EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Technology: **+ years Lead Enterprise Architect & IT Consultant
Management: 5+ years Partner of VC FO Firm.
Strategy: 3+ years launching new companies and projects
Current Focus:
●Innovation: Discovering opportunities through POCs in Innovation Department around Corporate Strategy
●Architecture: Modernizing Enterprise Architectures with APIs, Microservices, AI, ML, Predictive Analytics and Data Science
●Savings: Cost Proposals for legacy zOS, in-house Linux to Cloud Offerings: AWS, BMC, IBM, Google
●Tech: Java, AWS, Redis, Jax-RS, Microservice APIs, NodeJS, Solr, Lucidworks Fusion, NOSQL, Neo4J, Data Science and ML packages, and other technologies.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Search & Analytics Architect Genuine Parts Company, Motion Feb 2015-Present
Lead Architect for Enterprise-Wide Search within Innovation and Integration Dept.
$5 billion revenue 7 million products.
This role involves exploring new technologies and integrating them into the development dept (20% coding). Review products, propose architecture and infrastructure changes, and hire/manage search contractors. Write RFPs, WPs, and do executive presentations. Develop and implement POCs. Weekly interdepartmental collaboration with Senior Management to develop Strategic Roadmaps. http://www.motionindustries.com
Accomplishments: Developed and led design for Enterprise-wide Search API using Jax-RS, REST, Microservices API, Solr Fusion, Java: In Production. Example: motionindustries.com runs 100% on this API. Moving from one monolithic Java codeset for the whole company to this API which speeds up and greatly expands opportunities for development, enables data warehousing, analytics and data science opportunities, improves performance, reduces systems debugging and much more.
Added NOSQL Redis Tier to decouple ID Management 150k+ users Top Secret Moved team responsibilities to different departments. Decomposed legacy Java into API, mid, UI tiers.
Designing Data Warehousing Solution: Solution AWS RedShift, AWS Kinesis Firehose. Nodejs. Predictive Analytics Search Architecture based on User Behavior using Spark. Data Science & Machine Learning: In Development
Management Consulting i3 Advantage Tampa, FL 3/2014-Present, part-time
Medical Device Software Company. Software interfaces with a General Electric OEC 9800 C-Arm to capture images from a surgical procedure and integrate with existing EMR system. Business Development Investor Prospecting
Technology Director Annuity Concepts LLC Palm Beach Gardens, FL 1/2012-12/2014
FinTech Startup Cofounder. Coauthored business plan for first Fintech Annuity-only company in the U.S. which offers Competitive Menu of Annuity Options. Marketing campaigns. Navigating strategy and execution around tight regulatory market.
Partner, Chief Financial Manager Vann Hampton Fund et al Auburn AL 2006-2012
Assets $250MM, 70+ Companies Worked closely with C-Level Executives and High Net Worth Investors [$50MM-$100MM+] to prospect, organize and vet P&Ls, deals and generate deal flow. Assessed hundreds of businesses, pitches, and business plans. Participated in operations, financial decisions, and overall direction of dozens of companies and projects in technology, retail, commercial real estate, financials and other industries.
P&L Strategy and Analysis; Financial Deal Structuring – multi-bank, multi-investor, mezzanine. Directed Due-Diligence, Financial Analysis, and Pro Forma Development. Looked at key financial and other ratios to forecast success. Helped assess, value and manage a diverse portfolio of companies. Performed Strategy Analysis, wrote Pro-formas, and Originated Deals. Prospected, structured and organized three 15MM+ deals independently during the catastrophic financial environment of 2008-2011.
Lead Enterprise Architect Genuine Parts Co, Motion Bham 2001-2006
Lead Enterprise Architect for Company-Wide Enterprise Architecture. Led development team and enterprise architecture which supported all Internet (web), Intranet (500+ branches) and eCommerce (xml, b2b) transactions in the company.
Led diverse team of 15-18 Developers to build MVC JEE Framework Performed Code Reviews Led Systems Issues & Resolution. Sun/Oracle Blueprints Designs and GoF Design Patterns to create a custom framework specifically targeted to expedite Java Development while maintaining a robust, scalable and secure enterprise system.
Senior Software Developer Motion Industries ComSys Birmingham, AL 2000-2001
Led team of 6 developers: converted and expanded CGI/OS390 application to Java/JSP on OS390. Created parser that creates Java objects out of all CICS programs IBM requested source
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE Knoxville, TN
Master of Science Computer Science Graduate Program
Awarded a Full Scholarship + Teaching Assistantship Stipend Computer Science MS
Taught Computer Science Programming Labs to Undergraduate Students
Earned Bachelor of Science Equivalent in Computer Science en route
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Washington, DC
Bachelor of Arts College of Arts and Sciences Psychology
Awarded Full Scholarship for each of 4 Years
ET CETERA
Active Member of Atlanta Data Science and Startup Groups
Business Plan Competition Judge Alabama Launchpad 7 Universities
NCAA Division I All-American Track & Field 1992 & 1994
TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS
Oracle® Java Certifications
Oracle® Certified Enterprise Architect Exam
Oracle® Certified Java SE Developer
Oracle® Certified Java SE Programmer
Architectural Certifications
ITIL® v3 Foundation in-process
Studying for AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES & CE
Financial Markets Specialization, Yale University, 8 Courses
Business Strategy Specialization, University of Virginia, 5 Courses 80% complete
Business Strategy Capstone
Executive Data Science Specialization, John’s Hopkins University, 5 Courses 80% complete
Executive Data Science Capstone
Agile Development Specialization, University of Virginia, 5-Courses 50% complete
Agile Development Capstone
LICENSES, ET AL
Series 65 Uniform Investment Adviser, FINRA
Real Estate License, TN, GA (exp) Life & Health Insurance License, TN, FL (exp)