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Enterprise Architect - SOA
Architect - Solution Architect Specialty
- SOA Architect SOA
Tooling experience in recent engagements: Change
agent with particular awareness of cultural, political and leadership factors
that impact effectiveness of SOA implementation efforts. Worked directly with IBM WebSphere,
WSAD, RSA, RAD, Vitria BusinessWare, MagicDraw UML, AndroMDA, Systinet,
Active Directory, and AmberPoint.
Strategic vision coupled with technical ability. Roles
and responsibilities have included enterprise and solution architecture,
hardware and software technology assessment, strategic and tactical planning,
project estimation, planning and management, software architecture, design,
and development, team, area and division lead, lecturer, instructor and
presenter, vendor and outsource liaison officer, facility preparation and
hardware/software configuration, procurement and deployment management,
standards body support and participation, business case analysis,
requirements gathering and analysis, functional systems design, network
design, hardware, software and network capacity planning and optimization,
and overall systems troubleshooting. Active involvement with all aspects of the
technologies by continuing to participate as a developer even when primary
focus was mentoring or team/project leadership. Chief
Architect Roles
and responsibilities are varied.
A representative sample is listed below:
Instructor Course development
and delivery for a leading education management provider. Specialty in SOA, Enterprise
Architecture and Modeling curriculums.
Delivering Roadmap to SOA, Business Analysis Fundamentals, and
Defining Business Systems with UML.
Additional courses under development. The SOA course series will guide practitioners thru the
decision model for analysis, implementation and governance of business-agile
enterprise architectures. Consulting
Enterprise Architect Consulting Senior
Enterprise Architect within the Technology Strategy & Planning area of
Lincoln Financial Group’s Enterprise Architecture organization, fulfilled
responsibilities for advising and guiding technology strategy and supporting
the delivery of common technology components to enable adoption of shared reuse
and strategic technology capabilities. Provided oversight, guidance
and advice on a number of project teams, guided the evaluation of the Global
IQX products, technology and company, and represented Lincoln Financial Group
as an active member of the ACORD SOA-EBIG interest group on the application
of SOA technology and processes within the Employee Benefits industry. Consulting Senior Architect within
Lincoln Financial Group's Lincoln Employer Markets business unit, advising
and guiding technology strategy and application buy/leverage/build activities
for business-driven project initiatives. Delivered clear and actionable
architecture guidance and advice, supporting delivery of high-value
technology applications that represent significant bottom-line value for
Lincoln Financial Group. Lead
Architect - Information Security For major financial
services provider served as lead security architect on mission-critical
insurance point-of-sale transaction system SOA project. Application serves internal and
external insurance/financial agent, call-center personal and consumer end
users. Devised, architected and
implemented a Kerberos Single Sign-On solution that integrated IBM WebSphere
J2EE application server with Microsoft Windows Active Directory. IBM nominated
this architecture for Invention Innovation Award. Solution leveraged industry standards, worked with
the existing administration and identity management processes, yielding
significant savings in password administration and improved user experience. Lead
Architect - Content
Management/Delivery For a major financial
services provider served as lead architect on Online Help Content system for
J2EE mission-critical insurance point-of-sale transaction system SOA
project. Further participated on
inter-departmental architecture effort to define enterprise approaches for
this problem space. Successfully
implemented solution addressing requirements as stated. Lead
Architect - Application
Architecture For a major insurance
provider to the retail consumer insurance market, served as architect on
multi-year project to implement complete customer servicing via
internet. Project was completed on-schedule and met all
significant stated business requirements. Analyzed business and
functional requirements, defined overall and detailed architecture in
collaboration with principal software vendors. Representative contribution involved
proposing, specifying, designing and prototyping re-architecture of web-to-legacy
interface tier resulting in over 200% performance improvement. Designed and implemented
inter-Company Web Service integration for internet aggregator. Lead
Architect - Instructor and
Development Team Mentor For a major insurance
provider to the retail consumer insurance market, provided technical leadership
and direction for development organization charged with delivery of mission
critical distributed object-based systems supporting agency and claims
customer contact centers. At initial engagement, statement of work was short
term architecture and design of component based object framework. Over the
course of the project and extending into a fourfold extension of the
engagement duration, role grew to include overall architect and design of
three different applications, leveraging the foundations created in each
project into the next.
Perform as designer, lead architect, mentor and senior developer
concurrently. Lead Architect For a major national
bank, provided definition, design, and architecture from inception through
deployment for object oriented framework for call center support system.
Worked as lead architect on small core team of senior architecture developers
and was responsible for key architecture infrastructure design and coding.
Also served as mentor to development team in overall object oriented analysis
and design techniques and the specifics of employing the locally designed
architecture in application development. Liaison was required with senior
management to ensure suitable architecture to meet current and future
business scenarios. Senior
Developer - Mentor For major
international telecommunications utility, served as senior developer on team
charged with development of object-oriented customer service call center
support application. Participated in development, and onsite deployment
support. My responsibilities included use case development, iterative
lifecycle review with end-user representatives, and development. Project
Manager - Deployment Planning For major
international telecommunications utility, served as project manager for
rollout of object oriented system. This engagement required my service as a
project planner, facilities planner and coordinator for 23 deployment sites,
and hardware and software configuration, planning, and specification. Also
included full responsibility for vendor liaison (specifications, pricing,
ordering, delivery coordination, installation coordination and system
readiness evaluation). Moved on to lead development role for this same client
after this assignment was completed. Senior
Consultant - Sales Support For leading
minicomputer manufacturer, in-house senior consultant responsible for sales
support for hardware, software and overall technology application for OLTP
sales. This engagement required in-depth knowledge of all aspects of vendor's
OLTP product line, both hardware and software. Position involved ad hoc
development of innovative solutions to complex customer business
requirements. High visibility,
self-contained and prepared to travel to customer site and make operational
whatever the sales force had specified to the customer. Called upon to rapidly prepare and
deliver comprehensive and customer-targeted technical and business solution
presentations to senior technical and managerial customer personnel, often
concurrently with working to implement the solution being presented. Assistant Vice
President - Telecommunications
Strategy For major
international bank, responsible for all aspects of strategic planning both
technical and budgetary for several areas of telecommunications including
secure networking, Federal Reserve interfaces, and lock box support
networking, letter of credit systems, etc. Interpreted consolidated
telecommunications requirements from business units and integrated these into
tactical plans to address them within functional and budgetary constraints.
Through technology assessment and coordination with other areas of the
enterprise, devised strategic technological approaches to meet ongoing
telecommunications needs on eighteen-month and three-year planning lifecycles.
Remained hands-on, with activities including writing code, performing
technology evaluations and prototyping projects concurrently with the
planning roles. Manager of a
team of developers and other professionals. Manager - Software Development For major
telecommunications service provider served in a number of roles beginning as
software developer on message switching systems and culminating as manager of
team of developers. Served in several capacities that involved software
development and maintenance, local and national system integration and
deployment, standards body participation, and systems troubleshooting on
complex interconnected systems of Operations Support Systems (OSS), legacy
and networking applications. Industry Vertical
Experience:
Telecommunications, Computer (Hardware and Software), Manufacturing,
Insurance, Financial Services, Banking, Retail. Retirement Services Technology
areas
include: Methodologies - Model Driven Design, Object Oriented Analysis and Design
(Rational Unified Process, UML). Frameworks, Design Patterns, Component
Architecture, Application Development Methodologies (Prototyping, RAD,
Incremental Delivery). Joint Requirements Planning and Application Design
(JRP/JAD). Use Case and
Software Modeling Tools - Rational Software
Architect, Rational Rose, Paradigm Plus Hardware - Microcomputer - Intel and
PowerPC based systems from various manufacturers - Minicomputer - IBM iSeries, IBM RS6000, HP - Data General - DEC PDP, VAX,
MicroVAX - Mainframe Systems - IBM Models including S360, S390, S3090, Sun Software - Operating Systems - IBM OS400, Microsoft DOS, Windows,
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, MacOS, IBM OS/2, AIX,
MVS, VM, HP HP-UX, SCO Unix, AT&T UNIX System 3 and System 5, XDS RBM and
RTOS, DEC Ultrix and VMS, DG AOS, Sun Solaris - Web Technologies - Web Services, HTML, DHTML, XML, XSLT, BizTalk, .NET - Object
Oriented Platforms
- Microsoft COM, DCOM, COM+, SOAP, OMG CORBA, Java RMI - Development
Methodologies -
SOA, UML, Use Case Analysis, CRC Analysis - Programming Languages - Smalltalk, Visual Basic,
Java, C, C++ ,BAL, COBOL, VB.Net, C#, JavaScript - Database
Systems - SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, Paradox, Access,
FoxPro, IMS, DB2, RDB - OLTP Tuxedo, ACMS, - Object Request Brokers - Expersoft CORBAplus
Smalltalk, C++ and Java/J2EE, Visigenics - Industry
Standards - Kerberos, LDAP, DITA, WS-Security, ACORD XML, AL3 - Message
Broker/Message Oriented Middleware - Vitria BusinessWare 4.3 |
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March 2008 –
Present BrookEdge Technologies, Boston MA Chief Architect §
Working
as an SOA Architect, EA Architect, Security Architect, Integration Architect
or as appropriate, participate in company’s Service Oriented Architecture and
Enterprise Architecture projects and initiatives; §
Participate
and/or lead SOA, EA, Security Projects at client sites as appropriate and/or
our offices in Boston; §
Assist
the company’s management in leading, managing and building The Company’s
Service Oriented Architecture projects/business including leading some of the
initiatives; §
Participate
in Training, Development and Delivering of SOA and EA courses. December 2007 -
Present ASPE Technologies, Raleigh, NC Instructor ·
Provide
strategic guidance concerning industry perspective, develops proprietary
courses, and delivers training experiences, seminars and formal classes. ·
Generate
new training program ideas. ·
Currently
teaching "Roadmap to SOA", "Defining Business Systems with
UML" and "Business Analyst Fundamentals" and other courses. ·
Conducting
research & development on related major courses for delivery in the 2008
training season. 2006 - 2007
Lincoln Financial Group, Arlington Heights, IL Consulting Senior
Enterprise Architect ·
Served
as principal Logical Architect for Lincoln Financial Group’s Emerging
Technology Process and SOA Architecture approach. - Defined Logical Architecture Model laying out
overall strategic SOA technology approach. This effort involved understanding LFG unique challenges
and business requirements. Based
on these drivers, a comprehensive logical Reference Architecture was
developed to provide a roadmap for SOA adoption at Lincoln Financial Group. - Defined Web Site Identity Federation
Cross-Domain Single-Sign On (CD-SSO) architecture. - Provided technical leadership to application
development teams on Global IQX vendor evaluation, EM Web Initiative, SOA
Enrollment and others. Platform
- Sun Solaris, Intel-based systems running Microsoft Windows XP,
Apache, J2EE, WebSphere Application Server, Vitria BusinessWare, Microsoft
Active Directory, OpenLDAP, Systinet 2, Oracle, RAD 6, RSA 6, XML Spy, Oracle
10g, MagicDraw UML, AndroMDA. 1996- 2006
Allstate Insurance Corporation, Northbrook, IL Senior
Architect/Consultant
- Defined overall security architectural
approach contributing key insights to design. - Defined and developed Single-Sign On (SSO)
architecture. - Provided technical leadership to application
development teams. Platform
- IBM iSeries, Intel-based systems running Microsoft Windows 2000
Workstation and Server and Windows 2003, Internet Information Server, J2EE,
WebSphere Application Server, IBM VAGen, Microsoft Active Directory,
Kerberos, MSMQ, SMTP, DB2, CICS, WSAD 5.0, XML Spy, SQL Server 2000, Rational
XDE, Rational Software Architect.
- Defined overall architectural approach
contributing key insights to evolving design. - Defined and developed complex business rule
support architecture. - Provided technical leadership to architecture
and application development teams. - Proposed, designed and implemented improved
legacy-tier architecture greatly improving the viability of the entire
website. - Created architecture to implement web service
for insurance policy quotes over SOAP, WSDL. - Defined and implemented processes and tools to
ensure best practices by application developers. Platform - various Intel-based systems running
Microsoft Windows 2000 Workstation and Server, Internet Information Server,
MTS/COM+, MSMQ, SNA Server, SMTP, MQSeries, DB2, AS/400, CICS, Visual Basic
6.0 Enterprise Edition, Visual C++, XML Spy, SQL Server 2000, IBM Client
Access Express, Rational Rose.
- Served as vendor liaison to several key
technology providers. - Contributed technology insights and vision to
direction setting activities throughout division. - Provided mentoring in object oriented
techniques for a large team of developers. - Functioned in key role as lead architect on
web-enabled prototype call center system development. - Directed evaluation of XML based enhancement
for inter-layer communications. Platform
- various Intel-based systems running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
and Server, Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition, Visual J++, Visual C++,
Expersoft CORBAplus for C++, Smalltalk and Java, VisualWorks Smalltalk,
Oracle 7.3, IBM RS6000 w/ AIX, Rational Rose, Paradigm Plus. 1994-1996
First Union Bank, Charlotte, NC Senior Software
Architect
Platform
- various Intel based systems running Microsoft Windows NT 3.5 Workstation
and Server, Digitalk Smalltalk, Oracle, Windowbuilder. 1991-1994
Centel/Sprint Corporation, Chicago, IL Senior Consultant
Platform
- IBM RS6000, with AIX various models, Intel based systems running OS/2,
OSF/Motif, X-Window System, C and C++ development, OS/2 Presentation Manager and
Dialog Manager. 1989-1990 Digital
Equipment Corporation, Itasca, IL Senior Consultant -
OLTP Resource Center
Platform
- Entire DEC OLTP Hardware and Software product line including all VAX
MicroVAX models, VMS, Ultrix, ACMS, RDB, etc. 1988-1989 CNA
Insurance, Chicago, IL Senior Consultant
Platform
- IBM Intel based processors running PC-DOS and OS/2 EE. C and assembler
development environment. 1986-1988 First
Chicago, Chicago, IL Corporate
Officer/Director Telecommunications Strategic Planning
Platform
- Tandem NonStop, General Datacomm, Cisco, AT&T System 75, C language. 1974-1986
Illinois Bell/Bell Laboratories, Chicago, IL Manager Software
Development
Platform
- DEC VAX 11/780 with UNIX, DG 4000 and 8000 with AOS, XDS System 5 with RBM,
programming languages C and assembler. |
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