Serve as highest level technical application and/or business architecture expert for software development / infrastructure teams at the program level. Extensive experience delivering IT solutions; develop the technical or business strategy for the program and act as SME to program/project teams in the plan, design, and delivery of solutions. Develop and drive short - long term architecture strategy for the overall IT project portfolio for key business segments.I am/have been involved in the following projects as a project/program software architect & technical lead:• GAP Claims Portal – I am the application architect and Ally technical lead for this web application and web services. • Vehicle Protection Center – I am the application architect and Ally technical lead for this web application and web services. • Ally Insurance Enterprise Dealer Portal – I work on a consulting basis to help resolve technical issue.• App Direct e-Commerce Application and Web Services – I am working on re-architecting of this customer-focused C-to-B application to quote insurance (warranty) rates and make payments for our new Ally standard stack. • Dealer Financial Services Single Platform – I am involved on a consulting basis in the initiative to migrate multiple Insurance applications and services to a common standard application & service stack.• Gemalto SafeNet HSM Configuration – I took over the configuration of SafeNet HSM client setup and Oracle Weblogic configuration for a project that was stalled multiple times.• AppDynamics Performance Monitoring for Insurance – I am working with the Technology Infrastructure group to add AppDynamics Monitoring to VPC and Dealer Portal applications.• GoToAssist Pilot Project – I was assigned by the CIO to take over triaging and troubleshooting when this project was delayed multiple times by technical problems, and solved the problems by triaging with multiple technology groups within Ally.

I was Chief Software Architect for this start-up mortgage bank. Worked on four initiatives as part of the business and technical strategy execution:• Business Process Enablement and Execution – The vision was to integrate multiple SaaS offerings into an execution business process using a cloud-based BPM Server, with standard interfaces at various levels of the technology stack (from UI to middleware to persistence store), in order to achieve plug-and-play integration at the business execution level.• Technology Stack and Integration – The vision was to use current and planned SaaS software, integrated via BPM and application integration (ESB) to move as close as possible to Straight-Through-Processing, from Mortgage Origination through Mortgage Servicing• Cloud: I participated in a cloud project with DinCloud, and led a cloud server provisioning project with Amazon Cloud• DinCloud: I was a key participant in the Cloud Infrastructure project, which included interfacing with the vendor for server and BYOD provisioning. I designed the deployment and server architecture for all delivery-related servers, and installed and setup needed tools and applications.• Amazon Cloud (AWS): I designed the deployment and server architecture for all delivery-related servers I worked with DataPipe in the provisioning of EC2 servers, Elastic Storage (EBS), Security, and Availability I setup both PROD and DEV Linux & Windows EC2 C2B and private delivery servers for administration, and installed and setup all necessary software for delivery (Apache Web Server, JBoss, MySQL) I was the server administrator for above EC2 C2B delivery servers. I worked in a project for setting up of a secure, commercial FTP server on the Amazon Cloud.• Business Analytics – A hybrid DataMart/Big Data repository to serve as the source for KPI's and other actionable data in order to enable data-driven decisions starting with Q2 2015

Was Senior Systems Architect with Lochbridge. My areas of expertise include JEE, SOA, MDA/MDD, and BPM,end-to-end application/service delivery, and technical architectural analysis• Worked for two projects at Volkswagen of America• Audi Incentive Claims BPM: Putting together architectural specifications for SOA services so that vendor has a smooth start once they start working on the project.• Part Order Management SOA Proof of Concept: Came as a SOA expert to help the team move forward towards performance tests.• Worked on an internal project for Lochbridge, consisting of a metadata-driven framework for forms-based mobile applications.

Working as main Technical/Application Architect for various Systems in Motion clients:- Best Buy - Home Connections CL3, Phase 1: Design and Development of Web Services, DB structure, EJBs, and technical infrastructure for integration with other internal Best Buy applications.- Wells Fargo - WL Migration Project, Phase 2: Migrating 8 enterprise applications from Weblogic App Server 9.2 to Weblogic App Server 11g, and from EJB 2.x to Spring 3.1.- Wells Fargo - Lead developer for ICA Application for Wells Fargo Asset Management Division.- Monsanto - Business Process Management with IBM Business Process Manager 7.5 (formerly Lombardi)

- Acted as the Test Manager for SIT while learning the OnStar application ecosystem- Worked with OnStar Continuous Integration Team on establishing OnStar Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployments tools and best practices.- Coordinated OnStar SIT environment readiness, involving multiple teams.- Documented Business Processes for SIT Testing and Environment Readiness

- Worked on the Java Center of Excellence, helping Ford projects and initiatives in different roles in an as-needed basis.- Applied strong J2EE design and development background and leadership skills on Tools and Testing team to help implement Continuous Integration, which includes practices such as Test-Driven Development in both its out-of-container and inside-container versions.- Acted as key member on team in charge of elaborating the strategy for Continuous Integration, Interface Virtualization, and Test Data Management while allocated to the Global Order to Delivery (GOTD) Program.- Incorporated Continuous Integration tools and practices to the GOTD delivery teams, both in the elaboration of strategy and processes, and on a consulting basis to the delivery teams using uBuild and integrating it with AccuRev and an in-house CI framework standardized for deploment.- Maintained tactical Java Plug-in tool that integrates with Rational Software Architect and was used for build / deploy.

Collaborated with a team of architects on a Business and Architectural Assessment, as well as on a Build vs. Buy effort for claims management. Designed and developed a JEE-compatible multi-threading framework. Wrote a Technical Report for CIO on the current state, gaps, and needs for performance testing and monitoring.Developed performance-testing macro and micro processes for use in conjunction with SDLC for auto insurance client.

Provided leadership for global architecture strategy and end-to-end development of critical enterprise applications, services and business processes to Compuware clients, in the areas of Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), Workflow Management, Web Services, J2EE, Model Driven Architecture (MDA), and Generative Programming (GP)Was Application and Technical Architect for multiple client engagements, first within Compuware Model Driven Architecture team, then in the Professional Services organizationAdvised CIO and directors of a medium-size insurance company (American Community Mutual Insurance Company) on BPM, SOA, and modernization over a period of two years.Worked as Model Driven Architecture consultant with various Compuware Clients. Applied Model Driven Architecture in client engagement (Mount Clemens General Hospital) to replace and port to the Web an Objective-C time-tracking application. The application and all documentation was developed in a fraction of the time and cost that the original application took to develop.

Was Chief Technical Architect for the ABN AMRO Mortgage Group Architecture Team for the Mortgage Group SUMO Initiative. SUMO was an ABN AMRO initiative of the highest priority, whose main objective was to re-design the end-to-end mortgage business processes, utilizing leading-edge technologies in a comprehensive component architecture, including web-portals, web services, application servers, integration brokers, workflow automation, document management, and business-rule automation.Designed ABN AMRO Mortgage Reference Architecture and Business Component Architecture. Provided leadership and guidance in architecture design of Process and Entity Component Architecture (BPM), and Pervasive Technical Services. Also collaborated with other architects in Portal Architecture, Data Architecture, and Integration ArchitectureElaborated ABN AMRO Mortgage Business Meta-Architecture and Business Architecture. Collaborated with Senior VP-Level Business Experts for the development of the Business Object Architecture, which was very important to align the Business Processes and Business Entities to the Business Objectives.

Worked with Lockheed Martin’s senior architects in the requirements gathering phase for a critical subproject of the General Motors Kimono Initiative, whose primary purpose was to consolidate diagnostics software within GM, based on international standards, and to design a global knowledge base for use by dealerships.

Provided leadership for global architecture strategy through the Discovery Research Informatics department in the areas of J2EE and Web Services, as well as architectural leadership and mentorship to management and project teams in the areas of architecture strategy, enterprise application development, J2EE, Model Driven Architecture (MDA), Web Services, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).Was Chief Architect for the Discovery Research Informatics Department, as well as Enterprise Architect for representing Discovery Research in the Global Architecture Group. Supported development teams with architectural reviews and recommendations.Designed an Enterprise Reference Architecture based on SOA and MDA, enabling alignment of software to business processes, accelerating development through component reuse, and enhancing adaptation to business and technology change, particularly in the areas of J2EE and Web Services. Developed Technical Services Framework, and led the Component Team in the development of Business Component Framework, both based on the Reference Architecture. Led Component Team in the rapid construction of a critical application for analysis of laboratory data, based on the Business Component Framework. Designed an Enterprise SDLC Framework based on the RUP, CBD, and MDA supporting the architecture and the organizationPromoted best practices for design and development based on OOAD, CBD, SOA, and MDA. This included mentoring of technical leads, publication of software development standards, and a lecture-series on cutting-edge design and architecture practices.

Contributed to various enterprise-level projects with Fortune 500 companies in different roles, as Software Architect, Technical Lead, Senior Developer, and Business Modeler.Collaborated in architectural planning for the AIGI Enterprise Component Factory with IONA’s Chief Enterprise Architect, IONA’s CBD Practice Director, and AIGI Technical Leads. This included architectural strategies and patterns for components, infrastructure, resource management, and data exchange. Designed and developed Enterprise Load-Testing Framework based on RMI.

Collaborated extensively with DataNet’s Chief Architect in the design and development of WinSPC Enterprise, the leading Statistical Process Control (SPC) Enterprise System for Windows utilizing CBD, UML, OOAD, COM and OLE, and was awarded the 1997 ISA President’s Award for Innovation in Technology.The application was very sophisticated for the time, and included many firsts in the industry, such as non-standard control limits, data fit to many distributions based on moments, FDA compliance, OPC (OLE for Process Control) Integration, Open Architecture API, etc...