Edward Gray Email & Phone Number

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

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Sarasota, Florida Area

Developed architecture patterns for multinational corporations to incorporate when integrating financial systems (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft) with Vertex O Series transaction tax calculation engine. Worked closely with the staffs of multinational corporations’ tax departments to implement the data transformations and data management required for accurate, high-performing, and fault-tolerant processing of transactions with Vertex O Series transaction tax calculation engine. Patterns incorporated… Show more Developed architecture patterns for multinational corporations to incorporate when integrating financial systems (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft) with Vertex O Series transaction tax calculation engine. Worked closely with the staffs of multinational corporations’ tax departments to implement the data transformations and data management required for accurate, high-performing, and fault-tolerant processing of transactions with Vertex O Series transaction tax calculation engine. Patterns incorporated containers (Docker) to improve fault-tolerance and following DevOps practice. Show less

Sarasota, Florida Area

Developed architecture for optimal integration of Vertex software systems with SAP solutions. Lead architecture workshops/seminars with multi-national corporations and professional service organizations (Deloitte, PwC, TruQua, others) identifying innovative integration points between Vertex and SAP solutions.

Sarasota, Florida Area

Responsible for delivering high value solutions for medium to large corporate tax departments. Solutions focused on compliance with government regulations, data management to support compliance and maintaining history for audit, user experience and process tracking. • Implemented development standards for REST interface. Identified and evangelized best practices for software vendors to provide a public REST interface.• Developed architecture patterns for utilization of intellectual… Show more Responsible for delivering high value solutions for medium to large corporate tax departments. Solutions focused on compliance with government regulations, data management to support compliance and maintaining history for audit, user experience and process tracking. • Implemented development standards for REST interface. Identified and evangelized best practices for software vendors to provide a public REST interface.• Developed architecture patterns for utilization of intellectual property for incremental and iterative value creation. Developed business analytics to represent the intersection between value generation, cost, time realize value and satisfaction of business requirements.• Identified preferred partner for business analytics and reporting for satisfaction of tax solution requirements of large multi-national corporations.• Led hackathons to generate innovation and thought leadership. Show less

Sarasota, Florida Area

Identified preferred partner for data transformation and automation solution. Delivery of architecture and proof of concepts to reflect positive correlation between a partner solution and its relationship to requirements represented and expected by multiple viewpoints. Presentation of strengths of partner and the expected value provided by a successful relationship.Implemented development standards for REST interface. Identified and evangelized best practices for software vendors to… Show more Identified preferred partner for data transformation and automation solution. Delivery of architecture and proof of concepts to reflect positive correlation between a partner solution and its relationship to requirements represented and expected by multiple viewpoints. Presentation of strengths of partner and the expected value provided by a successful relationship.Implemented development standards for REST interface. Identified and evangelized best practices for software vendors to provide a public REST interface. Identified multiple viewpoints/perspectives of external and internal actors. Established the development patterns for internal implementation of public REST interfaces. Verified proper application of REST development standards by multiple development groups within the organization. Show less

Gathered requirements for how best to provide value to customers. Researched tax laws and identified optimal way to support customers. Identified best architecture model to support delivery of value to customers. Documented and delivered multiple viewpoints on how to implement architecture, including summary representation for customers and executives, detail specifications for software developers, detail specifications for deployment of solution, detail specifications for testing valid… Show more Gathered requirements for how best to provide value to customers. Researched tax laws and identified optimal way to support customers. Identified best architecture model to support delivery of value to customers. Documented and delivered multiple viewpoints on how to implement architecture, including summary representation for customers and executives, detail specifications for software developers, detail specifications for deployment of solution, detail specifications for testing valid implementations, and detail specifications for direct customer support of solutions. Developed architecture patterns supporting increased value realized through competition with competitive partners. Proof of concept development to demonstrate accurate representation of value realized by architectural pattern. Innovated Excel Add-In facilitating easy customer control and automation of tax preparation requirements. Innovation of Excel formula-based integration enables corporate tax departments to leverage their existing Excel workbooks and formulas with the rich data enrichment capabilities of Vertex solutions. Developed architecture model of workflow tracking to facilitate accurate and complete data requirements for large corporate tax departments.Managed implementation of continuous integration practice between development, system testing, acceptance testing, and Cloud deployment.Trained customers and employees on best ways to leverage Microsoft Excel best practices and Excel Add-InArchitect solution to solve e-file requirements for multi-national tax return processing. - Improved multiple entity consolidating calculation by 300%. - State consolidation went from 15 minutes to 30 seconds Show less

Sarasota, Florida Area

Developed, prioritized, and coordinated goals in alignment with corporate goals. Evaluated and anticipated future technology trends and how they related to customers’ needs. Provided direct customer interaction with multinational tax departments to understand immediate needs and anticipated future requirements to maintain full compliance with worldwide tax jurisdictions.• Improved the NPS 13 points over 4 years• Full team resource size between 150 to 250• Developed… Show more Developed, prioritized, and coordinated goals in alignment with corporate goals. Evaluated and anticipated future technology trends and how they related to customers’ needs. Provided direct customer interaction with multinational tax departments to understand immediate needs and anticipated future requirements to maintain full compliance with worldwide tax jurisdictions.• Improved the NPS 13 points over 4 years• Full team resource size between 150 to 250• Developed architecture patterns supporting increased value realized through coopetition with competitive partners. Proof of concept development to demonstrate accurate representation of value realized by architectural pattern. • Served as company representative with TaxACT.ORG and provided training to multi-national tax departments on emerging technologies, data warehouses, blockchain, virtual reality, and best business analytics and reporting solutions.• Active member of the TaxACT.ORG publications team publishing multiple articles for the TaxACT.ORG publication. Show less

Sarasota, Florida Area

Architected data management solutions that leverage non-SQL engines, Hadoop, MongoDB, etc. Architecture to leverage the ability to transform data from sources that do not have well-defined schemas into data that can be consumed by tax calculation engines. Identified preferred partner for business analytics and reporting for satisfaction of tax solution requirements of large multinational corporations.

Sarasota, Florida Area

Managed development team and led architecture refactor of international tax calculation engine, resolving severe database corruption issues. Solution improved user experience and improved performance by enabling increased utilization of multi-threaded performance and simultaneous usage by multiple users.Innovated Excel Add-In facilitating easy customer control and automation of tax preparation requirements. Innovation of Excel formula-based integration enables corporate tax departments… Show more Managed development team and led architecture refactor of international tax calculation engine, resolving severe database corruption issues. Solution improved user experience and improved performance by enabling increased utilization of multi-threaded performance and simultaneous usage by multiple users.Innovated Excel Add-In facilitating easy customer control and automation of tax preparation requirements. Innovation of Excel formula-based integration enables corporate tax departments to leverage their existing Excel workbooks and formulas with the rich data enrichment capabilities of Vertex solutions. Developed architecture model of workflow tracking to facilitate accurate and complete data requirements for large corporate tax departments. Show less

Architect data warehouse solutions based on ANSI SQL standards to leverage with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL. Gather the internal and external requirements to best support multi-national corporate tax departments to maintain the data to support tax regulation processing for at point periodic and transaction reporting.

Responsible for delivering high-value solutions for medium-to-large corporate tax departments. Solutions focused on compliance with government regulations, data management to support compliance, and maintaining history for audit, user experience, and process tracking. Lead development team to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 (C# and Visual C++), Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. Porting of Visual Basic screens to Visual Basic.NET and C#.Lead development team in refactor of… Show more Responsible for delivering high-value solutions for medium-to-large corporate tax departments. Solutions focused on compliance with government regulations, data management to support compliance, and maintaining history for audit, user experience, and process tracking. Lead development team to upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 (C# and Visual C++), Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008. Porting of Visual Basic screens to Visual Basic.NET and C#.Lead development team in refactor of technology to merge software platforms to provide a unified user experience across Federal, State and International corporate tax. Show less

Sarasota, Florida Area

Sarasota, Florida Area

Vertex acquired our business unit from Arthur Andersen in 2002Developed solutions and mentored other software developers for tax solutions for customers. • Innovated architecture model to support definition of recursive supporting detail for compliance with tax jurisdiction regulations. Developed internal tools for tax research subject matter experts to define quickly and accurately the supporting detail and match the filing requirements. • Innovated fixed asset calculation… Show more Vertex acquired our business unit from Arthur Andersen in 2002Developed solutions and mentored other software developers for tax solutions for customers. • Innovated architecture model to support definition of recursive supporting detail for compliance with tax jurisdiction regulations. Developed internal tools for tax research subject matter experts to define quickly and accurately the supporting detail and match the filing requirements. • Innovated fixed asset calculation engine to comply with identifying the book-to-tax difference adjustment for fixed asset depreciation. • Developed tools for tax research subject matter experts to define quickly and accurately the grouping of rules to apply to the appropriate book-to-tax difference adjustment calculations. Show less

Clearwater, Fl

Sarasota, Florida Area