Jeff Thaw Email & Phone Number

Stedman, Nc, Us

Greater New York City Area

Jersey City, Nj

Responsibilities included: * Serve in a dual role of both Enterprise and Solutions architect. * Provide architecture support to the Legal Technology group * Conduct architecture reviews as a member of the CT&R Architecture Review BoardKey accomplishments: Architecture Governance & Practice: * Helped define & establish the Architecture Review Board process & artifacts, including Project Self-Assessment questionnaire used to help prioritize architecture reviews * Introduced the use of an Enterprise Architecture modeling tool * Participated in Technology Rationalization reviewLine of Business (LOB) Architect – Legal Technology: * Developed Business Capability models and mapped the applications to support portfolio rationalization * Assisted in developing and maintaining the domain application roadmap and multi-year plan * Provided architectural guidance and support for: * buy/build decision for Enterprise Legal Matter Management platform * design and implementation of Legal Document Management solution * Led the initial formulation of an Information & Data Architecture Strategy. Created & delivered introductory training; developed information and conceptual models. * Designed a loosely coupled, n-tier abstraction layer & XML messages to integrate new applications and avoid the need to modify a fragile legacy system * Collaborated to drive definition of workflow tool Proof-of-Concept using PegaRules Process Commander

Parsippany, Nj

Responsibilities included:* Serve in a dual role of Enterprise Architect and Solutions Architect across various business domains* Act as architecture evangelist, and promote best practices in SDLC process improvementsKey highlights:* Lead player in re-establishing and maturing the practice of Solutions and Enterprise Architecture.* Redesigned the Solution Overview Document (SOD) template to improve the quality of design documents and facilitate reuse. Championed producing SODs by business domain rather than a project-centric basis. This resulted in dramatically reduced time & effort required to prepare, while delivering higher quality, more easily maintainable documents* Implemented an Enterprise Architecture tool and used the models to produce architecture & design documents. * Defined and established SOA Standards & Principles; created & delivered “Intro to SOA” training * Developed Enterprise Target Architecture and Principles; introduced and championed Business Capability Modeling* Collaborated with Data Architects to develop Enterprise Data Modeling principles and guidelines* Helped drive 2013 capital planning, and change the approach from project-centric to a synergistic enterprise view. For 2014 planning, expanded the approach to use Business Capabilities and identify cross domain impacts.* Contributed to development of 3-5 year IT strategic architecture roadmap

Jersey City, Nj

Responsibilities included:* Establish, mentor, develop, and supervise the team of Solutions Architects (9 FTE and 6 consultants).* Perform design & documentation reviews to ensure document and design quality and alignment with Architecture* Identify cross-project synergies to avoid redundancy, reduce cost and time by enhancing reuse* Contribute to refining and enhancing the Enterprise Reference Architecture* Process owner for Product Integration and Deputy Process Owner for Technical Solutions. Develop process and procedures; participate in appraisals leading CMMi Level 3 certification and subsequent successful reappraisal* Lead the SOA Governance Board, co-chair the internal ACORD Governance Group* Active member of Architecture Review Board, Technology Resource Committee, and Organizational Training Council* Estimate effort and handle demand management of the Solutions Architects resource poolKey highlights:* Created the “Architect in Waiting” program to identify and develop promising internal talent.* Led a 3-month initiative (sponsored by the AXA Group Global Chief Architect) to establish UML across the global enterprise* Improved technical design templates to improve the quality of design documents and facilitate design and document reuse.* Lead Solutions Architect for the strategic MDM (Master Data Management) initiative. Developed integration patterns including a simple approach to provide a delta back-feed to legacy systems without requiring changes to the legacy systems* Developed & conducted design training (OOAD/UML)

As Lead Solutions Architect for the new strategic annuity platform):* Designed enterprise-class SOA services, implementing the ACORD standard·* Oversaw the activities of the 3 other Solutions Architects and several Systems Analysts

Jersey City, Nj

Jersey City, Nj

Responsibilities included:* Acting in a dual role of both Enterprise Architect and Application Architect, provide architectural leadership and oversight for multiple projects across several business areas.* Conduct architecture reviews and enforce enterprise standards* Effectively communicate the architecture and philosophy throughout all levels of the organizationKey accomplishments:* Evaluated & recommended emerging technologies (ESB, Business Process Management, Business Rules Engines) * Establishment of an Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Defined guidelines and best practices for the application of SOA across the enterprise; Created messaging and schema standards and documentation, and co-wrote a developer’s handbook; Designed and oversaw development of the first services included in the Enterprise SOA * Design and implementation Identity Management (IDM) initiative driven by Sarbanes-Oxley compliance: Developed the logical data model, applying complex authorization and entitlement rules and using declarative security; Created high level design for enterprise workflow application to provision users in compliance with audit standards

Long Island City, Ny

Responsiblities included: * Full life-cycle as Application Architect, Lead Developer, Data Modeler, and Technical Systems Analyst* Developing design documents, oversee development teamKey accomplishments:* Introduced using XSLT to simplify application development, enhancement, and reduce the effort for deploying application changes.* Softphone Suite (Computer/Telephony Integration): - Designed and developed a loosely-coupled n-tier components that enabled disparate desktop applications to easily communicate with each other, utilizing a multi-threaded ATL COM service. - Designed and developed a Softphone application (using Cisco CTI technology), XML and XSL transformations to screen-pop customer service applications. Included desktop components, web middle-tier, Oracle backend. - Designed and implemented a high performance data warehouse and management dashboard to capture and produce Call Center metrics in near real-time.* Designed and developed two applications that extracted and transformed data from legacy customer investigations application and transmitted to the new application suite using XML, XSLT, MSMQ and Oracle AQ* Designed and developed several reusable components and design patterns for use by the development group to simplify utilization of unfamiliar technologies and speed development

New York, Ny

For the Computer Technology & Applications (CTA) Program:* Designed courses and syllabi, and taught classes in Object Oriented Analysis & Design, UML, Data Modeling, and Analysis & Design for e-Commerce* Recipient of Outstanding Teacher Recognition Award (October 2000)

The purpose of the engagement was to integrate multiple legacy applications running on disparate systems and platforms (Mainframe, Sybase, Oracle) from multiple pre-merger companies into a single cohesive thin-client application, to serve as global reference-data repository (Global Wholesale Credit Customer System)* Analyzed legacy applications and developed functional specifications (Use Cases, Use Case Scenarios, business rules, Data Model) to ensure full functionality was incorporated into the new integrated solution* Integrated results of analysis into a cohesive database design implemented in Oracle 8i* Created data transformation rules to transform legacy data, using XML messages via MSMQ* Developed project plan* Participated as Analyst/Data Modeler in a Six Sigma study analyzing multiple legacy applications and formulating recommendations for an integrated solutionTechnologies used: ERwin, Oracle, Rational Rose, XML, MSMQ, MS Project, Access, Java

New York, Ny

* Redesigned and programmed (including complex business rules)an invoicing and reporting system (transforming legacy mainframe data into an SQL database). Delivered project successfully in less than three months, where the original design had been unable to be delivered after nearly 2 years.* Re-architected a DSS project, resulting in dramatically improved programmer productivity, and causing the project to be brought in on time, when it was months behind schedule* Identified and proposed solutions for management review of architectural, development process and project management issues that were causing repetitive delays in project delivery* Mentored programmers in object oriented analysis, design and programming.

Post-Grad Certificate, Systems Analysis & Design

Master Of Music, Saxophone

Bachelor Of Music, Clarinet

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