Resume

Distinguished Engineer with extensive experience in designing corporate technology architectures, database technology and commercial application software development.

Experience

Distinguished Engineer

Wells Fargo · March 2022 – Present

Principal Systems Architect / Senior Vice President

Wells Fargo · December 2016 – March 2022

• Selected and approved bank standard products for CRM and finance
• Supported Resolution & Recovery Planning
• Led migration of several hundred Java applications to Cloud Foundry; set prioritization criteria, roadmap, and SDLC governance standards

Principal Systems Architect / Vice President

Wells Fargo · March 2011 – December 2016 · San Francisco

• Architected secure web presence for over 20 MM customers
• Enabled common systems across desktop, mobile browsers and hybrid mobile applications
• Led technology direction for a wide range of projects spanning multiple lines of business
• Prototyped locator service using Scala, Akka, Camel, PostGIS
• Mentored team building system configuration manager using Java, Scala, Akka
• Served on the Wells Fargo Architecture Council

Systems Architect / Vice President

Wells Fargo · January 2003 – March 2011 · San Francisco

• Architected migration of wachovia.com to wellsfargo.com
• Deployed ClearXchange P2P payments system across multiple FIs — the forerunner of Zelle
• Managed Internet Services Architecture group, primarily payments and authentication
• Provided architectural support for the BillPay platform, processing up to 2 MM payments per day
• Built one of the earliest check RDC solutions for the small business segment
• Enabled bill presentment using ACH, with mutually-authenticated web services and a SAML 2.0 trusted-third-party model
• Architected systems to meet FFIEC guidance for additional authentication controls, including a multi-master Oracle replication design for non-stop operation under data-center loss
• Designed online foreign currency sales integrated to existing back shop
• Designed cross-channel single sign-on for high-value customers spanning wholesale and retail systems; established protocols for multi-custodian software keystore management
• Migrated wellsfargo.com from ATG Dynamo to WebLogic

President

InterScales, Inc. · 2001 – 2003 · San Francisco Bay Area

• Transitioned ~5,000 custom-coded pages to a CMS for Wells Fargo Bank, reducing minor content changes from up to 10 days to under one day
• Built content deployment system integrated with Akamai CDN
• Designed hot/hot database in geographically separate data center, replacing a hot-standby and reducing application-server startup time
• Troubleshooting and upgrades for uptime and performance

Technical Manager

Altro Solutions · April 2000 – December 2000 · San Jose, CA

• Built mobile news distribution using WAP, translating an existing XML feed into WML via a J2EE server; demonstrated in the US and UK on Nokia 7110 prototypes
• Led integration of the Verity search engine into wellsfargo.com; converted the site-metadata database from Microsoft to Oracle
• Defined company quality methodology and project-deliverable templates aligned to IEEE/ANSI software engineering standards

Technical Manager

Oracle Corp. · 1994 – 2000 · Redwood Shores, CA

• Architected Oracle iTV Platform for the Interactive Television Solutions group
• Built an Oracle AQ–based messaging system for the iTV Platform with synchronous and persistent-asynchronous capabilities; defined methods for exposing messaging metadata via XML DTD and CORBA IDL
• Prototyped JMS, Oracle Internet Directory, and Oracle Information Broker (project Mercury)
• Pre-sales engagement and trade-show support (NAB, Western Cable Show, Broadcast Australia, IBC) with international broadcasters and telcos in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, the UK, France, and China
• Deployment consultant for the Oracle8 alpha rollout team; consulted with and led several early adopters through evaluation and deployment
• Set Oracle7 data-load performance record on Solaris; designed and led integration of a data warehouse for a large telco
• Modeled and built a sales & territory management database integrating overlapping and conflicting schemas from four third-party sources
• Consulted on text retrieval
• Led Oracle in Motion (Mobile Agents) field-force applications for internal use by Oracle sales personnel, and built the launch demo for the Oracle worldwide conference

Computer Scientist / Associate

Advanced Decision Systems / Booz, Allen & Hamilton · 1990 – 1994 · Mountain View, CA

Joined Advanced Decision Systems as Computer Scientist in 1990; continued as Associate after Booz, Allen & Hamilton acquired ADS in 1992.

• Led a software development team building the Advanced Planning System, an AI-based mission planner for the U.S. Air Force, capable of over 2,000 sorties per day with selectable user-interaction levels; used to plan live combat missions
• Led a geographically distributed team building a companion mission re-planning system that ingested real-time updates against an executing plan

Software Engineer

Kaiser Electronics · 1988 – 1990

• Prototyped helmet-mounted display systems with custom symbology and head-tracker integration for pilot situational awareness; flight-tested in fighter aircraft
• Co-built a hardware/software prototype for real-time, in-cockpit automatic gain and contrast control across multiple video sources and formats
• Developed and supported acceptance of head-up display software for tactical fighters and helicopters

Education

BS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

University of California, Berkeley

Activities and societies: UC Jazz Ensembles

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