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Work Experience

• UX Strategy & Digital Transformation Consultant, DTIG

  May, 2021 - Dec, 20221 year 7 months

  Assess business, clinical, and I&T environments to determine appropriate digital and enterprise architecture strategies, roadmaps and other related recommendations. Provide complex architecture advisory, recommendations and consultancy on solutions influencing digital health initiatives, enterprise architecture design concepts related to current applications ( e.g. EHR, ERP, CRM) and infrastructure, cybersecurity posture, use of current digital tools ( e.g. online scheduling, triage, chatbots, AI), ensuring clients are ready for digital transformation. Based on future-state business requirements and the requisite IT digital capabilities, define gaps in terms of capabilities and technologies ; and recommend options and solutions to achieve future state objectives. Translate business and stake holder requirements into actionable forward-looking digital and technical architecture recommendations

  • Digital Transformation - Architecture & design of digital workplace solutions that enable enterprises to utilize productivity, communication, & collaboration technologies into effective business tools. Deliver value with process innovation/automation resulting in reduced operation support systems (OSS) downtime & FTE opportunity costs.

  • Innovation & Best Practices - Design & develop digital workplace architecture solutions in accordance with client strategies, policies, standards, & policy governance.

  • Change Management - identify, address, & communicate any changes or deviations in systems or solutions that provide technology enablement or hinderances to business.

  • Product Portfolio Management - Manage & maintain portfolio of digital workplace products & artifacts. Public cloud redundancy (Azure/AWS/GCE)

  • Maintain competitive edge - Ensure application architecture is aligned with current & future client needs by monitoring the roadmaps of vendors to maintain alignment between corporate strategy & emerging technology.

  • Research & Impact Advisory - Identify new digital workplace product enhancements as they are available & understand capabilities, deployment strategies, opportunities, & potential risks.

• Information Technology Solutions Architect, Tahoe Partners

  May, 2019 - May, 20212 years

  Assess business, clinical, and I&T environments to determine appropriate digital and enterprise architecture strategies, roadmaps and other related recommendations. Provide complex architecture advisory, recommendations and consultancy on solutions influencing digital health initiatives, enterprise architecture design concepts related to current applications ( e.g. EHR, ERP, CRM) and infrastructure, cybersecurity posture, use of current digital tools ( e.g. online scheduling, triage, chatbots, AI), ensuring clients are ready for digital transformation. Based on future-state business requirements and the requisite IT digital capabilities, define gaps in terms of capabilities and technologies ; and recommend options and solutions to achieve future state objectives. Translate business and stake holder requirements into actionable forward-looking digital and technical architecture recommendations

  • Identify process changes required, and the competencies necessary to support the future-state environment

  • Assist in the ongoing development of methodologies and toolkits

  • Assist and advise clients on evaluating and improving internal functions, business development strategies, and IT processes.

  • Assist and advise clients on migrating SharePoint farms to O365

  • Creating business architecture models to reflect client strategies and goals.

  • Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud.

  • Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company.

• Digital Transformation Director, MICAH LEGAL SERVICES INC

  May, 2020 - Present

  Provide leadership on leveraging technology to support operations and growth across the State of KY to provide legal services to the under privliedged members of the community.

  • Work with management and staff to understand organizational needs and goals

  • Plan and implement a cloud first strategy that addresses remote access and bandwidth issues while automating and enhancing the platform to more efficiently support organizational work and efforts.

  • Manage infrastructure, staffing and effectiveness of the IT Department.

  • Ensure system stability, operation, and scalability.

  • Create and establish technical standards regarding platforms, frameworks and roadmaps for the IT Department.

  • Provide leadership over staff and programs, policies and procedures for IT infrastructure operations and IT security.

• Member Of The Board Of Advisors, Groove Science Studios, Inc.

  Jun, 2014 - Present

  Advisory on Development and Program Management for Soundscape VR

  • Co-Founder and board member.

  • Responsible for developing and executing partnership agreements with stratigically identified resources in the RIAA

  • Own strategic and tactical roadmaps and product plans

  • Coordinate closely with internal and external stakeholders to align on hardware & software product synergies and marketing plans.

  • Ensure that prioritized solutions are delivered in a timely manner and within budget.

  • Strategize with product management and stakeholders on issues related to product requests, vision and overall business value.

  • Assist other product managers and team members with solution delivery best practices.

• Technology Solutions Architect, Strive Consulting, LLC

  Jun, 2019 - Jan, 20207 months

  • Create a well-informed cloud strategy & manage adaption process.

  • Work closely w/IT to monitor the company's cloud privacy.

  • Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.

  • Provide guidance on cloud technologies and trends in cloud technologies

  • Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud.

  • Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company.

• Senior SharePoint Architect, Heitman

  Jul, 2019 - Dec, 20195 months

  • Evaluating internal functions, business development strategies, and IT processes and suggesting improvements.

  • Creating business architecture models to reflect the organization's strategies and goals

  • Engineering and implementing tools in SharePoint to address business visions and goals.

  • Restructure team to produce more efficient development results

  • Facilitating the development process and operations

  • Migrate current data to SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint online (Hybrid)

  • Identifying setbacks and shortcomings

• Senior SharePoint Architect / Office365 Administrator, Kaufman Hall

  Jun, 2015 - Aug, 20194 years 2 months

  Develop tools, provide best in class support of SharePoint and Office 365 for stake holders as part of the overall IT strategy to adopt cloud technologies and reduce shadow IT.

  • Develop custom solutions & integrate line of business apps with SharePoint 2013/2016 on prem. and SharePoint Online (Hybrid)

  • Develop customized SharePoint sites, pages, workflows

  • Responsible for upgrades & patching the best

  • Lead, coordinate & perform SharePoint training for enterprise

  • Upgrade/migrate SharePoint 2013 to 2016 and Online

  • Maintained expected levels of performance, security, scalability, availability, maintainability, capacity, reusability, reliability, and disaster recovery

  • Perform PM activities on multiple SharePoint projects (requirement gathering, testing, documentation etc, while following the change control process)

  • Develop & maintain technical standards & procedures

  • Guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud.

  • Architect CMS platforms (farms, sites, pages, etc) & automation tools (workflows, pipelines, RPAs etc)

  • Tailored SDLC methods to produce multiplatform integration solutions for LOB apps (SharePoint, Salesforce, AxiomEPM)

  • Create updated business & information architecture models to leverage cloud solutions saving $1.2M in 2019 IT spending

  • Organized steering committees to facilitating practical roadmaps for governance, compliance, improvement & innovation

• Director of Technology and Digital Strategy, Rockit Ranch Productions

  Sep, 2013 - Jul, 20151 year 10 months

  Planned and migrated all business support systems to the cloud in order to support expansion from regional to national brand of restaurants. Provided strategic input to executive management for technical standards in modern workplace technology enablement. Consolidate & merged 10 LOB applications into single cross platform suite for managing MURG Ops & ERP

  • Azure AD Migrations for single sign on and identity management

  • LAMP Stack Web Application Design Development & Deployment

  • Administering Active Directory and Group Policies

  • Migrating on premise data to SharePoint

  • Completed Enterprise Office365 Deployment

  • Migrated on premise to Cloud infrastructure (Azure IaaS)

  • Azure Cloud Migration Project Management

  • Developing Dynamic SharePoint Dashboards and BI Analysis tools

  • Architecting and designing data driven SharePoint Site Collections

  • Planned and executed migrations of LAMP stack applications to cloud (Azure PaaS)

  • Administer Exchange Online and ADFS for 1000+ Users

  • Authored over 200 Knowledgebase Articles for IT Team

• Software Engieer and Healthcare IT Consultant, 4Medapproved

  Jan, 2013 - Aug, 20137 months

  • Assist medical practices and laboratories with HIPAA/HI-TECH compliance management

  • Assist medical practices with CRM & EMR Application Deployment and Configuration

  • Manage LMS Content for HIPAA training and certification

  • MySQL and SQL Server Database Design and Administration

  • Engineer Microsoft Infrastructure Solutions for clients’ networks and cloud systems

  • Web Application Programming

  • Developed and managed E-Commerce Solutions for hardware, software and education products

  • Developed REST API tools for Education Services web application

• Web Technologies Developer/Designer, TheSiteKings.com

  Jan, 2010 - Jul, 20133 years 6 months

  Created websites and web applications primarily utilzing Drupal and jQuery Frameworks. Provided custom develoment support as needed in order to deliver value driven projects to completion.

  • Performed custom PHP CMS Framework Development

  • Performed Web Application Development

  • Performed PHP & JavaScript Web Application Programming

  • Engineered REST API Tools

  • Drupal Module Development

  • Site and Application Design

  • Assisted with UI/UX Design

  • Performed website and graphic design using Adobe Creative Suite

  • Performed Bash Scripting for system and process automation

• IT Services Manager and Lead Web Developer, Kehoe Designs & Floral Exhibits

  Aug, 2011 - Dec, 20121 year 4 months

  Tailored business support systems to fulfill needs for directory services, digital asset management, email, CRM & ERP. Orchestrated MDM, DR, BC initiatives reducing opportunity costs & downtime in warehouse & furniture production facilities. Launched & oversaw projects using agile methodology to develop POC & production ready solutions to maximize resources.

  • Created custom PHP CMS Framework

  • Upgraded Windows Server2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012

  • Migrated from Microsoft Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010

  • Manage Helpdesk, Exchange, AD and Group Policies for 500+ users

  • Designed and Coded company websites and website and intranet (incl graphic design in Adobe CC) & managed DNS Administration

  • Performed Disaster Recovery Planning & Testing with Dell AppAsure/Equalogic Solution

  • Created an IT department from the ground up

  • Supported over 200 users in a mixed ecosystem (Windows, Linux and Mac)

  • Engineered custom software to solve business requirements.

  • Design & develop company website and Intranet.

  • Create and administer help desk & asset management systems,

  • Planning and simulating disaster recovery solutions.

  • Planned and migrated servers from bare metal to virtual environment.

• Data Center Engineer & Infrastructure Architect, WiredTree

  Jan, 2009 - Jan, 20101 year

  Engineered, deployed & maintained low voltage DC, single phase & 3-phase AC voltage electrical systems. Assemble, image, & rack bare metal VM hosts per client specifications (CentOS, RHEL, Windows, Ubuntu).

  • Engineered deployed and managed Bare Metal VM Servers

  • Performed PHP & JavaScript Programming duties as needed

  • Linux Server Administration and Maintenance (HW&SW) -Centos

  • Network monitoring management using Nagios and Kasaya

  • Python and bash scripting for system automation

  • DMCA Compliance management

  • Linux Mail Server, Apache, DNS Configuration and Administration

  • Disaster Recovery and data recovery for clients

• Lead Software Engineer and Database Administrator, PriceHonest LLC

  Jan, 2007 - Jan, 20103 years

  In partnership with the University of Chicago and the French Government we developed an ERP system on spec for their specific use case. This product evolved and was bought out by a 3rd party.

  • LAMP Stack Development & Drupal CMS Development

  • Apache Server & MySQL Database Administration

  • Engineered ETL and ERP tools in PHP

  • Manage Windows/Linux Hybrid environment

• Sales and Field Engineer, ARM-S Electric, Inc.

  Jun, 1998 - Aug, 20046 years 2 months

  Provide knowledge management & technical assistance for high voltage motors, drives, logic controllers & power TX/DX equipment in heavy manufacturing environments utilizing our proprietary predictive & preventative maintenance programs.

  • Responsible for selling Electrical Apparatus Service, and Repair.

  • Performed diagnostics and maintenance for high voltage (25KV 3-phase) and micro electronic systems (12VCD).

  • Provide Customer Service & Technical Support for Engineered systems, robotics controls, etc..

  • Software Development - logic controllers (PLCs and SCRs)

  • Engineered, published and actively maintained web applications

  • Process Automation Engineering for heavy manufacturing.

  • Identified any key changes to project that could affect cost, completion date and customer relationship.

  • Researching, developing, and modifying products to meet customers' technical requirements and needs.

  • Applied expertise in comprehensive root cause failure analysis.

  • Analyzed Steel Production and Power Generation/Transmission process flows and identified and recommended improvements and standardizations.

  • Interacted effectively with site engineering team and field staff to coordinate work that complied with design and construction documents.

  • Ensured that construction progressed as scheduled and in compliance with contract specifications.

  • Design innovative solutions for Process Automation Engineering in heavy manufacturing

Projects Experience

• Co-Authored DTIG Automated SHarePoint Migration Tool Set

  Jun, 2021 - Mar, 20212 months

  Contributed to design, development and deployment of Migration automation tools for SharePoint.

  • Participated in building a library of orchastration and automation tools using Portainer, Terraform, Belena, Ansible, Chef, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

  • Drafted several playbooks to facilitate cloud migrations for enterprise support systems.

• Plan and deploy new Information Architecture for HIMSS

  Dec, 2020 - Present

  • Work with stakeholders across the healthcare space to analyze, define and design informaiton architecture for the governing body responsible for collecting, cataloging and distributing healthcare information maangement systems.

  • Engineer and deploy information systems to provide a logical single source of truth for users of SharePoint and Dataverse.

  • Measure and report increases in efficincy and productivity from upgrades, demonstrating a savings of 28% in knowledge worker capacity.

• Assist and Advise on SharePoint Migration for Reyes Holdings

  Apr, 2020 - Feb, 202110 months

  • Align clients needs for engineering requirements needed in development of automation tools for Migration workflows

  • Identified KPIs for migration PMO and design PowerBI reports for live time decision making and stake holder communication.

• HIMSS UX Transformation

  Oct, 2020 - Feb, 20214 months

  • Update user experience in On premise SharePoint 2016 platform using a customize more intutive interface

  • Consolidate CSS, JavaScript and design elements

  • Improved performance with use of CDNs and code optimization

  • Design elements to coinscide with client's new branding needs.

• Information Architecture Redesign and SharePoint Server Farm Migration for University of Chicago Medicine

  Apr, 2020 - Feb, 202110 months

  • Complete discovery and redesign of Information Architecture for SharePoint Farm products at University of CHicago Medicine.

  • Perform seamless/no downtime, migration of 5 server farms with zero interruption to emergency care operations.

• HEITMAN Financial SharePoint Upgrade, migration and deployment

  Jul, 2019 - Dec, 20195 months

  Brought into the project to replace resources that were no longer suitble for guiding the project. My primary goals were to realign the expectations of stakeholders while delivering the final product as expected without additional delays or increases in budget.

  • Migrate 2013 data to SharePoint online and SHarePoint 2016 cereating a hybrid model.

  • Installed designed and deployed live tiles skin for sharepoint intranet site.

  • Create standard and executive dashboards backed by Power BI in sharepoint leveraging data from Salesforce.com

• SharePoint Migration 2013 to 2016

  Aug, 2017 - Oct, 20172 months

  Architect SharePoint 2016 fault tolerant farm.

  Plan and migrate site collections from SharePoint 2013 Farm to SharePoint 2016 farm.

  • Migrate 2013 data to SharePoint online and SHarePoint 2016 cereating a hybrid model.

  • Installed designed and deployed live tiles skin for sharepoint intranet site.

  • Create standard and executive dashboards backed by Power BI in sharepoint leveraging data from AXIOM ERP Platform and other LOB tools.

• SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2016 Migration

  Feb, 2017 - Apr, 20172 months

  Using a multistage migration path, consolidate SharePoint data from M&A Activities.

• Kaufman Hall - SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint 2016 Migration

  Aug, 2016 - Oct, 20162 months

  Architect SharePoint 2016 fault tolerant farm.

  • Plan and migrate all site collections from SharePoint 2013 Farm to SharePoint 2016 farm.

• AD and File Server Migration - Rockit Bar & Grill and Rockit Buger Bar

  Nov, 2014 - Nov, 20141 day

  Migrate all on premise file and windows active directory servers to sharepoint and azure AD.

• SharePoint Deployment - RRP - Corporate

  Jul, 2014 - Jul, 20141 day

  Design and deploy RRP Company resources to SharePoint online for increased collaboration.

  • Engineered various data structures and workflows to automate BPM.

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