SUMMARY:

• Innovative Technologist adept at riding new industry paradigms, employing latest technologies, trends and best practices to create “right - size”, impactful, cornerstone solutions
• 20+ Years as a D Confidential Architect, Master of Oracle 6-11+ and relational RDBMS, SQL, and d Confidential modeling including latest trends working with highly distributed non-relational Big D Confidential, Hadoop and Docker implementations
• Over 5 years’ experience working with cloud computing as architect and practitioner in a variety of roles and environments including Confidential AWS, OpenStack and VMware vSphere
• Earned reputation as superb programmer with over 20 years’ experience designing and developing dozens of software applications and
• IT enterprise solutions for a wide variety of industries and domains including clients such as Texas Instruments, Confidential, Textron Aviation, Confidential,
• Developed trusted relationships with customer stakeholders, management and peers to continuously “move the needle” of the IT organization whilst staying aligned with overall business strategic goals and opportunities
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams to define, scope and “drive-home” a consensus solution for complex initiatives in a persuasive and compelling manner that inspires confidence and vision
• Co-founder, CTO and architect for Confidential software company that developed a suite of products for project, program management and portfolio management; acquired by public company in 2005.
• Ability to recruit, motivate and coach an increasingly adept engineering team to consistently deliver exceptional work in a demanding environment with professionalism and satisfaction
• Continuously apply the latest best practices, frameworks and methodologies in SDLC to deliver reliable schedules, produce quality code and systems that “check all the boxes” including Agile, Scrum, Continuous Integration, RAD, JAD, Waterfall, Zachman Framework and PMI Confidential

SKILL:

Technologies: Java, J2EE, C, C++, C#, PHP 4 - 5.5, JavaScript, shell, Oracle 6-11+, SQL, PL/SQL, WebLogic Server 6 - 11g, Tomcat 4-5.x, Joomla, Liferay, Android (Java, iOS, Lua), Puppet, Chef, Nagios

Concepts: Distributed, HA, identity management, SSO, OO, Patterns, Anti-patterns, Web Services, SOA, REST, JSON, XML, SOAP, jQuery

Platforms, Cloud and Virtualization Technologies: Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE), SCO Unix, Windows, Windows CE, Amazon AWS, VMware vSphere 6.x, OpenStack (Havana, Essex), PAAS, SAAS, IAAS, Nagios, VM, Hypervisor

Methodologies: AGILE, XP, Lean Development, RAD, JAD, SCRUM, Waterfall, Project Management, PMI PMBOK, Prince 2, Zachman Framework, OASIS, BPEL, ITIL, TOGAF, Enterprise Integration, EAI, UML, Resource Management, Budgeting, Costing, Risk Management, Market Analysis, SWOT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Big Data Enterprise/ Architect

Responsibilities:

• Project involved creating a d Confidential lake deployed on AWS and on-premise utilizing Apache Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce and accessed via web UI’s deployed in Docker containers
• Responsible for creating a unified Enterprise d Confidential model of structured d Confidential from multiple disparate d Confidential sources including relational, CSV, web services and Salesforce.com
• Created ETL transforms and scripts to provide automatic Updates using Pentaho D Confidential Integration (PDI / Kettle), Spoon and shell
• Created UI’s to provide marketing and customer insights integrating enterprise structured d Confidential and unstructured d Confidential crawled from the web using Impala, json, php, tomcat and Docker

Confidential

Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• As sole project manager on team, I had many roles and responsibilities including coordinating and communicating new cloud features, impacts and changes, customer support, issues management and resolution, authoring professional documentation and SharePoint site updates, gathering requirements and executing smaller projects
• Created timeline, managed schedules and coordinated resources of several projects across entire Confidential worldwide regions including multiple US, India and EU/Ireland sites
• Notable projects include creating demonstration custom Cloud portal using html, JavaScript and vSphere Web Services API 6.5 and a PoC of a hybrid cloud implementation involving Confidential SIEMS server and AWS based EC2 clients via AWS Direct Connect

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Participated in weekly brainstorming sessions to create consensus among Management team, stakeholders and domain experts for new site features, products and services
• Conceptualized and implemented many strategic initiatives and applications including marketing mass mailers, NutraFlash - a health news aggregator and Android/iOS apps
• Developed initial website and custom backend systems employing Joomla, php, JavaScript, and CSS styles
• Responsible for maintaining product roadmap, managing off-shore teams, resource plan, capacity planning, schedules, infrastructure monitoring ( Confidential ), backups, servers - web, email, db and applications

Confidential, Seattle / Dallas, WA

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Jointly developed business proposals, RFPs, RFQs and Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Participated in business presentations, round-tables and discussions with potential clients
• Performed an IT Vulnerability Assessment for CIO of a major telecom company; analyzed vendor applications, hosting provider, networking infrastructure, security (IDS / IDP) and operational procedures impacting $10M+ IT operations

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed the business and proprietary system for guest members with Facebook-like (MySpace) features such as personal blogs, events & calendar, shopping cart and reservations using html, CSS, php, MySQL, JavaScript and scriptaculous
• Recruited and mentored engineering team teaching principles of sound designs, adherence to a process, utilizing best coding practices, professional accountability and ownership

Confidential

Product Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversee team of 35+ software engineers, QA, business analysts and implementation specialists for Confidential product line
• Assisted in sales opportunities and engagements - performed technical presentations to executives, project managers and their teams, published architecture white papers
• Mentored and provided knowledge transfer to new software engineering team
• Assisted migrating our product from proprietary Java/J2EE to a more “open architecture” implementation within Liferay

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Architect / Application Transformation

Responsibilities:

• Created budget plan, established a remote office, recruited, hired and managed a small “crack” engineering team to implement the project under tight deadlines
• Developed the new architecture employing enterprise patterns and UML to produce Use Cases, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, and other architectural artifacts
• Implemented Web Services using SOA, XML, SOAP and Microsoft .NET technologies

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Evangelized enterprise architecture standards and promoting within the organization
• Worked alongside IT to implement the best strategies and solutions for projects and initiatives
• Developed architectural blueprints and models for the enterprise repository; architectures included enterprise systems integrations
• EAI), services integration (SOA) and different abstract architectures using Zachman Framework
• Studied shop floor operations to recommend improvements in operations, increase efficiencies, lower costs and standardize best business practices across all plants

Confidential, Dallas, TX

CTO

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with Management and Sales teams including identifying market opportunities, competitor analysis,
• SWOT, scoping client requirements, making presentations, developing proposals, reviewing contracts and assist “closing” with decision makers
• As Chief of Engineering, was responsible for maintaining product roadmap, meeting release schedules, budgeting, resource planning, recruitment, hiring, process definitions and key interactions with customers
• Responsible for day-to-day operations including recruiting, hiring and mentoring a growing engineering team from 2 -
• 20+, continuously adapting new processes, defining new roles, promoting career growth and maintaining high morale and productivity
• Led implementations for strategic accounts of several Fortune 500 customers and maintained strategic, working relationships with the company executives and sponsors
• In d Confidential architect role, responsible for all aspects of d Confidential base architecture, design and changes including modeling using
• Erwin, support for multiple d Confidential bases (via JDBC and native drivers) including Oracle, MS SQL and MySQL
• Responsible for maintaining architecture frameworks of the products as well as programmed the initial version in Java 1.x.
• The application evolved from client-server to being a distributed J2EE application with over 10,000 classes and was one of the largest Java applications tested at SUN Microsystems.
• Developed exceptional expertise in Project Management methodology - in both concepts as implemented in our products and in practice from customer implementations and internal use
• Authored hundreds of software engineering and SDLC artifacts including scope definitions, requirements, white papers, SOWs, architectures and abstracts