SCOTT T. PFAFF 856-***-**** adzipe@r.postjobfree.com

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CONSULTING LEADERSHIP / TECHNICAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Client Advisory & Management • Code Development & Deployment • Configuration & Testing

• End-to-End Technical Solutions

Accomplished and dedicated technical consultant poised to meet the demands of diverse and changing businesses. Apply emerging technologies to facilitate growth and development efforts. Leverage skills in the entire software development lifecycle to consistently meet clients’ needs. Develop rules; install, and set up Blaze rules service architecture.

Conduct client needs analysis and serve as a proactive technical and business partner to facilitate the timely completion of technical projects. Maintain positive relationships with people from diverse professional and cultural backgrounds. Adept at managing demanding projects for clients in the financial services, accounting, and insurance industries, among others. Committed and motivated with demonstrated skills in working in dynamic environments. HIGHLIGHTS OF TECHNICAL CONSULTING ENGAGEMENTS

AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT WESTERN UNION DIGITAL IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA NOV 2018 - JULY 2023 AS A RULES SERVICE ARCHITECT WITH THE 3 PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES, 1. MIGRATING THE LEGACY (BLAZE 7.2.6 .NET) RULES SERVICE TO OUR MUSTANG(BLAZE 7.5.3 JAVA) RELEASE, 2. COMPLETION OF THE OPENSHIFT ON-PREM ARCHITECTURE TO SUPPORT THE RULES MAINTENANCE APPLICATIONS, DECISION SERVICE AND RISK CONFIG SERVICE, 3. PARTICIPATING IN DAILY SCRUM ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT OUR PRODUCT TEAMS, DECISION SCIENCE TEAM AND OUR RULES TEAM IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW AND EXISTING SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE TO GENERATE NEW REVENUE AND FIGHT EXISTING FRAUD ACTIVITIES, 4. DEVELOPED AND PARTICIPATED IN DECISION MODEL PROOF OF CONCEPTS AND ARCHITECTURE RELATED TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF MIGRATING THE MUSTANG 7.5.3 JAVA RELEASE TO DECISION MODELER.

DUTIES INCLUDED:

MODIFY AND BUILD AND MAINTAIN EXISTING DEVOPS JENKINS JOBS TO CONFIGURE AND DEPLOY THE RULES MAINTENANCE APPLICATIONS, DECISION SERVICE, RISK CONFIG SERVICE IN ALL 3 ENVIRONMENTS

(DEV,QA,PROD)

WORKED CLOSELY WITH OUR LEVEL2 OPERATIONS TO SET UP SVN TO SUPPORT IDE DEVELOPMENT AND RULES MAINTENANCE APPLICATION.

DEVELOPED AND DEPLOYED THE CAPABILITY WITHIN THE EXISTING ON-PREM SHARED STORAGE SYSTEM TO IMPLEMENT THE STORAGE AS A RAM DRIVE TO OVERCOME SYSTEM TIMEOUTS DURING LOGIN AND OVERALL SLOW PERFORMANCE.

WORKED CLOSELY WITH LEVEL2 OPERATIONS TEAM TO SET UP DIRECTORY REPLICATION ON THE ON-PREM STORAGE SYSTEM TO SUPPORT SYSTEM FAILOVER ACTIVITIES.

SUPPORTED DAILY SCRUM SPRINT ACTIVITIES BY PARTICIPATING IN THE SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND GROOMING OF REQUIRED STORIES WITHIN EACH SPRINT TO DELIVER RULES ARCHITECTURE CHANGES FOR THE LEGACY AND MUSTANG RELEASES WHICH INCLUDED NEW TEMPLATES AND MODIFIED TEMPLATES, DECISION TABLES, FUNCTIONS, PROVIDERS ETC.

As Blaze Advisor Expert Consultant on the Zags! Rating Engine Project in Paris, France and Minneapolis Minnesota Mar 2016 - June 2016

Provided expert level consulting for Zags! New Rating Engine to be deployed to Zags! client within their flagship insurance management application’s 4.7 release. Specific duties in France and the US included: 1

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Review & Validate France based implementation guidelines; naming conventions / rules workflow definitions, rules organizations & versioning

Help with the conversion of the current implementation of the current deployment (inline .DLL) to a Service Oriented implementation

Review & Finalize the Blaze rules implementation within the France Demo and EMEA implementation

For the US Group help with the Design, Development and Deployment of the Blaze Rule Service for the eligibility rules implementation for Zags! Prepared client and for the Demo at the IASA conference in Austin, TX in June 2016

Guide with other Design, Development & Deployment the effort in integrating Blaze in the US solution, such as underwriting and contextual QA exchange with users.

Document the approaches suggestions.

Mentor the operations team in configuring and maintaining the Blaze server environments. As Manager on the Foremost Insurance NextStar Project with Capgemini Financial Services Group in Grand Rapids, MI

( Proactive Hire – Project Canceled a few months after Hire) July 2014 – Sept 2014

Responsibilities were to include:

Functioning as the Manager of all Blaze Advisor related Architecture on the NextStar project

Management of the development activities of a 7 person offshore development team

Management of all onshore Blaze related client activities

High level consulting on all technical aspects of the Blaze Repository code, RMA code and Rules Service deployment code and associated architecture.

As Blaze Advisor Enterprise Technical Architect on the State of Mississippi’s Medicare/Medicaid Eligibility Modernization Project consulting with Xerox in Jackson, MS via S2Tech.

Feb 2013-Dec 2013

Functioned in the Role of Senior Blaze Advisor Rules Service Architect responsible for the Business Rule Engine and associated Rules Maintenance Application Web Interface to effect the decisioning in the following areas of eligibility processing: Eligibility Exclusion, Non-Financial Eligibility, Financial Eligibility, Assistance Unit Calculations, Eligibility Forms Generation and Post Processing. Specific duties included:

Conversion of the existing Java based prototype code and Rules Maintenance Application Web Interface to Blaze Advisor 7.1 using the Eclipse plug-in by converting the Java Object Model to XML, removing all interfaces and methods and converting the Java code to Structured Rules Language code.

Developed, deployed and tested the Rules Maintenance Application on WebSphere 8.0 which included custom dual column database providers to allow the use of database tables as drop lists.

Created hundreds of custom RMA templates and Decision Tables to support the generation of complex Structured Rule Language code to support ongoing client requirements and bug fixes, which also included defining database tables, views and stored procedures.

Managed the Blaze Advisor code base in SVN for tags, branches and roll-back capabilities.

Collaborated with Business Analysts, Project Managers and the Xerox Account Executive to analyze, gather and document requirements.

Acted as a resource to troubleshoot and resolve complex problem within the Blaze Rules Service and Rules Maintenance Application

As Blaze Advisor Enterprise Technical Architect Lead during consulting engagement for an AGILE based Implementation of the Spring Savings Engine Application and the SPEND115 Application at Procurian in King of Prussia, PA Feb 2012-Aug 2012 2

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Acted as the Senior Blaze Advisor Rules Service Architect responsible for all aspects of the SOA development lifecycle and the implementation of a central repository for all business rules related code which included complex rule flows and RETE base rule set algorithms to analyze normalized data and move it to the data warehouse

Developed, Deployed and Tested the Blaze Advisor code required to implement the enterprise application (.ear) and the Rules Maintenance Application (.war) on Glassfish 3.1.2 application server.

Created an end to end process to automate the build of code required to implement the enterprise application

(.ear) and the Rules Maintenance Application (.war) on Glassfish 3.1.2 application

Participated in the integration of the Blaze Advisor Enterprise Application and Rules Maintenance Application, in the SPEND115 application

Create the server side components required to support the Blaze Enterprise Application to utilize the Deployment Manager to Hot Swap RMA changes via a single ADB file via Blaze Deployment Manager configuration

Worked In TOAD managing database tables using basic PL/SQL for test data, test results and error logging

Acted as a resource to troubleshoot and resolve complex problem within the Blaze Rules Service and Rules Maintenance Application

Participated in daily SCRUM meetings to report status, manage stories, and determine ongoing work schedules As the Owner of a Computer Repair business in Cherry Hill, NJ Nov 2008-Feb 2012 Specializing in :

New system sales

Hardware and software repair

Installation of new hardware

System tune-ups

Internet setup

As Blaze Advisor Enterprise Technical Architect Lead for Implementation of the new Enterprise Medicaid Management Information System for the states of North Dakota and Alaska Apr 2008-Nov 2008 Acted as the Senior Blaze Advisor Rules Service Architect for implementations, responsible for all aspects of the development lifecycle and the implementation of a central repository for all business rules related code which included analyst work on other ACS Healthcare legacy solutions currently being implemented at the states of Minnesota and Tennessee and the direction of the CIO.

Participated in the North Dakota Edits & Audits project executed by the North Dakota ITD department to provide assistance in mining edits & audits related claims adjudication rules from their legacy COBOL based database decision table solution which included the Pharmacy (PBM) subsystem and Prior Authorization (PA) processing.

Responsible for RMA & Rules related activities on the PBM & PA subsystem conversion which would migrate the COBOL based architecture to be a part of the Java SOA solution. (This project was in its inception phase.)

Developed and deployed the code required to run RMA for business users and existing COBOL developers on IIS 7.0 using integrated Windows authentication.

Lead technical consulting role related to the code for testing and deployment of business rules, which included application rules (Java), database (Stored Procedures), Blaze Advisor Rules (SRL), Rule Maintenance Application

(RMA), EJB, Blaze CVS/Clear Case (SCM) subsystem, and the associated IBM RUP configurations (Requisite Pro, Clear Case & ClearQuest defect management.

Lead a team of subject matter experts within the ACS portion of the requirements gathering for Edits & Audits claims adjudication effort to insure from a technical perspective the decision tables that were being used for 3

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analysis we accurate from an ACS legacy systems perspective and from a Blaze perspective would be in continuity with the current Rules Maintenance standardize common template based architecture. As Blaze Advisor Technical Architect during a consulting engagement for the Division of Revenue, State of South Carolina Sept 2007-Dec 2007

Served as a highly valued senior Blaze rules service architect consultant to complete all aspects of the development lifecycle for tax functionality related to entity identification, taxpayer accounting, channel management, enforced compliance, outbound correspondence, revenue accounting, and tax processing.

Provided ongoing consulting related to development of the BA 6.5.3 repository, including the deployment of an inline .NET 2.0 J# patch, 4GT tuning and PAE complemented by an executable header change to allow BA 6.5.3 awareness of the upper 3GB’s of memory.

As Blaze Advisor Technical Architect during consulting engagement with Wells Fargo Bank Feb 2007-May 2007 Created an end-to-end process to control Blaze Advisor rule changes, database architecture, and service level changes during the pilot of the new JAVA SOA CORE initiative to facilitate common rules architecture and change enablement processes across financial services, home mortgage, and consumer credit lines of business.

Performed analysis, design, and validation in various areas, including CORE phase I change enablement process definition in Case Wise.

Researched and analyzed existing processes, including CoBBRa (Common Business Rules Related Application), Clear Case, development defect, CORE release Palisades, deployment, and QA testing. As Technical Architect Lead during consulting engagements with Fair Isaac Corp Apr 2003 – Nov 2006

Provided expert technology consulting for the EDM Technologies group. Architected end-to-end solutions primarily in an JAVA SOA for leading clients, including, QUALCOMM, Air Products & Chemicals, and Avnet Inc., excluding Dell Financial Services which was a .NET deployment.

Developed, configured, and tested various Blaze score cards, custom scoring models, decision tables, decision trees, rule services, XML object models, JAVA object models, custom object oriented SRL (structured rule language) coding, among other things.

As Quality Assurance Engineer at CIGNA Inc. via Ajilon Consulting Inc. Sept 2001 – Mar 2002

Conducted assessment meetings to determine scope of testing and requirements for testing dates, software distribution, lab performance, and performance testing.

Created and validated installation routines using Install Shield, SMS Installer, and Wise Install Master, including developing, validating, and testing SMS 1.2 deployment packages. EDUCATION & TRAINING

Hands On Technology Transfer, Inc. – JAVA Programming focusing on Java POJO, EJB & SOA Computer Learning Center – Certificate in Computer Programming focusing on COBOL, C++, JCL & IBM 360 ASM.) United States Army Computer Science School (COBOL, JCL, VTAM, CICS, VM, ROSCO, JES2) 4

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