Stephen Ray Email & Phone Number

Gaithersburg, Md, Us

Cobb Systems Group (CSG) is a multi-faceted technology services provider with three lines of business.- Product development. CSG has developed an innovative data-driven product for streamlining the recruitment process. I was responsible for architectural design and development of a patented analytics engine used to compare and contrast candidate capabilities with a benchmark profile.- Staffing. I am responsible for understanding client needs, sourcing, assessing, and recommending candidates, and maintaining CSG’s ongoing client relationship. I use our product to develop exercises and analyze candidate performance against benchmark profiles. - Consulting. As a consultant I have been engaged on a number of projects:o As a .NET Architect and Developer on the migration of a large and complex web application from on-premise data centers to the AWS cloud for a financial services firm. The application has been in service since 1999 and the technology stack encompasses the range of Microsoft languages, frameworks, and technologies delivered from then to now.o Led the development of an AWS hosted IOT service delivering optimal energy efficiency usage of temperature control devices. I developed the initial framework and transitioned to CSG’s offshore team. This work led to expansion of CSG’s client relationship and we now provide executive and architecture consulting, and development and operations services. I returned to this client for another 18 months where I worked on several other projects and acted as the on-site engagement manager for the CSG offshore team.o Led a Swaps Accounting project, introduced agile development practices' and took a major role in requirements and design elaboration.o Led the development of a worksite health training program. Developed data warehouse and ETL processes delivering management dashboards and reports. Successfully transitioned this to a full-time data manager hired by CSG using our candidate assessment product.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Building an Enteprise Architecture capability, development and maintenance of WilmerHale architecture deliverables (using TOGAF9), development and governance of IT standards, and development of strategic information plan for WilmerHale

Paris, France, Fr

Technical lead for proposal teams with responsibility for the technical and development lifecycle aspects of the proposal. Enteprise and SOA Architectural design. New business development. Technology strategy assessments. Practice development around Microsoft technologies and Wealth Management technology offerings. Technical team leadership. Smart Client and Rich Internet Application (RIA) development.

Member of client-facing consultancy terams playing various roles from chief architect to lead solutions architect.

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Senior Technology Executive and Technical Architect on a major ($350M) initiative to redesign and replace the online portals for a major US Investment Bank. Collaborated with the client as the senior technical executive on several aspects of the project – status reports, technical architecture, performance and security engineering. Led a team of 75 developers and testers, located in the US and India. Designed the portal framework and the integration layer to client and 3rd party providers. Defined and led Performance Engineering activity in conjunction with client team. Validated online portal could support 1.6M registered users from stability, latency and throughput aspects of performance. Defined and led Security Engineering activity entailing deep code analysis and dynamic testing by a 3rd party security provider. Validated the online platform met the security requirements of an internet accessible financial services site

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Responsible for technology strategy and tactical direction for a department of 75 project managers, developers and testers. Defined project portfolio with product management team, defined priorities and made clear development trade-offs. Collaborated with peers on cross-department framework consolidation and reuse efforts.

Managed development team in the development of a small business finance portal. Analyzed CRM requirements, published RFI to CRM vendors, analyzed responses and selected short list based on fit with Capital.com requirements. Use Case analysis of the deal and financial provider management systems. Design and implementation of deal management intranet application allowing sales pipeline to be tracked. Development of XML based MIS reports Evaluation of future technical architecture options (Windows DNA/. NET/J2EE/Corba) and recommended moving along a J2EE path

Management of financial symbology concordance initiative. Architectural design and implementation of concordance component for information optimization engine. Design and implementation of process for consolidating multi-vendor financial data feeds into a single consolidated view. Design and implementation of COM API onto concordance engine for use from smart client and browser based applications

Technical Architect and lead developer for n-tier client/server framework for equity analysis workstation. Designed and implemented server side business object tier (meta-data driven, business object navigation, time series analysis). Defined incremental development process

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

Responsible for OO analysis and design of major project tasked with redesigning the core radiotherapy device control application. Provided technical guidance on OO design and led a team of 5 developers. Application of Use Case centric analysis and design (among the first UK practitioners of Use Case driven approach). Developed embedded control software for multi-leaf collimator therapy device. Designed radiotherapy prescription electronic data interchange schema. Defined development process and quality criteria for design artifacts. Mandated and applied rigorous design inspection processes

Phd (Thesis Not Presented), Software Frameworks And Instrumentation Systems

Bsc (Hons) Upper Second, Applied Physics