• Project Charter/Initiation
• Requirements Gathering/Engineering
• High Level and Detailed Design
• Application Development/Construction
• Enterprise Service Bus ESB
• Process Modeling BPMN
• Governance, Standards, Best Practices
• Architectural Review Board ARB
• Integration Competency Center ICC
• Capacity Planning
• Software Development Life Cycle SDLC , Waterfall, Iterative, Agile
• Web Services SOA
• X12, HIPAA 4010/5010
• Java / J2EE / SQL
• C C Development
• COTS Evaluation Selection
• Product Support Management
• Mainframe Connectivity
• Business Process Management and Orchestration
• Contact Center Architecture
• Software Security Architecture
• PEGA Workflow
• Technology Roadmap
• Content Management/Information Architecture
• The Open Group Architecture Framework TOGAF 8

Professional Experience

Confidential

Position: Senior Technical Staff Member

Currently a Senior Technical Staff Member TSM working as a Technical Delivery Manager TDM for an Enterprise Service Bus ESB for a SOA based integration environment in the Integration Competency Center ICC . Currently using TOGAF, Agile development methodology, and the CMMI maturity model at Level 4 within our enterprise.

Responsibilities:

• Manage development and delivery of enterprise integrated solutions from project inception, project requirements, design, code, test, and deploy.
• Member of Architectural Review Board which vets and approves all architectures for projects being developed. Architecture Frameworks: TOGAF Certified 2008 . SDLC Methodology: CMMI currently implementing Level 4
• Create Architectures, High Level Designs, and Detailed Designs for development of integrated systems. Also am involved with Business in Project Charter, and Business and Technical Requirements Gathering sessions.
• Work with Services Companies Trizetto, NASCO to integrate external and internal provided services Software as a Service and Cloud Systems for our internal systems
• Project manage technical delivery of ESB developed components for CareFirst enterprise within the ICC based upon our SDLC Project Charter, Requirements Gathering, High Level Architecture/Design, Detailed Design, Construction, Unit Test, Integration/System Test, User Acceptance Test, Production Deployment, Production Verification, and Production Support .
• Work in Integration Competency Center ICC on vision, current and future ESB architecture, implementation strategy, planning, cost estimates, Power Point presentations, and technical consultation for decision making
• Work with Application Project Managers on detailed project plans for ESB components
• Conduct and attend JAD meetings for all applications interfacing with the ESB
• Provide Environment management analysis for Development, Test, and Production ESB environments
• Participate in Vision and Technology Roadmap formulation team which includes all the research, discussions, meetings, and decisions that are done and made.
• Work with Business Process Automation Team on information architecture and Content Management
• Conduct procurement analysis for next year hardware and software procurements function mapped to cost, for cost justification to executives , Software, Hardware and Network.
• Conduct Capacity Planning, Vendor /COTS Evaluation Selection, Researching SOA and other leading edge technology for current and future implementation, vendor selection, Request for Information RFI Request for Proposal RFP analysis, vendor Statement of Work SOW , and vendor comparison matrix analysis
• Continual definition of SOA strategy and vision Portal, Services, ESB, Business Process Management and Orchestration, Business Activity Management, Business Optimization, Business Intelligence . Report on findings with white papers, presentations, and web site content. This also includes proof of concepts POC which involves POC Statement of Work SOW , POC Requirements Objective, POC Definition and Design, POC Installation, POC Execution, and POC Findings Documentation.
• Mentor and lead architects and developers on SOA and the ESB
• Working with project application architects and business analysts to insure SOA standards compliancy, proper application integration with ESB and tools like TIBCO Business Works, Business Connect, PEGA business process modeling tool, AmberPoint service monitoring for Business Activity Monitoring BAM , and others.
• Conduct Technical Interviews to fill current architectural and development positions

Accomplishments:

• Architected our ESB which contains five major components: 1 B2B Gateway, 2 Web Services Gateway, 3 Enterprise Messaging Service Gateway MOM 4 Data Transformation Gateway 5 Monitoring and Runtime Governance Framework.
• Developed B2B strategy and roadmap B2B Gateway: Transaction Gateway, EDI X12 Gateway, Secured Managed File Transfer Gateway MFTP
• Defined SOA Governance processes, tools, and Best Practices for:
  1. Design Time Governance
  2. Run Time Governance
  3. Change Time Governance
• Developed ESB Security Model B2B and Local which major components are: 1 Tivoli based LDAP Directory Server, 2 Centralize Security Policies, 3 Managed Local and Business Partner credentials, 4 Secured Web Services and MFTP Gateway, 5 Federated Identity Management and single sign on, 6 Non repudiation Policies, and 7 Granular Access Control
• Designed and wrote all informational content for our ICC Wiki Web Site.
• Did all the product information gathering Request for Proposal RFP and was instrumental in selecting MFTP product which is Axeway's Tumbleweed product. It was evaluated by Gartner as the number one product for managed file transfer. .
• Recent examples of some delivered projects I managed:
• Federal Employees FEP Mainframe MQ ESB Integration
• Contract Generation with JMS Phase 1, Phase 2, and Phase 3
• NASCO RPN Medical Provider Authorizations ETL Web Services
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Exchange Network Integration BXNI HIPAA Web Services
• Consumer Direct EIVR/ESB Integration Web Services JDBC

Confidential

Position: Senior Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Senior Enterprise Architect, duties: Enterprise Architecture Team, technical leadership of re-architecting component disparate silo-based enterprise of N-Tiered applications into an integrated, adaptive, Service Oriented Architecture SOA reusable component based enterprise framework under protection of enterprise wide security. Architecture Framework: Zachman,
• Architecture includes systems for over a thousand business and system applications and services, extensive global wide integration layer global high speed hub and bus consisting of hundreds of servers , thousands of intermediate, data in transit databases Sybase, Informix, Oracle, Access , massive DB2 and CICS VSAM Source of Records SOR for over sixty million credit card customers replicated to massive Data Warehouse on many mainframes, and thousands of client desktop computers running both thin and heavy client applications.
• Evaluate/research trending of technology in relation to business vision of CEO to determine technical vision, then devise and document detailed technology roadmap and planning to attain vision, or as we called it the target architecture .
• Managed technical direction of team members, vendor relationships, Line of business LOB to IT relationship, enterprise status, vision, and technical integration aspects of mergers and acquisitions

Accomplishments:

• Helped Developed Target Architecture roadmap and planning based on a 5-year migration plan. Major features and frameworks of Target Architecture: Modification of then current rigid Enterprise Architecture to incorporate more flexibility and agility through SOA. Integrated Business Process Modeling BPM , Information Architecture utilizing IBM's Information Framework IFW , determining and mapping business process into Component Business Model CBM, Web Services Architecture WSA , Component Business Rules Processing and Workflow, Content and Portal Management system, Enterprise Service Bus ESB , Incorporation of MQ for messaging, J2EE Application Server, Component Asset Management System Full Cycle integrated IT Governance , Declarative component based application security access, integrated fully monitored and configurable Perimeter Security Network PSN , Directory Services LDAP based Identity and Provision Management, enterprise wide Security Governance, automated Data Transformation ETL , and Data Mining, Metadata based Data Access system, fully integrated Data Warehouse system, fully integrated Development Environment, integrated component based Testing Environment, fully integrated Contact Center, integrated iterative UML Design Methodology, Architectural Governance system, industry accepted Best Practices, and utilization of proven Design Patterns.

Application Integration Architecture

• Worked as Integration Architect to integrate silo based applications within enterprise into a framework of Message Oriented Middleware infrastructure MOM .
• Created an ESB architecture, which includes: services, routing, data transformation, event brokering, and middleware rules processing utilizing WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker, Event Broker architected a Service Hub and a Publish Subscribe Bus .
• Oversaw design and development teams to insure business requirement and architectural integrity. Oversaw testing efforts to insure appropriate test scenarios were devised

Solutions Architecture

Worked as Applications Architect to interface with business manager and analyst to analyze, gather, and map business requirements to architectural requirements and architect solutions. This dealt with not only insuring business requirements were being met, but also enterprise architectural direction was taken into account with established strategic technical direction and service level agreements SLA of applications components.

Contact Center Systems Architecture

• Worked as Software Architect to re-architect separate Computer Telephony Integration CTI voice and data system into single CTI object without data re-acquisition during call transfer.
• Interfaced with Call Center business management and operators to insure business objectives and vision were being accommodated

Applications Access Security Architecture

• Worked as Software Architect to re-architect monolithic application access security authentication and authorization logic into component based application access security.
• Architecture of Single-Sign-On solution to legacy and Web-based applications. Architecture of enterprise wide Identity and Access Management System: Tivoli, SiteMinder, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP based. Interfaced with Security officers to insure security issues and utilities were being addressed.

Data Modeling Architecture

• Worked as Data Modeling Architect to model middleware data structures C structures, C and Java objects structures, result sets, TUXEDO named value pairs , mapped from COBOL copy book structures .
• Metadata Architecture for middleware data structures: record, field, and element identification for variability numerical for lengths, counts, presentation and control Ids for MVC design pattern routing, transformation, and rule Ids for EAI.
• Created database architecture for enterprise LDAP Directory Repository identity, provisioning, and business role identification . Worked on team of Architects to create enterprise wide business object model converted from application silo based middleware data access objects and structures.

Middleware Connector Architecture/Senior Software Engineer

• Worked as Software Engineer to design, and implement TUXEDO middleware connector module to diverse server hosts SNA CICS, Special Purpose Applications, TCPIP Server Applications
• Worked as Software Engineer to design and implement middleware service based solutions based on Web Servers, Applications Servers, J2EE Containers, Legacy Middleware Servers, and Client-Server . Common Services, System Core Services, EAI Data Transformation Services, and Business Services Framework.

Confidential

This was a transition point in my career where I went from a Software Engineer to a Software Architect. I also transitioned from development of technology software systems, to development of business application systems in the C and C language.

Responsibilities:

• Participated on Architectural Review Board to approve/disapprove of designs, product acquisitions, and methodologies.
• Part of the Architecture Team to architect middleware for first American Express Web Site.
• Worked as Software Design Engineer to implement CORBA based solutions, TCPIP, MQ client/server solutions, and SNA LU2 HLLAPI based solutions

Accomplishments:

• Implemented first peer to peer HLLAPI connectivity function library for distributed applications that went from UNIX to Mainframe.
• Implemented the first connectivity function library that enabled the first Amex to AOL application.
• Worked as Software Architect/Design Engineer to architect, and design home grown middleware connectors to diverse hosts:

1. TCPIP to AOL Server

2. X25 to AOL Server

3. SNA LU 6.2 to CICS

4. SNA LU2/3270 HLLAPI to CICS

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a member of the original AIX Development Team for the RS6000, designed and developed connectivity software libraries for UNIX to Mainframe connectivity Host Connect, HCON .
• Maintained the e789 Host Terminal Emulator software.
• Developed build scripts for the HCON build process.
• Interfaced with customer support and customers on problem diagnosis and problem resolution.
• Wrote instruction Redbook for HCON administration, and HLLAPI programming.

Accomplishments:

• Was a member of the original AIX Development Team for the RS6000 and the RT as a member of the HCON Host Connect department.
• Developed the HLLAPI, G3270 API library
• Developed the FXFER File Transfer Program for the e789 Host Terminal Emulator.
• Developed unit test and regression suites for the HCON product.
• Interfaced with System Test Department on HCON testing.

Confidential

Software Engineer -

Developed mountable remote file system on TIPC for UNIX Based System BS1500.

System Administrator -

UNIX System Administrator for Sun Diskless Workstations, and TI990 Systems in Technical Publishing Department.

Technical Writer

Wrote LISP Language Reference Manual for the TI Explorer. Technology and Tools

Languages Hardware

• Java, JavaScript, SQL, C , C, HTML, XML, PERL Scripting, PHP, UNIX Shell Scripting, BPEL, BPML, BPMN
• HP UNIX Workstations, AIX Workstations, SUN Workstations, IBM Mainframe, PC Dell, Compaq, IBM, TIPC, Gateway, home built PC, etc.

Operating Systems

• UNIX AIX, HPUX, SUNOS, LINUX , MVS, TSO, CMS, VM, VMS, DX10, DNOS, Windows 95, XP, Altavista, 7

Application Servers

• WebSphere, Web Logic, Tomcat, iPlanet, Sun One, TIBCO Container, IIS

Tools

• TIBCO Designer, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Serena Business Mashups, Axeway'sTumbleweed System Architect SA , IBM IFW, PEGA, AmberPoint, Systinet, Rational Rose, Adobe DreamWeaver CS5, MS Visual C , MS Word, MS Exchange, MS Excel, MS Project Plan, MS Power Point, Visio, SharePoint, Wiki Development, LDAP Directory, Active Directory