SUMMARY

An outstanding Application and Infrastructure Architect with hands-on experience in cost-effective, multi-tiered, high performance distributed enterprise applications across industries, including government, healthcare, insurance and software development. Highly Customer-centric and collaborative professional with strong ability to complete projects efficiently and professionally resulting in positive impact to bottom line.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Lead Architect/PM/Team Lead/Analyst

• Managed development, enhancements, maintenance and support for 9 applications running on multiple platforms MVS Mainframe, Linux and AIX that supports supplying, distributing, forecasting, storing of parts for multiple company's world-wide. Managed global application teams for development, enhancements, maintenance and upgrades. These systems run 24/7.
• Pioneered a Cloud environment for Mainframe, Web and Lotus Notes development to reduce development cost by allowing internal and external partner resources with lower rates to perform work. Increased productivity by 15 20 .
• Gained recognition from executive director for implementing 1st MVS Cloud in her area. Wrote procedures for other MVS environments to follow.
• Initiated GENO Generation Open strategy to promote best practices, develop and use reusable components to reduce development time and cost by 10 in 1st year. This percentage is projected to increases each subsequent year.
• Identified and enforced the use of new tools and concepts, such as, Rational Tool suite, CASTing checks code against best practices to reduce development cost by eliminating problems up front to improve customer deliverables and customer satisfaction.

Lead Architect/PM/Team Lead/Analyst

Confidential

• Led development, enhancements, maintenance and support for 3 applications running on multiple platforms MVS Mainframe, Linux and AIX that maintain warranty information for IBM and Lenovo products and components. These were Lotus Notes, Web and MVS PL1 based applications.
• Managed Development teams 14 resources: Lotus Notes, Web, MVS, DB2 and Tester to deploy quality products on schedule and according to budget.
• Led Tiger team to identify and resolve production related issues.
• Selected as the Subject Matter Expert SME for Lenovo application Network Infrastructure interfaces between 3rd Party Vendor.
• Nominated for the Technical Leadership Council TLC to represent my area and attend Conference.

Lead Architect/Team Lead/Analyst

Confidential

• Oversaw development, enhancements, maintenance, network, hardware, software products and support. The project supported the sales, distribution, warranty, suppliers for Lenovo products and components sold World Wide through various internal and external websites. This Infrastructure linked IBM and a 3rd Party Company, located in Arizona and supported an annual revenue sale of 2 3B.
• Migrated infrastructure from MDNS to eVPN, which reduced and improved performance / bandwidth by 40 and reduce cost by 48 .
• Lead SME that worked with Lenovo in migration of Lenovo applications off IBM Landscape.
• Represented my area as the Technical Leadership Council and attended Conference.

Lead Architect / Team Lead

Confidential

Lead Architect / Team Lead

Confidential

PM / Team Lead

Confidential

Team Lead

Confidential

Technical Lead / PM

Confidential

System Analyst

Confidential

System Analyst / Developer

Confidential

ADDENDUM

IBM

Lead Architect / Team Lead

Confidential

Maintained and supported 3 IBM websites eSupport, and Business Partner, InfoTips , tools, batches and script used to support the sites. These sites provide information associated with personal computer, which includes ThinkPads, Servers, Workstation, accessories, documentation, Drivers, Warranty Information and other related items associated with many different products. The applications were written in Java, TCL, C, C and Perl. HTML and XML documents were generated by applications for each site some other development tools used were WASD, Win CVS repository , Eclipse and others.

Lead Architect / Team Lead

Confidential

Implemented an Integration Layer of a Hub-Spoke Architecture. The Hub / Adapter implementation consisted of MQSeries Financial Services Edition MQSFSE and Adapters, which processed IAA XML Messages from a front-end web based application Channel Point that converted XML messages to native back-end format. MQSFSE incorporates the MQSeries family MQSeries, MQSeries Integrator, MQSeries Workflow and UDB. The Adapters where built using CAF Common Adapter Framework and CATT Common Adapter Testing Tools .

PM / Team Lead

Confidential

Project Manager for a Zurich Project created an Integration Layer that included developing C and JAVA on an AIX platform, using MQ Series and MQ Series Integrator as the transport mechanism, XML as the standard message structure and DB2 as the repository for information used for mapping front-end web based customers to data store on back-end legacy systems. This architecture eliminated the need to change back-end systems.

Team Lead

Confidential

• Integrated insurance applications, such as, Corepoint Contact Center call center software with CIIS backend party management .
• Integrated front-end insurance applications with backend legacy systems with minimum changes to backend applications. This reduced overall cost by not having to rewrite backend legacy applications.

Technical Lead / PM

Confidential

• Managed the initial start-up of LifePRO as part of the Insurance Technology Resource Center Infrastructure driving strategic plans which included:
• Consolidated 3 data centers by managing a team of 22 resources

System Analyst

Confidential

Performed system analysis, wrote system requirements, developed interfaces and conversion code for the Account Payable functions of the Lawson Insight 7.06 Financial package for the Long John Silver's project.

System Analyst / Developer

Confidential

• Developed Lotus Notes application using DB2, NotesPump, MQSeries and ODBC Notes Classes.
• Setup remote development environment, which reduced weekly travel and overall project cost.
• Upgraded Goodyear and Lincoln Life financial systems, which improved performance, automated the Account Payable function and eliminated all manual processes.

Confidential

Software Engineer / Developer

Developed Department of Defense Tactical and Simulator systems for the Army, Navy and Marines with a Top Secret Clearance. This included gathering and writing requirements, Level 5 ISO development, system integration and testing, system deployment and onsite system training / support.