SUMMARY:

Information Technology (IT) professional with 25 years diverse experience. Recognized as capable team leader, impacting project and overall business success by driving technology transformation projects in the Operations Architecture and Applications Architecture spaces.

Seeking team or project lead position in Infrastructure or Application arenas.

Leveraging my diverse background, technical skills, and optimizing solution approaches, I am an ideal candidate as either a change agent or to grow established processes.

Strengths:

• Planning & Analysis
• Team Leadership
• Project Management
• IT Support
• IT Transformation
• Legacy Integration
• Operations Architecture
• Application Architecture

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Chicago, IL - Senior Systems Analyst February 2011 Present

• Lead Operations Architect for AS/400 modernization project. Current client uses a mix of AS/400 legacy technologies in conjunction with a Java-based web presence. Leveraging current AS/400 technology, migrate AS/400 codebase to modern paradigm. Creating efficiencies by eliminating manual processes, modernizing and normalizing database, reducing data and process redundancies across batch and web domains, integrate collaborative products (Confluence, Office, etc.) in National Merit\'s business processes. Reviewing testing approach, providing recommendations for test plans in the Applications and Operational Architecture spaces.

Confidential,Chicago, IL - Senior Systems Analyst, October 2004 February 2011
Served as team, project, and architecture lead roles for various projects:

• Lead architect for Data Center Efficiencies project, leveraging new VM (Hyper-V and VMWare) technologies, scaling customer needs dynamically through leveraging Private and Public Cloud technologies.
• Operations Architecture Team Lead: Led a matrixed international team of architects and developers, implementing green-field operations architecture blueprint as defined by leadership. Created an integrated end-to-end Event Management and Monitoring solution: Incident & Problem Management, all architectural components, reporting, and build processes conforming to ITSM structure, while retaining relevant current structure and practices. Solution was delivered across all business units worldwide.
• Team Lead, Project Lead, and Chief Applications Architect at various clients. Responsible for architecting and delivering AS/400 infrastructure at various clients to dovetail AS/400 legacy systems with new tools, processes, and systems. Focus on quality, reliability, scalability, and interoperability. Worked closely with Client and Test Team to develop shop-compliant test data and automated testing methods. Created “push button” unit test processes that reduced turnaround time.

Confidential, IL - Technical Architect / Consultant, March 2004 - October 2004

• Supervising technical architect for NBS product called PICS. The PICS package is marketed primarily to Food Production and Restaurant Construction businesses.
• Architecting replacement solution for IBM-supplied printer management and documents generation
• Architecting an easy-to-use interface for socket programming and IFS access
• Reviewing the architecture of business application design
• Integrating a web-based presentation product into PICS, leveraging CSS, HTML, and JavaScript technologies. Devised testing approach and scripts for the above projects.

Confidential,Chicago, IL - Senior Systems Analyst, February 2003 - March 2004
Served as Team Leader and Lead Architect for the Architecture Team at a national trucking firm:

• Hired and managed a three-person team of architects.
• Architected, created, and implemented a operations logging system, with all errors forwarded to ITSM-compliant incident management system
• Designed, created, and implemented a full-scale transaction management architecture, allowing this client\'s multi-sites to manage journaling and commitment control within their daily and weekly workload.
• Designed, created, and implemented a multi-site DR plan
• Created work plans, managed team performance, per project and corporate standards

Confidential,Deerfield, IL - Senor Systems Engineer, August 2002 - January 2003

• Created modifications for Baxter\'s In-House Batch Release System (BRS), which oversees the process of creating I.V. bags. BRS is an international system, with sites worldwide, and FDA Part 11 compliant. Architected approach to modernizing BRS coding standards, reducing re-testing cycles

Confidential,Madison, WI - Senior Consultant, March 2002 July 2002

• Architected and implemented interface between WEA’s web-based enrollment system and an AS/400 Legacy enrollment processing system, and MACESS (a document imaging system).

Confidential,Chicago, IL - Senior Software Engineer / Product Manager, April 2000 January 2002

• Ported a version of the SPSS Server product from AIX to AS/400 platform. Designed migration path, architecture based on IBM (who funded the project) and customer requirements. Port was a full-cycle SDLC project, where I took ownership of all cycle phases, and delivered the first commercial product for the PASE (AIX runtime environment) for the AS/400. In addition to the product development and deployment, I wrote all training materials, trained sales and support staff, and presented status to SPSS executive committee
  

EDUCATION:
BA in Computer Information Systems/Data Processing