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Vince Duran 

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Albuquerque, NM  87114
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§ Chief Architect and Lead System Engineer on Trust Enhancement Project (TEP) to develop secure cloud-based architecture for the NNSE, incorporating static and behavioral models to identify anomalies, which then trigger dynamic defense mechanisms.

 


 

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§ Experienced in speaking at technical conferences on topics including business process management, software engineering and architecture, search engine technology and techniques, data analytics.

§ Software engineering utilizing the following technologies: SysML, UML, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Splunk Analytical Platform, Splunk Application for Enterprise Security, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hosted Infrastructure, Java EE, .NET (C#, ASP.NET) Perl, PHP, Laravel, Bootstrap, AJAX, Jquery, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5 Magento, WordPress, RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL), NOSQL (Mongo DB, Oracle NOSQL), Verity K2 and Ultraseek, Google Appliance, Apache Lucene (now Solr), Stellent/Oracle Content Management, FileNet, Documentum, Denodo Data Virtualization Platform, Savvion BPMS, Eclipse IDE, Sql Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Liferay Portal, XMLSpy, XML, XSLT, SOAP UI, Vmware, Troux Enterprise Architecture Suite.

 


VINCENT L. DURAN     p. 1

Areas of Expertise

 

Vincent L. Duran

 

Software Architect / Engineer

1696 Perma Drive   §   Rio Rancho, NM 87144   §   Phone: 505-331-1275

Email: technicalconsulting@hotmail.com

 

Exceptionally versatile, technically knowledgeable, trustworthy, results-driven technology leader with over 20 years of experience achieving superior outcomes for the U.S. National Laboratories and other large organizations. Has provided technical leadership on key projects to ensure cyber security and efficiency across the entire National Nuclear Security Enterprise (NNSE), including laboratories at Lawrence Livermore, Sandia California, Nevada Test Range, Sandia Albuquerque, Kansas City Production Facility, Pantex, Oakridge, and Savannah River. Provided technical leadership to the University of New Mexico by leading the development and documentation of a future state Educational Community Cloud (EC2 ) that would serve as a state wide computing capability. Excels in enterprise architecture, IT solutions architecture, cloud based capability development, enterprise-wide cyber security planning and execution, business process analysis, data analytics, and developing technical and organizatoinal architectures that tightly align business strategy with technology.

 

Tenacious researcher with proven ability to translate concepts into effective project and system solutions. Loyal, productive team player with excellent communication and people skills; solid ability to establish and motivate strong teams; and a positive, proactive work style. Accustomed to presenting system concepts and architectures to executive management and technical groups. Has recruited, trained, and supervised associates. Adheres strictly to organizational policies and procedures. Passionately dedicated to developing the highest quality software solutions, delivering optimal value to the organization and all stakeholders.

 

Highlights

§ Leader of team that strategized and developed an Enterprise Architecture for Sandia National Laboratories, leading to major reduction in duplication of applications and resultant cost savings via portfolio management and governance processes.

§ Organize and lead SEACoP, Sandia’s System Engineering and Architecture Community of Practice.  Communication among the participants serves as a venue for peer reviews, governance discussions, the ability to discover and share common capabilities, and to develop and mentor others on the principals and practices of Enterprise and Solution Architecture.

§ Co-lead the U.S. National Laboratories Integrated Digital Enterprise (IDE) project to create and implement a new cloud based service-oriented (SOA) enterprise-wide architecture to ensure security and efficiency of systems for nuclear weapons development and management across the entire National Nuclear Security Enterprise (NNSE).

§ Led the architecture and development of a cloud-based university community cloud for the University of New Mexico.  The architecture, design, and implementation will enable a multi-tenant environment that will be utilized by several universities and partners in New Mexico resulting in more integrated data and functional capabilities, streamlining educational processes and value streams.

§ Technical Lead on Sandia's Enterprise Search capability, providing unified search of websites, ECM stores including Sharepoint, FileNet, and Documentum, fileshares, custom applications, and databases.

§ Chief Architect and Lead System Engineer on a Business Delivery Platform that utilized custom and COTS technologies.  Denodo was used as the core Data Virtualization Platform. A variety or sources (RDBMS, REST, SOAP, and files were consumed to create the base and composite views. Custom Denodo modules (functions, wrappers, and stored procedures) were created using Denodo4E, an Eclipse Plugin, designed to make extending Denodo easy.  These custom modules were developed to handle Sandia specific requirement.

 

Ø        Enterprise Architecture: Leading member of the Sandia Enterprise Architecture team that is responsible for the conceptualization, design, implementation, and governance of an Enterprise Architecture for Sandia and other Laboratories in the NSE.  The Enterprise Architecture spanned all architectural layers including Business Architecture, Information Systems Architecture, Data Architecture, and Technology Architecture.  TOGAF was used as a guide and a tailored version of TOGAF including the ADM was used to begin the identification of the current state architecture and the development of a future state and segment architectures to enable transformation.

Ø        Cyber Security Perform information assurance assessments. Map potential attack vectors. Prioritize and harden components. Red-team; run compromise scenarios, before and after countermeasures are implemented.  Use Splunk data analytics platform to enable security and operational awareness.

Ø        Conceptualize, Architect, Design, and Build Secure cloud based capabilities to support the Nuclear Weapons, University, and Health Care communities.

Ø        Computer Forensics and Disaster Recovery Instructor for Central New Mexico Community College

Ø        System Engineering and Architecture using TOGAF: Analyze business via Business Motivation Model (BMM) and business process modeling notation (BPMN).Design and develop SOA Based systems and technology to  align with business strategy.  Manage and ensure implementation to conform with design governance frameworks objectives. Optimize technology portfolio across enterprise using rationalization methods to map to business needs.

Ø        Requirements Discovery and Development using SysML and UML.  Expert level SparxEA software engineer that can apply and derive value from model based development principals under any AGILE or Waterfall based SDLC. 

 


VINCENT L. DURAN     p. 1

Professional Experience

 

Software Engineer / Architecture Consultant

Phoenix Consulting, Albuquerque, NM

2014-Present

 

 

Lead and assist clients in designing and implementing complex computing solutions that help solve challenging business problems utilizing proven software and system development methods to ensure value delivery while aligning corporate goals and strategies with IT direction and on-going implementation.  Technical focus areas include:

§ Software Engineering, Enterprise Content Management, and Search Capability Development

Ø        Led the architecture and development of a cloud-based university community cloud for the University of New Mexico.  The architecture, design, and implementation will enable a multi-tenant environment that will be utilized by several universities and partners in New Mexico resulting in more integrated data and functional capabilities, streamlining educational processes and value streams.

Ø        Assist clients with problem space analysis and discovery to understand enterprise information management needs.  Regularly meet with enterprise stakeholders to understand needs and translate those needs into designs that are implemented into software and process based enterprise solutions. These solutions cover the entire content lifecycle including content creation, update, versioning, search, controlled distribution, records management (retention schedules), and archiving and destruction.

Ø        Developed Enterprise Lucene/Solr based solutions to include custom type/object modeling and implementation into the Lucene/Solr analysis (Tokenizers/Filters) pipline.  Created custom Solr Query components to enable optimum search matching.  Utilized Custom and OOTB Solr Response writers to power various enterprise applications.  Utilized the Lucene/Solr API to develop custom search jobs and GUI based search applications.  Utilized REST/XML based Web Services for the integration of local search and application specific search and indexing applications. 

Ø        Experience with Verity K2 (now Autonomy/HP), Verity Ultraseek (now Autonomy/HP), Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, PHP, Laravel, Bootstrap, Jquery, Javascript, CSS, HTML5, FAST Search and Transfer (now Microsoft), Apache Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA), Denodo Virtual DataPort, FileNet, Documentum, SharePoint, Stellent Enterprise Content Manager (now Oracle UCM), and Sparx EA for Data Modeling, Troux Enterprise Architecture Suite.

Ø        Continuous Integration: Experience with setting up Jenkins based continuous integration environments that integrated ANT builds and static code scanning tools enabling a near real time code management function.

§ Software Instruction and Mentoring

Ø        Served as an Instructor with the CNM STEMulus Coding Bootcamp teaching software engineering and computer forensics

Ø        Developed course material, lectured, assessed students progress, provided one on one instruction for students that needed further explanation on complex technical topics.

 

Software Engineer / Computer Science R&D

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

2001-2014

1991-1999

 

Design, develop, and lead teams establishing and enhancing enterprise-wide architectures for systems covering the entire National Nuclear Security Enterprise (NNSE), which encompasses all of the nuclear national laboratories in the U.S.:  Lawrence Livermore, Sandia California, Nevada Test Range, Sandia Albuquerque, Kansas City Production Facility, Pantex, Oakridge, and Savannah River.

§ Conceptualized, developed, proposed, and have begun implementing Integrated Digital Enterprise (IDE), a new national architecture for consolidating and transforming the systems that enable the development, surveillance, and management nuclear weapons.

Ø        Serve as Chair of the Architecture and Review Boards, by whom all newly proposed NNSE applications and major revisions must be approved.

Ø        Design and develop numerous systems with focus on cyber security, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and Business Process Management technologies.

Ø        Ensure that all enterprise solutions comply with corporate architecture standards using The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF).

§ Technical Lead on EIMS (Enterprise Information Management System) project covering both classified and non-classified networks and utilized by entire NNSE.

Ø        Analyzed stakeholder needs; formulated content management requirements for system.

Ø        Created requests to vendors for information and quotes (RFIs, RFQs).

Ø        Performed vendor research and bid evaluations; recommended vendors to Procurement Group.

Ø        Designed and implemented system, integrating all hardware and software components.

Ø        Co-led Content Management Center of Excellence (COE) to develop enterprise-wide standards and governance program, including metadata standards, processes, training and guidance modules.

§ Organize and lead SEACoP, Sandia’s System Engineering and Architecture Community of Practice.

§ Cyber Security – Analyze, develop and deliver protective software-based countermeasures for mission-critical applications:

Ø        Develop secure cloud-based architecture for the NNSE, incorporating static and behavioral models to identify anomalies, which then trigger dynamic defense mechanisms.

Ø        Map potential attack vectors, “nightmare” scenarios that could affect sensitive systems

Ø        Prioritize and harden components to ensure highest level of trust

§ Develop, test, and deploy intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) using static and behavioral-based anomaly detection systems

Ø        Member of Red Team that runs compromise scenarios, both before and after countermeasure implementation; analyze results; develop improvements

§ Formulate, manage, and deliver all elements of design and development process, using standard model-based software engineering methods:

Needs Analysis / Requirements Management:

Ø        Assess and capture customer needs synthesizing them into function and non function requirements

Ø        Engage all stakeholders; conduct focus groups

Architecture and System Design:

Ø        Analyze organizational vision and goals

Ø        Develop and document business processes and content life cycle

Ø        Create data models, class diagrams, sequence and state machine diagrams

Construction and Functional Testing:

Ø        Create designs for components and assign to coding teams

Ø        Ensure component and architectural compatibility; hold code reviews at all levels to avoid design drift

Ø        Iterate and refactor applications as necessary

Verification and Validation (V&V):

Ø        Ensure that all components function as designed and are fit for use, via user acceptance testing

§ Employ methods, frameworks, and technologies including:

Ø        Software Development Life Cycle Methods (SDLC):  Agile, Scrum, Rational Unified Process (RUP), OpenUP, Extreme Programming (XP)

Ø        Technologies:  Splunk Analytical Platform, Splunk application for enterprise security, Java EE, Perl, RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL), NOSQL (Mongo DB, Oracle NOSQL), Verity K2 and Ultraseek, Google Appliance, Apache Lucene (now Solr), Stellent/Oracle Content Management, FileNet, Documentum, Denodo Data Virtualization Platform, Lombardi BPM (now IBM BPM), Savvion BPMS, Eclipse IDE, Sql Server Reporting Services (SSRS), Liferay Portal, XMLSpy, XML, XSLT, SOAP UI, Vmware, Troux Enterprise Architecture Suite, WSO2 Stack

§ Serve divisions including Cyber Security, Nuclear Weapons, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Intelligence, and Corporate IT.

Computer Scientist / Software Engineer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA

1999-2001

 

Design, develop, and implement satellite-based ground station applications to support U.S. intelligence agencies, both domestic and international.

§ Provided real-time data collection systems that transformed, interpreted, exploited, and stored data from a wide variety of field assets.

§ Lead developer and engineer for complex project to integrate numerous software applications developed and used by intelligence agency ground stations into a common architecture accessible across multiple intelligence communities.

§ Developed and implemented systems based on SmallTalk, Java, Oracle databases, WebLogic middleware, XML/XSLT, and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks.

Education & Certifications

TOGAF 9 Certification

Armstrong Process Group, Minneapolis, MN

2010

M.B.A., Management Information Systems (MIS), with concentration in Object Oriented Systems

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

GPA:  4.09

Received Outstanding MBA Student Award

2004

B.A., Computer Information Systems; Finance

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

GPA:  3.4

2001

 

 



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Job Title

Company

Experience

Software Engineer/Architect

Phoenix Consulting Group

- Present

 

Additional Info

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Current Career Level:

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Date of Availability:

Immediately

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

US citizen

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Software Engineer/Architect

Desired Job Type:

Temporary/Contract/Project

Desired Status:

Full-Time
Per Diem

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Industry:

Computer/IT Services
Engineering Services

Occupation:

IT/Software Development

·         Software/System Architecture

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-NM-Albuquerque

Relocate:

Yes

Willingness to travel:

Up to 50% travel

 

Languages:

Languages

Proficiency Level

English

Fluent