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Dayton, OH, US

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Architecture and development of a industry-leading digital onboarding platform for merchants in banking and ISV channels. Directly responsible for overall solution architecture, UI design, and development of product features and user stories. Provide oversight for Product Owners and Agile scrum teams in defining and delivering key product UI and API.

Ohio, United States

As Senior Solutions Architect, I have been responsible for leading local and multi-national project teams in the design and implementation of enterprise-level Portal and eCommerce solutions. With over 20 years of experience in software architecture, design, and development, I have helped some of the world’s largest brands meet today’s digital challenges by.

Cincinnati, Ohio

• Lead the multi-disciplinary team using Agile delivery practices to design, develop, and launch the new company intranet to the entire organization (500K+ site users).Technologies:IBM WebSphere Portal / WCM, IBM.
• Manage the Product Development roadmap from feature vision through execution and deployment
• Evaluate and prioritize new feature requests in consideration of impact to system architecture, integration with external systems, project budgets and timelines, system performance, and organizational readiness and.
• Interface between the IT organization and line of business to ensure the application meets the requirements of all stakeholders
• Identify opportunities for cost savings, organizational efficiency improvements, and improvements in operation efficiency
• Development of user interface design including support for mobile responsiveness and ADA compliance

Dayton, Ohio Area

• Led a multi-national development team to develop a custom lightweight PIM tool for users across the organization to input product data.Technologies:Grails, Quartz Scheduler, Microsoft SQL Server, Twitter Bootstrap.
• Created the user interface design and all supporting HTML/CSS code
• Created the custom SQL Server database schema and associated database scripts
• Led the offshore development team in the Agile methodology to develop the custom Java application using the Grails framework
• Conducting requirements analysis with the subject matter experts
• Created user stories and details for each sprint within JIRA Agile

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

• Project Description:The client was replacing an existing thick-client account management solution with web-based Portal platform.Technologies:Liferay 6.1 Enterprise Edition, ForgeRock IDM, IBM DB2, AIX, Web Services.
• Conducted an exhaustive data analysis of the existing application usage patterns of a customer base of 125,000 active users with over 2.2 million daily transactions. This analysis was used to determine which.
• Executed an in-depth analysis of existing customers and their organization roles and security access to create a detailed customer migration plan to begin moving users from the existing thick-client application to the.
• Created custom reports combining data )from Rally Software, Jenkins CI, HP Quality Center (ALM), and other sources) using Tableau Analytics to provide management with visualizations and deep insights into the project.
• Developed the Distributed Content Authoring model and custom authoring workflows within Liferay Portal 6.1
• Assisted the Business Analyst team in creating detailed user stories within the Rally Software tracking system

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Project Description:In order to remain ahead of the competition, the insurance agency needed to mirgrate their existing customer extranet to a new WebSphere Portal-based platform. This migration included significantly.
• Conducted a usability analysis of the existing application
• Developed a custom visual design to streamlin the customer onboarding process and optimize the user experience in document retrieval
• Developed the physical architecture plan and performed the installation and configuration of WebSphere Portal across multiple environments
• Led the development team to create custom portlets and web services to consume ERP web services
• Developed and deployed the custom Portal theme to implement the visual design

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Project Description:The company's existing Plumtree-based employee intranet was aging and no longer supported the needs of a growing international organization. WebSphere Portal was chosen as the platform, and the.
• Finalized the physical architecture plan for multiple environments, including both disaster recovery capabilities and high availability across multiple data centers
• Led the installation team to deploy and configure the software suite in multiple environments
• Conducted multiple workshops across the international organization to identify user personas, information architecture, and organizational requirements
• Developed the complete UI / visual design and conducted usability analysis of the design to ensure it would meet the organizational requirements
• Developed the distributed content authoring model and over 300 custom authoring workflows

Dayton, Ohio Area

• Project Description:As part of the divestiture from a previous parent company, the paper manufacturer with $3.1B in annual revenue needed to replace their existing web assets, including the customer extranet, employee.
• Conducted a gap analysis of all three existing sites and created an enterprise project roadmap for the development efforts
• Worked jointly with the customer’s advertising agency to develop a comprehensive web experience to reinforce the company brand across all digital platforms
• Developed the infrastructure design to surface the three independent applications within a single platform using Virtual Portals
• Developed the integration plan to surface SAP R/3 functionality in all transactional processing via the customer extranet
• Created a distributed content authoring model and associated workflows to allow multiple independent users to create and publish content specific to their areas of expertise

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Activities and Societies: Golden Key National Honor Society

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