An accomplished Expert Solution Architect with a robust background in data platforms and AI, known for exceptional communication skills and a profound knowledge of data and AI technologies. Demonstrates an unwavering passion for continuous learning and innovation. This role is instrumental in dynamically forming new teams, serving as a role model, and spearheading the development of our data platform strategy. Key responsibilities include mentoring team members and fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.Key Responsibilities:• Architectural Leadership: Define and steer the architectural direction of data and AI initiatives.• Model Development: Design and build advanced data models to drive business insights.• Compliance and Privacy: Ensure all solutions adhere to compliance and privacy standards.• AI Integration: Lead discussions on leveraging AI to enhance business success.• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with various departments to integrate and optimize data solutions.• Knowledge Sharing: Organize forums and workshops to share knowledge and best practices within the team.This role is pivotal in ensuring the strategic alignment of data and AI technologies with business goals, mentoring the next generation of data professionals, and fostering an environment ripe for innovation and collaboration.

Self-made “imagineer” absent of boundaries. Responsible for the identification, acquisition of exceptional talent to broaden team and enterprise goals. Facilitates integration of said talent into the fabric of AT&T Chief Data Office and all associated organizations. Resulting in a cohesive, fully functional team of consummate professionals possessing unstoppable drive and energy. Resulting in exploration and implementation of innovative concepts and ideas that shape and change the landscape in ways never thought possible. Instilling collaboration, acceleration, exploration, innovation, cooperation.

Establish Stretch Goals to reset priorities and work with Data Supply Chain. Traverse stack of needs to drive delivery from setting a consistent, clear vision, advocating mission on key data supply sub projects, building up team skills, executive communication when desired balanced with taking the gloves off and writing code or subduing other organization objectives that distract from business value delivery and locally.collaborated to first set expectations for internal delivery team culture with flex force to breed new leaders based on our CDO Character evolution based on a cross organizational collaboration approach as defined early in the year. As we work to inspire our next generation of employees and I am a strong advocate for setting the proper character for our future workforce. As with all things, I think we have to set clear expectations and evolve.

Build a high performance team based on dimensions of extraordinary leadership through character integrity and honesty. When absorbed into CDO meet with product owners and brief on capabilities and establish open forums for proactively sharing. Establish mission and vision for 2018 beginning in Aug 2017 and locally Request Seattle based meetings from CDO including leadership in CDO outside DSC chain of command. Bring together automation, self service, data supply chain with analytics, api, and data wrapped in application and other taxonomy contexts.Establish ATT positioning on the Data Model Mapping approach and job aids. Play a key role in driving out the roadmaps for the meta data side of the organization and ensuring the Data Modeling and Mapping adoption across enterprise is a success. Drive the roadmap and growth of Data360 and DPLR -Lead role in defining the Machine Learning adoption across the Tech Dev data platform. Engage actively in Data Supply Chain discussions to define Data360 and Data Movement as a Platform roles.

Principal data architect in at&t common services data layer. Drive innovation in agile development and data modeling.Take the initiative, be forward thinking and deliver.Engaged in driving the road map of GRID as well as overall process and standards for data modeling. Drive teams to true understanding and functioning in an AGILE manner. Set standards for how we leverage agile tools and AGILE process. Established review/audit process of Agile based user stories. Extend Data Architecture practices to include UML Modeling focused on Rally Dev integration for enhanced tracking.Evolve the Architecture: Provided detailed estimation for architectural hardening via backlog justification. Helped establish new teams and process to adopt agile early and minimize startup delays. Work with emerging teams, CSI Architecture, GRID CORE, and Data Quality to extend/elaborate collaboration in adopting most stable level of caching. Drive partnership and alignment the testing organizations, both functional and performance and involve them more with the dedicated data layer scrum teams.Promote Open communicating with regards to these areas including hosted several brown bag sessions within our team. Represented the data layer org in other teams staff meetings, learning sessions or general meetings. Topics covered included Rally Dev, Cassandra, Data Modeling in ERWIN and UML Modeling in Sparx Enterprise Architect.Connect the team to the outside world of data best practices and innovations through presentations. Drafted and shared evolving a polyglot vision for the data layer. Determining allocation of data to technology platforms asserted a first level of prioritization.2013 awards Data Layer All Star Award, ACSI Wall of Stars award for serving as the Product Owner Delegate for Technical Migration Team as a part of ACSI Agile Guiding Principles, Employee Recognition Award for contribution to the Architecture and Common Services Integration Platform Website

Directors and members of the board serve mostly on an advisory level. Going forward objectives in working with the board will include outreach to raise our resource levels in quality information to accomplish our mission.

Assist as needed with board decisions.

Provided leadership and group decision making as needed.

The Refuge of Mercy (www.mercifulloveconnection.org) Helping adolescent mothers accept motherhood and embrace life with their child. Founded on an approach of cultivating dignity, MCL assists a refuge for adolescent mothers and their babies from the streets of Santiago, Chile. The refuge has been in continuous operation since 1927 by the Sisters of Most Merciful Love. The Merciful Love Connection enables persons in the United States to support the physical needs, and provide education at the Refuge of Mercy. As President, I provided leadership through its infancy and first 2 years. (2005-2007). Drove organizational focus and increased fundraising to accomplish the following at the Refuge: Facility improvements, Provided education for the new director, Set up a computer program and hired the teacher and a tutor, advocated Directors and Officers insurance, Set up and ran the Web site, and firmed up plans to remodel the entire 1927 building.

Drove organizational focus and increased fundraising to accomplish the following at the Refuge. Train for President position

Lead data architect in at&t common services working with enterprise data and solution architecture teams. Lead, mentor, champion change though collaboration and teamwork. All keeping the evolution of the strategic perspective as the driving force. 2012 Review Summary:He lead the ATT Data Modeling Maturity initiative to map out the key data assets and enterprise key data concepts and elements. This was a cross organizational initiative for which Mike earned kudos for his efforts. He mentored/trained resources and conducted brown bag sessions on the data modeling concepts. He volunteered to be Technical data steward for commons services. Michael did a great job and displayed outstanding leadership. He worked on several large initiatives like GRID Caching and Extreem Services Architecture. 2012 Awards: Common Services Development FISH Award, Key Contributor Award 2011 Review Summary:He played a key role in integrating data modeling in design process, and streamlining their creation. He completed several policy documents including the Data Modeling SEAD, System of Record policy document and SOR roadmap. Because of his commitment, dedication and outstanding leadership, Michael received several kudos from his peers, Enterprise Solutions Architecture team, CSD management2011 Awards: Common Services Development Distinguished Employee Award. Key Contributor Award 2010 Review Summary:Michael is an exemplary employee who has shown great commitment and drive to "go above and beyond" to support the team. He displayed excellent management qualities while driving adoption of Data MDA within CSD. Michael creatively re-structured the primary system data element information to support model driven automation. He mentored resources on data modeling principles and technologies. He has done a great job and received verbal approvals from most stakeholders well ahead of schedule. He is truly an asset to the team. 2010 Awards: Key Contributor Award

Lead architect in the office of data engineering. Drive data layer model driven architecture from a presentation concept to an active, evolving, integrated process/team collaborationEvaluate EDIS source code, data modeling, performance modeling, and process. Establish new, collaborative publishing of revised on boarding, data policy, best practices compliant with Unified Process milestones and corporate data modeling standards. Establish data engineering team policies and practices. Including establishing detailed data flow architecture templates for tool use in modeling environment. Included best practices for ERWIN, SVN, Maven, and Confluence. Publish five iterations of the evolving conceptual, logical, and physical data models while maturing the model based on key performance metrics. In less than six months meeting the following objectives. Elaborate innovative proof of concepts in ERWIN modeling. The corporate Enterprise Directory in consolidating to a single unified model. Data movement from multiple source systems, middleware, and User Interfaces in Erwin

Lead architect in the office of performance engineering. Drive service architecture performance modeling. Work with at@t IT Chief Architect to evaluate core common services integration and performance.Model performance spanning Client, Infrastructure, Business Interaction, Interface.Identify standardized performance threshold rates and latency to establish filtering variance for emergent trends. Apply model across 5 major releases to evolve the performance from unknown and reported to vary by multiple seconds to predictive on the millisecond level across 4 identified thresholds. Feed new performance team the methods and projections that became the basis for performance testing Modify SLDC and corporate development process to enable focused performance engineering optimizations. Established criteria for testing IBM products for performance. Evolved the wireline/wireless architecture performance model (M2E-CSI integration). Evolve enterprise model capturing business allocation of over 100 billion transactions. Drive modeling to relate business transaction rates, latency, and correlated infrastructure impacts. Develop scientific model of service performance model thresholds with service, infrastructure and context filtering. Propose mechanism for projection from test environment to production. Provide guidance to development teams in service optimization. Provide guidance to operations regarding performance anomaly modeling and reporting

Lead common services architecture defining architecture vision, mission, and objectives. Drive enterprise data architecture and enteprise application initiatives and strategy.Direct enterprise architecture process implementation. Innovate service oriented concepts, modeling, and disciplines. Advocate service orientation and hybrid grid approach for emergent enterprise framework. Manage targeting of group driven by to balanced scorecard and via key performance indicators

Performed archtiectual roles on many teams including Stratigic Technology, Enteprise Architecture, and Application Architecture for Telephony, CRM, and Knowledge management systems. Lead strategic technology and group dynamics. Direct personnel mastery and accountability through extensive mentoring. Foster innovation and risk mitigation through roadmap driven logical destinations. Advance vision of architecture as a strategic asset to invest in. Focus on enterprise integration. Lead point of contact strategic architecture. Consolidate contact center framework. Lead interaction management strategic initiative design activities

Create vision/framework and engineering expertise to increase availability and performance by an order of magnitude. Lead several major releases with 4 parallel development teams.Develop system performance metrics for capacity planning using Segue Silk Performer and Sun performance tools.Advanced ATT Labs CCML XML based language for project. Teamed with vendors and external contractors to optimize the use of Dynabase XML store.Build distributed cross platform content management system.

Design/develop database integration on web servers. Develop the first two iterations of a Java based client/server streaming media management tool; interview potential developers; coordination with subcontractors; presentations on Java, active server pages, object oriented programming.

Operate, monitor, inspect, and troubleshoot aircraft computer, electrical, flight instrument, engine, hydraulic, pneumatic, and air-conditioning systems.Investigate in-flight emergencies and advise aircrew based on systems expertise.Direct servicing and maintenance to establish aircraft flightworthiness.Evaluating compliance to standards and recommend acceptance of for flight.Review aircraft documentation and authorize operational expenditures.