Enterprise and Solution Architect specializing big data engineering and management with extensive experience delivering technology solutions aligned with business plans and objectives. Skilled in all phases of project lifecycle, built business plans, designed award-winning solutions and engineered processes to ensure execution alignment. Over 25 years’ experience leading projects in multiple industries on complex platforms with different roles..

Specialties

Leading strategic initiatives and building large teams – Delivered several large enterprise strategic initiates designing and delivering state-of-the-art solutions integrated in complex heterogeneous environments. Engineered business processes for technology, business strategy, managing risks, executing strategic initiatives and evaluating business opportunities based on value, risk and alignment. Built strategic relationships with business leaders.

Delivering Advance BigData Solutions – Experience designing and implementing solutions that leverage big data technologies to deliver integrated BI, Analytic, Data Engineering, and Data transformation technologies to create advance solutions. Designed solutions customizing BI technologies into enterprise and product implementations with enterprise BigData platforms.

Migrating Large Organizations to Agile-based development processes – Transitioned several clients to Agile-based processes. Able to leverage Scaled Agile Framework and tailor processes to meet specific business needs of client.

Cloud-based solutions and SaaS Product Management – Several years’ experience designing and implementing SaaS applications for commercial market.

Establishing Enterprise Architecture Practices and Models – With over 15 years’ experience in enterprise and solution architect roles in the key disciplines including Application, System, ECM/BPM, Data, BI and Business, I have become very experienced implementing enterprise and solution architecture models, processes and governance.

Enterprise Integration – Over 20 years of experience designing solution integration including: mainframe (MVS and VSE), Unix/Linux and Windows. Integration patterns include Messaging, Data only, and API (SOA and REST)

Relevant Experience

Kroger Inc Cincinnati, OH

Solution Architect (2016-2020)

Solution Architect – Brought into design and lead the replacement Mainframe data processing system which feeds the pricing and promotions to 3,000 stores.

Designed data model and built data store to hold store pricing data for 2,800 stores – data model for 2,800 stores, 700,000 Items across the organization, and 100,000 promotions across the company and 24 divisions. Externalized business rules to be table/data driven. Designed for event driven change model

Data Engineering – designed for data feeds from twenty-five (25) disparate systems – designed workflow and data engineering techniques required to load and integrate data from up-stream system.

Establish Architectural principles – using new and innovative technologies required new Architectural and corporate principles. Worked with different enterprise teams to gain acceptance.

Established new support paradigm – upon rollout the application must be supportable in the level the business had come to expect after 40 years of use. This included new processes, new or revamped tools as well as support training.

Lead team in the adaptation of Agile (Safe) – in addition to leveraging new technologies in a unique way, the company was transitioning to an Agile methodology. This involved working with the Product Managers to establish Features and Objectives, the development team to establish stories and effort levels, the business representatives to understand their role in Agile.

Lead the transition from a Hadoop/Spark solution to Azure with Databricks – the porting of the system to Azure took small adjustments to the data model but some components required remediation.

Skills: Hadoop, HBase, YARN, MQFTE, HDFS, IBM DB2 BigSQL, Azure Data Factory, SPARK, Scala, Python, Java, REST APIs, Azure Function Apps, Azure Logic Apps, Synapse, Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake Services (ADLS), Azure Key Vault, Azure AD, RBAC, Azure VNET, Terraform, Azure Event Hub, Databricks Spark, Databricks Delta Lake, Jira, Agile Scrum, Azure Cloud

IBM Corporation Cincinnati, Ohio.

Analytics Architect – position was to be the IBM liaison for all things Analytics to key accounts. Includes proof of concept, sales presentations, and sales planning. (2014-2016)

Client: Healthcare Provider in Midwest

Data Architect and Data Engineer – Modeled data from hospital equipment to understand relationship between and amongst department patient vital statistics. Using IoT techniques capturing data from different hospital equipment

Business Process re-engineering and integration– for unstructured data; define and design integration patterns between patient care system and document management system as well as associated business processes

Skills: IBM BigSQL, IBM P8, Horton Works Hadoop, IBM Datastage, Python, COGNOS BI

Client: Regional Bank in Midwest

Data Architect – Enabled new business stream for a regional bank, looking to understand customer life-events that would enable up selling or cross selling, establish preliminary KPIs. Used a Hadoop platform for implementation, participated in the initial architecture and implementation

Skills: IBM BigSQL, Horton Works Hadoop, COGNOS BI

Neocol Chicago, IL

Senior Architect (2012-2014)

Client: Arizona Bevaerage - Solution Architect, Process re-engineering

Customer wanted to gain control of their business documents and improve the associated business processes. Design and implement meta-data model for document management system and designed business process re-engineering for: orders, invoices and promotions. Provide integration to existing systems for meta-data and referential integrity. Systems include: SAP Supply Chain, SAP Accounts Payable, home-built promotional system.

Skills: IBM FileNet P8, IBM Case Manager, MS SQL, IBM Datacap, Jira, Agile Scrum

Client: Regional Health Insurance – Solution Architect and Development Manager

An Indian company bought a portion of a Mid-West regional Heath Insurance company. Part of the business transaction was technology system would remain with the Mid-West company, meaning this new entity had to replace major system. The new company took the opportunity to be become creative and inventive. Designed an event driven system based upon business events: new claim, account change, received documentation from healthcare provider, etc. For custom components I managed the development team both on-shore and off-shore.

Skills: SQL Server, IBM FileNet P8, IBM CASE MANAGER, Java

Relevant Experience (cont.)

enChoice Inc Phoeniz, AZ

Senior Architect (2011-2012)

Client: State of Alabama - Solution Architect, Process re-engineering

Customer wanted to digitize the forms and process for teachers to manage their credentials and certifications. The new process was saved the State $30,000 annually, streamline the form creation and management process, and significantly improve the relationship between teachers and the State.

Skills: IBM FileNETP8, IBM, MS SQL, IBM Datacap, Project Management

Oceanus Jacksonville, FL

Product Manager/Architect/VP Operations (2010-2011)

Client: Oceanus Architect/ Product Manager

A business opportunity for a SaaS offering surrounding Social Media and business interaction. Lead the design team and worked with development team to take the offering from concept to market. Worked with marketing, both Oceanus and IBM to find appropriate marketing and message for launch. Found and sold initial customers to guarantee successful product launch. Negotiated initial and residual pricing from IBM and AWS. Built costs and pricing models for scalability and company P&L.

Skills: AWS, NoSQL, Linux, Python, Twitter RESTful APIs, Facebook Restful APIs.

Electronic Evidence Discovery (EED) Kirkland, WA

Solution Architect and Pre-sales consultant (2007-2010)

Client: Multiple Architect/ Product Manager

In 2006 the US courts changed the rules behind evidentiary discovery. This opened up an opportunity for the e-discovery business to perform more in-house discovery processing. EED decided to combine and leverage existing technologies for a new business opportunity: Case Management and Process Management for in-house e-discovery. I was the pre-sales and implementation architect. I was part of team selling to CLO and CIO along with former litigation attorneys. Upon installation I would install and configure software as well as provide custom integration to legal case management tools.

Skills: IBM FileNet P8, IBM FileNet BPM, MSSQL, IBM Webshere Application Server

Great American Insurance Cincinnati

VP-Enterprise Architecture (2001-2007)

Product Manager

Product Manager and leader in converting IT division from cost center basis to Product Management philosophy. Direct and lead 10 technology areas and $15MM annual budget; develop technology strategy and structure bundled product/service packages for each of 25 internal client companies. Responsible for the design, maintenance, and upgrading of customized technologies. Key accomplishments include:

Introduced innovative business model that treats IT as a P&L operation. . For 25 client companies, assess operating performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and “sell” projects based on business results. Negotiate Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and hold full accountability for performance.

Advised national consulting firm on the value of Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), consulting with the firm’s chief architect and several potential customers. Resulted in $1m value return

Engineered common underwriting business process supports different underwriting processes across the enterprise to allow reusable integration points and enable a service-oriented architecture.

Led development of the company’s first electronic document policy, in concurrent role as EDM/ECM Product Manager. Work closely with legal department on policies and procedures for retention and management of electronic documentation as they pertain to Records Management and eDiscovery.

Driving the adoption and implementation of a portal to deliver IT service offerings.

The initiative reduced operational and development costs and provide real benefits on the consumer side via the integration of multiple applications. Also allowed all areas of Product Management to gain cohesive strategies

Enterprise Application Architect

Led the utilization of an enterprise portal for benefit of all divisions (companies) under the Great American Insurance brand.

Provide common marketing themes and collaboration

Eliminate redundant operational costs by providing re-usable technology

Allow distinct business to provide and manage their own content and message

FileNet Corporation Costa Mesa, CA

Team Lead / Manager (1992-2001)

Field Support Team lead / Manager

Led a team of 10 engineers stationed in North American and Europe. Team was an emergency response, escalation team which went in for critical problems and issues. Managed a budget of $3.5M

Closed over 60 customer escalated issues, not only saved the project/account but also generated over $5M in additional revenue.

Re-engineered customer upgrade process, engaging support engineering and field engineering into a common combined process

Led the creation and build out of field-testing lab, where all versions of software using customer data and configuration.

Field Support Individual Contributor

Part of Mid-West region for field support. Responsible for installs, upgrades, problem tracking and escalation.

Installed and managed, at the time, the largest installation in the world: 3,000+ users, 60 sites, managing 750 million electronic engineering drawings.

Became performance expert for the Mid-West region

Skills: FileNet software, C programming language, Visual Basic, Unix (IBM/HP/SUN), Oracle, DB2, MSSQL

Cincom Systems Cincinnati, CA

Software Developer (1986-1992)

Developer Team lead / Manager

Developed commercial system software. Specializing in DBMS and 4th generation language. Developing system software for non-IBM platforms (SUN, WANG, HP, NCR)

Skills: RDBMS, C programming language, Assembler, Unix (IBM/HP/SUN)

Employment History (chronological)

Kroger, Cincinnati, OH Solution Architect (2016 – 2020)

IBM Corporation, Cincinnati, OH. Analytics Architect (2014 – 2016)

Neocol, Chicao, IL Sr Architect (2012 – 2014)

enChoice, Phoenix Sr Architect (2011–2012)

Oceanus, Jacksonville Product Manager/VP Operations (2010–2011)

Electronic Evidence Discovery, Kirkland Architect, (2007–2009)

Great American Insurance, Cincinnati VP Architecture (2001–2007)

FileNet Corporation, Cincinnati Team Lead/ Manager (1992 - 2001)

Cincom Systems, Cincinnati Scientist/Programmer (1986 - 1992)

Professional Profile

Education

BA Engineering Physics, 1986 Miami University, Oxford, OH

Awards

1986 Ohio State Senate Student of the year

1991 Cincim – Don Quixote Employee of the year

1994 FileNet – Field consultant of the year

1998 FileNet – Presidents club

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