Senior Architect and Manager at Cingular Wireless
Greater Seattle Area
Senior Architect and Manager at Cingular Wireless
Greater Seattle Area
Direct, mentor, inspire, and innovate with vision, passion, and commitment to execution excellence.
Proven catalyst in driving agility through unified strategic architecture and engineering efforts.
Lead an idea engine learning environment driven to create future architecture. Unite vision, models, designs, and process to optimize delivery and deployment of fully operational runtime engines.
Leadership and Team building, Data Products, System Archtiecture and Design, SQL, Perl, Rose, Java, Erwin, Oracle, MS SQL Server 2005.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)
Increase the interoperability of hardware, software and operational efficiencies that maximize technical system performance within Mobility IT.
This increase in performance will be accomplished by:
Create new & refine current definitions of Unified Process's roles, activities & artifacts (e.g., non functional requirement). Add the activities & artifacts to the requirements & architecture phases.
Execute a targeted number of Technical Performance Assessments
Develop, document, deliver & support "best practices."
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — December 2007 (3 years)
Lead common services architecture defining architecture vision, mission, and objectives.
Drive enterprise data architecture and enteprise application initiatives and strategy.
Direct enterprise architecture process implementation. Innovate service oriented concepts, modeling, and disciplines.
Advocate service orientation and hybrid grid approach for emergent enterprise framework.
Manage targeting of group driven by to balanced scorecard and via key performance indicators
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Individual & Family Services industry)
May 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 5 months)
The Refuge of Mercy (www.mercifulloveconnection.org) Helping adolescent mothers accept motherhood and embrace life with their child. Founded on an approach of cultivating dignity, MCL assists a refuge for adolescent mothers and their babies from the streets of Santiago, Chile. The refuge has been in continuous operation since 1927 by the Sisters of Most Merciful Love.
The Merciful Love Connection enables persons in the United States to support the physical needs, and provide education at the Refuge of Mercy.
As President, I provided leadership through its infancy and first 2 years. (2005-2007). Drove organizational focus and increased fundraising to accomplish the following at the Refuge: Facility improvements, Provided education for the new director, Set up a computer program and hired the teacher and a tutor, advocated Directors and Officers insurance, Set up and ran the Web site, and firmed up plans to remodel the entire 1927 building.
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)
August 2005 — May 2006 (10 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Wireless industry)
January 2001 — December 2004 (4 years)
Performed archtiectual roles on many teams including Stratigic Technology, Enteprise Architecture, and Application Architecture for Telephony, CRM, and Knowledge management systems.
Lead strategic technology and group dynamics. Direct personnel mastery and accountability through extensive mentoring. Foster innovation and risk mitigation through roadmap driven logical destinations. Advance vision of architecture as a strategic asset to invest in. Focus on enterprise integration.
Lead point of contact strategic architecture. Consolidate contact center framework. Lead interaction management strategic initiative design activities
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Wireless industry)
January 1998 — December 2000 (3 years)
Create vision/framework and engineering expertise to increase availability and performance by an order of magnitude.
Lead several major releases with 4 parallel development teams.
Develop system performance metrics for capacity planning using Segue Silk Performer and Sun performance tools.
Advanced ATT Labs CCML XML based language for project. Teamed with vendors and external contractors to optimize the use of Dynabase XML store.
Build distributed cross platform content management system.
(Computer Software industry)
1995 — 1998 (3 years)
Design/develop database integration on web servers. Develop the first two iterations of a Java based client/server streaming media management tool; interview potential developers; coordination with subcontractors; presentations on Java, active server pages, object oriented programming.
(Government Agency; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
February 1987 — January 1996 (9 years)
Operate, monitor, inspect, and troubleshoot aircraft computer, electrical, flight instrument, engine, hydraulic, pneumatic, and air-conditioning systems.
Investigate in-flight emergencies and advise aircrew based on systems expertise.
Direct servicing and maintenance to establish aircraft flightworthiness.
Evaluating compliance to standards and recommend acceptance of for flight.
Review aircraft documentation and authorize operational expenditures.
non-profit work, rich media new technology, grid based computing, location services, astronomy, NASA, digital photography, career opportunities, Six Sigma
Charter member Phi Theta Kappa, Humanitarian Service Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal, Presidential Unit Citation