Tom Marrs, Csm, Dtm Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

New York, Ny, Us

At Infor, my role as Senior Technical Architect involves leading the expansion of our Data Mesh Platform and enhancing cloud ERP integrations. My role capitalizes on my competencies in team leadership, microservices architecture, and system design, which have been instrumental in driving forward our technical strategies. We have achieved significant milestones in simplifying complex systems, thanks to our collaborative approach and dedication to innovation.

Centennial, Colorado, Us

Served as Senior Director of Customer Engineering where I reported to the CTO and worked with the leadership team to provide technical vision, guide direction on product and service offerings, and track technology trends in order to achieve business goals.

Centennial, Colorado, Us

Served as Director of Customer Engineering where I reported to the CTO and worked with the leadership team to provide technical vision, guide direction on product and service offerings, and track technology trends in order to achieve business goals.

Pre-sales - Developed a Cloud Migration proposal for a client project on behalf of Modis (now Akkodis).Technical Screening - Interviewed candidates for cloud-based positions at other clients.Financial InstitutionServed on the leadership team at Charles Schwab for a multi-million dollar Digital Transformation program at a large financial institution, which involved business and technical strategy, modernization, and organizational change. The purpose of the program was to make applications scalable and cloud-ready. Benefits included: - Reduced infrastructure costs.- Improved business continuity.- Faster & more efficient time-to-market.As part of the leadership team, participated in the Line-Of-Business VP’s weekly leadership meeting.Collaborated with other leaders to write a program-level architecture document required by the PMO. This document was approved by the CTO and the governance board. The document covered: - Application modernization/rationalization Strategy.- Business Architecture – Strategy/Value, Metrics, Capabilities, and Rationalization.- Transitional Architecture.- Target State Architecture, including Hybrid and Private Cloud- Microservices Patterns- Target Architecture MVP (Minimum Viable Product).- Tech Stack.- 3 – 5 Year Roadmap.Served as Scrum Master during the regular Scrum Master’s absence.Supported new Production Support Senior Manager by providing advice on how to organize and setup workflow (i.e., trouble tickets, etc.). Identified current state issues, a target state (with reduced outages and turnaround time), and a Roadmap to move forward.

Hanover, Md, Us

Served as Enterprise Architect with TEKsystems Global Services. Engagements included:Charter MBO Modernization: - Served as Enterprise Architect on a modernization project to provide a recommendation to enable Charter’s MBO team to move from legacy technology into a containerized environment on AWS as part of Charter’s larger Kalamazoo initiative. - MBO enables customers to view On Demand, Pay Per View, and Broadcast TV programs on their set-top boxes, and enables Charter to bill their customers.- Supported the TEKsystems sales team in the pre-sales process by helping to create the Statement of Work.- By following these recommendations, Charter will reduce time-to-market, improve efficiency, enable innovation, and improve the overall customer experience.- Deliverables included:- Recommendation Presentation (based on the document below), which I delivered to the client.- Recommendation Document:- Roadmap to move from current to future state, including:- Reviewed apps for Cloud Readiness per 12-Factor guidelines.- Containerization with Docker and KubernetesAmazon Web Services Engineering:- AWS SMC (Simple Monthly Calculator) Rebuild:This was to rebuild the application to improve customer experience by making it easier and more intuitive to price AWS service usage with the calculator. Supported TEKsystems sales team by helping to create the SOW.Worked with TEKsystems delivery manager to build a 9 person cross-disciplinary team. Created Job descriptions and worked with recruiters to find candidates. Onboarded the team in 6 weeks.Created an onboarding guide that enabled developers to start coding within 2 days.Mentored TEKsystems Dev Lead.- Original SMC Maintenance:- Led a cross-functional offshore team to maintain the calculator. Ensured that they followed AWS coding and architectural guidelines. - Improved automation reduced pricing updates from 1-2 weeks to < 1 hour.- Presented proposal to AWS, helped with SOW and estimated scope.

Hanover, Md, Us

- Helped dev teams move into a Cloud-based, DevOps/CI/CD environment by automating deployment with GitLab, Docker, AWS, Apigee, Node.js, and Gulp.- Evaluated new technologies that have potential use in Charter’s environment with respect to cleaner, more usable APIs to support UI teams (Mobile and Web). This effort included Docker (container-based deployment), GitLab (for CI), and Handlebars (for JSON Transform).- Designed and implemented an API layer in Node.js/Express to simplify Mobile/Web access to Charter’s APIs.- Deployed new API layer on API Management (Apigee) and Cloud (Heroku) platforms.- Leveraged AWS S3 to store meta-data files for the new API layer.- Developed templates that transformed JSON-based API responses to help Mobile and web teams meet critical project deadlines.- Mentored other developers in JSONPath and JSON Schema.

Washington, Dc, Us

As part of the Architecture team, helped re-platform to a SOA / API based architecture:- Wrote the API Design Guide currently used to standardize the look-and-feel and functionality of APIs across the enterprise.- Created the architecture for the new Voucher and Barcode APIs to streamline production and redemption of online vouchered deals. Gathered requirements and developed an implementation Roadmap.- Documented integration with 3rd Party Sellers and made recommendations for improving how LS can improve its ability to work with large retailers in the future. Also vetted potential new 3rd party integration partners such as SeaWorld.

St Louis, Mo 63141, Mo, Us

Architect, Scrum Master, and Designed/implemented SOA/REST application architecture.- At Tishman-Speyer, served as Scrum Master and managed a 7 person offshore team that designed and implemented upgrades to an existing data warehouse (ETL, reporting, database). The subject areas of the data warehouse included: Corporate Profit & Loss (P & L), and Employee Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) data.- At Tw Telecom, leveraged Open Source technologies such as JBoss AS and Talend ETL and ESB to: - Provided orchestrated services to connect front-end GUIs to multiple RESTful Web Services. Data from Services (through the GUI) enables CSRs and Network Techs to provide better customer service and diagnose network issues. - Designed and implemented anomaly detection system. The system calculated a running average for phone calls by NPA-NXX and trouble tickets in a market. The generated events are tagged with a grid coordinate for use in mapping applications.

Presented to Architects and Developers on technical topics such as: Software Architecture, RESTful API Design, JSON, JavaEE, etc.

Collaborated with architecture team for client Oppenheimer Funds. Led full stack architecture design and collaborated in development of e-Distribution website using Ruby on Rails to improve thought leaders/financial advisors communication and enhance execution of customer trades. Recruited/hired Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and CSS professionals.- Leveraged innovative Open Source technologies such as MongoDB, Apache Solr, Devise, and CanCan that delivered NoSQL database, internal Web search, and authentication/authorization capabilities saving more than $100K in licensing fees.

Reston, Va, Us

Recruited by SESC for high-profile ATM Mobile Portal and Merchant Portal development projects with teams of 10-12 developers for WorldPay in the US and the UK. Led application architecture design and development for PCI-compliant mobile application to enable merchants to handle cash management, terminal management, chargebacks, and reporting.- Created layered REST/SOA-based architecture for Web Services to provide scalability and repeatability for extending online merchant capabilities such as credit card, gift card, self-service, and terminal administration.- Defined integration points, leveraged design patterns, and developed quality of service (QoS) requirements using Single Sign-On (SSO) for strengthened security with improved access.

Served as Technical Architect on an SOW proposal team for a large-scale ($25 M) SOA Architecture that included RESTful Web Services. Led the SOA portion of the proposal and coordinated the efforts of the other SOA Architects.

Oversaw technical engagements with clients. Managed solution design, development, and integration. Conducted architecture and code reviews. Led technical training and mentoring on client engagements.- Satellite Labs: Recruited by Collective Intelligence to serve as SOA Architect for development of dialysis revenue management system requiring asynchronous data transmission using AJAX, XML, SOA, and .NET technologies.- Comcast: Developed solutions using Ruby on Rails framework and RESTful Web Services to facilitate downloading of applications to Comcast cable boxes.- Giiv: Coded Web applications using JavaScript, jQuery, and Grails framework to enable mobile gifting, promotions, analytics.

Served as Principal Architect with Ciber’s Global Enterprise Integration Practice. Led enterprise architecture reviews, and defined strategies. Selected by leadership team to help create SOA Reference Architecture Guide as well as Agile Development Practice internally. Served as Proposal Team Technical Architect, capturing $27M in contract wins in first 6 months and $6.7M award with Ohio University in 2009, beating out Oracle and others. Performed technical due diligence reviews with legal counsel for technology partner agreements. Served as presenter and panel expert on Web 2.0, AJAX, and RIA platforms.- Toyota: Defined architecture strategy and design, authored code, created developers guides, prepared data schema, and led code review/validation activities for 2 major WebLogic Portal, JavaEE, Web Services projects with Toyota.- Recruited JavaEE developers and led 24-person in-house/offshore team in creation of enterprise Parts Recovery System.- Completed $2M project within aggressive time constraints and scaled architecture to support 8K daily claims across 1,400+ dealerships, resulting in 30% overall performance improvement.- Disney World: Conducted complete reservation Java code review, presenting findings/recommendations to management team and CTO highlighted by advocating repeatable development processes and testing methodologies.- Renew Data: Leveraged CIBER’s SOA Reference Architecture and open source solutions to design and deploy all SOA components to highly scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-availability performance of media processing platform.- Implemented Mule ESB and other COTS products to supplement open source solutions as necessary.- Designed security framework that followed OWASP guidelines and complied with ISO 27002 audit requirements.- Maine Drilling & Blasting: Developed technology road map to guide $20M company with only 1 IT resource to position them for exponential business growth with highly scalable and adaptable architecture.

Managed all facets of engagements with corporate accounts to design and implement SOA, Web and application architecture solutions that helped them move to next level of Web performance and business profitability. Oversaw training and coaching of client resources in object-oriented design, Web Services, and SOA engineering.- Moss Codilis: Recruited by Global Era to lead Web Services architecture design for Open Source DSS Project using J2EE framework to automate loan servicing activities, previously managed manually with Excel spreadsheets. Fidelity received offer to acquire this solution from Moss Codilis for $10M.- InComm: Designed and developed J2EE system enabling sales automation for post-paid products/services by connecting merchant sites with third-party service provider offerings.- Overcame significant complications to enable FastWireless architecture implementation.- Planned and deployed socket-based server giving retail giant Target capability to sell Verizon and T-Mobile wireless services through InComm infrastructure.- Designed robust encryption API solution to ensure confidentiality of customer data.• Galileo/Cendant: Designed, developed, and mentored other developers in creation of JBoss Portal solution to streamline travel agent contract renewals, creating and deploying complete server-side architecture.- Digital Globe: Developed J2EE-based Data Services application with resources using Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile-based Pair Programming methodologies. Transitioned Data Services system from JBoss to Oracle 9iAS.- Southwire: Developed J2EE architecture and websites that increased bulk wire and cable sales site performance up to 40%.- Qwest Communications: Crafted strategies to optimize Web Services architecture and mission-critical application performance by 30% in conjunction with other technical architects.

Interfaced with client stakeholders to evaluate business needs, design appropriate strategies, as well as lead development and integration of architecture and application solutions. Collaborated with development resources, facilitating technical training and mentoring activities. Authored comprehensive use cases, technical documentation, and project templates. Served as strategic advisor to client leadership teams. Developed course curricula, led instruction in Essential Java and Intermediate Java programs.- Health Language: Developed Language Engine software to clarify meaning of medical terminology across various parties. Authored and implemented stateless session beans with multiple instance variables as well as container-managed and bean-managed (CMP/BMP) entity EJBs to deliver information from data repository to user interface.- Great-West Life: Partnered with other Architects to design strategy for transitioning back-end architecture to J2EE from CORBA and front-end architecture to true MVC framework from Servlet-only model.- Enabled transition to MVC by creating customized dynamic Web page with Struts application.- Recommended open source solutions for annual software licensing cost savings projected at $160K.- Trained and mentored Great-West technical teams in J2EE architecture, EJB patterns, XML document design, WebLogic application server, and Web Services.- Ipedo: Led evaluation of functionality, usability, ease of integration with J2EE architecture, market potential, pricing, and product positioning for XML Database offering.- Evoke Software: Assessed Axio XML product to determine performance and commercial viability. Recommended product positioning statements, training content, and partnership opportunities to extend product capabilities.- IBM Global Services: Co-designed n-tier J2EE, XML SOA-based Common Access Component Gateway using SOAP for XML messaging that enabled IBM to transition role management into unified system.

Co-architected the ShopML Gateway to make it easier for retailers to participate in affiliate online relationships with WeddingNetwork.com. This system enables WeddingNetwork.com to exchange gift registries and orders – using ShopML (a proposed XML-based standard) and a scalable n-tier J2EE-centric, XML-based service-oriented architecture – with multiple retailers (each of which has different data formats and computer systems), managing automatic updates and data integration. This was deployed with a major retailer and processed 450 registry downloads (24,300 transactions) per hour.- Planned and implemented the ShopML Gateway (working with project technical lead) server-side and client-side architecture (CRC Cards, Use Cases, UML, J2EE Blueprints, GoF Design Patterns).- Developed a series of J2EE/XML architecture best practices and architectural guidelines to mitigate risk and provide scalable growth.- Met with WeddingNetwork’s trading partners to determine business needs. - Co-authored (along with senior management and project technical lead) document intended to secure VC funding based on ShopML. Worked with marketing personnel and project technical lead to write ShopML press releases.- Upgraded, maintained, and deployed server-side Session and (BMP) Entity EJBs (EJB, object serialization, WebLogic application server, JDBC).- Wrote the ShopML DTD so that the XML carried both transactional (sender/receiver and status info) and payload (Registries, Orders, etc.) data (XML, DTDs).- Designed and implemented a framework to encapsulate XML parsing, allowing for multiple vendors’ parsers to be used without impacting the rest of the system. Developed content-handling classes to encapsulate accessing and creating XML documents (UML, GoF Design Patterns, XML, DTDs, IBM AlphaWorks XML4J parser, DOM W3C API, ObjectSpace JGL class library).

Winnipeg, Mb, Ca

Guilford, Connecticut, Us

Masters, Computer Information Systems

Masters, Telecommunications

Ba, Computer Science