Experience

Resolving Architecture

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Software Architect

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  https://resolvingarchitecture.io Services • Architectural Design - minimal design to achieve stakeholder consensus • Proof-of-Concepts - risk mitigation for go/no-go • Prototypes - minimal working design for major funding • Architecture Evaluation - determine how well current architecture aligns with stakeholder desires • Intermediate Design Reviews - component design alignment evaluation with the architecture • Transitions - transition to new designs • Decentralized Applications - designing and/or transitioning a centralized application to more decentralized • Integrations - integration design and development including APIs, ETLs, real-time analytics scalability • Project Leadership - lead small teams in implementation • Scalability - scalability design and constraints removal Portfolio • 1M5: Censorship-Resistant Decentralized P2P Free Speech App • Imagine Learning: New Product for Education • Bisq: Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange • Inkrypt: Decentralized CDN • Dragonsbane Project: Impairment App • Segmint: Big Data Real-Time Analytics • InStore Finance: In-Store Loans Show less



Heureka, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Developer / Chief Architect

  • Mar 2012 - Sep 2013

  Legal Data eDiscovery (VeDiscovery LLC DBA Heureka) Successfully lead in the design and development of remote deployable data discovery processing agents with central final manual processing used for legal collections supporting unstructured data processing of very large data loads within short windows - a major court requirement. Java 7, Karaf, Felix, Camel, CXF, ActiveMQ, Lucene, Tika, Git (private), Linux, Windows, Mac Legal Data eDiscovery (VeDiscovery LLC DBA Heureka) Successfully lead in the design and development of remote deployable data discovery processing agents with central final manual processing used for legal collections supporting unstructured data processing of very large data loads within short windows - a major court requirement. Java 7, Karaf, Felix, Camel, CXF, ActiveMQ, Lucene, Tika, Git (private), Linux, Windows, Mac



The Provato Group

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Architecture Consultant

  • Oct 2011 - Mar 2013

  Software Consulting & Development Assisted in business development and provided consulting services to clients. • Successfully designed & implemented a parallel unstructured data processing software system resulting in greater than 10 times throughput with the same hardware for VeDiscovery using Java & Camel. • Assisted in writing a phase one proposal for a $20M EIM initiative winning a major SME hire for Cleveland Clinic. • Provided consulting on SOA/MDM programs recommending Enterprise Architecture program to CIO of Sherwin Williams - company started implementing December 2015 after a retirement Show less



Mettler-Toledo International, Inc

• Switzerland
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Architect

  • Mar 2007 - Oct 2011

  Tier-1 Retailer Price & Inventory Mgmt - Predictive Incentive Retail Successfully lead SofTechnics, a subsidiary of Mettler-Toledo, in architecting a replacement for their 30 year old retail applications with an SOA-based service infrastructure supporting Enterprise Decision Management (EDM) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) initiatives. • Headed architecture and design • Assistant of and reported to VP Product Development (CTO) • Customers included Krogers, Safeway, Publix, HEB, Giant Eagle, Foodland and many more • Member of NRF ARTS BPM & SOA Committees to ensure ARTS was in alignment with our vision • Introduced Sparx Enterprise Architecture tool to ARTS for improving their modeling processes • Produced a 15 Year Capability Roadmap achieving Executive adoption • Incorporated support for both centralized and decentralized systems • Lead a team to develop an SOA/EDA/BPMS/BRMS Prototype for executive buy-in • Pilot started with Foodland when SofTechnics was bought by RedPrairie (then by JDA) TOGAF, Java 6, C#, XAML, XML, XSD, XSLT, WS-*, SOAP, XHTML, jQuery, CXF, Axis, ActiveMQ, ServiceMix, SEDA, Intalio, Drools, Tomcat, Spring, WebFlow, OpenJPA, MySQL, HTTP, TCP, RS-232, RFID, Linux, Mac, Windows, EA, IntelliJ, SVN, Sparx EA Show less



On Sabbatical

• United States
• Program Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• The Traveler

  • Nov 2006 - Mar 2007

  Took time off to smell the roses. Took time off to smell the roses.



Florida Blue

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Solutions Architect (Supply Chain Management)

  • Aug 2006 - Nov 2006

  Medical Insurance - Real-Time Claims • Designed a real-time claims process that doubled processing capacity with the same hardware • Evaluated BRMS vendors for claims automation Sparx EA, Corticon, Drools, Blaze, JRules, OPSJ, Jess, JBoss Rules, Mac, Linux Medical Insurance - Real-Time Claims • Designed a real-time claims process that doubled processing capacity with the same hardware • Evaluated BRMS vendors for claims automation Sparx EA, Corticon, Drools, Blaze, JRules, OPSJ, Jess, JBoss Rules, Mac, Linux



Herae

• San Diego, CA

• Systems Designer, Architect

  • Mar 2006 - Aug 2006

  Medical Payment Processing - Real-Time Payout • Solved a scalability problem greatly limiting the number of users supported • Assisted in creating a roadmap for moving to a more real-time flexible system Java 5, jBPM, JProfiler, EDI, JBoss, Sparx EA, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Ethereal, Optimizeit, Ant, Mac, Linux Medical Payment Processing - Real-Time Payout • Solved a scalability problem greatly limiting the number of users supported • Assisted in creating a roadmap for moving to a more real-time flexible system Java 5, jBPM, JProfiler, EDI, JBoss, Sparx EA, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Ethereal, Optimizeit, Ant, Mac, Linux



U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Security Architect

  • Oct 2004 - Mar 2006

  VHA Hospital System Successfully lead the design and development of prototypes and a pilot for integration of authentication/authorization systems within a large national heterogeneous environment (VHA). Zachman, Java 5, PAM, Kerberos, SSO, SAML, XACML, RBAC, PKI, Sparx EA, IntelliJ, Wireshark, Ethereal, BEA ALES, IBM TAM, AES/3DES, Mac, Linux, Windows VHA Hospital System Successfully lead the design and development of prototypes and a pilot for integration of authentication/authorization systems within a large national heterogeneous environment (VHA). Zachman, Java 5, PAM, Kerberos, SSO, SAML, XACML, RBAC, PKI, Sparx EA, IntelliJ, Wireshark, Ethereal, BEA ALES, IBM TAM, AES/3DES, Mac, Linux, Windows



First American Title

• United States
• Real Estate
• 700 & Above Employee

• Integration Architect

  • May 2003 - Oct 2004

  Title Insurance - Decentralized Integration • Reverse-engineered their .Net hub-and-spoke message router into integration patterns with recommendations on moving to an ESB in a Transition Plan. • Worked with QA on designing a test harness for automated regression testing of web service integrations. Java 1.4, C#, XSLT, XPath, XML, XMLSpy, MISMO, IntelliJ, Rational Rose, UML, Sparx EA Title Insurance - Decentralized Integration • Reverse-engineered their .Net hub-and-spoke message router into integration patterns with recommendations on moving to an ESB in a Transition Plan. • Worked with QA on designing a test harness for automated regression testing of web service integrations. Java 1.4, C#, XSLT, XPath, XML, XMLSpy, MISMO, IntelliJ, Rational Rose, UML, Sparx EA



Epic Cycle Interactive

• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Web Application/Junior Integration Architect, Java Developer

  • Feb 2002 - May 2003

  Fan Management - Integration Hub • Assisted in the design and development of a CMS product line for the NFL. • Lead in the design and development of a custom ETL for NFL data migrations dramatically improving scalability. J2SE 1.4, J2EE 1.3, Maverick MVC, Orion App Server, Oracle, MySQL, IntelliJ, JBuilder, Ant, Linux, Windows Fan Management - Integration Hub • Assisted in the design and development of a CMS product line for the NFL. • Lead in the design and development of a custom ETL for NFL data migrations dramatically improving scalability. J2SE 1.4, J2EE 1.3, Maverick MVC, Orion App Server, Oracle, MySQL, IntelliJ, JBuilder, Ant, Linux, Windows



AtomTribe

• San Diego, CA

• Co Founder, CTO

  • Nov 2001 - Feb 2002

  Web Design & Development Provided custom dynamic web, mobile, and voice applications. J2SE 1.3, Struts, J2ME, VoiceXML, MySQL 3.23, JBuilder, Linux Web Design & Development Provided custom dynamic web, mobile, and voice applications. J2SE 1.3, Struts, J2ME, VoiceXML, MySQL 3.23, JBuilder, Linux



StyleLogic Inc.

• Solana Beach, CA

• Junior Web Application Architect, Java Developer

  • Feb 2001 - Nov 2001

  Web-based Movie Recommendation Engine • Solved a scalability problem greatly limiting the number of end users. • Migrated Cold Fusion implemented culprit to J2EE app. • Re-engineered the K-Means (k-NN) clustering engine for improved scalability. J2SE 1.3, J2EE 1.2, Cold Fusion, Oracle, SQL Server 7, JBuilder, Windows, Linux Web-based Movie Recommendation Engine • Solved a scalability problem greatly limiting the number of end users. • Migrated Cold Fusion implemented culprit to J2EE app. • Re-engineered the K-Means (k-NN) clustering engine for improved scalability. J2SE 1.3, J2EE 1.2, Cold Fusion, Oracle, SQL Server 7, JBuilder, Windows, Linux



Upslide, Inc.

• San Diego, CA

• Jr Software Architect, ASP Web Developer

  • Aug 2000 - Feb 2001

  Web Design & Development • Lead the design and development of an eCommerce product. • Developed multiple client custom eCommerce sites. • Consulted on software company purchase decision with owner. • Solved an 'unsolvable' problem with a client's web application built by a competitor. ASP 3.0, SQL Server 7, Site Server Commerce, Visual Studio, Windows Web Design & Development • Lead the design and development of an eCommerce product. • Developed multiple client custom eCommerce sites. • Consulted on software company purchase decision with owner. • Solved an 'unsolvable' problem with a client's web application built by a competitor. ASP 3.0, SQL Server 7, Site Server Commerce, Visual Studio, Windows



WebDev Solutions Group

• San Diego, CA

• Founder, ASP & Java Web Developer

  • Aug 1999 - Aug 2000

  Web Development Created custom database-driven web applications. ASP 2.0, SQL Server 7, Visual Studio, Java 1.2, JBuilder, Windows Web Development Created custom database-driven web applications. ASP 2.0, SQL Server 7, Visual Studio, Java 1.2, JBuilder, Windows



US Navy

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Junior Java Developer

  • Aug 1998 - Aug 2000

  • Worked with end-users to develop workflows for automating SIMA San Diego business processes.• Implemented 3-tier web application• Integrated web app with Email Server• Incorporated Visual Source Safe into development process• Designed & implemented database• Voluntary Honorable Discharge Java 1.1, JBuilder, SQL Server 6.5, MS Exchange Server, JetFlow

• Senior Nuclear Reactor MO, Trainer, Junior VBA Developer

  • Aug 1997 - Aug 1998

  • Mentored junior reactor operators through the Training division. • Automated paperwork in a classified environment by developing software.Windows, VBA, MS Access

• Nuclear Reactor Mechanical Operator

  • Aug 1993 - Aug 1997

  Operated Navy A4W Nuclear Reactors.

• Nuclear Reactor Operations Student

  • Aug 1991 - Aug 1993