Enterprise Application Architect

People and team management

90% Strategic

Thought Leader

Process Maturation

Build Culture of Trust

Servant Leadership

March 2015

To

November 2018

Washington State Department of Labor & Industries

• Managed a team of 2 Senior IT Associates and 5 contracted Solution Architects as well as allocated a $4M budget.

• Provided architectural guidance for all IT application investments: COTS, SaaS, and custom-developed solutions along with creating IT policy and guiding on strategic direction.

• Responsible for defining, staffing, and managing Enterprise Solution Architecture Center of Excellence, and defining cloud application architecture for the entire agency with 200+ applications.

• Set strategic direction for the agency, and in some circumstances, for all state agencies as well as provided mentorship and leadership to the Service-Oriented Architect.

• Led Agency Application Steering Committee and participated in conference panels and advisory committees, both Agency, and Statewide, as an expert in solution and enterprise architecture.

• Ensured compliance with and utilization of unified service-oriented and event-driven architectures along with participating in statewide technology and architectural panels and advisory committees.

Notable Accomplishments

• Increased enterprise and solution architecture program quality and maturity by 200% in less than 1 year.

• Created a Solution Architecture program and center of excellence.

• Orchestrated transformation of cloud application architecture to API-based cloud system that is projected to reduce expenses by $20M over 10 year.

• Represented L&I on statewide governance boards and acted as a leading statewide resource for Enterprise Architects, admired and trusted by architects from all state agencies

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