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Program and Project Management, Systems Architecture, Middleware, etc.

Location:
Seattle, WA
Salary:
Negotiable
Posted:
July 21, 2017

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SUMMARY

Bringing your business entity a little over 15 years of Technology and business Management experience in the areas of; Application, Network, architecture, development, infrastructure, backups, Business Intelligence, and cloud services. Over the past 15 years of enterprise solutions in ERP, CRM, Product Lifecycle Management, Healthcare Exchange, Development, and Mobility.

Over 8 years of SAP experience: SAP HANA, FICO/BOJ/BW and currently planning on certification.

It is my pleasure to bring your established and very reputable organization the skills required to manage personnel supporting key services your internal and external business partners depend on. Providing exceptional leadership to technical personnel along the way while encouraging personnel growth. An extensive record of exceptional collaboration and communication tactics to enhance service delivery.

Over 9 years of large company experience working with Cloud solutions for strategizing, assessing, designing, deploying major infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS) in private, public and hybrid cloud scenarios. Most recent expertise with Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, RDS, VDI, VPC, Zocalo, etc.), and Microsoft’s Azure platform for virtualization, StorSimple, SQL, etc.

Awards:

1.Outstanding Achiever award by Sr. VP of Revenue Assurance and Risk Management

2.Microsoft Corporation, nominated to become a “Distinguished Engineer/Architect” reporting under Bill Gates after a 1 year intensive training

3.2008 received award for “Outstanding Achiever” presented by the Sr. VP for Revenue and Risk Management at T-Mobile USA

4.Systems Internal LLC: “Outstanding Achiever” 2010

5.Patent pending for the “Parental Television Monitor” a gadget allowing parents to monitor which television programs children may watch? Awarded in 1991.

EXPERTISE

Strategic planning/budgeting/forecasting/operational improvement

Project Management

Personnel management

Technical mentoring

Business Intelligence

Business Continuity Planning leadership

Risk Assessments

Spearheading enterprise architecture solutions for very complex, multi-faceted initiatives

Solution proposition, assessments, design and deployments

INDUSTRIES

Healthcare (Healthcare exchange, HIPAA)

Financial & Insurance

Software Development

Medical

Telecommunications

EXPERIENCE

PSR Associates Sr. Operations Manager/Architect representing PwC at the City of Seattle managing and leading all logistics for the Next generation data centers. Responsibilities include the following:

Lead the City departments (12) in the inventorying, planning, assessment, architecture and strategy for migrating all major applications to the new datacenters.

Supervise and mentor each department’s PM in the areas of planning, budgeting, hiring, reporting, resource allocations, etc.

Provide direction, leadership and technical guidance for the entire Technology stack while leading the logistics for migrating the entire Citys’ 2400 enterprise applications to new datacenters.

Weekly reporting to Mayor’s executive staff and budget tracking.

Lead Change Management, Service Offering Management following ITIL Framework best practices.

Lead the development of test plan strategies for over 1300 enterprise applications

Lead the architecture, and deployment of more than 1800 physical servers and over 1200 virtual servers.

Act as a principal subject matter expert in all areas of server deployment, migration planning, security, PCI, CJIS, NERC CIP 5 and mentor architects in deriving the right size designs for the Next Generation Datacenters.

Lead the architecture and road mapping for the various architectures required for applications providing public utilities, light, land and development and many other services to Seattle residents.

Lead the architecture for all major infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

Manage and lead 8 PMs in the development of their detailed project plans, test plans, and migrations plans.

Lead the planning for communication for all departments migrating applications to the new datacenters

Provide road map to the cloud with City leaders

Provide weekly status slides

Get involved in the re-architecture of various sensitive applications at the legal leve

Averro Inc. Principal Architect 08/2014 11/2014

Working on a large project for Amazon. SOW work included the following milestones and tasks:

Create concept design for Ming Portal to tie into the Ming System (Amazon’s datacenter procurement used by over 100,000 suppliers)

Create business requirements tied to the concept and detail design

Create project plan for activities (milestones/tasks) for execution and reporting)

Define tasks for developers

Define complex infrastructure deployments

Hire and manage infrastructure engineers, and BI Architects

Define and create mockups of Ming Portal

Create a document sharing system

Leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) for middleware (SQS), S3 for object stores, Redshift, Glacier, and leverage AWS security policies

Physio Control (Averro Inc., internal consultant subsidiary) 12/2012 to 4/2014

Sr. Principal Enterprise Architect/Development Manager. FTE @ Physio-Control from 7/2013 to Present.

As part of Averro Inc., Physio Control’s internal consulting organization, serve as senior principal lead driving architectures. Act as the Principal IT Developer responsible for defining, communicating and championing the IT architecture and coding solutions to support and align to Physio-Control’s business practices. Analyze and provide IT leadership with technology trends to help determine their impact on the enterprise architecture. Champion the enterprise architecture process and facilitate the enterprise architecture governance and refinement activities. Manage developers and vendors in the planning, and development of enterprise solutions utilizing various technologies to perform complex integrations. Execute management plans for developers working off-shore projects and lead their activities.

Part of the steering committee and technical committee members providing direction in planning, strategy, and financial activities for all major projects in Physio-Control’s portfolio.

Led the requirements gathering and definition of domain level architecture to strategize on marketing of Physio’s new life saving devices.

Develop roadmaps for restructuring Physio-Control’s business capabilities, enhance product line, and improve integrations for all major enterprise applications. Lead the development, and design utilizing Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and middleware technologies: Dell Boomi, Workday, and other integration and ETL technologies. Including data mapping, process building, webservices (publish, consume, etc. Lead the development and authoring of XML WSDLs, XSDs, and functions of XML profiles, etc.

Lead the requirements and design for documenting the various domains to align with future goal objectives at the C-Level.

Lead the development with JAVA 1.6 and 1.7 while leveraging key libraries for Dell Boomi, and provide Java portable code and compile it via dot class file and deploy unto the compiler to deploy onto various JVMs. In addition, I drove the BI team to control and make sense of data by implementing data cleansing standards, MDM, and derive reliable data models for future road mapping as business changes.

Lead the design of the network disaster recovery plan and provide recommended architecture to C-level officers.

Lead the redesign of the datacenter to expand into Disaster recovery requirements to stay compliant with FDA/FCC standards in providing data relevant to life-saving products in hospitals throughout the world.

Key Projects/Accomplishments/Responsibilities

Day to day responsibilities beyond collaboration, communication, leadership and mentoring on major IT Strategies; assessing, designing, documenting, proof of concepts, and deployments.

•Act as the lead strategist for deriving the technology roadmap for the entire company in order to align technical capabilities with the main business goals.

•Provide domain level architectures leading to the re-structuring of departments to market products and services to Physio’s customers.

•Delivered wireframes for a new shopping portal

•Identify, design, implement and support Physio-Control’s IT technology platform

•Manage developers and application support engineers (6 total + remote staff of 7)

•Manage enterprise vendors; Dell, Oracle, NetApp, Teradata, Salesforce

•Manage the infrastructure team’s activities; server planning, sizing, build, operations, administration and maintenance (OA&M)

•Lead Architect for the development of cutting edge market solutions which involved re-engineering and vitalization of current product line

Lighter products for easier use and broad market distribution

Cloud information monitoring for global support during usage…

Extensive integrations experience derived from current and past architecture roles

•Established and form the Enterprise Information Architecture group, program and set standards and best practices for exceptional service delivery to Finance, Marketing, Product Manufacturing, and BI partners.

•Lead and provide the business continuity plan while teaching business partners about disaster recovery

•Define a plan for failing, recovering and establishing all faucets of business continuity in order to recover the business to 65-75% continuity

•Mentored and trained senior systems engineers, managers and junior architects in Enterprise Architecture, Architecture methodologies, and delivery methods.

•Proposed benefit of cloud, and outsourcing for the major pillars of Physio-Control business applications

•Design details infrastructure solutions that scale and are capable of modularization

•Manage, mentor and lead Sr. Principal Developers domestically and overseas (Australia, Japan and Holland)

•Manage a budget of 2.5 million with extensive expenditure controls, analysis and burn charts

•Technical lead for cross functional teams involved with programs including marketing, product developers, procurement, legal, sales, product testing, client trainers, clinical trial leaders, EIM vendors and other collaborators

•Lead the architecture for BI, Reporting, Data warehouse from AS-IS architectures to set forth the roadmap for Big Data.

•Derive Entity Relationship models for modifying data models, and evolve the functional data to business application demands

•Create the technology roadmap to align project development across multiple concurrent initiatives

•Present to C- level staff and drive the technical strategy with VPs, and Directors.

•Articulate end-to-end project deliverables and requirements across delivery functions.

•Manage expectations with business and IT stakeholders in terms of deadlines and scope.

•Evaluate risks and define approaches for managing project risks.

•Evaluate and proof of concept of Azure and Amazon AWS/EC2 cloud services including RDS, SQS, S3, SNS, and other services to propose value add solution architecture roadmap.

Insight Global Inc. (Consulting Projects) (8/2012 – 12/2012)

On SOW at Premera Bluecross [Healthcare]

Served as a Principal Information Architect, leading the Business Intelligence (BI) team in the documentation of the business requirements, evaluation, and staffing for an Enterprise Content Management Systems solution. Lead the design and provided a recommendation for a $500K-1 million program.

Worked closely with departmental heads; analysts, and other stake holders to Proposed and delivered the best Infrastructure landscape; servers; storage, load balancing algorithm based on solution internal components. Presented to executive staff to secure funding and drive to implementation.

•Fulfilled the role of Senior Delivery Services Manager and Principal Information Architect

•Provide strategy and planning guidance to other architects and executive staff on best solutions approach and enterprise architecture practices

•Define the domain level architecture for enhancing insurance service request turnaround time to Premera’s customers.

•Help generate ERDs, and provide MDM strategy to do large data cleansing, restructuring where needed, and to derive new data models if necessary.

•Leverage Object Oriented Programming languages like Java to allow objects to communicate with each other within various Java Classes.

•Provide standards for developing with Java 1.6 and provide guidance on leveraging Spring Framework 3.1

•Act as the lead advocate for championing the Enterprise Information Design/Architecture with all major business partners including; Enterprise IT, Enterprise Architecture, and the executive staff.

•Responsible for developing the Information Architecture guidelines for all of Premera

•Develop criterion for evaluating/scoring 3rd party solutions versus effort of in-house development for an Enterprise Knowledge Base

•Met with key stakeholders from various provider segments to document business requirements

•Provided the information strategy to derive technical solutions enterprise wide

•Research and delivered proposal for taking infrastructure services to the cloud to executive staff

Verizon Business 10/2011 4/2012

Consulting project was to innovate the way enterprises do business by building and deploying cloud and IT, advanced communications, networking, security, and mobility solutions. “Get down to business with Verizon.” Included Internet, phone, network management, and IT outsourcing.

Senior Services Delivery Architect/Sr. Consulting Services Manager

Led the bidding, planning, design and transition of multi-million dollar engagements with some of NASDAQ’s top 100 companies for Verizon Business as a “Senior Services Delivery Architect/Consulting Manager”

•Interfaced and interacted frequently with Verizon’s overlay and specialized services sales and support teams to provide management oversight in assessments, evaluations and recommendations followed by detail designs for cloud computing, call center centralization, enterprise content management, network services, etc.

•Directly manage the activities of 15 consultants and 10 Network Architects with 4 of those as engineers.

•Manage the Physical and Virtual Server teams consisting of 14 with responsibilities to reshape the team were appropriate.

•Consult with top 50 clients like JP Morgan Chase to define requirements for domain level designs in order to market and lead the owners of products and services in the financial spectrum to a larger target clientele.

•Contributed to LOWEs domain model design for how to operate within the various lines of business (LoBs) to market products in a more attractive way to customers.

•Be a part of a team of chief strategist providing guidance to recognized conglomerates for evolving, globalizing their business

•Provided senior level presentations and briefings; participated in technical customer meetings; supported bid and proposal efforts; and technically and procedurally represented the solution both internally and externally.

•Provide planning and strategy for defining domain architecture requirements for JP Morgan Chase, LOWES, and others.

•Provide domain architecture designs to align with strategic goals of the organization.

•Worked under aggressive timelines

•Provide leadership in architecting supply chain systems for fortune 100 customers and lead the enterprise architecture team in mapping how products are cataloged and how they are structured within the supply chain systems with their various attributes

•Champion Enterprise Architecture as a recommended practice for fortune 100 companies and lead the establishment of such practice combined with right fit frameworks to meet the future needs of the business

•Provide consulting expertise to fortune 100 companies while mentoring architects, managers and others in business continuity planning, technology testing, and capacity planning.

•Research, cost, design and deliver globally scalable infrastructure solutions for fortune 100 customers.

•Research and proposed value add cloud solutions for global companies in the fortune 50 league; IaaS, PaaS, Public, private or hybrid.

•Provide datacenter design & standards consulting services to top 100 companies in the USA.

•Provide training in the form of brown bag lunches for the systems architects (45 in all) and for tier 2/3 management

•Lead for projects requiring coding in Java and C#, and responsible for explaining data arrays and their management in code as well as the different Java data structures.

•Act as a lead for modifying various architecture frameworks/methodologies to recommend to Verizon top clients.

•Focused on educating the architecture group (60+ architects) on LTE principles, and roadmap strategies.

•Provided business continuity and disaster recovery plan, strategy and designs to fortune 100 companies

•Plan, design, deploy and test enterprise integration technologies to integrate major ERP systems like that of SAP, Sage, Acumatica, and Enterprise Document Management Systems (EDMs) for fortune 100 companies.

•Led cross functional teams in order to align to projected plans, timelines, and resources to meet project/initiative requirements

•Manage the design deliverables and contribute as expected to all cloud computing, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and Platform as a Services (PaaS) engagements, including staff at customer’s site.

•Provided architectural leadership in building from the ground up, communication and collaboration platforms with Cisco UCC, CaaS, Microsoft Communicator, and Avaya solutions

•Work extensively with Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS to right size private hosted environments to migrate into hosted environments leveraging cloud providers as mentioned here.

•Extensive Azure and Amazon Cloud Services expertise

The Epitec Group 02/2011- 10/2011

A consulting firm focusing on major statement of work (SOW) engagements for large telecommunications clients, in an effort to deliver on significant programs requiring savvy financial planning; in-depth technical leadership; expert level consulting engagement; and Cloud Computing expertise. Provided leadership in the conceptualization, planning, designing, implementation and road-mapping of critical enterprise wide solutions for AT&T’s internal clients.

Lead Enterprise Architect @ AT&T

•Lead the research, planning, design and implementation of complex technical solutions to internal AT&T clients in the likes of AT&T Mobility, IT Enterprise Services and other lines of businesses. These activities included; planning, costing, designing, research, capacity planning, and presentations to explain details of how the solution will work within the various hosting centers (data centers). Worked closely with stakeholders to ensure product requirements. Provided clear and concise presentations to executive staff to secure funding and approval to move forward with vendor selection, products, etc.

•Manage 6 designers, 8 Windows Engineers; 3 UNIX Administrators,3 PMs and 4 Network Engineers in the activities of project infrastructure planning, design, SOWs and Operationalizing of multiple enterprise solutions.

•Mentored other architects, evangelizing best practices for deploying various cloud solutions for the suite of companies under the SBC umbrella; AT&T; Cingular; and Mobility LLC. Research, design and lead the building of complex and enterprise wide solutions integrating with Enterprise Service Delivery Platforms and horizontal security systems. Worked extensively as part of the data loss prevention team and designed solutions with EMC, Data Domain, storage solutions. Provide leadership and planning for deriving platforms that lower TCO and increase ROI for internal and external partners.

•Provide Master Data Management (MDM) for more than 40,000 customers hosting data on Oracle, SQL, MySQL and OpenSQL.

•Lead the standards documentation and best practice to evolve patterns for designs and engineering for the AT&T organization, leading cloud storage virtualization, platform as a service (PaaS); Infrastructure as a service (IaaS); and Software as a Service (SaaS). on enterprise strategies involving LTE, billing, save offers, and ATG eCommerce.

•Lead the planning for disaster recovery for data loss prevention (DLP) for all of AT&T, and provide a high level plan for enhancing the business continuity plan in collaboration with all major business leads (VPs, Directors and Managers)

•Lead the architecture of major programs employing programming languages such as Java (J2EE, JRE), Ruby on Rails.

•Design initial object model with data structures and Java referenced libraries for developers to code.

•Evaluate Amazon web services and deploy in AT&T Labs to determine cost comparison analysis and realized advantage over in-house solutions offered to internal and external customers.

•Responsible for the designing of datacenters, infrastructures and data loss prevention methods, solutions and recommendation of best practice for cooling, power, heat management, for AT&T’s 300 DCs.

•Research and document datacenter costs advantageous of various methods of assimilating efficient and value add designs with solution recommendations to meet business cost reductions.

Systems Internal LLC 06/2009- 02/2011

Chief Architect/owner of Systems Internal LLC., a west coast consulting management, technology services, and outsourcing company with a strong focus on small to medium size business entities.

Extensive business development activities such as CRM, Strategy, and marketing to promote services in the area of cloud computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), supply chain, enterprise content management systems (ECMS) and service oriented architecture (SOA) and implementation services.

Representative Clients

KPFF Civil Engineers, IPCES.NET, Franklin Templeton Investments, Bothell Hand Therapy, Oppenheimer, IDX Corporation, Lynx Medical

•Provided architectural leadership in the design of infrastructures; networking, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Database management, Encryptions, Development lifecycles and operational process improvements.

•Provide consultation and advice in the reshaping of the IT Organizational structure

•Directly managed 5 Architects, 7 Developers, 2 SQL DBAs and 1 Oracle DBA.

•Lead the documentation and design for attaining domain roadmaps and align technology architectures with the organization’s yearly objectives.

•Provided guidance in the inception of new cloud solutions, network optimization, asset management, costs models for chargeback’s, cost cutting to business problems.

•Provide consulting to top 100 customers in the activities of strategy and planning around domain architectures, frameworks, change & incident management, etc.

•Lead the architecture for major infrastructure projects and propose cloud or hosted solutions where appropriate.

•Provided best practices for establishing security boundaries capable of securing critical customer and financial data for organizations such as Oppenheimer, IDX Corporation, KPFF Civil Engineers and Lynx Medical.

•Assess, recommend, design and derive migration plans for in-house infrastructures and services into the cloud leveraging Amazon EC2, VmWare, and RackSpace.

•Design and lead the implementations of complex datacenter designs to lower costs associated with heating, cooling, and to enable redundancy of power and network services for various clients.

T-Mobile USA 07/2005- 05/2009

Senior Enterprise Architect

Started as a Systems Architect, providing infrastructure sizing, hardware resource planning based on transaction load, IOPS, bandwidth requirements for all major enterprise projects. Later on moved to provided technical, business and tactical solutions to meet the top five business objectives of the enterprise.

•Work closely with internal and external customers/partners to define the infrastructure inclusive of network, data storage, firewalls (ports/protocols), security & accessibility, maintenance, SLAs, etc.

•Lead the architecture strategy and define/establish the architecture practice company wide.

•Help drive and create the standardized templates for cookie cutter work-loads based on Web, Application and databases for CAPEX and OPEX projects.

•Create Domain Level Architectures to expose products and services through profitable channels.

•Work closely with operations to communicate timeline to customer based on infrastructure needs.

•Managed partner and vendor relationships and audit vendor proposed solutions for variances in code issues, hardware scalability requirements, platforms; licensing, etc.

•Define requirements for domain alignment and develop architectures as deliverables to the C-Level staff for Marketing, Finance, Engineering and Enterprise IT.

•Ensured Supply Chain Systems are up to date with the goals of the business for improving product retirement, product refurbishment, and product inventory.

•As one of the main team members, lead the research, architecture, pricing, analysis, and value benefit analysis for a new datacenter in Eastern Washington to host all of T-Mobiles critical systems residing on various platform infrastructures.

•Provide datacenter best methods with a roadmap for migrating to DC2.0 and get buying from the executive staff. This project was allocated a 50-110 million dollars.

•Lead a team of 12 people in defining a disaster recovery for all the technology stacks and work closely with business leads to provide a final plan for business continuity including; FailOver architecture, test plan, recovery plan, and business continuity plan including the recommendation of tools for near real time notification, dispatching, and system alerts.

•Lead the recovery of systems from various datacenter to enhance the over-all business continuity plan.

Key highlights & responsibilities:

-Lead Architect for T-Mobile hotspot@home: leading a team of 15-20 architects, project managers, and vendors.

-Lead the creation of the engagement model and get buying from all major departmental heads

-Mentor junior architects in the value of enterprise architect to the business

-Manage vendors activities relating to application support, and service providers

-Worked with SAMSON, T-Mobile’s billing platform from Amdocs to provide billing capabilities

-Lead the business and systems disaster recovery planning to secure budgeting and drive solution design and testing, and deployment for critical revenue systems.

-Lead Architect for My.T-Mobile.com & T-Mobile.com infrastructure needs

-Lead Architect for the assessment, evaluation, analysis, testing and deployment of Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECMS) utilizing EMC Documentum, LaserFish, Sharepoint services and KANA

-Designed enterprise SAN topologies with EMC, HP, NetApp, FCoE, and FCIP

-Work and lead the build out of various APIs (REST/SOAP) leveraging Java and Ruby on Rails for revenue risk management

-Work closely with developers to review Java code and identify issues with JPOs, JNDIs, etc.

Other management & technical roles:

Compucom (FTE): Senior Enterprise Practice Consultant & Practice Manager 7/2001 to 12/2002

-Strategize, plan, source, outsource, and lead the design and management of major network, wireless and development solutions.

-Manage a staff of 12 and 2 contractors

-Provide roadmaps, and disaster recovery plans to fortune 500 clients

Microsoft Corporation (FTE): Senior Operations Program Manager/Architect 1993-1996 & 1999-2001

-Perform program and management tasks including; management of 3 direct reports and over 20 contractors.

-Provide architecture of the network, MSN eShop, and provide reporti9g and roadmaps for improving site performance, etc.

-Hire, Fire and mentor as appropriate to meet the business demands of MSN eShop and its more than 40 merchant partners.

-Manage the relationship with 40 merchant partners and 8 major vendors

-Manage all aspects of two of the main datacenters including; access, automation, modularity, and the intake of infrastructure components: UPS, PDUs, Generators, Links (OC12s, OC48s), Racks, Load Balancers, Servers, etc.

CIBC World Markets Oppenheimer (FTE): West Coast Senior Technology Manager/Director 1996-1999

-Manage, direct, mentor and architect all activities of technology; applications and development for 4 major business branches: Seattle, Menlo Park, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

-Directly manage a staff of over 42 individuals and over 18 vendors

-Lead the design and development of a major CRM solution for use by more than 4,000 users to support hundreds of thousands of customers.

-Lead the disaster recovery for all the various technologies in the West Coast + define a business continuity plan.

-Manage budgets, hire and fire staff personnel to meet the demands of the business + much more.

-Manage and report on datacenter changes for over 4 datacenters and act as one of the 3 leads for all datacenter build outs in all of North America/Canada, US, Mexico.

EDUCATION

Seattle Pacific University 1986-1988

Studied Electrical Engineering

Autodesk: Associates in Architectural Design

Microsoft University 2000-2001

Business Computer Training Institute 1994 AA in computers and business

KEY CERTIFICATIONS

November 2011 January 2012

- Terremark/Verizon

- Cloud Architecture, IAAS, SAAS, PAAS,

- Cloud Security

- Managed Hosting & Outsourcing personnel

- Salesforce.com

- PCI DSS

Cisco CCDA 1998 (expired and will need to update)

1999-2000

Microsoft Corporation:

- Managing Others without Authority

- MCSE 1999

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages:

- Visual Basic 6.0/VB .NET; C#; C; Android & SDK, Brew MP; Java MIDI; Phyton; REXX; PHP; and others

Database Engines:

-Oracle 9-11g R2; DB2; SQL 7.0



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