Bradley Bell

4109 236th St. SW L302  §  Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043 floridasunsets@msn.com  §  941.746.1526  §  Mobile 941.447.3890

Inventive, team oriented, and client-focused professional with valuable blend of technical expertise, MBA-level business acumen, and problem solving talents. Success enhancing organizations by aligning IT/IS initiatives with business strategies, reducing risks, lowering costs, and improving opportunities for revenue growth.

Accomplished project leader with worldwide operational support experience; highly adept at guiding cross-functional teams of onshore and offshore resources to deliver projects on time and on budget. Confident and articulate communicator noted for building positive relationships with stakeholders at any level. Serve as trusted advisor for executives, providing long-range strategic vision and strategies to achieve organizational goals.

Highlights of Expertise

 

Premera Blue Cross, Seattle, WA (3/2015 to Present)

Creating and managing new and existing software solutions for the health insurance industry, remediating legacy platform suites, stabilizing and exceeding customer relationship management, team building, and establishing a shared resource model (delivery team) in an agile environment.

 

manager, application development

Leader: to bring ideas and solution to the organization, driving synergies and partnerships between teams, business partners, and internal IT resources. Support new application development, integrations, maintenance, and improvements across our portfolio. Directly responsible for claims overpayment, recovery and subrogation, contact center interactive voice response system, caller verification, PeopleSoft Finance, HR, and Talent Acquisition, Remittance Processing System, Enterprise Faxing, plus a number of other applications supporting healthcare: Affordable Care Act (ACA), and Affordable Care Organizations (ACO).

 

Romisoft, Bradenton, FL (6/2014 to 3/2015)

Creating new software solutions for the aviation community that automates and assists in the accomplishment of manufacturers and federal regulatory requirements, maintenance, reporting, inventory, logistics, comparison, cost analysis, alternative airlift models, financing, and fleet budgeting.

 

 

 

PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT, SOFTWARE application development

Principal architect for the system analysis, design, development, and delivery of compliance based aircraft maintenance, inventory, technical directive, and business aircraft cost analysis modularized software packages; multilingual and internationalized aircraft comparison (operating costs, specifications, center range map, diagrams, general information, analytical summary, and aircraft criteria wizard with integrated Google map); cost analysis (loan payment calculator, depreciation schedule, fixed costs, variable costs, services costs, trip support, analytical summary, depreciation wizard, and live currency exchange rates); financing (loan payment calculator and depreciation schedule); trip cost and justification; alternative airlift models; Development in Microsoft .Net C# using Microsoft Azure for cloud services (WCF hosting), database and licensing services (SQL Server & MySQL), web app (MVC, HTML, and RESTful services using OData), storage accounts, and virtual machines (Windows & Linux); AWS S3 / CloudFront edge servers for CDN distribution and secure image access; JavaScript, JQuery, JSON, and Google Analytics Integration.

¨        Financed and Bootstrapped Lean Startups

 

Tervis, Venice, FL (5/2013 to 6/2014)

Strengthen manufacturing development environment by driving implementation and integration of Oracle E-Business Suite R12, Manufacturing Execution System, Warehouse Control System, and BizTalk with existing applications.

 

manager, Application Development

Influence decision-making and steer technology direction as IT representative for the executive leadership team overseeing E-Business Suite Implementation; manage negotiations, contracts, and communications with clients and key stakeholders. Managed a 15 person development team consisting of internal resources and contractors to oversee design, development, stabilization, and governance of applications and middleware, holding accountability for system integration and user acceptance testing. design, documentation, and execution of process flows, use cases, test cases, and test scripts; track, report, and monitor performance metrics throughout testing phase.

¨        Trained, mentored, coached, and managed an internal quality assurance team of 20 business users, culminating in the successful onboarding of Oracle E-Business Suite.

¨        Managed employee recruitment, on-boarding, mentoring, and team building; boosted department productivity through targeted hiring of highly qualified personnel.

¨        Stabilized BizTalk application/environment through expert fault monitoring, application partitioning, and simplification of user processes.

 

Ceridian & FIS, St. Petersburg, FL (8/1999 to 5/2013)

Spearheaded product, application development, system architecture and application integration projects supporting multiple product portfolios (COBRA, Health & Welfare, and Recruiting Systems).

 

DIRECTOR, information systems

Responsible for new and existing software application development, quality assurance, production software deployments, project management, 24x7 production support operations, desktop support, reporting systems, data center processing and operations. Recruited and promoted a leadership team of 5 direct reports and a technical team of 50, supporting all areas of departmental responsibility, resulting in cross functional cooperation, elimination of existing silos, and promoting cooperative teamwork to achieve strategic organizational objectives to meet growth projections, reduce costs, improve productivity, and increase client retention.

¨        Eliminated extensive production support ticket backlog, allowing core development team to concentrate on enhancements and new initiatives.

¨        Mentored and trained new production support team, strengthening their practical exposure to database operations, programming fundamentals, hardware diagnostics, network support and troubleshooting.

¨        Established new quality assurance team outside of development hierarchy, reducing programming induced production errors by 40%.

¨        Reduced operational costs by 20% through reorganization and an efficient and shared work environment, and lowered labor costs by 10% through elimination of redundant positions.

 

Senior Development Manager

Led a team of onshore, offshore, and contractor resources (40+ resources) in agile and traditional life cycle methodologies; built high-performance, cross-functional team of designers, developers, architects, engineers, QA and business analysts, and project managers. Created portfolio and product roadmaps; guided new product developments and enhancements, rearchitecting of legacy systems, and production support of existing systems. Managed budget and resource forecasting, variance, and profitability monitoring; nurtured customer / vendor relationships, and ensured adherence to contracts.

¨        Partnered with clients to identify solutions for meeting their strategic and operational goals; saved relationship with key client by proposing valuable process and application improvements, and by delivering on or under budget.

¨        Met or exceeded service level agreements (SLAs) consistently.

¨        Maintained accurate budget forecasts (+/- 5%)

 

Systems / Enterprise Architect

Managed new product architecture, systems integration, capacity analysis, infrastructure analysis and design. Developed proposals and competitive strategies. Defined project scope and resource requirements, created project plans, led selection of contractors, developed proofs-of-concept for new solutions.

¨        Principle architect for Florida Health Exchange initiative and Continuation Coverage Alternative solution.

¨        Spearheaded team effort to implement and promote use of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), BizTalk, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

¨        Played key role in driving cost / benefit analysis and making budgetary decisions that led to significant cost reductions and savings.

 

Senior Database Administrator (DBA)

Kept SQL, Sybase, and Oracle databases updated and running smoothly for production and development environments; provided expert capacity forecasting, load utilization, monitoring, troubleshooting, high availability, disaster recovery, and performance tuning for 85 database servers.

¨        Brought Siebel and Solomon/MS Dynamics database systems online.

¨        Successfully implemented replication monitoring for Advantage Database Server; orchestrated custom Windows service programming across multiple systems, and mentored DBAs on managing Advantage Database Server in production environment.

Senior Software Engineer

On boarded offshore programming teams in Indian and Russia; defined operating and equipment requirements to provide transparent workflow between onsite team and offshore groups, and managed performance. Evaluated and recommended IT purchases to meet business needs at optimal prices. Liaised between production support and development effectively; provided guidance for software, network, and database design, legacy and desktop support, problem analysis, troubleshooting, and conflict resolution.

¨        Architected hybrid database solution that enabled COBRA business to grow and maintain 67% of revenues for future business.

¨        Architected and transitioned 120+ legacy COBRA applications from 16 to 32-bit code; re-architected applications from Netware and OS/2 to Windows Server environment, using Microsoft C/C++, C#, ASP.Net, & 32-bit xBase compiler for legacy clipper code.

¨        Re-architected core batch evening processes to cut data center / operational costs and reduce batch processing window by 80%.

¨        Trained and mentored staff on production operations, procedures, and responsibilities for supporting new COBRA SQL database environment.

 

Raytheon Aerospace, Madison, MS (1/1987 to 8/1999)

Managed a globally dispersed fleet of aircraft for the United States Department of Defense: Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.

 

regional manager

Led a team of 80+ aircraft maintenance technicians with 25 direct reports to administer, and support Department of Defense (DoD) contractual requirements for a large fleet of military aircraft. Responsible for all field site activity, customer relationships (Contracting Officers Representatives), site inspections, aircraft inspections, training, and audits. Designed, developed, and deployed an aircraft maintenance and inventory management software package to all our field sites and corporate headquarters providing near real-time operational management oversight to our field technicians, headquarters, government representatives, and regional managers.

¨        Consistently met or exceeded contractual operational rates for aircraft fleet.

¨        Trained, installed, and migrated all sites to new software platform.

¨        Software has been continually used for the last 20+ years.

¨        Aircraft inspections, site audits, technician and site relocation, and asset recovery in support of Department of Defense deployments: Somalia, Iraq, Rwanda, and Bosnia/Herzegovina.

 

qa manager

Responsible for contractual adherence on 200 aircraft located at 70 field sites worldwide. Designed, developed, implemented, and distributed a complete aircraft maintenance software package to manage aircraft maintenance, inventory, and logistics linking our worldwide remote sites to our operational headquarters in the United States. My team, in addition to quality assurance compliance, was responsible for all training, support, and distribution of the software and hardware in support of Department of Defense Contractor Operated and Maintained Base Support (COMBS).

¨        Worldwide contractual adherence and verification of program requirements.

¨        Provided 24x7 on-call application support.

¨        Managed servers (design, setup, synchronization, and backups) utilized in support of our worldwide aviation maintenance, inventory management program.