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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.
• 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.
• Sponsoring “Career Launch” analysts—establishing and building the next generation of XE leadership.

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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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

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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

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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.
• 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.

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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 enterprise licensing, vender relationship, and license consolidation
• process management liaison to continuous process improvement team for QA

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