Summary

A superior Business-focused Technology Manager, who exploits Processes and Technology, to improve Revenue, RIO, and control costs. Our main objective is to lead executives towards aligning technology with business goals, though technology innovation, and Motivating staff to Communicate, Produce, and Excel, in reaching business objectives.

Management Skills

Monitor Personnel Progress in accomplishing business objectives, for quality, budget and scheduled commitments. Enforce corporate and departmental policies and procedures, counseling staff and providing appropriate training. Provide Business and Technical input and guidance to Staff & Executives in execution of assignments, all in a Highly Matrixed environment.

• Team Management
• Project Management
• Business Management
• Budget Development
• Subordinate Reviews
• Executive Support
• Change Processes
• Technology Planning
• Vendor Liaison
• Coaching Skills
• Salary Adjustments
• Technology Planning
• Personnel Development
• Performance Development
• Performance Evaluations
• Managed H/C Targets
• Recruitment & Hiring
• Managed Global workers

Languages: Experienced in Agile Development Methods, Turbo C++, J++ /Visual Compiler, J2EE, JSP, JAVA Script, XML, EJB, JDBC, Fat wire Content Management System, BASIC, PASCAL, Assembly, FORTRAN, SQL, REXX, JCL, and GL/1.

Web Products: HTML/XHTML, JSP, PHP, Ruby On-Rails, XSL/XSLT, CSS, WebSphere, JBOSS & Websphere Portal, JavaScript, AJAX, & Flash. Web Services, Omniture, WebSideStory, WebTrends, Interwoven, DFS / NFS, ECP/ECM

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 7.1, IBM zLinux, MS-Windows Enterprise server, OS/2, Novell Netware, AIX/UNIX, HPUX, Tru64 Systems, Ksh, X-Windows, Exceed, RPS/OS400, MVS-XA, VM, CICS, XPF, TSO/ISPF

Application Software: WebSphere Application Server, DB 2 / UDB, Formal UI Tools, Rational Development (RUP), Domino / Lotus Notes, MQ, VisualAge, BizTalk, IBM/Micro-focus COBOL Single Sign-On Authentication, Share Point Smalltalk, Peoplesoft, Maximo Asset Manager, Adobe Creative Suite.

Business Intelligence: COGNOS, SAP Technical Skills, Maximo Enterprise, Hyperion, Orion Health\'s Symphonia Integration tools, Integration Services (SSIS), Reporting Services (SSRS), Crystal Reports (migrating to SSRS)

Quality Control: LEAN, ISO-9000, Agile, Lombardi Team Works, BPM Tools, Process Master.com, Six-Sigma, and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), Agile & LEAN Development processes including full SDLC and MS-Team System.

Microsoft Products: C#, VB, Exchange 2003, SQL Server, My SQL, Project, .Net, ASP.Net, Office

RDMS: DB2, Oracle, SQL, Perl scripting, Sybase Portfolio, CICS/ISC

Network: Nortel/Alteon Web Appliances & Switches, Net Cache Web Proxies, Tandberg HD-Video Conference Gateways, Cisco Security Agent, Trend Suite, Citrix, Cisco PIX, Nokia, IBM Secure Firewalls,

Protocols: TCP/IP, Lightweight Directory Access (LDAP), Simple Mail Transport (SMTP), and Simple Network Management (SNMP), IPX/SPX, Net Bios, Named Pipes

HP / IBM Products: HP Integrity High-End, Industrial Media, and Blade servers, p, x, i, zSeries, DSS-400x, DSS-800x Storage Servers, Blade Servers

Mobile Devices: Blackberry Enterprise Server, Motorola Wireless Synch Server, Mobile Lotus Sametime, And Mobile Authentication Mechanisms.

Professional Experience

Confidential, White Plains NY 6/2011 - Present
Artech Information Systems is under contract to supply IBM with low cost temporary technical leadership and labor to lead an Enterprise Architect level team toward outsourcing Hartford Insurance IT operations to IBMs Global Application Hosting standard.

Technical Solution Enterprise Architect
The Middleware Technology Solutions group (MTS) provides analysis, design, engineering and operational support for a variety of application service components managed by other teams in the Enterprise Applications group. These include Information Security, Access Services for eBusiness, Application Integration, Knowledge Management, email and collaboration, shared platforms for web application and database hosting, Business Process Automation and Document Management. Standardizing architecture for enterprise-level shared services promotes compliance with our IT Architectural goals resulting in a cost-effective, performance-oriented reliable application infrastructure.

The Enterprise Architect created solutions that are aligned with business and IT strategy and which are in compliance with the organization\'s architectural standards. This position provided design and engineering technical leadership in the Middleware Technologies Domain.

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ 3/2009 - 2/2011
United Health Group IT, is a comprehensive, large scale international, information technology services organization, developing and enabling solutions to support the United Health Group mission and health services / benefits businesses.

Director of Program Management
As part of a 27 member high performance team responsible for delivering enterprise scale architectures to business transformation projects. Assumed a financial leadership role in application development, and deployment of IT infrastructure strategies, standards, policies and practices across the enterprise.

Confidential, Somers, NY 1995 - 2008
IBM provides Quality and Cost Effective Business Solutions in a Multi-Vendor Environment. Offers Full Life Cycle Management, Achieves the Highest Degree of Customer Satisfaction.

Enterprise Architect - IBM CIO Office
Directed the most Agile elite development teams, to align with corporate business goals. Established roles to reach business objectives (LEAN). Prepared and evaluated annual budgets and monthly operation reports, trained, mentored, and evaluated junior architects, provided hands-on leadership and escalation focal for architecture group, and application support teams.

Project History

• Performed Project & Portfolio Rationalization, by building a Business Case around system requirements. Managed the Agile transformation of developed requirements into specific systems, applications, or processes (BPM Tools, Eclipse), while applying theories of Project Management. Worked as a team member with client personnel to identify functional requirements, and lead others in identification, justification, and design of the solution. Ran cost estimates and presented a schedule of completion with associated risks for marketing and proposal efforts.
• Managed current IT practices. Proven track record establishing common SOA governance, vision, designing and blueprinting SOA solutions with both in-house developed and COTS applications. Expert in SOA based technologies provided by vendors such as IBM WAS, WPS, Microsoft, ORACLE, Oracle Apps Siebel, and Financial & People soft. Understanding and development experience in XML, SOAP, UDDI, J2EE, .Net, WS-security, ITIL processes, SOA governance, and Web service tools. Assessed relevancy of new technology to heighten business operations.
• Organized business & technical requirements review, from Rational Tool Work Products, for commercial expansions Experience with delivering ICD-10 & HIPPA-5010 technical specifications to ConEdison, Power Regulation Division, based on a 4-tier model of .Net, Java, DB/2 CICS, and SQL Server, utilizing Formal UI, with Server and Data level Security controls. Good understanding of the NERC and CIP cyber security standards. Proficiency in Computer Hardware & Software (Windows, Linux).
• Directed Account teams in exploring New client opportunities, Independently develop business opportunities with either existing or new clients, Lead the preparation of RFI / RFP responses to clients, Lead the development of service offering definitions, collateral material, and execution tool set .Knowledge of industry standard programming languages (C, C++, Java, VB, HTML, XML), relational database
• Directed Account teams in exploring New client opportunities, Independently develop business opportunities with either existing or new clients, Lead the preparation of RFI / RFP responses to clients, Lead the development of service offering definitions, collateral material, and execution tool set.
• Proficiency in Computer Hardware & Software (Windows Server 200x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5, JBOSS, OpenVMS). Designed, delivered and installed Cisco networks, (Routers 2811, 3745, Switches 2960, Wireless Access Points 1231) used Protocol analyzers for analysis and new designs.
• Designed a Global Enterprise wide Tivoli Authentication Test and Capacity Plan within a J2EE environment, utilizing EJBs, held the scope of the software test to examination of code, as well as execution of code in various environments, and conditions, as well as examining the quality aspects of code. Driver of IT Transformation, Architectures, Networks, Virtualization, Optimization, Storage Networks, Data Center Consolidation, Systems Integration, SharePoint Content Management.
• Lead role to create an order entry/order routing system for a brokerage service provider to their web based clients, and an ORACLE DB. The architecture consists of different platform for capturing the orders through browser entry, validating the account, order and routing. Then routing the order to appropriate execution points. The system will capture messages from execution points and Extract, Transform and Load, the updates from the back office data. The different uses cases were analyzed to validate the architecture. The use cases were different transaction scenarios of the order entry, management and routing system. Key architectural issues were identified and documented with probable solutions for implementation in architecture decision document. A project plan was developed for implementation. The customer is planning to implement the solution using the architecture and the project plan delivered to them.
• Provided high value consulting services in design, development and implementation of applications in brokerage (back-end operations, order entry management system, ECN, ERP, and C/S applications), Insurance (auto claims and facultative casualty re-insurance), Finance (payroll, object-oriented technology), Communication (SDN billing system) Pharmaceutical (end-user computing, object technology assessment) and Retail (eCommerce) Industry Clients. Working as a Business Leader implementing Maximo system (MXES) v7.1, with experience in the following: Oracle Database, Actuate report writing, Field Level Security, Data Flow Control, Dynamic Value Lists, TAMIT through LDAP, IBM Single Sign-On (SSO) Technology Offering, MEA, MXProject interface, SQL, ODBC, and Java.
• Designed, Developed and Delivered the first production implementation of IBMs Authentication with Single-Sign-on. Based on a Distributed LDAP repository and Websphere WebSeal, I Integrated BMC Patrol into CheckPoint and Cisco PIX Firewall applications. Developed messaging Scripts at the Server application and Network Management layer to complete the Intrusion Detection design.
• Designed an iSeries AS/400 Document Management Solution, utilizing a Web-based storage, management and distribution of all the corporate content/documents/records. Leveraging an entirely browser-based user interface and embracing an enterprise scalable architecture, I designed the iSeries / AS/400 system to manage documents and files originating from disparate applications, and make them accessible to a geographically dispersed staff, in a secure, familiar, and intuitive environment. The system required an audit of current Software Roadmaps due to the Centralized Repository, Browser interface, Foddering, Version Cycle, and Notifications, required a specialized solution.
• As a member of my team, I lead the Systems Engineering Architecture and Test (SEA & T) - Technical Design Agent (TDA) process for the SOWs and proposals for the Commercial customers. In this role, I evaluate the SOWs, RFP- Responses and proposals for Commercial customers for the SEA & T process, and resources considerations for delivery excellence. The SEA & T-TDA process has greatly improved the quality of the client's delivery by reducing cost and increasing profitability.
• As a key member of the SEA & T team developing continuous availability architecture solution of the JAVA, J2EE 300mm Wafer Manufacturing I/T system. In this capacity, I developed the J2EE based architecture for continuously available non - persistence MQ messages in the distributed platform. The solution helped customer reduce downtime of I/T operations and improve revenue growth opportunity.
• Lead architect developing .Net and JAVA based common commerce engine solution for client's web based store for public and large industry clients. I have led a team of architects and developers from different divisions of the client, to develop an application and infrastructure architecture. The solution architecture enabled IBM to consolidate the different web based solutions into a single infrastructure, realizing significant cost savings. The infrastructure architecture also provided client to develop a disaster recovery solution without significant cost.
• Lead development and system architecture for a re-insurance client's facultative casualty re-insurance line of business. In leading the team of two architects, I was very instrumental in developing the business model and creating the architecture for implementation. The distributed system consisted of Lotus Domino Web-Server, Domino Workflow, Sybase Enterprise Application Server and Sybase Database. Successfully lead the team, implementing a pilot system to show the feasibility of the architecture. Developing the key components of the pilot system, Domino Java Workflow agent communicating with Sybase CORBA/Power Builder module via Sybase Application Server, I designed the pilot system to accept a sample risk submission form by cedant, via a Domino Web-server, and process the form and provide a quotation by the underwriter using Domino Workflow, Sybase Application Server and Sybase Database. The client used the frameworks and assets from this pilot system, and developed the applications jointly with their own I/T people and IBM BIS resources.
• Developed the architecture for an OTC bond trading reporting system to NASDAQ TRACE. It consists of capturing the OTC bond trading executions from their execution\'s management system, and creating a message by adding appropriate header and trailer and transmit the message over NASDAQ specified IP protocol channels. The system will be using IBM MQ series product for transporting messages between the ORACLE systems. This system also has a database for storing and updating the bond trading transactions\' data.
• I am the team leader in validating an ECN system. This system was developed for after hour securities trading operation. I lead three I/T specialists developing the project plan, test plan and test cases for validating the system. This involved testing the web entered orders, order match system, market maker functions, broker dealer interface and reporting to ACT system. After the successful testing, client decided to operate this system in a limited functional mode.
• Project Managed and demonstrated excellent team leadership by leading three I/T specialists, responsible for certifying the Enterprise Software Roadmap and Standards compliance, for a large brokerage and back -end securities trading operations. More than 100 mainframe, client-server and vendor applications were analyzed and certified. I worked with each business unit to develop the project definition, test plan and project plan. I was also responsible for executing the test plan involving client's internal processing, service bureau, exchanges and utilities. I led the team in developing the certification packages for Software Roadmap and Standards compliance containing test results and contingency plans. The business executives and I presented the project review and the certification documentation for each business function to the independent audit team.
• Test Team Lead for System & Technology Group. Verified new function on the Hardware Management Console (HMC) for p, and zSeries computing systems. Wrote Test Strategy documents and Test Plans. Wrote test plans, created S-Curves for test tracking, and sent reports to management. Led and coordinated a team of up to five testers.
• Experience with Code and Test of HTML, Maximo CMMS, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Python, Perl, My SQL. Built Best Practices while leading a team of 9 testers, which worked on a 5 Linux server PeopleSoft application. Wrote the SOW, wrote up the cost estimate, wrote the Master and Detailed Test Plan, Tester and PM for infrastructure testing.
• Personally developed the contingency plan template for mission critical applications outlining critical processes for each business function, and defining the new operation and management processes in case of failure, due to non-compliance of the Software Roadmap and Standards. The template was adopted and finalized in another business unit of
  Brokerage operations, which was outside the scope of this project. As a result the client was able to certify the mission critical applications and meet the regulatory requirements in due time.
• The team leader, responsible for development and testing of the object oriented framework of a major communication equipment manufacturer's executive compensation system. Managed a team of four I/T specialists providing QA support of the project. I worked with compensation analysts to develop the test cases for the system. I also developed the Smalltalk and Database framework, for unit level testing. Test processes for unit, functional and system level testing, were developed using IBM\'s WSDDM testing methodology and Lotus Notes was used for problem report tracking and management. As a result, the system was able to pay compensation correctly. Other functional problems were reduced significantly and that led to a higher customer satisfaction and prompt payment to IBM. The test cases, frameworks and processes have become an asset to the customer, and they have been incorporated into the 2008 executive compensation systems.
• The customer migrated their order entry system to SD modules of SAP. As a follow on to the prior engagement, I developed and executed the test plan to interface the Object Oriented (OO) compensation application with the SAP system. The successful completion of testing enabled the compensation application to receive feed files from SAP system and helped the compensation system to be SAP compliant. This led to the implementation of a new I/T infrastructure with SAP. I developed an I/T conversion plan for porting the current OO application to the new SAP system. The plan consists of an Oracle DB as data repository, ABAP/4 as the application logic builder and SAP GUI tool for building user interfaces. The conversion plan gave higher confidence to management about the extendibility of their new SAP I/T infrastructure.
• Planned and managed the customization and deployment of the Orion Healthcare Integration Engine, Rhapsody. The Rhapsody Integration Engine is placed between healthcare systems, in support for numerous communication protocols and message formats. Mapped a translating mediator between incompatible systems, where messages are reliably and accurately delivered regardless of the format or transportation type required.
• The Rhapsody Integration Engine also includes Orion Health\'s Symphonia Integration tools. Symphonia allows organizations to reduce development and deployment times when adding messaging interfaces to applications. Using Symphonia, developers rapidly created EDI components, and quickly created mappings between multiple message formats, much like IBMs MQ Series middleware for databases.
• Supported the account teams in exploring New client opportunities, Independently developed business opportunities with either existing or new clients, Led or participated in the preparation of RFI / RFP responses to clients, Lead or participated in the development of service offering definitions, collateral material, and execution tool set.
• Lead in client delivery work, Managed and delivered assessments of current IT practices, processes, application & project portfolios, resource strategy, and service models. Developed recommendations for a future state model with execution roadmap. Directed ongoing implementation of recommended strategies. Experienced in developing & delivering offshore/multi-location strategies.

Confidential, Mahwah, NJ 1993 - 1995
Technical Services Group Leader
Designed Corporate Communications Infrastructure from End-to-End, including capacity planning, reliability, performance, route planning, development, cost and capabilities, to enable the delivery of Inventory Control and Store Sales.

• Designed the Attachment of a barcode scanner on an automated conveyer carucel, to a PC and terminal controller, connected to an AS400, which allowed barcode data to be directly inputted into Meldisco's AS400. The scanner acts like a keyboard, reading anything scanned into the field where your cursor is. The scanners required proper interfacing from either a PS2 or USB connection, to the host system. Specialty cable connections to overhaul differing signal protocols were required to support older-style twinax terminals. Developed the Standard program preambles and postambles (keystrokes before or after each barcode read).
• Used collaboration technologies to improve business competitiveness by integrating enterprise network subsystems.
• Re-Engineered Business Processes using advanced computer and communications resources to increase competitiveness.
• Reduce Time to market through Issues are resolved not only by Engineering Professionals but, also by Retail Professionals. This involvement of Technology with the Non-Technical Retail end-users from System Inception, and Design, to completion, has brought about a Radical Change in the way projects flow from the R & D stage to final implementation. This addition of Project Control from an end-user perspective creates a system that is, as error free as possible, in the first Usability Cycle. The end product only has technical barriers not end-user barriers.

Confidential, Technical Services Division, East Fishkill, NY 1987 - 1993
Electro-Optics Engineer, Equipment Engineering Group
Confidential, and the Confidential, were in a joint venture to Design and Manufacture electron-beam lithography (E-Beam) wafer fabrication systems. The project involved the entire spectrum of semiconductor manufacturing along with the design and analysis of: computer Software, computer Hardware, Analog and Digital circuit design, computer Networking, and Software development for Mini-Computer and PC environments.

• Converted a message-switching LAN using IBM 3270 Art's to a token-ring packet-switched LAN using Novell Netware v3.11 and IBM PS/2 Model 70\'s for access to an IBM 3274 WAN major node/Cluster Controller. Configured RS/6000 (AIX/UNIX) Workstations for graphical unit interfacing (GUI) to an IBM ES/4381 centralized shared file Database, through tandem IBM PS/2 Model 95 File-Servers. Installed and configured the MS-Windows (DOS, UNIX) based application software and configured the hardware (PS/2, RS/6000, 3274) for this LAN upgrade. Converted the Workstations to OS/2 to clean this network up.
• Expanded the capacity of the communication channel between the IBM ES/4381 Database server running MVS-XA, and the Series-1 Mini-Computers running the RPS operating system. Implemented the Direct Channel Attachment (DCA) feature through an IBM 3880 Storage Director to an e-beam system Commutating Buffer, causing the bit rate to Increase and the Probability of bit error to Decrease.

Certifactions & Education

Six Sigma Green Belt 2009, Six Sigma Champion 2010
PMI Certification, Expired 2008
Master Certified I/T Architect and System Engineer, Expired 2001
Certified Websphere Application Server, Lotus Notes & Domino, AIX, DB2, Active 1995 - 2000
(VCP) VMware Certified Professional, expired 1997
(MCSE) Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, expired 1997
(CCNA) Cisco Certified Network Associate all expired 1997

MS, Computer Engineering
BS, Electrical Engineering

Corporate Awards and Recognitions

IBM Ovation Award
Team Pulling Together Award
On-Demand Workplace iPod Award
3 Bravo Awards Consistently Each Year
3 Thank You Awards Consistently Every Year
Outstanding Team Accomplishment Award, W3 ODW zLinux Migration