Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Experenced Enterprise Architect and Lead Enterprise Applications/Systems Architect of large program teams (80+). Lead Architect of award-winning, global-scale system with an estimated $200B+ in obligated funds flow volume. Innovative problem solver, adept at green field enterprise cloud system architecture, AI and agentic-empowered engineering, and lead architect of a multi-agent custom AI orchestration platform. I lead consistently successful delivery at the enterprise level, including the largest systems of their kind globally. AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Security+ certified. Certified Scrum Master, and Certified SAFe Agilist, experienced in leading/serving SAFe agile teams. Active member in local tech community (AI, blockchain) meetups/outreach. Inventor of patents that advanced the state of the art in market-leading products. I work closely with BD and executive leadership on roadmap, budget, RFI/RFPs, and strategic architecture. Led build-out of award-winning, global-scale systems. Architectural WG member for Enterprise Go-To-Cloud strategy and Agile/DevOps adoption initiatives. AI, Blockchain and web3 enthusiast, active learner and prototype lead. Let's solve some challenging problems and have a lot of fun along the way! Experience Summary: *Agentic enabled development and operations. Developed a custom agent swarm and rich orchestration layer stack. LLMs, RAG, token efficiency, skill, prompt engineering. I leverage 25+ years of deep architecture experience to lead highly autonomous agentic swarm and human-in-the-loop swarm-assisted developing teams. * Clean-slate architecture design, optimization * Cloud or on-prem IaaS/PaaS/SaaS architecture delivery - elastic/scalable (metal, VM, containers), HA, DR, ATO, SIEM, BI, Infra/Ops * Technical servant-leadership, team/talent hire an culture build-out * Enterprise frameworks, patterns - e.g. Java EE, LowCode, EIP, SSO * Collab with New Business Group and Sr. Leadership to win 9-figure awards - presentations, ground-floor discussions with prospective new clients and delivery ramp * Building strong, trust-based relationships with Client/POs * Agile/SAFe SDLC, DevOps process champion - CI/CD/CM, TDD * Systems/Data integration, migration, governance - RESTful Web Services, APIs, MQs, ETL, Security, KPM/SLAs * Domain and heuristic models, algorithms * Domains: AI, Contracts/Acquisitions/Order flows, Federal, Telecom, Health Care, Big Data, Networks; * Blockchain & Web3 * Flexible, creative, strategic, collaborative, pragmatic problem solver * Vision planning, coms, attaining Stakeholder buy-in
Associate Director and Senior (Assoc. Principal) Architect / Technologist for the Innovation and Technology Group and Cloud & App Dev Group, enabling programs across the organization to leverage new technologies and elegant solutions to reduce complexity for the core mission of our clients. Our Innovation & Technology Group architects, prototypes and demonstrates new technology-driven, modular core capabilities, including AI and Low Code solutions, to incorporate in innovative solutions for clients. We assist internal teams with business development, proposals, solution architecture, integration, incorporation of new technology and capabilities into established solutions, as well as early stage Agile program technical ramp/execution. I analyze and propose further exploration, prototyping and demonstration of emerging technologies to enterprise strategy formation and their application to existing and potential new business use cases. As a Lead Architect with our Cloud & App Dev Group, I lead technical teams in the architecture and development of enterprise cloud systems and enterprise applications including at Agency-wide scale, for our federal and state clients. Recent areas of focus include: AI, ML / semantic data, Low Code / No Code /agentic development. Blockchain / DLT / Web3 Cloud Architecure, Enterprise Architecture (EA)and Strategy, and Modernization
Program Technical Lead for a large-scale, award-winning federal enterprise software program. Consulting architect / technologist for new programs / proposals, developing forward-looking technical roadmaps, staffing plans, and estimates / ROMs for new business development and early stage projects, prototype and risk reduction efforts. Lead paving of the Architectural Runway on SAFe-scale programs. As first employee on the program, led it's bootstrapping and growth from high-level design and architecture, prototype and demos, roadmap, backlog build out through team and program ramp from 1 to 80+ team, system scale-out and production delivery and operations.
Sr. System and SW Architect / Program Technical Lead (80+ ppl, 8 teams) on around-the-globe enterprise-scale systems, including clean-slate, modern-stack secure enterprise applications, business intel, PaaS, integrations, cloud. Responsible for: - Leading design, assembly, and integration of the full enterprise-grade software stack, distributed scale-out ready SOA, CI/CD architecture and hosted environment, and project code structure on high-volume federal government-wide enterprise application project. - Leading evaluation and selection of stack technologies, COTS and OSS components, vendor relationships. - Assisting Management with high-level project planning, strategy, risk and resource management; - From-scratch evaluation, assembly, set-up and roll-out of Agile development and CI / TDD environment, including Git (SCM) setup and admin, branching strategy, Jira Agile, Bamboo, build server, as well as usage of JUnit, Arquillian, Clover, etc. - Working closely with Development to communicate and ensure usage of design patterns, consistent service API structure, ORM, and coding best practices; - Domain expertise - Government contracts and acquisitions, network / telco ordering, fulfillment, delivery. - Writing requisitions, screening, assembling and leading a talented Development and DevOps team; - Horizon-focused technology and market trend (Gartner, etc.) research and design; - Technical leadership on Enterprise Java design and implementation topics; - Certified Scrum Master; defining the SDLC and best practices for project in an Agile environment; - Evaluation of RFPs and stakeholder / user input to formulate project requirements; - Working closely with Security Architect, Data Architects, Systems/Network Architects and Developers, and Management to refine requirements, design and implementation; - Delivery of presentations to Client and Sr. Management; Clearly communicating project vision, technical direction, decisions, and status;
• Brought on to ground-up project as an MTS; Principal / lead contributor to a significant portion of the from-scratch architecture, technology stack evaluation, and design of SGI's from-the-ground-up Management Framework project (to manage platforms, integrate management into single pane across product lines, and provide a plug-able, integrated solution software stack); A principal contributor to the MIS Storage Management Plane project (platform to manage and administer enterprise block-storage systems and clusters). • Designed architecture and implemented core back-end code, including domain model, publish/subscribe message-driven SOA architecture, core and storage domain services, business logic / algorithms, system events / alerts, APIs. • Worked in tandem with kernel-focused storage stack engineers to enable administration and real-time management of enterprise class storage systems, including MAID, RAID, DFS, CXFS, SCSI (SES), etc. • Champion of Management Framework adoption within division, working with Chief Architect of Storage to present, roll out and enable adoption by various project teams under a unified framework. • Screened and interviewed senior technical and management candidates for hire onto project. • Java EE (EJBs, JPA / Entities, JTA, JMS, MDBs, WebServices, SessionBeans, etc), Glassfish, ActiveMQ, Java SE, REST, SOAP, JSON, JSON-RPC, Jackson, XML, Grails, Groovy, Spring, Hibernate, ORM, STOMP, UML, GSP, JSP (light), CSS3, HTML5, Linux, Zero-C ICE, Shiro Security, SOA, MVC, Eclipse, JavaScript / AngularJS (light), Apache httpd, tomcat, SQL, MySQL, Postgres DB, Derby / JavaDB, Python (light), Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Git, Graphite (light).
Independent and self-start projects, including: • Designed and implemented full LAMP / WAMP stack web app architecture, front-end to back-end, choosing development technologies, designing relational data model, DB schema, flows, etc. • Documented, developed, and tested e-commerce capable web site (secure user/login, payment processing, etc) and game theory modeling application from scratch, producing access to competitive niche data analysis and reports. Developed automated data gathering from feed sources / APIs / web crawling / scraping and statistical valuation and predictive heuristics models. • Developed business model, market and competitive analysis, marketing material, price / revenue model, affiliate program, user community resources (forum, blog, media outreach) etc. • XAMPP (LAMP / WAMP stack): Apache server, MySql database, PostgresDB, Perl, PHP, Java; • Linux, Windows Vista + Cygwin, DB admin tools (phpMyAdmin); • XHTML / HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, Front-end web design tools (Komposer, GIMP);