THOMAS E. OWEN

to2043@outlook.com

(913) 226-2043

Lead Solution and Platform Architect


Vice President • Knowledge Architect • Platform and Solutions Architect •

System Design & Impl • Infrastructure Virtualization • Salesforce • Data Integration Engineering • Lead Cloud Transformation • Analytics Administration • Business Intelligence •

Several Awards for Excellence • Global to Regional Distributed Platform Architecture Solution – DevOps • Platform Provisioning Solution   

 

WORK EXPERIENCE


 

Citigroup, New York, NY                                          May 2006 - present

VP, Architecture Lead Analyst

for Multinational Bank and financial services

      Responsible for Data Management and Analytics Strategy Definition for Bank Retail Services Digital Transformation Program

      Transformed Program Analytic Goals from monolithic Waterfall projects into Agile features and stories delivery methodology accelerating program value stream

      Responsible for distributed Servicing Applications migration to Salesforce for Digital Transformation Program Account Modification domain using Agile methodology keeping business product owners and development staff aligned to Program Architecture roadmap on scrums

      Transformed distributed physical (RISC and x86) to virtual (P2V) for over 40 ‘gold’ legacy product-processing applications for Mortgage, Cards, Commercial and Consumer Bank Line of Businesses exceeding expected savings for global regions (APAC, EMEA, LATAM, NA)

      Created Bill of Materials application (Component and Infrastructure Estimating Application) used in all regions (APAC, NAM and EMEA) for IT Project infrastructure procurements and licensing; integrated PaaS/Microservices for Digital Transformation Programs

      Translate IT project Design Charters, High/Low Level Design Documents and NFRs into correctly sized infrastructure Bill of Materials (BOM) gaining support from stakeholders and aligning to highly converged virtualization enterprise architecture roadmaps

      Built (design, secured funding, provisioned, delivered and administered) NA BI/Analytics portal solution for Bank Retail Services and External Private Label Cards Partners (B2B) eliminating 5 separate vendor ELAs, reduced support to 1 team, 40K named users on mixed platforms

      Automated and Integrated Entitlement provisioning and reporting compliant with InfoSec policies of regulated financial institutions for internal and external partner clients freeing dedicated staff from manual workflows

 

Levi, Ray and Shoup, Inc Springfield, IL           Mar/2005 - May/2006

Business Intelligence Consultant for LA County Sheriff’s Department

Integrate Patrol Car, crime and arrest data to Data Warehouse supporting Daily Dashboards for county and client municipalities in LA County

      Architected, provisioned and deployed infrastructure solution for web, app and data tiers

      Transformed project strategy and decreased number of consultants from 3 to 1 via training and utilizing county IT staff

      Reduced ETL load times 200% without data loss

      Improved SLA for Dashboard availability from ‘afternoon’ to 8am

      Introduced OLAP data structures (cubes) to support interactive and self-service analytics replacing significant number of batch reports (25+)

      Designed and implemented Integrated Security and Entitlement procurement solutions for internal and public access

 

ERC, Inc., Overland Park, KS                        May/2002 – March/2005

Data Analytics Component and infrastructure Product Manager

Global Reinsurance Services (division of General Electric Financial Services, Inc.)

·       Architected, provision and deployed mixed platform BI infrastructure, Automated data collection and curation processes

·       Establish OLAP/Datamart, Data warehouse, BI Portal, Analytic, Dashboard and Report designs; Created and enforced BI project processes and best-practices

·       Organized and Coordinated 10 offshore content project teams to domains areas within ERC for focused BI Content delivery

 

Cognos Corporation Services, Burlington, MA Oct /2000 – May/2002

Senior BI Consultant

Business Intelligence Consulting Services provider

      Assigned to GE/ERC (see above)

 

PCG, Inc. Lenexa, KS Senior Manager – Technical Systems                                                                                  May/1992 – Oct/2000

global specialty-mechanical contracting firm

·       Implement financial, cost ledger operations and Business Intelligence systems including all hardware, software and networking infrastructure.

·       Integrate Customized Cost Ledger with new General Ledger system

·       Transform legacy in-house Fortran-based payroll on RISC platform (for 250+ union agreements) to vendor supported client-server across wan and integrate to Cost-Ledger.

EDUCATION


Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA                                            1988

BS/BA in Business Administration - Accounting

 

AWARDS and TECHNOLOGIES


• GE Technology Leadership Award (ERC), • LA County Sheriff’s Department Commendation for Excellence • Citi Chairman’s Leadership Award for IT• 7 Citi Galaxy of Stars Awards for Infrastructure and BI projects

 

Salesforce, Apex, Lightning, API, microservices, Open Source, Kafka, Camel, Spark, Streaming, Tomcat, Talend, SSO, SAML, LDAP, JWT, OAuth, Pivotal, MongoDB, Atlas/Stitch, Oracle, Puppet, PLSQL, ORDS/APEX, Golden Gate, TSQL, Teradata, Data Mart, Warehouse, Lakes, Hadoop, RPA, HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, NGINX, NodeJS, ServiceNow, Git, JIRA, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, VBA, SharePoint Developer, Power Query/BI, Windows Server, RISC, x86, RHEL, HPUX, AIX, PowerShell, Bash, Korn, Java, Groovy, Perl, Cognos 11+, Powerplay, Transformer, AWS, Azure, DNS, Agile, Waterfall, DevOps, EIP, JSON, XML, XSLT, WDSL, SOAP, AppDynamics, Splunk, Messaging, MQ, Virtualization, PaaS, SaaS, BI, Analytics, IVR, Docker, OpenShift, IBM Spectrum Scale, GTFS, SAN, NAS, SSD