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Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Representing architecture for the “Power of Three” leadership team responsible for the Digital Ops Factory (DOF) portfolio of digital offerings in support of field service worker enablement. The DOF has been specifically mentioned by Xcel CFO Brian Van Abel on the last two earnings reports as a critical aspect of Xcel Energy’s “Innovation and Transformation” strategy for addressing concerns around elevated O&M costs through the demonstrated value capture of closed loop savings: $20 million over 10 years across 5 digital offerings.RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DOF PORTFOLIO ARCHITECTURE TEAM AND COMPETENCY:• Reporting directly to (VP) Chief Architect in a flat organization: one layer from the CIO, two from the CEO.• HR Leader of the DOF portfolio solution architects: FTE and contract architects from vendor partners.• Partnering with planning leaders on business and technology alignment.• Responsible to “Build the thing right.” o Setting technical direction based on best practices and overall IT portfolio. o Delivering high-quality customer-friendly software through enabling and accelerating teams. o Guiding the execution of the cross-functional team members as an agile practice leader.ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:• Sponsoring “Career Launch” analysts—establishing and building the next generation of XE leadership.• Peer to Architecture leadership of the Customer and Operations portfolios, Enterprise, and to Engineering Dir.• Member of the core technical directors who make up the enterprise Architecture Review Board (ARB).• Trusted advisor for data leadership in our Data and Analytics, Data Governance, and Data Integration teams.• Principal architect on 2 years, $10 Million, ESB modernization project affecting over 700 critical integrations

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Responsible for leading, owning and governing the vision, roadmap, use of architecture design patterns, data tools and principles that align to the overarching IT Strategy. Consulting and collaborating cross-organizationally to support delivery of end-to-end capabilities. Own, report, and consult on the overall health and corresponding risks of the Technical domain.Essential ResponsibilitiesLeadership: Lead work cross-organizationally through coaching and feedback, and through significant interactions and influence with leaders. Govern work efforts to ensure alignment with reference architecture, IT strategy and policy. Collaborate cross-organizationally to influence alignment on and adoption of enterprise architecture standards.Technical Expertise: Provide consultation and direction to delivery and operational teams on optimal architecture for respective solutions. Maintain state-of-the-art expertise of enterprise architecture technologies, frameworks, and industry innovations.Planning and Strategy: Participate in creation and renewal of an overarching IT strategy. Develop and enforce reference architecture standards that are aligned with IT strategies and principles. Contribute to architecture road maps and provide input to technology roadmaps. Ensure the domain IT Strategy align with Enterprise Architecture framework and standards.Architectural Operations: Review and approve projects and work efforts to ensure that they are compliant with architectural standards. Track and manage exceptions to standards. Continuously improve operational processes. Assess, report, and make recommendations to eliminate operational risk related to technology or architecture.

New Brighton, Minnesota, Us

Director of IT reporting to the CIO and member of the IT leadership team. Responsible for establishing a vision for the IT organization to support the APi Group Acquisitions and System Integration strategies and objectives.Critical to modernizing API Group’s technology portfolio, driving an improved experience for APi Group operating companies, customers, and employees—establishing processes driving innovation and value.ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Established and managed a high performing cross-functional team across Acquisitions, Integrated Solutions, and Master Data Management, focusing on Aligned Autonomy, Accountability, Self-Organization, and DevOps.• Collaborated with technology and business stakeholders to develop an Acquisitions and Integration vision and strategy aligned with APi Group’s objectives and direction.• Architected and implemented a modern general purpose integration pattern for both data migration and operational data integration based on the “Data Mesh” pattern and providing Data Hub, Exchange, and BI.• Supported Innovation through proofs of concepts and deliver capabilities that help the Enterprise gain efficiencies, beat the competition, and increase the bottom line.• Partnered with leadership so that the Acquisition and Integration roadmaps align with business objectives.• Built an Acquisitions capability allowing APi Group to analyze and evaluate new acquisitions to determine “what we are buying” from a technical standpoint: data, applications, information security profile, network capabilities—streamline integration into the APi Group architecture. • Partnered with IT and business stakeholders to increase the velocity and repeatability of the acquisition process.• Championed critical “Company Load” ETL integration capability for new acquisitions, extracting data from legacy systems, transforming into Master Data, and loading into one of the APi Group ERPs.

Brussels, Bourgetlaan, Be

Member of technology leadership at Radisson Hotels, identified in the VP of architecture’s succession plan. Trusted technical advisor for Radisson Hotels regarding emerging technologies, industry and technology trends and best practices…scoped recommendations to the team skillsets and maturity, and development and ops practices. ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Defined and implemented strategic integration architecture.• Supported digital transformation program and other business and technology objectives • Leveraged the best practices of: • Domain Driven Design • Event-driven Architecture • Microservices Architecture • API management• Responsible for API-led Architecture and the supporting C4E (Center for Enablement).• Leveraged key stakeholders and teams in planning and executing the MuleSoft Catalyst Launch.• Socialized API-led architecture, educating both enterprise leadership and the broader communities.• Worked closely with enterprise teams on ensuring performance, scalability, and availability of services.NOTABLE PROJECTS:BI/Data Platform-Customer 360, CC Processing, IAM/CIAM/SSO, Load and Perf Testing, PII Tokenization/Data Masking, Franchisee Onboarding, Global Group/Corporate Sales, Property Management, and Master Data Management

Medina, Minnesota, Us

Architecture lead on the largest foundational change to core manufacturing business in the history of Polaris—Engineering to ERP, manufacturing, CRM, consumer CPQ and all points between.ARCHITECTURE:• Drove multi-year push to deliver the architecture competency at Polaris. • Established Microsoft Azure cloud strategy for IT roadmap in support of directive from CIO.• Moved delivery to automated CI/CD pipelines using native VSTS for cloud, adding BuildMaster for on-premises.• Established product-based team structure approach to bring agile methodology to bear on delivery.• Implemented course-grained microservices architecture. INTEGRATIONS:Led a team of 3 analysts established the Polaris core service catalog APIs in support of manufacturing within the power-sports industry. • Chaired the Polaris Integration Steering Committee and provided yearly Integration Roadmap to the CIO.• Led for Polaris in the PDS power-sports consortium with partners like Kawasaki and BRP. • Set technical direction for Polaris internal Polaris Partners eXchange (PPX) initiative, integrating with 10 external Dealer Management Systems and multiple business partners and internal business units.• Oversaw multiple data propagation efforts with both internal and external partners including one high-volume inventory load of over 600 daily files amounting to nearly a trillion discrete records.• Designed and implemented queue-based integration using guaranteed delivery and pub-sub patterns to harden and provide ease of extensibility within system integrations. • Provided architectural direction for cloud strategies with the P3 project, establishing patterns for CQRS, Event Sourcing, and Microservice definition extending on-premises platforms into cloud native implementations.• Mentored both team leads and team members, as well as providing counsel to management across the IS organization and built understanding of integration strategies and how they shape the enterprise.

Technical liaison across multiple domains within the broader effort for the health exchange, primary focus on integration using SOA best practices and including Service Component Architecture elements such as: SoaML Modeling, ESB, Service Orchestration, Business Process, Audit Logging, State Management, B2B, and WS Security. ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Authored SOA Platform Approach Document defining the overall SOA integration approach for the MNHIX.• Facilitated and contributed to recurring JAD sessions for the definition of Identity and Access Management including top-level account definition, alignment between COTS and State account types, and multiple complex patterns for account creation including bulk loading State workers into the system. • Facilitated technical discussions that involved the project prime (Maximus) my own team (EngagePoint), COTS Products (Cúram and Connecture), and State Entities (Commerce, DHS, State Systems, State Infrastructure). • Conceived, pitched, and implemented SOA System Modeling approach in SoaML Using Sparx EA. Including integration with modeled requirements and Business Process Flows.

(26 million/200 employee) Service Bureau refactor of a legacy transactional system onto a SOA/Workflow Platform. Responsibilities included managing Development/Transaction Team Manager (six .Net developers and technicians).ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Member of the Applied Technology Steering Team for major IT investment projects, 1.5-million-dollar budget.• Provided complex back-end services for Deluxe Corporation’s Switch Agent product.• Provided seamless operational backbone for Bluestem customer portal, managing 14tb of data.• Drove the implementation of a Windows Workflow/WCF driven solution for transactional business.• Managed package selection process for transactional print line of business—Altova suite of tools, RenderX document rendering, Solimar document re-engineering.

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Working with solutions architects and program managers, I participated in architecture design and delivery of a comprehensive and highly flexible framework for message-based integration–linking our provider web portal with multiple clinical case-management systems.I personally worked to deliver:• business rules specification and expert system design• audit & metrics definition and strategies for both operational and business visibility into the system• new service-oriented architecture design and integration with legacy systems• service orchestration as a tool for the development of complex aggregate services as well as simplifying their ongoing maintenance• continuous integration solution design and implementation through Cruise Control• logical architecture specification and physical architecture delivery under the constraints of a large managed-services system• DBMS assessment and selection for emergent XML data type strategies

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For Product Benefit Database I designed a reporting framework for the representation of health insurance plan configuration data. This was accomplished through a suite of reports targeted to multiple key user groups including sales and their clients, legal, upper management, and operations audiences. Activities included:• converting relational plan-configuration data from a complex legacy system (PBD) into an enterprise canonical model in XML• wrapping the PBD legacy system in granular web-services to expose low-level data to the enterprise• providing a web-service aggregator to express it as a comprehensive XML schema • conducting package selection for PDF software from both commercial and open-source solutions• learning and then subsequently teaching our dev team the native manipulation of XML into PDFs using Altova StyleVision

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ACIS: Automated Case Implementation System (C, Java, Powerbuilder, XML, Cobol)On ACIS I routinely participated in multiple projects with a high level of concurrency–often over varying technology types and integrating systems. I had the opportunity learn the fundamentals of working with local and remote resources, both employees and offshore consultants, to help provide a high-stability product with remarkably low incidence of defects. This was a great experience for me, as I became skilled at working on a large distributed development team delivering mission-critical functionality and substantial integration with downstream systems. My time with this team provided me with a great foundational understanding of enterprise development processes and key personal productivity skills as I transitioned up from Administration, through Development, and into Systems Analysis.

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Worked to manage and support tools, and establish processes meant to bring enterprise to Capability Maturity Model (CMM) level 5.Project Server Administration: • corrected flaws in the legacy implementation • managed product lifecycle--personally testing and implementing software upgrades• process management liaison to continuous process improvement team for PM’sTest Director Administration: • managed product lifecycle--personally testing and implementing software upgrades• managed enterprise licensing, vender relationship, and license consolidation • process management liaison to continuous process improvement team for QA• worked with QA managers to develop enterprise testing and root cause analysis strategies for the enterprise, including configuration of the tool to guide defect lifecycle.• created and presented a half-day training sessions for new groups of QA testers and managers to use Test Director as it was configured for the enterprise.

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Fast Track Program, Business Web Development