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Oversee technology, data, and governance to ensure smooth and efficient operations in hybrid and AWS cloud environments. Lead initiative to build micro-service application that involves assets management, document verification, Gen AI that utilize .NET, NodeJS, REACT, MongoDB, OpenAI, and other state of the art technologies. » Develop vision, direction, structure, and guidance for daily operations. » Get business data ready for AI strategies and roadmaps through business use-case identification. » Build hands-on proof of technology (PoT) and pilot of conceived design, need-based tactical, and technical assistance. » Implement blockchain technology strategy, planning, and execution of crypto-focused mission critical programs.

Modernizing data and analytics solutions as part of digital transformations. Strategic thinker with hands-on execution of Data Lake, Lake house and other modern Business Intelligence solutions. Subject mater expert in hybrid data management solutions, with a focus on customized data management and observability products while implementing information architecture (IA) for customers. Drives business value and technology outcomes throughout customer technology lifecycle with IBM software solutions to support "Information Architecture before AI", embedding Artificial Intelligence, generative AI, hybrid data management, and governance in Hybrid Cloud Platform strategy. Designing and implementing scalable, responsible, and secure AI architectures with governance, supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, and natural language processing. Build pilot and deploy industry leading AI/ML and Generative AI technology at large enterprises with industry specific ethical and responsible foundation models. Experienced in architecting RAG patterns, deep understanding of various vector databases, and hybrid data stores. Using RAG patterns to help customers improving quality and productivity, enabling one of my customers to save $2M a year. Contributing to cutting-edge Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution designs and their implementation to drive business growth. Responsible for multi-million dollars annual revenue of IBM’s Data and AI products including customers’ deployments, cloud migrations, SaaS onboarding, increased software utilization, and value realization (ROI) of products. Coach and enable teams to accelerate hybrid data management, Data and AI projects from architecture, to pilot/Proof of Concept to production. Creating and delivering technical proof points via technical accelerators and proof of experience, POTs, POCs, Workshops, Solution Design Workshops, Proposals and MVPs.

Provides strategic guidance to IT executives on leveraging data to drive business insights and innovation with Watsonx AI products. Implement robust data architecture and governance frameworks to ensure data quality, security, and compliance in AI model building. Educator, mentor, ambassador of data awareness literacy, and information architecture best practices speaker.» Involved with IT executives in guiding through the changes needed to unlock the full value of hybrid cloud; demonstrating value of IBM Software Growth Offerings to the customer; and driving adoption of IBM and its partner's technologies by showing in production and non-production environments.» Responsible for multi-million dollars customer's entitlements of IBM Data and AI products, deployments, implementation guidance, migration to cloud, and increasing software utilization with best practices, architecture, and value realization (ROI) for fortune 500 companies. » As Data & AI Architect; drive implementation, SME and co-creates MVP alongside customer practitioners. Drives utilization, and adoption for offerings customer owns. Provide guidance customer IT executives through the changes needed to unlock the full value and increase ROI.

As a technologist and CSM Architect, driving business value and technology outcomes throughout customer lifecycle with RedHat OpenShift, Cloud Pak, and IBM software solutions to support Hybrid Cloud Platform strategy. » Responsible for product deployments and increasing software utilization of multi-million dollars customer's entitlements, use case identification, solution architecture, and value realization (ROI) for fortune 500 companies. » As an architect; co-creates MVP alongside customer practitioners. Drives growth, utilization, and adoption for Cloud Paks Offerings. Provide guidance customer IT executives through the changes needed to unlock the full value of hybrid cloud. » Demonstrates value of Cloud Paks Offerings to the customer by being hands on in PoC and PoT, identifies additional opportunities for adoption of micro-services architecture on RedHat OpenShift.

Managing virtual product offering and business vision; the implementation involves Health Fitness industry of benefit provider. Service involves new vision in doing business which partners multiple vendors to realize the vision and implementation of the product. Leading, oversight, and utilizing hands on experience building cloud solutions, with refined architectural expertise of API based applications within Cloud. Providing cohesive solution across multiple SaaS platforms and identifying potential bottlenecks, constraints in scalability of solutions spanning cloud PaaS and cloud SaaS offerings.

Involved in architecting SaaS offering since 2015, building all solution domains ranging from application, data, big-data, technology, to business (analytics), and providing implementation oversight of entire life cycle of the solution in an agile environment.Forge cloud based SaaS product from inception to delivery in mixed engagements that involves high velocity and agile delivery of system components which are leading overall completion product architecture and delivery.T E C H N O L O G I E S: » Amazon Compute, Storage, ECR, ECS» VPC peering, AWS Control Tower (fka Landing Zone)» AWS DataLake, SCT, DMS, RDS, SQS, SNS» Puppet, Monit, Ansible, Nagios» MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL» PHP, MVC, REST API's, NodeJS, Lambda» Dockers, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes» Terraform, Packer, Vagrant, aws-vault, terraforming» Semantic Versioning, Change Management» Apache, NGiNX, Tomcat

Cloud re-structuring: Building product and service initiative roadmap based on MVP and rapid pilot for golden standards of consistent delivery. Evaluating the architecture of solutions, and technology side of initiative to optimize return on investment (ROI). Recent engagement involves re-engineering existing environment; modernizing to increase productivity, utilize new technologies in cloud services to maximize system capabilities, scalability, reduce operational cost, and consolidating resources.

Technical leadership, hands-on cloud migration from on-prem to AWS, and direction to the teams in a hybrid environment that support modernization to cloud initiative of bi-directional data replication (BDR) with Oracle to PostgreSQL Migration in an Kanban delivery environment. Technologies:» AWS Data Migration Services (DMS)» Amazon Schema Conversion Tool (SCT)» Amazon RDS (PostgreSQL)

Building product and service initiative roadmap based on MVP. Architecting current state to secure AWS landing zone or possible AWS Control Tower implementation.Incorporate policies, standards and guidelines for cloud-native applications, platforms, core services, and security controls across multiple cloud environments.

Led technical delivery as Technical Architect, create and maintain strong, trusted client relationships at all levels within the client's business. Designed solution recommendations for multi-million dollars ERP solution implementation projects. Applied broad technical skills, industry knowledge and business acumen expertise. These recommendations leverage Elucian technologies, architectures, integrated solutions and offerings to solve the client's business challenges and deliver value for a multi-phased ERP system delivery in hosted, public cloud, hybrid environments.Delivered the successful implementation of Ellucian Cloud services, including collaboration with project team members and key client stakeholders to scope out projects. Created vision for a solution that ERP can build with real estimates and work plans.

Involved in development of a cloud based product architecture that balances requirements from multiple stakeholders including customers, marketing/product owner, program management, operations, and service. Planning architecture that allows meeting time-to-market requirements, performing diagnosis of problems in the field that includes issues during product development and requirements evolution (scalable / extensible).

(GFI Genfare – Chicago, IL) … Assessed Cloud Data Expansion project @ Genfare Link involved evaluating development/maintenance of cloud based AWS RDS Solution's reference architecture’s Current State and Guide them to the Future State with expansion architecture to compliment current system.Involved in development/maintenance of cloud based AWS RDS Solution's reference architectures ("As Is" & "To Be"), comprehending, evaluating Business, Data, Applications & Technology aspects along with contextual, conceptual and logical levels of detail to determine gaps in the expansion of data integration.

Project involves building a cloud-based assets management solution utilizing highly scalable and secure AWS services. This application leverages various application frameworks that focus on Enterprise Assets Management.» Responsible for establishing the enterprise data architecture, building and integrating enterprise data models, and developing the traceability to the enterprise data models for application specific operational and analytical data models.» Designing enterprise database conceptual and logical models and ensuring project level data model alignment. Providing leadership and coaching to DW/BI team members for issues requiring methods, technical expertise or complex design/development knowledge.» Creating the technical component of a project plan which includes developing schedules for those products or subsystems, provided as input to the full cross-functional project schedule:: Responsible for system planning, design and implementation.:: Designing and deploying scale-able, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on Cloud.:: Actively lifting and shifting of existing on-premises application to Cloud.:: Establish & standardize cloud architecture and drive structure for use of the AWS Platform.:: Setting technology standards, security standards, and processes.

At Fairfield University Connecticut -- Involved in evaluating gaps of 1000's of BI and ETL processes migration from legacy ERP system's financial/HR module to Workday HCM. Determine best practices, and design to integrate the data to and from the Workday ERP.

Evaluated IT assets for an ERP in Advancement division. Facilitating and documenting requirements meetings with stewards, stakeholders, development teams. Placing industry standards in documenting workflows, business rules, processes and rules involved in processes.

Project span include designing new processes/solutions to facilitate integration with multiple applications; serving as technical designer to identify best solution and resulting technical specifications within limits of code environment; linking Business needs and Architecture definition to technical solutions.

AWS Data Architect (Finx Solutions – Las Vegas, NA) … … … Building a cloud-based OLTP enterprise solution for internal client. This solution leverages various application frameworks that focus on modernizing Financial Custody System.

Provided services in creating Enterprise Architecture Knowledge Management Process and related deliverables; evaluating and selecting appropriate Enterprise Architecture Tool(s) to support the new process.

Project involved designing an integration platform for Underwriter Lab LLC. The solution leverages application frameworks; automating multiple business processes reducing licensing cost to the company.

Providing advisory services for enterprise solution. Assisting business in defining the mission, goals, critical success factors, principles, and policies for data and information quality.

Successfully migrated legacy data to a module of Banner® ERP suite, developed, and enhancedcomponent based objects of SunGard ERP suite for NSU, LA. Evaluated ERP business processes,analyzed reporting needs of institution, and performed data conversion.

Involved in design, integration, implementation of Banner® ERP suite with applications by leveraging a variety of sources, engaging with client, vendor, and technical personnel.

Upgraded architecture for an EDW at the University of Chicago by introducing TOGAF 9 framework,guidelines, and by building artifact repositories based on framework for a legacy Data Warehousemigration project.

ERP Architect and Technical Lead .... Successfully designed solution for transient student project; reviewed, analyzed specifications,determined gaps, provided optimum solution based on PESC standards, implemented, and integrated these enhancements into ellucian™ Banner ERP suite.

Recognized for delivery of expert services for consortium of higher education universities andassociated organizations in modeling, analysis, designing, customizing, Component BasedDevelopment for enhancements of ERP suit’s functionality