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Dallas, Texas, United States

Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technicalapproaches to meet current and future needsDefines the technical target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategyParticipates in architecture governance bodiesEvaluates recommendations and provides feedback on new technologiesExecutes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshootingwith the ability to think beyond routine or… Show more Engages technical teams and business stakeholders to discuss and propose technicalapproaches to meet current and future needsDefines the technical target state of their product and drives achievement of the strategyParticipates in architecture governance bodiesEvaluates recommendations and provides feedback on new technologiesExecutes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshootingwith the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or breakdown technical problemsDevelops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written byothersIdentifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improveoverall operational stability of software applications and systemsLeads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to driveoutcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicabilityfor use within existing systems and information Show less

Dallas, Texas, United States

Led 10+ agile development teams, totaling over 100 individuals, distributed across North America, EMEA, and India. These teams included product owners, technical leads, and developers.Successfully delivered SAP CPQ in the SAP Sales Cloud, integrated with SAP ECC and S4/HANA backends, as IBM's strategic quoting and ordering platform. This was accomplished using the Bluefield implementation approach in three phases within a span of 14 months.Integrated SAP Commerce in SAP Commerce… Show more Led 10+ agile development teams, totaling over 100 individuals, distributed across North America, EMEA, and India. These teams included product owners, technical leads, and developers.Successfully delivered SAP CPQ in the SAP Sales Cloud, integrated with SAP ECC and S4/HANA backends, as IBM's strategic quoting and ordering platform. This was accomplished using the Bluefield implementation approach in three phases within a span of 14 months.Integrated SAP Commerce in SAP Commerce Cloud via SAP CPI/BPT with SAP CPQ in SAP Sales Cloud as the strategic quoting/ordering platform for IBM business partners using the Bluefield implementation approach in 7 months.Simplified 2 legacy SaaS provisioning and published pricing architectures in 3 weeks as part of CIO architecture simplification initiative.Replicated the SAP CPQ and SAP Commerce architecture implementation experience to 2 other areas (Self-service Commerce and hardware CPQ) of the CIO architecture landscape to maximize reuse for IBM.Collaborated monthly with 50+ platform/domain architects to craft strategic enterprise architecture and security roadmaps for the CIO that span across IBM Cloud, Azure, Salesforce Sales/Service Clouds and SAP Sales/Commerce Clouds.Deployed Agile and fully automated CI/CD practices with 80% code coverage (scrums/iterations/backlogs/CICD pipelines/automated testing) to the 2 major SAP implementations resulting in a 2-week iteration cadence and initial MVPs in 4 months.Successfully reacted to 3 critical business feature requests, re-prioritized and delivered enterprise architecture solutions for them in 4 weeks outside of the normal work intake process.Hosted the Architecture Guild monthly to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing between platform and domain architects in the architect community. Show less

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Adopted ITSM, NIST, TOGAF, FedRAMP and ISO27000/27018 standards to exercise IT governance, security and controls across all the City's 350+ applications and IT projects.Maintained/revised business strategies, enterprise architecture roadmaps and procurement requirements for all the 70+ departments in the City. Established an Orbus cloud based enterprise architecture repository tracking 350+ business applications for the City centrally.Created a Salesforce based IT… Show more Adopted ITSM, NIST, TOGAF, FedRAMP and ISO27000/27018 standards to exercise IT governance, security and controls across all the City's 350+ applications and IT projects.Maintained/revised business strategies, enterprise architecture roadmaps and procurement requirements for all the 70+ departments in the City. Established an Orbus cloud based enterprise architecture repository tracking 350+ business applications for the City centrally.Created a Salesforce based IT technology lifecycle management system for the City in 1 month and successfully managed 200+ IT procurements and projects for the City Council centrally.Delivered the Digital Journey Roadmap 2018 for the CTO and CIO in 3 weeks.Successfully delivered the GCP based Contact Tracing Management System for the City in 1 month during the pandemicAssessed and provided recommendations to 30+ IT procurement requests totalling over $120 million for City departments and City projects in my tenure. Largest being the Ericsson’s Connected Urban Transport solution based Advanced Traffic Management System and the IBM Maximo/Tririga based Asset Management System.Collaborated with City departments and other City staff members to develop 3 IT procurement related annual budgets for the City Council in my tenure. Show less

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Designed and delivered using Agile methodology 3 major configure, price, quote enterprise applications showcasing IBM software, web, mobile and cloud technologies that were fully integrated with IBM’s ERP backend. Led 9 global resource development teams for my business units with members from the U.S., China, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Israel, Poland, Mexico and Brazil.Provided consulting service to 12+ consulting engagements in the Travel & Transportation, Energy &… Show more Designed and delivered using Agile methodology 3 major configure, price, quote enterprise applications showcasing IBM software, web, mobile and cloud technologies that were fully integrated with IBM’s ERP backend. Led 9 global resource development teams for my business units with members from the U.S., China, Singapore, the Philippines, India, Israel, Poland, Mexico and Brazil.Provided consulting service to 12+ consulting engagements in the Travel & Transportation, Energy & Utilities, warehousing industries and the public sector (city, state and provincial).Contributed to 5+ IBM technical conferences, 2 customer reference papers and numerous technical articles to showcase IBM technologies, business solutions and other collaboration events as a giveback to the IBM CommunityProtected IBM intellectual properties from my work by identifying, harvesting and filing 3 patents and 20+ invention disclosures for IBM. Show less

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Designed and developed the System 370 C & OS/390 TPF based electronic ticketing system for major airlines.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Served as project manager, project leader and developer for the development/maintenance of the TPF based global computer reservation systems for major North American airlines.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science