Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

Entrepreneur and Enterprise Architecture professional.
Looking to change career from IS role switching to the business side. Ideally would love to apply experience, skills, and knowledge of quantitative analysis, predictive modeling and statistics.

Work History

• Covidien
• Enterprise Architect/Prohject Manager
• Febuary 2005 to Present

• Perform role of Architect and Project Manager on various Enterprise initiatives
  Led projects to select a Data Integration/ETL solution for Covidien and define strategy for Master Data Management
  Was a Project Manager on the following projects that involved Project Management, managing cross-functional teams up to 30 people across various regions and countries, Architecture, Design, Development, and mentoring developers (.NET, IIS, webMethods, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, AS/400, IBM Websphere MQ, Blackberry Enterprise Server, Agile, BPCS, SharePoint)
  Active member of the team responsible to define processes for Software Development Life Cycle for the whole company

• Aetna
• Enterprise Architect
• August 2004 to Febuary 2005

• Worked as a lead Architect on various EAI Services primarily in Claims Domain
  Defined Enterprise Services Conceptual Architecture
  Built contracts and specifications for Consumers (J2EE based), Providers (CISC. J2EE, DB2) and EAI (J2EE and WBIMB/formerly WMQI) Applications
  Led development team to implement various EAI components (J2EE/WBIMB/Webspere/MQ/SOAP XML), that included high- and low-level design, development, consult developers in writing code that satisfies specifications and debugging various problems

• United Health Group
• Architect/Team Lead
• September 2001 to August 2004

• Acted as an IT Project Manager on various projects
  Designed and architected the major components of UnitedeServices Portal (UeS): Express Quote, Commissions, and Renewal Applications. It involved the implementation and integration using the following components, systems, and technologies: J2EE, SOAP XML, STRUTS, Websphere Application Server, iPlanet Web Server, Oracle DB, Rating Service(IBM IMS Mainframe), MQ, WMQI (MQSI), Tivoli PolicyDirector, Webseal, PDF Generation Service (built using FOP), Peoplesoft
  Refined business requirements, analyzed business processes, created system specifications for the development team, analyzed and evaluated Change Controls
  Provided recommendations to top management on possible business processes improvement

• Vitria
• Technical Consultant
• Febuary 2000 to September 2001

• Using Vitria’s leading-edge e-business platform (BusinessWare), worked directly with Vitria’s customers, partners, and engineering teams to automate cross-enterprise business processes and integrate various systems.
  Defined Project Scopes and Project Plans and oversaw the development of Professional Services Best Practices and Methodologies
  Participated in hands-on pre-sales activities and Proofs of Concept
  Provided custom training to consulting staff and customers

• i2 Technologies
• Solutions Consultant
• June 1998 to Febuary 2000

• Developed state-of-the-art supply chain applications, such as Spare Parts Planner, Asset Planner, and Supply Chain Strategist Simulator.
  Led certain stages of the projects, such as Functional, Database and Algorithm design.
  Designed and developed Optimization Engines, CORBA and COM Wrappers Data Access Layers, and Web UI using Java, C++, JSP, VB, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, CPLEX callable libraries.
  Acted as a liaison to outside contractors on the project

• Northeast Utilities
• Programmer Analyst
• January 1998 to June 1998

• Led functional and database design and development of the Crew Tracking System using Visual Basic and Sybase SQL Server. Generated Reports using Crystal Reports.

• Merrill Lynch
• Programmer Analyst
• May 1996 to January 1998

• Developed Help Desk application for cc:Mail administrators using Visual Basic and MS SQL Server. Participated in various projects utilizing C/C++ on UNIX Solaris.

Education

• Montclair State University
• MS, Computer Science
• 1995 - 1998

• Lviv Politechnic University, Lviv, Ukraine
• MS, Appled Math
• 1990 - 1995