SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished and results - driven Lead Technical Solution Architect and enterprise architect strategist with extensive experience in spearheading the management, design, development, implementation, cybersecurity concepts, and testing of IT solutions.
• Proven leader, applying high-impact technical solutions to major business objectives with capabilities that transcend IT operation boundaries; adept at working with management to prioritize activities and achieve defined project objectives; able to effectively translate business requirements into technical solutions; Committed to helping organizations achieve maximum benefit from their IT investment, through meticulous testing, QA, research, data modeling, development, security, project management, excellent analytical skills, and implementation of technologies; well equipped with topnotch expertise in communicating across organizational levels and with cross-functional teams to drive the shared vision and foster a culture of excellence.
• Problem-solver, organized, motivated professional seeks challenging position with the ideal company to provide innovative solutions to business problems through team leadership, execution strategy and commitment to quality that allows for career advancement by enabling the use of exceptional knowledge in systems architecture, cloud architecture methodologies, and cyber architecture on-premise or in the cloud for mutual growth and success.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Senior Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• A business-focused enterprise architect led the enterprise architecture, IT strategy domain and business case / ROI achievement for VMware Virtualization and Amazon AWS Cloud technologies adoption resulting in 60% IT asset re-engineering and savings of over $1.25 MM in the first year.
• Delivered enterprise-wide technology solutions by achieving all milestones of projects ranging up to $2 MM, by orchestrating a skilled cross-functional team of 25 professionals and multiple system integrators; ensuring all solutions deployed are within agreed timelines and support after delivery.
• Negotiated contracts and established system integration partners for key technology areas (IBM Softlayer Cloud, HP, Dell, VMware, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon) improving rate structure by 35% and increasing overall system integrator delivery performance. Initiated cost reduction initiatives within IT delivering cost savings of $1 MM+ moving to SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and lower cost-based models.
• Strategic thinker, problem-solving, hands-on corporate strategic planning, data, infrastructure architect, and innovator, participate in technology strategy and IT-led business transformation and Innovation. With a natural affinity for new technologies while being at ease in a business conversation. Managed day-to-day IT Operations activities, ensuring the integrity, security, and high availability of all IT Operations’ services.
• Responsible for driving technologies standardization, sourcing, consistency, negotiating, scalability, trusted partnerships, and managing outside vendors within project and program management services and functions.
• Lead project teams, committees, and manage all activities in a project life-cycle from initiation, planning, executing/controlling, to closing, associated with projects that are across multiple departments within a line of business segment and medium to high risk, scope, and complexity.
• Collaborate with the business to understand/influence security requirements as they relate to data protection. Demonstrate an understanding of cross-functional/cross-domain security requirements and impact. Utilize advanced expertise in multiple technologies to maintain project and deliverable consistency through repeatable and reliable performance.
• Own and maintain a strong working knowledge of multi-platform technical environments, and serve as a leader, consultant, mentor, in many specific technical architecture areas of expertise to staff throughout the department of information technology.
• Facilitate and drive complex strategies with the executive management team and cross-functional leadership teams and ensure alignment of business strategies with the company’s strategic direction and plan, by facilitating strategic planning sessions with business partners to develop working roadmaps with key actions, milestones, timelines, and accountabilities. Manage data networking lead project staff, including training and providing input to performance evaluations.
• Drive development of enterprise multi-year corporate strategic plan, business strategy and planning, and partner with strategy activation team to leverage innovation discipline, tools, and resources to creatively solve for key enterprise-level opportunities and drive the development of new strategies to accelerate business strategy formulation and results.
• Designed custom technical data center solutions on VMWare, AWS cloud services, Microsoft Azure or common Infrastructure platforms that address our requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• In corporate security architecture (e.g. infrastructure, network, controls) into conceptual designs and ensure alignment with enterprise technology standards (e.g. solution patterns, application frameworks, technology roadmaps, capital plans).
• Manage project goals and plans, including progress reports, develop and adapt various analytical and strategic frameworks to assess existing strategies, business performance, and key initiatives and provide recommendations to address issues and gaps.
• Develop key strategy communication, presentations and materials tailored to executive management, the board of directors, and key stakeholders, and Implement program and project level processes, procedures, and performance metrics.
• Accountable for technical architecture and recommendations in one or more information technology domains, by working to ensure that the technology objectives and solutions of the enterprise are aligned to the business mission, customer focused with technology vison, strategy, goals, and processes.
• Hands-on systems implementation and data concepts expert in many of the following technologies and technologies platforms such as: Solaris, AIX, Red Hat Linux, Windows Server, VMWare vSphere, Hyper-V, Azure, AWS, Cloud Computing, Cisco (LAN/WAN), Storage Area Network(SAN/NAS), Clustering, Application, Disaster Recovery, Application Recovery, Systems Backups, database administration (SQL), Cloud Computing concepts, Cloud security domains concepts, Web/Database Farm Concepts level, database applications.
• Engage with key stakeholders to drive a large portfolio of complex, interrelated, cross-functional initiatives, ensuring holistic solutions to those initiatives. Mentor other solution architects and lead teams in the service delivery of solutions for large portfolios of initiatives. And assign tasks to staff taking into consideration workload balancing, skill sets, technical knowledge, and criticality of the tasks.
• Assess and analyze business strategy, business requirements, current state environment, and technology choices to evaluate solution alternatives that meet business sponsor needs. Dynamic enterprise strategist working with senior leadership to develop and identify priorities required to achieve strategic objectives and responsible for collaborating to ensure strategic alignment.
• Define end to end technical solutions that consider the enterprise architecture strategies, current state environment and constraints. Analyze the viability of the solution to meet program timeline, budget, and quality.
• Provide leadership on the definition of customer authentication and anti-fraud security architecture, including the development and implementation of effective security control processes for customer authentication platforms.
• Develop and recommend security designs and frameworks for technology systems by defining process and architecture for creating secure customer access and implementing strong authentication/intrusion-detection systems.
• Serve as an internal information security consultant to the organization. Daily Interaction with all levels of the organization in enterprise information technology (EIT), business leadership, enterprise business technology, enterprise core services, technology risk management, and maintain personal and management awareness of emerging industry security technologies, technology issues, regulatory issues, and practices. Provide Information Security subject matter expertise in various authentication and fraud remediation controls and processes.
• Research technology trends, technology markets, and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models. And collaboratively define capability gaps, target architectures, and high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state.

Confidential, Saint-Paul, MN

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and defined customers’ business strategy and determined system architecture requirements to achieve business goals. Formulated strategic plans for component development to sustain future project objectives. Technical scope expertise spans technology platforms ranging from Mainframe systems, business process management, imaging, middleware, data warehouse, business intelligence and reporting, and ETL toolsets. Innovative thinking to develop new ideas and create solutions to better help the organization.
• Recommended, documented, and occasionally, supported delivery of pragmatic data architecture that fulfills specific business requirements while addressing major architectural concerns, such as performance, scalability, data quality and data privacy.
• Collaborated with Market Strategy & Intelligence team to create a shared understanding of key healthcare industry trends, market dynamics, emerging market segment requirements and competitive landscape to inform business and strategic planning and decisions.
• Maintained alignment with enterprise architecture strategy, reference architecture, architecture principles, and other guidelines produced by the Architecture Office. Developed and revised project plans and budgets, worked with users to understand complex problems and focused on bringing issues to resolution, escalating as necessary to meet timelines.
• Served as subject matter expert to develop a deep understanding of key customer value areas of health care, health and wealth management technologies, information management, innovation, and consumer experience.
• Developed data architecture design to facilitate targeted customer analysis. Suggested architectural improvements, design and integration solutions, and formulated methodologies to optimize object-oriented software and database development. Organized end-user training and problem analysis for the server, storage, cloud, desktop, security, and IT infrastructure work.