SUMMARY:

• Dynamic, strategically focused leader with experience in the analysis, design, development and implementation of cost - effective, high-performance technology solutions. Skilled in all facets of project life-cycle development; from feasibility analysis and conceptual design through documentation, implementation, and user ; to deployment and production operations. A highly accomplished organizational leader and team-builder with extensive project leadership experience, offering creative problem-solving analysis to improve processes leading to exceeded business goals and customer expectations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: Leadership in SOA implementation and planning. Experience in web, EDI, and E-business areas. Expertise in Data Warehousing, DataBase and System Architectures. Extremely knowledgeable of web, client/server, and n-tier architectures. Very capable with GUI s, low level API s, and most elements in between. Strong knowledge in Semantic technologies and tools. Worked with Design tooling using Magic Draw and ArgoUML. Tooling around XAMCL, such as Axiomatics, Netlabs, and OpenAz.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Herndon VA

Portfolio Architect/Financial Services

Responsibilities:

• Responsible two projects in Corporate Services, for outsourcing Core PeopleSoft into Oracle Fusion Cloud and other into ADP payroll. Created documents and artifacts, for internal review of Architecture and Security for internal, to pass internal Tollgates. Architectural artifacts, were created using TOGAF standards.
• Reviewed Web applications for UI design. Maintained governance to ensure Regulatory Compliance, over data, during transition from PeopleSoft to Oracle Fusion. Provided guidance and design for automation of file transfers using FTP and web service call using REST API.

Confidential, NYC NY

VP Project Manager/Architect Lead/ Financial Services

Responsibilities:

• Internal consultant responsible for defining authorization policy to meet business requirements. Worked as a member of a team of technical architect who implemented a policy-based authorization service based upon the XACML architecture and the open source OpenAZ library.
• With the externalization of entitlement authorization rules are externalized in well form defined XML format. Resulting in a externalization of authorization decisions in clearly defined open standard, the firm can show regulators around the world, how, the organization is implementing compliance for local rules and regulations, concerning governance of application authorization and data privacy.
• Assisted project teams on customer facing applications on design and implementation, to meet Regulatory Compliance.
• Drove and contributed to corporate entitlement strategy.
• Worked with entitlement strategy team to develop engagement model with application teams.
• Created and Delivered presentations on XACML and OpenAz to various technical levels of stakeholders.
• Designed Web GUI design for Application Test Bed for policy testing
• Mentored Application Teams and Business owners on XACML and OpenAz
• Worked with Application teams to understand their LoB’s concerns for regulatory/requirements for authorization.
• Created workable Use Cases to demonstrate how the strategic solution can work.
• Performed Proof of Concepts to demonstrate that entitlements use case can be met using policy-based entitlements.
• Documented Proof of concepts, with sample data to show real world application of entitlement technology.
• Conducted on boarding sessions with Application team Business owners.
• Worked with various application teams to bring new technology to production. This would require that PoC were successful, and injection of the individual entitlement team members, into the AD team, as mentors, during the development cycle.
• Mentored Application teams from development to production for both Java and .NET applications.
• Demonstrate usage of authorization with repeatable proven pattern in Ends User Computing environment.
• Help develop API with caching for Desktop applications running in Virtualized environment.
• Provided guidance for provisioning of Virtualized Servers using that appropriate authorization policies.
• Provided guidance on usage of authorization framework in Cloud computing environment.
• Worked with teams, to show that externalization of entitlements is deliverable like, any other work product (Source code, documentation, Junit….).
• Worked in both Water Fall and Agile project methodologies.
• Assist teams with scheduling and maintaining technology depth in entitlement through delivery.
• Provided guidance in mentoring in WBS/Backlog in enabling strategy.
• Created a process that ran in Jenkins environment, which created RDF triples, which represented UML diagrams from Magic Draw.
• The UML RDF data using SPARQL checked if architectural principles were followed.
• Validate that entitlements were present on communication channels
• Entitlements were crossed checked against entitlements RDF source to validate if present.
• Converted Oracle schema into RDF graph so data elements were properly defined in Magic Draw logical data model. All validation used SPARQL.
• Compared communication/business entities from UML diagram against physical data model in Oracle.
• Validate that columns in Oracle corresponded to UML entities

Confidential, Glastonbury CT

Sr. Project Manager/Financial Services

Responsibilities:

• Created and executed project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Identified resources needed and assigns individual responsibilities.
• Managed day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope.
• Reviewed deliverables prepared by team before passing to client.
• Effectively applied company’s SDLC methodology and enforces project standards.
• Prepared for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures.
• Minimized exposure and risk on project.
• Ensured project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.

Confidential, Newark NJ

Project Manager/Functional Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed detailed project plans, incorporating line of business goals, marketing strategies and technology requirements to deliver short and long term corporate objectives.
• Reviewed changes to PeopleSoft to ensure for minimum impact during upgrades
• Supervised the development of programs and workshops, to show application functionality and identify gaps with current business process.
• Designed the overall infrastructure guidance and planning, as well a testing strategy for project.
• Directed users in development of new business processes, leading to approved Use Cases, which were the basis for the Test plan.
• As part of this project required upgrading from 8.8 sp1 HRMS to 9.0.
• Developed strategy to reduce IT Hardware cost and improve D/R, and Failover, using virtualization for Wintel and Linux servers.
• Designed and wrote specification for GUI interface for report transmission to NY housing authority
• Designed and implemented transfer of data with web services (SOAP) using integration broker.

Confidential, Windsor, CT

Enterprise Architect/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Served as part of the Enterprise Architecture and PMO team for a media and advertising company as they revamped their entire application portfolio. As this $1.2B firm replaced legacy applications with state of the art Oracle Applications ERP and web applications, I put in place SOA architectural standards that helped to drive operational excellence for the business via IT. The client utilized many Confidential offerings, and I was successful in integrating the various Confidential teams for cohesive, successful solutions. Technical hurdles included working with Oracle applications, single sign on and security. I developed the Portal strategy (internet/intranet) and e-Commerce, with SSO/provisioning framework support. As part of SOX compliance, I developed the ILM strategy for data, documents and emails. Provided recommendations for Web Services strategy using for implementing SOA.
• Developed and communicated SOA standards to project teams, which assisted in reuse of software components.
• Maintain continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent.
• Define and initiate projects, and assign Project Managers and IT architects to manage cost, schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of the program.
• Conducted software selections, for Content Management, Data Warehousing tools, Email, Warehouse applications, Archiving, System monitoring, SSO and provisioning, ensuring the selected application, met end user requirement and IT supportability.
• Presented periodic Dashboard reports on the current program, future opportunities and client issues.
• Managed client engagement services and solution implementations provided by Confidential teams.
• Responsible for customer server farm that included Wintel and AIX servers
• Planning for on-boarding applications.
• Assigning Unix and Web administrators for project support.
• Maintained customer and project team interaction, to ensure no roadblocks for support, and future requirements.

Confidential, NYC NY

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed overall project plan for effort to bring the project in on customer’s expected “Go Live” date.
• In managing the day-to-day activities, was proactive in identifying, and resolving project slippage, by managing additional resource pools and usage.
• Creatively led the development of programs and workshops, to show difference between the two PeopleSoft versions, increasing user acceptance.
• Designed the overall infrastructure guidance and planning, testing strategy for upgrade, to successfully overcome hardware constraints, by using virtualization.

Confidential, Detroit MI

Infrastructure Integration Architecture Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated infrastructure and integration management of multiple related projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives.
• Worked to align the goals of vendors with the strategic IT vision of customer. This led to proactively resolving numerous application, middleware and database issues.
• Led server consolidation effort, reducing cost to projects, by effective utilization of existing hardware and software assets in data center.
• Build credibility, establish rapport, and maintain communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization.
• Served on several customer and vendor committees for establishment of IT corporate standards and policy.
• Maintain continuous alignment of program scope with strategic business objectives, and make recommendations to modify the program to enhance effectiveness toward the business result or strategic intent.

Confidential, Detroit MI

PIO Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created technical “due diligence” worksheet, to evaluate vendors and their solutions, reducing time for corporate acceptance and overall project timelines.
• Conducted technical reviews of custom development, COTS, and BPO projects, to ensure they followed corporate guidelines on technology and project methodology.
• Executed a timely data center move for one business unit.
• Led the Plan and Define phases of a Global rollout of Employee/Manager Self Service functionality and Performance Management Data Warehouse using PeopleSoft.
• Led technical assessment of creating Corporate reporting using Cognos and PeopleSoft HCM and HCM EPM.
• Identify servers that were to be upgraded, decommissioned and virtualized.
• Provided plan for upgrade and migration of software packages, for consolation on physical or virtualized.

Confidential, Jackson MS

PM/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed the interface from PeopleSoft for Outbound Invoices and Inbound Purchase Order for client’s EDI processes.
• Performed tuning of PeopleSoft Application server and database server.
• Developed the automated procedures for the operational use of the software.
• Instructed the customer in applying PeopleSoft Bundle packages and individual software fixes, and in the operational use of software.

Confidential

Architect/Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed the automated procedures for the operational use of the software.
• Instructed the customer in applying PeopleSoft Bundle packages and individual software fixes, and in the operational use of software.
• Guided functional consultants, in migrating data for financials from legacy systems.
• Wrote specifications for reporting requirements, for SQR developers.

Confidential, Montvale NJ

Architect/Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed the back-end processes, following the Model-View-Controller architecture, using Java servlets, Java Beans, and Java Business Classes to connect the database layer (Oracle 8) to the presentation (GUI) layer.
• Mentored the Confidential and client team to use this pattern throughout the project.
• Interfaced with the client infrastructure group to lead the development of the application topology for the project.
• Created the configuration, security policies and network requirements for the application servers.
• Reviewed all requirements (Use Cases) for the projects. As part of this effort, conducted workshops in formation, and documentation of Use Cases.
• Responsible for the all technical due dates and milestones in the project plan. The project was finished in time and cost, to support a new marketing program.

Confidential, Paramus NJ

IT Manager/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a Client/Server solution to track container delivery from Far East Vendors. This solution provided Logistics department concise information on status of orders within the supply chain, so they can better met customer demand. Due to business demands for this information, the application was redesigned to work on Microsoft SQL Server, from Microsoft Access.
• Implemented and deployed an Inventory system, to track returns from stores back to Distribution center. This system impacted all areas of the business, from Purchasing to Accounts Payables. The deployment of the system, gave the enterprise, better control over customer returns, and leading to better contracts with vendors.

Confidential, NJ

Application Developer/Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I managed the architecture, design, and performance and testing of software components on Confidential AS/400 and AIX machines lead the conversion, from CISC to RISC platform on AS/400 and converting AS/400 MI code ILE C. Was active member development team that performed the migration the application from “Green Screen” to client/server layer, on the AS/400. Developed the communication layer, using APPC protocol.

Confidential, NJ

Application Developer/Operations Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated the installation, of data collection equipment, and software for overseas branches.
• Lead the effort for platform migration (Wang VS100 to AS/400), including management of consultants.