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Carmel, Indiana

As a Sr. Solution Architect for CNO Financial, responsible for providing enterprise and solution architecture support for CNO IT systems.Provided guidance, technical management, architecture, and design for CNO systems.Developed Baseline, Transition, and Target Architectural Models for several CNO Financial systems within the following domains:• Architecture Vision• Business Architecture• Information Systems Architecture• Technology ArchitectureCollaborated with architects, business operations, business analysis, developers, and technical support teams. Provided architecture reviews for the integration of third party on-prim and SAAS cloud applications. Provided architectural presentations to the Director of Enterprise architecture and senior management. Reviewed and provided approval for detailed technical designs. Developed guidelines for governance, adoption, and creation of architectural artifacts. Ensure secure architecture guidelines are implemented for securing CNO IT systems. Capture and communicate architectural goals, design, and business process requirements. Develop, plan, and implement architecture roadmaps. Architected and designed Mulesoft Microservices Application Programming Interfaces (API). Responsible for the development and maintenance of application systems enterprise and technical architectures. Stored architectural artifacts and models within the enterprise repository. Work together with the Data Architect for integrating the Data Architecture into the architectural artifacts.Tools: TOGAF, Archimate, SPARX Enterprise Architect, C#, .Net Frameworks, Eclipse, Java, Mulesoft, PEGA & AWD Workflow Management Tools, AWS, Azure

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

As a Technical Architect - Application Project Manager for Indiana BMV, responsible for providing project and architecture support for the STARs application. Created architectural and application improvement plans. Developed business processes and functions. Advised leadership on the software implementation strategy. Implemented leading software development best practices. Installed agile software development methodologies. Responsible for the preparation of responses for the information systems audit. Provided design and development advice during the Proof of Concept (POC) software development phase implementation. Assess the suitability of software components for use within the STARS application. Assisted with documenting IT Service Management activities. Responsible for mentoring the development team.Tools: Visual Studio 2015, TFS 2015, Enterprise Architect Modeling tool, Disciplined Agile Delivery, SCRUM, ITIL

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

As a Technical Architect for Sallie Mae, responsible for providing Enterprise and Application Architecture support for the new ATLAS originations engine development. Provided technical project management for the framework development team. Responsible for directing the design & development of the framework components used by the web application teams. Maintained the ATLAS engine architecture document.Development Tools: C#, ASP.Net, Entity Frameworks, ADO.Net, Visual Studio.NET, MS SQL Server 2008, Web Services, SOA, SOAP, TFS, Enterprise Architect Modeling tool, UML, Use Cases, Activity & Sequence Diagrams, Design Patterns, Refactoring.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

As a Software Consultant, designed and developed ASP.NET web-based applications for Indiana Department of Child Services. Created web-based applications and components for the MaGIK system, the new statewide child welfare computer system.Development Tools: Visual Studio 2010, C#, ASP.Net, JavaScript, CSS, SQL Server 2008, CSLA.Net

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

As a Software Consultant, designed and developed ASP.NET web-based applications for various organizations as a developer for ENTAP. Created web-based applications that enabled a transportation company to manage the scheduling & assignment of trips to drivers. Created web-based applications for Indiana Department of Children Services to manage the eligibility & disbursement of funds to students. Developed ETL components to enable Indiana Department of Education to export data to new database platforms.Development Tools: Visual Studio 2010, C#, ASP.Net, JavaScript, CSS, SQL Server 2008

Technical Architect/Team Architect (2008—2011)As a Technical Architect for Sallie Mae was responsible for partnering with Enterprise Architecture and other application teams to meet the objectives of deploying sound architectural practices. • Collaborated with Enterprise Architects on the creation of technology blueprints, roadmaps, and guiding principles. • Reviewed and approved application development project deliverables in accordance with appropriate architectural designs. • Created and enforced architectural principles, best practices, and standards. • Provided technical consulting and strategic direction to the application team. • Ensured that performance and scalability testing is conducted when appropriate and performance baselines are established for team supported applications. • Monitored applications service level agreements so that breaking points were understood and planned. • Ensured that all enterprise solutions were fully documented from a design, infrastructure, and systems development process perspective.• Ensured that developers were using best practices and maintaining interface definitions when developing data services.• Worked with industry experts and vendors to influence the direction of architectural standards and technologies pertinent to Sallie Mae.Technical Architect (2003—2008)As a Technical Developer/Architect for Sallie Mae, I designed, developed, maintained, and documented OpenNet Framework components. Responsible for enhancing the performance of the existing framework components. Also responsible for providing training and support on OpenNet software projects.Development Tools: C#, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, VB.Net, XML, XSL, Visual Studio.NET, MS SQL Server 2000, MSMQ, Web Services, SOA, SOAP, UML, Use Cases, Activity & Sequence Diagrams, Design Patterns, Refactoring.

As a Software Contractor serving as a developer for ACS, designed and developed presentation, business, and data tier application components using BizTalk. Developed Integration Broker business tier components that processed HIPAA X12 transaction sets.Development Tools: C#, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, XML, BizTalk, SQL Server 2000