In the role of Sr. Solution Architect, I have completed mandates for entities in the governmental, electric power utilities, telecommunication, transportation, and sports, retail & entertainment sectors. These mandates have included but are not limited to:> Digital transformation architecture of legacy software;> Perimeter security architecture;> Telecom connectivity architecture;> 3rd party solution integration;

Provide technical leadership, guidance and direction on the design, development, security, infrastructure, testing and implementation of internal as well as client mandates.

• Gathered day-0 non-functional requirements.• Collaborated with business analyst to evaluate functional requirements.• Identified the ideal technology stack, deployment, and post-deployment support method.• Estimated budget requirements and development timeframe.• Delivered software architecture documentation including high-level client-facing presentations, as well as low-level software requirements, data flows, and database schema requirements.• Collaborated with and was responsible for solution presentations to clients.

Role: Managed solutions to achieve strategic technological objectives of clients’ organizations.• Developed solutions designed to achieve results by identifying priorities, issues, and challenges through current state analysis, requirements elicitation, solution assessment and validation (BPMN).• Led the development of formal sales plans and proposals as well as managed prospects and customers by acting as the lead technical expert during sales pitches and product demonstrations.• Managed a team of 10 developers through the Systems Development Life Cycle as well as led the training of end-users.• Produced System Requirements Specification documentation including functional flows, use cases, business rules, UI prototypes, test scenarios, and database schemas.• Provided hands-on leadership for networking hardware and telephony solutions implementations.Technical environment: LAN/WAN TCP/IP, 802.11b/g/n, Avaya/Cisco, Windows Server 2008 R2, cPanel, Active Directory, Windows7, RedHat Linux, VM Ware, MySQL, SQL, HTML, CSS, Java, JSP, .NET, PHP, Perl, XML, Wordpress, Joomla, Adobe CQ, MS Volume Licensing, MS Licensing Server.

• Solution ownership throughout project lifecycle within an agile environment.• Key involvement with clients and partners at CxO levels for eliciting requirements, developing strategies, and presenting solutions.• Delivered product demos, RFP responses, and PoC exercises through internal collaboration with Product, DevOps, and Sales, and externally with various partners through integrations (API and direct).• Lead company-wide pre-sales initiatives, supported Sales in identifying cross/up-selling opportunities, as well as Product in identifying direction and potential RoI on new products and/or functionality.• Collaborated with Customer Success Relationship managers, driving customer engagement, satisfaction, and loyalty.• Created technical documentation and ensured a smooth transition from Sales to Services.

Role: Supported the company’s marketing campaign management initiatives through system and data analysis.• Analyzed business needs and created technical documentation for an intranet-based system to stream-line the marketing campaign process from concept to execution.• Performed data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) in a Unix DB2 / SAS environment as well as through the Unica platform.

Role: Programming web-based applications for the purpose of data-mining• Programmed web-based systems aimed at the capture of corporate compensation data.• Created Perl reporting systems which performed statistical analysis on acquired data.

• Debugged and maintained existing ColdFusion (Win32/SQL) based Electronic Data Interchange system.• Optimized system to be able to process millions of transactions for clients such as Costco, Metro, Provigo, Loblaws, IGA, …Technical environment: ColdFusion, ColdFusion Studio, ColdFusion Server, Windows NT Server 3.51, Windows 98/2000, MS SQL Server.