SUMMARY:

• Enterprise Architect with a history of leading IT organizations to leverage technologies toward accomplishing strategic and tactical business objectives.
• Over 15 years of practical experience leading large scale Architecture engagements involving Inter and Intra - Enterprise technical interoperability in areas of Data, messages, Business Processes in consultative and employee roles in the Healthcare, Financial, Manufacturing, Government and Judiciary verticals.
• Over 10 years experience designing and implementing major expense-reducing, revenue-enhancing, business flexibility improvements as manager, Enterprise technology and Data architect, and IT strategic planner.
• Enterprise Architect with a history of leading IT organizations to leverage technologies toward accomplishing strategic and tactical business objectives. Recent experience involves helping organizations implement major expense-reducing, revenue-enhancing, competitive and business flexibility improvements functioning in the roles of manager, enterprise architect, enterprise data architect, and strategic IT planner. Experience applying architectural frameworks including Zachman, FEA, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Agile, waterfall Structured Design and analysis, Rationale-RUP (Object Oriented Analysis and Design), UML and BPM.
• Familiar with IBM Financial Framework (IFF) and IBM Insurance Application Architecture (IAA) framework. Innovative, visionary backed by solid knowledge of both current and legacy technologies, and excellent communication, motivational, and managerial skills.
• Experience in the following areas:
• Enterprise Data Architecture Program/Project/Department Mgmt
• Enterprise Technology Architecture Application Architecture Data Management, Data Modeling/Architecture Database Administration
• Recent s
• Increased revenue and decreased expenses at Major IT Firm by directing the design and implementation of Enterprise BI database/application.
• Further increased revenues by designing and deploying a Master Data management solution for its worldwide Customer data with substantial improvement in data quality. Led the Design and implementation of a robust data integration project for
• Enterprise Business intelligence applications to wit out fraudulent Accounting and Auditing practices that significantly reduced labor and license expenses at major
• Accounting Regulation Agency which pulled data from various financial data sources involving message passing under many business rules at the Wall street and worldwide Litigation data into Oracle and DB2. Led the effort to evaluate the feature, function and cost/benefit trade-offs of various IT systems at the Confidential and presented the findings/recommendation to executive management. Led the redesign of a Major healthcare Data warehouse solution vendor with over 100 million members and related clinical data and improved the performance of its
• DB2/UDB and Oracle 11i databases. This enhanced the effectiveness and efficiency of BI applications and improved satisfaction from its customer base. Reduced the overall organizational cost by mentoring several lower-paid junior DBAs and programmers to becoming Senior DBAs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Mainframe zOS/390, UNIX, Windows Architectural Frameworks Zachman, FEA, DODAF, RM-ODP, ATAM, TOGAF

Database Management Systems (DBA and Application Programming Level): DB2 on z/OS, DB2 UDB for LUW, mySQL, MS Access, IDMS, IMS, VSAM

Programming Languages: VB.net (with ASP.net and ADO.net), PHP, COBOL, ALC, REXX, C, C++, Java and C#.

Development Environments: Visual Studio, TSO/ISPF

CASE Technologies: IEF (now Cool Gen), ERWIN

Productivity Tools: MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook

Database Tools: BMC Catalog Administrator, BMC Change Manager, BMC DASD Manager, BMC

Utilities: Telogics, Prosight, Embacardero DT Studio, Erwin, EmbarcaderoMethodology Agile SCRUM, Water-Fall, OOAD (RUP)

Tools: Ab initio, Informatica PowerCenter, Business Objects, Microstrategy, Datastage, Data Flux, Visio, Netezza, IBM WebSphere Application Server Software, IBM WebSphere Messaging Software, IBM Tivoli Management Software, XML, XSLT, J2EE, .Net and ASP.Net

Networking: LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, VPN, hubs, switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Towson, MD

Enterprise Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developing the strategies to deploy new web based applications for Software and Platform as a Service methodologies using Agile SCRUM.
• Defining and designing the Application, Data, Security and Infrastructure architectures for the redesign of the new web based SAAS Business Intelligence Applications.
• Leading the Design of the data models and Architectures related to Provider, Member clinical, healthcare claims, episode treatment grouper and care management utilizing Enterprise Architect and Erwin tools.
• Mentoring the Application developers and the DBAs in the development of multiple Healthcare Business Intelligence applications to be rolled out to the Market by July, 2010.
• Designing and defining system architecture for new or existing computer systems.
• Performing complex systems development and design work that may include logic design, I/O design, application development, model formulation and development cost projections, computer architecture analysis and design.
• Performing systems modeling and analysis.
• Reviewing completion and implementation of system additions and/or enhancements and makes recommendations to management and/or clients.
• Planning and directing upgrades of current technologies systems and designs systems enhancements.
• Developing documentation utilizing UML and Use Cases to reflect the requirements of the new systems.
• Developing transition plans to implement the target systems.
• Developing and directing tests to ensure systems meet documented user requirements.
• Identifying, analyzing, and resolving system problems.
• Providing system/equipment/specializing and technical guidance.
• Determining system specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility.
• Providing guidance and work leadership to less-experienced systems engineers and may have supervisory responsibilities.
• Serving as liaison with clients, participating in Product backlog and planning meetings to ensure client needs are met.

Confidential, Washington, DC

IT Strategist / Chief Enterprise Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with the Stakeholders in the Veterans Health Administration and the Organization for Information & Technology at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide vision, strategic direction and leadership in the development and maintenance of the Enterprise-wide information technology (IT) architectures.
• Established IT architectures to align with VA’s Business Direction.
• Created future vision architecture to expedite delivery of new healthcare products (Clinical, Member-Provider encounter, episode management).
• Outlined current and future vision enterprise data architecture that including traceability from business and IT strategies to suggested technologies.
• Coordinated with architects and business experts across IS to translate key strategic objectives into actionable and governable roadmaps for defining and implementing the Exhibit 300 initiatives.
• Managed a data architecture team whose primary mission was to guide data technology, organization, placement, movement and access design decisions for all major projects. Responsibilities included consultation and review of logical and physical database design on all major projects; mentoring junior DBAs to become senior DBAs; developing a master data strategy; developing standards, procedures, guidelines, and processes to enable the integration of Active military benefits and health data between Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs.
• Led the integration of multiple siloed departments into a single Enterprise canonical modeling, canonical message schema, events, Business Processes and message mapping efforts.

Confidential

Enterprise Technology and Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created architectural principles and strategies. Provided recommendations on approach, technology, and design to virtually every major project toward achieving the overarching architectural initiatives of reducing process and data redundancy, integrating applications, increasing application flexibility, and reducing overall complexity. The recommendations guided the Firm toward a standardized, service oriented architecture (SOA) over fully integrated databases.
• Modeled the Functional and business process workflows utilizing IDEF0, IDEF3, UML and use cases in the creation of the TO-BE and AS-IS Enterprise Business and Enterprise data models.
• Led the implementation of SOA and EA methodologies.
• Defined the Employee Recruiting and Investigations workflows in UML format, designed the data model, platform architecture and transition plan for the applications.
• Recommended the acquisition of a service as a service package for Recruiting application.
• Led the deployment of our first SAAS Employee recruiting application
• Established the first corporate service catalog.
• Developed Transition plans for the Architectures.
• Developed Enterprise Data Principles and Governance structure and a set of implementation and management guidelines.
• Led the Enterprise data integration of multiple and complex financial, Litigation, PeopleSoft, Inspections and Investigations operations applications with data from many sources such as Standards and Poor’s (S&P), and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), XML documents, for corporate Business Intelligence applications.
• Designed the Enterprise Canonical Data models to support all the Stakeholders.
• Developed the canonical message schema, Events dependency diagrams and mappings to touch points in the Business Process architectures.
• Produced a mapping document aligning Events, Processes, data and business rules and Messages.
• Defined a data governance strategy and framework, developed and implemented the Data Governance and data quality methodologies.
• Designed the metadata model, developed and managed the Enterprise Metadata through Metadata rationalization and standardization processes utilizing Telelogics.
• Set the guidelines for the acquisition of Technology portfolio management tools.
• Designed and executed proofs-of-concept for critical enterprise capabilities, including building business case with costs, benefits, and efficiency measures.
• Ensured that solutions and design aligned with Confidential ’s future enterprise technologies and IT architectural direction.
• Ensured alignment of business requirements with systems qualities in the applications under development through mentoring of development staff from design, construction and deployment.
• Mentored the design of the Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) architectures in Informatica Power Center.
• Provided architectural and implementation support for Documentum and SharePoint applications.
• Participated in Change Management meetings.

Confidential

Lead Systems Architect(Data warehousing and Master Data Management)

Responsibilities:

• Reported to Executive Vice President (CTO) of Strategic Planning to plan strategic IT projects that accomplished business’s strategic plan.
• Performed data modeling efforts including semantic, ER diagramming, Canonical and Dimensional (Star and snowflake schemas) modeling techniques.
• Performed data analyses and data mapping from multiple sources and transformation rules to the target database leading to a data mapping documents.
• Facilitated meetings with stakeholders in the design, development and deployment of the 50-terabytes Enterprise “Single Version of the Truth” Business Intelligence System and AOL’s Customer Master Data management Environment.
• Conducted sessions for analyses and Data rationalization to resolve data terminology and definition issues resulting in the creation of the Enterprise metadata repository for the Enterprise Business Intelligence application.
• Defined data governance strategy and developed the Data Governance methodology.
• Deployed the master data store, the ETL architecture, data synchronization schemes (Data profiling, Workflow, Modification, Summarization, Rollup, Filtration), and maintenance scripts involved in the feeding of multiple marts and for reporting needs, using Ab initio, Perl, Netezza, Informatica PowerCenter, PowerExchange, and MQ Series, Data flux, DB2/UDB, Redbrick, and Oracle 9i.

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Led the delivery of Technical solutions to the State of Delaware Medicaid department, which used (HEDIS) and healthcare clinical/Encounter systems during the development of their Management Decision Support systems (Data warehouses and Business Intelligence Applications).
• Provided Business Process Re-engineering services such as Business analysis, Modeling Processes and mapping individual task workflows.

Confidential

Project Manager/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Held several positions starting as Project Manager/Architect to Director of BI Practice.
• Led the analysis and the design of the data model to capture all the survey information.
• Led the redesign, construction and implementation of the new Consumer Expenditure and Price Index applications at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to CMMI Level 4 compliance.
• Played key role in client meetings by determining requirements and specifications. Worked with 30-member team of designers to conceptualize, program, and test software programs.
• Responsible for the ETL architecture and mentored Programming tasks in SAS.
• Designed the Network infrastructure, configuring and administering user accounts, LDAP, Network backbone, transport protocols (TCP/IP, Gateways, Checkpoint Firewall), LDAP, IP Engineering, Ethernet cabling and LAN-WAN connectivity.

Confidential

Senior Consultant/Information Technology Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Led the design the Tomahawk Cruise missiles testing system and became the Senior Data modeler for Confidential as sub contractor for SRA for the Corporate Personnel Information Management system (CIM) Project.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Started as a programmer Analyst developing data maintenance programs in COBOL, FORTRAN and FOCUS and complex stand-alone and adhoc reports for senior management.
• Analyzed requirements and designed the data model for CAPTIS, HPTRANS and HOTEL Reservation Systems.
• Promoted to Logistics System Analyst for where I developed application programs for sales forecasting and management reports using structured methodologies (Yourdon) and top-down programming techniques. The systems were developed making extensive use of FOCUS, C, and COBOL under REXX, EXEC2, CMS, MVS, TSO, ISPF, Sync Sort and VMS platforms
• Gathered requirements, analyzed, designed, developed and maintained the Heavy Products Transportation Tracking System, Capital Projects tracking system and the Marketing System for Demographic Impact (MSDI) for the marketing operations group.
• Conducted Business Process Reengineering and JAD sessions with Construction and Civil Engineers for their process improvement and automation projects.

Confidential, Troy, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• Started as a programmer Analyst developing data maintenance programs in COBOL, FORTRAN and FOCUS and complex stand-alone and adhoc reports for senior management.
• Promoted to Logistics System Analyst for where I developed application programs for sales forecasting and management reports using structured methodologies (Yourdon) and top-down programming techniques.
• The systems were developed making extensive use of FOCUS, C, and COBOL under REXX, EXEC2, CMS, MVS, TSO, ISPF, Sync Sort and VMS platforms