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Enterprise Architect with 15 years of hands-on architecture, development and team lead experience in a diverse range of industries. Self-motivated and organized while focused on bridging business goals and IT solutions. Experienced in navigating teams through complex and rapidly changing business environments.Solutions Architect @ From August 2015 to Present (3 months) New York, New YorkArchitect in Enterprise Architecture @ • Drove the mapping and measuring of business capabilities to the end goal of capability based strategic planning • Converted strategic objectives into governable solutions and roadmaps with IT and business stakeholders • Created business cases for multi-million dollar projects using stakeholder analysis, motivation mapping, cost analysis and requirements gathering techniques • Analyzed business needs and challenges, researched vendor or technology solutions, and ran teams that conducted Request For Information (RFI) and Requests For Proposal (RFP) processes • Expanded on the relationships between the Strategic Finance Office, Project Results Office and Enterprise Architecture group with shared initiatives to align focus and remove redundancy • Worked with a small team to establish solution architecture standards, guidelines and governance • Guided Enterprise Architect priority as the facilitator of the Senior Leadership Architectural Review Board • Maintained the Enterprise Architecture Request for Work agile backlog • Owner for the portfolio project Enterprise Architecture Risk Escalation Process From November 2013 to Present (2 years) Portland, Oregon AreaArchitect in Claims @ • Built multi-year claims system roadmaps and solution architectures based on business, industry and government research and consulting • Worked with strategic finance to develop multiple funding strategies to provide different avenues for solution approval • Leveraged future state solution architectures to create iterative architectures that met the immediate business need for rapid change while still progressing towards the future state goal • Involved development teams in solution review sessions to ensure solution coverage and the teams architectural buy-in • Contributed to the development as the team lead ensure on time delivery From April 2013 to November 2013 (8 months) Portland, ORSoftware Engineer IV @ • Designed and implemented a supplemental claims validation engine which allowed business analysts to make rule modifications without IT's involvement • Migrated the existing federal employee claims processing engine to a new vendor hosted solution • Developed a claim routing service that worked with the enterprise service bus (ESB) content-based router to allow the dynamic adding or removal of backend claims engines • Team lead and key contributor to the successful delivery of several multi-million dollar program that transformed the enterprise electronic data interchange • Built and architected a new workflow and service set to provide claims preprocessing, editing, rebatching, reconciliation and reporting capabilities to the enterprise • Assisted the sales team by building the backend for a customizable client focused Customer Demo Portal • Lead teams of four to sixteen members to successful and on-time delivery of high profile and high value projects • Mentored junior developers who are now be key contributors to their delivery teams From May 2008 to April 2013 (5 years) Software Engineer @ • Developed externally facing reusable business and data services to provide seamless access for our application suite to the back end logistics, cargo and financial reporting systems • Designed, implemented and maintained a new customer facing cargo booking web application • Created a mobile focused web application that allowed operators to generate cargo capacity estimates while in the field From November 2005 to May 2008 (2 years 7 months) Programmer Analyst @ • Created a SOA based architecture to allow for the easy publication and consumption of mission critical events. • Built relationships and consulted with vendors on how to leverage our new real-time event system • Developed a sonar plotting and head map generation engine which was later encapsulated into a swing based desktop application as part of the CV-TSC tactical support system From November 2004 to November 2005 (1 year 1 month) Software Design Engineer @ • Ported the Windows version of the HP Instant Delivery application to Mac OS 9 and OS X • Built the graphical interface, system interrogation modules and the component catalog service interfaces for the Windows version of HP Software Update • Created a web service that allow for external parties to automate the reordering of printing supplies • Developed HP OpenView agents to facilitate the remote monitoring of web services and Java JVMs From August 2000 to November 2004 (4 years 4 months) Corvallis, Oregon AreaBachelor's Degree, Mathematics @ Oregon State University From 1997 to 2004 Chris McCurdy is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Tomcat, Java, Software Development, SOA, Enterprise Architecture, JMS, Hibernate, SOAP, Software Engineering, Scrum, Web Services, SDLC, XML, SQL, Spring, Oracle, Mail Sorting, .NET, Maven, TDD, Agile, OOP, JSF, MySQL, DB2, JPA, Derby, Glassfish, Websphere, TOGAF, Archimate, Data Modeling, Sparx Enterprise..., BiZZdesign Architect, Offshore Outsourcing, SharePoint, Strategic Planning