Qualifications Summary:

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15 years of total experience in Enterprise Architecture leadership & management roles, and holding TOGAF certification

Solution Architecture Project Support for Complex, Highly Distributed Implementations: I have been providing solution architecture specification to complex implementations, both in hands-on and architectural leadership roles, for over 22 years. I have facilitated many mature SOA integrations involving API gateways, service bus patterns, and I have architected systems that integrate with many well known SaaS platforms, such as Salesforce CRM, ServiceNow, and SAP HANA.

Architectural Assessments: Highly skilled in performing capability maturity assessments to identify weak areas of a value stream execution to further identify where technology solution investments are actually needed to super-charge business results.

Technical Leadership: Provided expert advice and created reference architecture contexts to guide project teams in a fast-paced environment, ensuring successful project completion on time and within budget, in the context of both agile and waterfall project methods.

Business Analysis: Utilized the BIZBOK business architecture framework in collaboration with line of business executives to align IT technology investments with their objectives, through value stream / value stage decomposition and business capability mapping to identify desired feature sets and their implementation order of priority.

Service Oriented Architecture & Patterns: Enforced engineering asset reuse habits with EA governance and the use of an EA patterns repository for container deployed micro-service patterns and the older SOA (SOAP / WSDL) legacy service integration patterns.

Supervision and Mentorship: Provided supervision and direction to my enterprise architecture and software engineering teams, promoting skill development, and ensuring the effectiveness and collaboration of both teams.

Standards Compliance: Ensured systems compatibility and compliance with open systems architecture standards for API contracts, such as, Swagger, YAML, and even the older WSDL standards. Provided secure coding standards, and Azure DevOps CI/CD software delivery pipeline operating procedures to my software engineering team.

Capital Bank, N.A., Rockville, MD (Remote from Tulsa, OK)

SVP, Chief Enterprise Architect and Head of Software Engineering

05/2022 - Present

A TOGAF certified executive leader providing the CIO delegated functions of Enterprise Architecture, and Software Engineering for Capital Bank of Maryland, providing outcome-oriented Enterprise Architecture solutions for financial sector portfolio areas of Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking, Card Services, Mortgage, and Risk & Compliance line of business.

Notable Achievements:

Achieved executive stakeholder buy in on various IT investment strategies and planning efforts, utilizing business architecture and capability assessments to drive informed IT investment decisions for successfully delivering:

Growth Rate Increase for Loan Assets - Commercial Loan Origination Optimization

Growth Rate Increase for Deposit Account Assets - Commercial & Consumer Deposits Optimization

Increase in Lead Conversion rates for OpenSky Credit Card – MarTech stack, Customer Loyalty extensions, & Python predictive model optimizations.

Evolution of our Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline towards DevSecOps (supporting an IT security initiative)

Data Warehouse Modernization in Azure (Snowflake, Databricks, and Data Lake Gen2 enterprise components)

Spearheaded the creation of company-wide capability models and maturity assessments (utilizing a few generative AI techniques), instrumental in shaping the annual Q4 strategic budgeting and planning activities.

Orchestrated the creation of data flow diagrams and system blueprints across all lines of business for Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking, Card Services, Mortgage, and Risk & Compliance – also in support of Q4 strategic budgeting and planning activities.

Pioneered the establishment of an Enterprise Architecture Review Board (ARB) to ensure strategic alignment, pattern reuse, and executive scrutiny of new technology requests, further fortifying adherence to IT standards.

Introduced a cutting-edge Enterprise Architecture knowledge repository, built on TOGAF 9.2 standards, which significantly reduced defect rates and enhanced reusable component count by 15% over 12 sprints.

Guided the transformation of digital banking platforms on Azure's cloud-native technologies, achieving a remarkable 25% reduction in operational costs.

Spearheaded the strategy, architecture, and implementation of a digital product assembly line, encompassing Consumer, Commercial, Mortgage, and Card Services, resulting in optimized processes and enhanced customer experiences.

Team Leadership and Innovation:

Skillfully assembled and nurtured high-performing teams, including data science and IT architects, fostering an environment of continuous learning and innovation.

Instigated a strategic training initiative focused on Azure cloud native patterns, fueling a culture of innovation and knowledge sharing among developers and architects.

Pioneering Technology Solutions:

Led the development of Python machine learning models leveraging Full Story and Google Analytics data, yielding a remarkable 90% accuracy in predicting end user buying behavior. This innovation led to a 25% increase in targeted marketing effectiveness and a 15% rise in customer conversion rates.

Oversaw the creation of instructional prototypes for Azure AKS (Kubernetes) deployments, enhancing team proficiency in managing complex Kubernetes setups.

Strategic Partnership and Operational Excellence:

Crafted a comprehensive vendor evaluation framework, leading to strategic alliances with Optimizely, Full Story, and near shore staffing firms.

Implemented rigorous operational enhancements, streamlining application portfolios, and rationalizing inter-system interactions for significant improvements in development time and software quality.

Operational Excellence and Budget Management:

Started an annual exercise of rationalizing the application portfolio, eliminating, and consolidating duplicate functions for a 15% reduction in portfolio size during the first year.

Performed technical debt assessments and capability assessments of IT organizations that were Capital Bank merger & acquisition targets for consideration.

Ongoing management and yearly planning refresh of budgets for staffing, staff augmentation, and software tooling.

Implemented enterprise architecture governance framework to standardize software delivery processes, for waterfall, agile, and scaled agile framework project styles, resulting in a 15% increase in coded component and design pattern reuse.

Improved software release velocity of sprint cadences by an approximate 25% by creating separate Agile Release Train performance metrics for QA, UX Design, software development, and business analysis.

Other Operational Responsibilities:

Management and oversight of development & operations for the web site technology stack of openskycc.com, which in addition to web and containerized micro-service layers includes the Decisions process engine and Salesforce Marketing Cloud.

Assisting the CIO and the IT Leadership Team in responding to annual PCI DSS and SOC audits to address user access, data encryption, and SDLC process, and many other areas of control.

Provided EA oversight of multiple complex project initiatives.

PLEASE SEE MY UPLOADED RESUME FOR THE REST OF MY 33+ YEAR IT CAREER HISTORY

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