Solution Architect Resume Profile
Alexandria, VA
SUMMARY
Background
- Enterprise Architecture, strategic solutioning
- Solution Architecture, tactical solutioning
- Large scale Systems Integration, extensive SOA, Mobile, Cloud, Identity
- Strategic planning, gap analysis, technology research, emerging technology R D and evaluation, road-mapping
- Distributed architectures, Application architecture, J2EE background
- Extensive diagramming, presentation material for stakeholder interaction
- TOGAF certified, COBIT, RUP, CMMI, Agile, XP, Scrum and occasional Waterfall
- Program Management
- Technical Project Management
- Large scale project planning 100 resources and delivery
- CxO exposure
- Business client management
- Team leading, building, mentoring
- High MS Project proficiency 3000-5000 line project plans
- Conversant in out sourced models
- Vendor and license management
- Big 5 experience Cap Gemini Ernst Young
- Director level responsibilities
- International experience, widely travelled
- US Federal experience with clearance
- US Citizen
Introduction
Enterprise and Solution Architect. Very proficient at melding business objectives with suitable, effective technical solutions. Strategic thinker capable of analyzing current state, target state, gap analysis, blueprinting, road-mapping to effective delivery. Capable of evaluating emerging technologies and keeps abreast of industry developments. Can provide leadership and expertise in the development of standards, reference architectures, architectural governance, diagramming, design patterns and IT practices.
Have US and international experience with various prestige clients for over 20 years. Have done US Federal projects with clearance. Have focused on leading and managing technical teams. Responsible for project planning, long and short term strategy, gap analysis, road-mapping, execution delivery, organizing teams, recruitment, budgeting, vendor management.
Adept at all phases of the SDLC Software Development Life Cycle including Project Management PMP, PMBOK , Architecture, Requirements, Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing, Performance Measurement and Operations.
Extensive exposure to popular methodologies like RUP, Agile Scrum and Xtreme Programming , the use of Rational tools and UML, COBIT, TOGAF. Also familiar with eCommerce, B2B and EAI concepts and aspects of Web2.0 like ESB, SOA, AJAX, Virtualization, Scalability, Cloud various , Governance, Link Analysis, Text Mining.
SKILLS
Core
Enterprise Architecture, creating reference architectures, technical product evaluation, client interaction, executive presentations, technical architecture, systems development including analysis, design, coding, performance testing, design reviewing, technical project management, team building, assembling teams, mentoring, creating WBSs, strategic planning, interviewing, team leading.
Products Technologies
Mobile, SOA, ESB, Messaging, JMS, BPM, XML, Cloud, SaaS, SAML, Office365, Internet Protocols, Internet Security, Networking basics, Clustering, High Availability, Windows, Unix. Extensive J2EE Java, C , C
Methodologies
TOGAF, FEAF, Agile, Xtreme Programming learned from its author Kent Beck , Scrum, UML, RUP, CMMI, OO concepts, Design Patterns, Performance Testing, COCOMO estimation, COBIT
Tools
Rational Tools, WebSphere, WebLogic, Monitoring Tools, SQL, functional knowledge of relational databases, MS Project Professional, MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Project Web Access, Visio
CLEARANCE
U.S. Public Trust
- US Department of Treasury
- US Department of Education
- US Department of Commerce
Eospa
Feb 02 Present 12 yrs Washington DC
Confidential
Mar14 - Present
Role: Solution Architect
Technology: E-Commerce, Workflow, Research Analysis, FEAF, FISMA, FedRAMP
Confidential
Mar11 Jan14
Role: Enterprise Architect Director level position
Technology: Oracle OSB ESB, J2EE, MS Project, MS SharePoint, SOA Governance, TOGAF, COBIT5, Cloud
- Responsible for leading the entire SOA initiative within MedImmune taking effort from inception to implementation. This includes team formation, planning, design, a prescriptive Reference Architecture and a comprehensive SOA Governance Model.
- Part of core team responsible for laying out the strategy for Externalizing the company's capability. Hence laid out the strategy and architecture for all aspects of Externalization.
- Knowledge of CDISC and BRIDG models. Experience in deploying systems that are subject to regulatory requirements in the biomedical domain 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, FISMA, Section 508
- Created Reference Architecture for all integration across company from scratch. This included work on system integration across company boundaries, implications for mobility, cloud architecture, cloud security, secure remote access, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, systems, identity bridges Ping, SAML and next generation Data Integration.
- Investigated conversion to and from structured, unstructured and semi-structured data using XML, EDI and various data exchange formats used in the biopharmaceutical industry.
- Implemented strategy for using Office365 remote access, access to partners, SAML, evaluating models .
- Investigated modernization of corporate Learning Tool and how large loads of training data could be ingested and distributed. Researched various Document Management technologies.
- Laid out Enterprise Architecture Framework based on TOGAF.
- Conducted research with industry leaders such as Gartner and Forrester.
Confidential
Jun08 Mar11
Role: Solution Architect, Program Manager Director level position
Technology: Oracle OSB AquaLogic ESB, J2EE, MS Project, MS SharePoint, SOA Governance, Borland StarTeam
- Led a greenfield project to implement a company-wide SOA initiative using an Enterprise Service Bus from design to implementation.
- Led design sessions, reviewed design, applied relevant patterns to improve solution.
- Presented weekly status at CxO level. Created, organized, resourced, leveled, maintained, updated Project Plan using MS Project Server.
- Created Project Charter, Risk Matrix, Issues Matrix, Project Dashboard. Created Governance plan.
- In a year set up ESB and its supporting SOA governance model for over 21 from initially 4 enterprise applications.
- Project was a winner of a CIO Magazine, SOA Case Study Competition in Sep09
- Investigated viability and conducted PoC on BPM software and Cloud Computing usage.
- Investigated use of Search and Text Mining engines for use within FINRA.
- Investigated the use of Optical Character Recognition OCR technology for image and PDF scanning and conversion into plain text.
- Examined use of Link Analysis tools for fraud detection.
Confidential
Jul06 Jun08
Role: Technical Project Manager, Architect
Technology: MS Project Professional, MS Project Server, MS Project Web Access, MS SharePoint, AJAX, Java, J2EE, WebSphere, Hibernate, Linux, UML, RUP, CMMI, SOA, Borland Caliber, PerForce
- Planned for over 90 resources spread across various functions. Applied the RUP model while organizing teams to ensure adequate injection of PM, Deployment and Environments along with the traditional disciplines like Requirements, Development and Testing.
- Participated in team CMMI evaluation by PMO organization.
- Created, organized, resourced, leveled, maintained, updated Project Plan using MS Project Server. Created Project Charter, Project Management Plan. Created and championed custom team website for successful collaboration.
- Extensive use of MS Project Professional to create WBSs, timelines, resource allocations, resource leveling, linking external dependencies. Used MS SharePoint services as collaboration tools E.g. Risk and Issue Management .
- Disseminated information throughout project via weekly and monthly status at executive level.
Confidential
Mar04 Apr06
Role: Architect, Architecture Team Lead
Technology: MS Project Professional, MS Project Server, MS Project Web Access, MS SharePoint, Java, J2EE, WebSphere, HP-UX, UML, RUP, Quest tools, Visio, SOA, Rational Robot, ClearQuest, ClearCase
- Managed team of over 30 people at height of project. Team consisted of strategic arm senior architects led by a chief architect and tactical arm architects and senior developers .
- Created and managed team's project plans 3000 tasks, 40000 hours .
- Responsible for providing thought leadership and mentoring on the use of technical common services and frameworks throughout the project and the adoption of new technologies via evaluation processes.
- Managed operational status by collecting, analyzing and summarizing trends. Communicated project status to executive management on a weekly basis.
Confidential
Feb02 Dec03
Role: Chief Architect
Technology: Java 1.3, J2EE, NT4.0, UNIX HP-UX, AIX 5.1 , BEA WebLogic 7.0, JBuilder 4.0, UML1.3, Rational Rose2000, Apache 1.3, Tomcat 4.0, Wily 4.2
- Managed team of over 8 people. Interacted with client at the highest levels, made presentations, communicated technical designs and decisions to uppermost management. Assembled teams for new work and system enhancements. Managed project plan.
- Involved in various architectural aspects of getting a large-scale system to production, e.g. performance testing, training, deployment, failover, disaster recovery, component redundancy, systems management, documentation, design reviews and architectural security. Participated in zero and full knowledge penetration testing to test vulnerability of system to attack.
- Provided mentoring Java, J2EE, UML, OOA, OOD, Patterns. Project went live successfully in Q3 2003.
Confidential
1997 2002 5 yrs New York City
Clients :
- DaimlerChrysler automotive New Jersey, Michigan, Germany
- Mercedes Benz automotive New Jersey
- Williams integrated energy company Houston TX
- Cordiem aviation exchange Virginia
- Intelsat leading provider of fixed satellite services worldwide Washington DC
- Prometric global provider of testing and assessment services Maryland
- US Department of Treasury Washington DC
Roles :
- Chief Architect
- Senior Architect
- Architect
- Team Lead
Technologies:
- Java, J2EE, UML, MS Project, WebLogic, WebSphere, TopLink, Oracle
- Rational Rose, VisualAge, PVCS
- High Availability, Clustering, Networking, Security, EAI, B2C/B2B
- AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, NT
Confidential
Clients :
- Decision Support early business intelligence technology firm Charlotte NC
Roles :
- Senior Developer
Technologies:
- Java, C , Visual J
- UNIX, NT
Confidential
Clients :
- Reuters premier news agency and financial data provider London
- Tullett Tokyo inter-dealer broker London
- ED F Man leading Cocoa broker London
- Lloyds Bank share registrar, bank Brighton
- IMRO financial regulatory organization London
- Time Warner media London
Role s :
- Senior Developer
- Developer
Technologies:
- C, C , UNIX, Oracle, PASCAL, RPG III, VAX BASIC
- VAX/VMS, STRATUS VOS, IBM AS/400