Software Architecture Consultant
Des Moines, Iowa Area
Software Architecture Consultant
Des Moines, Iowa Area
Technical Manager and Enterprise Architect for various customers in the technology, government, healthcare, telecommunications, insurance, and manufacturing industries.
Enterprise application integration, legacy application modernization, software development using .NET, SharePoint, Ruby on Rails web development, and architecture.
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
Provide expertise in the administration, configuration, and development of a SharePoint application.
Provide development services using C# and .NET 3.5.
Provide consulting in the areas of software architecture, business process improvement, software development methodologies, mentoring, and configuration management.
(Public Company; HP; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2000 — September 2008 (7 years 10 months)
Define and maintain enterprise system architecture, provide configuration management guidance in all aspects of enterprise technology, improve business processes in the PMO organization, identify opportunities for innovation, research new technologies, forecast utilization and technology needs, create software tools as necessary to support my work.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
Responsible for defining strategic direction of web-based application technologies.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)
May 2000 — December 2000 (8 months)
Responsible for all software development projects within the organization, including leading development staff and designing frameworks.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ICL; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1999 — May 2000 (6 months)
Led teams of software developers creating e-commerce applications, including GroceryWorks.com.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1994 — December 1999 (6 years)
B2C application for JCPenney
Sales forecasting tool for Nortel
Database marketing site for KPMG
Project management system for EDS
Document management system for Dell
Text processing and search for USAA
Server clustering tools for IBM
Materials tracking and shipping notification system for TxDOT
Engineering support for LCRA
Philosophy and Linguistics 1993 — 1994
Innovation, IT governance, enterprise architecture, ITIL, SOA, business process management, modeling, ontologies, knowledgebases