OBJECTIVE To obtain an senior architect position in Los Angeles San Francisco or Phoenix.

PROFILE Experienced leader in software/IT with extensive experience architecting leading and delivering large-scale applications and services for the web desktop and mobile device. Partner with C-level executives and VPs in the business to deliver software products that provide the greatest value to our customers. Fluent in both business and IT settings with master s degrees in engineering and business.

SPECIALTIES

• Delivering products on-time on-scope and on-budget
• Architecting software that endures change
• Measuring and eliminating architectural debt
• Performing due diligence evaluations for acquisitions partnerships and third-party software
• Integrating acquired companies and products
• Solving complex technical and business problems
• Reducing IT operating expenses

EXPERIENCE

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Senior Architect Domain/Enterprise Architect

In this role I am an IT generalist. Since mid-2012 I have had architecture responsibility for over 30 products/services spanning the spectrum from Web-based products to desktop software from software deployed within the customer environment to software deployed in our data center and in the cloud both Azure and AWS from rich user interfaces to RESTful services. These products/services are written in diverse languages from C C C and Java to Perl Delphi and VB and use diverse database technologies from SQL Server Oracle and MySQL to MarkLogic. Some are proprietary custom-built software solutions while others highly leverage COTS software. Some are new strategic systems where I created the architecture from scratch and others are older legacy systems where I have helped reduce millions of dollars in operating expenses. At its peak the portfolio under my architectural control brought in 1B in annual revenue with over 250 assigned developers.

My current responsibilities include some of the most strategic system assets in the company and are part of our flagship Lexis Advance platform. For each system asset I am accountable for project cost/time estimation architecture/technical strategy placement of function architectural governance and technical debt reduction. I conduct technology reviews on COTS and open source software for inclusion in these systems. I am working with several of my development teams on moving their systems to AWS.

As a senior architect a position equivalent to a senior director I lead and mentor other architects and senior engineers. I actively participate on M A teams including at least 8 different acquisitions in recent years leading the technical due diligence on 2 of these. These acquisition deals totaled over 100M. I closely partner with the business including close relationships with C-level executives and VPs to help guide both technology and business decisions. I perform innumerable presentations including strategy presentations product demos infoshares and architectural reviews.

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Architect Domain/Enterprise Architect

Sole domain architect for 8 litigation and legal research products for web mobile and desktop environments. The largest of these products implemented on the Microsoft technology stack ASP.NET/WCF/SQL Server brought in 100 million in annual revenue and has over 2.5 million lines of code across nearly 100 independently running components. Other products that I was responsible for are considered among the top strategic priorities for the company.

Closely partnered with the business including close relationships with C-level executives and VPs to help guide both technology and business decisions. Wrote product architecture vision/strategy documents gained consensus and oversaw the onshore/offshore implementation of a new n-tier SOA architecture. Created as-is and to-be architecture UML diagrams of these systems and worked closely with Enterprise Architects to shepherd them through the architectural governance process. Evaluated various cloud solutions Azure Amazon and private for current and future products. I led the innovation/prototyping team where I worked hand-in-hand with the Product Strategy Director to explore and vet out new product ideas. Brought products into compliance with PCI DSS HIPAA and internal security standards. Performed innumerable presentations including product demos strategy presentations and architectural reviews. Diffused and resolved conflicts between the various parties on these teams.

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Manager Software Engineering Dev Manager

In this position I was the architect technical lead and manager. Managed a team of very experienced engineers.

For first 6 months of this assignment team was assigned to a fledgling product while the existing engineering team was reassigned . Transitioned knowledge from the existing team built a brand new team and delivered features and stability in two rapid succession releases. As stated by my director The team released more feature functionality in the first two quarters of 2008 than the prior team had in all of 2007. This was largely due to Gil s drive and determination technical ability and leadership skills. During this time I personally made the transition from Java to C /.NET.

For the last 10 months my team was moved to a more challenging 90 million product to help shore it up. This product was also a web-based product using ASP.NET C and SQL Server. The team was instrumental in helping solidify the processes standards and metrics. Took on the role of architect since the product had no formal architect position. Owned and presented as-is architecture and wrote technical responses for new features.

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Consulting Software Engineer Architect/Technical Lead

Had an even split between software architecture leadership and development.

Wrote 12 technical assessments for new and improved products. Chairman of the Product Architecture Council s Review Committee which reviewed over 50 company-wide architecture documents in 2007. Owner of the Technical Response document template and review process used throughout LexisNexis. This document was new in 2007 and has greatly streamlined the concept and analysis phases of projects in the company.

Led several teams of up to seven software engineers that developed 9 separate releases of an online web application. This application was first developed using Microsoft ASP JavaScript VBScript and COM in the Windows environment. It was later moved to IBM WebSphere Java Struts and EJB in the UNIX environment. Application heavily relies on XML data in SQL Server and XSL transforms. Revenue from this application grew 50 in 2007 to over 7 million. Team won Team Award in 2003.

Designed and developed Java data access object DAO using JDBC and SQL Server stored procedures. Designed and developed an EJB wrapper and data transformer around the DAO. Extensively tested both EJB and DAO using JUnit. Wrote over 50 XSLT style sheets to transform XML data into HTML RTF XML and Excel formats. Designed and developed J2EE web application code using JSP Struts custom tag libraries and EJBs on WebSphere. Obtained Sun Certification in both Java and J2EE. User interface used extensive HTML JavaScript AJAX and CSS. Designed web service that also uses the EJB to provide XML data directly to customers.

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Manager Product Engineering

Managed the Current Awareness and Proprietary Product Engineering departments leading as many as 40 employees contractors and temps. Department was simultaneously responsible for as many as 8 different projects. Over the 3 years the department was responsible for products on five different platforms Web/UNIX Client/Windows Web/Domino Web/IIS and Web/WebSphere . Wrote and assisted on Technical Assessments and gave technical advice to several projects.

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Consulting Software Engineer Technical Lead

Led team of seven software engineers that developed Research Software 7.2 using Visual C and MFC 6.0. Solely responsible for maintaining Research Software 7.1 the most commonly used application for doing research in the LEXIS-NEXIS system at that time.

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Staff/Senior Software Engineer Technical Lead

Led teams that developed Research Software 4.2 16-bit and 7.1 32-bit . Both of these applications were developed using Visual C and MFC. Led team that maintained and enhanced the communication layer used in most of the Windows products at LEXIS-NEXIS including Research Software 4.x 6.x 7.x and several AnswerPaks. Developed the 32-bit communication layer for Research Software 7.0.

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Senior Principal Programmer/Analyst Team Lead

Acted as Director of Engineering for four months. Led cross-functional project teams that developed the last two releases of the client-server workflow product ProcessIT. Participated on the ProcessIT Performance Benchmark and Workflow Innovation teams. Developed a Rule Editor for ProcessIT using C and MFC see patent 1 below . Designed a UNIX-based Rule Engine for ProcessIT see patent 2 below . Won NCR s Eureka Award for creative contributions to the Rule-Based Workflow Engine. Developed and maintained the division s Engineering Development Process and was an internal ISO 9000 auditor.

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Principal Programmer/Analyst

Developed the ProcessIT workflow engine using C and embedded SQL Informix under UNIX. Developed the work list handler and administration applications for ProcessIT using C and MFC under Windows 3.1. Led team that developed the COOPERATION Archive/Restore object oriented client-server application. Developed object oriented sample applications for COOPERATION s Application Development Environment including C applications for OS/2 Windows and HP NewWave.

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Principal Programmer/Analyst Project Lead

Led team of five engineers that developed NCR s Basic Rate ISDN terminal adapters. Developed the Q.931 layer 3 software for the ISDN adapters. Conformance tested the adapters against the AT T 5ESS Northern Telecom DMS-100 and the Ericsson AXE. Received NCR s Meritorious Technical Achievement for the design and development of the ISDN adapter.

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Programmer/Analyst

Developed a scheduler-based operating system on-board device drivers and Q.931 software for ISDN terminal adapters. Developed the configuration and loading programs for DOS and OS/2. Developed utility programs to monitor activity on the adapters. Developed the ISDN Voice/Data Manager VDM an OS/2 Presentation Manager application. Developed a file transfer protocol for use within VDM see patent 3 . Developed a multitasking operating system LOMOS for the adapters. The ISDN terminal adapter received PC Magazine s Editor s Choice Award.

SKILLS Architecture Technology strategies technical approaches/responses system architecture specifications architectural governance security/regulatory compliance PCI HIPAA cloud computing SaaS and IaaS big data SOA ROA high-level designs process development design patterns MVC/MVVM architectures N-tier architecture client-server architecture OOA D UML Visio PowerPoint software development methodologies technical reviews technical leadership.

Management Performance management recruitment team building contractor/consultant management offshore management strategy development resource planning budget management software lifecycle management presentations due diligence for acquisitions/partnerships RACI Scrum project management MS Project.

Technical REST SOAP AJAX AWS Azure C Java C/C XML XSL Java EE J2EE .NET Servlets ASP/ASP.NET JSP Struts MVC Tiles Validator Struts Tags Custom Tag Libraries JavaBeans EJB JDBC HTML CSS JavaScript VBScript Eclipse Visual Studio WebSphere TFS ClearCase VSS Ant JUnit NUnit Tomcat Axis SQL Server COM IIS WCF SharePoint VC MFC Adobe LiveCycle ES2 RegEx UNIX Windows BPM.