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Stamford, Ct, Us

Executive-level Technology Advisor with a focus on applications and software engineering, partnering with leadership and executives (CIOs, CTOs, CXOs) in the public sector providing them the knowledge and information needed to successfully align technology strategies and practices to key business initiatives.Some additional focus areas: Large-Scale Software Engineering | Large -Scale Agile Transformation | Quality Management and software testing | Strategic Planning | Staff Development and Mentoring | Technical and Cultural Innovation | Organizational Design | Program Management | Continuous Improvement | Emergent Architecture and Design

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Propelled the engineering aspects of Agile transformation for Optum by directly supporting the 32,000+ employees of the technology organization.Led the largest Agile Transformation team in Optum (~50 coaches at its peak) in support of the largest division of Optum which evolved to support all Optum including defining strategy, methodology, measures and metrics for 1200+ delivery teams.Created and led Optum’s DevOps/Engineering Center of Excellence team including definition and creation of InnerSourcing in support of all of engineering. Owned and supported tooling such as GitHub, Artifactory, Jenkins, Sonar, fortify, Wikis for all of Optum.Engineering lead using a 3-legged stool model (Technology, Product and UX collaboration) delivering the following:Re-architecture and modernization of Operational, Financial, and Engineering reporting for Optum. Evolved away from internal vendor solution and manual reporting to cloud and open source (Kafka, Cassandra, CockroachDB, Azure) Initial team size 140+ evolved to ~40 by moving to FSE fungible team model and automating everything. This was a multi-year project with YoY savings of $4.1M. Optum’s internal Engineering Enablement Platform which evolved to Optum’s HealthCare Platform in support all engineering at Optum. Architected a pluggable framework that included collaboration, education, code sharing, knowledge-base, notification system and a centralized mechanism for engineers to get technical assets, build and access APIs, as well as easily implement standard development patterns. Multi-year project. Team size averaged ~50.Developed and delivered a mechanism to fully automate SOX compliance efforts and created pluggable components integrated into Continuous Delivery mechanisms. YoY multi-million-dollar savings. Application for US Patent being sought on process and components.Part of a small go-to technical team sometimes called upon to get important engineering work done quickly.

Bloomfield, Ct, Us

Initially, as an independent consultant, asked to bootstrap the transformation of Cigna to Agile by leading a highly visible clinical engineering effort with a team of 250+ technologists, building their market differentiating flagship Clinical product permitting the business to utilize predictive analytics declaratively to help manage the health and behaviors of members. This resulting in significant cost savings to Cigna’s clients. The successful completion of this on-time and under-budget large project (first in 10 years) using pure Agile started Cigna’s Agile journey. With that success, next asked to lead Cigna’s strategically important mobile development teams by delivering Cigna’s first mobile product in both native iOS and Android called “MyCigna Mobile.” It had (2014) well over 500,000 downloads, a 4+ rating. The success prompted more investment in mobile including the international effort noted below. Team size ~50.With the addition of a European team, built Cigna’s first iOS and Android app targeted for the international market in a very compressed time frame. This required solving for multi-lingual, multi-locale and multi-platform challenges. This effort received the accolades of the international and domestic CIOs positioning Cigna to aggressively pursue global markets which provided the impetus to merge the original Mobile Core Team to a much larger Global Solutions Group all following Agile delivery. Additionally, member of the Information Security team as a Java language expert, committee member of the enterprise Open Source Working group and advisor to their newly formed Enterprise Agile Alliance.

Bloomfield, Ct, Us

Chandler, Arizona, Us

Founder and Chief Technologist of a technology consulting and product building company providing a wide array of innovative and efficient solutions.

Contracted to assist in various enterprise-level high priority endeavors as well as provide expertise and recommendations on various other technology and business process matters. Efforts include: Key driver and Enterprise Architect for the re-architecture of ATM and Debit card processing systems. Responsibilities included ATM processing and management, processing of MasterMoney purchases, card management, reporting, data warehousing, reconciliation, conversion to NYCE IS0 8583 communication protocol, interaction with legacy systems, a Web Services integration to back office and teller systems as well as MQSeries integration to the core banking system via Spring/WebSphere J2EE architecture. Included were encryption considerations and adherence to privacy and security guidelines. Additionally, this included infrastructure architecture as well as QA, data conversion and migration considerations. This was a very large project.Led technical re-architecture and business process changes for ACH and compliance processing. Led vendor management. Provided technical expertise and direction to vendor partners business strategy for their technical offerings. Responsible for re-design of ACH process flows compliance department's business processes. Early adopter providing valuable feedback to the Federal Reserve for interpretation, adjustments and clarification of new rules. In-house Java language mentor and Java strategistLed "swat team" to resolve a major conversion issueRe-architected ERM/COLD storage systems across divisions. Evaluated and provided recommendations to senior management on many topics.

Malmö, Skåne, Se

A company known for its Managing Your Money PC software product. It ventured into the client/server world with the MoneyScape/IntelliPortal product. Meca was a development partner with both Sun Microsystems and Marimba Inc. Architected and largely wrote the above mentioned MoneyScape/IntelliPortal Server. Originally chartered to explore Java's potential for use in this endeavor. Responsible for the technical design and implementation of this Java-based enterprise server spearheading the company's move to an Internet based client/server paradigm for the financial industry. Solely developed the architecture and design with almost no guidance or requirements. Carried it through to development and product delivery. Product was an early pioneer of a server-side Enterprise Java implementation and the sole focus for Meca until its acquisition. Responsible for the company-wide adoption of Java and related technologies. Evaluated technology candidates. Internal consultant on Oracle implementation and usage and overall Unix/Linux System Administration. Lead for strategic projects for the E-Commerce division in concert with the CTO and Office of Technology. Ascertained middle-ware strategy. Led a division-wide conversion to J2EE and EJB architecture, hands-on projects.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Business Administration