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New York, Ny, Us

Healthfirst is a leading provider of health insurance in lower New York State with over 1.7 million members. • Responsible for enterprise architecture covering member portals, application security and cloud computing.- Working on CMS interoperability compliance using FHIR based REST services.- Working on architecting for composable applications. - Created a member identity management solution using Okta as the core platform.• Drafted cloud governance policies along with a cloud migration plan.• Certified as a SAFe Agilist to support the transformation of Healthfirst to an agile practice• Conducted cybersecurity assessments. • Architected a solution to support mandated new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier

New York, Ny, Us

Leading provider of insurance and financial services, serving nearly 100 million customers throughout 100+ countries.• Responsible for mobile technology selection, roadmaps and reference architecture. Achieved global standardization of mobile technology using IBM’s MobileFirst platform. • Implemented multiple B2C self service and sales mobile applications.• Responsible for the design, implementation and managed a multiple country Softlayer cloud environment that enabled the rollout mobile applications in the U.S., Mexico, and EMEA.• Supported a cloud based Dev Ops environment and evaluated AWS’ public cloud. • Created reference architecture centered on HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and Angular.js, used by MetLife's application contractors and developers.• Presented mobile architecture at IBM’s Impact Conference 2014 and events with executive-level guests.• Worked closely with technical support and AD teams, performing evaluations of system architecture and proposed solutions, selecting application portfolios, and developing future state architecture roadmaps.

New York, Ny, Us

Senior ArchitectMetLife, Institutional BusinessMay 2002 – November 2008 Software architect supporting the Group business systems with a focus on external websites and internal employee portals.• Software architect for the Metlink and MyBenefits group insurance customer facing portals. • Supported various Institutional AD teams guiding the development of technical strategy and solution architecture. • Evaluated and approved all software requests for the Group insurance division.• Managed a team that upgraded 160 applications and over 400 web services from Websphere v5.1 to v6.1. • Implemented an external SaaS cloud provider for Group Insurance enrollment• Developed IT architecture principles, standards and future-state system roadmaps aligned with the enterprise.• Developed overarching reference architecture and solution architectures.

New York, Ny, Us

Director Metlife, Internet Center of Excellence Feb 1998 – May 2002Managed three application development teams working on the creation of web sites.• Created the first at Metlife Group benefit administration insurance web site.• Implemented the first content management platform.• Implemented the first application to use IBM’s Websphere v3.5 platform.

New York, Ny, Us

Manager Software Development MetLife, PensionsJune 1993 – Feb 1998Development manager on a DB2 based system that is used to manage over 11 billion dollars of Pensions Reserves. • Responsibilities cover managing the technical staff through the full life cycle of development, developing the application architecture, reviewing business requirements, and designing systems solutions. • Developed a GUI front-end written in Powerbuilder that utilizes a DDCS gateway to DB2. Implemented a PC development environment based on DB2/2 and Microfocus.

New York, Ny, Us

Software Engineer MetLifeApril 1990 – June 1993Responsible for development methodology, CASE tool, and software metrics research, selection and implementation. • Team selected Cooper and Lybrand's Summit-D methodology. Methodology later became a Metlife company standard. • Provided internal consulting services in project planning, structured techniques, design, testing and CASE tool use.

New York, Ny, Us

System ConsultantMetLifeNovember 1986 – April 1990• Developer and team leader of a development group which selected, designed and implemented the first image processing system (Wang WIIS) installed at Metlife. • Implemented a Comshare System-W and Commander EIS system for the Pensions Senior Executives. Evaluated new technologies that addressed the Department's business needs.