Jonathan B. Kinberg www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-kinberg
**********@*****.*** 703-***-**** Darnestown, MD 20878
Solutions Architect/Project Leader/Enterprise Architect
Security Clearance: Secret, Public Trust – Air Force Badge, Secret, Public Trust – HHS Badge, Public Trust – FDA Badge – Public Trust IRS Badge
Senior Solutions Architect/Sales Engineer with more than 40 years, leading and supporting the design and implementation of sophisticated Enterprise IT solutions in the private and government sector. Well versed in all aspects of program/project delivery in multiple roles, including Team Lead, architect, project manager, pre-sales consultant, account manager, and technical trainer. Core competencies include enterprise architecture, solutions architecture, systems engineering, Java, application development, mainframe programming, business intelligence, and professional services. Record of accomplishment in the design and delivery of prototypes, proofs of concept, white papers, and training curricula. Managed the DevOps of prototype applications with daily and weekly scrums. Recognized for developing and presenting complex RFPs, translating customer requirements into specifications, and maintaining productive relationships with stakeholders, senior staff, and program teams across the project value chain.
Team Lead Technical SME Project Management Scrum Master Government Contracts Technical Writer SAFe Integration Engineer AWS SDLC CI/CD Software Documentation Business Intelligence Software Development Enterprise Software Architecture Cloud Computing SOA API Testing Account Management Pre-sales Technical Marketing Customer Training Curriculum Development Presentations
JIRA, DoDAF, TOGAF, Eclipse, Maven, J2EE, Spring MVC, Hibernate, JSON, REST, SQL, AWS, ServiceNow, Salesforce, LCMP-IDE, Pega
Career History
Technical Lead – IRS Clean Energy Tax Credit program – Booz Allen Hamilton (2/2024 – Present)
Development Lead for the CDM RFS 51 contract for Clean Energy under the IRS Program, serving as Job-Leader for developers, participating in activities toward fulfillment of deliverables: team assemblage and hiring, requirements analysis, development team lead activities, training, working alongside the project manager.
Led Clean Energy Fraud Prevention development activities.
oConducted interviews and hiring of team members for the program development staff.
oParticipated in the interviews and hiring for the team members in the reporting development staff.
oProduced and delivered system architecture presentation.
Internal training, compiled from recorded handover sessions from outgoing contractor.
oConducted 3 times weekly Developer meetings keeping progress on track.
oParticipated in user requirement elaboration sessions.
Developed technical questions in cooperation with developers.
Consulted with requirements analysts on clarification of specifications.
oLed the development of a user story format that suited the needs of the development activities.
oParticipated in development of process flow diagrams and related documentation.
Coordinated daily with the project manager and scrum master.
oForecasting technical issues.
oTasking developers.
Served as Job Leader for development staff and testers.
oConducted monthly check-point meetings.
oProvided workday feedback.
oApproved timesheets.
Technical Lead – User Adoption and Change Management – Booz Allen Hamilton (7/2021 – 1/2024)
Provided direct support for IAC MAC and the Program Executive Officer for Military Communications at Air Force, Space Systems Command, serving as change management / user adoption specialist, participating in activities toward fulfillment of deliverables: system usage analyses, status updates, internal and client facing meetings, user requirements reviews, and the development of internal tracking tools.
Supported the SEV User Adoption team toward maintaining and increasing customer acceptance and usage of a Booz Allen developed web application.
oProvided technical leadership to multiple teams for use in requirements development to solution architecting with the developers.
oManaged inter-disciplinary coordination meetings, guaranteeing coordination of efforts.
oCaptured metrics and produced customer ready analyses of user adoption and system utilization.
oConducted new-inbound user orientation sessions, ensuring users were obtaining the most from the system.
oConducted user training sessions.
oDeveloped user oriented slick sheets for use as a user quick reference.
oDeveloped a file design to track customer’s activity in SEV, which evolved into a customer relationship database design for tracking and managing high-profile POCs.
Developed a database for querying Booz Allen employees based on education, skills, and certifications.
Technical Lead – Navy N1 ES IT/CIO program – Booz Allen Hamilton (3/2020 – 4/2021)
Provided direct support for the government N1 ES IT/CIO and chief enterprise architect and for the Navy HR systems, over a tremendously large enterprise portfolio transformation project, serving as lead for two technical teams, participating in daily scrums, toward fulfillment of deliverables: technical analyses, diagrams, presentations, analyses of alternatives, status updates through both internal, and client facing meetings.
Advised chief enterprise architect on the development of the MyNavy HR future state architecture.
oManaging Data repositories providing solutions that curated and centralized large disparate data sources.
oMessage transfer standards and best practices enabling modern web access and discoverability.
oWeb application hosting providing a modern containerized, agile managed, CI/CD environment.
oData interface management and evolution allowing continued use of non-transformed systems as data exchange partners progressed to a transformed state.
Project Lead for technical teams.
oProvided guidance and oversight for a team of specialists aligned with development of an architecture for a centralized Authoritative Data Environment (ADE) for the Navy human resources department.
oCoordinated with peer leads, maximizing matrixed managed staff alignment with tasks.
oPlanned and facilitated yearly execution sessions focusing on the following fiscal year capability development, aligned to spend plans, resulting in yearly schedules, and making optimum use of available resources.
oDeveloped configurable resources for research, automating parameterized research.
oProvided architecture diagrams showing a clearer view of how the legacy state mapped to the future state.
oParticipated in tiger teams, lending functional area expertise to emergency projects as they arose.
oConsulted with the graphics team for technical accuracy and intuitive diagrams.
Lead the team to produce out-briefs from major annual planning meetings for client leadership.
Counseled peer leads on best practices for interaction with a difficult client.
Consulted with vendors on product assessments.
Senior Solutions Architect and Technical Writer – NewWave Telecom and Technologies (11/2019 – 3/2020)
Provided subject matter expertise, project leadership, technical and operational expertise in business development and Proposal writing. Worked closely with Subject Matter Experts and the Proposal director serving as technical liaison.
Consulted with Senior Systems Architect in development of technical content for proposals
oPECOS 2.0
oMedicare Appeals System
oData Services Hub
oDASH (Data Analytics Supporting Healthcare)
Worked with internal business development experts on development of T-MSIS data quality project.
oContributed architectural design and development artifacts
Consulted with an internal group on projects designed to bolster employee morale
Senior Solutions Architect and Project Supervisor -- Synectics for Management Decisions (07/2019 - 9/2019)
Provided subject matter expertise, project leadership, technical and operational expertise in the successful delivery of IT solutions including grants management; IT for public health databases, application development,, data warehousing, and business intelligence.
Served as a Senior Solutions Architect for many mission-critical Synectics' projects, including eBIRT (electronic Benefits, Issuance, Redemption, and Transactions).
Maintained project reports on the progress of eBIRT project. Developed and managed new project tracking tools. Collaborated with stakeholders to create a common, shared database to source analytics. Worked with the project manager and augmented the existing Synectics spreadsheet to accommodate a high-level view and address security needs.
Worked with the Business Development Team in the preparation of RFPs, researched business topics, developed data models, conducted technology research.
oCreated three RFP responses in under three weeks to meet critical deadlines. The RFPs had limited details regarding technical requirements and required research and benchmarking of similar RFPs to fit the parameters of the request.
Senior Solutions Architect and Project Supervisor -- Octo Consulting Group (09/2018 – 06/2019)
Enterprise Architect for US Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Integration -- Collaborated with EA Architects to develop OpDiv and StafDiv interoperability with EANow, a ServiceNow-based custom portfolio management application, and CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) application. Analyzed the CMS custom application, and developed a data structure and solution that contained, mapped, and integrated sourced EA data for the ServiceNow called EANow application.
COTS -- Developed a technological COTS integration solution for an RFP to the FDA, which drove future collaborative relationships.
Project Management -- Maintained project tracking data, developed, and managed new project tracking tools — maintained project reports on the progress of EA work. Developed data models, conducted technology research, attended daily Agile scrum meetings.
Strategic Planning -- Performed research on methodologies and other areas of interest to the EA team as we defined the process for how EA would work in the changing business environment moving forward.
Senior Solutions Architect and Project Supervisor -- Aurotech Corp, FDA Innovation Lab (03/2017 – 02/2018)
Served as a Senior Solutions Architect for the FDA Innovation lab to produce prototypes, proofs-of-concept, white papers, technology research, and education presentations. Managed the DevOps of each prototype application with daily and weekly Scrums using Jenkins.
Mobile Apps -- Augmented the FDA’s Mobile Development guidelines by establishing a standard mobile development platform and identifying useful third-party tools. Chose the proper application design, standardized on the best mobile development platform, and performed desktop automation.
Strategic Planning -- Designed a prototype application for tracking employee laptops using C#. Established the means to build future cloud application versions. Based on all work on including FDA cloud, mobile, and desktop applications, customer needs, and pain points.
Project Leadership-- Managed cloud developers and data engineers. Facilitated daily Agile scrum meetings; attended bi-weekly Agile assessment meetings.
Principal Solutions Architect and Technical Trainer -- Monster Government Solutions (03/2014 – 02/2017)
Served as a Principal Solutions Architect and Technical Trainer on Monster Inc. technology and partner case management software technology. Assigned as a subject matter expert (SME) to participate in the successful delivery of end-to-end human capital solutions for the Federal Government sector.
Technical Acumen -- Contributed technical content to RFPs. Produced technical product articles, documentation, white papers, presentations, demonstrations, customer briefing presentations, and ongoing educational content. Participated in trade shows, performed field sales, and consulted with customers.
Training -- Delivered training on the full suite of Monster SaaS technology and Monster Hiring Management Enterprise to various Federal Government agencies (e.g., US Geological Survey, Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Department of Interior Business Center).
oDelivered “Efforts to Outcome” case management software training to the State of Washington, Employment Security Department program team.
Problem Solving -- Developed solutions to complex technical problems, kept current on proprietary and partner technology and communicated progress toward project/program goals.
Report Design -- Designed and developed a java application that automated a manual report compilation process resulting in increased productivity and streamlined reporting.
Automation -- Designed and developed a java application for an automated pricing spreadsheet application that significantly reduced the time required to generate a report.
Solutions Engineer, Application Developer -- Dynanet Corporation (04/2011 – 02/2014)
Served as an Application Developer and member of a Programmer Team that supported the Field Work System used to collect background data for potential government hires and security clearances. Mapped out solutions to remediate systems written in Natural to Java. Participated in replacing the existing mainframe system with an equivalent open system written in Java.
Improved efficiency of Natural server program by eliminating sequential processing loops and integrating all functionality within one loop.
Translated Natural program that generated XML output to Java.
Created a utility class in Java to mimic “Redefine” functionality.
Productivity -- Designed and implemented a Windows-based cross-platform application that allowed java programmers to type a request for mainframe code. The application formulates a request to a partner mainframe application to extract the listings, and package them to transmission. The windows application formatted and saved them on Windows.
Remediation Engineer, Technical Instructor -- Zulu Software (09/2010 – 10/2011)
Developed and delivered formal courseware to educate clients on the company’s software technology. The courseware bridged the gap between the functional orientation of the mainframe to open systems programmers/administrators and the functional orientation of open systems (object orientation) to mainframe programmers/administrators.
Apps Development -- Interfaced with customers using a proprietary tool that automatically translated multiple systems written in Natural to Java/C# and converted Adabas data to a relational database format. The application functioned on open systems servers and workstations precisely as it did in its original format and platform.
Solutions Engineer -- Visual Mining (07/2005 – 09/2010)
Developed Java-based charting applets, dashboard, and data visualization solutions, including web-based dashboard software that enables end-users to monitor panels and KPIs and conduct in-depth analysis to understand actionable business information. Designed custom solutions using a corporate RAD tool to meet client specifications, resulting in increased sales.
Customer Service -- Prepared custom demonstrations for specific prospects using customer-supplied sample data, logos, and corporate colors. Handled support calls daily to ensure customer satisfaction.
Training and Curriculum Development -- Maintained and delivered courseware for product delivery/installation engagements under the roles of Course Developer and Technical Trainer.
Tools Design -- Created a configurable utility tool to format raw data from the database into a chart/table format.
Additional Experience
Systems Engineer Principal Architect and Developer -- Software AG (09/1983 – 01/2005)
Led the engineering of software solutions to support a variety of tools and processes, including integration, Internet of Things, analytics, process software, and services company. Supported the development efforts of a suite of software solutions, including Monitor Adabas, Natural, EntireX, plus any SNMP-enabled component throughout a Digital Enterprise in real-time.
Performance Monitoring -- Led the development of a performance monitor for Com-plete, a multi-tasking/multi-user environment for simultaneous reconfiguration of dynamic metric collection.
Technical Marketing -- Delivered corporate demonstrations to new prospects and existing customers in the role of Systems Engineer, Field support Engineer, and SME in Natural, EntireX, and Com-plete.
Speaking Engagements -- Spoke at user group meetings and internationally on topics such as the architecture of EntireX. Keynote speaker at the Natural Conference in Boston with a presentation on the efficiency of Com-plete.
Product Training -- Delivered product training to government and private sector customers such as the State of Utah, Delta Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and TIAA. Delivered classes on the product line, which included three distinct product tiers: Natural, Adabas, and Com-plete/EntireX, with multiple subordinate add-on/support products to each tier.
Education and Professional Development
Computer Science, University of Maryland
Certification: Scrum Master
Efforts to Outcomes software management tool, Social Solutions Global
Natural Programming Fundamentals Natural Programming Intermediate and Advanced
Com-plete, Natural and Adabas Internals Adabas Performance Programming Predict Programming Fundamentals
Network Implementation GUI Design