Management Manager

Dennis Holinka

Brooklyn, New York, *****

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Summary of Qualifications

Accomplished enterprise IT Leader with proven history of leveraging

strategic planning, relationship management, and communication skills to

enable business growth, alleviate pain points, and drive optimization

savings. Extensive experience end-to-end applications development,

infrastructure engineering, software engineering, complex system

integration, business process management, enterprise content management,

and cloud computing. Capable of fostering strong business partnerships

with executive leadership, stakeholders, cross-functional team members,

and external vendors to understand critical business needs. Skilled to

align services to business goals, in order to overcome operational

obstructions, attain sales and marketing targets to achieve savings.

Executive Leadership Management & Ops Technology & Business Alignment

. Strategy/Roadmaps . Business

. Training/Mentoring Enablement . Infrastructure Optimization

. Executive . Lifecycle Efficiency

Communication Ownership . Architecture (enterprise,

. Team Direction solutions)

. ITIL, CMMI, Six Sigma, Lean

Career Accomplishments

. Defined and implemented Cyber Resiliency Review Program for TD

AMERITRADE's Core Trading and Tier-1 systems - improved resiliency of

systems by 80 percent by reducing latent defects, defect triggers, and

integrating mitigating impact controls. Institutionalized standards

management using TOGAF Technical Reference Model for 17 major categories

across 135 capabilities and 350 product standards.

. Defined the strategic and enterprise planning necessary to successfully

drive transformation of AXA TECH's Technical Services (1B E / yr) to

compete with emerging Cloud Computing Mega Tech Centers.

. Institutionalized AXA EQUITABLE's Architecture Review Board Process (e.g.

Building Permit) to review project alignment to the Reference

Architecture and compliance to the architecture principles, rules and

guidelines, standard processes, products, and technologies, and standards

implementation of best practices.

. Enhanced all performance metrics on AIG/DBG's Risk Management Group Deal

Management System by performing a successful architectural review and

optimization as Senior Technical Applications Manager.

. Promoted and given additional responsibilities on five occasions during a

span of six years due to exceptional performance.

Professional Experience

TD AMERITRADE, Think Tech Architecture, Jersey City, NJ Aug 2012- Jul 2013

Director - Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure Architecture

Management

. Directed the definition and evaluation of TD Ameritrade's private cloud

strategy utilizing Data Center Automation, Dynamic Provisioning, ITIL

Service Management, and EA Management System.

. Architectural review of Data Center wide High Availability and Business

Continuity programs using active/active and active/passive configurations

in hot, warm, and cold standby modes.

. Defined and implemented Resiliency Architecture Review Program for TD

AMERITRADE's Core Trading and Tier 1 systems, improved resiliency of

system by 80 percent by reducing latent defects, defect triggers, and

integrating mitigating impact controls.

. Institutionalized Standards Management using TOGAF Technical Reference

Model of 17 major categories across 135 capabilities and 350 product

standards.

. Developed the mature usage of architecture modeling blueprinting and

tooling for forward engineering and post implementation resiliency

engineering. Implemented Architecture Review Board across multiple

architecture domains including Application, Data, and Infrastructure

Architecture disciplines.

. Administered the Technology Governance Board for IT Executives to discuss

competing interests and arrive at mutually beneficial agreed upon

decisions across the IT Landscape for strategic initiatives including

HA/DR/BCP, Private Cloud, and Data Analytics Information Services.

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AXA TECHNOLOGY SERVICES, Global CTO, Jersey City, NJ Jan 2008 - Aug

2012

Senior Director - Global Enterprise Architecture & Strategy

. Senior Director delivering assessment, improvement, and establishment of

Enterprise Architecture (EA) practices for new service delivery model and

driving enterprise-level strategic planning, transformation roadmaps,

implementation, and optimization. Strategic changes include creating and

transforming the global hosting business to a global cloud services

provider supporting applications portfolio for 65 international operating

companies, thereby reducing costs of 15 percent year over year.

. Defined a new TOGAF based Enterprise Architecture Reference Architecture

& Solutions Architecture Reference Architecture for the cloud which

included applications, enterprise information, virtual infrastructure,

and physical infrastructure - mapping dependencies from application logic

to infrastructure reliability, availability, serviceability, capacity,

and performance - development to datacenter traceability.

. Reused formal architecture review board processes to align data centers

to standards according to an ITIL based global services catalog to enable

quick time to market operations from months to weeks. Provided global

project lifecycle management direction and directing geographically

distributed implementation teams to realize transformation roadmaps

created by EA activities.

. Evaluated, assessed, and led implementation of new strategic technologies

and services for both external public and internal private cloud services

to reduce delivery from weeks to days / hours.

AXA EQUITABLE - CTO, New York, NY Nov 2005 - Jan 2008

Director - Enterprise Architecture, Solutions Architecture, & IT Strategy

. Director responsible for leading the definition and optimization of

Enterprise Architecture and IT strategy; includes responsibility for

Enterprise Architecture disciplines of Business Architecture,

Applications Architecture, Data Architecture, and Technology

Architecture. Portfolio reductions of 15 percent per year on BAU to

redeploy capital investment in IT. Led a team of twenty plus Enterprise

and Solutions Architects to define and document system architecture and

design artifacts for the Enterprise.

. Established the IT Reference Architecture for the IS Architecture

landscape including the Technical Reference Model for reusable software

infrastructure building blocks in order to reduce sprawl, decrease needed

expertise, and reduce licensing and operations costs. Reference

Architecture was used in the first companywide established Architecture

Review Board to grant Zoning permits and Building permits to capital

expenditures for applications in the annual $100 million USD portfolio

budget and the $105 Million USD Portfolio of Data Center costs.

. Capital redeployment of $ 15 million USD in the portfolio - redundancy

reduction of legacy to newer technologies - Assembler, Fortran, VB, CICS,

Cobol, LU 6.2, C, C++, CORBA, .NET, Java versions 1.x - 2 EE, XML, Web

F/E Technologies such as AJAX, ECMA Scripting languages - JavaScript,

VBScript, batch scripting, DB Technologies such as Flat files, IMS, DB2,

UDB, Oracle DB, Oracle RAC, MySQL, Postgress SQL, Hadoop / MapReduce.

Software infrastructure Technologies included Portal, Enterprise Service

Bus, ETL Batch and Online, SOA Mediation Gateways, Application Firewalls,

Enterprise Message Brokers, Enterprise Information Integration for

Information Services, and ACORD based MDM.

AIG/DBG - INFORMATION SERVICES GROUP, New York, NY Jan 1999 - Nov 2005

Senior Technical Apps Design Manager / Technical Apps Design Manager

. Senior Technical Apps Design Manager (Mar 2005 - Nov 2005) responsible

for suite of claims applications and architecture / design for property

and casualty, worker's compensation, financial payments, litigation

management integration, recovery, and single sign-on via enterprise

policy server with overall reduction of $30 + dollars per claim

domestically. Re-architecting systems that improved SLA metrics to

99.99%.

. Architecture, design, and development management included the following:

Enterprise Service Bus, Business Process Management Suite includes S2S,

S2H, H2S, H2H, (System to System, System to Human, Human to System, and

Human to Human) and user orchestration (UO) control flow. Architectural

review of BPMS, Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS) systems to

modernize mainframe, client / server visual basic, and COBOL legacy

applications.

. Technical Apps Design Manager (May 2003 - Mar 2005) responsible for

portfolio management of six project applications and departmental

architecture / design review responsibilities - Hands on development of

application changes and new application development for primary and

financial lines of business.

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. Managed and re-engineered applications include: First Notice of Loss

Internet reporting, Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) financial

transaction oversight, Check Consolidation Program consolidating multiple

claim payments, Account Service Database managing claim services, Claim

B2B systems for Straight Thru Processing. Modernization of claims

applications using thin-client technology.

Project Leader / Senior Programmer Analyst / Programmer Analyst / IT

Consultant

. Project Leader (Mar 2002 - May 2003) that provided project management,

lifecycle ownership, and accountability for line management of multiple

applications; included oversight of development, change control,

enhancements, support, and subcontract management for outsourcing for

maintenance of various claim reporting and automation projects.

. Led projects through entire software life cycle and interfaced with

various development groups including data analysis, change management, QA

and UAT testing groups, production support and Help Desk architected,

designed, and developed pre-Ajax technologies.

. Technologies used included Oracle Application Server, Netscape

Application Server, and Websphere Application Server using Oracle

JBuilder, NAS, WSAD, Rational, and Eclipse IDEs.

. Senior Programmer Analyst (Dec 2000 - Mar 2002) responsible for

supervising and providing hands-on development expertise for a ten person

programming team charged with developing mission-critical business

applications -first to succeed in the web based technologies at AIG after

previous failed projects.

. Managed a multi-year cross-functional project team charged with

completing the first successful large organizational effort to move

transactional claim processing from client server to thin-client.

. Programmer Analyst (Jul 1999 - Dec 2000) responsible for hands on

development of application changes and new application development for

primary line of business.

. Applications development to move processing from client server to thin-

client. Mapped core functionality, managed day to day development

decisions and prioritized overall program efforts.

. IT Consultant (Jan 1999 - Jul 1999) responsible for implementing the

first web application in the claims division. Other applications

included enhancements upon Visual Basic applications and logical design

improvements on the claims intake systems saving over 16 dollars per

claim versus call center.

. Built first divisional paperless electronic distribution system upon the

portable document format (pdf) for Risk Management Information System

which moved print information from the mainframe to document management

storage repository using Java.

. Overall technologies used were HTML 3.2, HTML 4.0, JavaScript, Oracle

Application Server, Oracle PL/SQL stored procedure, PDF document

conversion, Visual Basic, DB2 Cobol, and Neon Shadow Gateway Load

balanced transaction monitors using SysPlex on SPARC Hardware for App

Server and OS/390 for IBM DB2 and Neon Shadow backend.

Education

PACE UNIVERSITY, New York, NY

Master of Science, Computer Science

BARUCH COLLEGE, New York, NY

Bachelor of Business Administration, Computer Information Systems

Professional Development

Mega Enterprise Architecture

TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect

Zachman Enterprise Architecture

Six Sigma / Project Management

PowerDesigner Enterprise Architecture Modeling

SEI Software Architecture Training

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