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3CloudSolutions Architect - Agile Software Delivery
Jul. 2023Chicago, Illinois, United States
CrederaSenior Architect (Cloud)
Oct. 2020 - Jun. 2023Chicago, Illinois, United States• Advise clients on the most efficient/effective cloud technologies to utilize to solve business problems. • Create proofs of concepts and reference architectures for cloud-native applications/technologies and DevOps.
• Provide project delivery, architectural and development oversight for multiple projects/teams ensuring success.
• Provide clients with strategic, technology road maps in their journey to the cloud
• Work with project leaders, product owners, architects and senior management to collaboratively create cloud-based solutions.
• Architected, led a 6 person team and developed a cloud-native restaurant operations application using AWS, Apache Kafka and Java.
• Tripled the performance and scalability of a client’s system running on AWS by using EKS and microservices.
• Architected, led a 5 person team and developed a cloud-native, personalized selling platform for a major house developer which included SharePoint integration.
• Created a 5 year strategic roadmap to assist a large, national charity
• Led an assessment and roadmapping effort to identify People, Process & Technology changes that could dramatically improve the client’s business operations. Implementation is in progress.
• Led an effort to migrate a .NET WebForms application to Angular 14 and .NET Core 7. • Responsible for the career growth and progression of up to 5 team members.
• Continue to be hands-on coding in .NET and Java.
10th MagnitudeApplication Architect (Cloud)
Oct. 2017 - Oct. 2020• Assist clients in addressing the technical and financial hurdles encountered in moving their application platforms ($3MM-$100MM cloud spend annually) from on premise data centers to the cloud.
• Advise clients on the most efficient/effective cloud technologies to utilize to solve business problems. Saved a client over $150k annually in Azure utilization while at the same time making the application more scalable and performant.
• Create proofs of concepts and reference architectures for cloud-native applications/technologies.
• Provide architectural and development oversight for multiple projects/teams.
• Provide clients with strategic, technology road maps in their journey to the cloud
• Work with project leaders, product owners, architects and senior management to collaboratively create cloud-based solutions.
• Architected, led an 8 person team and developed a cloud-native logistics application integrating ERP and Business Intelligence systems.
• Designed and developed a strategic CI/CD platform to assist in making the use of Azure services easy and cost efficient for client development teams.
• Created an IoT solution to track conference room usage: included software and hardware development.
• Continue to be hands-on coding in .NET.
SPRPrincipal Architect / Practice Advisor
Oct. 2015 - Oct. 2017Greater Chicago Area• Coach, mentor and manage a team of 10 developers and architects.
• Responsible for recruiting, performance evaluation, career development.
• Work with project leaders, sales, project managers and senior management to allocate development resources.
• Architect and Project Leader for enterprise, mission critical, high volume projects ranging in budget from $200K – $1.0MM. • Anticipate and address client needs and challenges.
• Responsible for project design, planning, execution, and quality issue resolution for web and mobile-based applications.
• Work with PMO, DevOps, Infrastructure and other client teams to deliver solutions within client environments.
• Ensure client satisfaction, application performance/scalability and budget targets. • Implement processes and metrics to ensure development efficiency and effectiveness.
• Provide clients with strategic, technology road-maps.
• Provide estimation, timeline and cost inputs to help build budgets.
• Establish company-wide coding and design standards.
• Create proofs of concepts for emerging technologies.
• Participate in pre-sales efforts to define high-level solution and project scope.
• Continue to be hands-on with .NET coding.
• Familiar with IaaS/PaaS cloud services (Azure and AWS).
GenecaChief Architect
Jan. 2015 - Oct. 2015Greater Chicago Area• Manage all technical staff at Geneca – responsible for recruiting, performance, career development and staffing.
• Initiated a program to improve weekly one-on-one sessions by providing coaching training for team leaders.
• Initiated a program to productionize client-facing frameworks.
• Established company-wide coding and design standards.
• Created a framework and process by which Geneca can evaluate 3rd party software for its clients.
• Architect and Project Leader for enterprise, mission critical projects ranging in budget from $200K – $3.2MM. Ensured client success and budget targets.
• Create proofs of concept for emerging technologies.
• Continue to be hands-on with .NET coding.
• Participate in technology envisioning and software definition efforts to spearhead software development projects.
• Responsible for driving clarity and traceability of requirements for design and estimation efforts.
• Participate in pre-sales efforts in a technology support role.
• Provide outreach and representation for Geneca at speaking engagements.
• Provide clients assistance in software evaluation, comparison and selection.
GenecaArchitect
Jul. 2012 - Jan. 2015Greater Chicago Area• Architect and Project Lead for a $3.2MM project to double the size of AIM Specialty Health’s (a subsidiary of Wellpoint) oncology product offering. I manage the day to day delivery of projects to ensure client success and budget attainment. Perform hands-on coding when required.
• Manage a 10 developer team; ensuring that development staff are properly aligned with the technical strategy and business plan.
• Provided research and practical advice on the selection of an enterprise service bus for a major fleet management company, Wheels, Inc which included technical and C-level personnel. • Architect and team lead for a project to integrate third-party marketplace sales into the catalog and inventory systems of FTD, Inc.
• Led a team to extend functionality to a social media application designed to work on various platforms including the web and mobile devices (Android & iPhone).
• Created proofs of concept for Single Page Applications, AWS and Microsoft Azure deployed applications.
• Participate in technology envisioning and software definition efforts to spearhead software development projects.
• Responsible for driving clarity and traceability of requirements for design and estimation efforts.
• Participate in pre-sales efforts in a technology support role.
• Responsible for guiding and mentoring junior technology team members.
• Provide outreach and representation for Geneca at speaking engagements.
• Provide clients assistance in software evaluation, comparison and selection.
NokiaSr. Architect
Nov. 2011 - Jul. 2012Greater Chicago Area• Defined short/mid/long-term architectural roadmap for securing all Core Map internal applications using SSO and MS Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM).
• Developed referenced architectures and defined/lead proof of concept (POC) activities for implementing applications using portal technology and HTML5-based map editing.
• Defined & documented conceptual and high-level (logical) architectural solutions using architectural views.
• Collaborated with various teams on integration & refactoring approaches.
Flexera SoftwareArchitect
Jan. 2011 - Nov. 2011Schaumburg, IL• Introduced TFS 2010 as a means to document requirements/use-cases, create architecture/design artifacts and track project progress within the agile SDLC process.
• Developed referenced architectures and defined/lead proof of concept (POC) activities • Defined & documented conceptual and high-level (logical) architectural solutions using architectural views.
• Defined short/mid/long-term architectural roadmap for a new usage-based licensing product.
• Led requirements gathering activities with project stakeholders.
• Developed standards around design and architecture review processes including artifacts to present, check points, etc. (Enterprise governance)
• Collaborated with various teams on integration & refactoring approaches.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield AssociationArchitect
May. 2010 - Jan. 2011Chicago, IL• Lead capacity planning activities to guide system investment for next four years for amission-critical, plan-to-plan real-time enterprise messaging system (Blue Exchange).
• Lead performance analyses to document capacity and performance bottlenecks for several enterprise-wide, real-time plan-to-plan messaging systems (Blue Squared, BlueServ).
• Developed and implemented standards and best-practices regarding performance testing of BCBSA applications and source-control structure.
• Developed standards around design and architecture review processes including artifacts to present, check points, etc. (Enterprise governance)
• Collaborated with various engineering/design teams on integration approaches.
• Led efforts involving matrixed groups of resources (5+) to resolve urgent, high-priority production issues.
JPMorgan ChaseArchitect
May. 2006 - May. 2010Chicago, IL• Lead architect for several major line-of-business (LOB) applications that process over $10 billion of corporate credit card transactions per year. • Lead architect for a scalable, highly-available real-time system to obtain credit card accounts and modify account settings.
• Created long-term, strategic architectural roadmap for LOB platforms.
• Worked with external vendors and/or internal JPMC groups • Lead the design process and presented recommendations at architecture review sessions.
• Ensure all designs follow best-practices, standard design patterns and JPMC standards (Enterprise governance).
• Design highly available (HA), scalable and high performance environments based upon the needs of the particular software platform by specifying hardware and connectivity requirements.
• Lead capacity planning efforts to forecast future system growth and modify infrastructure designs accordingly.
• Created reference architectures for various LOB platforms.
• Oversaw physical design efforts.
• Lead large teams of matrixed resources (5+ resources) to resolve mission critical issues.
PPM AmericaLead Developer
Mar. 2004 - May. 2006Chicago, IL• Lead architect and designer for an enterprise-wide application responsible for the real-time execution, reconciliation and management of trades used to manage portfolios of Fixed Income, Bank Loans, Commercial Mortgage Loans, Private Equity and Private Finance instruments with a combined worth of over $65 billion dollars. (Order Management system (OMS)). • Platform owner responsible for implementing and overseeing all development assigned to the OMS project (3 resources).
• Developed .NET coding standards/guidelines for use across all Prudential UK subsidiaries
Information Resources IncDirector
Jan. 2000 - Mar. 2004Chicago, IL• Lead designer and developer for custom data-mining and web-based interface projects for numerous Consumer Package Goods (CPG) Fortune 500 companies
• HR supervisory role of two developers.
• Designed and planned all Chicago-region custom application projects. • Concurrently managed several project development teams (2-3 resources each).
• Worked directly with Clients, and Business Development (sales) & Project Management teams to determine project scope, effort/cost estimates, and document project requirements.
• Served as "technical expert" during pre-sales meetings/presentations.
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