SUMMARY:

• Expert Strategic and Tactical Design & Implementation
• 15+ years designing, developing, managing and implementing state - of-the-art information technology systems for business.
• Well-rounded IT background, including director of large enterprise architecture initiative for a major insurance company, application architecture, integration, infrastructure, and network design/implementation.

KEY SKILLS:

• Strategic Planning
• Enterprise Architecture & Technology
• Service Oriented Architecture Design & Implementation
• Disaster Recovery
• Security Architecture
• Electronic Commerce Strategy/Dev.
• Program Management
• System Integration Planning
• Multitier Network Architectures
• Service Oriented Architecture

TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY:

Integration: Microservices, Azure Service Fabric, Microsoft BizTalk 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2013 ESB 3.x, Neuron (maps, orchestrations, pipelines, rules engine, LOB adapters), rabbitMQ, Mule, Tibco, Apache Camel, nginx

Systems: Windows, Linux/Unix, AS/400, Mainframe

Networking: LANs, WANs, VPNs, Routers, Firewalls, TCP/IP

Database: SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, C#, XML/XSL, Delphi, Java, Visual Basic, PHP, BPMN, MQSeries, MSMQ, SOAP, WCF, AMQP, REST, oData, JMS, Sparx EA, Visual Studio (2005-2017), TFS, Office, K2 workflow, GMC/Inspire ccm, InRule, ImageNow, Documentum

IT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fairfield, OH

Enterprise Architecture Consultant

Responsibilities:

• New core processing system implementation & design for all of IML’s business, including major subsystems (workflow, etc)
• SOA/Microservice architecture using on-prem Microsoft Azure (service fabric), Redhat, IBM mainframe
• Establish EA policies, procedures & strategy
• ESB product selection and proof-of-concept using Mule, wso2, UltraESB, Neuron & BizTalk2013

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Principal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Multiple clients, national - Integration architecture assessments & guidance
• Code analysis and conversion assistance
• Merchandise management system integration and Confidential

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Integration Architecture processing app. 33,000 trade orders per day / 34.3 per second peak volume
• Provided guidance for Enterprise Architecture, Secure Gateway access for 3rd parties
• Monitoring, Logging and AppFabric.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Software Dev. Senior Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to large national account in Mechanicsville, Va. BizTalk supply chain design and implementation.

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

BizTalk Architect

Responsibilities:

• Short-term engagement to cover for emergency absences of client’s entire group of BizTalk resources.
• Supported large ESB production deployment (completion of 2 year project) within one week of arrival.
• Designed ESB interfaces for reinsurance application.

Confidential, Erie, PA

BizTalk Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed/lead enterprise POC to determine viability of replacing IBM Websphere/Broker/App. Fabric with BizTalk 2009-2010/ESB 2.0.
• Architected all production and non-production environments, configured development team projects & resources (TFS2010).
• Set standards & coding conventions for pattern usage, exception handling, unit testing, etc.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Senior Software Spcl. / Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the integration architecture between internal life insurance, annuity and 3rd party systems.
• Lead team interfacing internal systems with electronic funds transfer and multiple clients' infrastructure.
• Responsible for reviewing and approving various standards and implementation architectures.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Senior Industry Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Architected and lead implementation of multiple integration projects between third party products and Confidential ’s MRP system.
• Clients included large government contractors and private manufacturing companies using BizTalk 2004 & 2006.
• Delivered developer training for BizTalk to customers and internal users.

Confidential, Farmington Hills, MI

Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• I led an integration effort at a large Michigan mortgage default processor.
• This has been exclusively with BizTalk, brokering real-time transactions between a proprietary asp.net case management system and major financial institutions.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Director of Strategy, Architecture & Standards

Responsibilities:

• After being recruited from a long-term consultant staff co-developing an extensive automation project, I was selected to establish and lead an Enterprise Architecture team (4 architects).
• Within 2 years I was promoted to Director of Strategy, Architecture & Standards as a company officer and given a significant increase in responsibility (app. 50 - 60 reports + contractors, 4 direct Group Manager reports).

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Senior Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Designed a large Citrix farm installation for deployment of critical software applications to field users.
• Consulted on application design to ensure compatibility and optimization via Citrix.
• Designed & supervised testing efforts to establish minimum acceptable bandwidth/connectivity requirements for Internet/WAN users.

Confidential, Loveland, OH

Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design and implementation of physicians' medical records software, including treatment plans, using CPT/ICD9 coding.
• Designed and implemented Medicare billing software for vision claim processing for large, multi-state vision retailer with electronic data transfer.
• Delphi, Sql-Server, Linux, AIX, Windows
• Architected replacement of legacy mainframe system with combination of a new policy administration system and several related subsystems, including customer communication management, imaging, enterprise document management, workflow, business rules engine, customer relationship management, financial systems and analytics.
• Designed integration for straight-through processing and money settlement to support annuity product sales through direct bank-broker channels.
• Architected & implemented electronic funds transfer for employer/plan management and processing system using rules engine to replace complex validation logic.
• Lead/Designed/Implemented complex manufacturing and customer/financial integrations across multiple legacy platforms.
• Directed off-shore team members (India).
• Full life-cycle design and development of production EAI layer currently brokering multiple transactions for 10,000+ monthly defaults in Michigan.
• Designed deployment infrastructure, integration software and business rule implementation, reaching production status with first institution within 90 days.
• Designed fault-tolerant, multi-server infrastructure for Production, QA, and Development environments.
• Initiated and drove adoption of enterprise architecture and governance by engaging/obtaining buy-in from all domain teams without executive mandate.
• Established & managed a group of 6 architects covering all technical disciplines of the enterprise, responsible for the overall technology strategy for the entire organization.
• Delivered BizTalk training to customers and internal development team.
• Lead effort to fully certify data management team on all supported platforms