Organizational focus on enterprise technology consultation, property management, and real estate rehabilitation.• Responsible for all aspects of project management from initial concept and design through implementation.• Vendor contracting, negotiation, selection, and oversight as necessary to ensure projects remain on-time and at, or below, budgetary allowances.• Establish and maintain client relationships through communication, presentation, issue resolution, and post-project follow-ups.• Create and shepherd organizational vision, strategy, and future roadmap• Labor management and oversight for varying numbers of subcontractors as necessary for maximum project effectiveness.• Microsoft Azure Cloud Architecture. Full cloud installations and solutions to handle a multitude of business-critical analytics and data security needs including: Encrypted communications, advanced data analytics, process automation, integration of multiple business intelligence reporting platforms, highly secure data warehousing validated by 3rd party penetration and intrusion testing, security auditing, disaster recovery, business continuity.

Provide consultation and mentoring with regard to the proper selection and usage of BI tools, how multiple tools may be leveraged, and best practices in application development. Collaboration with BI technical staff on testing, installations, hardware, upgrades, or changes. Responsible for architecture, implementation, and integration for various BI initiatives across the Highmark Health Enterprise.• Primary Technical Lead tasked with standing up Teradata Hadoop Appliance in 2015 utilizing the Hortonworks distribution. Responsible for installation, configuration, test creation/docu-mentation/execution, oversight of team task assignments and performance as well as end user acceptance testing. Responsible for issue resolution during integration and standup of this Kerberos/Centrify, fully-secured, cluster with the existing environment as well as personally identifying and resolving multiple catastrophic failure points within the existing environment which were preventing the project from moving forward. Responsible for component validation of Pig, Hive, Oozie, Sqoop, HDFS, Ambari, HUE, and general cluster health as well as acting as interim Hadoop Admin. • Primary Technical Lead in standing up multiple commodity Hadoop clusters in multiple environments in 2016. All clusters utilize the Hortonworks distribution and fully integrate Kerberos and Ranger security as well as having extremely diverse use cases from cluster to cluster with regard to target audience, data governance, datasets, response times, etc. This is the first part of a larger, multi-year, Enterprise Data Platform build-out encompassing multiple BI technologies.• Ongoing support for CMS template filing application, yearly updates are necessary to maintain compliance with yearly changes to the ACA requirements.

Responsible for leading initiative to address overall poor system performance of large-scale Pega PRPC application. Decreased number of transactions failing established SLAs by 94% in first 4 months.• Drive design, develop, implement, support, and optimize architecture strategy to meet business capabilities and needs across the domain. • Ensure the integrity of architecture by connecting various views of stakeholders.• Maintain knowledge of emerging technologies and best in class industry business trends and practices. • Provide strategic consultation to business.• Serve as a technical or business lead for highly complex project initiatives.• Manage expectations of customers, partners and management• Participate in customer, plan, design, and technical walkthroughs, problem resolution, and decision making• Interact with departments across the organization as necessary.• Monitoring application health and performance across the entire domain including addressing production issues, reporting on application performance and defect metrics to executives, and coordination of performance and load testing across multiple departments, divisions, and domains• Perform as Agile Coach, assisting various development teams across the enterprise move from a full Waterfall SDLC into the new Agile Framework, helping them to understand the true spirit and purpose of that methodology.

• Created application to assist in the completion of multiple CMS Exchange templates, vastly improving the accuracy and efficiency of submitting qualified health plans for approval in accordance with the ACA• Designed automated system to handle hand-written applications submitted through the Exchange as a contingency plan to compensate for technological barriers preventing the automated submission of applicant data directly from the Exchange. • Assess the impact of complex business changes and maintaining enterprise business solutions.• Preparing technical documentation, conducting technical walkthroughs, translating requirements, managing customer expectations, and developing position papers. Also be responsible for communicating complex issues and ideas through technical meetings and large group presentations.• Developing technical project estimates • Provide leadership and mentoring in the areas of application development and architecture

My main function was to create custom application solutions to address any requests, problems, or ideas surfaced by Actuarial or Underwriting.• Design and implementation of an agent-based modeling simulation, using Java with Repast Simphony to investigate the effects of various business actions upon the system and environment. Considerations and analysis for multiple business facets ranging from marketing to contracting to facility location.• Built .NET-based front ends to create, interact with, and manipulate results from both UNIX-based and PC SAS as well as multiple DBMS with output to user-customizable, templated Excel worksheets, other database platforms, or straight data dumps. User validation through Active Directory, with any proprietary or sensitive information protected using encryption. The back end data communication architecture of my design works as a re-usable, extendable "plug and play" engine to drive any number of requested GUIs, customized according to user specifications and dynamically reconfigured/built at run-time based upon the data source with which the current user has chosen to interact.• Responsible for calculation engine component of team project to create a dynamic rate calculation tool. The tool in effect functions as a "pocket actuary/underwriter" allowing sales staff to quote new, actuarially approved rates in the field by altering product selection and/or benefit design as requested by the customer. This tool began life as an Actuary created MS Access database, which was morphed into a distributed, multi-platform, .NET-based smart client application over the span of several years. Implementation of new pricing strategies and other enhancements requires an understanding of Actuarial mathematics, methodologies, and procedures, both Pricing Policy and Filed and Approved. Trouble shooting, debugging, and R&D as necessary to effectively achieve required goals.

Responsible for all aspects of technology throughout the facility from PCs, servers, and network infrastructure to telephones and fax machines as well as support of manufacturing floor systems running in-house developed production control suite. • Supervision and management of department staff, resource allocation, and budget.• Regular communication and strategy alignment with the other members of facility leadership and enterprise C-suite officers.• Oversight of User Support and Help Desk functions as well as hardware maintenance/repair.• Oversight of production defect resolution in conjunction with enhancement efforts. • Mixed-Mode NT and Win2K Domain Controllers, logon scripts, group policies, roaming profiles and Active Directory.• System Administration of MS Exchange, SQL Server, Avaya Definity PBX, and Definity Audix Voice Mail.• Programming experience in VB, VBA, C++, and SQL.