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Flower Mound, Tx, Us

Tukwila, Wa, Us

Transform BECU into the Credit Union of the future, enabling composable BIAN aligned capability and pattern driven reusable integration.

New York, Ny, Us

Served as API Integration Architect and recruited six key resources (Integration/Container expertise). Enhanced definition and adoption of security best practices aligning to zero-trust principles and ensuring OWASP vulnerability remediation.• Optimized API resiliency via standards adoption driving platform stability and roadmaps, spanning multiple Apigee platform version upgrades, aligning APIs to templates, remediating use of bespoke tokens, transitioning from RSA to ECDH encryption, and designing and testing alternatives to quota-based rate limits (to reduce load on stateful Cassandra components).• Spearheaded self-service API publishing and subscription leading initial team and content delivery, enabling 800+ scrum teams to define and deploy APIs.• Established API change standards via 12-step release process improving change management outcomes.• AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification

New York, New York, Us

Defined governance standards for API security and proxy development guiding migration of API portfolio from DataPower and API Connect to Apigee. Led team development of integration frameworks leveraging Apigee shared flows and flow hooks as part of Open Banking and subsequent rollouts.• Documented self-service process with standards references via Video enabled Confluence Wiki pages.

Guided regional banks on integration strategy and security. Led team of Integration Consultants spanning Kong Gateway, Apigee, MuleSoft, and Salesforce.• Refined integration frameworks and reusable standards, patterns, and blueprints.• Extended chat and wiki platforms and surveyed information and knowledge management tooling to share team knowledge more effectively.

New York, New York, Us

Delivered secure and robust API integration - spanning the hybrid cloud - regardless of channel, vendor, pattern, format or platform. Enable agile cloud-native managed microservices, without vendor lock-in, leveraging service mesh (Istio) and monetized customer/partner engagement. Organize self-service pattern libraries communicating best practices and knowledge about policy-driven automation, reusable microservices, devices, and APIs. Leveraged DataPower and IBM API Connect to enable secure and agile system integration.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Mentored 18 API (and UI) devs, engineers, & architects delivering 7+ sigma (highly available) API and service integration via thousands of integration flows. Led team evaluations of policy-driven massive scale API Integration via DataPower, MuleSoft, Spring Boot, and Apigee (NodeJS) micro-gateways.• Defined integration patterns and optimized DevOps standards and processes for 60+ build, test, and operations engineers - maximizing availability and customer service.• Directed API Catalog / Portal development including a POC for any-to-any API Integration leveraging F5 iRules, DataPower Appliance based proxies and API Gateways.• Provided technical designs / direction for consolidating 35+ integration systems, reduced cost per transaction 6X, $25M cost avoidance.• Engineered and delivered 7+ sigma highly available API and Service Integration for thousands of integration flows (billions of transactions per week) • Demonstrated policy-driven enterprise scale Integration across many vendor platforms (IBM DataPower and API Connect, Mulesoft ESB, Apigee Micro Gateway, and F5 Traffic Managers and others).• Enabled business partners to optimize security, agility, customer experience and performance in a cost optimized way leveraging API integration.• Optimized DevOps standards and processes for 60+ build, test and operations engineers to optimize availability and customer service for billions of enterprise shared service transactions per week.• Developed API Catalogs and Developer Portals using React.js, Node.js, and GraphQL. Evaluated advanced networking and cloud orchestration technologies with CD/CI.

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Designed, built and managed support for an on-line Credit Card site serving 2MM customers. (I-Planet, Netegrity Siteminder, IBM Websphere & MQ, Oracle, TSYS, Yodlee, etc.)

Boston, Ma, Us

Managed support teams and a 50+ Midrange server infrastructure supporting Global ERP (Oracle) and related storage (EMC, Hitachi and IBM) for GE Power Systems (serving clients and digitization efforts across the Americas, Europe (mainly Italy, Germany, France and Hungary) and Asia).

Developed advanced superconducting materials and applications including manufacturing techniques for YBCO and Bismuth based High Temperature superconductors. Co-authored numerous journal articles on advanced techniques for development and processing of High Tc Superconducting technologies. Developed superconducting transformers, transmission lines, current leads, and cryocooled computing technology.

Mba, Information Technology

Bsee, Electrical Engineering, Economics