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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.
• 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.

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

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.