CHIEF ARCHITECT / PROGRAM MANAGER

Innovative, versatile architecture leader with extensive experience in all aspects of IT Architectural design and management. Proven track record of consistently leading teams to deliver high-quality products. Exceptional technology skills combined with proven ability to drive advanced IT solutions, manage and nurture talent, professionally communicate with high-level executives and high-priority clients. Outstanding strategist, distinguished for proven leadership and team-building skills and excellent conflict resolution abilities. Expert at implementing processes that improve efficiency accomplished in all areas of operations management with keen ability to maintain business relationships. Expert management skills that enhance productivity and drive sustained organizational performance. Expert ability and agility to quickly adapt to rapidly evolving and changing business priorities, while delivering products leveraging technology and innovation.

Areas of Expertise

• Strategic Tactical Planning Information Technology Project Management Leadership
• Process Improvement Re-Engineering Performance Optimization Cost Reduction
• Competitive Analysis Budgeting Forecasting Scheduling Talent Management
• Certified Six Sigma Black Belt ITIL Certified Current TS/SCI Security Clearance with FSP

professional experience

Confidential

Leads strategic agency-level enterprise architecture projects. Manages development of enterprise architecture artifacts to influence executive decisions leading to operational efficiencies while driving future technical directions. Mentors architects and develops technical architecture skills. Broad understanding and technical knowledge of IT solutions and technologies across all areas of IT. Effectively integrated investment and capital planning with the technology roadmap. Recognized for ability to discuss complex technical issues in the executive suite as well as with the technical engineers.

Key Accomplishments:

• Led an Army EA development project for the CTO. Demonstrated effective mission scenario-based, customer-focused architecture approach to associate agency enterprise investment decisions and priorities to the impact of those decisions upon a customer's mission. Delivered As-Is and To-Be Enterprise Architectures including technology migration incorporating cloud computing, virtualization, and software-defined networks.
• Identified areas where agency executive management is missing critical information on which to make significant decisions. Provided management with multiple options for improving operations, investments, planning, communications, and collaboration opportunities.
• Increased team architecture artifact production by 400 with existing resources.
• Strategically partnered with business stakeholders to achieve alignment between technology strategy and business goals. Led the definition and maintenance of the technical strategy, which enabled the agency to deliver on its business plans at acceptable cost and risk dynamics. Led agency's Enterprise Architecture governance board to ensure that the technology investment is well-founded in business and technical value.
• Guided, reviewed and approved enterprise and segment architectures targeted to eliminate redundancies and align new solutions with standards, patterns and target architecture strategy. Successfully partner with IT peers ensuring effective design, development, testing, deployment, and sustainment of all IT solutions. Advocate enterprise strategies in light of business goals and objectives. Successfully restructured the project from a traditional waterfall schedule to an agile paradigm with two week sprints, sprint deliverables and effectively managed resulting sprint backlogs.

Confidential

Advised multiple federal agency Chief Technology Officers, collaborating as member of inter-agency, executive-level group. Implemented shared cloud and data analytics project worth 600 million, addressing

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• significant implementation challenges efficiently and with agility. Developed strategic approaches to information sharing and protection across diverse organizations and architectures, initiating mitigation in
• response to schedule variances. Prototyped ingestion of mission data into cloud, enabling data analytics across various agencies.

Key Accomplishments:

• Managed architectural projects and teams, integrating secured data-centricity across enterprise. Developed strategies to utilize metadata tagging for access control and discovery across environments.
• Improved business and technology processes, identifying opportunities for cloud environment to enable data analytics within newly implemented data-centric, service-based cloud paradigm.
• Evaluated capability gaps, coordinating with capital planning and controls to develop strategic technical investments. Coached and mentored enterprise, data and security architects, leading development of artifacts for strategic operational and executive investment decisions.
• Improved information management strategies, refining approaches to cloud data storage and retrieval, maintaining complex data provenance across secure shared information.
• Commended for successfully developing strong relationships with senior level group, while integrating architecture on time and within budget.

Chief Enterprise Architect / Enterprise Architecture Project Manager,

Confidential

Led strategic approach and design for GEOINT project, allowing customer analysts to obtain necessary information swiftly for immediate use. Integrated program architectures between Federal Government contractors, designing services, including Information Sharing, Collaboration, Data Integration and Security. Drove technology insertion for agencies based upon needs and program capabilities, objectives and funding profiles. Improved quality of deliverables through careful review of all segment products.

Key Accomplishments:

• Trained and mentored architects for multiple integrated contractors, providing leadership and guidance in architecture development techniques.
• Developed artifacts for 42-mission scenarios on-time and within budget.
• Promoted to Chief Architect, driving architecture analyses and anticipating acquisition, development, implementation and user scenarios to meet potential budget, schedule and technical constraints.
• Conducted technical analysis of artifacts, creating 132 services and 150 data objects, enabling architectural integration.
• Conducted gap analyses, identifying pain points and weaknesses in existing development strategies.

Enterprise Architecture Manager

Supported federal agency CIO, increasing business value by leading strategic architectural efforts. Contributed to the development of the IT Roadmap, integrating EA vision with IT implementations to determine necessary technology insertion and alignment to changing business models.

Key Accomplishments:

• Managed agency-level strategic planning, business and technical analysis projects, significantly contributing to investment decision-making.
• Directed all project baseline deliveries, reducing significant defects in baselines by over 50 and accelerating the requested delivery cycle by 50 .
• Managed, supervised and trained dozens of senior Enterprise Architects.
• Designed and implemented methodologies to provide integration of GEOINT architectural efforts across organizations, leading project gap-analysis and enabling IT portfolio decisions. Led technology insertion projects, determining appropriate artifacts and researching concepts and impacts.
• Requested as key architectural reviewer for Architectural Review Board, Integrated Architecture Working Group and Agency Architecture and Standards Board.
• Managed requirements and project analyses, leading reviews and training and mentoring architects.

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Key Accomplishments:

• Led architectural reviews, mentoring junior engineers in techniques for major system component.
• Awarded for leadership in design engineering activities by premium customer leadership resulted in successful product delivery within aggressive schedule.
• Led Engineering Support Department, managing projects and professional development of 62 engineers. Conducted group dynamics and personal development, developing team cohesion and communications.

Key Accomplishments:

• Led team in reducing unidentified software defects and rework efforts by over 80 .
• Managed team that reduced volatility of product requirements and volume of software development rework, realizing 600K annually in cost-reductions.