Create a transformational enterprise architecture practice and establish strategic business/IT partnerships to align with the firm goals across all business units within Neuberger Berman. Provide tools/solutions and best practices for use in IT, Ops and Business.• Business Architecture- Establish a firm wide functional taxonomy- Analysis and Mapping of Business capabilities to strategic priorities- Target Investment prioritization and governance- Conduct a Buy/Hold/Sell analysis of the application portfolio and project demand• Application Architecture- Define a target enterprise stack – infrastructure and development platforms- Initiate platforms and products, software reuse and common patterns.- Cloud projects – use of PaaS to test enterprise viability.- Create core libraries – logging, audit, event handling, security/SSO and cloud integration- Provide a platform for testing emerging enterprise technology• Architecture Governance and Tools – SDLC and SOA, Risk and Audit reporting- SDLC Governance and Agile integration – Training, Certification and Scrum assistance to teams.- Set up Application Development best practices – common patterns, procedures, reviews.- Application Solution Architecture Governance

Manage and govern the enterprise-wide full SDLC. Build out new and emerging technologies, and incorporate new design patterns into solutions for multiple business/IT groups. • Central Architecture – SDLC and SOA governance, Risk and Audit reporting- SDLC Governance and Agile integration – Training, Certification and Scrum assistance to teams.- Development best practices (use of central portal – DevCentral).- Technical Debt tracking and measurement.- Code quality, risk metrics.- Application Portfolio and Lifecycle Management.- TCO models.- Application Solution Architecture Governance- Application certification, Risk and regulatory reporting.• Solutions Architecture and Research- Banking Applications - Check Scanning, Transfers, Bill Payment- Mobile Apps – Native iOS, Android, Hybrid and HTML/HTML5 apps for ipad, blackberry, and iphone.- Security – Authentication/Authorization solutions, inter-tier security solutions, Input Validation Frameworks.- Business Solutions (Video, Social Networking, Mobile devices strategy, SaaS solutions, DRM/Docs)- Participate in the design/development processes of all applications within MSSB.• Infrastructure Projects- Production Perimeter Design– physical separation of production from dev/qa regions.- DMZ – creation of new external facing zone.- Datacenter Design – High availability, low latency, secure designs, including DR builds.- Application Platform design – building platforms instead of servers.- Cloud pilot projects – use of Azure, AWS and private clouds, tooling, deployments within the Enterprise.

• Ran the managed services web Solutions team. -Managed spend on vendors, providing cost transparency/per unit cost to business units.-Monitored SLAs, Business unit relationships, and total spend of the vendors.• Designed, deployed a web based Equities/Research Alpha Capture and Distribution System.-Built on a Flex/Java/FIX platform, incorporating newer RIA design patterns.-Provided graphical real-time performance measures (net alpha, rankings, and idea performance) with full auditing capabilities.• Improved Metrics measurement and detailed usage tracking -Custom solutions designed to capture detailed user behaviors-Partnered with Core BI team to design custom end-user reporting.-Reporting engine detailing near real-time user behavior, navigation, and performance.• Action and Rules based presence awareness in applications.- Event based web tracking, allowing rules engine interaction with client actions, allowing various developers to leverage rules based client behavior, and provide in-session content recommendation.

Responsible for designing and implementing a complete n-tier load balanced web infrastructure to support 65,000 users (employees) within Morgan Stanley. Applications included Payroll/Employee Self Service/HR data management and approver workflows.

Created and ran IT for this privately held startup that created a business to business portal for the retail industry.

Implemented rules driven T&E that saved the company 5MM the first year of use. Designed, developed, and implemented web based reporting. Reviewed architecture, and design for Captura software's web based T&E product.