Principal Rules Architect with TAZ Rules Consulting
Phoenix, Arizona Area
- Current
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- Sr. Blaze Rules Consultant at City of New
- Principal Rules Consultant at Avnet
- Sr. Blaze Rules Consultant / Analyst Mentor / Rule Architect at City of New York
- Owner at TAZ Rules Consulting, LLC
- Past
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- Sr. Blaze Rules Consultant at Avnet
- Sr. Blaze Rules Consultant / Business Rule Engine Team Lead at Blue Cross
- Sr. Rules Consultant / Mentor at American Express Technologies
- Sr. Rules Consultant at Toyota Motor Sales
- Professional Services - Rules Architect at Blaze Software / Brokat Technologies
- Sr. Blaze Consultant at Blaze Software
- Principal Rules Consultant at Fair Isaac
- Principal Rules Consultant at Fair Isaac
- Sr. Software Consultant, Technical Architect, Team Lead, Rule Mentor at Blaze Software
- Software Consultant at Motorola
- Software Consultant at Wells Fargo Financial
- Software Engineer at Quincy Street Corporation
- Software Developer at Buzzeo, Inc.
- Education
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- Arizona State University
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Jeremiah Connelly’s Summary
Principal Rules Architect with over seven years of Java based software development and over nine years of Fair Isaac Blaze Software based, Inference Engine, end-to-end, full life cycle development. Projects have included wireless applications, web based server-side applications and distributed applications, in particular, educational, financial, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing and telecom rule development projects.
Jeremiah Connelly’s Specialties:
Rules Architecture, Requirements Analysis, Rules Development, Knowledge Transition, Rules Training, Rules Deployment and Maintenance
Jeremiah Connelly’s Experience
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Sr. Blaze Rules Consultant
City of New
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
In charge of managing rule deployment utilizing ANT scripting and tight integration with Interwoven's TEAMSite Portals. Created customized update, compilation and deployment classes. Worked within the FICO Blaze Advisor API, to create
compilation statistics, rule set and rule name scanning and filtering and repository connections. -
Principal Rules Consultant
Avnet
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AVT; Wholesale industry)
2006 — Present (3 years )
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Sr. Blaze Rules Consultant / Analyst Mentor / Rule Architect
City of New York
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2004 — Present (5 years 9 months)
In charge of custom RMA (Rule Maintenance Application) development and
screen, "Look and Feel" management, for multiple on and offsite projects.
Created custom generic components built within IWB (Innovator Workbench) to
support development of multiple projects across multiple teams, without need
for further developer interaction and maintenance. Worked closely with SME's
(Subject Matter Experts) and BA (Business Analysts) to define and refine business
requirements to be input into RMA. Worked closely with and instructed SME's
and BA's on effective and user friendly rule writing within RMA and IWB
development, deployment, and maintenance. Wrote custom JSP to interact
with rules engine deployment testing. Supervised unit testing and entire Rule
Flow testing across multiple projects. -
Owner
TAZ Rules Consulting, LLC
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1997 — Present (12 years 6 months)
T.A.Z. Rules Consulting, provides a myriad of Fair Isaac Blaze Business Rules services including; Architecture, Requirements Analysis, Development, Deployment, Knowledge Transition and On-Site Training, as well as other services.
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Sr. Blaze Rules Consultant
Avnet
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AVT; Wholesale industry)
February 2006 — July 2009 (3 years 6 months)
In charge of the Business Rule development, deployment and maintenance,
within the new enterprise application. Created and deployed multiple, SOA rule
projects across the application. Assisted business rule analysts in refining the rules
documentation and instructing use on RMA maintenance and rule
development. Documented procedures and policies used in multiple stages of
the rule process. Implemented multiple Rule deployments including, Direct
POJO, SOAP over HTTP WebServices, JMS and JNDI calls. Created customized
RMA application with integration directly with IBM ClearCase allowing business
users and rule developers to work transparently with ClearCase through the RMA.
Supervised and lead a team of multiple business rule Subject Matter Experts and
rule developers. Performed training for new business users and rule developers
on the Advisor and RMA toolsets. Worked within the Webmethods Developer
application to connect to Blaze Advisor, as well as, development and
deployment. -
Sr. Blaze Rules Consultant / Business Rule Engine Team Lead
Blue Cross
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry)
November 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 4 months)
Created, replaced, updated and deleted core business logic for Insurance
applications including adding new members, changing existing members,
modifying coverage's on members. Built new Rule Maintenance Application
using Blaze Innovator. Deployed and maintained on Websphere App/
Webserver. Assisted business team in refining and discovering new business logic
to be used within Business Rule Engine (BRE), as well as outside of BRE. Worked
closely with Java developers to maintain and create interface layer to call Blaze
rule engine. Architected Ruleflows, Rulesets, custom Innovator pages and life-
cycle rules to be utilized throughout system, company and customer wide.
Developed new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) utilizing Advisor and
Innovator as core services to be used for multiple applications and other cross
industry services across the enterprise. Constructed reusable logic, templates,
flows and RMA pages within Innovator and deployed across many individual
projects within the company. -
Sr. Rules Consultant / Mentor
American Express Technologies
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — February 2004 (8 months)
Assisting multiple groups/departments with RMA(Rule Maintenance Application)
analysis, design, development, deployment and maintenance. Mentor teams
on full life cycle rule development. Utilized Blaze API to create specialized Java
classes to compile, execute and debug rules projects outside of Blaze Advisor/
Innovator environments. Converted Microsoft JVM on servers over to SUN JVM
and re-wrote Web Service component to handle request from Java classes
instead of dot Net framework. Deployed and maintaned multiple projects on
Websphere 4.0 Application Server. Performed maintance and tuning of existing
and new projects on Production and Test environments and servers.
Implemented Product Transfer Legacy rules, as well as, Change Card rules logic,
across both OBN and Personal credit lines. -
Sr. Rules Consultant
Toyota Motor Sales
(Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2001 — June 2003 (1 year 7 months)
Responsible for architecture and development of business rules for an enterprise
wide, warranty claim application. Worked closely with analysts and
requirements team to gather and refine business logic to be effectively
consumed by rule and development team. Also worked together with
architecture, to define workflow necessary for rule development and
deployment, and QA team to resolve and document rule errors. XML and Java
objects were used in design of application and fully integrated with Blaze Advisor
Suite to execute business processes. Demonstrated the use of Innovator and rule
tracking, to analysts and development team. Mentored other rule team
members on effect rule writing and published a Best Practices document to
management and developers. -
Professional Services - Rules Architect
Blaze Software / Brokat Technologies
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
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Sr. Blaze Consultant
Blaze Software
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
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Principal Rules Consultant
Fair Isaac
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
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Principal Rules Consultant
Fair Isaac
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
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Sr. Software Consultant, Technical Architect, Team Lead, Rule Mentor
Blaze Software
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2000 — December 2001 (2 years )
Various roles in company held different responsibilities at client locations.
Sr. Software Consultant role included working closely with clients on and off site
to ensure rule development processes were upheld. Assisted in discovery, design
and development during project rule development and integration, as well as
resolve any development or run-time "bugs" that arise in the process.
Was given the title of Team/Project lead on an enterprise financial application, in
which I was tasked with managing the integrity of rule development and a team
of 12 rule developers producing a 2,000+ rule project.
Demonstrated wireless component technology to Professional Services, utilizing
the Blaze Software Application Suite together with WML and WMLScript.
Technical Architect role called for interfacing directly with Blaze Software's
engineering group to discuss bugs and/or feature upgrades and fixes for the
Blaze Advisor Rule Server, whether it is implementation or Proof of Concept issues
and participating in monthly meetings to determine the best resolution for any
open outstanding issues.
Customer projects directly involved in were -
Software Consultant
Motorola
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)
October 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 3 months)
Developed call center equipment tracking system in Java. Built system using
Servlets/JSP running across the Tomcat-Jakarta on Apache web server and
interfacing with an Oracle database. Created the front-end GUI and tested on
multiple platforms for intranet clients. -
Software Consultant
Wells Fargo Financial
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WFC; Financial Services industry)
February 1999 — October 1999 (9 months)
Using Blaze Software Elements Expert, worked with analysts to define business
process for Norwest / Wells Fargo Financial, and implement them in the
backward chaining rule engine. Wrote and implemented rules in Elements
Expert and tested, with analysts and developers, across the financial application.
Code review was utilized and enforced in rules and across the project. Was
responsible for calculating the charges used on customer accounts when rate
changes were placed into the system. Design, implementation and testing were
conducted on a NT platform but deployed to a Unix environment. -
Software Engineer
Quincy Street Corporation
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1998 — February 1999 (5 months)
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Software Developer
Buzzeo, Inc.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1997 — 1998 (1 year )
Jeremiah Connelly’s Education
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Arizona State University
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Blaze Advisor Professionals!!! -
Business Rules -
Business Rules (BRMS) Professional Services Consulting
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