Drive enterprise as well as product architecture and capabilities to achieve desired business outcomes, while simultaneously optimizing daily operation.

Define and manage the technical and business Cloud strategy, lead architectural designs, balance initiatives, provide risk mitigation – all while delivering day-to-day features and functionality.

Provided exceptional leadership and guidance required for successful execution of major initiatives - focused on cloud strategy while evangelizing the long-term architectural vision and business goals.

Designed and implemented a state of the art API and real-time integration and workflow platform for collaborating across products and customers - driving contracts resulting in over $4 million in additional revenue.

Partnered with all key stakeholders as well as customers to drive maximum ROI for engineering initiatives while creating an actionable roadmap for success.

Implemented solutions and supporting processes to create and manage business- oriented solutions for security, performance, and scalability while reducing defects and rework by over 40%.

Proactively identify and address challenges while make recommendations supported by clear business considerations.

Created and managed Sphera’s Innovation Initiative for product development and delivered next-generation and marketing changing functionality.

Design and implement the frameworks for architecturally sound, cost effective, scalable, and supportable solutions both on premise and in the cloud.

Set and evangelize the long-term architectural vision and prioritize short and mid-term roadmaps to deliver on that vision for a competitive cloud platform.

Provide leadership to the application development teams and inspire and motivate them toward successful implementation of technology initiatives by proactively understanding their challenges and partnering with them on strategic solutions.

Collaborate with developers and infrastructure to make sure both new and existing development environments meet requirements and conform to best practices.

Implemented security and performance analytics across technology teams to measure and monitor production posture.

Redefined and implemented best-practices guidance and standards for internal technologists as well as for all consultants – radically improving on-boarding times and operational efficiencies.

Directly support business units in identifying opportunities for improved business outcomes and providing coordination across the business as well as with technology teams.

Provide enterprise-wide architecture and capabilities vision to achieve desired business outcomes, while simultaneously optimizing daily operation.

Recognized innovator with exceptional leadership and managerial skills required for successful execution of major initiatives - focused on cloud strategy while evangelizing the long-term architectural vision and business goals.

Define and manage the technical and process Cloud strategy, lead architectural designs, balance initiatives, provide risk mitigation – all while delivering day-to-day features and functionality.

Support entire C-level suite, covering all major functional areas and lines of business; partner with executive leadership to ensure alignment on major initiatives.

Proven results in negotiating and optimizing vendor relationships and managing vendors in-step with the Legal department, handling everything from software selection to pricing, business terms, and finalizing contracts.

Consistently seek out and leverage cost savings opportunities – reducing cloud costs by 60% annually.

Proactively identify and address challenges and make recommendations supported by clear business considerations.

Realize business strategy as a set of both process and technical blueprints to move the company forward towards a competitive cloud platform.

Plan and prioritize architectural initiatives.

Set and evangelize the long-term architectural vision and develop short and mid-term roadmaps to deliver on that vision.

Define, document, and enforce the technical architecture and its design standards.

Define and manage the technical Cloud strategy, lead cloud application architectural design, identify trade-offs, and determine risk-mitigation considerations while driving the architectural integrity of the platform.

Direct and advise junior architects on implementation, integration, and design of new features and functionality targeted for the cloud platforms.

Lead R&D efforts and develop Proof of Concept solutions on wide-ranging initiatives with a large scope of impact in the existing product and its cloud-based counterpart - resulting in increasing performance by over 800% in key business processes.

Provide direct architectural oversight on product development efforts to enable performant cloud and on-premise software solutions – including conversion to microservices, service bus implementation, operationalization of auto-scaling and real-time monitoring and automation solutions - including Azure Templates, Puppet, Jenkins, and Terraform.

Identify and address operational challenges to delivering software continuously along with health monitoring to ensure maximum flexibility.

Provide solid technical leadership to align business needs with technical solutions.

Provide guidance in best practice and tool use in the design and build of technical frameworks and the applications built on them.

Architect and manage implementation of technical solutions supporting identity management and single sign-on across all corporate systems and the entire suite of next generation financial and collaboration products.

Develop and communicate a technology roadmap encompassing software architecture, program architecture, design, and development standards for data architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and code management for developing custom web, mobile, business intelligence and business applications.

Research, recommend, and implement Proof-Of-Concepts of new technologies, development tools and development methodologies that allow the organization to remain adaptive and maintain a consistent architecture while providing quality products and services to our customers – leveraging a combination of Open Source and standard Microsoft tools such as C#, EF, Web API, Angular, GraphQL and RESTful services.

Partnered with key stakeholders and senior partners to define and conduct competitive market analysis and user research to develop long and short term technical and application strategies.

Develop and facilitate implementation of architectural policies/procedures for use in conducting enterprise system operations and development efforts, and analyze their overall effectiveness to ensure best practices are incorporated to successfully meet the strategic goals.

Lead cloud application architectural design, identify trade-offs, and determine risk-mitigation considerations.

Defined and implemented the Cloud strategy for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and working across all IT domains and with both internal and external business partners to deliver enterprise Cloud capability and automation

Provide leadership and technological expertise to align technology investments with business goals. Go-to senior resource for developing solutions and addressing challenges.

Accountable for creating and realizing architectures to expedite delivery of new products and services to market while meeting company's cost and risk reduction objectives. Coordinate with senior management and business experts to translate key strategic objectives into actionable and governable roadmaps and designs.

Design and execute hands-on proofs-of-concept for critical enterprise capabilities, including building business case with costs, benefits, and efficiency measures along with coding the solutions – leveraging C#, SOA / Web Services (WCF), virtualization, and proven Microsoft technology solutions.

Collaborate with key stakeholders to define enterprise architecture principles, standards, guidelines, and blueprints.

Translate business requirements into systems qualities and repeatable design strategies and patterns - focused on adaptability, scalability, availability, and reusability. Personally developed or managed the development of corporate frameworks, key services, and solution templates. Directly accountable for all Schwab integration efforts.

Perform design reviews across company and collected enterprise architecture performance metrics to assure continuous improvement. Identified bottlenecks and improved site performance by more than 500%.

Partner with leadership teams to evaluate technology challenges, define new structures, and build governance model of Enterprise Architecture for business, data, applications and technology within IT Organization.

Design and code trading integration platform with Business Partners as well as all functionality for FOREX and other integrated trading platforms using C#, WCF, Web Services, and advanced threading (TPL) in .NET 1.1 – 4.0, C++, and JAVA.

Coordinate with the CEO and CIO, along with all key business stakeholders on project implementation.

Responsible for organizing the hiring and managing of resources to build out teams necessary to realize business goals.

Develop and communicate a technology roadmap encompassing software architecture, program architecture, design, and development standards for data architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and code management for developing custom web, mobile, business intelligence and business applications.

Lead R&D efforts and develop Proof of Concept solutions on wide-ranging initiatives with a large scope of impact in the existing product and its cloud-based counterpart.

Proactively identify and address challenges and make recommendations supported by clear business considerations.

Design a fully integrated medical scheduling and encounter capture system for use on remote tablet PC’s and tablet devices using various technologies – including a combination of Open Source and established frameworks from Microsoft and Apple.

Design and implement a secure, high transactional volume messaging system for distributing information and medical records information and real-time billing systems.

Coordinate development efforts to align with HIPPA/CCHIT requirements for medical records information.

Enable SAP implementation with 80% less integration cost than initially budgeted – nearly a $4M savings compared to traditional integration approaches.

Directly responsible for completing the SAP deployment and integrations ahead of schedule and under budget.

Key Partner with leadership teams to evaluate technology challenges, define new structures, and build governance model of Enterprise Architecture for business, data, applications and technology within IT Organization.

Translate business requirements into systems qualities and repeatable design strategies and patterns - focused on adaptability, scalability, availability, and reusability.

Hired personnel and developed training plans for develppment and operations staff.

Directly manage corporate Integration teams and drove integration efforts with Tier 1 SAP consulting firms for systems development.

Develop custom tools to speed SAP integration from weeks or months to hours using the .NET 2.0 and 3.5 frameworks – supporting well over 10 Million transactions per day.

Authored numerous white papers on SAP integration techniques and the .NET framework and featured as a regular speaker and trainer on SOA technologies and techniques within the ERP Community and SAP specifically.

Ensure strategic goal identification and alignment of development initiatives with corporate focus.

Manage all general software development and directly managed a number of special technology initiatives including Data warehousing, video systems, GIS mapping, and electronic reporting systems.

Train and direct staff in IT audit procedures – perform and guide IT audits and risk assessments along with developing mitigation strategies for senior command staff.

Implement and manage to Program Management Office (PMO) standards with full SDLC methodologies in a mixed environment with 6 different development platforms across 23 distributed sites – technologies included VB6, C++ Oracle PL-SQL, Oracle Forms, ASP, and ASP.NET.

Coordinate and design integration solutions for new and existing ERP systems at all levels of City government.

Revitalized and motivated the civilian programming staff and instituting policies and procedures for efficient operations – effectively “turning around” years of stagnation.

Manage a P&L with a development budget worth over $20 million – generating estimated savings of more than $12 million per year.

Review and negotiate with vendors concerning contracts, services and SLAs.