PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

Enterprise Solution Architect Information Technology Organization

STRENGTHS:

• Enterprise Solution Architecture
• Cloud Architecture
• AWS
• Azure
• PCS (Pivotal)
• Technology Strategy
• Application Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• Integration Architecture
• Ecommerce
• Mobile
• Data Warehouse Design/Development
• Technology Innovation

SKILLS:

AWS

SAAS

ESB

Agile Methods (SCRUM)

Innovation Program

Technology Strategy and Roadmaps

Enterprise Architecture

Integration Architecture

Application Architecture

Information Management Architecture

ETL Architecture

Enterprise system design and analysis

ITIL

Oracle RDBMS

Decision support reporting

Healthcare (Pharma, Payer, Provider), Telco (landline), Energy, Transportation (Airline)

Retail

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Account Chief Technologist

Responsibilities:

• Lead on - going innovation initiatives including Big Data, Mobile, Security, Cloud and Modernization
• Lead a Healthcare Systems Correspondence opportunity utilizing Confidential ExStream for both Claims and Membership.
• Developed and lead a technical quality assurance program.
• Work closely with the Confidential CTO to bring the greater Confidential to Confidential for competitive advantage.

Technologies: DB2, DB2 CDC, Claims, Membership, SOA Integration, ETL Architecture

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead an engagement to perform a Health Check on Confidential ’s E-commerce system to determine if the system could survive the upcoming black Friday demand.
• The engagement included multiple load testing / analysis cycles and culminated with tactical recommendations to get them through Black Friday, but strategic recommendations to re-architect the system.
• Lead a follow up engagement to determine Confidential ’s requirements and needs and recommend an e-commerce platform to build the new strategic B2B and B2C system.
• This Engagement included interviewing key business and IT stakeholders to determine the system that would best meet their strategic needs.

Confidential

Enterprise Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• I worked in the underwriting area for the full two years. I have architected 4 PCS cloud solutions implemented in Pivotal Cloud Foundry that will eventually be migrated to AWS.
• I have also architected the move of the Confidential MS Dynamics implementation from on premise to Azure.
• Architected CI/CD pipelines with integrated testing and security for immediate deployment.
• Cloud based Single page web application design for gathering and displaying back the data from enterprise systems to provide the information the underwriter needs to make a good risk decision on a customer.
• Cloud based Single page web application that gets external information for DMV and credit services and brings the information back for the underwriter to Review
• Cloud based Web application that facilitates the underwriter in constructing legal approved letters from templates for policy changes.
• Cloud based Web application that manages legal and technical documentation related to policies for customer.
• Analyzed the options, pros and cons (including the security implications) of each option and a migration path for moving the on premise implementation to the azure cloud. This included Servicenow integtration in the workflow.
• I also engineered a micro service architecture for two of the four above applications one the subsequent phases of the implementation.
• I architected a shared service model for other areas of the company to leverage the underwriting services and for the underwriting applications to leverage enterprise services.

Confidential

Enterprise Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing enterprise class solutions for both tactical and strategic opportunities including AWS cloud, ESB and SOA synchronous and asynchronous RESTful integration.
• Architected Amazon Web Services cloud solutions
• Architected CI/CD deployment for all solutions
• Architected key features for RAC’s cloud based mobile application
• Architected key features for RAC’s AWS cloud based Hybris JEE ecommerce implementation
• Leveraged RAC’s MuleSoft CloudHub ESB to create hybrid cloud enterprise class solutions.
• Architected an AWS based WordPress Content Management solution that leveraged the AWS SES (simple email service) for content delivery.
• Architected solutions that leveraged the ServiceNow SAAS applications.

Technologies: AWS VPC, AWS ECS, AWS S3, MuleSoft CloudHub ESB, Xamarin, Hybris, AWS RDS

Confidential

Account Chief Technologist and Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Technology leader for a team of 100 consultants
• Lead on-going innovation initiatives including Big Data, SOA and Modernization, SAAS and Cloud architectures
• Developed a technology innovation program that was a coordinated program between Confidential and BCBS Arizona that lead to several technology and social innovation programs that are on-going.
• Integrated Confidential ’s mainframe applications and data with Microsoft’s BizTalk ESB using a variety of integration technologies.
• Developed and lead a technical quality assurance program.
• Delivered a technology futures presentation at the BCBS Associations annual conference.
• Evaluated applications for SAAS opportunities

Technologies: BizTalk, DB2, DB2-CDC, SQL Server, Business Objects.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead technologist in a project to evaluate the systems of Americans 3 regional carriers and make recommendations for remediation including moving to a SAAS model
• Lead a team to interview critical airline employees and IT staff in the evaluation of the systems
• Used modernization techniques and methodologies to evaluate rate and rank the critical airline systems.
• Presented findings and recommendations to the 3 regional presidents of the airlines including the appropriate operating model for each class of application (SAAS or In-house)
• Lead a team to stabilize/ Aramarks B2B and B2C ecommerce platforms to withstand the black Friday and seasonal demands
• Performed performance tuning on Oracle ecommerce Database and the Weblogic JEE engine.
• Assisted in optimizing the ecommerce engine integration to the back office order management systems using RESTful web services
• Remediated issues found and load tested until complete.
• Presented findings and recommendations to the CIO and direct reports
• Improved the ecommerce throughput over 100% in a successful remediation and had an excellent black Friday
• Lead a team to stabilize/modernize a worldwide drug trial system that would allow the customer to double and triple the drug trial volume and provide an expanded reporting facility to accommodate the new business. The project included a current state, future state and gap analysis as well as a roadmap for implementing the new architecture that included both infrastructure (storage and server) and application modernization.
• Developed a testing strategy for both functional and performance testing
• Performance tuned their Oracle database
• Technology leaders for a team of 150 consultants
• Lead the architecture and implementation of a modernized Membership system using SCRUM. The solution reached across Confidential DB2 and IMS hosted systems using CDC and DataStage into to the customer midrange Data Warehouse.
• Implemented the modernizing of Wellmark’s membership application transforming it from PACbase and IMS to Websphere Java/JEE and DB2.
• Designed a future state enterprise architecture roadmap including an SOA, ESB and J2EE solution from their mainframe COBOL/Assembly language application for claims and membership.
• Modernized Wellmarks integration architecture using Microsoft BizTalk to transition from traditional batch interfaces to WebServices, and JMS asynchronous message queues.
• Integration and leadership of account and customer governance processes
• Created a blueprint for transformations of large systems
• Mentoring and career advising for both Confidential and customer staff

Technologies: BizTalk, DB2, IMS, CDC DataStage, Business Objects, Websphere JEE