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Britt Ward
WA - 98503 USA
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Software Architect/Sr . Engineer


Summary

For over 6 years Ive employed Object Oriented Analysis and Design techniques in developing multi tier, loosely coupled components in highly scalable Web enabled and client, server applications. Using C#, VB, VB.net, COM+, ASP.net, ASP, SQL Server, XML, Visual Studio, Visual Studio .net, UML, VISIO, HTML, Java Script, ADO, VSS, EAI. In addition to Architect duties I code blocks of functionality. In example, on the Labor and Industries, Pension Division I took on the Financial Package development and I coded over 32000 lines of code
Collaborated in designing and building .Net application for an International customer delivering license plate manufacture and distribution to various states using C#, VB.Net, ASP.Net, ADO .Net, VS .Net, VSS, SQL Server, XML. Coded small modules to fill in critical path or catch up situations
In concert with Labor and Industries personnel I defined a. Net Architecture using patterns and defined best practices via UML models for business, interfaces and data models.
Used mainframe COBOL and ADABAS Natural in interfacing with ADABAS Database. Journey Man level coding efforts on large and small projects, products.
Designed and developed COBOL financial applications using a structured approach in a mid range mainframe environment. Journey Man level coding efforts on large and small projects, products
Designed and interfaced LAN applications with IBM mainframe applications ; RUMBA, SNA, Broker. Journey Man level coding efforts on large and small projects, products
Designed 2 tier client, server applications on Unix platforms, coding at an intermediate level.

Led application development teams of 10 or more members as Technical Project Manager and Technical Team Lead
Managed multi million dollar budgets

Interfaced with Executive Management on strategy, work plans and documented results
Defined life cycle methodology and project documentation standards
Managed up-to 6 projects utilizing sub project Technology leads

Served as CIO in banks, with as much as 2 billion dollars in assets, for over 9 years managing staffs as large as eighty 5 personnel and worked for Chairmen of Boards, Presidents and Senior Executive Management to define business needs, strategy and policy. Prepared 1, 3 and 5 year Information Technology plans to provide solutions and implementations to meet those business needs..
Reduced overhead and improved productivity which resulted in savings in a range of 150K 750K at several financial institutions utilizing business oriented techniques to identify and resolve business problems
Reduced cost of ownership for information assets by as much as 80% on 1 product, service by designing a model that created a flexible framework so the business unit could quickly interface with the mainframe accounting data

Supervised and trained staffs as large as 39 programmers, operators and customer service staff in federal government utilizing business oriented, technical oriented and personal skills
Managed multi million dollar budgets as Application Architect and Project Manager

Key Skills and Knowledge

LANGUAGES SOFTWARE DATABASES TECHNOLOGIES
NT 10 Visual Basic .Net 5 Enterprise Services 7 Microsoft DNA 13
UNIX 2 ASP.Net 5 COM+ 7 SQL Server 8 ADO .Net 5
IBM VMS 3 C# 5 COM, MTS 3 Oracle 3 ADO, ADO .Net 9
UNISYS 6 C++ 1 ActiveX 8 Access 9 XML 5
NCR 1 Jscript 4 IIS 6 ADABAS 3 CDO 4
Windows 2k 4 Visual Basic 8 Visual Studio 8 DB2 2 EDI 1
ASP/VB Script 7 VSSafe 6 ISAM 3 MainFr, Front ends 3
COBOL 10 WebSphere MQSeries 1 Xtranet 6

Process Definition and Flow 23 UML 6
Change Management and Control 23 Object Oriented Analysis and Design 6
Business Process Engineering 23 Life Cycle Management of Software Development 25
Project Management 16 Business Development 4


Employment

2005 -  2005
Senior Information Technology Advisor

BearingPoint Baghdad Iraq Senior Information Technology Advisor
The expected deliverables where ; Ensure an off site data management system is functional ; Ensure an off site bank supervision system is functional ; Submit recommendations for a modern Management Information Systems to the Central Bank of Iraq ; Complete assessment and design of the long term Information Technology infrastructure requirement for the Central Bank of Iraq ; Complete assessment and design of the long term Information Technology Infrastructure requirement for state banks.


2005 -  2005
Technology Architect

BearingPoint Technology Architect Microsoft BearingPoint Baghdad Iraq Senior Information Technology Advisor
At Microsoft I was part of a team working on a strategic project to consolidate MS customers into a single 360 view of the customers relationship with MS It is estimated that the follow on projects will exceed 25M in cost .I built the Application Architecture for this strategic phase.


2004 -  2005
Senior Engineer

. Net Architecture UML VISIO Covestic , Inc Prime Contract Senior Engineer AT and T Wireless
Building Interfaces from security scans, vulnerability findings, to a Security Portal. The project is a short term project ending at the end of year merger between Cingular and ATT Wireless.


2004 -  2004
Senior Engineer

OOA OOD C# ADO . Net Sql Server Oracle Web Service ASP . Net Volt Prime Contract Senior Engineer PACCAR . Net Architecture UML VISIO Covestic , Inc Prime Contract Senior Engineer AT and T Wireless
Provided OOA, OOD Architecture and Design artifacts for 3 Web applications, in the Manufacturing Industry and coded parts of all 3 with C# and ASP. Net. These systems interfaced with the Enterprise Application Infrastructure, Iway and BizTalk, to access Manugistics Transportation Manger, SAP and 4 legacy systems.

MSF, OOA, OOD, C#, ADO. Net, ASP. Net, Sql 2K, Oracle 9 Iway, BizTalk

CORE
Technology - Prime Contract
Senior Engineer
Administrator of Courts
Employed Microsoft Solutions Framework process models to capture requirements and business rules, create Conceptual and Logical Architecture and design, Use Cases and Functional Speciation.


2004 -  2004
Computer International Consultants

MSF OOA OOD UML VISIO , MS Project 2003 Computer International Consultants Prime Contract Senior Engineer and Dev Lead . Net Architecture UML VISIO Covestic , Inc Prime Contract Senior Engineer AT and T Wireless

Analyzed an in process project to build Tax Processing Applications. Responsibility for reviewing RFP, Technical Solution and Statement of Work and making various recommendations for meeting contractual obligations by defining Architecture and System Design Models for these applications. This Architecture and design had to conform to Microsoft Best Practices and Patterns. As Architect and Technical Lead mentoring developers to understand and follow the models and to help developers code the design requirements.


2003 -  2004
Senior Engineer

OOA OOD UML C# SQL Server VISIO and . Net Framework Freelance Projects Senior Engineer
Analyzed and modeled business processes, modeled data flow and architected database solution for both Windows Desktop and Web based database systems.

Projects : A membership application to track gym members, their attendance, fees and their purchases ; A soccer season management tool to track team members, coaches, schedule games and fields and identify schedule conflicts ; A financial trading system that took stock symbols, applied trading rules and performed money management and portfolio management for the investor.

OOA, OOD, C#, VB. Net, Web solutions, T-Sql, Sql2K


2003 -  2003
Development Lead

COMFORCE Prime Contract Development Lead Microsoft OOA OOD UML C# SQL Server VISIO and . Net Framework Freelance Projects Senior Engineer
Evaluated the architecture and design for a sales compensation application, provided advice and counsel to the project team and provided technical reviews for SQL Server T-SQL and WinForm rules and implementation.


2001 -  2003
Dev Lead

OOA OOD Client Server VB . Net WinForms ASP . Net LimeLight Technologies Tacoma , WA Senior Engineer Dev Lead WA Labor and Industry

For Labor and Industries planned movement from a DNA Architecture to a. Net Architecture I provided a. Net Architecture and presented this Architecture via Enterprise Templates .I helped the agency define best practices for coding and use of the. Net Technology and the use of patterns. Additionally I introduced the agency to several tools and techniques that would allow them to create prototypes and production applications in a fraction of the time than with standard development methods .I introduced the agency to application modeling via VISIO and UML diagrams.

Leading a team of 7 mainframe, web developers and customer leads ; architecting, designing and building a $2.3M 4000 function point project to re-engineer the Pensions Benefit System into an architecture that was a layered, coupled distributed web based application. It supports over 18000 pensioners and manages $345M in annual payments .I lead requirements gathering, realizing our use cases and completed conceptual and logical designs using UML, VISIO, SQL Server, VSS.

I took on the major component functionality package

Introduced and mentored the project team in using object oriented design, analysis and construction techniques ; multi tier, coupled, serviced based models utilizing XML and SQL Server as data sources from component to component and for some, in. Using Use Cases, UML Models and other diagrams.


2002 -  2002
Consulting Application Architect

VS .6 VB .6 ASP COM+ ADO XML SQL Server VSS VISIO UML OOA OOD EAI Milestone Technologies Olympia , WA Prime Contract Consulting Application Architect OOA OOD Client Server VB . Net WinForms ASP . Net LimeLight Technologies Tacoma , WA Senior Engineer Dev Lead WA Labor and Industry
Mentored a small team of developers in employing Microsofts new. Net technology using Object oriented techniques in analysis, design and construction.


2000 -  2001
Consultant

VS . Net VB . Net ASP . Net ADO . Net SQL Server 2000 OOA OOD UML XML VISIO VSS MarchFIRST Englewood , Co Senior Application Architect Consultant

Lead a team of 4 developers in analyzing performance deficiencies with traces, logs and other SQL Server tools and business logic implementation for a large Dot Com company that had implemented an online application using VB .6 ASP, COM+, ADO, SQL Server, VSS. We determined performance bottlenecks were in the design and implementation of the online application. In particular the application had 40% of its business logic in ASP and 60% of its business logic in stored procedures in the database .I lead this team in coding modifications for the application to improve performance. On this engagement I decomposed the business logic in the stored procedures and interpreted this logic for the domain components.

I analyzed, designed and built a global, multi lingual application using VB .6 ASP, COM+, ADO and SQL Server for a major IT firm in CO utilizing Object Oriented Analysis and Design paradigms and an Architecture based on the DNA model. This application is to be used by this firms offices around the world to manage and implement online newsletters. The analysis and design was done using Object Oriented Analysis and Design techniques documenting models with UML in VISIO and SQL Server .I coded VB .6 components and stored procedures for various parts of this application,.


1998 -  2000
Solutions Architect

VS .6 VB .6 ASP COM+ ADO XML SQL Server VSS VISIO UML OOA OOD Compaq Corporation Greenbelt , MD Senior Consultant Solutions Architect Business Developer on eBusiness Business Development Team

Focused on building solutions around Microsofts DNA technology and integrating Legacy applications with LAN, WAN distributed systems utilizing various Compaq products for EAI integration and transaction management.

Led a team of 10 developers in a multi million dollar effort to design and build Microsoft DNA solutions utilizing COM, MTS, COM+, VB .6 ADO, ASP, SQL Server and VSS, for 13 applications in a Law Enforcement Environment with the United States Postal Inspection Service .I presented an Architecture to Model the DNA structure, defined best practices and introduced the agency to UML modeling and patterns.

Lead Architect in bid process and participated in decision committees deciding if we should bid the contract.

Was architect on a committee preparing a bid for building the voting system in the House of Representatives .I analyzed existing infrastructure, data flow and system capacity by mapping the network topology, building data flow diagrams, identifying functional models and estimate WBS. With this bid I provided a high level and design to replace the old system. On various architectural projects, I participated in multiple bid processes responding with WBS estimates and conceptual designs.


1990 -  1998
Project Manager

VS .6 VB .6 ASP COM+ ADO SQL Server VSS OOA OOD Federal Government in Anchorage , AK Project Manager Federal Aviation Administration
Created and lead a 10 member software development, integration team coding Agency wide applications in VB, Access, ASP and SQL Server

Use of COBOL and ADABAS Natural to interface with ADABAS for financial application integration

Defined standards, tools and skill sets, architecture and infrastructure by employing industry best practices and personal experience

Coordination and collaboration with all the various lines of business in the agency and with other federal agencies presenting, Demonstrating our applications and and explaining how they where built with VB .5 PC COBOL, Access Database, converted to SQL Server

Started supplying EDI services with agency Trading Partners by becoming familiar with X12 documents, mapping and transmitting transactions and evaluating various EDI packages

Established an Administrative IntraNet encompassing 12 regional sites nationwide and 48000 employees with ASP, Access and SQL Server

Enhancing IntraNet to be the information delivery vehicle for all administrative actions by doing web transfers with heterogonous databases, SQL Server, at 12 remote locations

Establishing an information store for all types of info ; Access, SQL Server, DONTS
Providing foundation for collaborative projects by documenting on-line with VB, ASP, Access, SQL Server
Providing capability for digital signatures by employing Key Server
Providing capability for training via the IntraNet using NetMeeting
Developed and implemented 5 national systems using VB. 3/5/6 ASP, COM, MTS, ADO, DAO, Access, SQL Server

Desktop client, server applications that where converted to IntraNet applications via a flexible design that followed best practices for design and implementations

Reducing development and deployment costs

1 application reviewed, tested and used as prototype for other federal agencies

VS. 3/5/6 VB. 3/5/6 ASP, DCOM, COM, MTS, COM+, ADO, DAO, SQL Server, VSS, HASP, SNA, Brokers, all for accessing mainframe data


1980 -  1990
Chief Information Officer

Banking Institutions Chief Information Officer




Education

University of Colorado Graduate School of Banking, Certificate Course
Laramie County Community College, AA S



Miscellaneous

Key Bank of Alaska
Alaska State Bank
Bank of New Mexico
Peoples Bank
Aspen State Bank

Provided Strategy, Business Planning and defined Policy to banks with multi million and multi billion dollars in assets
Reduced operating expenses and increased productivity at many institutions in excess of 750K
Managed technical and clerical staff in excess of 85 personnel
Responsible for multi million dollar operating budgets
Project Lead on building a new banking system with a major supplier of banking software

Implemented training and career progression for technical staff
Improved communications between IT and Business Managers.
Responsible to Chairmen of the Boards, Presidents and Senior Executive Management
Established standards, trained staff in developing and maintaining banking applications
Developed business opportunities to sell banking processing services to banks customers

Education and Training : Courses in lending, credit and operations

Management Information ; courses in Computer Science, Finance and Accounting

Training received for Information Industry tools and products : Net training in ASP, VB, C#, Data Access and more
Microsoft : DNA, Visual Basic 6 ASP, COM, MTS, COM+, SQL Server 7/2000 OLAP Services
NT BackOffice Product Suite ; NT, SQL Server, Exchange, SNA, IIS
Microsoft Site Server, Commerce Server 3 OneSoft 1 Commerce
IBM Websphere
Oracle : DBA RDBMS
UNISYS : Medium Range System Optimization
CP3600 Front End Processor
IBM : COBOL, CICS, ADABAS Natural




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