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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 management and software engineering coordination while managing financial aspects of operating and capital expenditures.• 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 big data batch processing and analytics, including data science and business intelligence involving complex data modeling.• 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 customer.

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.• Made enhancements to the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)