Integration Architects

Formed integration team and led team in the definition, business analysis, development and implementation of critical business integrations.  Established development models, business and technical specification templates, source code and production control procedures.  Led team in establishing criteria for technology selection process and directed evaluation, selection, purchase and implementation effort.  Established credibility and working relationship with key business leaders while guiding lengthy business analysis process.  Negotiated development agreements and joint timetables with other governmental departments and agencies.

Led the architecture and development of a datawarehouse based on multiple datamarts supporting National Center for State Courts Core Measure management reporting and adhoc research. Developed companion web services interface to provide external access to case data to external agencies and to web user interface.

Led architectural design of an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), including a workflow based integration subsystem that serves criminal justice agencies in three states. Authored the Functional Specification portion of the AFIS RFP and led a multi-year development and deployment effort encompassing integration with multiple criminal justice applications at the local, state, and federal levels.

Led an Identification Roadmap Initiative, aimed at establishing a strategic state-wide plan for managing identification information.  Facilitated justice-wide planning workshops involving representatives from law enforcement, prosecution, judicial and correction functions. Authored plan document that identified primary barriers to proper identification and outlined key projects needed to overcome those barriers.

Provided overall Project Management, assuming responsibility for a struggling Oracle Financials/Process Manufacturing implementation at seven months after project initiation. The project approach and plans were revised to provide incremental deliverables instead of a “big-bang” implementation. A project team of 60 IT resources and 30 business content experts completed the implementation at seven U.S. plants on schedule, with superior quality at a cost of $9.7 million.

Provided architecture guidance and leadership to implement a flexible WebsphereMQ-based solution to support application integration between systems on corporate computing platforms and store systems at 350 locations. Managed the development of generic software components for OS/390 and Windows platforms to facilitate integration. Created an internal consulting organization to assist application development teams with implementation planning and use of generic software components. Provided leadership in defining systems management and support functions, as well as organizational responsibilities for messaging infrastructure. Led evaluation and selection of performance monitoring and systems management tools to facilitate 24x7 support of extended system.

Directed the integration effort for extended supply chain suite (i2), building multiple near real time interfaces to legacy systems. Architected and designed XML messaging approach utilizing WebsphereMQ and WebsphereMQ Message Broker to transform and deliver transactional data between CICS applications and Windows-based supply chain module. Designed solution and led cross functional team in development of custom mainframe and distributed adapters. Solution packaged and transmitted CICS transaction data in XML messages to the distributed system adapter which called appropriate CORBA API exposed by supply chain suite. Success and failure messages were captured in queue-based logging system for analysis and remediation. Five interfaces were successfully developed in parallel to meet 3½-month delivery window.