• Enterprise Architect who offers a background in Strategy, Architecture, and Process Improvements; Information Systems Development / Implementation; Project Management; IT Roadmaps; Strategic Analysis / Planning; Proposal Preparation; Bid Management; Collateral Preparation; and Best Practices, as well as talents in Team Building / Training and Stakeholder Relations while exhibiting an ability to see the big picture in evolving markets.
• Top Performer who boasts above-average career results, and can make sound decisions to reflect positively on operations in alignment with a company s vision, value, and goals to achieve a significant competitive advantage.
• Visionary Communicator who builds and sustains synergistic relationships with C-level executives, IT teams, stakeholders, and clients to develop architecture frameworks in alignment with strategy, process, and IT assets.
• Out-of-the-Box Thinker who successfully resolves complex challenges to exceed client expectations, and exhibits knowledge of hardware, software, networking, applications, systems engineering, and architecture in global enterprise environments, as well as cyber security and transformative IT technologies (e.g. cloud computing).

Bachelor of Science in Information Sciences & Technology The Xxxxxx State University

ITIL Foundation v3 (2009) ￨ The Open Group Certification TOGAF 8.1 (2007)

Oracle Certification Oracle 9i RAC (2004) ￨ Cisco Certified Network Associate (2000)

Architecture TOGAF ￨ DODAF ￨ Zachman

Storage NAS ￨ SAN￨ Virtual ￨ ASM ￨ VTL

Databases Oracle ￨ DB2 ￨ UDB ￨ SQL Server ￨ OLAP ￨ PL/SQL ￨ Cloudera ￨ Hadoop

System Management Oracle EM ￨ CA Unicenter ￨ HP OpenView ￨ IBM/Tivoli ￨ Smarts ￨ Watch4Net

Operating Systems Solaris ￨ HP-UX ￨ AIX ￨ Linux ￨ OS390 ￨ MVS ￨ Open VMS ￨ VMware ￨ Windows

Platforms IBM zSeries ￨ iSeries ￨ pSeries ￨ Sun Fire ￨ Netra ￨ Blade ￨ T-Series ￨ HP 9000 ￨ VCE Vblock

Design ARIS ￨ System Architect ￨ Troux ￨ Rational Rose ￨ SPARX ￨ DOORS ￨ UML/RUP

Cloud & Virtualization VCE Vblock ￨ VMware vSphere ￨ VMware vCloud Director

VMware View ￨ vCHS ￨ Citrix Xen ￨ Oracle VM ￨ Hyper-V

Enterprise Solutions Amdocs ￨ Astea ￨ MuleSoft ￨ webMethods ￨ SnapLogic ￨ Oracle ￨ eGain ￨ Verint ￨ BMC

Puppet ￨ Chef ￨ MicroStrategy ￨ Cognos ￨ Jacada ￨ ServiceNOW ￨ Talend ￨ Drools ￨ Liferay

Mobility MobileIron ￨ Nexthink ￨ VitalApp ￨ AirWatch ￨ MobileReach

Chief Enterprise Architect

  Capitalize on the opportunity to lead forward-thinking strategy, architecture, and process improvements for global Enterprise Architecture Practice, including developing standards, architectural governance, design patterns, and IT practices, as well as managing a 20-member team of architects to drive processes, standards, and artifacts.

  Lead design recommendations for projects based on technology strategy, including developing high-level technical architecture and establishing standards and guidelines for the critical design of information technology solutions.

  Expertly navigate complex organizational hierarchies, develop key solutions in alignment with principles, and create prescriptive architecture artifacts to document architecture patterns and related conceptual architectures.

  Led applications strategy, standardization, analysis, design, and implementation, and maintained technical / solutions knowledge in software, infrastructure, security and business architecture areas.

  Collaborated with internal / external technical resources to build strong productivity and meet goals.

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Pre-Sales Solution Architect

  Utilized broad scope of industry knowledge toward directing a top-performing 150-member business development and sales deal team in ensuring building application and platform services in private and multi-tenant clouds, as well as engaging with customers to achieve well-defined objectives and solid architecture plans.

  Demonstrated comprehensive understanding of customer base and industry verticals, including actively capturing and sharing best-practice knowledge among the solutions architect community and open source community.

  Expertly analyzed business and technology challenges, assessed costs, and suggested solutions.

  Strategized product positioning and key benefits by assisting with all marketing communications.

  Coordinated efforts with customers to ensure smooth delivery and implementation of key solutions.

  Increased product adoption by designing solutions offerings using standardized VCE Vblock technology platforms, and further developed product road maps and effective migration strategies.

Enterprise Architect

  Strategically steered innovation, technology-, and architecture-related thought leadership and long-term vision with a focus on cyber security, enterprise architecture, and transformative IT technologies (e.g. cloud computing).

  Led targeted decision-making across enterprise architecture with a specific domain leadership in technology architecture, and used business process management, business process automation, enterprise information data architectures and master data management, application development architecture, and technical frameworks.

  Spearheaded the development and integrity of technology architectures which comprised enterprise architecture, including IT Infrastructure, SOA, ITIL, BSM, IT services / catalog, mobile computing, and R&D, among others.

  Developed high-level operational plans for implementing initiatives defined under technology architectures, including green field, migration, and integration of current / future technologies (e.g. cloud computing, virtualization).

  Translated business requirements into systems qualities and repeatable design strategies and patterns (e.g. adaptability, scalability, availability, and reusability), and assured enterprise application integration by selecting tools, specifying shared data and code resources, defining interfaces and data-flows, and monitoring key progress.

  Created, enhanced, and maintained strategic reference architectures for diverse capabilities.

  Expertly analyzed business and technology challenges, assessed costs, and suggested solutions.

  Led proposal / bid response and business development as enterprise solution / technology SME.

  Performed companywide design reviews and collected enterprise architecture performance metrics.

  Led domain architect teams in both Application Foundation Architecture and Infrastructure Foundation Architecture organizations in development of relevant system and technology artifacts.

  Conducted systems and technologies evolution planning and upheld application lifecycle inventory.

Consultant

  Maximized results as a consultant and lead architect on integration efforts, including deploying virtual server and application hosting environments, server rationalization initiatives, and data center consolidation projects.

  Directed detailed architecture reviews / assessments to validate architecture / design, identified violations of commonly accepted best practices, assisted in technology selection / justification, and troubleshot performance and scalability related issues, along with analyzing legacy applications and systems to derive functions and rules.

  Developed comprehensive business and IT processes for architectural projects.

  Supported senior architects in developing current and projected systems architecture artifacts.

  Led a SWAT team to diagnose and improve performance issues of a major e-commerce application to generate performance improvements from 60+ seconds / transaction to <5 seconds / transaction.

Honorably Discharged United States Air Force Technical Warfare Electronics Technician (1989 1993)