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Downers Grove, IL, US

Addison, TX, US

• Advise clients on the most efficient/effective cloud technologies to utilize to solve business problems.
• Create proofs of concepts and reference architectures for cloud-native applications/technologies and DevOps.
• Provide project delivery, architectural and development oversight for multiple projects/teams ensuring success.
• Provide clients with strategic, technology road maps in their journey to the cloud
• Work with project leaders, product owners, architects and senior management to collaboratively create cloud-based solutions.
• Architected, led a 6 person team and developed a cloud-native restaurant operations application using AWS, Apache Kafka and Java.

Chicago, IL, US

• Assist clients in addressing the technical and financial hurdles encountered in moving their application platforms ($3MM-$100MM cloud spend annually) from on premise data centers to the cloud.
• Advise clients on the most efficient/effective cloud technologies to utilize to solve business problems. Saved a client over $150k annually in Azure utilization while at the same time making the application more.
• Create proofs of concepts and reference architectures for cloud-native applications/technologies.
• Provide architectural and development oversight for multiple projects/teams.
• Provide clients with strategic, technology road maps in their journey to the cloud
• Work with project leaders, product owners, architects and senior management to collaboratively create cloud-based solutions.

Chicago, IL, US

• Coach, mentor and manage a team of 10 developers and architects.
• Responsible for recruiting, performance evaluation, career development.
• Work with project leaders, sales, project managers and senior management to allocate development resources.
• Architect and Project Leader for enterprise, mission critical, high volume projects ranging in budget from $200K – $1.0MM.
• Anticipate and address client needs and challenges.
• Responsible for project design, planning, execution, and quality issue resolution for web and mobile-based applications.

Oak Brook, Illinois, US

• Manage all technical staff at Geneca – responsible for recruiting, performance, career development and staffing.
• Initiated a program to improve weekly one-on-one sessions by providing coaching training for team leaders.
• Initiated a program to productionize client-facing frameworks.
• Established company-wide coding and design standards.
• Created a framework and process by which Geneca can evaluate 3rd party software for its clients.
• Architect and Project Leader for enterprise, mission critical projects ranging in budget from $200K – $3.2MM. Ensured client success and budget targets.

Oak Brook, Illinois, US

• Architect and Project Lead for a $3.2MM project to double the size of AIM Specialty Health’s (a subsidiary of Wellpoint) oncology product offering. I manage the day to day delivery of projects to ensure client success.
• Manage a 10 developer team; ensuring that development staff are properly aligned with the technical strategy and business plan.
• Provided research and practical advice on the selection of an enterprise service bus for a major fleet management company, Wheels, Inc which included technical and C-level personnel.
• Architect and team lead for a project to integrate third-party marketplace sales into the catalog and inventory systems of FTD, Inc.
• Led a team to extend functionality to a social media application designed to work on various platforms including the web and mobile devices (Android & iPhone).
• Created proofs of concept for Single Page Applications, AWS and Microsoft Azure deployed applications.

Espoo, Southern Finland, FI

• Defined short/mid/long-term architectural roadmap for securing all Core Map internal applications using SSO and MS Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM).
• Developed referenced architectures and defined/lead proof of concept (POC) activities for implementing applications using portal technology and HTML5-based map editing.
• Defined & documented conceptual and high-level (logical) architectural solutions using architectural views.
• Collaborated with various teams on integration & refactoring approaches.

Itasca, Illinois, US

• Introduced TFS 2010 as a means to document requirements/use-cases, create architecture/design artifacts and track project progress within the agile SDLC process.
• Developed referenced architectures and defined/lead proof of concept (POC) activities
• Defined & documented conceptual and high-level (logical) architectural solutions using architectural views.
• Defined short/mid/long-term architectural roadmap for a new usage-based licensing product.
• Led requirements gathering activities with project stakeholders.
• Developed standards around design and architecture review processes including artifacts to present, check points, etc. (Enterprise governance)

Chicago, IL, US

• Lead capacity planning activities to guide system investment for next four years for amission-critical, plan-to-plan real-time enterprise messaging system (Blue Exchange).
• Lead performance analyses to document capacity and performance bottlenecks for several enterprise-wide, real-time plan-to-plan messaging systems (Blue Squared, BlueServ).
• Developed and implemented standards and best-practices regarding performance testing of BCBSA applications and source-control structure.
• Developed standards around design and architecture review processes including artifacts to present, check points, etc. (Enterprise governance)
• Collaborated with various engineering/design teams on integration approaches.
• Led efforts involving matrixed groups of resources (5+) to resolve urgent, high-priority production issues.

New York, NY, US

• Lead architect for several major line-of-business (LOB) applications that process over $10 billion of corporate credit card transactions per year.
• Lead architect for a scalable, highly-available real-time system to obtain credit card accounts and modify account settings.
• Created long-term, strategic architectural roadmap for LOB platforms.
• Worked with external vendors and/or internal JPMC groups
• Lead the design process and presented recommendations at architecture review sessions.
• Ensure all designs follow best-practices, standard design patterns and JPMC standards (Enterprise governance).

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Lead architect and designer for an enterprise-wide application responsible for the real-time execution, reconciliation and management of trades used to manage portfolios of Fixed Income, Bank Loans, Commercial Mortgage.
• Platform owner responsible for implementing and overseeing all development assigned to the OMS project (3 resources).
• Developed.NET coding standards/guidelines for use across all Prudential UK subsidiaries

Chicago, IL, US

• Lead designer and developer for custom data-mining and web-based interface projects for numerous Consumer Package Goods (CPG) Fortune 500 companies
• HR supervisory role of two developers.
• Designed and planned all Chicago-region custom application projects.
• Concurrently managed several project development teams (2-3 resources each).
• Worked directly with Clients, and Business Development (sales) & Project Management teams to determine project scope, effort/cost estimates, and document project requirements.
• Served as "technical expert" during pre-sales meetings/presentations.

Bachelor Of Science, Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering

Doctor Of Medicine - Md, Medicine

Mph, Epidemiology/Biostatistics