Experience Confidential Sr. Smarter eCommerce Architect - I have worked heavily in the Commerce products, Sterling, SOLR search, iLog Business Optimization Suite, ESB product line. Currently I am working with RockTenn, the largest box manufacturer in the world optimizing their product distribution and production via iLog as well as handling the commerce B2B architecture.
- Working with clients to implement eCommerce and Mobile Computing solutions based on the Websphere Commerce family of products.
- Websphere Commerce 6 and 7 server integration and configuration consultant as well as hands on architecture and code development work.
- Working on the eCommerce efforts of Forever 21, T-Mobile, Fast Retailing, Uniqlo, Abercrombie Fitch, Sigma Aldrich, PETCo, RockTenn
- Develop Proof of Concept eCommerce Installations, concepts and implement marketing, promotions, pricing model campaigns.
- Architectural Recommendations, Design, Analysis
- Code Creation, Review and Instruction.
- Direct Customer Store, Asset Store, B2B Commerce design, code and implementation
- Feature Pack / Fix Pack development, management and implementation, PMR management, APAR Development.
- Working with Endecca, SOLR, Heiler PIM, Oracle RMS, CQ5, Akamai, HP, Microsoft and other vendor partners to integrate their products into Commerce.
Confidential Sr. Enterprise Architect eCommerce Mobile - Working with eCommerce team to create a Enterprise Integration Framework based on Spring Tools and Mule ESB.
- Create a series of Spring Batch / Spring Integration applications for corporate wide information integration.
- Convert Small Talk agent based insurance management system over to a Web Based Spring MVC Based application.
- Enhance current WWW.GEICO.COM customer portal with new features. Completing the change to Spring Based Architecture.
- Design and Implement features on the Mobile GEICO customer eCommerce application.
- .NET and Java Coding and Architecture Design.
- RESTFul Services Design and development on .NET and J2EE platforms.
Confidential Enterprise Architect eCommerce Retail - Architecture work surrounding the implementation of a new Product Information Management system.
- Performed architectural documentation and integration design, as directed by the IBM execution team and utilizing the IBM project templates.
- Review the technologies utilized to share functionality and enhance the use of the existing Oracle Fusion ESB implementation.
- Implement Heiler PIM system to Oracle RMS integration architecture, using Oracle Fusion Middleware.
- Perform requirements gathering and rationalization.
- Create solutions to critical business requirements and provide documentation and guidance on implementing these solutions.
- Lead Architect on the migration to the Spring framework. Acegi security conversion, moving off of the Blue Martini platform.
- Assist in the integration of the current Blue Martini system into a new eCommerce website via middleware and webservices functionality.
- Create back end systems which are loosely coupled to the Content Management system systems allowing for an easy transition to another CMS.
- B2B Direct Vendor and Partner design and implementation.
- Create architecture design incorporating JCR compliant services for CRM connectivity.
- Assist developers in development of web services utilized to standardize functionality and make it available across the enterprise
- Create CSS and HTML5 code and template engine, at the direction of the style team.
- Manage developers involved in the Agile code methodology.
Confidential Enterprise Architect eCommerce Retail - Lead the team in the redesign of the eCommerce store and WW.com utilizing Websphere Commerce Server Framework to implement new functionality.
- Integrate new payments methods with Visa, Mastercard, Discover, AMEX and Chase Financial Institutions.
- Migrate products from eBiz Microsoft eCommerce suite to IBM Websphere Commerce.
- Implement fulfillment vendor portal for shipment of items purchased in the online WW.com store.
- Implement Social Networking connector into the existing Weight Watchers eCommerce site, utilizing Commerce Server 7 capabilities.
- Create new eSite for European rollout including 22 countries, modify site to support localization of tax collection, fulfillment vendor and shipping methods as well as language and currency support.
- Facilitate design changes to incorporate Social Media connectivity via Websphere Commerce Update pack 4
- Incorporate changes to include Mobile functionality.
- Design changes allowing the customer to blog about the product via Websphere Commerce connectors.
- Design and implement SSO connectivity between Microsoft eCommerce and IBM Websphere Commerce to allow customers to log in one time to access all Weight Watchers web sites.
- Redesign the Weight Watchers eCom site for roll out to 22 other countries around the world. Consolidating functions to one IBM based ESB.
Confidential Enterprise Architect eCommerce Retail - Team Lead in the design of the new eCommerce Internet Sales Portal utilizing Redhat JBoss stack as well as IBM MQ Series. Webservices, ESB, SOA-P, XML JPA, Hibernate, Java based solutions.
- Technical architecture design, Business architecture review and Solutions architecture oversight.
- Design large scale image storage and retrieval system utilizing Hadoop, Grid and Haystack technologies created by Facebook architects.
- Integration with IBM MQ platform for real time inventory, sales, pricing and product discovery.
- Design and assist in implementing the Find it Fast product used to locate automotive parts from a catalog of over 80 million parts.
- Lead the Schema design effort to normalize and optimize parts information storage across 4000 retail store locations, using Data Warehouse, ORM and Second Level Caching strategies over wide area networks.
- Design and assist in implementing the strategy for information distribution
- Perform code reviews insuring optimal code practices.
- Run daily scrum in the agile programming methodology.
Confidential - Perform analysis and architectural design work for the creation of a System of Systems based high availability, highly scalable, real time, low latency data distribution platform.
- Utilizing IBM products, ESB, SOA and loosely coupled principals of the Waldo principals of distributed computing architecture concept.
- Design network of computers framework for widely distributed application with highly interactive, customer facing application portfolio, using common data oriented programming model.
- Increase the scalability and functionality of the COAF portion of the Capital One website back end processing application base.
- Perform Strategic architectural analysis on Commercial Collateral management solutions.
- Evaluate needs for Basel II compliance by the Commercial Derivative space.
- Create presentations for the CIO's of the various commercial banking business lines.
- Create data migration paths, Data Marts and Warehouses to feed LTV calculation engines.
- Evaluate Risk compliance for each Commercial Banking application architecture element.
Confidential - Perform complete Business Architecture review on the Consumer Retail banking channels. Complete Service / Capability catalog and do deep dives on each service to find opportunities for efficiency, cost decreases, new functionality and innovation points.
- Create a team of technologists to implement the findings of the Retail Banking study.
- Complete Mobile Banking recommendation from vendor list to architecture changes required inside eCommerce.
- Complete architecture review of Online Channel, Call Center, ATM and Branch, performing Solutions Architecture, Strategic Architecture and Technical Architecture roles on select high visibility projects.
- Assign tasks and manage other architecture resources.
- Vendor and System management and research.
- Create cross functional ESB and SOA platform for service sharing amongst lines of business.
- Utilize jBPM designer to design, create and code BPM process solutions from existing BPM diagrams.
Confidential - Highest level Microsoft Technology employee working with Confidential, global account to assist in strategic decisioning and technology application to Bank of America business problems.
- Work with Confidential executives to bring Microsoft Technologies to bare against problems at Bank of America. Form teams from the 54 Microsoft team resources assigned to Confidential to solve problems, implement the solutions and execute on the business strategy.
- Working with Tier 1,2 and 3 highest level business and technology executives to help assist the application and usage of Microsoft Technologies.
- Work with the Line of Business executives and their direct reports to analyze and apply Microsoft technologies.
- Analyze Confidential business challenges and solve problems by designing solutions and working out the architectural solution.
- Incentivized with both salary and commission based on total dollars spent by Confidential
- Setup High level onsite meetings, executive briefings, for Bank of America Executives and Microsoft Executives. Working out the agenda based on question and answer sessions with Confidentialexecutives.
- Manage the entire relationship between Microsoft and Bank of America at an Enterprise Architecture level between the two technology executive structures.
- Apply technologies including .NET, Cloud computing, Shared Services, Web Services, Biztalk, standard architectural principals and best practices.
- Familiar with TOGAF, Zachman, Microsoft Architecture Framework, Six Sigma architecture methodologies
- IBM Websphere Commerce Web Commerce Suite specifically the order entry, mobile commerce, shopping carts, payments, web content management and dynamic upsell, ecommerce and cross sell.
3 Confidential Sr. Solutions Architect - Create architecture solutions .NET / J2EE to meet the needs of the Duke Energy computing environment.
- Energy billing management, tracking usage.
- HR and personnel portal
- Certification and training learning portal management.
- Associate skill tracking management
Confidential Sr. Solutions Architect - Create architecture solutions for the BASEL II efforts.
- Design software systems, hardware systems and IT infrastructure to support the GMAC FS efforts to gain Bank Holding Company status.
- Document Residential and Commercial Real Estate holdings systems architecture using industry standard tools, UML diagrams and Architectural Design Diagrams.
- Analyze current IT systems for areas of efficiency and modernization.
- Make design recommendations to architecture review board.
Confidential Chief Architect - Redesign and re-architect their Health Care Benefits Enrollment and Claims processing system, including the application to process the 834, 835 and 837 Health Care formatted files.
- Design application architecture utilizing, J2EE Patterns, Spring Framework, Spring WebFlow, AOP, Hibernate ORM, Jasper Reports ETL, JSF, JSTL, AJAX
- Write Code as Sr. Developer on Team to facilitate learning new methodologies and coding practices. Create high level framework and class interaction code, including JMS messaging and spring / hibernate functionality.
- Create technical artifacts such as UML diagrams, Alternative Architecture Analysis documents, technical implementation drawings, physical and logical architecture diagrams, event diagrams, class diagrams
- Instruct developers on the uses of new tools, programming techniques, and methodologies identifying areas of improvement. Make recommendations to business leaders.
- Evaluate company business processes, develop BPM diagrams, to assist in lowering Total Cost of Ownership for each process. Applying technology where appropriate.
- Strong experience in Core Java, Enterprise Application Development and Multi-tier Web Application Development using J2EE Technologies like STRUTS1.1, 1.2, SPRING, HIBERNATE 3.0, EJB 3.0, JMS, MQ Series, WebServices, Portals and ESB and MVC2 methods.
- Good knowledge in developing database applications using Oracle, SQL Server, MYSQL and DB2.
- Strong experience using WEBSERVICES using Service Oriented Architectures and Eterprise Service Bus technologies including JBOSS, Sun Systems, IBM Websphere and LifeRay portal products..
- Proficient in Unified Markup Language UML . Experience in Structural Diagrams like Package Diagrams, Class Diagrams, Object Diagrams etc. and Behavioral Diagrams like Use Case Diagrams, Sequence diagrams etc.
- 9 years of experience in working on Tomcat, JBoss, Weblogic and Websphere, Webmethods, Apache, Geronimo.
- Good knowledge and Hands-On-Experience on various Design Patterns like DAO Data Access Objects , DTO Data Transfer Objects , BO Business Objects , BD Business Delegates , Template Method Pattern, Decorator Pattern, Adapter Pattern, Observer Pattern, Singleton Pattern, Factory Method Pattern, State Pattern, Bridge Pattern, Composite Pattern etc.
- Extensive Experience in IDEs and methodologies like Eclipse 3.4, RAD and WSAD.
Confidential Lead Architect - Work with other strategic and technical architects from other areas of the bank to create a design that is the most efficient, scalable, lowest risk and most cost effective.
- Create technical artifacts such as UML diagrams, Alternative Architecture Analysis documents, technical implementation drawings, physical and logical architecture diagrams.
- Work with the programming team leads and Jr. Architects to create and code a technical design utilizing J2EE Patterns, Java, JSP, WebMethods, SOA and ESB, Websphere.
- Work with external vendors to create real time and batch interfaces into Bank of America systems, creating a B2B webportal.
- Work with the ecommerce area to create SMS Mobile banking functionality to all back end systems at Bank of America.
- Review Code and guarantee compliance with design specifications and current coding best practices.
- Revise and keep current architecture framework code base
- .Utilize J2EE Patterns, Java, Javascript, JSP, JMS, MQ, Hibernate, Servlets, XML, SOAP
- IBM Websphere Commerce Professional ecommerce and web portal modules
- Chief Technical /Solutions Architect Consumer Real Estate and Insurance
- Review the Consumer Real Estate and Insurance current application suite at Bank of America and create a road map to updating the technologies and converting to industry Best Practices in technology and methodology.
- Design application interfaces promoting loose coupling and future scalability. Maximize uptime and minimize risk.
- Utilize MISMO, JMS, J2EE, WebMethods and proprietary messaging technologies. IBM IMF as well as Oracle server farms to support loads.
- Senior Lead Application Architect Customer Relationship Management
- Design Applications for the following areas of Bank of America.
- Global Commercial Investment Banking
- Commercial Banking
- Securities and Trust
- Private Banking
- Manage teams of on-shore and off-shore developers to complete project coding.
- Design technical solutions to problems faced in the Global Wealth and Investments area utilizing J2EE, Websphere Application Server.
- Complete projects utilizing the methodologies outlined by the Six Sigma process
Confidential Lead Architect IT Application Integration work - Oversee the integration of Personnel Technologies programs and services between Bank of America and Fidelity, comprised of over 1100 interfaces and systems in 28 countries.
- Maintain interface and change control architectural documentation.
- Review all proposed interfaces between business partners and Bank of America to insure the proposed solution meets best practices as identified by executive management.
- Work with Change Managers, Deployment Managers, Project Managers, Architects and Code Managers to produce solutions to integration problems making the final decision on technology issues.
- Technologies involved include, Web Services, C , J2EE, .NET, Cognos, Oracle, DB2, Crystal Reporting and several others.
- Business partners include, Fidelity, Siebel, IBM, Smith Barney, Hewitt, Citicorp, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Met Life, AIG, Liberty Mutual, Aetna and others.
Confidential - Implement architecture to create B2B business portal, connecting the Wells Fargo financial data to the Accordia division health claim data processing facility.
- Design and implement coding standards and framework for developers to utilize and follow in the large scale re-write of several cobol and rpg based applications into the java language.
- Redesign web applications to utilize RSA approved security models.
- Design and code applications utilizing Websphere Studio, Java Server Faces and standard Struts framework for scalable agent health care claim processing. applications.
Confidential - Assist in the re-design and re-coding of large mainframe based applications, converting these applications and the associated databases into a J2EE compliant architecture utilizing WebSphere Studio and WebSphere Application Server, DB2 and the Struts framework.
- Assist in long term design and planning for next generation computing requirements of maximum uptime, cost efficiency and ease of maintenance.
Confidential - Oversee the day to day activities of the department, including staffing, evaluation, budgeting and research.
- Led the company wide technology board which set the overall direction of the company as it pertains to new technologies and applying them to the business model.
- Direct the department towards Best Practices as defined by the technology board and insure these practices were creating value for the company.
- Create and maintain code backup, versioning and recovery systems.
- Create and maintain goals derived from the overall goals of the department and my direct executive.
- Maintain metrics which will allow for the easy measurement of efficiencies within the department.
- Assist is the design and problem resolution phase of each project evaluating the solution for cost effectiveness and long term technological flexibility.
- Websphere 5.4, JBoss, Oracle and DB2 solutions design and implementation.
Confidential - Perform Senior architect duties on the company wide Single Sign On initiative by which all associate access to IT systems of varying platforms will be tracked, automated and reported on. This allows the company to more easily meet FDIC regulations regarding secure access to financial information. Designed a Lock Box initiative whereby, we provide web services to payment processing to third party banks, mortgage companies and home owner associates. Taking the payments via the Internet and VRU, processing these payments, performing ACH transfers, create reports and disburse funds to the proper institutions.
- Designed software, managed implementation, designed hardware specification and performed a large percentage of the coding of electronic payments system used by the bank to process hundreds of millions of dollars of payments per day. Systems was designed to use Phone VRU based payment front end, Internet, Intranet, Third party companies utilizing browser over secure connection and Terminal Emulation channels to enter payments. Several data sources were utilized in the project both AS400/DB2, and a SunFire/Oracle 9i implementation. Jboss, Java Servlet, J2EE technologies were used to create a scalable, robust system with virtually 100 uptime. Finished project within budget and schedule allowing the company to acquire new business in the form of third party processing.
- Design, develop and oversee corporate Intranet portal utilizing J2EE methodologies. Wrote online HTML editor Applet and web application for the creation and storage of online corporate documents. Developed Java Remote Methods and Native Methods Visual C to validate a user against the corporate NT domain. Prepared online reports from data stored in several database architectures including DB2, Oracle and Sybase via JDBC, Java, JSP and Java Servlets. AS400 experience. Familiar with JavaScript as well as PERL/PHP.
- Designed system in which Internet users make payments via proxy programs written in a platform neutral code base, Java, connecting via JDBC and/or Screen Scraping technologies to mainframe applications to access financial data stored on remote systems located at Federated Data Resource.
- Designed and implemented various financial reports, guiding executive management decision making process. Including a framework to allow XML file driven reports to be generated on the IBM AS400 and accessed via the corporate Intranet with a web browser.
- Designed and implemented system to allow collections employees to access their monthly collection numbers. Utilized PL/SQL, Java accessing a Oracle 8i database via JDBC connections. Employees used internal Intranet to access information.
- Designed and implemented system to utilize the company NT network to define security access to other systems. A semi-Single Sign On portal. A customized DLL was created in Visual C to expose the NT security framework. A server side process would then allow the user to log into the system via a web interface. The system would then access the NT group domain information and use this information to log the user into the AS400 production system, Desktop FDR session, Intranet and Financial Reporting system. Later this system was modified to read login credentials via built in Internet Explorer functionality and eliminate the need to login corporate wide.
- Designed and implemented neural net based application to predict monetary credit delinquency thresh holds and account charge off predictions. The system gathered statistics and learned how to predict several financial watermarks which the company would use in their financial model.
- Utilized EJB technology as well as J2EE design patterns to design projects that maximize efficiency, application availability and future maintenance.
- Utilize the WSE Web Services Enhancement and the GXA early implementation to implement security credentials in SOAP messaging.
- Created applications in both .NET and J2EE technologies for use inside the company. Utilizing SOAP and Web Services to connect .NET applications and J2EE based applications.
- Design and maintain Customer Telephone Interface application to run applications interfacing automated high-volume dialers with employees desktops. Applications accept account numbers from dialers and present information to employees for customer service, payment processing etc.
- Design high availability, highly scalable applications for use in a financial call center utilizing thin client architecture techniques.
- Familiar with the XP process, J2EE, EJB, JSP, JMS, XSLT, XML, JAXP, Servlets, JSP Tags, Oracle, AS/400, DB2, SQL Server, Apache, .NET, ActiveX
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Accreditations Certified Novel Networking Expert since 1990, Java Developer Education Computer Language Experience - I have designed and written software in the following computer languages.
- Java, JSP, Servlets, JavaBeans, Active Server Pages , .NET V1.0, ActiveX Controls, COM, DOM, VBScript, C, C , JavaScript, Jscript, HTML, RPG, Assembler Intel 8000, Motorola 68000, 68HC11, IBM 370, Hitachi 88005 , Delphi, Visual Basic, PERL, Fortran V, PL/SQL, Clipper, Paradox, Dbase, DBXL, SQL, COBOL, ADA, SmallTalk, Lisp, Prolog, Pascal, PHP, Mason.
Hardware Experience I have experience with the following hardware. PC Hardware, hard drives, modems, network cards, memory, video cards, serial i/o. Network topology, switches, hubs, RF transmitters/receivers. Operating System Experience - I have worked on the following operating systems.
- Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, NT Server , Unix SCO, HP , Linux, VMS, DOS, CMS, OS9, OS2 Warp , OS/400, OS/X Mac , OS/390, IBM Z/OS
- Databases
- DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, Postgress, MySQL, InterBase, Sybase, Dbase, Objectivity, Jet.
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