Résumé

Senior Architect

Highly-qualified professional with 25+ years of experience in information technology and technical leadership across government, semiconductor, telecommunications, and finance industries. Well-versed in digital transformation and compliance, architectural disciplines, data modeling, and business architecture process re-engineering. Adroit leader, capable of adequately managing multifunctional teams in the successful application of methodologies and architectural frameworks. Skilled in managing complex IT projects, executing IT strategies, facilitating sustainable growth, and increasing profitability.

• Possesses strong decision-making and problem-solving skills needed to identify cost-saving opportunities, lead time compliance, and successfully execute architectural programs.
• Enthusiastic team player with quick-study capabilities, appreciated by others for willingly stepping up to any challenge. Resourceful and analytical nature improves operational efficiency and productivity.
• Stellar negotiator and problem solver able to establish rapport with business and technology leaders, as well as communicating with clients.

Core Skills and Competencies

Technical Skills

TOGAF | Zachman | Data Modeling | Business Architecture | Application Architecture | MySQL | Agile Methodology | JavaScript | ITAM | PHP | iOS | iOS Development | Value Stream Mapping | TCP/IP | DevOps | Swift | Strategic Roadmaps

Professional Experience

Provided architecture leadership implementing a full technology lifecycle management program at Bank of the West to manage technology lifecycle including technical debt, total cost of ownership, and asset management for applications and technology components.

• Established program for data collection, evaluation, and assessment to reduce end of life technology across the bank reducing technology debt by 35%.
• Created strategy pillar for technology lifecycle management to introduce process and procedures into application assessments establishing end of life baselines across the application portfolio while bringing consistency to the asset management program.
• Implemented governance program to continuously manage obsolescence building it into application and solution roadmaps eliminating 33% of technology component debt year over year.

Introduced architectural governance program aimed at consolidation of distributed and federated architecture practice to create sustainable solutions in accordance with user requirements. Created internal and external architecture audits management playbook to ensure architecture practice consistency and minimize risks resulting in zero enterprise architecture audit findings.

• Provided high-level mentoring to the architectural team in developing technology standards and improving compliance controls that allowed reducing technical debt by 25%
• Established enterprise architecture review board to evaluate processes and technology architectural decisions to promote standardization across dissimilar organizations.

Conducted project-level architecture, including support for data, application, and technology for Fortune 500 Company’s big-scale projects that resulted in the achievement of revenue objectives. Outlined architecture guidelines to maintain technology tools in accordance with business requirements that resulting in portfolio cost-saving opportunities.

• Spearheaded the implementation of decentralized architecture framework to improve the communication with the Wholesale Architecture community that enhanced architecture efficiency by 30%.
• Directed project and solution architects in the preparation of Architecture Decision Documents portfolio that led to the reduction of the inconsistent solution designs by 25%.

Ensured architecture compliance of technology solutions while leading collaboration efforts with the IT and business community. Enhanced developer’s productivity by 60% and reduced code deficiencies by 75% when implementing product methodology.

• Increased sales by 35% by outlining product vision and organizing product offerings for the maximization of market penetration.
• Coordinated 45 developers and production support staff in the wholesale banking products creation while succeeding to reduce development costs by 46%.

Defined strategic vision of Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) by integrating IT architecture solutions and complex design patterns, as well as re-engineering business processes and systems. Developed company business system architecture plans and reviewed the cost and feasibility of system requests while outlining an architectural governance board and guiding principles.

• Resolved data redundancy by 15% through the creation of Enterprise Architecture Planning methodology.
• Supervised a sector-wide IT project to reduce production applications by 16%.

• Outlined project management methodology to comply with SEI Level 4 standards and developed applications to meet business needs and enhance new technology. Successfully led IT projects and global LDAP directory services to minimize software development costs and provide centralized web authentication.
• Introduced international communication and calendar guidelines resulting in the reduction of support costs and reaching $2.5M in annual savings.
• Directed network architects in implementing Motorola Space and Systems Technology Group (SSTG) Strategy and managing network bandwidth. Executed infrastructure plan providing in 99,95% network availability.
• Enhanced server availability by 99,75% and reduced support staff needs by 50% in the framework of the centralized file server data center. Improved network stability by successfully performing the migration of 6,000 users to a switched Ethernet topology.
• Supported technical team in the maintenance of desktop computers and file servers while performing network troubleshooting. Increased data availability by migrating file server to NetWare 4.1.
• Saved 40% of support costs by installing Windows NT to 6,000 desktops. Decreased network outages by 50% by developing a new network management infrastructure.

Education and Training

Wells Fargo: Building a Performance-Based Organization
Motorola University: Creating a Customer-Focused Organization | Crisis Management | Diversity in the Workplace | Implementing Performance-Based Employee Evaluations | Recruiting and Retaining Valuable Employees

Honors and Awards

Speaker | BrainShare | Novell Directory Services (NDS) Implementation Strategies
Speaker | CrossRoads | Directory Services as a Repository for User Data
Speaker TechEd | The Future of Messaging and Scheduling Software (Roundtable Forum)

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