I'm an Enterprise Architect with deep SME specialist skills in the IBM Automation space where I work with IBM Business Partners in architecting, designing, and implementing cloud native solutions with the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (BWL, PM, RPA, BAW, ODM, ADP, ADS, ECM, BAI), Cloud Pak for Integration (MQ, App Connect, API Connect, Event Streams, DataPower), and Cloud Pak for AIOps including Turbonomic and Instana.

• Enterprise Architect responsible for driving IBM product sales (e.g. public cloud, private cloud, middleware, hardware, security, AI, Blockchain, Business Automation, Analytics, web/mobile, IOT, etc.) thru strategic consulting partners.• I’ve led up to 14 solution architects where I mentor and assist other architects in their designs, RFPs, architectures, and proposals.• I am very technical and hands-on and find myself demoing IBM products, putting together big picture presentations, speaking world-wide at conferences/customer meetings, assisting with RFP/RFIs, building reference architectures, building design documents, building technology roadmaps and adoption strategies, and building pre-sales enablement collateral that recruits new partners.

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• Responsible for driving channel sales revenue by providing the technical guidance and support to 11 world-wide technical sales professionals and thousands of IBM business partners.• My team’s technology focus was on the Intelligent Business Automation products such as IBM BlueWorks Live, IBM Business Automation Workflow, IBM Decision Automation, IBM Robotic Process Automation, and IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence.• Developed and delivered technical sales enablement collateral, workshops, demos, technical tutorials, reference architectures, design best practices, RFI/RFP templates, performance tuning guides, and adjacency sales plays.

Billable consultant responsible for architecting, designing and developing enterprise class solutions using IBM Middleware products such as IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM MQ, IBM Enterprise Service Bus, IBM Business Process Manager. Delivered production engagements for Global 2000 clients.

IT Architect member of the Integrated Design Authority department of the Texas Nodal Market Redesign. This position involves technical consulting and guidance on SOA adoption and implementation across the 12 mega-projects.

Lead a team of 10 J2EE developers in building an n-Tiered J2EE application for logistical planning for the signal corps of the US Army. Application supported SOA by exposing the business logic layer as web services. Security model used a combination of Blaze Advisor rules engine with JBOSS AOP point-cuts to intercept authorization points. Client interface was a SWING webstart application using Apache Axis for JAX-RPC communication to the business layer. Deployed project in half the planned time by employing an agile RUP/XP development process.

Took a year off to backpack around Europe.

I led a team in building an automated provisioning and testing platform that verified our software was compatible with all major operating systems, web servers, application servers, databases, java virtual machines, and web browsers.

Web development

IBM super computer installs and production configuration.