P. Stephen Murphy

San Diego, CA. 92127

858.663.1472

A hands-on Software Developer, Designer and Architect with over 25 years of technical and business experience in the software development industry. Have spent the last 15 years as an independent consultant working with a range of clients from Fortune 500 companies to medium sized startups. Have been the CTO and Chief Architect for two successful startups. Has extensive experience in applying leading edge technology and best practices to make organizations successful.

Professional Experience

Active Network, Inc. San Diego, CA
Senior Software Engineer/Technical Architect
March 2013 – Current

As Senior Software Engineer responsible for maintaining Active’s flagship Endurance Web product. This product was composed of in-house frameworks built on top of Spring, custom JavaScript and CSS combined with other frameworks like Spring MVC, JQuery, and some Twitter Bootstrap.  Service layer was a combination of SOAP and REST tightly coupled to a SQL database.

As Technical Architect lead the redesign and re-factoring of the Endurance Web product. The goal of the redesign was two fold: make the UI more responsive and adaptive and the application more responsive, cohesive, stable, and less coupled.

As Senior Software Engineer responsible for maintaining Active’s core Asset Management Service platform. This platform was a collection of services for collecting, managing, and disseminating activity related assets.

As Technical Architect lead the redesign and re-factoring of the Asset Management Service platform. The goal of the redesign was to stabilize the platform, consolidate the technology stacks, and increase agility. Applied Clean Code principles and practices to refactoring effort.

Technologies used: J2EE, XML Schema, SOAP, REST, JAX-WS, JAX-RS, JAXB, JSON, Jetty 6, Spring, Spring MVC, HTML5, Twitter Bootstrap, Hibernate, SQL Server, Oracle, Eclipse

Union Bank, Inc. San Diego, CA
Enterprise Architect/Solution Architect
Jan 2012 – March 2013

Enterprise Architect assigned to the eCommerce Retail team. Main responsibilities include: developing standards and best practices, accessing application technical architecture, working with development team to analyze requirements and to develop application architectures and designs.

As a Solution Architect was assigned to various eCommerce projects that included: Core Banking Re-write, and Mobile Banking Applications.

Technologies used: J2EE, XML Schema, Web Services, WSDL, REST, JSON, Websphere 6.1, JBoss 5, iOS,

DIGITAL MICAH, Inc.

Independent Consultant

Kaiser Permanente, Corona, CA

SOA Architect / Consultant

Aug 2010 – Dec 2011

The Enterprise Architecture team at Kaiser had deployed a service management and governance platform. Provided leadership in developing the governance processes and standards for the service lifecycle and the implementation and deployment of Web Services, WSDL(s) and XML Schemas.

In addition, Kaiser had adopted IBM SOMA (Service Oriented Modeling and Architecture) as its SDLC for service development. Mentored the Solution Architects in the use of the MDA/MDD, Rational toolset and SoaML for modeling services. Also provided guidance for best practices in using OOA/OOD for developing domain models.

Technologies used: Rational Software Architect, SoaML, J2EE, XML Schema, Web Services, WSDL, Websphere 6.1, Websphere Registry and Repository (WSRR) 6.2

WellPoint, Inc. Woodland Hills, CA
Enterprise Architect
Oct 2009 – June 2010

One of the key strategic initiatives at WellPoint is the execution of the Enterprise Rating System (ERS) for Large Group Rating and Quoting. Participated in the architectural assessment of FIRST system and its major interface components. Identified gaps between the As-Is and the desired Target States were identified and short-term and long-term solution approaches were provided. Led the architectural and design of system solution components for: Rating, Quoting, and Workflow.

Worked with other vendors to develop the strategy and interfaces for integrating the ERS with the newly deployed Siebel CRM solution.

Technologies used: J2EE, SOAP/Axis2 Web Services, WSDL, XML and XML schema, Rational Software Architect, Websphere, MQ, DB2

FGM, Inc. San Diego, CA

SOA Architect/Technical Lead

March 2009 – Aug 2009

The Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) program needed to maximize its ability to act upon information produced and consumed by the MDA Community. The community being highly decentralized and loosely coupled environment. The SOA components were:

·                  Agile SOA to adapt to changing operating conditions

·                  Support for National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) XML schemas and the Maritime Information Exchange Model (MIEM).

·                  Distributed Access Control

·                  Data Meditation Services

·                  Service Registration and Management

As technical lead the design and implementation of the integration open source software components for mapping XML and Database schemas for data services generation and execution. Working closely with the NEIM standards teams helped develop and test the NIEM Maritime extensions.

Technologies used: SOAP/Axis2 Web Services, WSDL, Web Service Notification, UDDI, XML, XML schema, JDBC, Tomcat, JBoss, WSO2 DataServices, Hibernate, MySQL, Eclipse, Virtualization, RedHat Linux, and SuSe Linux

Health Care Service Corporation, Chicago, IL

SOA Architect / Consultant

Oct 2008 – Dec 2008

Enterprise Architecture at HCSC needed to deploy a service management and governance platform. Worked with the Enterprise Architecture team to develop and implement a set of requirements for customizing the service management platform to the organizations needs.

Created and implemented a SOA Governance profile used to manage service lifecycles. Took existing ontology and taxonomy documentation and created an OWL ontology that could be consumed by the service management platform. Deployed the governance profile into the production environment. Helped develop the scenarios for integrating the WSRR and RAM to provide an end-to-end governance solution. Helped develop the WSRR and WMB integrations.

Developed the logical or physical design for deploying both the hardware and software into the HCSC development and production environments.

Technologies used: Rational Software Architect, XML, XML schema, Web Ontology Language (OWL), Resource Description Framework (RDF), Web Services, WSDL, Websphere 6.1, Websphere Registry and Repository (WSRR) 6.2, Rational Asset Manager (RAM)

PriceWaterhouseCoopers, LLP. Tampa, FL

SOA Architect / Consultant

Aug 2007 – Oct 2008

Enterprise Architecture at PriceWaterhouseCooper had the strategic goal of developing and deploying Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance environment. This strategy depended on deploying three key components: a service management and governance platform, a Model Driven Development (MDD) platform, and a software development lifecycle (SDLC) based on IBM SOMA.

Lead the effort to develop the requirements for service governance. Used UML and MDA/MDD to model the governance activities, organization and service ontology. This model was used to generate OWL documents that were consumed by the service management and governance platform.

Worked with the service management team to develop a set of requirements for a service management and governance platform. Use Cases, Activity diagrams, and State machines were used to model service and policy lifecycles. This model was used in the vendor selection process as well as the implementation of the platform.

Worked with both the MDD team and the SDLC team to integrate all three components of the EA strategy.

Technologies used: Rational Software Architect, RequisitePro, XML, XML schema, Web Ontology Language (OWL), Resource Description Framework (RDF), SOAP/Axis2 Web Services, WSDL, Websphere 6.1, Websphere Registry and Repository (WSRR) 6.2, UDDI, and AmberPoint 6.0.2, Zachman Methodology

Veterans Health Administration Washington, DC

Senior Technical Architect

Feb 2007 – Aug 2007

Joined the VHA MyHealtheVet Program to address architectural issues of security, scalability and performance for a multi-portal site supporting 400,000 users with a growth rate of 20,000 users per month. Worked with the architecture team to establish new architectural goals and direction for the MyHealtheVet Portal.

In addition, the VHA had paid for the development of a proprietary development framework that inadequately addressed security, scalability and performance as well as developer productivity. As Technical Lead developed a plan to migrate development to standard J2EE architectural patterns supported by Spring and Hibernate frameworks, which better addressed security, scalability, performance and developer productivity.

Technologies used: J2SE 1.4, J2EE 1.3, Hibernate, BEA WebLogic 9.2 AS, WebLogic 9.2 Portal, Oracle 10g, XML, XML schema, RUP, SCRUM

Fannie Mae Corp. Washington, DC

Enterprise Architect / Technical Lead

Jan 2006 – Dec 2006

Fannie Mae had a SEC – mandated, time critical, organizationally complex project that required both technical and organization coordination in a highly visible environment. Worked with Director and VP level personnel to define new business policies and procedures. Used internally available technologies to implement the solution across seven diverse organizations in 36 weeks. Artifacts produced included business process definitions, supplemental specifications, and system use cases.

Led the technical design of multiple integration components used to implement changes to business process and components.

This program was recognized by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) in its 2007 report to Congress as one of three successful projects conducted by Fannie Mae in 2006.

Technologies used: Together ControlCenter 6.1, RequisitePro, UML, XML, XML schema, J2SE 1.4, J2EE 1.3, BEA WebLogic, 8.0, Oracle 10g, Sybase

Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. Las Vegas, NV

Architect / Consultant

July 2005 – Dec 2005

Identified and documented an approach for maintaining a legacy software system that included bringing current documentation up to date, identifying areas of risk and a risk mitigation strategy. Provided an approach for adding redundancy to that same system by employing additional servers and database replication.

Capital One Richmond, VA

Architect / Consultant

Jan 2005 – July 2005

Responsible for defining an out-sourcing plan for the client's Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) environment. The IVR system handled all customer interactions with the client. Deliverables for this project included the following:

·       Technology assessment

·       Knowledge transfer plan

·       Capability assessment; including issues and risks regarding maintenance and support of the IVR system components and customers

·       A plan to support additional tasks and deliverables for new IVR system components and features

The client ultimately decided to continue to maintain the IVR system internally due to the complexities of out-sourcing an enterprise mission critical system.

Fannie Mae Corp. Washington, DC

Enterprise Architect / Senior Architect / Technical Lead

Apr 2004 – Dec 2004

As an Enterprise Architect working with the Finance and Portfolio Technologies (FAPT), led the development of XML messaging policies, standards, and guidelines for an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). Worked with development teams to help establish standardize XML schemas throughout the organization.

As a Senior Architect working with the CORE group implemented a Loan Fraud Detection system. This web application was implemented with J2EE technologies and Java Server Faces. Hibernate was used to implement a persistence layer to both Oracle and Sybase databases.

Technologies used: Together ControlCenter 6.1, RequisitePro, ClearQuest, QualityCenter, UML, XML, XML schema, J2SE 1.4, J2EE 1.3, JSF, JSP, SOAP/Axis2 Web Services, WSDL, Eclipse, Hibernate, BEA WebLogic, 8.0, Oracle 10g, Sybase

General Motors Corp. Detroit, MI

Enterprise Architecture / Technical Lead

Nov 2003 – Apr 2004

As part of the corporate Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiative worked with Chief Architect and director level personnel in the architecture, design and development of an SOA Proof of Concept (PoC). Utilizing best of breed technologies demonstrated the viability of using Web Services technologies for implementing and integrating applications. Was responsible for managing vendor consultants as they implemented multiple PoC(s) over a six-month period. The findings of the PoC were presented to C level officers across multiple GM organizations.

Designed and managed a second corporate initiative to performance test multiple vendor SOAP stacks. The performance test was executed off-site and used Open Application Group (OAGi) XML schema as the basis for the message payloads.

Technologies used: J2EE 1.3, EJB 2.0, JNDI, JMS, JAXP, JAXB, JAXM, JSP, Log4J, Ant, XML, XSL, WSDL, Oracle RDBMS, Oracle Business Process Engine, Intalio, Systinet Server, WebMethods, Axis 1.1, WebLogic 8.0, AmberPoint, Actional

BMW, Inc. Woodcliff Lake, NJ

Architect / Technical Lead

Oct 2002 – Oct 2003

Worked with the VP of Dealer Services to implement a new customer care service. As the Architectural and Technical Lead on the Telematics Service Request project designed, deployed and deployed the application. Increased the system reliability by re-working the BMW AG synchronous messaging to an asynchronous design and implementation.

Developed the application using MDA/MDD principles and delivered the application on-time with zero defects.

Worked with the network security personnel to build a Web Services infrastructure that included two-way SSL/TLS communication for mutual authentication and Verisign Digital IDs to provide non-repudiation for messages sent and received.

Technologies used: Together ControlCenter 6.0, RUP/OOSE, UML, J2EE 1.3, EJB 2.0, JDBC, JNDI, JMS, JAXP, JAXB, JAXM, JSP, JUnit, Log4J, Ant, XML, XSL, WSDL, ebXML, SOAP, WebLogic 7.0, Jakarta Struts, Tomcat, DB2 DBMS, Oracle DBMS, AIX

Education

B.S., Mathematics and Computer Science with emphasis on Software Design and Analytics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN., 1988

A.S., Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. 1984