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Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Responsible for for the overall architecture roadmap and capabilities of analytics and enterprise services for the all of TransUnion's regions around the globe. Provide architecture oversight, while providing product.
• Evolve and migrate enterprise services and the analytics platform to a global hybrid cloud and microservices architecture.
• Provide technical support to sales teams by translating complex technical concepts into relatable business outcomes.
• Develop and mentor high-performing global architects.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Ensured execution of strategic technology initiatives through proper alignment of technology, data, and analytical assets for US markets. Led the overall technology and data solution architecture function supporting.
• Drove adoption and migration to core enterprise services to support the scale-out to a global platform.
• Worked with delivery teams to ensure implementation of key best practices learned from an earlier massive technology transformation program of moving all processing from mainframes to open systems.
• Led technology innovation research for new technologies adoption including streaming, containers, microservices, graph processing, and blockchain.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Ensured the successful migration of credit risk batch processing off an IBM mainframe to a distributed open systems solution.
• Provided oversight and development of solution architectures for migrating applications from a mainframe centric architecture to a highly available open systems solution.
• Responsible for creating solution architectures for new products on open systems while existing products were being migrated.
• Maintained architecture roadmaps to communicate status and confirm direction with product owners and business sponsors.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Reviewed application designs and code for conformance to standards.
• Defined and updated development standards.
• Defined and updated technology roadmaps used in defining solution blueprints.
• Defined and update reference architectures used to define application designs.
• Defined and helped develop application architectures for multiple credit based products.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Designed an open systems compute grid to perform address standardization, and model execution.
• Acted as a delivery team lead responsible for providing oversight of infrastructure and application designs, capacity planning and operational readiness.
• Provided application support.
• Worked with a team of developers in the full lifecycle development of applications to reduce mainframe costs while still providing high throughput and being highly available, and recoverable in a disaster.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Worked as a delivery lead in charge of the development of a three tiered web based fulfillment system for a customer running z/OS and an extremely large DB2 database. Duties involved, gathering requirements, defining a project plan, designing the solution, overseeing development, writing code and test cases and leading user acceptance testing with the.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Administrated a multi-site Novell Network.
• Provided technical support to all employees.
• Established a network link between all of Gabriel’s offices.
• Developed a Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Wrote a project/time tracking system to help the company better estimate project costs.
• Developed a tape backup scheduling solution.