Resume of Enterprise Architect

Title
Enterprise Architect

Primary Skills
Enterprise Architecture, Zachman, SOA, Integration, Security, Java, BPM, BRM

Location
US-OH-Cleveland

Posted
Feb-01-07

Professional Background
Enterprise Architect specializing in SOA, Integration, Security, and Java; Experienced in IEEE-1471, Zachman, Kruchten 4+1, SEI-CMMI, Agile, RUP, Kaizen, Constraint Theory, Systems Thinking and other methodologies; Over 5 years of experience as an Architect; Over 9 years of experience performing in various roles of enterprise, software, and system development including Architect, Project Lead, Analyst, Engineer, Programmer, QA, and Instructor; Over 15 years experience in technology including Nuclear Reactor Design/Operations; Inactive Secret Clearance; Collaborate closely with stakeholders, team members, and vendors; Work independently consulting with various business and technical subject matter experts on complex issues; Mentored by SAIC/VHA Chief Security Architect, First American Chief Architect, and Epic Cycle CTO. Expertise in Java/J2EE and Integration technologies, Security, Scalability, Performance, and Availability soundness principles; Fluency in Security and Network technologies, Systems Management, Change Management, and Version Control operational disciplines; Strong problem solver using innovative ideas and patterns; Develop Contextual, Conceptual, Logical, Technological, and Vendor-specific models at appropriate levels of depth for different stakeholder groups; Broad vertical industry experience.

Professional/Technical Knowledge
GERAM, Zachman, ANSI/IEEE-1471-2000, VRAPS, ATAM, QAW, ADD, Kruchten 4+1, Rational Unified Process (RUP), and SDLC; Service-Oriented (SOA), Pipes-and-Filters, Layered, Hub-and-Spoke, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) architectural frameworks; Gantt/CPM Project Management skills; JSF, AJAX, Struts, Tapestry, Maverick, Barracuda, XMLC web application presentation frameworks; IPSec, HTTP, RMI, SOAP, SAML, JAAS, JGSS, Quest VSJ, SPNEGO, Kerberos, PKI, SSL, LDAP, X.509, RBAC, XACML, BEA ALES, IBM TAM, Active Directory, WS-Security, HL7 Protocols/Standards/Security Frameworks; webMethods, BridgeGate, jBPM choreography/orchestration/workflow components; Java, SQL, UML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, ASP, HTML, WAP, C#, VB, C++, Velocity, VoiceXML languages; JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, Orion, Tomcat, JRun application containers; J2SE (Swing, AWT, SQL, XML?), J2EE (Servlets, JSP, EJB), J2ME, JMX, JDBC, JMS, JDO, JAXB, JAXP, JAXM, AXIS, JUnit, HttpUnit, Cactus, JMeter; RequisitePro, ClearCase, ClearQuest, Subversion, VSS, CVS, Ant development utilities; Ethereal, JProfiler, Optimizeit, Photoshop, Maya, Enterprise Architect, VP-UML, Systems Architect, TogetherJ, Rational Rose, ArgoUML, Visio, IntelliJ IDEA, IBM Eclipse, JBuilder, Oxygen, XMLSpy, Erwin, OEM, TOra, Toad, DBTools, SQLQuery, UltraDev, Hibernate, TopLink IDEs/tools; MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cache (P)RDBMS'; IIS, Apache web servers (ISAPI/NSAPI); Macintosh, Windows, Linux OS.

Experience

BlueCross BlueShield of Florida (Jacksonville, FL) 8/06-11/06
Role: Supply Chain Management Architect
Quality Foci: Scalability, Performance, Availability, and Interoperability
Industry Focus: Commercial Health Care -- Supply Chain Management
Reason for Departure: End of Contract
Scope: Florida

Collaboratively architected a Conceptual Architecture for a real-time 100,000 claims/day processing system providing shorter turnaround times on claims processing reducing provider payout wait times; Provided an initial roadmap for the current batch-based ETL-style 50,000 claims/day processing system's migration to a new ESB/SOA-style Architecture that included gradual removal of FTP links with insertion of Service interfaces, MOM backbone, BPM, & BRM providing the infrastructure necessary to support a more real-time, service-based, agile organization; BRMS technologies lightly evaluated (for potential proof-of-concept) were ILOG JRules, Blaze Advisor, OPSJ, Jess, and JBoss Rules. Provided QA coordination during performance testing. Modeling with sketches, whiteboards, Photoshop, Visio, and UML; Unified Process utilized for development process; Standards/APIs include WS*, JMS, JSR-94; Other tools used include ClearCase, ClearQuest, MS Project, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Herae LLC (San Diego, CA) 4/06-8/06
Role: System Designer / Consulting Architect
Quality Foci: Scalability, Performance, Availability, and Security
Industry Focus: Commercial Health Care - Remittance
Reason for Departure: Inputs for Roadmap Complete
Scope: US National / Small Organization

Utilized an ATAM-based architecture evaluation process (scaled to company's size) to evaluate the ability of their current IT architecture (network, application, data, and information) to meet business growth expectations scaling economically while maintaining performance and availability SLAs; Results analyzed with new hardware scaling and software tuning re-factorings as inputs to their roadmap; Provided design inputs for their technical roadmap to shape their batch-type synchronous ETL-style integration system into a more real-time asynchronous SOA-style Hub-and-Spoke integration system using jBPM for service workflow, BridgeGate for transformation, routing, and orchestration, and EDI Services all running within JBoss J2EE containers integrating medical insurance companies, medical practices, and banks; Enterprise modeling with Sparx Enterprise Architect 6.1 and UML 2.0; Standards include BAI, Lockbox, EDI (X12) 820, 823, 824, 835, and 997 messaging models; Integration components include J2EE, JBoss, jBPM, and BridgeGate; Tools used include Ethereal, Optimizeit, JProfiler, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Ant, Hibernate, Subversion, and JIRA. OS worked with include Mac OS X, Windows XP/2k/2k3, and Linux Red Hat.

Veterans Health Administration - SAIC (La Jolla, CA) 10/04-3/06
Role: Software Security Architect
Quality Focus: Security
Industry Focus: Government Health Care
Reason for Departure: End Of Successful Security Pilot
Scope: US Intercontinental and Territories / Large Organization

Assisted the Chief Security Architect with the formulation, definition, and alignment of security architecture for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA)'s international IT health system (HealtheVet); as a member of the Health Information Architects (HIA) group, provided inputs into Zachman-based architecture definitions through interaction with stakeholders, managers, architects, analysts, engineers, programmers, administrators, domain experts, and vendors; determined logical and physical interface specifications; evaluated commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products for standards compliancy and architectural fit; developed and presented prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and demonstrations for stakeholder buy in; performed tradeoff analysis between competing solutions to select best candidates; implemented and deployed a pilot for stakeholder buy in; provided leadership, direction, and support to technical team. Technologies/Standards researched/prototyped include IPSec, HL7, RBAC, XACML, BEA ALES, IBM TAM & WebSeal, Single Sign On, SAML, JAAS, JGSS, VSJ, SPNEGO, Kerberos, Active Directory, PKI, X.509, WS-Security, WS-Signature, and WS-Encryption, MD5, SHA1, 3DES, AES. Applications implemented in Java/J2EE with BEA WebLogic. Tools used include sketchbooks, white boards, Photoshop, Sparx Enterprise Architect, VP-UML, MS Power Point, MS Word, Oxygen, IntelliJ, and Ethereal. OS worked with include Mac OS X, Windows 2000/2003, Linux SUSE and Red Hat.


First American Corporation (Poway, CA) 5/03-9/04
Role: Software Integration Architect
Quality Foci: Availability, Scalability, Testability, and Supportability
Industry Focus: Insurance -- Real Estate
Reason for Departure: Message Router & Tool Architecture Completion
Scope: FA's National Messaging Infrastructure / Large Organization

Worked with multiple stakeholders to gather and prioritize their concerns as inputs into architectural design. Provided an architectural roadmap for an existing software message router (C#/SOAP) and an architectural design for a web service-testing tool (Java/SOAP) for company-wide (Fortune 500) SOAP messaging (B2B/SOA) system by developing and utilizing a hybrid ANSI/IEEE-1471-2000/SEI documentation framework using Kruchten 4+1 viewpoints and SEI's QAW, ADD, ARID, and ATAM processes to aid in the transition from a Hub-and-Spoke style Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) style SOA. Presented designs to all stakeholders. Lightly researched Workflow and Web Service Security Standards for integration evaluation. Traveled to Bangalore, India to present architecture definitions (blueprints) to designers, developers, and call center employees. Requirements managed utilizing RequisitePro; CCM implemented with ClearCase/ClearQuest; Systems designed using UML with Rational Rose then Enterprise Architect; testing tools constructed with Java (J2SE/J2EE) and XML/XSLT and messaging systems with C# and XML/XSLT with XMLSpy; deployed to BEA WebLogic Platform (Server, Portal, Integration) and Tomcat containers, Oracle RDBMS, Solaris OS, and Sun server hardware.

Epic Cycle, Inc. (San Diego, CA) 1/02-4/03
Roles: Software Architect / Project Lead / Software Engineer / Java Programmer
Quality Foci: Data Integrity/Quality
Industry Focus: Entertainment -- Sports
Reason for Departure: Architecture Completion
Primary Clients: Palacenet and many professional sports teams

Worked with Sales, Clients, and CTO to discover stakeholder concerns. Provided architectural design, project leadership, and development process engineering for company's product line (CMS, ETL, DSS); implemented the RUP to a partial CMM-Level 2 guideline (no SCM); evaluated, integrated, and/or extended the following J2EE frameworks: Struts, Maverick, and Barracuda with XMLC; designed (with UML) and implemented an application framework to support use of a J2EE container within an ETL system; designed J2EE components and operational databases; fully automated build and deployment processes; mentored engineers and programmers; researched, evaluated, and recommended technologies; reported directly to and worked closely with the CTO. Schedules developed with MS Project; Process lightly based on the Unified Process; Applications designed using the UML with TogetherJ; Data Models using Erwin; constructed with Java J2SE/J2EE (EJB, Servlet, JSP) using IntelliJ IDEA, SQL with Toad/Query Analyzer, and XML with XMLSpy; deployed to JBoss, Orion, and Tomcat J2EE containers running on Red Hat Linux and Windows 2000 Advanced Server operating systems. Databases used were MS SQL Server and Oracle.

StyleLogic, Inc. (Solana Beach, CA) 2/01-11/01
Roles: Software Architect / Software Engineer / Java Programmer -- Startup
Quality Focus: Scalability
Industry Focus: Entertainment - Movies
Reason for Departure: Loss of Venture Capital (Post 9/11)
Primary Clients: Walt Disney, Hollywood Videos, and St Louis Rams

Designed, built, tested, deployed, and maintained a four-tier physical, four-tier logical distributed J2EE architecture and its components to meet scalability issues for Walt Disney acceptance; mentored junior and senior engineers on Java technologies, development processes, solid OOAD techniques, and trade-offs of architectural designs; researched, evaluated, and approved new technologies; developed a software development process based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) including all documentation for training purposes to a partial CMM-Level 2 guideline (no SSM and SCM); Technologies used: Java J2SE (Swing, AWT, SQL, XML?)/J2EE (EJB, Servlet, JSP), Rational Rose J, UML, JRun, IBM WebSphere, MS SQL Server, JBuilder, IIS, Win2K, Linux.

Upslide, Inc. (San Diego, CA) 8/00-2/01
Roles: Software Engineer / ASP, SQL Programmer -- Startup
Industry Focus: eCommerce
Reason for Departure: Lack of Sales
Primary Clients: Hewlett Packard

Worked closely with VP Engineering designing, implementing, and testing two e-commerce applications and one web application; developed a custom use-case driven, iterative/incremental software development process based lightly on the Rational Unified Process (RUP); consulted with clients when necessary (e.g. troubleshooting and corporate buy-out). Visual Studio, Active Server Pages with VBScript, JavaScript, and HTML, VB COM+ components for Business/Data Access Tier components, Site Server eCommerce (MSCS), MS SQL Server (SQL Stored Procedures, ER design, DTS packages and DB Admin) and Visual Source Safe (VSS).

SIMA San Diego (San Diego, CA) 7/98-8/00
Roles: Software Developer / Secret Clearance
Industry Focus: Government - National Defense
Reason for Departure: End of Active Obligated Service
Scope: Navy and Marine Corp National Intranet Precursor

Mentored by Director of Engineering; met with end users to capture requirements using Use Cases; designed (with UML) the system as a 4-tier logical 3-tier physical OLTP structured architecture; implemented workflow using JetForm products; designed, built and tested the components; deployed application; maintained and upgraded application in an on-going plan. Partially implemented the RUP to a partial CMM-Level 2 guideline (no SSM). Traveled to Chicago and Washington, D.C. to show our work for best-of-breed design. Navy Copernicus Award was awarded to the command for our work. Java Servlets, JDBC, Visual Café, JRun, Rational Rose, Active Server Pages, VB, C++, ATL, Visual Studio, Visual Interdev, UML, SQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, VSS, RequisitePro, ClearCase, IIS.

USS Theodore Roosevelt (Norfolk, VA) 1993-1998
Roles: Sr. Nuclear Operator / Nuclear Trainer / Software Developer / Classified Secret Clearance -- Military
Industry Focus: Government - National Defense / Nuclear Operations
Reason for Departure: End of Tour
Scope: Reactor Department

Designed, built, tested, and deployed a client-server application in a Classified Secret network. MS Access 97, VBA, MS SQL Server 6.5

Education

University of Phoenix (San Diego, CA / Cleveland, OH) 2004-2007
B.S. Information Technology (5 classes remaining)

Old Dominion University & Others (Norfolk, VA) 1994-1998
Computer Engineering

Nuclear Prototype Unit (Charleston, SC -- US Navy) 1993
Certified Nuclear Reactor Plant Operator

Nuclear Power School (Orlando, FL -- US Navy) 1992

Nuclear Field A School (Orlando, FL -- US Navy) 1992

Point Pleasant High School (Point Pleasant, WV) 1991
Advanced Placement

Certifications
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