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Nashville, Tn, Us

Nashville, Tn, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Senior management & technology consultant for enterprise architecture & strategy, solution architecture and ensuring successful overall project outcomes. Worked on various high technology projects with various clients such as Amazon Air Science & Technology (air logistics), i3 Verticals (government applications), Charter Communications (cable & internet services) and TeamHealth (medical outsourcing). Worked with the corporation’s global Technical Strategy and Enterprise Team on internal projects such selecting EA Management tools for TOGAF projects and designing CCaaS solutions (Contact Center as a Service).

Nashville, Tn, Us

Managed enterprise architecture for a $1B division of a large insurance company. Leading the technology strategy for transformation from legacy on premise technologies towards a pure AWS cloud environment.

Yokohama-Shi, Kanagawa, Jp

Short term contract to work with teams in US, Japan and France on the design of connected car technologies for next generation of Nissan Intelligent vehicles (particularly fleet vehicles). Developed strategies for technologies such as remote management capabilities and in car applications to support Nissan’s large B2B customers (such as rental car companies and ride sharing services).

Managed strategies for how and what technologies are used throughout the company. Applications wererelated to risk management, compliance, data breaches, identity theft and dark web monitoring. Helped the company move to next generation technologies to support aggressive product expansion plans. Created an architecture team and established an Architecture Review board & related processes to review design and technology in all new projects.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Senior Enterprise architect at Asurion, a global device insurance and technical support company with over 300 million customers and 16,000 employees. Responsible for driving new Platform and IT technologies into the business to keep Asurion solutions and infrastructure state of the art. Worked directed with company executives to review and develop strategies and roadmaps. Specific expertise in cloud infrastructure and serverless application design (AWS and Azure) and developing AI/Machine learning to process huge datasets for predictive analysis.

Rochester, Ny, Us

Manager of Architecture for telecommunications, local search and digital media startup company. Rationalized the corporate infrastructure and technologies across 8 development teams. Created strategies for future technology directions. Created mobile development team to build mobile applications (iOS & Android) with integration to digital advertising platforms for Soleo, Verizon, Sprint and Boost mobile (over a million downloads of the apps). Managed design and strategy for commercial REST API that could be used by third parties to access Soleo’s business, natural language and search services.

Rochester, New York, Us

Technology architect for startup company building cloud brokerage platform (integrated with Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine & VMWare). Worked with AWS, Azure, GCP and VMware to design a SaaS Cloud brokerage system that worked across all of the major cloud platforms. Also, worked in the consulting practice directly with executives and customers to understand requirements and design solutions to be built by team of 500 developers offshore.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Worked with the corporation’s employee communications VP to deliver a new interactive communications and collaboration platform globally (based on Microsoft’s .Net and SharePoint 2010/2013 hosted on AWS and VMWare). Part of the business case was driven by a need to quickly integrate new employees acquired through mergers and acquisitions into the corporate culture and communications. Lead the design and architecture (UI/UX, database and software design) for an onshore (UX, Infrastructure, Project Management, and QA) and offshore development teams.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Development manager for the corporate SharePoint 2010 platform for Xerox (target audience over 140,000 global employees and approximately 50,000 external partners and resellers). Directly managed thedevelopment team, architecture, Information Architecture and Content management teams in addition tooperations for legacy portal environments. Developed new corporate communications portal and new portal the global learning organization (for training all 180,000 employees and partners). Developed complex targeting system to guide users to the best training on the Learning portal based on their job code, organization, country, etc. Managed a team of 14 onshore and 9 offshore people. Successfully managed first major XIM project to utilize an Agile development methodology (Scrum). Ensured Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance for all business processes.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Responsible for the development of global technology strategies and roadmaps for Xerox Information Management for the next 3-5 years. This strategy is a major input in deciding how Xerox decides to spend it’s up to $350M annual IT spend. Worked directly with CIO and C-level executives on developing strategies and 3-5 year roadmaps.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Worked with corporate executives (including CEO & CIO) to develop the customer facing Internet presence for Xerox Corporation (www.xerox.com). Lead the internet group based out of Palo Alto with 30+ team members. Helped grow the team to more than 100 people (60 of these are high-level hands-on technical people). Managed architecture, infrastructure, database team, UX/UI and metrics/analytics. Personally interviewed and approved all new hires.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Technical lean for corporation's Human Resources department. Developed projects focused on employee self-service, benefits management and outsourcing.

As investor and part owner, developed the concept, launched and oversaw the operations of a successful coffee business with 4 retail locations and a wholesale roasting operation.

Bs, Computer Science

Graduate Studies, Corporate Strategy

Electrical Engineering