History/Resume

    
Steve B with his favorite animal
Steve B
Steve's Experience  
Application Architect (Contractor), Allstate Corporation, Northbrook, IL, July 2004-Present

·          Performance tuning, J2EE Expert, Oracle knowledge, IBM WebSphere, TAM SSO. Previously Responsible for .NET Architecture applications, environments and security

Principal Architect, TandemSeven, Plymouth, MA, 2003–2004          

·          Led the portal architecture for a software company’s new booking engine. This work involves determining migration strategy for the legacy application to the new architecture.  Technologies used MS.NET and C#.

·          Recently integrated Netegrity SiteMinder product in Govt payroll solution. Use of SunOne LDAP and planning for Active Directory integration.

·          Designed MS Sharepoint 2003 solution for a leading financial services solution provider. Responsibilities involved leading the architecture work for a portal to manage and deliver complex compliance solutions to large corporate banking clients.

·          Led the architecture work for a leading gift company’s complex customer service order entry user interface. The company was in the process of integrating five back-end customer service systems and needed to create one interface for the customer service team to use. The interface needed to be dynamic and flexible due to the heavy validation and data requirements of the application. The application was developed in Jakarta Struts. The work also entailed extensive performance benchmarking and analysis work to determine the best architectural approach.

Senior Enterprise Technical Architect, Niteo Partners Inc., Chicago, IL, 2001–2003            

·          Led Wells Fargo content management system project for public banking web site. This was a three million dollar project that encompassed the ATG Dynamo J2EE platform for dynamic content management in conjunction with XML/XSLT processing of Documentum content files.

·          Infrastructure lead and architect for Sun Microsystems Inc. data warehouse project using SunOne LDAP and Oracle warehouse.

Senior Solution Architect/Technology Manager, Zefer Corporation, Chicago, IL, 1999–2001           

·          Solutions architect for Siemens Corporation eBusiness initiatives – Netegrity, enCommerce getAccess evaluations.

·          Developed ebDirect a B2B site for small businesses to purchase group health benefits.

·          Worked in Asia Pacific region on a project for Zuellig-Pharma (the largest pharma distributor in the Asia-Pacific) that involved a B2B site and Data Warehousing with OLAP capabilities for sales agents and clients.

Senior Software Engineer / Project Manager, Renaissance Worldwide, Moline, IL, 1995-1998

·          Numerous contract work for John Deere. Created Deere’s first successful dealer warranty claim processing extranet.

Senior Software Engineer, Neural Applications Inc., Coralville, IA, 1993-1994

·          Java development for custom hardware/software solution for the steel industry Electric Arc Furnace controllers. Clients in US and Singapore.

Senior Software Engineer – Realtime Process Control, Alcoa Corporation, Davenport, IA, 1988-1992

·          Embedded and realtime control software development for modernization of Alcoa’s 100” rolling mills.

Software Consultant – Nuclear Power Regulation, Coco Beach, FL, 1987-1988

Software Consultant – Nuclear Power Regulation, Universal Design Inc., Millstone III and Connecticut Yankee plants,  Hartford, CT, 1983 - 1987

Application Engineer - Plastic Injection Molding, Control Process Inc., Plantsville, CT, 1981-1983

Application Engineer – Chemical Analysis, Anaconda Aluminum, Waterbury, CT, 1980-1981

 

 

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