As a seasoned leader in technology and business architecture, I drive the adoption of comprehensive business architecture frameworks that encompass data, systems/applications, and infrastructure. My role involves ensuring an aligned digital roadmap across global functions, mitigating tech debt, and delivering scalable, innovative digital solutions.

I am responsible for spearheading the exploration and implementation of emerging technologies, overseeing a team that leverages innovative technology to create value-driven solutions. These solutions are embedded within business units' products and services, unlocking trapped value.

My leadership extends to providing guidance and mentorship to both business and systems architecture team members, fostering a culture of partnership and continuous improvement. I influence decisions across the business and digital organization, actively participating in strategic planning, decision-making, and the execution of complex digital initiatives and projects.

I served as the lead technical resource for LivCor’s technology roadmap. In this role, I spearhead solution architecture and provide direct oversight to the integrations team. I am instrumental in reducing LivCor’s dependency on shared services, developing actionable business data, and eliminating manual processes through system integrations. Collaborating closely with the CIO and SVP of Technology, I map out the future of the technology team, resulting in the hiring of over 30 roles within 12 months.

• Drove adoption of business architecture that defines, data, system/applications, and infrastructure
• Ensured an aligned digital roadmap across global functions to avoid tech debt creation and ensure re-usable and scalable and innovative digital solutions
• Responsible for emerging technology
• Managed a team working with innovative technology that can be leveraged to create solutions that business units can embed in their products or services to release trapped value
• Provided leadership to business and systems architecture team members through partnership and mentoring
• Influence across the business & digital organization, actively participate in strategic planning and decision making, and the execution of complex digital initiatives and projects

• Work closely with their clients and prospects, helping them with their DevOps needs
• Collaborating with sales, product management, and software engineering teams to help customers better understand our client’s products and services – technically and functionally
• Hands-on DevOps engineering and architecture for Fortune 500 clients, across a wide variety of technology and cloud environments, with a focus on software development and CI
• Talking to customers about their specific use cases, understanding their DevOps and CI/CD challenges, and helping them resolve their issues by successfully leveraging our client’s products
• Representing the company at events and conferences
• Influencing the product roadmap by suggesting new features based on customer needs
• Creating product demonstrations and training customers how to best use their products

• Responsible for technology consulting, defining solutions architecture and architectural frameworks for complex enterprise-scale Sitecore and WCM solutions.
• I play a crucial role in formulating strategies, focusing on process optimization and operational functionality. Work with technology leadership to modernize systems, implement cutting-edge solutions and push the limits of improvements and innovations. Improving efficiency and effectiveness of the team while leading through change as Discover leverages next-generation capabilities.
  
• Develop multi-year roadmaps, provide the vision and work with individual architects to translate this into tactical engineering blueprints
• Improving efficiency and effectiveness of the EA team, including influencing and establishing best processes through solid design, decisions, and tools
• Set goals, strategies and oversee initiatives across multiple platforms in an Agile model
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of cloud technologies, software engineering, data engineering, and data science to define target architectures, patterns, and automation processes.
• Provide technical leadership while developing and maintaining relationships with Product Managers, Solution Engineers, and Technical Architects
• Create presentations to illustrate EA delivery plans, concepts, and prototypes, summarizing marketplace and competitive strategy
• Ability to present to C-Suite leaders and technical decision-makers while providing appropriate thought leadership and creative insights when needed
• Excellent organizational skills and proven ability to execute on deliverables
• Represent Discover at technical meetups, external conferences and mentor junior engineers and architects

• Define Enterprise Architecture strategies, principles, vision, standards, tools and methodologies.
• Work with Business and IT leaders to define strategic and tactical requirements of the organization to fulfill business needs.
• Develop/enhance Technology roadmap for the organization.
• Analyze and provide recommendations for Data architecture by creating/updating data models for key business entities, and documenting reference and master data requirements, providing guidance on data quality with respect to accuracy, currency and usage and provide recommendations related to data security, retention and archival.
• Understand and communicate requirements of any future infrastructure needs, working with other IT architects (in-house, partners and vendors) to develop an approach that fits the current and planned needs of the organization.
• Understand current enterprise application integration capabilities including the use of services-based frameworks and other data integration technologies and strive for continuous improvement.
• Provide leadership and guidance on all aspects of technology during an implementation project including, but not limited to, requirements analysis and design, configuration, development, conversions, system testing, cut over and production support.
• Provide guidance in product, component and vendor selection as appropriate for specific projects.
• Shares best practices, lessons learned and constantly updates the technical system architecture based on changing technologies and knowledge related to changes in vendor products and solutions.

Responsible for Enterprise Architecture, including; 

• Responsible for providing advisory services to customers, from B-level to C-level executives.
• Subject Matter Expert in hybrid cloud, OpenStack, Containers (Docker & Kubernetes), networking, storage technologies, agile methodologies, DevOps, and infrastructure at scale.
• Responsible for the architecture design and delivery of private and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Customer's advocate to architect the right solutions and ensure they are implemented and supported in an innovative and reliable way.
• Provide though leadership by contributing to the development of repeatable methodologies and tools designed to scale services capabilities, promote repeatable customer engagements, and lower delivery risk.
• Mentor internal technical leaders.

• Developed convolutional neural network, API and web service, that will list out prediction percentages for existing customers purchasing additional services in the future.
• Developing models to detect credit cards and driver’s licenses via webcam using TensorFlow.js.
• Developing deep learning techniques to detect internal documents*, handwriting recognition analysis for loading into data services.
• Semantic image segmentation with deep convolutional neural networks.
  • Object detection with deep convolutional neural networks.
  • Image captioning and question answering with multimodal recurrent neural networks.
  • Learning from massive noisy labeled data for visual classification.
• Analyze large volumes of infrastructure and business data and identify key factors that impact customers and provide support teams with the knowledge to resolve problems.

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Primerica, Inc., headquartered in Duluth, GA, is a leading distributor of financial products to middle-income households in North America. Primerica representatives provide appropriate solutions through term life insurance, mutual funds, annuities, and other financial products.

• Responsible for providing innovative quality solutions focused on our business needs.
• Develop solutions to meet our short-term business functional requirements, positions for future functional requirements, and fits with current architectures and road map.
• Work with Agile teams to plan and develop the Architectural foundation to support new business features and capabilities.
• Responsible for defining the common design patterns and reusable components available to application developers.
• Design enterprise solutions for our cloud architecture, mobile application development, SQL/NoSQL databases and integrations.

A publicly traded (NYSE: CMLS) American broadcasting company with ~$1.1B in annual revenue and ~4000 employees. The second largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States behind iHeartMedia, Inc. Cumulus lists ownership of 447 stations in 90 markets. It also owns Westwood One.

• Responsible for enterprise architecture for multiple projects concurrently for internal and external systems.
• Full responsibility for technical design, resource hiring, delivery timelines, project leadership, resource planning, finances technical guidance in developing & leading the project technical teams.
• Ongoing architectural audit of initiatives for effectiveness to reduce development costs and improve quality.
• Collaboration with project stakeholders, peers, and management to ensure infrastructure and staff readiness for organizational change
• SCRUM and waterfall project management methodology used based on the business need, size of the project and client preferences.
• Project delivery based on requirements, following methodology and meeting timeline & budget constraints
• Managed and maintained development of packaged solutions, software development and enhancement projects, infrastructure implementation projects and security projects
• Ensuring that projects are progressing smoothly and within budget and timeline
• Management of staff issues within team members tactfully.
• Helping project team members grow personally and professionally

• Full stack developer, primary technologies used were MVC for the backend, AngularJS, jQuery and BootStrap Frameworks on the frontend, along with HTML5 and CSS3 (where applicable)
• Responsive design slicing with strict cross-browser compatibility requirements (>IE8)
• Responsive design was also applied in some sections of the site to optimize the mobile user’s experience.

• Managed 450+ radio station websites
• Development of CSS, HTML, and custom modules for DotNetNuke cms platform

A professional employer organization that helps retailers turn strategy into action with the integrated RetailAction suite of Retail Execution Management solutions. Reflexis customers include The Home Depot, Metro AG, Tesco plc, Sears Holdings, Staples, Circuit City, Toys “R” Us, Barnes & Noble, AutoZone, and many other Top 250 Global Retailers.

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• Created custom reports and dashboards, end users included multi-level managers, sales and proposal team member/teams
• Managed the accuracy of Salesforce data input by sales teams – accounts, opportunities, support requests, tasks, quote links, opportunity/product lines, etc.
• Trained new sales hires and proposal team members on Salesforce utilization and best practices
• Created and implemented program-level internal processes/procedures for the sales teams
• Create and manage all communications for companies owned by Reflexis through multi-tasking
• Ensure cost savings without affecting quality by meticulously developing and maintaining budgets
• Lead and train the team to meet and exceed organizational expectations
• Create and promote effective marketing collateral through detailed research
• Create and manage new vendor launch programs to ensure mutually beneficial results
• Enhance business productivity by analyzing data, developing and executing strategic marketing
• Implement company-wide visitor experience and reporting program
• Emphasize company culture and values through internal marketing