Core Competencies
Hard Skills
Software & Platforms
Clouds
AI
Data Formats
Professional Experience
Solutions Architect
Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
NOV 2023 – PRESENT
- Solutioned business requirements for a billing system for self-funded groups. Billing system included claims processing, capitation payments, direct payments, pharmacy rebates, and other misc. charges.
- Modernized billing that was written over 10 years ago, using Windows native software. A modern architecture for their billing system is cloud-native application using AWS and utilizing serverless technologies, event-driven architecture, and zero-trust architecture.
- Collaborated with product owners and other architects on application integrations and establish standards for automated transaction recovery and idempotent processes.
- Mentored engineering teams on architectural best practices, Wellmark standards, and modern development patterns
- Guided team on using generative AI to implement a modernized billing system.
Technologies
AWS, Business Objects, Power BI, Crystal Reports, Visio, Node.js, Typescript, Windows, C#, MS SQL Server
Solutions Architect
Hydrogen Health
APR 2023 – JUL 2023
- Supported Authorization & Pay project which authorizes credit card payments for telehealth services. Auth & Pay provided validation of patient's insurance coverage (270/271) to determine cost of telehealth services. Non-covered services are billed and paid e-commerce transactions (authorization & pay). Covered services resulted in claims submission to insurance carrier.
- Supported Development and QA teams to resolve issues with mobile app (SDKs), claims, eligibility, e-commerce issues, collaborating with Hydrogen Health's clients (insurance carriers) and partners (telehealth providers) to determine best course of resolution.
- Architected solutions to enhance integration between Hydrogen Health and their clients' applications.
- Initiated discovery work on a 2.0 product and research solutions and vendors for a clinical database.
Technologies
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Salesforce, FHIR, HL7, Availity, Kotlin, Postgres, Data Dog, Jira, TestFlight, Google Workspace, Whimsical, Notion
Enterprise & Solutions Architect
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
APR 2022 – DEC 2022
- Enterprise Architect for MSK's service platform, supporting clinical operations.
- Collaborate with end users, product management and other architects to define problems, requirements, and an architecture strategy to meet MSKs business objectives.
- Presented roadmaps, architecture, and solutions to Product management to secure funding for projects, and assist with planning initiatives, and demonstrated architecture's alignment with business goals and architectural roadmaps.
- Partnered with other architects to improve solutions that involved integrations with various platforms and applications such as Salesforce, Epic, Allscripts CIS following HL7 & FHIR standards.
- Defined swaggers for new APIs using Postman as well as test new and existing APIs to confirm functionality and realize data points that can be leverage within a new process.
Technologies
Salesforce, HL7, Microservices Architecture, Event-Driven Architecture, Confluent Kafka, Java, AWS, On-Prem, Azure, Epic, Allscripts CIS, draw.io, Postman, MS Office, Rally, Confluence, SAFe Agile practices
Enterprise Architect
United Health Group
SEP 2021 – FEB 2022
- Collaborate with product management, portfolio and technology architecture leads to plan out, document, and execute strategic product family delivery roadmaps.
- Collaborated with other architects to define architecture vision and create an end-to-end target state solution blueprints and implementation roadmaps.
- Utilized a consultative, agile approach to solving problems that support business and technology strategies.
- Architect the Enterprise Provider Selection service to identify providers related to claims.
- Presented roadmaps, architecture, and solutions to upper management to secure funding for projects and demonstrate architecture's alignment with business goals and architectural roadmaps.
Technologies
AWS, Azure, Private and Hybrid cloud environments, Microservices Architecture, Event-driven Architecture, Java, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Elastic Search, Aha!, MS Visio, MS Office, draw.io
Solutions Architect
CO-OP Financial Services
NOV 2020 – SEP 2021
- Created conceptual and logical architecture design for a Google Paycache, a Google digitally issued card, and digital card issuance allowing financial institution members to use their debit/credit card immediately without waiting for physical card and push card updates to merchant accounts.
- Created conceptual and logical architecture design for Extended Payments program on credit accounts to convert revolving charges to a short-term installment loan.
- Presented and participated in architecture review board to present and approve solution designs for various projects.
- Collaborated with external vendors for discovery in developing a solution design.
- Collaborated with product owners on product features to produce a definition of a minimum viable product.
- Produce low level design artifacts for design authority board approval and for developers which included swaggers for new and existing APIs.
- Collaborated and mentored development team to ensure compliance with solution design, company standards, and policies.
Technologies
Mulesoft, MS Azure, MS Azure SQL, MS Azure DevOps, Restful APIs, Postman, Google Paycache, Apple Wallet APIs
Solutions Architect
Acumen
OCT 2019 – AUG 2020
- Evaluated and re-architected Acumen's computing environment to make their computing environment and web applications and databases scalable and fault tolerant.
- Evaluated development standards and redefined some standards to follow best practices
- Evaluate vendors for 508 compliance verification to assist Acumen with ensuring accessibility for those with disabilities and to meet requirements of Acumen's clients.
- Created a conceptual and logical architecture for their flagship application to meet business requirements and to make it more scalable and manageable, reducing overall hardware and operational costs associated with the application.
- Performed discovery work and research on various vendors to assist Acumen to ensure secure coding practices and secure software deployments.
- Advised and guided development and DevOps personnel on secure coding practices to meet HITRUST compliance, and different deployment strategies to reduce application down time.
- Guided process to reconfigure Kubernetes cluster to better utilize resources using namespaces and address ill-formed configurations with their cluster.
Technologies
Kubernetes, Jenkins, Tomcat, Groovy, Java, Spring boot, PostgreSQL, HAProxy, REST, CentOS Linux
Solutions Architect
Delta Airlines
JUN 2019 – OCT 2019
- Authored a conceptual, logical and physical architecture for Delta's Revenue Management Bags project. Project was to rewrite the bags project and to allow for bag fee to be paid using air miles.
- Collaborated with the Architecture Review Board to present designs and architecture that consistent with the Delta's architectural governance and gain approval for such architecture plans for the project.
- Advised the development team on designs that would be consistent with the planned and approved architecture plans.
- Developed a physical architecture for Revenue Management Bags project and collaborated with the IT team on infrastructure builds.
Technologies
RedHat Openshift, Tomcat, JBoss, Java, Spring, RedHat Enterprise Linux, REST, Apigee, Oracle, Apache Cassandra
IT Manager / Enterprise Architect
Univfy Inc.
JUN 2010 – JUN 2019
- Collaborate with business executives and owners to refine business requirements
- • Developed architecture for B2B and B2C web applications involving healthcare analytics, integration of AI, ML models, e-commerce, content management, business intelligence, content management, and business intelligence.
- Developed architecture an internal web application to support call center activities and customer support.
- Researched marketplace for technology solutions and product to meet the requirements of Univfy's computing needs.
- Defined architecture for Univfy's system computing environment.
- Managed vendors for cloud computing services, software licenses and subscriptions
- Developed PCI & HIPAA compliance policies and standards and implemented system, software, and processes to comply.
- Recruited and managed a teams of system administrators, software engineers and web producers to implement, maintain and secure computing environments and applications.
Technologies utilized
Redhat Enterprise Linux, Wildfly/Redhat JBoss, Java, J2EE, JMS, Oracle, LDAP, XML, ZK Framework, Jasper Reports, Spring Framework, Hibernate, SQL, IBM Cloud, AWS, Active Collab, Trello, Slack, Eclipse, Ant
Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN