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United States

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) compliance for defense contractors to support Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) and NIST 800-171 Audit requirements, including: - Identify security controls and implementation technologies and models.- Identify audit artifact generation technologies.

Seaside, Ca

Deliver project management and technical services to a US Government agency: (1) Standing up the Space Force, (2) Web application support, and (3) Data center migration, including workload migration to the cloud and application virtualization.

Carmel, Ca And Palo Alto, Ca

Identify technologies, architectures and design patterns required to implement a Digital Service Provider (DSP) business model to enable and drive the convergence of the Telecom, Media and IT industries. • Network virtualization – Led requirements definition project with results accepted by four strategic vendors for 5G networks hosted on cloud platforms utilizing SDN and NFV technologies, including support for Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), microservices, and service orchestration frameworks and platforms.• API management - Led requirements definition for API monetization, virtualization, life cycle management and runtime gateway services, including vendor evaluation and platform selection based on a quantitative scoring model developed with 100+ scoring criteria.• IoT strategy, architecture and requirements - I was recruited to define IoT requirements, strategies, and architectures based on new business models and technology stacks. The business model was focused on providing enhanced information management and analytical services at the edge and core of the network. Technology elements were focused on APIs, microservices, new protocols, and event-driven software development models.• 5G-based digital transformation - Contributed to Verizon’s 5G, SDN, NFV, MEC, IoT and Cloud strategy and architecture, including serving as the technical editor for a published document designed to establish industry thought leadership for virtualized, software-defined, 5G networks.• Industry initiatives - Wrote the initial position papers on OCP and OpenConfig participation, addressing issues such as declarative configuration and model-driven management. Liaised with open source organizations and other Telecom operators on various initiatives, including innovation lab projects, orchestration frameworks and OPEN-O.

Portland, Or

Resolve major data management and SOA challenges by establishing an information modeling practice to align object models, data models and message models. • Information and data management - Defined a standards-based (e.g. HR-XML, OAGIS, CCTS) strategy and architecture for using canonical information models to generate data models, object models and message models. • Enterprise Architecture (design) - Developed an enterprise framework for designing and deploying canonical models linked to controlled vocabulary terms defined in a business glossary (Informatica Business Glossary). Models and vocabularies are used to generate executables for SOAP and REST based services using XML and JSON data delivery formats. • Enterprise Architecture (operations) - Led the effort to establish and operate an Architecture Review Board (ARB) using TOGAF. Participated in agile strategy and architecture development and implementation using Scrum.

Portland, Or

Establish architecture principals, design models and implementation models for a global, real-time, event-driven logistics and supply chain management (SCM) system using a complex event processing (CEP) engine.• Architecture - Established architecture and governance principles, defined reference architectures and engagement models, and provided solutions architecture design guidance for an agile/SCRUM-based, multisourced, offshore development project tasked with developing a new application portfolio and IT infrastructure to support operations in 100+ countries. • Infrastructure - Core elements of the infrastructure and solutions design include using TIBCO ActiveMatrix (Service Grid, BusinessWorks and BPM), BusinessEvents and Collaborative Information Manager (CIM) to implement an integrated, multimodal logistics system using business process management (BPM), service oriented architecture (SOA), business rules management (BRM), complex event processing (CEP), and master data management (MDM) technologies and design concepts.

Washington Dc

Address critical regulatory oversight findings related to data governance and data management practices, including data quality, data lineage, data redundancy and data security deficiencies.• Metadata strategy and architecture - Defined a metadata vision, strategy, architecture and road map to improve information management capabilities for an 8 petabyte environment with 400 production databases. Elements of this effort included the evaluation and implementation of advanced repository technology (Adaptive).• Glossary - A business glossary based on a controlled vocabulary was part of the road map, which was designed to support common definitions and naming for business concepts, business events, database items and messages.

Memphis, Tennessee

Lead consulting engagements.• Data governance and data quality - Led a data governance and data quality engagement with a biotechnology unit of DuPont. A scoring model was developed to evaluate data quality across five dimensions covering about 50 data quality factors, and extensive interviewing was conducted of business and technology stakeholders. • IT governance - Developed an IT governance framework for a bank holding company with retail and corporate banking operations. Specific areas of focus included application portfolio management, technology portfolio management, and technology strategy, including virtualization and cloud computing. An application scoring model was used to evaluate applications on a combination of business, technical and back office operations factors. This model is being used to drive investment decisions based on multiple levels of analysis prepared for C-level and middle-level executives.Led a C-level engagement with a major metadata repository and Configuration Management DataBase (CMDB) vendor to define vision, strategy, architecture and product road maps that leveraged virtualization, semantics and related technology trends.

Portland, Oregon

Evaluate and implement advanced technologies.As an Architect in the Emerging Technologies unit, I was involved in evaluating a broad range of advanced technologies and design concepts. I engaged in projects as a Business Architect, Enterprise Architect, Solutions Architect, Data Architect and Information Architect. Project work included:1) Corporate Banking - I was the Enterprise Architect and Solution Architect for a Web- and J2EE-based corporate banking, treasury management and payments platform, which is now in production. This effort included design patterns, Web services, messaging protocols, and programming models.2) Business Process Management (BPM) - Defined a BPM strategy and road map that included alignment with an SOA initiative. 3) Data management - Defined a data management vision, strategy, architecture and road map, which was funded and is in production. This effort leveraged a controlled vocabulary to support semantic integration, and an operational data warehouse to support operational and analytical BI.4) Enterprise Information Management (EIM) - Worked on an EIM initiative to extend the data management effort beyond structured and semi-structured data using an enterprise taxonomy, canonical modeling and Information-as-a-Service.5) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Authored an SOA vision, strategy, architecture and road map in 2003 that addressed business and technology issues related to SOA, including strategic alignment with business drivers, programming models and standards. An SOA initiative was funded and launched in 2004 to implement the proposed strategy.

I was engaged as an Infrastructure Architect to address critical problems delaying the statewide deployment of hardware, software, documentation and training for a $30M imaging and workflow application for the Secretary of State of California. Infrastructure design changes and a new project plan were developed to support the deployment phase.

Engaged as an consulting Architect in the Advanced Technology Directorate. I was assigned to two development projects: (a) a .NET- and satellite-based, mobile workforce management system, and (b) a GIS-based land management system. I also produced current-state and future-state architecture blueprints and worked on various technology strategies, including document management, semantic search and data management.

My primary project was to establish and manage the Enterprise Architecture group of A.P. Moller-Maersk in Copenhagen, Denmark, a multimodal logistics firm that owns the world's largest container shipping company. Other projects included telecom (Global Crossing, Level 3 Communications), health care (Presidio), and banking (Standard Chartered Bank, ING Barings Investment Bank).

I was hired to resolve critical relationship issues with China Telecom, and collect receivables ($2M). Responsible for managing all business operations and technical support for China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and the Philippines. Atlas provided enhanced messaging and telecommunications services and products for telecom service providers, including Hong Kong Telecom, China Telecom, Korea Telecom and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company.

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