Senior Enterprise Architecture and development director

• Strategic and hands on innovator, thought leader, and manager with over 18 years applying a broad depth of technical experience coupled with a unique balance of business acumen, insights and management skills t achieve success in a variety of corporate technology and consulting leadership roles.
• More than 6 years of healthcare and pharmacy domain knowledge and over 12 years in the Financial Services and Insurance sectors. Technology expertise designing and delivering business value through copious enterprise, business, data, application and infrastructure roadmap and solution implementations.

Select Accomplishment Highlights

• Hands on Lead of Cigna's end t end Enterprise Business Process Re-engineering and Future State Architecture program. Built and led team of business analysts, solution architects, systems analysts, developers and Q/A leads
• Leveraged IBM, Red hat and Microsoft product lines.
• Solution t annual reduce operating costs by an estimated 20-25MM, and improve quality, security and customer service
• Responsible for development of Business Architecture, strategic alignment through balanced scorecard, and business t solutions roadmap t define future state driven by strategic and operational goals
• Directed the successful design and delivery US division's implementation of a financial services company's highly visible 40mm , three-year global risk management program initiated by the parent company.
• For De Lage Landen / Rabobank led the future state architecture definition, and subsequently built and led the Global Integration Services / Global SOA team for a 10 billion, global organization as a project initiative t support a large ERP effort through the design and deployment of a Global Enterprise Service bus
• Defined and implemented custom integration methodology t bridge different Vendor frameworks
• Led the Program Architecture Board in the definition and governance of EA principles and practices
• Staffed, managed and led architecture, design and the development of an E-Commerce solution on a Microsoft .Net platform for a large global financial organization. Provided capacity and efficiency channels for the business increase in origination volume from 750MM t in excess of 3 Billion annually over three years

Skills Summary

• Strong leadership and communication skills and ability t gain respect of both business community and technology groups
• Strong ability t work with business stakeholders t rapidly understand and identify requirements for early solution vision required for program scoping and CBA leveraging both structured and customized, hybrid approaches
• Demonstrated ability t apply domain knowledge, architecture and software experience t successfully define and lead multiple large, complex integration architecture efforts with combined internal and vendor management
• Goal oriented and strong belief in continual process and execution improvement in development of tactical plans required t realize the strategic goals
• Track record of delivering and managing solutions services and including multi-level architectures across large, global organizations with distributed, domain specific IT functions
• Skilled in leading and working with geographically diverse teams, and managing individuals in multiple locations
• Skilled at mapping strategic goals t Business and Systems capabilities from the Enterprise level through domains and constructing the associated architecture diagrams required t support

Employment Overview

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Managing Director, Solution Delivery

• Practice and solutions delivery director for this regional consulting firm with specialties primarily within the pharmaceutical, financial and insurance markets providing numerous business and IT solutions and services t support client needs. Solutions range from web content, document and contract management, portal integration, pharmaceutical validation, as well as enterprise, data and application architecture and integration.
• As a consultant t Cigna Home Delivery Pharmacy, defined future state conceptual and logical enterprise and application architectures for legacy MailRX system and interfacing requirements
• Implemented enhancement t legacy Pharmacy system for enhanced DLE Drug List Education that resulted in a one year income return of more than four times pre-project goals and an ROI of more than 1000 in six months
• Among other proposals, developed a large, encompassing architectural analysis and methodology approach, and other parts of the proposal t win a 50MM, 5 year IDIQ with the FDA for the complete replacement and integration of their nationwide LIMS systems for Laboratory Management
• Implemented advanced DevOps Cloud solutions that dynamically built and deployed multiple IIS, Apache, and SQL Server instances with auto-scaling on the Web server layers. Leveraged Amazon AWS and Rightscale

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Lead Solutions Architect and PM Strategic Consultant

• Strategic, tactical and hands on technology consultant with responsibility for definition of and implementation the future state Cigna Home Delivery Pharmacy Enterprise Architecture Roadmap aligned with Cigna overall pharmacy and Global Enterprise Roadmaps and driven by business strategic and operational drivers. Currently leading the SOA architecture design and solutions design phases of a large e-Prescribing and Image Encryption / Portal solution for Cigna Pharmacy that will serve as first main driver and model project for the implementation of many of the Future State Architecture road map components providing added stability, scalability and value t the business. Expected t result in a 25MM annual cost saving while t improving customer service
• As a business thought leader, provide functional as well as technical leadership on multiple program work streams by working closely with business, developers and PMs t drive BPM efforts t completion
• Designed and implemented 3 new, best of breed technology stacks comprising a custom C . Net User Interface, JBoss EAP 6.0 / JEE Services Layers, and IBM Message Broker for integration services that integrate with and begin t incrementally migrate functionality from the legacy system
• Drive enterprise alignment and reduced operational costs by leveraging wide variety of existing Cigna Enterprise Assets such as Datastage for ETL, Datapower for Gateway services, Spectrum address standardization, and many other shared infrastructure services and platforms

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Managing Director, Technology Architecture Services

• Responsible for the strategic development, staffing and team building, project management, P L and resource management for the Solutions Architecture, Infrastructure practice and related app development projects.
• Brought on t focus on the improvement of delivery and quality and processes for projects across the organization. Immediately impacted project success rate from under 50 t 98 for 2010
• Led multiple concurrent project teams at multiple locations ranging from 400K 6 MM in the successful delivery and delivery engagement management for each
• Built infrastructure practice through sales and recruiting from 5 resources t an average of 20 over a one year period

Solution and Delivery Expertise applied for clients including:

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PJM Interconnection

Sr. SOA Consultant for a large program t build and maintain a second active control and data center for this RTO. Responsibilities include functional analysis, design/solutions architecture, prototyping and documentation. Program includes the full reconstitution of all systems in a remote location, and usage of Sonic ESB and Java/J2EE adapters t loosely couple and re-connect all existing systems locally and remotely such that some systems can be failed over and others can run in an active / active mode.

Accomplishments include:

• Led design of 35 new integration points and redesign of 20-30 production integrations related t the trading market systems, internal operations and energy management systems.
• Refinement of the SDLC and integration process as well as increased quality through promotion and communication of both standard and custom Integration Architecture patterns
• Development and communication of a strategy t pass set oriented information from Java t Oracle t enable and expedite large data transfers t temporarily match existing system interfaces until services are phased in t replace them.
• Recommended and developed approach t exponentially improve team productivity and throughput through process and team reorganizations.

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Lead Enterprise Architect and Program Development Manager

• Consultant for this global membership and credentialing organization whose responsibilities included:
• Built and transitioned an environment, release and change management team while making incremental enhancements t PMI.ORG t facilitate concurrent agile development scrums and merged releases
• Staffing and leading a business and development team t the successfully delivery of customized Virtual Communities platform released Sharepoint 2007
• Lead of the Enterprise Architecture responsible for a series of Social Networking product evaluations, recommendation and overall solutions architecture positioning and planning for subsequent enhancements
• Architected taxonomy design and mapping t management and governance process and implementation t PMI.ORG / Communities via varies proposed enterprise search tools for SE improvement and selective pricing pay per article support

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Lead Architect and Global Integration Services Technical Lead 3rd role

• Lead Architect and US Lead of the Global Integration Services team, for this large financial services firm with over 4 Billion in annual sales 7 Billion Globally , that was responsible for all integration and external application services for a large 300 mm, Oracle ERP implementation. Responsibilities included resource planning, budgeting, organizational positioning, rules of engagement, process and methodology definition and audit compliance.
• Staffed and lead the US Integration Services team comprised of 12 direct and 19 indirect reports, responsible for integration of 25 - 30 systems globally for the first and largest release of 33 modules of Oracle E-Business Suite within DLL
• Defined, designed and managed integration of 250 real time integration points across 37 systems and built service catalog and governance process t maintain
• Led procurement and deployment of corporate standard middleware architecture comprised of IBM MQ Series, MQ Broker, iWay and Custom Adapters, and IBM / Data Power XI-50 products, MS Biztalk 2006
• Worked with and directed Vendor and Partner resources both on-site, on-shore, and offshore in a variety of locations and time zones.

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• Lead of a multi-year, strategic compliance project surrounding credit risk, led multiple large project teams t the successful delivery of RAROC driven budgeting transformation driven by opportunities for and subsequent realizations from reduced loss provisioning as well as implementing a fully Basel II Compliant Process in the larger US locations consistent with the European locations.
• Business value resulting from the effort was reducing regulatory capital requirements by more than 30 MM just through the identify and proper aggregations of corporate exposure leveraging the MDM/ICV
• Designed and led team changing t most existing legacy AS/400 systems, the Oracle Data Warehouse, and the development of new data marts and ODS regions in support of global compliance requirements
• Design and Build initial 360 view of the customer and integrate the deployment and J2EE customizations of a customer data matching CDI and enrichment solution MDM including the entire World Base Reference, corporate linkage databases and matching processes from Dun and Bradstreet.
• Designed second generation of ICV Integral Client View t serve as a centralized client book of record, and prove exposure aggregation, risk ratings and engine t feed risk based pricing and contract level RAROC
• Design of a service based Expected Loss engine and ECAP calculator leveraging .Net and MS Biztalk

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• Responsible for the design, development, infrastructure, architecture and team management of the E-business web applications and legacy systems integration including applications such as remote credit application entry, application inquiry, document inquiry, security and system administration modules.
• Managed team of 9 developers t the successful delivery OnceFinanceUS.com for DLL
• Proceeded t enhance the site and applications with added features for few years as the business scaled up use and broad rollout
• Solution was a 1.9 MM initial investment including added B2B services for Partner Integration , which allowed increased volume from 750mm annually t 3 Billion with minimal staff increase

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• As a consultant DBA Manager, responsible for implementing a team of DBAs for this global Tele-services organization with 30 call centers whose responsibilities included the staffing, technical management, and the configuration management for a mid-sized IT department. Provided hands on operation support, DR design and implementation and DB scaling strategies on MSSQL Server Confidential
• Lead Data and Technical Architect during the acquisition and integration of Chemical Leamann and Montgomery Tank Lines. Responsible for the logical and physical data models, analysis, project plans, development, testing and implementation of multiple n-Tier Client/Server and Web based applications in MS VISUAL Basic 6.0 and Visual C with MS SQL Server 6.5 under Windows NT.

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Senior Consultant for the Object Oriented Analysis OOA / Object Oriented Design OOD effort that was underway t replace the legacy system. Initially, senior O analyst on a project team for an assigned business segment including Accounts Receivable, Invoicing, Accounts Payable and Insurance Administration

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Senior Consultant t migrate the existing trade allowance system for the Tylenol product lines from a legacy mainframe application t a client server solution for the elimination of data processing charge backs.

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Application consultant for a large specialty law firm and worked on the development of the Client/Server, Bankruptcy Tracking and Billing Systems using PowerBuilder and MSSQL Server 4.2 and 6.0

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Developer on an application support team wh was responsible for production support, reporting requests, and system enhancements t J.P. Morgan's Asset Processing System using COBOL II with DB2 and EASYTRIEVE.

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Developer on an application support team wh was responsible for production support, reporting requests, and system enhancements t J.P. Morgan's Asset Processing System using COBOL II with DB2 and EASYTRIEVE.