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results-driven business system/information technology architect eager to contribute technical expertise, talent for integrating business with technology and strong project management skills toward supporting the employer in maximizing operational performance

profile

ø  extensive experience designing software architecture and providing government and fortune 100 clients with a transition path from legacy systems to web services.

ø  comprehensive background in analyzing existing business, data, application and technology architectures, designing/developing business architecture models and leading teams involved in business initiatives or improvement projects.

ø  effectively define, develop and implement targeted action plans to maximize operational productivity, efficiency and profitability.

ø  dynamic communication, presentation, relationship building and problem-solving abilities.

ø  excel at interacting with broad populations including senior management, staff and clients.

ø  proven ability to reduce complexity and number of integration points in project design, while minimizing interruption of the it environment.

ø  served as guest speaker at professional meetings and facilitated multiple jad sessions, work-shops, and training seminars; wrote numerous technical papers and deliverable documents.

career achievements

  prevented serious design flaws from reaching production systems for fortune 100 and government clients by contributing extensive knowledge of architecture frameworks, patterns, s/w engineering principals and requirements.

  proficiently applied engineering best practices toward effectively identifying and addressing undefined requirements within the department of health (doh), playing an instrumental role in circumventing potentially serious public health consequences.

  transformed a hard to use and over-extended legacy system into an on-demand architecture that will support projected 400% increase in data volume, utilizing deep comprehension of database design.

  established an approved requirements baseline with 30% below projected project timelines, by applying extensive business analysis experience.

  assimilated information from 52 client-provided references, published four deliverables, and conducted effective business modeling workshops within 19 days of project initiation.

education

m.s. software engineering (in progress)- university of maryland (adelphi, md), graduating in 2010

b.a. psychology - university of miami (miami, fl) 1983

professional experience

web developer - paradigma inc.                                                                                          2007-present

  contribute dynamic technical skills in designing, developing, and launching a unique business website, which linked to work portfolio sub-sites for all employees, utilizing stunning visuals and informative sites.

  proficiently oversee prototyping, asset management, programming, integration and testing.

 

information technology architect - south florida water management district                      2006-2007

  invited to return and redesign system architecture for high-visibility, mission-critical, enterprise-level environmental sample collection, analysis and reporting system.

  ensured that 100% of the most challenging technical and highest priority business requirements were fully analyzed and transformed into system designs, using advanced requirement classification strategies.

  applied cross-validation techniques from interviews and questionnaires and reengineered as-is system design and software artifacts, ensuring that all critical requirements were documented with an impact on staff resources that was 30 to 60% below initial project projections.

  accomplished 100% to-be design validation of all critical requirements with endusers, smes, it staff, and project sponsors during the first review by using role specific, visual scenario based verification approach.

 

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information technology architect - south florida water management district                      2006

  specifically chosen to restart a high-visibility architecture study project that had been left incomplete after multiple attempts; effectively met highly restrictive performance, data quality, and timeliness yyyyyy x. yyyyyys within project timelines and resource constraints.

  applied root cause analysis to isolate the problem sources most relevant to achieving project yyyyyy x. yyyyyys from 21+ major business processes, identified 80+ related business rules that could be automated, and eliminated 85% of the manual activities involved in the loading and validation of hydrologic data.

  proposed recommendations that were accepted by the project sponsor and stakeholders and included in a budget proposal to guide the department for the next 5 years.

 

enterprise business architect - department of health (doh)                                               2002-2005

  identified/defined the replacement for a 16-year ms-dos based, disease reporting and tracking system.

  addressed multiple data synchronization, security, usability, and quality issues of the legacy system.

  created the first ever enterprise-level business process model for doh; presented findings to the center for disease control, resulting in a new ea-based initiative at the federal level.

  designed an innovative business rules dictionary that provided 2-way mapping from the business process model and to the implemented software objects; this technique was written up as a case study and accepted as an abstract for presentation at the 2005 business rules forum.

 

process architect, oversight architect, system analyst, software engineer - general motors acceptance corporation, technical management office                                                          2001-2002

  appointed by cio to represent the company in its first architect evaluation of a troubled gmac sponsored software project using the 4+1 architecture framework; successfully identified and corrected design flaws prior to the evaluation, which enabled the application to receive a passing grade.

  first practitioner and advocate of using software metrics (cyclomatic complexity, cohesion and coupling) to identify serious software architecture design flaws. 

  developed and presented a business case convincing the cio to adopt and require the use of software engineering design practices for all mission critical software development or redesign projects. 

  exhibited strong leadership talents in directing and mentoring staff on uml and architecture framework and serving as a speaker for local professional organizations.

 

data analyst/database engineer - proxicom                                                                        2000-2001

  requested to join an ad-hoc group responsible for correcting design and performance flaws to a production system designated the single most important gmac software project for 2001; successfully identified a serious design flaw, resolving the root cause of application lock-up problems.

  resourcefully designed, optimized, administered, and tested, the oracle database for the first, web based vehicle incentive lookup application in the automotive industry.

  created database sizing recommendations to optimize data retrieval performance and published the first use of database capacity planning metrics in the proxicom project repository.

technical proficiencies

borland together control center; microsoft expression suite; rational rose enterprise; telelogic system architect; visual web developer; bea aqua logic bpm studio; erwin; oracle designer; requisite pro; telelogic doors; bpel; c++; sql; soa; java; uml

professional affiliations

ieee computer society

software engineering institute

dama

international institute of business analysts

south florida technology alliance