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Wayzata, Mn, Us

For nearly 20 years, Barefoot Consulting has allowed me to provide B2B Consulting Services and support my certification study breaks every 3-5 years. I obtained the Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect-Expert certification during my most recent study break and started AWS Solutions Architect Certification preparation.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

RBC USWM is the 4th largest full-service wealth advisory firm in the U.S., with more than 2,100 financial advisors in 184 locations in 42 states, and is one of the largest clearing and custody firms in the U.S., with over 20,000 financial advisors.As a Principal Solutions Architect, partnered with I.T., Operations, and business stakeholders to develop the end-to-end technical architecture for high-complexity and high-risk I.T. initiatives (i.e., $1 million - $80 million). Key Milestones: 1) scaled a securities-based lending solution from $600M in available credit to over $6B while improving user experience through Salesforce integration, and 2) avoided $27m in annual licensing through creative technology placement, and 3) provided optimized architectures to reduce account onboarding time from 7 days to a few minutes through digital signature and integration while consolidating 35 systems into one.• Solutions Architecture: Architecture activities to assess and analyze business strategy, business requirements, current state environment, and technology choices to evaluate solution alternatives to meet business sponsor needs.• Governance: Define end-to-end technical solutions that consider the enterprise architecture strategies, current state environment, and constraints and analyze the solution's viability to meet program timeline, budget, and quality.• Guide, Coach, & Mentor: Act as the lead technical authority on the program, and be responsible for planning all activities leading to the development of the all-encompassing solution architecture.• Communicate: Work across multiple functional teams (data, security, infrastructure, development, etc.) to ensure that all aspects of the solution architecture are captured, defined, and communicated. Facilitate small to large group meetings for reviewing technical architecture, decision-making, and problem-solving.

Bloomington, Minnesota, Us

As a member of the Executive Leadership team, provided direction and leadership to deliver the technology platforms needed to transform the organization from a Financial Services Company to a FinTech.Delivered a FinTech Transformation that increased company value by over 100X. • Business Growth Through IT: Provided the tools needed to close a sale resulting in 100X growth in Assets Under Management (AUM). Primary platforms include Salesforce Financial Services and Sales Clouds, DocuSign, Orion API, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).• Efficiency Improvements: Constructed trade automation systems, reference data automation systems, and digital signature form automation tools to scale the business for large customers while removing dependencies on routine, manually intensive tasks and the need for extensive hiring.• IT and Information Security Enablement: Built IT and information security organizations and products from the ground floor that scale to stakeholder needs, support future growth, and meet customer expectations for controlling risk and protecting over 20M customer accounts and $1.2 trillion in financial assets.• IT Governance, Portfolio & Project Management: Provided oversight, business alignment, and technical resource procurement and managed the delivery of projects using several offshore and onshore resources. Provided policy development to ensure compliance with industry regulations and organizational policy while monitoring risk and performing internal IT audits.• Enterprise Architecture: Provided the architecture blueprints and artifacts to support the realization of the enterprise's mission, vision, and business plan. • Integration Architecture: Batch Vestmark integrations and API integrations to SFDC, Box.com, DropBox.com, Quik! Forms, Docusign, Orion Connect & Eclipse, Mercer, Sterling Capital, Riskalyze, BizEquity, Morningstar, Xignite, Google Big Query, Google Storage, Redtail, and Vestorly.

Hopkins, Minnesota, Us

On behalf of the CEO, provide an external, unbiased audit and assessment of the Digi Cloud Event Architecture’s ability to meet current and future business needs.Gained alignment for measurable SLA metrics and provided a scaling approach exceeding the current 15k real-time transactions per minute.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Provided enterprise architecture consulting to transform all customer-facing technology solutions serving donors, patients, and employees of Be The Match Registry®’s international network. Delivered greater life-saving transplant volume, decreased time-to-transplant, and improved user satisfaction by 66%. • Enterprise Architecture: Constructed an Enterprise Domain Model and Enterprise Information Flow Model to facilitate architecture impact analysis and rapid transformation of technology to support present and future stakeholder needs.• EA Practice Enhancement: Implemented Sparx Enterprise Architect as an enterprise architecture modeling tool and provided templates, model examples, patterns, and training to support versioning, multiple teams, and projects.• Scaling and Performance: Built enterprise templates for capturing and measuring non-functional architecture requirements in the business, information, application, and technology architecture domains.• Regulatory Roadmap Development: Provided visual clarity to promote NDMP compliance with FedRAMP, NIST SI-06-1, Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) HIPAA Omnibus Rule (HIPAA Privacy and HIPAA Security), and FDA Title 21 CFR Part 11 as well as parts (50, 56, 211, 312, 600, 601, 606, 610, 1271).

Rochester, Minnesota, Us

Architecture Assessment and Remediation of Cancer and Leukemia Group B Private Cloud Migration. Provided architecture guidance to disparate teams for data center consolidation activities and delivered a cloud migration solution on time and before the funding grant expiration. • Architecture Assessment: Perform an inventory of assets, model the as-is and to-be deployment models, assign asset capabilities, ownership, and support, to appropriate organizations, influence and drive necessary business and architecture decisions and remove organizational and technology roadblocks.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Provided cloud migration architecture guidance and solutions to disparate teams for data center migration activities. Delivered a cloud migration to acquire Columbia Asset Management with $165 billion in equity and bond asset management from Bank of America and an H&R Block’s Broker-Dealer migration with $30 billion in AUM. • Cloud Architecture: Produced asset inventory, asset health assessments, and the plan, design, and provision of new data center infrastructure assets and capabilities. Activities included consolidating applications and data from multiple retiring data centers and incorporating organizational policies and controls. Responsible for all H&R Block’s IT asset migrations and Columbia’s Equity Fundamental Research, Equity Decision Support, and Quant Trading assets.• Integration Architecture: Deliver enterprise integrations for Quant (Program Trading), security master, benchmark reference data, and accounting system account cross-reference to feed equity risk, performance, ratings, research, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and OFAC.• Security, Scaling, and Performance: Ensure Quant, with its 8k daily trades and other assets of responsibility, have the necessary security controls, performance, and scale to continue with confidentiality, data integrity, high availability, resiliency, monitoring, and incident escalation.

On behalf of the Cigna CFO, performed an architecture assessment of an acquired EAP technology provider followed by Enterprise EAP Asset Rationalization. Delivered online wellness coaching maturity models, platform alternative analysis, a future state vision and strategic roadmap, functional gap analysis, and architecture impact analysis.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Provided architecture transformation solutions supporting a custom Thompson Financial BETA System migration on a private RBC cloud to ADP’s Brokerage Processing Services (BPS) SaaS public cloud solution.As a replacement PM and architect, transformed a failing $7M company intranet project flagged by the PMO as most likely to fail (red) to on-time and on budget with a successful delivery (green). • Portfolio Architecture: Architecture activities to resolve architecture decisions, perform impact analysis, and guide several teams to migrate data and capabilities for the strategic Products Portfolio and mission-critical Operations Portfolio. Coordinated the activities of multiple portfolio architecture and business teams to ensure consistency in approach.• Compliance & Risk: Persuade, collaborate, motivate, and support teams in their need to produce RBC standard architecture deliverables and IT solutions, as well as comply with industry and organizational policies and procedures.• Architecture Baselining: Refactor asset inventory and architectural representations of enterprise architecture views by business, data, application, technology, & information security domains post this $270M migration effort.• Integration Architecture: Stabilize, scale, secure, and enhance a proprietary ETL solution that delivers account, trade, transaction, balance, and security reference data to over 32,000 vendor and client destinations.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Re-factor the architecture of the two largest customer loyalty platforms that accounted for 54% of all Carlson Marketing Group Revenue, thereby avoiding lawsuits and lost customers.Scaled the largest loyalty platform (Visa) from 150 concurrent users to over 15k, enabling SLA compliance to growth projections of 60M daily transactions and multi-terabytes of rewards scoring data. • Infrastructure Reduction: The prior architect recommended 120 web servers for the Visa loyalty application, which, after tuning, ran on one web server. This architecture alternative resulted in IT operations savings in the millions.• Scaling and Performance: Prepared SLAs for appropriate stakeholders, architected and ran performance remediation efforts, provided capacity and performance analysis to the Executive Committee, and reduced batch process times from 30 to 2 hours, well within the 4-hour SLA window.• Integration Architecture: Implement a resilient ETL solution that removed unnecessary dependencies, performed massively-parallel concurrent reward scoring jobs, provided deep event and incident notification, and replaced a broken, unstable solution that was not capable of scaling to meet business and customer needs.• Information Security: Performed PCI information security self-assessments / internal audits before a formal Visa audit.• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery: Prepared platform Disaster Recovery procedures for these most business-critical platforms and performed business continuity exercises. SWAT Team Lead responding to system outages rapidly.

New York City, Us

Delivered over 75 RFI/RFP Responses, built a proprietary iterative OO methodology, and built a national .NET practice for over 250 consultants from the ground up. • Practice Management: Be the voice of the consultant’s professional services to help customers in their journey by providing guidance on architecture, performance, scalability, management, and serviceability of products through assembling, creating, and sharing effective content and best practices. Activities included training, pre-sales visits and presentations, RFI/RFP responses, service definitions, methodology development, engagement management, and recruiting support.• Solution Architecture: Produced architectures and built systems for several customers and applications, including a new proprietary enrollment and eligibility system for a health benefits distributor and pension benefits manager with over 250k individuals.• Integration Architecture: Provided the integration strategy to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota to replace five crown jewel legacy systems with over 600 interfaces each. Provided the BCBS-MN strategy for integrating 26 common insurance transactions through portals for providers, distributors, and consumers.• Performance and Scaling: Performed planning, architecture, implementation, and testing of security, integration, communications, and availability to support Internet advertising for BMWFilms.com, resulting in an Internet ranking by Nielsen/Net Ratings as the fastest growing Internet Site for the period.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Delivered several customer solutions while following a formal, highly mature software development methodology. Most of these projects were fixed-price.• Trainer: Deliver Microsoft Official Curriculum courses to the public and fellow consultants.• Team Leader: Provide coaching, mentoring, knowledge transfer, and career development counseling to consultants.• Interviewer: Following a formal, methodical, and measurable process, conducting technical Interviews for the roles of Business Analyst, Enterprise Architect, OO Architect, and Level III Software Engineer.• Software Engineer Consultant: Highlights include building a sockets-based web service consumer for performing credit card payment processing as well as CLUE and credit checks for Windsor Group Insurance, a large insurance company, constructing a telecom field agent communications design to support 15k field agents for Ameritech, a baby bell, construction of a telemarketing auto-dialer ETL capability, development of an EDI purchase order capability for Melita, a Fortune 100 company at the time, and several business process re-engineering efforts.

Create messaging automation to manage more than 100 mission-critical interfaces between internal and external trading partners. Leveraged a messaging engine to build a highly scalable, available, resilient, mission-critical integration architecture to support 10 million real-time transactions daily. Critical: an outage leaves planes circling without instructions.

Highlights include building a credit card reconciliation solution for the US Navy and Airforce compliance and auditing, custom ETL and data exchange for disparate proprietary database technologies, custom travel agency BI tools, and a solution similar to Expedia using fax machines, proprietary airline communication protocols, and custom dial-up protocols. Transformed over 15 proprietary vendor database formats (without manuals or support) into a standard data repository for all RBS custom BI tools.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

The first in over 800 Delta Airlines Information Services programmers to rank "Senior" in less than 24 months.Highlights include building an accounting system to support airline reservation systems' largest customers, leading fellow developers, designing solutions for scaling, improving performance, integrating several airline systems, and assessing emerging Unix technologies and solutions as a service to other Delta departments.

Highlights include building a PC dial-up to IBM System 36 remote ordering capability and automation of the start of daily batch processes to run all 24 hours to avoid a costly system upgrade.Note: Jostens has since acquired Autrey Brothers.

Built a medical office management system that was ranked #1 by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. of America in 1986.Note: Brady Martz & Associates has since acquired Bradoc Data Management.

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Education record

The Open Group Architecture Framework (Togaf)

Certified Ethical Hacker (Ceh)

Education record

Project Management Professional (Pmp)

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (Cissp)