Principal Technology Architect

Overview Scope and Professional Focus

• Accomplished architect in business software development, data management, information processing, and system integration in service oriented industries. Author of innovative solutions for transforming complex legacy and third-party systems into most current computational environment. Hands-on senior technologist, visionary, trusted C-level advisor and proven leader of software development teams.
• Wide scope of professional experience ranges from implementing new IT instrumentation for startup venture to reengineering core computational assets in Fortune 100 companies. Over 15 years of experience in implementing reliable, highly available, secure, mission-critical, and cost effective system solutions.
• Dedicated to supplying business partners with actionable business intelligence at optimal cost. Experienced in enterprise system architecture deployable in cloud infrastructure with special focus on application and information systems performance.

Experience and Achievements

Technology Architect, Corporate VP, Application Services

Confidential

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Architected SOA harmonization and managed distributed Single Sign On implementation for electronic document delivery system comprised of Salesforce workflow, investor portfolio optimization system and legal documents administration system authored by 4 independent contractual parties
• Developed solution for R D in Business Intelligence and Predictive Analytics which implementation enabled to evaluate Actuarial products pricing and Marketing campaign programs effectiveness
• In collaboration with Program Management team coauthored improved Software Development Life Cycle, Process Governance, and standardized SLA within Insurance Group Technology department
• Integrated third-party electronic signature enterprise implementation for Annuity products Straight-Through processing which accelerated procurement of legally binding documents from 1 week to 24 hours in average

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Providing Solution Architecture blueprints for aligning technology with business objectives, balance tactical solutions with long-term company's goals
• Integration of internal and external systems/services into in-house development application portfolio
• Assess residual longevity of legacy systems, propose viable enhancements and upgrades
• Manage application development in distributed workforce environment , assist system testing and deployment
• Data Architect for Insurance department in Finance Transformation program
• Service Technology Evaluation/recommendation, technology training proposals

SCOPE OF ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Solution and Process Architecture within Insurance Group Technology products
• Application Development Process aligned with Business Partner objectives

Consulting Solution Architect

Confidential

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Improved turn around for distributed application testing by designing Java Network Application test bench

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Solution Architecture migrating existing Business Intelligence Reporting Tool system from PostgreSQL to Oracle
• Application development teaching standard J2EE company's proprietary Eclipse extension development frameworks

USED KEY CONCEPTS/TECHNOLOGIES/FRAMEWORKS:

Frameworks JBoss, Struts, Spring, Hibernate, Netty , DBMS PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle , Eclipse Plugin API

Senior Architect, Personal Insurance Business Technology

Confidential

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Pioneered and practiced building and deploying application in Amazon Web Services AWS managed pool
• Authored comprehensive strategies for managing distributed application infrastructure environment which accelerated problem resolution, improved SLA, and increased environment productivity by 30
• Improved Service Level Agreement predictability by standardizing test representation and results correlation and by instituting testing process and instituting industry best practices

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Solution Architecture project oriented architectural solution to various business propositions
• Application Infrastructure Architecture application infrastructure performance optimization
• Operational Business Architecture application environment monitoring continuous improvement
• Service continuity architecture

USED KEY CONCEPTS/TECHNOLOGIES/FRAMEWORKS:

SOA Web Services OS Win, RHEL, z/OS MiddleWare WAS, JBoss, MQ DBMS DB2, Oracle, MSSQL AWS

Chief Technology Architect, Vice-President

Confidential

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Transformed 4.9M business vision into actionable roadmap and technological instrumentation plan
• Architected and developed technology portfolio providing capabilities and flexible capacities for business venture operations with uneven cash flow and limited capital expenditures
• Maintained predictable SLAs for all internal systems by creating innovative Business Impact Analysis Matrix
• Shortened product implementation cycle using iterative development with hybrid Application architecture

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Delivering evangelizing company's strategic technological platform
• Leading Java development/design team for customization and integration of internal systems infrastructure
• Managing accelerated systems design development process
• Prioritizing, optimizing and supporting business tactical technological implementations
• Operational and contingency preparedness planning

USED KEY TECHNOLOGIES/FRAMEWORKS:

J2EE WEB SERVICE, EJB, JMS, JSP WEBLOGIC APACHE SUBVERSION MYECLIPSE STRUTS HIBERNATE ORACLE

Information Technology Architect, Financial Systems

Confidential

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Created blueprint for migrating 100 legacy client server applications to J2EE environment
• Senior member on the Enterprise Project Task Team that championed and achieved business process and system reengineering alignment. Tangible results of this long-term effort included:

• Instituting mandatory architectural blueprint and pre-implementation design reviews
• Requiring architectural IT infrastructure review and optimization recommendations

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Creating guidelines and standards for corporate software development
• Integrating financial and HR systems into Enterprise application framework
• Evaluating and recommending selection of new software acquisitions

Systems Development Consultant, Customer Access Services

Confidential

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Author of company's first distributed high-volume financial transactional systems for Mutual Funds and Life and Long-Term Care insurance products
• Architect of proprietary application framework outperforming any industry standards of its time. Use of framework reduced standard resource utilization by 40 for development and 30 for testing.
• Developed departmental guidelines to J2EE standards and industry best practices. The Guidelines were lately ratified at enterprise level as mandatory measure to reduce overall TCO for J2EE projects.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Development of high-performance, high-availability distributed systems
• Architecture and optimization of J2EE service infrastructure
• Integration of legacy and third-party software into corporate framework
• Tertiary operational support, performance monitoring