Consultant, It Architecture
CurrentJuly 2014 - Present Consultant, IT Architecture (Infrastructure & Operations Project Architect)(July 2011 - June 2014) Consultant, IT Architecture (Systems Architect)(June 2010 - June 2011) Consultant, Infrastructure Eng (Dec 2008 – June 2010) Consultant, System Eng/Admin (June 2008 – Dec 2008) Specialist, System Eng/Admin (Dec 2006 – May 2008) Specialist, IT Solutions Analysis (April 2005-Dec 2006) Specialist, Systems Eng/Admin • Performed the role of an I&O Project Architect on projects including but not limitied to:o Deployment of the Big Data & Analytics platform on Nationwide standard infrastructureo Deployment of a re-architected Claims system on Nationwide standard infrastructureo Deployment of an ETL system for Hadoop• Part of the working team to create a Business Data Lake Statement of Direction and Reference Architecture• New role (I&O Architect) supporting the Nationwide Insurance infrastructure• Assumed Architecture responsibilities for projects involving Matter Management, Legal Billing, Retail Store Operations upgrades, Compliance Archiving and others• Took responsibility for support for Corporate Physical Security in addition to other areas• Role change to IT Architect for Legal, Compliance and Corporate Real Estate• Led an initiative to virtualize most of the application servers and to move the major part of the storage from Tier 1 to Tier 2 resulting in annual savings of over $250k in ongoing support costs and allocations• Developed Operational Recovery and DR plans that allow us to stay in Compliance and meet Non-Functional Requirements and SLAs• Developed processes and procedures for data destruction, compliance auditing, etc to help with Compliance initiatives