Sr. Enterprise Architec

SUMMARY

• Sr. Enterprise Architect with over 20 years of professional experience in Information Technology industry and 14 years providing Enterprise Architecture services to Federal, state government and Fortune 500 companies.
• Led Information/Data Architecture efforts to establish Master Data Management standards, processes and data governance.
• Conducted analysis of emerging technologies and determined their applicability for the organization, conducted feasibility and cost benefit analysis for mobile, CRM platform, secondary data store and other technologies.
• Responsible for Architecture Governance established to ensure Enterprise projects are aligned with strategic direction and target state architecture.
• Expert in SDLC processes. Acted as a Chair of PMI Metrics Chapter for 5 years. Provided knowledge sharing with IT leadership across the US and overseas. Assisted several PMO groups in defining flexible iterative SDLC processes without compromising critical elements of already adopted legacy methodologies.
• Built a practice of information gathering and classification using established taxonomies FEA Reference Models, Investment attributes in accordance to the OMB Exhibits 53 and 300 , driving decisions from the portfolio of architecture assets, conducting architecture governance in line with the set forth organization's standards.
• For Federal Government Enterprise Architecture engagements led the development of Enterprise Architecture work products in accordance with Federal guidelines and industry best practices. Conducted analysis of Enterprise Technology deficiencies and improvement opportunities including technology simplification, optimization, and architecture refresh and innovation adoption.
• Constantly supported clients in selling the architecture process and value proposition, crated winning presentations and clearly communicated architecture effort outcomes and benefits.
• Established architecture governance program including setting Architecture Decision Principles, Charters, communication methodology and Review Boards.
• Provided architecture services to ongoing Enterprise IT and Infrastructure development projects.
• TOGAF 8, 9 practitioner an author of the Composite Unified Process CUP presented at PMI seminars and implemented in a number of enterprises. The process incorporates TOGAF steps and artifacts into the organization's SDLC, establish Statement of Architecture work and aligns solution delivery with EA roadmap, standards, and recommended direction.
• Six Sigma Black Belt certified process analyst with proven track record of archived results.
• Developed decision support and decision management process framework in support of the Enterprise Architecture information management. Created Adaptable Portfolio Intelligence Framework APIF to establish decision support views. APIF method provides an enterprise view on the Enterprise Architecture Portfolio and assists with long term planning and an Enterprise Change Management.
• Managed capacity, reliability, performance and availability programs and SLA for enterprise solutions including predictive analysis, vendor contract negotiation, and integration of technology testing into acceptance analysis.
• An expert in professional training line of business ran an independent training organization from 1991 to 1996 and assisted SPSS in developing their training services business. Created training outlines and some courseware, established training guidelines for various clients.
• Ran e-learning business for Workforce Development state agencies for states of IL, IN and OH. Created custom interactive courseware covering HTML, Java Script, J2EE design and architecture, development and deployment using IBM WebSphere technology, RDBMS data modeling and data management.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Enterprise transformation: SOA building shared components/services, implementation of hub and integration tier , Master Data Management MDM , streamlined enterprise wide governance architecture guidelines, styles, patterns, and technology standards governance bodies
• Alignment of business and technology strategies
• Current state architecture, future and target state architecture, and transformation roadmap
• Business architecture and business decomposition
• Information/data architecture, Infrastructure architecture
• Governance policies and processes , Buy vs. build decision support
• COTS implementation solution architecture, creating RFI and RFP, vendor proposal evaluation
• Service Oriented Architecture SOA , shared services lifecycle
• Enterprise content management document imaging and store, signature capture and management
• Database architecture SME is RDBMS design and data modeling
• Data warehouse and analytics
• System delivery methodology integration with TOGAF 8.1, 9.0 processes
• Architecture review board and architecture planning committee leadership
• Capacity performance and planning, enterprise wide system modeling, simulation modeling and statistical analysis
• Decision support frameworks and tools for capital planning and investment control cpic

Enterprise architecture repository

• FRAMEWORKS, TOOLS, AND METHODOLOGIES
• EA Frameworks: Open Group TOGAF 8.1, 9, FEA Reference Models and Federal Segment Architecture FSAM , GAO, IBM Component Business Model CBM , Accenture High Performance Model, Zachman Framework, DoD, CPIC, Exhibit 53, 300, other OMB artifacts and guidelines
• Modeling: Business to Application Maps, Heat Maps, Application Integration Models, Topology Diagrams, UML / Use Case Models, Activity, Sequence, Collaboration Information / Data Modeling, Entity Relations Diagrams ERD
• Repositories and Catalogs: Data Asset Catalog with System of Record, SOA/Shared Services Catalog, Business Capability to Application, Data, Security and Technology mapping
• Tools: Proficient in MS Office, Visio, IBM / Telelogic System Architect, Adaptive EAM, Adaptable Business Excellence ABE EA Portfolio Management tools
• Excellent presentation building and delivery skills proficient in MS Office 2010, SharePoint
• Technical experience includes: RDBMS, development languages and tools C, C , Java, Visual Basic, Perl, Shell scripts, php, UNIX/Linux shell scripting, PL/SQL, 4GL, other , SaaS platform SalesForce, ERP SAP platform and many other technologies
• Productivity tools: Expert in MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Provided Consulting Services in building and maturing Enterprise Architecture Practice.

Confidential

• Lead Enterprise Architecture support for the major split into Baxter International Medical Devices and Baxalta New Bio Research enterprises.
• Led Application Portfolio rationalization and Architecture planning for two new organizations to be established as a result of corporate split.
• Led Architecture Reviews for Technology Projects, created Portfolio Management and mapping between Business Capability Model and Technology assets.

Confidential

• Established foundation for current and target state architecture development:
• Created business capability model and mapped it to APQC Process Classification Framework PCF , which created a foundation for the Top Down Architecture Analysis
• Defined Application Portfolio Rationalization approach, meta data and plan to create a foundation for Bottom Up Architecture Analysis
• Presented EA effort long term plan to senior leadership.
• Led critical project's architecture providing guidance to project teams for enterprise wide Portal integration effort, architecture refresh planning, dependencies definition and conducting what if analysis for cloud migration.

Confidential

• Established Enterprise Architecture strategic plan and long term roadmap.
• Created Business and Data Architectures. Proposed changes to the current system development lifecycle to incorporate TOGAF ADM steps and ensure Statement of Architecture work is included in the project analysis.
• Created framework for Architecture Governance and Standards, Patterns and Guidelines management. Developed reference architecture for energy and utility business: Business Capability Model, Alignment of Current State of Technology with the Business. Created Standards Working Group to facilitate decision making and establish technology standards, blueprints and long term plans to transition technology to target state architecture.
• Created Alternative Energy Innovation Working Group to establish framework for rapid technology adoption in support of business change.
• Worked with Chief Enterprise Architect to plan and create Enterprise Architecture Governance and Review Board created Charter, presented Architecture Principles options and facilitated discussions with the business and technology to finalize agreed upon principles. Provided guidance on decision impact and documented decisions to enable Review Board's recommendations are aligned with defined principles.
• Created SDLC tollgates and project classifications to identify required architecture reviews for each king of initiative.
• Created presentations to demonstrate Enterprise Architecture Value Proposition to the Enterprise, which has been used by Chief Enterprise Architect to promote EA practice across the organization.

Confidential Sr. Enterprise Architect

• Led Enterprise Architecture team to create Portfolio Management and Architecture Governance programs. Completed Business Capability Model, alignment between business capabilities and applications, data/information components and infrastructure. Hired and managed a team to ensure Enterprise Architecture Portfolio is kept current and all needed interfaces are in place.
• Integrated Portfolio Management solution with CMDB, created information sharing with teams and working groups.
• Established Architecture Review Board, created Charter, facilitated architecture decision principles adoption and initiated Working Group work track.
• Created and managed Working Groups to create Standards documentation, define Architecture building blocks / Patterns, document company security and compliance directives, architecture guidelines and best practices.
• Established Long Term Planning Working Group, which leveraged an Enterprise Architecture Portfolio Management, technology innovation recommendations and mapped proposed and tested technology solutions to business needs.
• In collaboration with business and technology leadership created business cases for Hadoop adoption as a secondary data store, digital signature shared service implementation, enterprise alerts and workflow development.

Confidential Managing Enterprise Architect

• Supported all large initiatives representing Enterprise Architecture department in US.
• Led Harris Bank Architecture Review Board and represented Harris Bank at the BMO Architecture Review Board supporting Harris Bank Technology Leaders and providing architecture oversight to all system development efforts.
• Led Data Architecture, Application Architecture alignment with the Business Capabilities and Processes.
• Technology leadership responsibilities for online banking implementation, mobility, new account opening for retail bank, Salesforce.com solution.
• For the major merger with M I bank led Enterprise Architecture analysis and target state at conversion definition. Led team of architects to create architecture documentation for the current state of each bank, worked with the business and technology stakeholders to identify a target state architectures. The value chain documentation created served as a main guideline for all conversion initiatives and supported successful integration of the two banks
• Defined business services for SOA/Hub program, defined alignment between business and technology assets and led consolidation analysis effort.
• Created reference architectures and value chains per line of business for both banks, assisted in decision making process of selecting target at conversion technologies, defining impacts and dependencies, outlined data integration scope and roadmap.

Confidential

Led technology Architecture Governance and Technology Roadmap development for integration of technology services between different organizations with the family of companies.

Led reference architecture and patterns definition and documentation, created Data Catalog, SOA business services catalog, patterns and standards.

Office of Chief Technology Officer, Confidential

• OCTO provides centralized technology services to all 80 agencies of the DC. OCTO also assists Federal Government on some of the technology solutions.
• On behalf of OCTO conducted presentations for C-level leadership of District of Columbia Agencies.
• Reached an agreement with most of the Mayor's agency C-level executives on participating in Enterprise Architecture program and data sharing for the Citywide Data Warehouse for the DC government.
• Established Data Intake and Data Management processes for the Citywide Data Warehouse.
• Established governance processes and review boards and engaged agencies in the unified process execution.

Confidential

• Led Enterprise Architecture engagement for the US Coast Guard with the main focus on creating Architecture Governance as a central review and decision facilitation unit.
• Created foundation for the governance program including Reference Architecture, standards, patterns, decision principles, formal charters and alignment with PMO and EA Portfolio Management.

Confidential

• Created Current and Future State Architecture work stream, developed an EA repository, socialized EA function with all groups within the business and technology organizations.
• Created presentations to the CIO and CTO executives demonstrating that the Enterprise Architecture Repository represents the knowledge base for the leadership decision support.
• Established MDM program for the enterprise, led data components definition and classification, created data information repository.
• Updated enterprise system development lifecycle to incorporate architecture steps and concerns.

Confidential

• Streamlined Portfolio of EA initiatives aligning those with the business strategies and long term goals.
• As Information/Data Architect provided guidance on data integration and cleansing initiatives.

Confidential

• Led a global Enterprise Architecture Repository program to establish centralized knowledge base for all regional business units including North America, UK, Europe, South America, and Asia.
• The success of the program was recognized as one of 10 key successes of the bank at the time of its acquisition by the RBS.
• Confidential
• Conducted analysis of the current state of the Fulfillment program, which included Warehouse Management, Inventory Management, Online Ordering and integration with financial capabilities. Presented findings and proposed solution options. Conducted feasibility analysis, cost benefit analysis, issued an RFP to logistics software vendors to define solution to replace legacy technologies.
• When initiative was funded as an enterprise program led SAP WMS, MM and Internet Ordering implementations and integrations with financial and reporting solutions.

Confidential

For the dot com organization created Model based and Model driven Enterprise Architecture programs to transition technology to SOA based, and to provide predictive modeling as a decision support for the technology investment planning.

Established and led Architecture Review Board within the organization.

Confidential

Responsible for the current and future state of the enterprise application, information and infrastructure architecture documentation team effort.

Confidential

Chair of the Architecture committee tasked with the information and solution integration and consolidation initiative.

Confidential

Defined scope and requirements of the Learning Management System, established relations with the Workforce development of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio to deliver training programs using JAcademy platform.

Led training curriculum development and created courses for J2EE/WebSphere Application Development, UML and Business Process Modeling.

Confidential

For training and consulting service provider established training curriculum and managed course development including RDBMS, UI Design, Solution Architecture, Requirements Management, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, C , Visual C .

Presented service offerings at the Chicago Research and Planning Group an organization of industry leaders and CIOs reached an agreement for the company to become a sole training provider to CRPG members, delivered services to Sears, Bank One, Signature Group, McDonalds, Benefit Trust Life and Quaker Oats now part of PepsiCo .

Won time and material as well as fixed priced engagements including Consumer Response System development for Quaker Oats, Colgate and Proctor and Gamble.

Confidential

Member of Technical Staff

One of 12 team members created the first real Object Oriented Language supporting newly introduced client server technology. The language, called Actor adopted SmallTalk structure, but provided windows-based interface and updated class library. The Actor language was transitioned to the Borland C Application Framework.

Confidential

Research Associate

Ph.D. Program in simulation modeling of the multiprocessor network performance and response times. Created mathematical models using Monte Carlo method, queue theory, and statistical analysis developed sets of calculation programs for the models. Research was done within the scope of automation project for the plasma physics experiments.