Senior architect and strategic technologist with 20+ years of overall experience in IT.   Diverse skill sets and experience.  Executive level communication and presentation skills.  Good at conveying complex concepts to any audience.  Unique balance of business acumen, domain knowledge, and technical breadth and depth.  Well-rounded understanding of the various legal, regulatory, compliance, and business issues driving numerous industries and sub-verticals.  Diverse technical knowledge spanning multiple platforms and technologies, including architecture, design patterns, UML, OOP, SOA, web services, messaging, EAI/ESB middleware, cloud, design patterns, and data storage.  Key strengths include thought leadership, innovation, and initiatives that emphasize creative and original thinking.  Comfortable supporting and advising, presenting to, and working closely with senior management.  Full lifecycle ownership and accountability on architecture issues, including ideation and proof of concept, exploration of solution alternatives, estimation, and guidance towards standards and best practices, and implementation.  Strong team leader for onshore and offshore teams.  Self-motivated.  Proponent of team collaboration and information sharing through the use of technology, e.g., SharePoint, portals, TFS, discussion groups, social media and via internal white papers and presentations.  Excellent teacher and technical mentor.  Microsoft Certified.  Graduate of the Project Management Professional (PMP) program given by PMI at Villanova University.

 

 

Center of Excellence Leadership – Healthcare and Life Sciences

Hand-picked to lead a new NTT CoE/practice around Healthcare and Life Sciences (HC/LS) product development.  Worked closely with executive sponsors to explore opportunities to infuse technology innovation into product development accounts.  Strategic and tactical. 

 

·   Talking to account leads and clients, finding new areas for growth, opportunity, and value-add.

·   Capitalizing on my strong architecture background to converse with internal teams and clients to find ways to infuse technology innovation into product development, such as the creation of various frameworks and accelerators – and working across the table from clients in pre-sales capacity to leverage the same.

·   Looking for innovative ways to standardize NTT process approach & methodology on product development accounts as well as implement metrics-driven IT governance.

·   Fine-tuning key aspects of the Agile and offshore development model – such as resource allocations and tight coordination between shores (e.g., follow the sun).

·   Frequently collaborating with and advising senior management and executive sponsors.

 

Healthcare, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Clinical

·   LiquidHub (WCG):  Thought leadership, best practices and architecture for new Connexus 3.0 customer portal.

·   LiquidHub (HBCBS of NJ):  Advisory services, best practices, solution and enterprise architecture.  Main objective to optimize staff utilization by implementing a core/flex resource planning model.  TOGAF-based current state enterprise architecture assessment with emphasis on main objective. 

·   NTT DATA (CoE Lead):  NTT CoE Lead for HC/LS vertical – see above.

·   NTT DATA (Almac Group):  Thought leadership, proof of concept, and prototype for new clinical trial/data service application as well as new clinical call center application. 

·   ActiveHealth Management:  Architecture, technology advisory services, and team leadership for PHR (Personal Health Record) and ACT (ActiveCare Team) applications.

·   Schering-Plough (now Merck):  Architecture and technology subject matter expertise, working closely with executive sponsors and internal COEs.

 

Banking & Financial Services

·   Strategic Systems Solutions (Credit-Suisse): Team leadership, architecture, and thought leadership on several investment banking projects for a Manhattan-based client (Credit-Suisse) utilizing an offshore development team. Complete end-to-end design and architecture ownership on all deliverables. Built, managed, and led offshore team, onsite delivery coordination and client management. Delivered 20+ deliverables to Credit-Suisse over three years.

·   NTT DATA (Kaufman Hall Associates): Architecture and thought leadership on a multi-tier .NET 4.0 web portal designed to provide automation and high-end reporting services in support of Kaufman Hall’s array of niche financial services– primarily strategic and financial planning advisory services around debt portfolio management.

·   NTT DATA (Bank of America): Team leadership on Bank of America SMARTS project, multi-tier NET 4.0 web application that was part of a larger initiative to improve and automate critical business processes.

 

Industries

·   Healthcare/Health Insurance (provider, payer, personal/electronic health record, pharmacy automation, drug compounding, medical devices, ER, perioperative, hospital information systems).

·   Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences & Clinical (Schering-Plough, hospital pharmacy compounding, clinical study management systems)

·   Banking/Financial Services

·   Assurance

·   Public Sector (NYC Taxi/Limousine, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, State-Level Assistance Program Eligibility)

·   Environmental/Compliance

·   Public Transportation

·   Chemical/Petrochemical

·   Newspaper

·   Manufacturing, Contract Packaging

·   Consumer Products

·   Cosmetics and Toiletries

·   Silicones

·   Refractory Ceramic Fibers

 

Key Experience and Attributes

·   20+ years of overall IT experience, spanning 10+ industries, much of it in Pharmaceutical, Clinical Trials, and general Healthcare and Life Science - with 15+ years of it in consulting

·   Design of end-to-end enterprise systems, including web, SOA, and distributed architectures, across heterogeneous landscapes for clients of all types in multiple industries - public and private sector

·   Broad and deep technology experience with middleware (ESB/EAI) and service integration platforms (cloud and on premises), including SOA design and best practices

·   Versatile combination of strategic and tactical capabilities - technology depth, business acumen, broad domain knowledge, and strong interpersonal and communication skills

·   Naturally establishes strong relationships with executive level sponsors

·   Conversant on Social Media, Mobile, Big Data, Gamification, and other key emerging IT trends

·   Expert in extracting, understanding complex requirements and roadmapping solution alternatives that take into account client constraints - business/competition, regulatory, budget, timeframes

·   Strong experience building proof of concepts and prototypes and presenting to clients

·   Corporate IT governance (including metrics-based IT governance)

·   Full PDLC/SDLC – all types of models from Iterative to Waterfall including Agile and variants

·   Building, leading, mentoring, and managing teams, onshore and offshore

 

Technology Summary

·   Design patterns and UML:  Gang of Four, Hohpe and Woolfe (EAI), others

·   OOAD:  14 years with .NET from framework v1.0-4.5.2 and MS technology stack in general, C# as well as other CLR compliant languages (VB and C++.NET), Visual Studio, MVC, IIS, ASP.NET, Web Forms, Winforms, WPF, WCF and ASMX, WF, Entity Framework, and SQL Server 2000-2014

·   Service Integration:  SOA, web services, REST, SOAP, reference models, and messaging/modeling, several service integration platforms including cloud (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and on-premises, several ESB/EAI middleware tools (BizTalk, Azure, Mule, WSO2, Tibco, others), diverse set of third party REST APIs (AWS, Azure, Google Maps, SFDC, others)

·   Rules Engines, BRMSs, and BPMSs:  ILOG, Drools/.NET, Corticon, Pega, WF, BizTalk Orchestrations, others

·   Databases:  RDBMSs (SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, others); some NoSQL/Big Data (Mongo, Raven, Azure, AWS, others)

·   Other Systems (CMSs, CRMs, ERPs):  CMSs (SharePoint, Documentum, others); CRMs (Dynamics, SFDC, other); ERPs (e.g., EBS).  Exposure integrating with all above these systems via APIs (typically REST)

·   Legacy/Other OOP:  SQL, conversant in Java, legacy OOP (VB4-6, C++, classic ASP, COM/+, ColdFusion, VBS, JS, JScript, HTML, CSS, XML

·   Source Control:  TFS, CVS, SourceSafe

·   Desktop Applications:  MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio

·   Methodologies:  Full SDLC and PDLC exposure using iterative, waterfall, and hybrid models - including variants e.g. Kanban

 

·               M.S. Environmental Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ ·               B.S. Applied Physics, minor in mathematics, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

·               Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) in C#.NET ·               Project Management Professional (PMP) program given by PMI at Villanova University

 

LiquidHub, Inc., Wayne, PA September 2014 – May 2015

Director/Architect

Skills:  Solution and Enterprise Architecture, current state assessment, cloud-readiness assessment, APM, TOGAF, ERP, managed services, resource planning, core/flex resource model, solution design, WCF, OOP Design Patterns, UML, .NET Framework 4.5, MVC, VS 2012, C#, TFS, SQL Server 2012, Agile/SCRUM.

 

Fulltime employee of LiquidHub (IT Consulting/Services provider) engaged on below internal and client initiatives:

 

·   WIRB-Copernicus Group (WCG):  Leader in the regulatory advisory services space.  Extended .NET legacy architecture and system integration solution for Connexus 3.0 Customer Portal to meet new requirements and 21 CRF compliance.  Architecture thought leadership and best practices.

·   Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey:  Main objective to optimize staff utilization by implementing a core/flex resource planning model.  TOGAF-based current state enterprise architecture assessment with emphasis on elements most relevant to main objective.  Evangelized architecture advisory services, thought leadership, and best practices.

·   LifeShield (Direct-TV):  Design and architecture for new REST-based test harness/framework to enable end to end automated system testing, including servers and home sensors/devices.

·   Cloud Readiness - Research & Development:  Independently researched cloud-readiness from the standpoint of industry, cloud, and enterprise integration patterns and best practices.   Developed a rule-based framework to assess cloud-readiness at enterprise and application level across multiple dimensions – including service, delivery, and tenancy models.  Created and optimized cloud-related sales collateral.

 

Cognizant Technology Solutions May 2014 – September 2014

Associate Director/Principal Architect

Skills: Architecture, design, demos and proof of concepts, SOA, EAI Patterns (Hohpe & Woolfe), Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), ESB/EAI, services integration platforms/middleware (BizTalk Server, Azure, Google Search Appliance, Elastic Search/Solar), AWS, WCF, OOP Design Patterns, UML, .NET Framework 4.5,  SPA, MVC, C#, TFS, SQL Server 2014, Team Leadership, Agile (Daikibo)/SCRUM.

 

Fulltime employee of Cognizant (IT Consulting/Services provider) engaged on below client initiatives:

 

·   Ernst & Young (EY):  Custom .NET Greenfield development initiative for large assurance and audit client (EY) to replace internal legacy application portfolio. 

·   Establishment of architecture best practices; technical direction and architecture across end to end solution.

 

NTT Data, Inc., Boston, MA April 2010 – May 2014

Architect Manager

Skills: Thought leadership, strategy/planning, road mapping, leadership around architecture standards and best practices, solution architecture, design, proof of concepts, SOA, Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), ESB/EAI, services integration platforms/middleware (BizTalk Server, Azure, Informatica, Tibco, WS02, Mule, Dell Boomi), Web Services, WCF, Design Patterns, UML, .NET Framework 4.0,  C#, TFS, SQL Server, Team Leadership, Agile/SCRUM.

 

Fulltime employee of NTT Data (IT Consulting/Services provider) engaged on below internal and client initiatives:

 

·   Lead for NTT Product Development Center of Excellence (CoE):  Worked closely with NTT senior management to standardize approach and methodology, operationalize metrics-based IT governance, fine-tune strategy, and identify opportunities for IT innovation and across product development accounts.

·   Almac-Group:  Lead Architect on Almac Group engagement; designed proof of concepts for new clinical data services and call center applications.

·   New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission (NYC TLC):  Architected innovative solution framework to integrate third party COTS mobile product with .NET/SharePoint web solution.  Currently used in New York City by field officers to monitor, summons, inspect, and adjudicate 300,000+ yellow medallion taxicabs. 

·   Kaufman Hall:  Principal architect for a multi-tier NET 4.0 web portal designed to provide automation and high-end reporting services in support of Kaufman Hall’s array of niche financial services – primarily strategic and financial planning advisory services.

·   Bank of America (formerly Merrill Lynch):  Technical Team Lead for SMARTS initiative, a multi-tier NET 4.0 web applications that was part of a larger BOA BPM initiative to improve and automate critical business processes. 

·   Proposals and Pre-Sales:  Lead Architect in support of numerous proposal and business development initiatives – private and public sector – ranging from $500K to $58 million.  Mentor and advisor to NTT’s .NET COE on many others.

·   General:  Responsible for establishing and promoting technical direction, strategy, and architectural standardization across client engagements.  Technical advisor to senior management, project team, and client organizations on design and architecture best practices.  Key responsibilities - architecture and design, proof of concepts (POCs), evaluation and selection/recommendation for new and existing technologies, and establishing strategy, standardization, and technical direction.

 

ActiveHealth Management (AETNA), Manhattan, NY April 2009 – April 2010

Architect/Team Leader, PHR and ACT Applications

Skills :Thought leadership and advisory services, .NET Framework 3.5/4.0,  Third Party Framework, TFS, Remoting, Web Services, AJAX, Design Patterns, UML, C#, SOA, ESB/EAI, JBoss, Fiddler, Firebug, Oracle, SQL Server, Team Leader/Architect, Agile Development/SCRUM

 

Fulltime employee of ActiveHealth Management (owned by AETNA) working on the below internal initiatives:

 

·   PHR (Personal Health Record) and ACT (Active Care Team):  Architect and team leader for PHR and ACT applications.  PHR is a patient-facing web portal for storage and management of PHR information.  ACT is a provider-facing analog to PHR for facilitating and optimizing patient care.  Both are multi-tier.NET 3.5/4.0 web portal applications written on top of a vendor-based .NET web services and remoting framework.  Responsible for learning/mastering the vendor-based framework, hiring and building a team of in-house developers, training the team on this framework, and bringing the code base in-house to decouple from the third party vendor.  Technical mentor and advisor to team and to organization in general on .NET best practices.  Discretionarily hands-on for key projects and critical production support issues.  Primarily involved in more strategic projects, proof of concept for next generation initiatives, evaluation of new technologies, establishing strategy.

 

Strategic Systems Solutions (Credit-Suisse), Horsham, PA August 2006 – December 2008

Architect/Team Leader

Skills: .NET (mainly C#, VB), ASP.NET, XML, VB 6.0, classic ASP, COM, ActiveX, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, SQL, RapidSQL

 

Fulltime employee of Strategic Systems Solutions (IT Consulting/Services provider) engaged on below client initiatives:

 

·   Credit-Suisse Bank:  Architect and team leader on several investment banking projects for a Manhattan-based banking/financial client (Credit-Suisse) utilizing an offshore development team.  Team leadership, team building, and staff mentoring.  New systems and migrations from legacy platforms (e.g., Cold Fusion or classic ASP/VB6) into ASP.NET (in C#) 2003/2005, and performance enhancements to existing systems on both new and legacy platforms.  Architectures vary by project, but common themes include SOA through .NET web services and extensive application of design patterns and UML, application security and use of single sign-on technology – diverse in terms of purpose and usage volume.

 

Schering-Plough (now Merck), Union, NJ December 2002 – August 2006

Senior Architect/Developer

Skills: .NET (mainly C#, VB), ASP.NET, XML, VB 6.0, classic ASP, COM, ActiveX, Oracle, SQL, Access

 

Fulltime employee of Schering-Plough (now Merck) working on the below internal initiatives:

 

·   Architect and lead developer on a wide variety of projects ranging in purpose from company-wide reporting, to automation, to error diagnostics. 

·   Full project management responsibilities. 

·   Co-located with Environmental Compliance, Toxicology, and Safety & Industrial Hygiene COE – due to expertise in these areas.  Worldwide usage volumes ranged from 5-25 concurrent users.  Architecture using design patterns and UML. 

·   Mostly ASP.NET in C#.NET and VB.NET, using SOA through .NET web services.  Heavy use of XML, ActiveX/COM and other legacy technologies, AD/single-on, Oracle, and MS Access. 

·   Worked both individually and in teams.  IIS configuration and security. 

·   Network and database troubleshooting.  Performance enhancements. Hardware selection.  Research technology options.  Third party vendor package selection.  Build versus buy decisions.  Heavy DR and contingency planning component.  Data privacy and Safe Harbor issues, including use of confidential employee health records within shared IT application.

 

A Renaissance Approach, LLC, East Windsor, NJ November 1998 – December 2002

President

Skills: .NET, ASP.NET, XML, VB 6.0, classic ASP, COM, ActiveX, Oracle, SQLServer, Access, SQL, Java, C++

 

·   Custom software architecture and development using a broad range of technologies. 

·   Primary focus on music software project – called My Advanced Jam Assistant (MAJA).  Full SDLC, definition of requirements, patenting and copyrighting, design/architecture, development, testing, and promotion – i.e., full SDLC. 

·   Secondary focus was the design of several other web sites for clients.

 

BEM Systems, Inc., Chatham, NJ July 1997 – November 1998

Staff Engineer

Skills: VB versions 5-6, MS Access, MS FoxPro

 

·   Designed and managed human and ecological risk and exposure assessments, as well as the underlying IT components – primarily custom software written in VB 5-6 to facilitate with modeling and calculations.

 

Everest Consulting Associates, Cranbury, NJ August 1994 - July 1997

Staff Engineer

Skills: VB versions 4-5, VBA, MS Access

 

·   Design and development of custom statistical and Monte-Carlo forecasting software using MS VB version 4-6 – along with several other interesting projects related to mathematical modelling.

 

ANCO Environmental Services, Berkely Heights, NJ May 1994 - August 1994

Hydrologist

Skills: Excel VB, VB, MS Access

 

·   Independent contractor hydrologist on projects involving residential site remediation and UST/AST closure. 

·   Developed simulation models using Excel Visual Basic for Applications and Visual Basic.

 

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ July 1992 - May 1994

Staff Engineer

Skills: Excel VB, VB, MS Access, LIMS, HPLC, GC/MS, AA

 

·   Conducted research in exchange for a full scholarship.  Research involved a series of flow-through column experiments to determine the subsurface fate and transport properties of a common wood preservative (pentachlorophenol) in soil. 

·   Developed the HPLC methodology for several J.C. Nicoll Lab projects. 

·   Independently derived critical mathematical framework necessary for research. 

·   Developed several contaminant fate and transport computer models (Fortran, Quick Basic, using Excel Visual Basic for Applications, Visual Basic) for both groundwater and surface water.

 

Hatco Corporation, Fords, NJ April 1989 - September1989

Process Development/Pilot Lab

Skills: LIMS, HPLC, GC/MS, AA

 

·   Conducted bench and pilot scale research and development in the manufacture of specialty lubricants and plasticizers. 

·   Performed comprehensive analyses on Hatco materials, both finished products and in-process samples.