> Senior Leader with accountability over the Solution and Data Architecture practice as well as our Architecture Business Office which provides architecture solutions in support of our Operations, Customer & Digital, Data Platforms, and People/Finance portfolios. > Partner with Senior Technology and Business Leaders on helping connect our business strategy to technology investments required to enable it.> Proven experience building a high performing technical organization with people leadership responsibilities of architecture leaders and their solution architects.> Share accountability of facilitating our Architecture Review Board process that review > 350 solution architectures annually against our enterprise architecture standards with solutions that span across cloud native custom solutions, vendor integrations, analytical workloads and bringing on new SaaS services

> Leader of Leaders across Operations where I am responsible for Portfolio EAs and a team of Solution Architects that support our mission critical systems that enable our pre, day of, and post execution operational capabilities.> Partner with technology and business executives on connecting business strategy to the technology strategy/execution across Operations> Part of the SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) team across Operations where I am involved in the review of our business cases, evaluation of priority/tradeoffs, commercial engagements, and responsible for the technical strategy and solution development.> Chair of our Architecture Review Board (ARB) process for our Operations solution designs where we evaluate the architecture solution validity and ensuring the solution being proposed will meet our functional and non-functional requirements.

> Responsible for the portfolio technology strategy for Southwest's Required to Fly and Required to Operate systems that support our Network Operations> Responsible for the technology strategy for Operations Mobility and User Experience initiatives> Responsible for the technology strategy for Southwest's Operations Safety & Security systems> Work closely with Technology and Business Directors/VPs on commercial business outcomes and translate outcomes to the portfolio technology strategy we need to execute on> Responsible for people leadership of Solution Architects staff and mentoring rising technical talent to ensure we are building up technical pipeline

> Responsible for the technical strategy and vision for the Crew Operations & Safety portfolio which consists of Crew Planning, Crew Scheduling & Recovery, Crew Training, Crew Mobility, and Safety/Security product lines.> Responsible for People Leadership of Crew Solution Architecture staff and support them to ensure they feel challenged and work closely with them to ensure they are successful.> Partner with Business Leadership team that support In-Flight and Flight Operations to understand business needs and engage with them closely to ensure our technical strategy is enabling business outcomes.> Support Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) portfolio tier responsible for the architectural runway, Lean Business Case development, and providing T-shirt level sizing to support WSJF process.> Leading multiple technical initiatives underway to decompose mission-critical legacy applications to cloud native architectures.> Led the development of multiple Reference Architecture and Reference Implementations

- Provide technical leadership over multiple highly available systems supporting the revenue accounting and payments domain.- Partner with Southwest business and technology leaders to understand business outcomes and help them formulate the vision/strategy for Reservation & Payments domain to drive technical direction/priorities.- Drove efficiencies in the technical development processes to improve development velocity and work closely with product owners and technical leads to actively mitigate production risk to ensure systems continue to support business needs.- Support the entire software lifecycle from inception through sustainment developing architectural artifacts and providing guidance on principles/patterns implementation teams should follow to drive enterprise architecture portfolio alignment.- Advise technical teams in maturity the software delivery pipeline providing guidance on Continuous Integration (CI) principles and helping team mature our development tooling in place to drive automation and helped identify risks in our pipeline earlier in the process.- Advise Senior Technical Leadership to ensure technical solutions are driving the right business outcomes and help them articulate the technical strategy/roadmap for the implementation teams.Key Technologies: Spring Boot, GraphQL, Microservices, Oracle, Jenkins, Sonarcube, .NET, SQL Server.

- Primary customer interface for major customer accounts in the UK, Middle East, and Asia Pacific territories to identify/prioritize needs, socialize release timelines, and have direct responsibility of the logistics/training technical strategy and execution for market segment.- Product Manager for logistics and training product lines for market segment and work closely with Scrum Masters directing priorities and managing product backlogs using JIRA.- Lead the re-architecture and transition of proprietary server side implementations to a composable distributed micro service architecture using AngularJS and Spring technologies that has yielded a 30% reduction in technical debt, higher developer productivity, and a 40% reduction in release cycle time.- Responsible for helping define and implement a scalable user interface architecture that allowed our implementations team to reuse front end components helping reduce implementation time and standardization of user experience.- Principal Investigator of multiple R&D initiatives managing cost, schedule, and maturing new technologies/concepts for use on production programs.- Supported securing 879M+ of new international business leading the technical architecture and overall solution, working with customers to develop operational concept, providing engineering estimation, and presenting to key decision makers bid offerings across the world.- Support the talent mentoring, acquisition, interviewing, performance assessment, and career development for a staff of thirty engineers.- Key Technologies: Angular, Spring Boot, JPA, REST, OAuth2, Hibernate, QueryDSL, NPM, Websockets, AMQP messaging, Netflix OSS, CQRS, Reactive Programming, Oracle, Single Page Application (SPA)

- Led 25 engineers over a two year span to support the Special Operation Forces (SOF) enterprise transformation activity for a $5B program which included working with cross-discipline teams on performing analysis on the current state of business operations, consolidating fragmented business processes into standard operating procedures, enabling interoperability between core enterprise systems, implementing mobile/AIT solutions, and delivering enterprise level decision support capabilities for decision makers that resulted in 10% program efficiencies and increase of top line sales of 60%.- Graduate of the Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP) with work rotations in business development, systems engineering, software engineering leadership, and engineering project management.- Experienced in developing secure software systems and lead the effort to get several software systems to obtain accreditation to run on U.S Department of Defense military networks.- Lived in Singapore and Australia for 6 months as a field engineer directly responsible for the standup of the production logistics and training systems to support flight operations and performed training of operational team on use. Awarded highest technical recognition award in the company for establishing a compelling customer experience and delivering the result.- Key Technologies: Java Server Pages (JSP), Spring MVC, JAX-RS, SOAP, Crystal Reports, Pentaho Reports, MOLAP, Oracle, MS SSIS, MS SSRS, Sharepoint PerformancePoint.

- Led the development of several key capabilities for the U.S Marines next generation onboard diagnostics system including secure tactical messaging to radio, vehicle status reporting, and developing the interface with vehicle onboard sensors to provide real-time status of vehicle condition and vehicle stability to support the warfighter. - Established the system architecture of pre-production environment using virtualization technologies for performing effective software regression testing on production data prior to deployment, resulting in a proactive approach in minimizing customer service incidents and achieving a UK system up-time of 99.84%.- Key Technologies: MySQL, Oracle, Spring MVC, AJAX, VMWare, Linux.

- Responsible for the design and development of an information system allowing for complete transaction processing, tracking, and reporting capabilities for the Southwestern Division of the company.- Led the development of a financial information system for the accounting department resulting in effective validation with the General Ledger and enhanced financial reporting capabilities.- Implemented re-engineering of several systems in place resulting in quicker access to data, enhanced functionality to end users, and better alignment with critical real-estate order processes.