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Mount Pleasant, SC, US

Mount Pleasant, SC, US

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

• Developed and maintained a solutions architecture (from concept) for a new customer travel booking and fulfillment application hosted on the MS Azure platform.
• Collaborated with Sales & Marketing product team to solicit business requirements through UI/UX design and use case modeling.
• Developed UML behavioral and structural diagrams to model use cases, actors, components, APIs, sequences, data sources and information flows.
• Collaborated, presented, and socialized solution proposals across the internal Architecture team, soliciting feedback, and updating design approaches based on technical guidance.
• Developed and presented strategic roadmaps for iterative product releases including current, intermediate, and future state component diagrams.
• Supported an Agile Scrum team in an architect role to define, support, and execute user stories across architecture, development, testing, and deployment activities. Fostered a culture of innovation and collaboration.

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

• Collaborated with government, fleet, and industry stakeholders to architect an application hosting & data processing environment for the U.S. Navy's P-8A Poseidon aircraft Family-Of-Systems modernization initiative.
• In the prototype phase, I served in a Software Architect role on a developer scrum team that successfully implemented a prototype system achieving multi-year funding for production implementation.
• In the production phase, I served as Systems Engineering team lead responsible for deriving, analyzing, and managing program requirements across government and industry stakeholders.
• Architected and developed integrations with Boeing real-time avionics to demonstrate data storage, data analytics, web-service geospatial views, and distribution of onboard data to offboard actors.
• Designed and implemented Java-based microservices, API gateway, streaming processing, pub-sub, and request-response architecture patterns. Researched, designed, and implemented hardware and software virtualization.
• Derived requirements and modeled solutions for cross-cutting aspects including IdAM, runtime system monitoring, event-driven alerting, and off-board data distribution.

Daniel Island, South Carolina, United States

• 2007-2012: Software Engineering SME supporting the Navy ERP initiative
• Supported the migration of U.S. Navy business systems to the Navy ERP platform (SAP R/3 ECC 6.0).
• Collaborated with government stakeholders to capture business requirements for User Lifecycle Management.
• Architected and developed a User Lifecycle Management (ULM) web-app including a system of ETL processes leveraging Java, LDAP, and the Oracle Fusion technology stack. The system enabled the provisioning of end user.
• Three other Navy SYSCOMS adopted the ULM application to support local Navy ERP migration efforts.
• Successfully achieved DoD IA accreditation for ULM system deployments to NDC environments.

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

• Software Developer lead on a multi-disciplined team in the original development of a data-driven web portal for the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (www.discoversouthcarolina.com).
• Integrated disparate SC-PRT static web sites into a single, data-driven public internet portal with site content administrated by SC-PRT personnel.
• Developed business logic tier that dynamically generated a web UI for heterogeneous browsers and emerging mobile devices.
• Participated in requirements analysis, user-interface, data architecture, technical architecture, and ground-floor software development.

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

• Collaborated with a consultant team to architect and develop a web-based telecom order entry & provisioning system supporting the remote sales team at telecom start-up TriVergent Communications.
• The browser-based system enabled the company to receive and process digital orders for telecom services via the internet, including an intranet-based workflow and back-office API integration with commercial switch.
• Championed the order-entry and provisioning system as a corporate asset during TriVergent's acquisition by NuVox Communications.

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

• As Automated Test Coordinator, I championed the use of test automation in the SDLC applied to commercial Maintenance Management ERP software applications.
• Coordinated an automated test team who researched, developed, and applied automated testing techniques to supplement Quality Assurance activities.
• Defined and executed structured test plans. Engineered automated test suites including UI, network & load tests against client-server and emerging web-based software products.