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Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Provide technical leadership in the design and development of enterprise architecture services and components. Provides direction to the IT development groups on the support of current business application needs with currently supported technologies. Identifies changes or additions needed to the current architecture to best support current and future business application needs. Participate in the development and maintenance of overall architecture principles and strategies. For business-critical technology platforms: support and maintain architecture guidelines, rules, models, and presentation standards. Participate in the analysis and design of multi-platform system architectures. Evaluate new and emerging technologies and provide recommendations of applicability and appropriateness for inclusion in the standard architecture. Participate in the introduction and integration of multiple new technologies on all system platforms. Conduct architectural reviews on the largest and most complex systems providing critical technical analysis.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Responsible for architecting and designing comprehensive solutions that meet functional requirements in support of the Authority’s business initiatives. Establish architectural vision and direction, design solutions and infrastructure for delivery, provide advice and guidance, monitor emerging technologies, and assists in determining software and service requirements for input into the investment, business plan and contract. Owner of MARTA’s Intelligent Transportation Systems portfolio including all internally and externally facing websites, mobile applications, SharePoint, the train control system, vehicle scheduling, and automated vehicle locator system. • Improved internal communications for over 4000 employees for Super Bowl LIII, by leading the design and implementation of a mobile application and website on the OutSystems platform• Led the re-design and implementation of www.itsmarta.com which brought a modernized look and feel and new functionality to MARTA’s corporate website• To address MARTA’s response to the I-85 bridge collapse, designed and implemented a dynamic parking web application to provide passengers with up-to-date information on parking lot availability. • Led the design and deployment of MARTA’s mobile ticketing application• Spearheaded the re-design and implementation of MARTA On the Go, the company’s flagship mobile application, with over five hundred thousand downloads in the iOS App Store and Google Play store• Led the design and deployment of the middleware infrastructure for a $30 million effort to place new PA systems throughout the transit system which provide an enhanced user experience. The design utilizes a microservices architecture to aggregate data from internal and external sources using TIBCO ActiveMatrix and FTL

Dallas, Tx, Us

- Responsible for the solution design of the Mobile Device Management and Order Management Applications- Conducted high and low-level design reviews- Acted as the liaison between the business analyst and the development team to ensure that requirements were covered in the design and subsequent implementation. (OOAD, Java EE, Oracle, Weblogic)

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Provided architectural oversight for initiatives within the Information Technology Group- Owned and managed the technology portfolio for the IT Organization- Identified the best uses of existing technologies in the portfolio and determined when new technology should be introduced. - Oversaw the research, evaluation, selection, and integration of new technologies in the reference architecture - Defined the Identity Management strategy for Internap. Designed and implemented the Enterprise Application Integration strategy for Internap utilizing an Enterprise Service Bus between several front-office and back-office applications. (TIBCO, Java, Oracle, Oracle BRM, Remedy, Salesforce)

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

- System Architect for Ceridian’s Military One Source development team. - Responsible for the design and development of www.militaryonesource.com. - Consulted with external and internal business partners to define the multi-generational product plan and associated roadmap to address the plan. - Led design initiatives for integrated technical solutions for proprietary and OTS software. - Led code reviews of implemented solutions. - Provided technical guidance and governance to the report development team. (OOAD, UML 2.0, C#, .Net 3.0, SharePoint 2007/2010, DNN, MS SQL Server 2005/2008)

New York, Ny, Us

- Solution Architect for MST’s Architecture Services Group. - Defined and maintained architecture and technology standards and best practices for all aspects of application development. - Provided guidance and direction to business units to ensure compliance with the standards and best practices. - Worked with a team of Systems Specialists in the design and development of a suite of frameworks and common components to support Macy’s IT infrastructure including the company’s proprietary message-oriented middleware. - Responsible for the design and development of a common set of components for division web sites including www.macys.com and www.bloomingdales.com. - Successfully led the re-design and implementation effort to re-platform the sites from Net.Commerce to Java. (Rational Rose, OOAD, UML, J2EE, WebSphere 3.x, DB2 6.0, IBM HTTP Server 1.3.6)

Us

Designed and developed architectural components of customer care and billing system using Foundation as the underlying technology. Provided technical guidance and mentored other team members. Reviewed/approved design and development work of team members.• Led the migration of the customer care and billing system from 16-bit architecture on OS2 to a 32-bit architecture on Windows NT • Led the database re-platforming effort of migrating the customer care and billing system from Sybase to Oracle• Traveled to Mumbai, India to install the customer care and billing system in a call center and train the customer service representatives on the application

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science