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San Ramon, Ca, Us

San Ramon, Ca, Us

San Ramon, Ca, Us

Architecting innovative digital solutions to drive better business outcomes.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Responsible for all aspects of technical presales activities in the Oil & Gas and Utilities industries including delivery of fit for purpose demonstrations, product education, and helping my customers understand how Pega fits into their broader technology ecosystem. Helped Pega successfully break into the Oil & Gas sector as the primary technical contact for a fully integrated supermajor and the largest US refiner.

London, England, Gb

Hired as a Lead Architect responsible for formulating strategic vision and providing technical oversight to product delivery.Selected ProjectsFor the Innovation initiative in Corporate and Functions:• Serve as the Corporate and Functions Architecture tag for mobile solutions and an active member of the Corporate and Functions Mobile Steering Committee• Support innovation proofs of concept across emerging technologies such as Google Glass, Oculus Rift, 3D Printing, etc.For the Consumerization and Collaboration enterprise priority:• Worked with a cross segment team to create the Mobile Reference ArchitectureFor the rewrite of the BP global standard incident management system:• Served as Project Lead Architect responsible for overall project design and delivery for a user community of 140,000+ BP employees and select contractors• Responsible for a solution redesign that resulted in a $3,000,000 savings to the project while maintaining coverage of all of the business requirement

St Louis, Mo 63141, Mo, Us

Hired as a Project Manager with a heavy technical background capable of both managing deliver teams and participating as needed. Responsible for product delivery, client relations, technical oversight, and business development.Selected ProjectsFor a Louisiana lobbying and government relations services company in need of a redesigned mobile presence for content delivery:• Served as Project Manager and Lead Architect over an effort to develop and release an iOS application for the iPhone, a mobile web version of the iOS app, and a web based system to manage the content delivered to the various devices using Windows Azure• Developed 80% of functionality delivered in the iOS application prior to leaving PerficientFor a Department of Defense contractor in need of a substantial upgrade to a mature custom developed risk management website:• Co-Lead Architect of an effort to update the current version of the application to expand the configuration options making it flexible enough to be used as the standard risk management system for multiple programs across the country• Assisted the Project Manager in day to day management of the project schedule and budget as it related to the technical team tasks

Acquired during the creation of MMR Communications to act as a Senior Architect over software services. Responsible for product delivery, client relations, technical oversight, and business development.Selected ProjectsFor the Louisiana Department of Corrections in need of a video surveillance based fence buffering system:• Worked with hardware and software vendors to architect and implement an integrated solution alerting guards when inmates entered a designated fence buffer zone• Managed deliverables and schedule for the technical portion of the projectFor the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LADOTD) in need of a license plate recognition system to prevent the loss of toll payments:• Worked with LADOTD employees to architect and implement a system to capture license plates using an integrated video surveillance solution produce images and notifications

Hired as a Senior Architect responsible for product delivery, client relations, technical oversight, and business strategy/development.Selected ProjectsFor the Cook County, IL State’s Attorney’s Office (SAO) in need of a data integration project between multiple departments of the criminal justice system:• Subcontracted to work as part of the Ciber, Inc. case management project• Worked with SAO to achieve partner buy in of project with the other departments associated with the data exchanges• Architected and implemented a hybrid solution using the Metatomix Judicial Data Exchange product with custom development to satisfy all client and partner requirements• Managed deliverables and schedule for the data integration portion of the projectFor the Hancock County, Mississippi District Attorney’s Office in need of a criminal case management system:• Subcontracted to Ciber, Inc. to assist the project team in the final weeks of the project implementation to meet the designated installation dateHelped forge strategic partnership between Metatomix and Ciber, Inc. to include the Metatomix integration engine in the Ciber case management system for future projects.

Hired as a Technical Lead. Responsible for product delivery, technical oversight, and team leadership.Selected ProjectsFor a Department of Defense contractor in need of a decision management dashboard:• Architected solution to track multiple key indicators and ratings used in the meetings of the review board to help guide strategic decisions• Provided technical vision and oversight to the technical team• Responsible for all technical deliverables from team membersInternally architected Microsoft Enterprise Library extensions used to solve common, repetitive issue in projects:• Architected multiple extensions to support the development effort related to application exceptions• Extended the Logging and Instrumentation Application Code Block to allow multiple applications to track exceptions in a centralized location to be used as a reporting and troubleshooting repository• Created a custom application code block sitting on top of the logging extension which handles logging the error and returns an application specific friend error message• Provided technical vision and oversight of the entire effortFor a Department of Defense contractor in need of a dashboard to gauge overall program health through an intuitive stoplight format:• Architected solution to pull data from multiple formats and locations into centralized storage for stoplight reporting and drill down• Provided technical vision and oversight to technical team

Reston, Va, Us

Hired as a Lead Analyst/Systems Engineer. Responsible for product delivery, technical oversight, and team leadership.Selected ProjectsFor the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company in need of an intranet portal and objective monitoring solution:• Architected custom ASP.NET based solution to provide a flexible security model governing the updating of the health of company objectives and the data content overall• Managed all technical deliverables of the projectInternally architected a centralized security infrastructure to be used across multiple applications developed by the Web Solutions team:• Architected and lead effort to create an infrastructure flexible enough to provide authorization information to applications on multiple platforms• Developed client/server application used to maintain the security related data• Developed web service as central point for applications to process authentication requests

Dublin 2, Ie

Hired as full time programmer. Promoted in March 2001 to Programmer II. Responsible for product delivery and team leadership.Selected ProjectsFor Freeport-McMoRan in need of a business-to-business web site for suppliers to view purchase order information and inventory levels at the Freeport mine:• Technical Lead over web based application to access and display the information via XML HTTP requests for a rich client presentationInternally architected an application used to promote web based applications from one environment to another in an automated fashion:• Technical Lead over effort used to access Visual SourceSafe label information as the basis for deploying classic ASP applications into an environmentFor Freeport-McMoRan in need of a web based benefits enrollment application:• Technical Lead over classic ASP application which allows employees to enroll in the benefit options that are designated by Human ResourcesFor Freeport-McMoRan in need of financial reporting:• Helped create Universes and Reports across multiple versions of Business Objects

Participated in the summer internship program in the Management Information Systems department. Worked with Andersen Consulting group on the Business Objects conversion project. Responsible for designing Universes and Financial Reports as well as Training and Reference materials.

Promoted to systems operator in Summer 1996. Responsible for backing up all computers and the mainframe, day to day maintenance of the mainframe, and troubleshooting any personal computer problems.

Bachelor Of Science, Information Systems And Decision Sciences - Management Information Systems

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