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United States

Mclean, Virginia, United States

• Identified, assessed, and resolved architecture and technology issues, ensuring compliance with enterprise standards and smooth product delivery.• Partnered with Product Owners and Release Train Engineers to negotiate priorities, manage product backlogs, and remediate blockers.• Conducted feasibility design assessments and led LOE estimation activities to assist business decision-making.• Created and presented solution design artifacts and managed significant architectural changes through multiple review boards for enterprise approval.• Modernized multiple enterprise data pipelines by migrating from legacy on-prem technologies to cloud-native implementations in AWS, introducing new technologies and architectural patterns.• Decommissioned legacy Hadoop-based data lake and migrated data pipelines and applications to a new cloud-native data lake, significantly reducing operational costs within a year.• Mentored team members and acted as a trusted advisor to stakeholders across business and IT, supporting successful company initiatives.

Mclean, Va

• Designed and developed an AWS-based cloud-native installment lending platform, integrating with a third-party service via web APIs and webhooks while guiding the design of a cloud-native transactional ledger to replace a legacy mainframe solution.• Partnered with multiple teams across divisions to deliver key technical services, becoming a trusted advisor to managers, directors, and VPs in both business and technology.• Established an architecture guild within the Mainstreet Tech business to promote architecture and engineering excellence through continued education and training.• Led the modernization of business-critical SAS-based financial services, generating $100MM+ in annual revenue, to AWS. Coordinated efforts of 10+ engineering teams and multiple ARTs to complete the initiative within 8 months, aligning with a data center decommissioning deadline.• Directed foundational principles for platform UX and logical design, co-authored several web API data endpoint specifications, and kept all engineering teams aligned during solution development.

San Ramon, Ca

• Designed and delivered an AWS-based data and analytics platform, migrating tier-1 data and analytical assets from on-prem data centers within 6 months due to data center decommissioning.• Co-authored the solution architecture and design for the new platform, presenting to CTOs, CIOs, and senior tech leadership. The design became a reference architecture for other GE divisions.• Coordinated engineering activities across teams in the US, Europe, and India. Wrote requirements and acceptance criteria, designed RESTful API endpoints, and performed code reviews.• Developed and maintained data and AI/ML-based services on GE Digital’s Predix platform, ensuring solutions adhered to enterprise and cyber requirements and standards.• Acted as a servant leader, addressing blockers and leveraging emotional intelligence and negotiation skills to build strong partnerships and facilitate smooth delivery.

Morrisville, Nc

• Designed and delivered a Hadoop-based enterprise data lake supporting top-tier analytical products and services.• Designed and implemented solution architectures for commercial and government healthcare analytics platforms.• Led the modernization of legacy systems, migrating critical applications to cloud environments and improving scalability and performance.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical requirements.• Developed and enforced architectural standards and best practices, enhancing system reliability and security.• Mentored junior architects and engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.• Presented architectural solutions to stakeholders, gaining buy-in and facilitating smooth project execution.

Cary, Nc

• Designed and delivered a Hadoop-based enterprise data lake supporting top-tier analytical products and services.• Designed and implemented architecture solutions for the Payments Accuracy and Enterprise Divisions, enhancing system performance and accuracy.• Led the development and deployment of scalable, cloud-based solutions, improving data processing and analytics capabilities.• Collaborated with product management and engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver high-quality solutions on time and within budget.• Established architectural standards and guidelines, ensuring consistency and reliability across the division's platforms.• Conducted code reviews and provided technical mentorship to junior engineers, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning.• Presented technical solutions and strategies to senior management, securing buy-in and facilitating project success.

Morrisville, Nc

● Designed, developed, deployed and maintained a variety of digital solutions. ● For larger solutions, led engineering teams as technical lead and lead engineer. For smaller solutions, engineered and delivered implementation and supporting test/documentation/release deliverables.● Guided and mentored junior engineers on both contemporary architectural design and implementation patterns and engineering/operational standards and best practices.● Collaborated with POs, Scrum Masters and business stakeholders to ensure that solutions met functional specifications, adhered to non-functional constraints, complied with regulatory and other compliance-specific requirements, and delivered within delivery expectations.● Performed solution demos to stakeholders and participated in customer interviews to drive continuous improvement and product discovery efforts.

Durham, North Carolina

● Designed, developed, deployed and maintained a variety of digital solutions. ● For larger solutions, led engineering teams as technical lead and lead engineer. For smaller solutions, engineered and delivered implementation and supporting test/documentation/release deliverables.● Guided and mentored junior engineers on both contemporary architectural design and implementation patterns and engineering/operational standards and best practices.● Collaborated with POs, Scrum Masters and business stakeholders to ensure that solutions met functional specifications, adhered to non-functional constraints, complied with regulatory and other compliance-specific requirements, and delivered within delivery expectations.● Performed solution demos to stakeholders and participated in customer interviews to drive continuous improvement and product discovery efforts.

Durham, North Carolina

● Lead the design, development and maintenance of several reporting and analytical systems that support several departments including finance & accounting, merchandising, and reporting. Provided technical guidance for improving existing software development processes to more closely align the different engineering teams. Assisted with the integration of the organization's backoffice systems with those provided by Motricity West (formally InfoSpace Mobile). Provided technical leadership for a customer-facing engineering team that has recently found itself understaffed.● Lead the design, development and maintenance of several modules of Motricity’s Fuel 5 platform (a mobile e-commerce framework used to power the purchase of thousands of ringtones, graphics, games & applications for millions of users). Was the lead engineer of the platform’s search subsystem that includes a flexible integration framework and several implementations. Managed the technical relationship with third-party vendor and was awarded by my peers on several occasions for my efforts. In addition to search, was a contributor on several other subsystems including purchasing, parental controls, and advertising.● For larger solutions, led engineering teams as technical lead and lead engineer. For smaller solutions, engineered and delivered implementation and supporting test/documentation/release deliverables.● Guided and mentored junior engineers on both contemporary architectural design and implementation patterns and engineering/operational standards and best practices.● Collaborated with POs, Scrum Masters and business stakeholders to ensure that solutions met functional specifications, adhered to non-functional constraints, complied with regulatory and other compliance-specific requirements, and delivered within delivery expectations.● Performed solution demos to stakeholders and participated in customer interviews to drive continuous improvement and product discovery efforts.

Durham, North Carolina

● Designed and assisted in the development of the Automatic Modeling Environment (AME), a distributed, web-based, enterprise Java application designed to automate the construction, prediction, and comparison of statistical models of chemical behavior. ● Was responsible for the design, development, deployment and maintenance of the entire application. ● Was responsible for training the development team to use lightweight enterprise Java technology stack (e.g., Spring, Hibernate, WebWork, etc.). Initial system reduced the previous model construction process time from days to hours. After 2nd generation development (to support future scalability and feature requirements), system can build 100,000+ compound models in minutes and can support millions of compounds for prediction and comparison.

Morrisville, North Carolina

● Designed and assisted in the development of SaffronWeb, a knowledge discovery web application targeted for intelligence analysts investigating terrorist activities. Was responsible for the design, development, deployment, maintenance and customer support of both the business and data(base) tiers of the application.● Designed and assisted in the development of the second version of the SaffronNet agent-processing framework. Design efforts resulted in a flexible, automata-based architecture that is still used in production today.● Designed and developed a software “bot” using Saffron’s agent-based associative memory technology to compete with both human and computer-controlled players using the Unreal Tournament game engine. Purpose of this project (which also involved Carnegie-Mellon University), was to develop a real-time learning and adaptation system for the U.S. military. Project required extensive study and application of fuzzy learning and adaptation techniques.● Designed and developed an XML-based API to Saffron’s agent-based associative memory technology. This XML API (formally called “SaffronML”) was subsequently presented and used in several government projects. Implementation required advanced SAX-based design patterns and later extensive XSLT knowledge.● Assisted in the construction of an intelligent FAQ web application using JSP/Servlets for the presentation tier and a lightweight POJO service layer for the business tier. Integrated application with Visual Intercept’s incidence tracking database with JDBC.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

● Designed and developed an intelligent data analysis and support application targeted for intelligence analysts. Implementation required integration with SaffronOne, an agent-based associative memory technology. Deployed and presented the software to several high-ranking government officials. While the project was eventually cancelled due to lack of funds, the knowledge acquired on this project was highly leveraged when designing/developing SaffronWeb a few years later.● Assisted in the development of GeoWorx, a geospatial imaging processing system. Developed the entire database tier of the application along with several imagery processing modules. Also assisted in the port of the application both from Solaris to IRIX and partially from C/C++ to Java.● Designed and developed an automatic target recognition system using a rule-based software package that was tuned with a genetic programming package developed at Michigan State University and later enhanced by the GP-Animats research team.

Bs, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)

Education record

● Multi-year rotational program designed for technical architects with 15+ years of professional experience. Primary mission was.