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Rosemont, IL, US

• Responsible for the creation of a new solutions and architecture team chartered to provide solutioning support for current business projects, development of long range IT strategies and maintenance of Enterprise.
• Lead a team of 30+ highly skilled architects including: enterprise architects, solution architects, domain architects, and data architects.
• Supported all phases of SDLC process including: Discovery, Estimation (ROM), Solution Alternative Analysis (SAA), Solution Design (SD), Implementation Governance and Architecture Change Management.
• Developed a new ROM process and estimation tool that streamlined and provided transparency into the estimation process. Estimate SLA reduce from >2 weeks to < 2 days.
• Responsible for Enterprise Architecture methods including IT Governance (ARB), Enterprise Technology Standards (ETS), Application Portfolio Management (APM) and Architecture Artifact Repository.
• Served as interim director of IT Procurement for 1 year during indirect spend restructuring

Chicago, IL, US

• Responsible for implementing an architecture program including architecture frameworks, best practices, modeling standards and new governance processes. Also responsible for the evaluation, selection and implementation.
• Introduced SnowFlake DWaaS (Data Warehouse as a Service) to support new Big Data initiatives and as a highly performant and scalable alternative to our legacy SQL Server data warehouse. Solution included first.
• Responsible for the implementation of a new DevOps pipeline with the following tool chain:_______ Plan - Jira, Confluence_______ Build - GitLab, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation_______ Test - Selenium, Zephyr_______.
• Responsible for establishing the following Configuration Items (CI) databases in support of a new Configuration Management Database (CMDB) to be implemented in ServiceNow:_______ Business Services / Service.
• Established LucidChart as a standard for architecture model creation, model repository and model collaboration.

Chicago, IL, US

• Responsible for setting, executing and supporting the firm’s vision for IT Infrastructure, Engineering, Operations, Access Management and IT Service Desk.
• Maintained an annual IT Operations budget of over $11M.
• Acted as business sponsor for the implementation of an IT modernization project including hybrid cloud enablement (AWS, Azure, Nutanix/VMware) as well as several other technologies in support of a new DevOps framework.
• Improved the efficiency of the IT Operations with an implementation of ServiceNow and established ITSM (IT Service Management) best practices. Provided training on the ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) framework to.
• Responsible for interfacing with several auditors including the OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency), external audit (RSM) and internal audit departments in support of all IT Operations activities with a.

Rosemont, IL, US

• Responsible for shaping the EA (enterprise architecture) of the future at US Foods including Application, Information and Technical Architectures.
• Developed and governed the use of EA best practices including an architecture review board, technical roadmaps, patterns, reference architectures and enterprise technology standards.
• Drove the completion of several strategic roadmaps including mobile, cloud, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), integration, client computing, hosting, storage, database, backup and recovery, data center and.
• Provided mentoring and support for current and aspiring technical, information and application architects.
• New architectures developed include: Cloud Foundations, VOIP deployment, Hybrid WAN and Tapeless backup / recovery.
• Introduced SnowFlake DWaaS as a higher performance and lower cost alternative for Big Data initiatives and as a target for consolidation of legacy data warehouses including Oracle ExaData.

Rosemont, IL, US

• In this new position at US Foods my primary objective was create a Technical Architecture practice within the Enterprise Architecture team. The team was a matrix organization including multiple enterprise architects.
• Drove the completion of several strategic road-maps including client computing, hosting, storage, database, backup and recovery, data center and enterprise monitoring.
• Provided mentoring and support for current and aspiring technical architects.
• Led the technical architecture design for a multi-year project to rebuild our eCommerce platform which is responsible for more than $15B in annual operating revenue. https://www3.usfoods.com/order/
• Created a standardized TCO calculator for projects proposals and for APM (application portfolio management) including a new application road-mapping process.

Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, IL, US

• As the CTO of Med Staff On-Call (MSOC), my primary role was to lead the development of a highly scalable web and mobile platform developed to support a fully automated process for medical staffing. As the founder of.
• Developed use case documents, requirements and all architecture design documents
• Maintained relationships with partners including Offshore Development, Legal, Accounting, Government agencies and Insurance agencies
• Managed stakeholders including angel investors, founders, and all employees

Portland, Oregon, US

Responsible for the assimilation of Med Staff On-Call technology into innovative new products for a new market focused on healthcare professionals. Products developed included:Mighty Nurse - http://www.mightynurse.com ShiftWise Connect - http://www.shiftwise.com/shiftwise-connect/Additional responsibilities include management of ShiftWise supplier.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• As a lead on the Enterprise Architecture team I was responsible for infrastructure architecture strategy and implementation:
• Developed a server virtualization solution which lowered TCO of servers by 66%, increased agility, enabled new DR capabilities and significantly improving capacity management. (5-year ROI > $2M)
• Developed a printing and imaging consolidation strategy, reducing annual output spend by 30% and enhanced the enterprise content management strategy by delivering enterprise wide scanning capabilities. (ROI > $1M/yr)
• Developed a mobility strategy which included the deployment of wireless modems enabling over 200 staff council members to turn idle time into productive time; solution was expanded by 300% via the use of tethered.
• Designed internal systems to support issue tracking, standards management, vendor management and staff performance tracking and worked with offshore development teams to build and deploy them

Seattle, Washington, US

Technical lead responsible for leading multiple client consulting engagements focused on ERP and e-Commerce implementations. I was involved in many levels of each engagement including pre-sales activities, solution design, customization, implementation and post implementation support. Customization activities including development of custom code as well as.

(North American Management buyout to become en'tegrate September 2001)Selection of consulting engagements: Solectron Corp – Columbia, SCLed E-Commerce team which included client IT staff during quick start E-Commerce proof of concept.Safetran Systems – Minneapolis, MNLed technology team during implementation of 100 seats of Baan IV c4.KCI Konecranes Inc. –.

North Mankato, MN, US

• Served as solution architect and developer of a system for publishing Baan ERP order and shipment status data to both web-based interfaces and Lotus Notes clients. Solution implementation improved supply chain.
• Implemented messaging and Intranet architecture based on Lotus Notes/Domino infrastructure.
• Designed and developed workflow and messaging applications which included integration to Baan ERP, call center and other legacy systems.
• Designed and deployed a product pricing application utilizing a Visual Basic front end with a Microsoft SQL Server database.
• Utilized ERWin for data model design and DBMS object generation.
• Participated in the deployment of the largest network of Citrix WinFrame clients connected with Wyse Winterminals and Windows clients.

New York, NY, US

• Responsible for the design and delivery of the MarketLink(tm) electronic data collection system for nationwide touch tone data collection.
• Developed Windows based client-server application to facilitate job tracking and order management.
• Designed and implemented a WAN linking regional offices with headquarters in a mixed environment of PC and Mac clients and servers running Sun Solaris and Windows NT.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics And Computer Science

Mba, General Business

College Preparatory

Bs, Math And Computer Science