IT Leadership Profile

• 14 years of success directing technology teams, programs, projects, and operations in manufacturing, healthcare, and aviation
• Inventive, team oriented, and client-focused professional with valuable blend of technical expertise, MBA-level business acumen, and problem solving talents. Success enhancing organizations by aligning IT/IS initiatives with business strategies, reducing risks, lowering costs, and improving opportunities for revenue growth.
• Accomplished project leader with worldwide operational support experience highly adept at guiding cross-functional teams of onshore and offshore resources to deliver projects on time and on budget. Confident and articulate communicator noted for building positive relationships with stakeholders at any level. Serve as trusted advisor for C-level executives, providing long-range strategic vision and strategies to achieve organizational goals.

Highlights of Expertise

Career Summary

Confidential

Creating new software solutions for the aviation community that automate and assist in the accomplishment of manufacturers and federal regulatory requirements, maintenance, reporting, inventory, and logistics, for aircraft owners, mechanics, government agencies, and commercial operators.

leader, manager, software developer

• Principal architect software developer, product owner for the system analysis, design, development, and delivery of new compliance based aircraft maintenance and technical directive software packages, replacing legacy solution originally developed in the early 1990's. All development done in Microsoft .Net C using Microsoft's global cloud solution, Azure, for hosting Windows Communication Foundation Services WCF , database services SQL Server MySQL , website, storage, and virtual machines. Our Software has been continually used for Contractor Operated and Maintained Base Support COMBS in Department of Defense aircraft maintenance, inventory, and logistics management for the last 20 years. Initially developed and fielded in 1992, it is currently deployed throughout the United States, Middle-East, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
• Created an economical and self-maintaining networked solution software package to manage 500 aircraft distributed globally.
• Increased site productivity by 30 through process innovation and automation.
• Slashed reporting errors and rework by 75 , communication costs by 60 .
• Created internal team for provisioning, quality assurance, deployments and field help.

Confidential

Application Development Manager

• Influence decision-making and steer technology direction as IT representative for the Executive Leadership Team overseeing E-Business Suite Implementation manage negotiations, contracts, and communications with clients and key stakeholders. Oversee design, development, stabilization, and governance of applications and middleware, holding accountability for system integration and user acceptance testing. Lead design, documentation, and execution of process flows, use cases, test cases, and test scripts track and report performance metrics.
• Managed employee recruitment, on-boarding, mentoring, and team building boosted department productivity through targeted hiring of highly qualified personnel
• Slashed operating labor costs by 40 .
• Stabilized BizTalk application through expert fault monitoring, application partitioning, and simplification of user processes.

Confidential

Spearheaded system architecture and application integration projects supporting multiple product portfolios Health Welfare, COBRA, Recruiting Systems for major health care providers.

Senior Development Manager

• Led up to 40 onshore and offshore resources in agile and traditional life cycle methodologies built high-performance, cross-functional team of designers, developers, architects, engineers, QA and business analysts, and project managers. Created portfolio and product roadmaps guided new product developments and enhancements, rearchitecting of legacy systems, and production support of existing systems. Managed budget and resource forecasting, variance, and profitability monitoring nurtured customer / vendor relationships, and ensured adherence to contracts.
• Partnered with clients to identify solutions for meeting their strategic and operational goals saved relationship with key client by proposing valuable process and application improvements, and by delivering on or under budget.
• Met or exceeded service level agreements SLAs consistently.
• Maintained accurate budget forecasts /- 5 consolidated resources to reduce operating costs by 20 .
• Instituted process improvement and ownership that led directly to drastic reduction in deployment errors.
• Personally maintained and enhanced all legacy C/C backend business processing applications.

Confidential

Systems / Enterprise Architect

• Managed new product architecture, systems integration, capacity analysis, and infrastructure analysis and design. Developed proposals and competitive strategies. Defined project scope and resource requirements, created project plans, led selection of contractors, developed proofs-of-concept for new solutions and steered projects to success as Scrum Master.
• Principle architect for Florida Health Exchange initiative and Continuation Coverage Alternative solution.
• Spearheaded team effort to implement and promote use of Enterprise Service Bus ESB , BizTalk, and Service Oriented Architecture SOA , and identity management solutions enterprise-wide.
• Played key role in driving cost / benefit analysis and making budgetary decisions that led to significant cost reductions and savings.

Confidential

Senior Database Administrator

• Kept SQL, Sybase, and Oracle databases updated and running smoothly for production and development environments provided expert capacity forecasting, load utilization, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Brought Siebel v7 and Solomon/MS Dynamics databases on Oracle 10g, HP-UX 11 , and SQL Server 2008 into production successfully
• Successfully implemented replication monitoring for Advantage Database Server orchestrated custom Windows service programming across multiple systems, and mentored DBAs on managing Advantage Database Server in production environment.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

• Founded offshore programming teams in Indian and Russia defined operating and equipment requirements to provide transparent workflow between onsite team and offshore groups, and managed performance. Evaluated and recommended IT purchases to meet business needs at optimal prices. Liaised between production support and development effectively provided guidance for software, network, and database design, legacy and desktop support, problem analysis, troubleshooting, and conflict resolution.
• Architected hybrid database solution that enabled COBRA business to grow and maintain 67 of revenues for future business.
• Architected and transitioned 120 legacy COBRA applications from 16 to 32-bit code re-architected applications from pipe driven OS/2 code to Windows Server environment, using C/C , C , ASP.Net, 32-bit xBase compiler for legacy clipper code.
• Re-architected core batch evening processes to cut data center / operational costs and reduce batch processing window by 80 and by re-architecting.
• Trained and advised staff on production operations, procedures, and responsibilities for supporting new COBRA SQL database environment.

Additional Experience

Technical skills

• Relational Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 7, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012 Oracle 7.3, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g , SQL Anywhere 11, 12 , PostgreSQL 8, 9 , MySQL 5 , Enterprise DB AS 8 , and Advantage Database Server 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 . Database design, modeling, and integration with existing systems, DDL scripting, SQL programming for current and new development, performance tuning on existing systems, administration and configuration, replication, disaster recovery, and high availability.
• Programming Languages, Frameworks, and Development Tools: MS Visual Studio 5, 6, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 , C , C/C , MFC, Boost, ASMX Web Services, WCF, TFS, SOA, T-SQL, PL/SQL, Enterprise Architect, Oracle Reports, Oracle Developer 2000, Clipper, Vulcan.Net, Codebase, UNIX shell scripting, and QAComplete.
• Operating Systems, Networks, and Server Applications: MS Windows Server NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 , Hyper-V, VMWare, BizTalk 2009, 2010, and 2013, Sun Solaris SPARC/Intel Solaris 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 administration, troubleshooting and repair, Linux Red Hat AS , Network Ethernet/Token Ring installations, implementations, administration and repair.
• Other: Full SDLC life-cycle development Waterfall and Agile methodologies , project management, requirements specifications and gathering, application modeling, and quality assurance lead and functional roles.
• BizTalk Training: Developer Administrator courses.