Solution Architect IoT | Cloud | ApplicationRecruited by leadership team to build IoT practice for boutique digital business consultancy focusing on strategy, design, and digital technology. Manage practice domains, including coding languages, cloud, digital transformation, and data and systems architecture. Partner with sales and delivery team to scope out projects and provide expert input into statements of work (SOWs) regarding technical requirements, project delivery timelines, resource requirements, and cost estimates.Partnered with sales team to close $10M in new business by delivering effective sales pitches and nurturing long-term, value-based relationships with clients, delivering iterative technology roadmaps, and preparing detailed budgets for people and technology.Lead the IoT practice and partnered with the Health Care vertical with BLE (Blue Tooth Low Energy) devices to navigate standard protocols for field gateway edge device computing and mass capture of vital patient health monitoring data.Serve as thought leader and subject matter expert (SME) on end-to-end data and technology solutions architecture, publishing quarterly articles on company blog dedicated to innovative and transformative technology strategies. Manage delivery across all technical domains severing as a single point of client contact for software, mobile, data and cloud development.

Director of Delivery | Solution Architecture Delivery Manager| Solution ArchitectEngaged in the management of Technical and Solutions Architects and the practice lead for Azure cloud computing, big data, data architecture and delivery at the MS Certified Gold Partner specializing in business intelligence and software development. Fulfilled a critical role leading the delivery of development and business intelligence solutions for clients of data analytics and information management services, with a focus on capturing gains in efficiency, productivity, and effectiveness of platforms and processes at client sites. Deliver executive level architecture skills to build strong relationships and larger client teams. Responsibility and ownership of all delivery within the US market and direct leadership of personnel in Minneapolis MN, Fort-Worth TX, Philadelphia PA, and Pleasanton, CA offices. Recruited with a mandate to assess and design and lead data solutions for high potential clients. Strengthened BI platforms at Polaris Industries, a multi-billion-dollar manufacturer of snowmobiles, ATV, and neighborhood electric vehicles; envisioned, developed, and implemented strategies to promote data-driven batch platform to reduce processing times by over sixty percent while integrating change management, production support, and quality assurance.Assessed and lead solutions for Red Wing Shoe Company, providing design and development for delivering the “Rock Solid Infrastructure” enterprise initiative and driving a roadmap to uplift data platforms to cloud services.Led the strategic efforts for large manufacturers such as Cirrus Aircraft and Amano McGann designing and delivering new cloud based IoT platforms providing real-time insights through mobile applications and analytics as consumer services.

Advanced rapidly from an initial role to positions as Developer, Lead Developer, and Manager of Business Systems, culminating in a promotion to a leadership role as Director of Business Systems.Managed all facets of business intelligence, end user enablement, and data services; pioneered the BI function at the company, growing the user base for BI Services to over 3000.Supervised a team of architects, senior developers, and business architects operating out of multiple geographic areas, with responsibility for budgets over $7MM.Championed the adoption of BI methodologies and lean management frameworks to provide management with greater insight into the business.Migrated the business from a paper-based, highly manual model to an automated, digital platform; as Options Trader, automated manual tasks to increase trade volume from 80 to over 200 per day.Led the creation of over 500 applications to automate manual processing, capturing key cost reductions and labor savings; these applications included a distributive application platform that saved the labor equivalent of 200 full time employees.Built the Business Systems team and department, growing headcount from 8 to over 30, adding offshore personnel, and executing complete responsibility for desktop support, disaster recovery, and business continuity.Created a disaster recovery infrastructure that allowed for an RTO of four hours for all of Clearing Operations mission critical systems while heading Annual BCP and Disaster Site recovery exercises where both systems and people functioned at remote DR locations. Led the development of internal controls to meet a complex landscape of regulatory and federal requirements.

Pioneered the capability of business intelligence providing risk management, regulatory, compliance, and controls, while enabling self-service analysis for the firm; Introduced Oracle, Microsoft SharePoint, SSIS integration, and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS).Formalized teams and structures for Data, QA, App Dev, BCP, DR, Desktop Support, Production Support, Vendor Management, Project Management.Positioned as the Technology Strategic Lead for Clearing Operations.

Fostered the growth of a portfolio automating over 500 manual processes, capturing key cost reductions, labor savings, and other efficiencies; introduced a distributive application platform saving the labor equivalent of 200+ full time employees.Hired and mentored new developers to fill the application development QA team roles.Created the foundational response Regulatory Reporting, Data Management, Business Intelligence.

Served an integral and revolutionary role migrating the business from a paper-based, highly manual model to an automated, digital platform.Founded the QA capability and introduced, test automation, and regression.

Handled complex trades, managed trade activity, managed inventory, and problem correction.Revolutionized trade processing by automating repetitive manual tasks to skyrocket the productivity of traders to process and average of 80 to over 200 trades per day, leading to an assignment to direct the development of a formal automation platform.

Traded Stocks, Bonds, Options, Mutual Funds for client accounts.