Michael Baraz
Michael@Baraz.us
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A strong and consistent history of aligning information strategy to business strategy, capabilities and capacity and
leading and motivating people and projects to successful, high value/high impact outcomes. Combining business
acumen with technical savvy as a thought leader innovating and implementing highly integrated, scalable global
information strategy and architecture, business intelligence, e-Commerce, cloud platforms using proven and
emerging technologies driving top line and bottom line impacts in banking, financial, real estate, health, insurance,
utilities, energy and safety. Create technology stack that maximizes value and reduces investment/cost.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Leadership and Professional Services
Engage with client senior executives to identify opportunities for strategic and tactical improvements. Build practice,
develop strong client relationships, sell, manage and deliver professional services in an engagement, portfolio or
individual initiatives for enterprise, cross-functional and global business units. Assembled highly motivated
professionals in skilled teams. Responsible for establishing, driving and socializing strategic vision. Manage teams
quickly delivering high impact solutions that have improve business opportunities and drive out costs. Develop and
mentor individuals, matching skill sets and personality traits with assignments to achieve the best possible results.
Identify and resolve goal conflicts within the project team and organization. Develop investment justification for
engagements and deliverables. Monitor the work with appropriate indicators in ways that identify and correct
problems early and consistently deliver excellent results. Clear communication with clients on engagement success.
Skilled negotiator with a track record of driving agreements to win-win.
Enterprise and Solutions Architecture
Assess current organizational capabilities, those required for achievement of goals and strategy and identify gaps in
each of the enterprise architecture disciplines: business architecture, application architecture, security architecture,
information architecture and technology architecture. Alignment and transformation of people, process and
technology solutions to remediate or establish identified foundational and operating capabilities. Drive out and map
requirements to capabilities and create roadmap to achieve a fully functioning future state organization and
supporting technology stack. In steady-state scenarios, perform technology portfolio analysis to identify redundancy
and gaps and rationalize assets. Maximize flexibility, stability, consistency, operational effectiveness and governance.
Develop appropriates models to support and verify understanding.
Information Management, Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence
Identify business strategy, develop requirements and align the data, technology, process and people capabilities to
allow business to achieve the strategic goals. Provide thought leadership around emerging technologies, including
machine learning, optimization, data mining, analytics, quantitative analysis, etc., for all levels of audiences. Design
Master Data Management, Data Integration, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence/Analytics, Data Virtualization
and Big Data architecture. Perform tooling profiling and selection. Achieve business transformations included business
performance management, complex risk and financial analytics and quality review systems, sales reporting, health
care quality, inventory management, and other disciplines. Create management around metadata and lineage to
verify end-to-end consistency. Optimize existing architecture to harmonize current assets, improve operational
effectiveness, availability and maximize consumability. Introduced Agile Scrum to data management teams on several
projects. Create data governance and sustainability capabilities.
Project and Engagement Management
Manage portfolio of Information Technology projects of varying sizes in strategic solutions with enterprise, data,
security and enterprise architecture; data warehouse, business intelligence, analytics and process management. Use
PMI standards and Agile Scrum and hybrid methodologies to deliver business value quickly, manage resources, track
and mitigate risks and issues and drive schedules to deliver projects on time and within budget. Use human skills in
resolving issues, facilitating reaching consensus, defining “done” and obtaining acceptance of deliverables. Effective
at explaining complex technical concepts in terms appropriate to the audience.
Roadmap Strategic Solutions
Develop the business case, cost/benefit valuation, hard and soft value proposition, proof of concept and presentations
at all levels of organization through the C-Suite. Define a technology strategy roadmap that enable clients with
information-based decision making to identify and prioritize to achieve board level business strategy.
RESUME OF MICHAEL BARAZ
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
EXPERIENCE:
 State Farm Bank, Bloomington, IL
Technology Strategy lead for large retail bank.
03/2015 – current
 Develop new Technology Strategy Office to create sustainable technology strategy and operational processes
to align IT capabilities and capacities to 10-year business strategy defined by bank board and officers.
▫ Create virtuous cycle where business drives technology to improve operational effectiveness and efficiencies
of bank resources while innovation and new technologies adoption enables business mission and develops
new business opportunities.
▫ Develop Reference Model based on various industry and OCC and FFIEC regulatory, COBIT, ITIL and other
resources
▫ Develop Current State Model, lead sessions with line-of-business executives to identify misalignment of
business goals with technology capabilities and capacities.
▫ Develop Integrated Capability Model based on BIAN Service Landscape and IBM Universal Banking Model
▫ Create Readiness Assessment framework.
▫ Drive out roadmap of actionable initiatives to achieve short, medium and long term plans with classification
of investment, effort, business impact, alignment to strategic programs, contribution to value stream, etc.,
in order to maximize investment choices; operationalize roadmap for ongoing change management, impact
assessment, etc. Optimize portfolio management.
▫ Align line of business and horizontal enterprise technology strategies.
▫ Oversee tactical planning and execution to achieve stop gap requirements while planning and executing
strategic initiatives.
▫ Develop statements of work for large initiatives.
▫ Report to Executive Technology Committee (includes CEO, COO, CFO and CIO) on bank technology strategy
development plan, build and execution
 Design technology strategy governance to provide transparency, measures (KPIs), strategic oversight and
prioritization to assure fact-based decision making, change management, relationship management, regulatory
compliance, and maximize return on investment. Developed Balanced Scorecards to manage TSO.
 Design Information Platform strategy to integrate all operational and master data on multiple vendor and
enterprise platforms to create an analytics platform using integration hub, virtualization, Enterprise Service
Bus (ESB), private cloud Big Data technologies. Platform enables operational analytics, cross marketing, fraud
detection, etc.
 Underwriters Laboratories, LLC, Northbrook, IL
05/2014 – 02/2015
Enterprise Information Architect for global safety standards and certification company.
 Develop Enterprise Information Architecture and provide the vision for:
▫ Safety engineers to mine and leverage historical customer product test results stored in various means of
unstructured documents in Infosys Big Data Hub to unlock and maximize reuse in customer product and
component library and analytics.
▫ Customers to realize new value streams from predictive analytics for product failure, supply chain disruption,
early indicator test predictors.
▫ Discover relationships, business logic and rules, data quality and cleansing rules.
 Collaborate with business transformation team to design architecture platform for engineers to evaluate and
certify customer products, manufacturing facilities and process, and supply chains:
▫ Read in industry standards documents from IEC, ISO and proprietary UL standards, stage in Hadoop cluster,
then load into an ontology in Neo4j graph database and Jena TDB database for customer product data.
▫ Design a method to capture engineers’ evaluation processes and work with subject matter experts to
develop process maps and standards interpretation maps.
▫ Design a tiered architecture to use Jena TDB and Fuseki product data and Neo4j standards interpretation
to generate and drive user interface navigation to use engineers’ answers to questions from the standards
interpretation to traverse to test results and compare to standards thresholds. Each answer drives the
process along the logic path to reach an outcome.
▫ In accomplishing this goal, the company succeeds in improving turnaround, customer collaboration and
satisfaction while increasing employee.
▫ Define data API requirements and JSON structures.
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TECHNICAL SUMMARY
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▫ Profile source data, define cleansing rules and metadata information
▫ Lead off-shore development team for construction of service oriented architecture solution.
Develop strategy for Big Data Hub and Oracle Master Data Management using reference architectures, models,
patterns and industry best practices.
Develop conceptual and logical models, ontology and taxonomy for product management in Big Data Hub and
MDM. Create a data dictionary/business glossary to standardize terminology.
Define architectural principles to define differentiation of usage for Big Data, Data Warehouse and Data Marts.
Identify information capability gaps, define and align Information Architecture with other Enterprise
Architecture disciplines, i.e. Integration Architecture, Application Architecture and Technical Architecture, and
the management and governance.
Develop Roadmap to achieve architecture goals.
Prepare and present communications briefings for executives and stakeholders.
 Jones Lang LaSalle, Lombard, IL
06/2012-05/2014
Enterprise Information Architect for multinational commercial real estate and property management
services provider.
 Develop Information Strategy and provide the vision for aligning corporate business strategy for global
enterprise with strategic and line-of-business applications, master data management (MDM), data integration,
data virtualization, metadata management, data quality and profiling, data modeling and data governance.
Working closely with CIO, define IT strategy, gap analysis, roadmap, business case development and
investment decisions and support frequent mergers and acquisition.
 For business-side Data Governance Organization
▫ Create taxonomy around property, organize and develop processes to collect business metadata from
business units, industry and public sources and to create business glossary;
▫ Create Informatica Metadata Manager/Business Glossary, standardize and map business terms, metrics,
related terms, synonyms, data quality rules, constituencies and data stewards/owners in metadata
repository with end-to-end lineage diagrams.
▫ Profile source systems for validity of data and write cleansing and transformation rules for MDM system
and various data warehouses and marts.
 Create enterprise conceptual data model and line-of-business logical models. Vet business and technical
requirements with business and technical stakeholders. Reverse engineer application databases. Manage tool
implementation of ERwin and Mart Server and rolled out to all regions. Develop modeling expertise and mentor
modelers.
 Design model and implement Master Data Management hub for property, client, service domains. Perform
data profiling to expose relationships, data quality, misused/repurposed/mistyped columns, etc. Create source
to target mappings and specifications for ETL development, web services to synchronize participating partner
applications as well as data marts and data warehouse.
 Design architecture for MDM and Data Integration hub synchronizing major line-of-business and enterprise
applications enabling and optimizing Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Property and Markets with
multiple global mission critical applications.
 Define business and technical requirements, design Proof of Concept for evaluating vendor products,
evaluation criteria and scoring and select data integration and information management tool-set.
 Design and build Kimball style, fact/dimensional star-schema near-real-time data warehouse model based on
specifications from operational source system owners, master data (CRM/client, property, market) and Cognos
developers. Create source to target mappings and specifications for ETL development. Use Change-DataCapture and Data Integration Hub to keep up operational data stores and marts. Support Cognos Business
Intelligence development for global, regional and client-level reporting.
 Use Informatica Velocity methodology to identify and implement best practices for data integration
architecture. Create naming and usage standards for data practices.
 Use TOGAF process to guide data architecture deliverables.
 Form business-side Data Governance Organization, organize and develop processes to collect business
metadata from business units, industry and public sources to create business glossary on Informatica Metadata
Manager/Business Glossary. Led teams to map business terms, metrics, related terms, synonyms, data quality
rules, constituencies and data stewards/owners in metadata repository with end-to-end lineage diagrams.
Develop workflow for business term definitions. Develop organization design for Data Governance team.
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TECHNICAL SUMMARY
 BP (British Petroleum) US Pipeline and Logistics, Naperville, IL
Data Architect for division of multinational oil and gas energy producer.
10/2011-06/2012
 Create transformational Enterprise Data Management program, staffed with a council of senior executives and
operational team members.
 Use the IBM Data Governance Maturity Model to establish baseline and measure against goals, create a culture
of data management and good stewardship; use DAMA DMBOK as reference for best practices.
 Develop an Enterprise Data Strategy working with company leadership.
 Create metadata management program with business and technical definitions, data lineage, life cycle, identify
authoritative (golden) source, owner, etc., using Scrum Agile techniques. Design taxonomy for pipeline
domain.
 Implement Informatica Business Glossary for metadata using ontology based on business requirements.
 Establish data quality program, profiling metrics, trend monitoring and defect tracking/management; create
data security program granting user access and role-based model to provide proper access with respect to
privacy and regulatory requirements. Use Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data Explorer tool to
automate data profiling and validation.
 Define and prioritize business needs and requirements for Enterprise Data Warehouse for pipeline and terminal
assets, safety and operations and maintenance.
 Establish sustainable data architecture current state, future state and roadmap to define and prioritize key
projects for solution realization and results.
 Create data warehouse with governance for financial, operational and derived data elements.
 Use industry standard PODS (Pipeline Open Data Standards) and application enabling use of geospatial data.
 Create single source, conformed semantic data model based on business intelligence and analytics needs using
Embarcadero ER/Studio.
 Bank of the West, San Francisco, CA
02/2011-10/2011
Information Architect and Manager of Data Management for a regional bank and financial services
provider.
 Work with line of business executives to define business strategies and objectives to enable development of a
data strategy to enable regulatory and operational management and analytics requirements.
 Create and implement an Enterprise Data Governance program, staff it with a council of senior executives and
operational team.
 Use the IBM Data Governance Maturity Model to establish baseline and measure against goals, create a culture
of data management and good stewardship.
 Define Enterprise Data Strategy.
 Create gap analysis for Basel II compliance for required data and data management functions.
 Create metadata management capabilities business and technical definition, data lineage, identify authoritative
(golden) source, owner, etc., using Scrum Agile techniques.
 Implement Informatica Business Glossary for metadata.
 Establish data quality program, profiling metrics, trend monitoring and defect tracking/management. Create
data security program granting user access and role-based model to provide proper access with respect to
privacy and Graham Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) regulations. Create process, procedure and staff program
including management metrics.
 Profile source system data for consumability in Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)
 Define and prioritize business needs and requirements for EDW for credit risk and Basel II RWA.
 Use COBIT compliance framework for auditability, security, risk management and Governance, Risk and
Compliance (GRC).
 Determine Master Data Management approach using a federated model, create proof-of-concept.
 Lead business and EDW team to put data governance around financial, operational and derived data elements.
 Create conformed semantic data model based on risk architecture and business intelligence and analytics
needs based on Teradata Financial Services Logical Data Model (FSLDM) using ERwin v7.
 Consult with Operational Risk Management on Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) tool and data
warehouse integration.
 Consulted on dual grading (LGD and PD) and RAROC tool as foundations for IRB-A.
 Environment consists of Teradata platform with Informatica tools for data integration.
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TECHNICAL SUMMARY
 Maven Wave Partners LLC, Chicago, IL Principal Consultant
08/2010-12/2010
 Data Strategy for Nike, a leading consumer-products company. Co-lead in a business-driven strategic
blueprint for technology-based services that provide deep insights to consumer preference and behaviors
based on inferences, affinities and correlations. Based on business and marketing strategy, create conceptual
architecture and roadmap for implementation using service oriented architecture with required integration
architecture, operational data store, data warehouse and business intelligence/analytics environment. New
architecture added change-data-capture on Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for complex event driven processing
for data services and acquisition and to synchronize data across multiple systems to achieve near real-time for
both web operational use and analytics while coordinating with the Master Data Management platform.
 Data Management Lead for CIT Bank, a commercial banking institution. Perform end-to-end
assessment of the enterprise and business units' operational and reporting applications and data architecture.
Involved deep dive into source and use of reporting data, data stores and management to develop a current
state architecture which included an inventory of data stores and each point of data movement and their
mappings on Oracle and Business Objects. Determine business and regulatory (FDIC and FRB) requirements
to develop requirements and future state architecture to benefits and rationalization and alignment of
technology platforms to the business drivers and relationship to expected benefits.
Create a Data Governance Program with an executive council governing people, processes and tools to manage
Metadata Management, Data Quality and Master Data Management. Enterprise data governance program
assures data would be managed in a way that assured accuracy, timeliness and integrity. Create integration
architecture, data warehouse and business intelligence strategy, architecture, tools and methods. Develop
data governance using DAMA Data Management Book of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK).
 American Access Casualty Company, Oakbrook Terrace, IL Enterprise Architect
02/2010-07/2010
Position was created to assist the Chief Information Officer to develop strategic capabilities within the IT
department, advance the maturity of the department to provide scalability in systems, improve software
development methods to insure best practices in application and data architecture for future capabilities and
growth. Architect new application server platform with failover and load-balancing as well as improve network
and application security. Develop new application architecture using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) via web
services using Scrum Agile techniques. Develop new data model for application rationalizing to third normal form
and master data management (MDM) architecture. Data development on Microsoft SQL Server. Build credit card
payment public interface for web application for premium payments. Create new architecture for data warehouse
for operational reporting in a dimensional model using PowerDesigner to create the data model. Use Universal
Data Model (UDM) insurance industry reference model. A SaaS data warehouse and business intelligence solution
is used for analytics.
 STA Group, Chicago, IL STA Group Leadership Team
 Develop Business Architecture strategy, service offerings and product management for:
 Enterprise business architecture development
 Portfolio management and roadmap development
 Business process modeling and management
 Requirements definition and assessment
 Business rules definition
 Develop consulting strategy including:
 Business and IT road mapping
 Integration capability assessments and architecture
 Data Warehouse design and development capabilities
 Business Intelligence and analytics platform assessments and development
 Agile method implementation, coaching and leadership
 Enterprise Architecture
 Assess and/or design current state and future state architectural assessments
 Develop roadmaps to move from current state to desired future state
 Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse architecture and enablement
 Enterprise architect mentoring
 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
 Data architecture
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11/2007 – 02/2010
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TECHNICAL SUMMARY
 Create agile techniques for data architecture
 STA Group recruiting screening and evaluation
Client Projects:
Aetna Insurance, Hartford, CT, Enterprise Information Architect
As part of the Enterprise Architecture team, the enterprise information architect (EIA) is responsible for defining
IT strategy and architecture in terms of the enterprise capabilities in full lifecycle of use of data, assessing the
current state, developing a future state architecture. Identify and design data governance programs for lines of
business
Create blueprints for Quote and Rating, Claims and auto-adjudication/auto-pay domains application refreshes.
Use MEGA enterprise architecture modeling tool to capture data architecture and relate to systems.
Use IBM InfoSphere Data Architect (IDA), ClearCase and ERwin to create conceptual and logical models.
Perform semantic, conceptual, logical modeling.
Use reference architectures such as Universal Data Model (UDM, Silverston), insurance industry reference
model.
 Design new enterprise data architecture using mastered domains and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
access, replacing individual applications databases with reducing/eliminating redundant, non-synchronized
data
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State Farm Insurance, Bloomington, IL Data Architecture Team Lead
 Enable enterprise Data Model management for entity-relational diagrams for transactional systems as well and
star schema models for data warehouses using Embarcadero ER/Studio
 Define logical model standards
 Define physical model standards
 Define data warehouse model standards using Kimball and hybrid star schema approach
 Delivered course to select Data Warehouse team members, Agile for Data Professionals to improve, evangelize
Agile to data teams.
 Member of Data Sector Technical Architecture Governance working committee determining policy and process
of data architecture and governance.
 Partner with Information Quality, create data quality maturity model, self-assessment diagnostic and road map
to improve maturity level area-by-area.
 Enablement and governance of Business Intelligence Reference Architecture (BIRA).
 Develop data governance policy using DAMA’s Data Management Book of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK).
 Assess data migration project for company’s largest IT initiative:
 Data migration platform architecture
 Data integrity assurance plan
 Data movement approach
 Data quality and cleansing approach
 Verification and validation
 Develop continuous migration plan that significantly reduces risk and assures timely, accurate conversion
 Informatica Corporation, Chicago, IL
02/2007-11/2007
Integration Architect in the Financial Services and Insurance Practice for the leading data integration
software company providing platform solutions for data warehousing, data migration, data consolidation, data
quality and governance, master data management, metadata management
 Identify business and technical direction and requirements from strategic and operational management and
knowledge workers.
 Develop proof-of-concept business and technical solutions and present findings using Informatica tools.
 Analyze needs for Change-Data Capture in Real Time or batch application integration.
 Provide “best practice” business process management advisement for data integration
 Identify Integration Competency Centers (Center of Excellence) with the appropriate business model.
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 ABN AMRO/Bank of America, Chicago, IL
11/2005-02/2007
Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Architect for a large, multinational bank and financial services
provider. Conduct strategic and tactical system planning, including roadmaps and design to assigned business
areas’ applications:
 Finance and Risk Data Warehouse, provide overall architecture for data warehouse:
 FRW is the repository for all bank data where finance or risk is associated; this includes more than 30
source systems, definitive (“golden”) source of data for Basel II risk assessment for capital reserve
reporting regulatory compliance
 Risk Weighted Asset calculation
 Create architecture for full software development life cycle including development, system test, integration
test, pre-production and production
 Create Master Data Management strategy
 Conformed Data Layer Information Delivery Platform on star schema
 Use IBM IFW Financial Services Data Model (FSDM) as a reference model
 Determine functional and technical requirements for test cases and test plans
 Coordinate activities with Testing Center of Excellence (TCOE) for integration testing
 Consult to Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse for metadata management, Master Data Management
(MDM), data integration and data movement architecture
 Data Quality Reporting for incident report creation, triage, resolution and workflows. Solution uses
numerous data introspection queries and reports using Mercury TestDirector
 Metadata Repository
 Provide Data Governance solution to an integrated, comprehensive metadata repository, providing
definitions, business rules, defaulting rules, data lineage, etc.
 Customer Data Integration (CDI) project
▫ Identified and developed project proposal and architecture with enterprise view of customer using Master
Data Management (MDM)
▫ Create roadmap from current state of “silo” applications to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for
providing valuation/profitability model for customers, cross-selling and marketing related products
Responsibilities and roles of Solutions Architect:
▫ Use The Open Group Architecture Foundation (TOGAF) framework for Enterprise Architecture process.
▫ Consult to senior management to understand strategic plans of business and subsequently develop road
maps and identify critical success factors
▫ Provide strategic technology planning and acceptance within business and Information Technology to
support business
▫ Review logical and physical data models created by data modelers
▫ Create dimensional data models with ERwin
▫ Assess data requirements and business rules
▫ Create project implementation (logical/physical) data model to meet business requirements.
▫ Present to senior business managers and executives current-state, future-state architectures and roadmaps
to achieve alignment with Enterprise Strategy and Architecture
▫ Work with vendors, service and product, to achieve above objectives
 Destiny Health Insurance, Oak Brook, IL
11/2004-11/2005
For multinational, dynamic consumer-driven health/medical insurance, manage the Project Office for all
information technology activities.
 Manage Project Office for local teams in Chicago and off-shore teams in South Africa.
 Owner, developer and administrator of Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) process and
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.
 Introduced Agile Scrum in order to deliver business value solutions faster and improve quality
 Work with “C” level executives and line business managers, IT representative to committees for (Strategic)
Business Process Team (BPT), US Operations Business Implementation Team (USBIT) and Infrastructure
Technology Business Implementation Team (ITBIT).
 Owner of master schedule and people allocation across all teams supporting each of the business areas.
 Manage project close-out process evaluating budget and calendar estimates to actual utilization.
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 State of Wisconsin/Accenture, Madison, WI
03/2003-11/2004
For State of Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (employer tax, wage and unemployment
insurance agency), Data Architect for unemployment insurance project.
 Use Agile method to model data requirements
 Interview users and developers and gather requirements and write specifications
 Use ERwin/ModelMart repository to model databases, the largest with approximately 650 tables, 6,500 columns
and partitioning
 Develop logical model for business analysts and design sessions
 Transform logical model to physical model and detail out implementation requirements
 Perform object/relational mapping from Rational Rose UML models to ERwin entity relationship diagrams
(ERDs)
 Develop stored procedures, triggers and other database object on Oracle 9i relational database
 Create and maintain database definition language (DDL) in PL/SQL for implementing and schema migration
using Model Driven Development (MDD)
 Use Rational ClearQuest to track change requests
 Create and maintain data dictionary (metadata) of database objects and their use and meaning
 Monitor and tune complex SQL queries and stored procedures
 Publish subject area models, logical and physical, as artifacts for developers
 Use Rational Rose 2000 to develop UML diagrams modeling business processes
 American Family Insurance Company, Madison, WI
11/2002-02/2003
For major health/medical insurance, DB2 Data Architect for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA) health insurance workflow project.
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Migrate application from Wang VS computer to WebSphere application server and DB2
Analysis, design, specifications of health claims workflow application.
Use PowerDesigner v8.0 to model database for workflow schema and integration points.
Build schema to support workflow management.
Develop data object standards document for project, standards reviews.
Use Rational Rose to develop UML use cases, sequence diagrams and class diagrams.
 Wisconsin Physician Services (WPS) Insurance Company, Madison, WI
03/2002-10/2002
Project Manager and Architect for a leading health insurance provider and claims and payer
processing service center for platform in a highly regulated environment under authority of the TRICARE
Management Activity (TMA). Use Agile Scrum method to manage a team of 50 to quickly deliver new public web
site on fixed delivery date. Coordinate client, infrastructure, graphics, Java and COBOL/CICS development and
Quality Assurance teams and negotiate release management with all parties.
 Allstate Insurance Company, Northbrook, IL
01/2001-06/2001
Solutions Architect for a leading property and casualty insurance company for enterprise application
portal:
 Gathering and define business and technical requirements for 13 business units.
 Develop the technical logical and physical architecture models.
 Technical representative in RFP core team as portal subject matter expert (SME) to define vendor list and
create the technical requirements.
 Integrated Trade Systems, Inc., Lombard, IL
04/1993-12/1999
Product Manager for development and delivery of business-to-business international logistics supply chain
management system. Application included mini-mart online analytics processing (OLAP) for marketing,
operations and logistics support and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Rebuilt original client server
application on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform. Software is communications enabled, producing output
directly to electronic mail, facsimile, and EDI server using the Internet. Total project responsibility for product
definition, architecture, development, marketing and roll out. Redesigned product for web-based business model.
Responsibilities for design and develop Internet based software part of a logistics portal.
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TECHNICAL SUMMARY
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Basel II Compliance Professionals Association, member since 2011.
Scrum Alliance, member since 2010.
Data Management International, member since 2011
The Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI), member since 2008.
 Chicago Agile Project Management Group, member since 2009.
 The Open Group Architecture Foundation, member since 2007.
 Project Management Institute, member since 2002.
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EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS:
 Data Science Certificate, (nine courses including Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Acquisition and Cleansing,
Inferencing, et al) Johns-Hopkins University, expected completion, July, 2016.
 Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance, 2010.
 TOGAF Enterprise Architect Certification, The Open Group Architecture Foundation, 2007.
 Project Management Professional (PMP) certification course, Professional Management Institute, 2005.
 Postgraduate studies in Database Management, Networks and Communications and Human-Computer Interaction
at Nova University (Ft. Lauderdale, FL), 1993-1994.
 Postgraduate studies in human computer interaction (human factors) and instructor in computer programming at
DePaul University (Chicago, IL), 1991-1994.
 Master in Business Administration from Florida International University (Miami, FL) with special emphasis in
Management Information Systems, 1989.
 Bachelor in Business Administration from Florida International University (Miami, FL), with major in
Management Information Systems. Additional qualification in Finance and minor in Computer Sciences, 1984.
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