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• Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise in the support and enhancement of the TOUCH web application -- a validated, FDA-compliant, Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy (REMS) drug distribution and.
• Provide Technical Lead, Solutions Architecture, Project Management, Business Analyst, Test Lead, and Support services
• Manage offshore delivery and QA teams for application development and support
• Manage application lifecycle processes and documentation in accordance with IT Quality guidelines for GxP applications
• Develop enhancements using Java, Hibernate, Spring MVC, Oracle PL/SQL, and SalesForce APIs

Burlington, MA

Boston, MA

• Provided technical leadership in analysis, design, and implementation of cloud projects. Performed extensive analysis and requirements gathering at the organization level. Key Project Engagements:
• Financial Services: Analyzed client’s systems current state and provided an architecture and design for a high performance transactional framework to be deployed to the company’s private cloud to enhance the company’s.
• Insurance: Created an application decision framework based upon the company’s applications’ characteristics and workloads to determine their suitability for migration to the cloud. Defined company’s cloud principles to.
• Internal: Developed alpha version of company’s PaaSLane product which analyzes application source code to identify cloud migration issues and provides developer estimates for how long it will take to correct them..

• Carried out all facets of responsibility associated with supporting the enterprise’s middleware platforms: Oracle Fusion Middleware, Denodo Data Virtualization, and Oracle WebLogic Federated Server platforms.
• Managed application development, application support, and platform support teams
• Established best practices for design, development, source code management, releases, and platform support
• Maintained operating budgets for platform support as well as capital budgets for new application development
• Provided architectural guidance and deployment guidelines to other teams that utilize the middleware platforms
• Assisted in establishing the long-term vision for data integration and architecture within the enterprise

• Provided technical leadership and guidance to the web development team by implementing best practices for all web development, source code management, and releases.
• Assisted in establishing the long-term vision for web-based technologies and infrastructure within IT Business and Integration Systems
• Coordinated technical resources to deliver solutions for Biogen Idec’s intranet, Commercial Web projects, and TOUCH, Biogen Idec’s RiskMAP application for monitoring the dispensing of the drug TYSABRI
• Responsible for coordinating release plans and ensuring all release deliverables and timelines were met
• Coded as needed utilizing Java, Spring, Hibernate, WebLogic Server, Oracle DB, and CVS.

• Provided technical leadership in analysis, design, and implementation of integration projects at Biogen for the following:
• Technical Architect for an Identity Management and eProvisioning solution integrating BEA WebLogic, Lotus Notes, Novell eDirectory, Oracle Applications, and an Oracle database
• Participated in the iterative design and implementation of several integration projects loosely following the Rational Unified Process
• Participated in the re-write of two multiple sclerosis web sites

• Responsible for all technical aspects of a project, including technical design, timeline estimation, resource allocation, and the quality of technical implementation. Provided technical assistance and direction to the.
• Gained increasing level of expertise and responsibilities as I worked my way from Developer, to Senior Developer, to Senior Technical Specialist, to Technical Team Manager, to Senior Technical Manager on various.
• Client projects were in different industries including financial services, energy, insurance, shipping, and federal government.