- Led the effort to establish a centralized architecture function with a focus architecture organization design, architecture practices, roles and responsibilities, architecture work products, and architecture processes including architecture governance.- Led the enablement of an Enterprise Architecture tool that is used by over 2000 users including the business, product teams, engineers, and architects. The tool provides Application Portfolio Management capabilities, integrates with our CI/CD function, and provides valuable insights for planning and design.- Improve efficiency and effectiveness of the EA team while focusing on providing senior technical leadership, mentoring junior team members and leading through change as Discover leverages next generation capabilities.

Senior DirectorEnterprise Architecture | Future State Architecture | IT LeaderAssembled and mentored high performance teams that drove new innovative enterprise capabilities for the business portfolios. Trusted collaborative partner with other IT leaders including executive leadership.• Led the architecture and delivery of the first public cloud native application that reduced operating costs by 70%. Continued on to establish future state vision and architecture for cloud native workloads.• Responsible for creating the API and Microservices future state architecture that served as the blueprint for modernizing applications and accelerating adoption of the cloud.• Established the future state Integration Platform by enabling consistency and efficiency for enterprise wide workloads.• Transformed the culture of the technical community by leveraging the open source model to enable collaboration and creation of high quality technical assets.• Responsible for the management and publication of the enterprise technology roadmaps and standards.• Successfully led the evaluation and adoption of Cloud Foundry that enabled product teams to be more agile and deliver digital capabilities.• Drove the corporate wide adoption, architecture and delivery of the Microsoft Collaboration platform which led to the transformation of the corporate intranet based on this platform.• Created and led the domain architecture governance model comprised of Application, Integration, Data, Security, and Infrastructure.• Led a team of hands-on architects that created a reusable code assets for common application use cases.• Drove the business case for BYOD to IT Leadership and led the effort to convert 8000 Blackberry users in less than one year.• Received the prestigious IT Five Star Manager Award in 2016 for transformational leadership.

• Delivered the architecture for the next generation intra-Blue Cross Blue Shield transaction system. Presented the architecture strategy to the Blue Cross Blue Shield National Symposium to communicate vision and architecture roadmap. • Led a Blue Cross Blue Shield wide community group that focused on developing innovative solutions by ideating and rapid prototyping with other Blue Cross Blue Shield partners and vendors.

Responsible for providing technical solutions for Fortune 500 clients including ABN-AMRO, ADP, Allstate, Bank One, Daimler-Chrysler, Guidant, Motorola, Whirlpool, City of Chicago, Country of Egypt, and others. Focus was on digital b2c and b2b solutions which enabled companies to do business online during the e-commerce boom.• Led large Java development teams (25+) interfacing with clients in all phases of the application development life cycle. • Performed various functions through the engagement lifecycle including architecture, design, project planning, resource staffing, development, proposals, and support. • Developed and designed web solutions for a variety of use cases including application modernization, agency portals, ecommerce sites, b2b transactions, and package implementations. • Collaborated with IBM Partners to develop client proposals and strategies.• Provided mentorship to architects and developers and taught IBM internal courses to other practitioners.

Teaching assistant for four undergraduate classes: Product Modeling and Development, Engineering Economy and Operations Research, Solid Modeling Applications, and Introduction to Engineering Graphics.