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Hampstead, North Carolina, US

Digital Transformation Experts focused on helping companies leverage technology in an efficient and sustainable manner.

Rosemont, IL, US

• Principal AEM Architect overseeing US FOODS Digital Customer Experience (DCE) platform stack (AEM, Oracle, SQL, Tomcat, Mulesoft) running usfoods.com
• Principal Architect for Digital Product Content (DPC) Product Information Management system running on EnterWorks 10.x (PIMe)
• Leading multiple teams focused on various AEM environment functions such as alerting, monitoring, provisioning, new development, deployment, security, tuning, dataflow, CDN, and integration with USF customer ordering.
• Led AEM Upgrade and Migration from AEM 6.3 to AEM 6.5 while transitioning AEM Environment from on-prem servers into an AWS Multi-account cloud
• Architect for 3rd party product asset ingestion process enabling marketing teams from US Foods' partners to submit digital product images, product allergen information, product usage guides, and other product related.
• Architect for “Flexible Leads” solution enabling creation of custom web-forms by USF leads generation team to collect and survey potential customers by ingesting leads submission data into an AEM webform and then.

Riverwoods, IL, US

• Principal AEM Architect leading Discover Financial Service's (DFS) Business Technology (BT) team.
• Developed BT code branching and review strategy to allow oversight of all DFS Line of Business (LOB) code base consolidation, management, development, testing, review and deployment.
• Lead migration and soft launches for Pulse Network, Discover Home Loans, Discover Card Portfolio, and Discover Card Help Center subsites from TeamSite to AEM 6.4.
• Worked with each LOB team to implement SonarLint/SonarQube review and rapidly reduce Critical and Major code issues systemic within the legacy code bases.
• Represented DFS BT team in weekly "Work Group" sessions with senior leadership across DFS' many business units to help coordinate long term corporate initiatives and provide technological guidance.
• Technical advisor for Brand Portal, AEM DAM, Adobe Target contract negotiation and purchase agreements, architecture design, and AEM integrations.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Through Arbory Digital's partnership with Adobe, I was brought in to help Northern Trust Financial plan their migration from TeamSite to AEM.
• Principal AEM Architect working with Business and Project Management teams to design and plan migration from TeamSite to AEM 6.4.
• Developed content mapping scheme to assist with ingestion of TeamSite XML content into AEM to allow for an automated migration approach.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• While at Rackspace I led the Rackspace Application Services (RAS) for Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) team which is a premium support offering focused on our largest customers. The team leveraged deep application.
• Ford (social.ford.com)
• Siemens (siemens.com)
• Credit Suisse (credit-suisse.com)
• GM Financial (gmfinancial.com)
• PwC (pwc.com)

San Francisco, CA, US

• Worked with Autodesk's web team to implement new personalization features focused on user profiling via site interaction.
• Worked with localization team to port a customized import/export language translation connector for translating site content which leveraged i18n dictionaries
• Lead Upgrade team for a migration from CQ 5.6.1 to AEM 6.0
• Developed dynamic analytics logic based on user interactions with Autodesk's product compare table. This tracked exactly which products and features a user was viewing and comparing across Autodesk's vast offerings.

Pleasanton, CA, US

Hurst, Texas, US

• Responsible for:
• Monthly treasury reports
• Balance Dayton Area Mensa budget
• Manage Membership and Scholarship funds
• Participate in monthly Steering Committee meetings
• Voting Member

San Jose, CA, US

• Analyzed Xilinx's current architecture with a focus on performance bottlenecks
• Migrated their heavy use of URL rewriting via server-side servlets to a mod_rewrite paradigm which significantly reduced the load on the back end systems
• Deep dive code analysis

San Jose, CA, US

• Architect of Translation Integration Framework (TIF) for AEM 6.0
• Worked with Adobe to design the new TIF which provides a standardized API for Machine Translation (MT) and Translation Memory
• Participated on the AEM 6.0 and 6.1 development life-cycles
• Worked with the Adobe Social Communities team to enable MT components for social collaboration and moderation
• Developed the initial TIF Connector, shipped with AEM 6.0, which provides real-time MT by leveraging Microsoft's Bing translation engines.

Dearborn, Michigan, US

• Architect/Lead for a team of CQ 5.5 (SP 2.1) developers
• Designed solution that leveraged CQ for both a desktop website and mobile application published from single CQ repository.
• Developed a content extraction process which pulled from CQ and built a mobile application (Android, iOS) using PhoneGap (Cordova 2.2)
• Designed/Developed an internationalization (i18n) strategy that allowed business users to maintain a spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel or Google Doc) which would be imported into CQ using a custom process. The CQ templates.
• Solution leveraged jQuery "single page" front end interfaced with an Oracle DB backend via WSO2/Carbon Web Service calls.
• Participated in daily "leads" meetings regarding client (Ford) interaction, release planning, team/personnel management, and budgeting

San Francisco, CA, US

• Responsible for component design/implementation and client communication
• AAU leverages an integration between their custom LMS system and CQ5.5
• Department course content (Modules, Assignments, Sessions) are hosted in CQ5.5 and served via a custom servlet integration point to AAU’s custom LMS
• Course content is Authored/Edited by AAU staff in CQ5.5 and served to students via the LMS

Indianapolis, Indiana, US

• Assisted Hreff Jones in analyzing, troubleshooting, and scaling their Production CQ5.5 instances. This was a one week, on-site analysis.

San Jose, CA, US

• Responsible for migration of Adobe.com from CQ5.3 to CQ5.5 (RC1)
• Designed and wrote migration scripts to organize the world’s largest CQ repository (www.adobe.com)
• Influenced Adobe CQ’s central engineering team on the newest release CQ5.5
• Launched the first CQ5.5 project, March 2012
• Accountable for upgrading all components, classes and workflow during migration
• Improved outdated legacy functionality

Washington, DC, US

• Helped The World Bank design and implement a new Web CMS based on Day CQ 5.3 to replace their custom built Web CMS.
• Architect for in-house server infrastructure. Designed High Availability system with 24/7 required up time. Worked with Adobe/Day to create customized backup solution to meet The World Bank's strict backup.
• Implemented SiteMinder authentication with CQ. Integrated CQ 5.3 with LDAP.
• Technical Architect tasked with CQ component design and development oversight/review. Helped lead team of 25 off shore developers.
• Designed integration with WB's internal search engine repository which centralizes search among all of WB's internal systems and repositories.
• Designed and developed custom XML query component to allow other World Bank sites to publish News Article data from within CRX based upon custom project code metadata.

Battle Creek, Michigan, US

• Helped Kellogg's design and implement a new Web CMS based on Day CQ 5.3.
• Created an XML feed component to import all of Kellogg's Recipe, Product, and Promotion data from their central DB (SQL Server 2003) into the CRX repository. The component accepted a custom XML schema which contained.
• Created templates for Recipes, Products, and Promotions that, upon import of the data from the central DB, automatically created pages to display all of Kellogg's data from the CQ website (over 4000+ pages).
• Designed and developed customized slide show component for Kellogg to run holiday specific advertisements.

New York, NY, US

• Designed and built dynamic 3-tier left navigation which rendered based on the page location within the site structure (based on CRX, JCR node structure). (CQ 5.3)
• Designed and built RSS feed reader component which generated a custom "News List" (read various RSS feeds). (CQ 5.3)
• Developed "Choice Box" component which segmented Grad/Undergrad students. (CQ 5.3)

Buffalo, NY, US

• Developed a custom form component (for Day CQ 5.3) which emailed and stored form submissions within the CRX repository. Also helped modify a customized google search component within Day CQ 5.3.

Basel, BS, CH

• Sharepoint development for internal portal using.NET. Jet Aviation had a number of document submission forms that needed business logic and validation programed into the back-end.
• Leveraged DFS services developed for IURC (tweaked for Jet) to upload the documents from SharePoint into a DCTM docbase.

Geneva, Geneva, CH

• Setup a hosted environment for all of ST Ericsson's sites using DCTM 6.5. This included an upgrade and migration of their existing sites.

• Implemented a connection between IURC's existing DCTM Docbase (where all their records resided) and their new Sharepoint front-end using DFS (.NET).
• Created multiple services to import DCTM documents into SP and to upload documents from the SP front end to the DCTM repository.
• Assisted with Production support (Dec '09 - Mar '10).

Las Vegas, NV, US

• Helped TI migrate from MGM's system with a new internal HR portal based on SharePoint.
• Developed digital W2 and W4 forms with Infopath integration allowing TI to fully digitize their on boarding process.

Deerfield, Illinois, US

• Upgraded internal portal application (mostly raw HTML).
• Advised on the implementation of several new technical business documents.

London, GB

• Technical adviser for Requirement and Design phase for eDocs 1.1 through 1.5 (E&Y internal tax file system based on Documentum 5.3).
• Tech Lead for development of eDocs 1.2-1.5.
• Designed and oversaw development for Business Object Framework layer. eDocs was a highly customized Webtop application.

New York, New York, US

• Lead for Pfizer's global Web Content Management production support team.
• In charge of 20+ websites running on BEA WebLogic 8.1 and Documentum Web Publisher. (lipitor.com; viagra.com; getquit.com...)
• Managed site deployment, development issues, database maintenance, and eAgency training.