Ben Mossman Email & Phone Number

Iowa City, Ia, Us

Waterloo, Iowa, United States

Portland, Oregon, United States

• Sr Architect (IC6) for NWEA flagship MAP platform and core business products and services in adaptive testing and alignment of standards, testing and classroom curriculum and measurement of achievement and growth in K-12 math, reading, language, and science, with a market share consisting of over 16.2 million K-12 students, 50K schools and districts in 149 countries, and revenues over $1 billion.• Helped establish architecture roles, functions and engagement model for IT strategy, EA, SA, governance and guidance, as well as reference library, platform service catalog, and standards for architecture deliverables.• Drove enterprise DevOps roadmap including CI/CD best practices, cloud migration, IaC, microservices, platform rationalization, and technology consolidation.• Delivered APM, TPM and data, app and infrastructure target architectures for AWS migration of core business receiving high praise from the CTO and AWS ProServe.

Iowa City, Iowa, United States

• Lead Solutions Architect for ACT core business products and services in standards based assessment and education and career readiness and navigation, with a market share consisting of nearly half of all graduating U.S. high school students and revenues over $1 billion: MyACT, ACT National, ACT International, PreACT and ACT prep products, including e-commerce, digital marketing and fulfillment.• AWS migration of many ACT core business platforms and services contributing to $3M operations cost savings.• Modernization and consolidation of many ACT core business platforms and infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) contributing to a 30% savings in operating expenses.• Implemented CI/CD and Agile principles and design contributing to a 15% time to market improvement.• Contracted to ACT through Staff Finders Inc., Hillsboro, OR (Dec 2017 – May 2018), followed by a transition to full-time employment with ACT.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States

• Software Architect for multiple aircraft information management solutions, including airborne and ground systems, global connectivity, cloud services, content delivery and mobile apps for flight decks on commercial aircraft.• Co-inventor of US Patent 010951418 for managing digital identities for secure air-to-ground communication.• Coached multiple globally distributed teams spanning the United States, India, and France, including a semifinalist for Chairman’s Team Award.• Helped lead SAFe (scaled agile) implementation for Airborne Information Systems department.• LEAN projects manager and coach with $2 million savings in operating expenses in a single year through process and technology consolidation and optimization.• Technical leadership and project management of satellite and software defined radio solutions for U.S. Department of Defense programs.• Secret U.S. Government Clearance