SUMMARY:

• Service - Oriented Architecture - TIBCO - Mulesoft - Project Manager - Enterprise ArchitectEnterprise IT executive with a career that spans a wide range of subject domains and disciplines including embedded system design, distributed, enterprise-wide architecture design, technical project management, and consulting within education, telecommunications, manufacturing, transportation, insurance, financial trading, records management, manufacturing, petrochemical, and government domains for Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 organizations.
• Designed the architecture and deployment strategy for a high availability, distributed, web-enabled system-to-server for a Fortune 100 company with 1,200 locations and 8,800 users.
• Twenty plus years experience in large scale, full life cycle integration projects.
• Expertise in enterprise and SOA architecture with a strong strategy and development backgrounds and advanced TIBCO and Mulesoft engineering solutions.
• A well-rounded background that includes positions as Enterprise Architect, Application Architect, Developer, Business Analyst, Technical Project Manager and Technical Writer.
• A forward-thinking leadership style that has proven successful in managing technical resources, projects, and customer engagements in complex operating environments.
• Experience with working with offshore teams.
• Led technology planning and implementation of large-scale infrastructure projects to drive and support evolving technology initiatives across an enterprise organization.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SOA and Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to a Confidential Contractor as part of an Architect/Engineering group providing solutions to the prime contractor's IT issues.
• My projects included solutions dealing with integrating Active Directory with Oracle Internet Directory (specifically Foreign Security Principals) and the automation of complex forms using Adobe Acrobat DC and Javascript. Contract ended due to budget cuts.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Solutions Architect & Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Served in architecture and project management roles, TIBCO BusinessWorks 6/Java architecture and management services and projects.
• Served as project manager on a strategic, $1M+ project.
• Held full responsibility for project facilitation, communication, budget management, and team leadership.

Confidential, McDonough, GA

SOA & IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided IT consulting services to assist companies with short and long-term strategy development for technology utilization and maximization of Confidential . Oversaw end-to-end project management and guidance for front office and server expansion, hardware/software enhancements, infrastructure design, and the implementation of shared services, SOA applications, web design, and cloud-based applications.
• Developed in-house mobile applications and provided IT consulting services to Hiu-Laski Enterprises and several of their clients (Guatemala City, Guatemala). Programming in Swift, Java and HTML5/JS/Cordova.
• Hired by a large retail card processor to provide TIBCO SOA/Java consulting services including strategic architecture and vision, launching an SOA Center of Excellence, and the sizing and installation of TIBCO software.
• Retained by Confidential . to update the architecture of their asset management system for use by offshore government organizations.
• Led the team in the diagnoses and development the remediation plan for the TIBCO production performance issues at a large mobile device insurance corporation.
• Consulted with small to medium businesses on their IT needs. Developed solutions using LAMP technologies and Mulesoft.

Confidential, Columbus, GA

Enterprise/SOA Architect

Responsibilities:

• Wrote, planned and conducted a two-day day interactive workshop that included solution architects, developers, development managers and members of senior IT management with final results incorporated into the overall architecture.
• Mentored Java and .Net developers on the basics of the ESB, Mulesoft and WebMethods including design of services using patterns, synchronous and asynchronous messaging, and building protocol agnostic services. Showed how services would be developed using the AGILE mentods and led daily SCRUM meetings.
• Served as the Senior Architect/ESB SME on AFLAC's Private Exchange project with responsibility for the identification and development of opportunities where WebMethods, Mulesoft, Salesforce, service enablement, and orchestration will be utilized.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Enterprise/SOA Architect

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama to provide consulting expertise in the evaluation and recommendation of the enterprise ESB.
• Developed and presented proof of concept and determined evaluation criteria, candidate selection, and tool recommendations for future state operations that would meet evolving healthcare and industry regulations while meeting the needs of an existing EDI load. MuleSoft, TIBCO, Talend and WebMethods were among the candidates.
• Integration targets included multiple databases, Java web services (SOAP and RESTful), Salesforce and document management systems.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assigned in a contracted role to a northern telecom and Internet Provider (TDS) to create the documents for IT funding approval for presentation to IT executives.
• Elicited and documented stakeholder business requirements to develop proposed project timelines, solution description, security implications, and development methodology.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led the architecture design for international asset management applications for an offshore government entity.
• Designed full secure data systems products including encryption products for emails, files, removable media drives, and partitions.
• Utilized TIBCO ActiveMatrix and Mule ESB, Java,and Oracle and MySQL backend databases. I led the daily SCRUM meetings for my team.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

SOA Architect/Integration Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided tuning and capacity planning expertise for the application and database platforms. Many of the applications were built using mostly LAMP tools and technologies.
• Implemented LiveMeeting as a cost and time-saving tool to facilitate project meetings and resolve bottlenecks.
• Orchestrated the datacenter move from Virginia to Connecticut. Machines were powered up, and datacenter was operational in 48 hours.
• Served as mentor to developers and admins in applying a standards-based approach to the development and administration of applications and middleware and creating the standard processes and procedures to streamline deployments, rollbacks, and the exporting of configurations.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Development Team Manager and SOA Strategy Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Created HAWK Rulebases for monitoring and associated Java applications to support rulebase actions.
• Created the processes for the management of development testing work within a central repository.
• Authored an SOA starter guide and accompanying toolkit to assist companies in SOA implementation.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked with key clients in the design and implementation of complex solutions within the Oracle Collaboration Suite (10.2), specializing in content services, record management, web services, SOA implementation, BPEL integration and customization, portal development, web conferencing, fusion middleware, and real-time collaboration.
• Successfully deployed Solaris 9 and 10 and Red Hat Enterprise 4 in high-availability environments.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led teams in defining the business, technical, and regulatory requirements for cross-disciplinary groups of technical and business SMEs.
• Held full responsibility for all architectural SDLC deliverables, training, and business process modeling.
• Prepared and delivered weekly briefings to SunTrust C-Level and other Senior Management.
• Performed in a lead architect role for the multi-protocol endpoint SOA middleware component of the project.
• Created a matrixed educational path for developers from multiple disciplines and skill levels to become productive and certified, J2EE developers.
• Served as SDLC and governance architect responsible for creating SDLC deliverables and processes for achieving conceptual architecture, use case model, technical design documents, operational design, and support model.
• Created and Administered SharePoint sites for enterprise architecture and key projects.