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North Chicago, Illinois

Manage a team responsible for Setting Continuous Delivery Services & Architecture that determines how the teams build and support key technology capabilities within the Research, Development, Regulatory Affairs and Safety area for AbbVie’s Information Research (IR) Team.Set strategic application and infrastructure architecture direction given functional domains across AbbVie’s IR portfolio; developing/configuring applications with service providers and infrastructure vision for area domains.Focus is primarily on SalesForce, .NET and life science platform architectures and supports transformation activities in the Service Delivery& Architecture area.Collaborate across domain IT functions to identify opportunities to leverage common solutions and extend the adoption of standards.Facilitate the communication of architecture best practices throughout the architecture community and the IT organization by participating in leadership forums and architecture review boards.

Midland, Mi

I am the people lead with responsibility for all custom application architecture and development as well as recruiting top talent to work in our organization. My group is responsible for scientific software development and support for Research and Development. We are made up of Physical Scientists (Chemists/Biologists), Computer Scientists and Engineers. Built a global software development team for R&D from the ground up located in USA, China, EU and India.Managed the University of Illinois extended team to enable talent acquisition and low-cost development work.Created a continuous delivery and deployment strategy, implemented the environment.Developed architecture patterns for software development.Manage the DBA team and provided Architecture analysis for newly added Multi-Model database, Marklogic.Managed the Laboratory Information Management team. Managed Infrastructure team that went from managing individual servers to a blade platform that leverages VM-Ware. Migrated the complete software stack to virtual machines.Managed the Architecture and Implementation of customer facing web sites for R&D in MS Azure cloud environment.

Dearborn Michigan

Architect for Application Distribution/Release Management – leveraged IBM’s rational product suit in conjunction with Tivoli distribution to create a continuous deployment environment.Supervisor for capacity demand management at Ford data center – managed infrastructure installation projects that supported HR, Manufacturing, Finance, SAP. Application Architect End of Line Test SystemsDBA for End of Line Test Systems – Managed plant databases globally running Oracle and MS SqlServer.Systems Analyst - wrote real time vehicle diagnostic software, simulation software for end of line testing, tools used to configure End of Line diagnostics Database, End of Line reporting and database support. This was a very controlled environment to work in with many checks and balances to provide the highest level of quality software possible.ITIL Foundation certified from Loyalist Collage