Work history
Enterprise Architect
tags:
strategic planning
• soa architect (service orient...
• enterprise
• j2ee architect
• architecture & strategy
How would you describe your time at lincoln financial group?
Consulting Senior Enterprise Architect within the Technology Strategy & Planning area of Lincoln Financial Group???s Enterprise Architecture organization, fulfilled responsibilities for advising and guiding technology strategy and supporting the delivery of common technology components to enable adoption of shared reuse and strategic technology capabilities. Provided oversight, guidance and advice on a number of project teams, guided the evaluation of the Global IQX products, technology and company, and represented Lincoln Financial Group as an active member of the ACORD SOA-EBIG interest group on the application of SOA technology and processes within the Employee Benefits industry. Consulting Senior Architect within Lincoln Financial Group's Lincoln Employer Markets business unit, advising and guiding technology strategy and application buy/leverage/build activities for business-driven project initiatives. Delivered clear and actionable architecture guidance and advice, supporting delivery of high-value technology applications that represent significant bottom-line value for Lincoln Financial Group... 
Architect
tags:
enterprise
• j2ee architect
• strategic planning
• soa architect (service orient...
• architecture & strategy
How would you describe your time at allstate insurance company?
Lead Architect - Information Security
For major financial services provider served as lead security architect on mission-critical insurance point-of-sale transaction system SOA project. Application serves internal and external insurance/financial agent, call-center personal and consumer end users. Devised, architected and implemented a Kerberos Single Sign-On solution that integrated IBM WebSphere J2EE application server with Microsoft Windows Active Directory. IBM nominated this architecture for Invention Innovation Award. Solution leveraged industry standards, worked with the existing administration and identity management processes, yielding significant savings in password administration and improved user experience.
Lead Architect - Content Management/Delivery
For a major financial services provider served as lead architect on Online Help Content system for J2EE mission-critical insurance point-of-sale transaction system SOA project. Further participated on inter-departmental architecture effort to define enterprise approaches for this problem space. Successfully implemented solution addressing requirements as stated.
Lead Architect - Application Architecture
For a major insurance provider to the retail consumer insurance market, served as architect on multi-year project to implement complete customer servicing via internet. Project was completed on-schedule and met all significant stated business requirements. Analyzed business and functional requirements, defined overall and detailed architecture in collaboration with principal software vendors. Representative contribution involved proposing, specifying, designing and prototyping re-architecture of web-to-legacy interface tier resulting in over 200% performance improvement. Designed and implemented inter-Company Web Service integration for internet aggregator.
Lead Architect - Instructor and Development Team Mentor
For a major insurance provider to the retail consumer insurance market, provided technical leadership and direction for development organization charged with delivery of mission critical distributed object-based systems supporting agency and claims customer contact centers. At initial engagement, statement of work was short term architecture and design of component based object framework. Over the course of the project and extending into a fourfold extension of the engagement duration, role grew to include overall architect and design of three different applications, leveraging the foundations created in each project into the next. Perform as designer, lead architect, mentor and senior developer concurrently....
Lead Architect
tags:
architecture & strategy
• object oriented analysis and ...
How would you describe your time at First Union Bank?
Lead Architect
For a major national bank, provided definition, design, and architecture from inception through deployment for object oriented framework for call center support system. Worked as lead architect on small core team of senior architecture developers and was responsible for key architecture infrastructure design and coding. Also served as mentor to development team in overall object oriented analysis and design techniques and the specifics of employing the locally designed architecture in application development. Liaison was required with senior management to ensure suitable architecture to meet current and future business scenarios....
