Candidates About

 

Thomas Womack

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

M.S. IS/CIMS, 1995

 

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

B.S. Chemistry, 1979

 

Georgia Licensed Master Electrician No. EN213929

 

I am located in Atlanta, Georgia

 

Professional Summary

§  Currently focused on Azure deployments..

• Full-stack design and management of information technology systems in public and private sectors including manufacturing, finance, government, and health systems (HL7 coding with American Cancer Society).
  
  
• Current database capability:  DB2, Oracle 12/12c (Running EBS), MySQL, SQL Server 2014 (beginning 2016 work.), Teradata, and MongoDB Cloud.  (I have used Oracle and Teradata for data warehousing.)
  
  
• Possesses over 25 years of experience in dual roles consisting of both Architect and Developer responsibilities.  I have worked in finance, manufacturing, for contractors, and with software companies.  I have worked with systems operated as Software as a Service.  (SaaS.  I have worked as a VP of Software Development as well as owned an operated software companies.
  
  
• Experienced with the development of C# threading tools used in architecture of multi-threaded applications, and experience constructing in a SOA pattern with prolific use of web services.
  
  
• Over 5 years’ experience in WPF/WCF environments. Also worked on applications comprised of a WPF/WCF based enterprise web console and a C++ based search client, backed by MS SQL Server 2008. Recently have moved to SQL Server 2014.  Other projects included migrations to SharePoint portals.  Currently moving applications to .Net Core for C3 compilation in C++.
  
  
• Lead experience includes Development Manager over a team of 20, Senior Lead .NET Portal Architect and Plant level deployment team lead over a team of 12, and Lead Developer (100%) over a team of 4.
  
  
• Extensive experience totaling 6 years in regards to data warehouse architecture across multiple industries and disciplines.  Experience with tools such as Informatica, ERWin, Oracle, Teradata, and the SAP BW.
  
  
• Focused experience within the manufacturing industries in regards to MES systems, LES systems (logistics/supply chain), SCADA, and low level process control.  Master’s thesis was in regards to decision support in manufacturing.  Embedded applications work composes approximately 20% of my career.
  
  
• Current focus using Visual Studio 2013 and the .Net 4.6 runtime in multi-threaded applications
  
  
• Extensive experience in Lean/Six Sigma and Six Sigma environments, Manufacturing Execution Systems, ERP, PLCs, OPC Servers, Data Historians (GE Proficy and others), and SCADA control systems.
  
  
• Architectural design and implementation of the following Tibco products:  Tibco ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6.0, Tibco BW, Tibco Rendezvous, and Tibco EMS.
  
  
• Use of and exposure to the Capability Maturity Model and CMMI during a six year career at Booz-Allen & Hamilton.

 

 

Professional Experience

 

Azure Conductors, Inc.

January 15, 2017 to Present

Enterprise Architect/Migration Manager

 

·         I have added a client where I am building production databases to be used for Manufacturing Execution systems based in the cloud.

·         I am working as an Enterprise Architect/Migration Manager on projects where clients are moving applications to both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

·         I am completing an airline project that consists of a real-time eventing system, gate management, and vendor operations.  My experience in this area began in 2010 with Delta Airlines.  My architecture is a hybrid architecture using traditional data center operations along with Azure service fabric and Azure data warehousing.  Azure WebJobs are used to scale processing of near real time eventing.

·         My Azure work includes Microsoft Dynamics 365 Suite as well as Azure Service Fabric.
The Dynamics 365 web API is being used with Azure Service Fabric 5.5 and SDK 2.5.  (Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise).  Additional usage includes Azure Service Bus and Azure Replay.

·         I am using Docker to scale-out Azure apps as system load (users) increase.  I assist developers in becoming familiar with and configuring developments tools in Azure.

·         Two of my projects have been based on Big Data scale-out using Azure managed storage (backed by Azure SSD technology).

 

 

 

Independent Consultant (C2C Contract)

December 5, 2016 to January 15, 2017

Enterprise Architect (Continuous Integration & Automated Testing)

 

[This is a TDD and BDD driven Agile Development Environment]

Project I:

• I am the architecture lead on an enterprise scale project exposing data from approximately 600 MM transactions per day.  The portal produced will include example client applications that access point-of-sale information across various business lines.  (Transactions housed in a data warehouse.)
  
  
• Support tools are being constructed using .Net Core 1.1 and run on the Mac, Windows, and Linux. 
  
  
• The user interface is constructed with NodeJS and  Angular 2.0.  The portal supports both Java and .Net applications development.
  
  
  

Project II:

• Salesforce architectural design and data integration for a cloud project.  Also based upon NodeJS, Angular, and Webpack. 
  
  

 

Technical Setup:

• There are several scrum teams running two week sprints.  Project tracking occurs in Jira and Confluence.  Some of the tools development is moving out of the Agile arena due to the need for architecture planning and documentation.
  
  

 

 

Center for Disease Control Office of the Chief Financial Officer
December 15, 2013 to September 13, 2016

Enterprise Architecture and Development Team Lead (Operations)

 

[This is an Automated Test Driven Development Team. ]

• I am the solutions architect for the operations team within CDC’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer, currently called the Office of Financial Resources.  Systems employ Oracle’s eBusiness Suite (EBS) on Oracle 12 and 12c, and MongoDB Cloud.
  
  
• The General Ledger and core financial systems run on Oracle’s eBusiness Suite.  Supporting applications are constructed using Microsoft’s stack currently on .Net 4.6 and Visual Studio 2013 and moving to Visual Studio 2015 with .Net Core.  Front ends use:  jQuery,  AngularJS, and SASS for preprocessed CSS..  SQL Server databases are a mixture of SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2014.
  
  
• SAP’s Business Objects is used to support data marts with the data warehouse running on the Oracle/Unix platform.  My team manages this effort.
  
  
• Manager Big Data Analytics using Hadroop and related tools.  This work also includes the use of Tableau and the SAP BO suite of BI tools.
  
  
• New applications development utilizes MVC and Microsoft ServiceStack framework.
  
  
• Implementation and support of SQL Server data warehouse use star and snowflake schemas.
  
  
• The current environment is a hybrid Agile environment.  CDC systems are comprised of considerable depth on the backend with a minimal number of user interfaces.  Of course the MVC applications are more applicable to the Agile environment.
  
  
• Some effort is currently underway at my direction to utilize multi-threaded web service engines for the enterprise service bus at the data layer.
  
  
• I began work at CDC with TekSystems.  I am currently a Northrop Grumman employee.  (Contract ends June 30, 2016)
  
  
• Internal (Northrop) MES consultant in 2015. 
  
  

 

Independent Consultant ([American Cancer Society] December 2012 to September 2013)

50% Development/50% Research & Architecture – Contract

 

[This is a TDD environment.]

 

• Assisted the American Cancer Society with projects related to the Affordable Care Act and HL7 coding.
• I have worked as an independent consultant since December of 2012.  In this work I have acted as an architect/developer for multi-threaded transaction processing applications supporting MVC front ends.  The work was focused on .Net 4.5 using Visual Studio 2012 running against Windows Server 2012/SQL Server 2012.  JavaScript libraries include jQuery and AngularJS.
  
  
• Performed primary architecture work for Windows 7 Phone applications.
  In this work my focus is at the enterprise level where large scale backend infrastructure is employed.  Provided support to ACS units as SaaS.

 

Environment: C#, Visual Studio 2012, Web Services, MVC4, jQuery, Angular JS, Oracle, Mainframe DB2, and SQL Server 2008/2012, TDD, WinCE and Windows 7 Phone..

 

 

OFS Fitel, LLC. (October 2012 to December 2012)

Enterprise Systems Architect (15% Developer Time) - Contract

 

• Created an enterprise architecture moving existing legacy systems written in Visual Basic 6.0, Visual FoxPro 2.5, and paper systems to a new model composed of C# based Windows services as the data layer, WPF user interfaces, and an OPC server deployed to tie machine level systems to the architecture and upstream to SAP.  (An MES architecture). 
• The business layer ties to the MES system using BizTalk.  The BizTalk Rete engine is used within the core MES for logical representation.
• During this period a framework consisting of some 80,000 lines of C# and C++ code was composed.  At the machine layer, some 30,000 lines of code were produced.  Clients PLCs were Allen-Bradley.  The OPC server was Kepware.
• Brought on at OFS Fitel/OFS Optics based upon previous experience in the manufacturing sector and specifically work with manufacturing execution systems. 

 

Environment: C#, C++, SAP ECC 7.0, WCF, WPF, Oracle, TDD, WinCE for embedded systems in a Lean/Six Sigma environment.

 

Contract Airline Support – Pyramid Consulting (January 2011 to August 2012) (Delta Airlines)

Operational Systems Architect (40% Developer Time) – Contract

 

• The primary languages used were C# and C++, with some SQL operated to vendors as Saas..  ‘Platforms’ were web, desktop app, backend, and mobile.  Backend systems were mainframe and Unix.
• The front-end travel booking system was operated by TravelPort and other GDS profile vendors
• Most significant work from a developer’s perspective was the development of C# threading tools used in architecture of multi-threaded applications as well as performance diagnostics with issues such as races and deadlocks.  This work was being performed in .Net 4.0 and in applications using System.Threading Tasks.
• New software development conducted using the rational process.  The interface between the mainframes and server/desktop level applications was Tibco Rendezvous.   Most systems were constructed in a SOA pattern (SaaS) with prolific use of web services between Delta and its various vendors. 
• Employed portions of the Rational Process.  The primary artifacts used by developers are class diagrams and threading models (Non-RUP).
• Systems were real-time and often integrated with FAA systems as a secondary data source.
• The focus of systems was eventing data and messaging within the real-time systems realm.

Environment: C#, C++, DB2, TPF, Angular (2010 Beta), Tibco, WCF)

 

Identity Finder, Inc. (August 2010 to November 2010)

[WPF/MVC Developer (100% Developer Time) – Contract

[This is a TDD environment.]

 

• Performed C# applications development for the company’s identity client/server personal information search application.  The application is comprised of a WPF/WCF based enterprise web console and a C++ based search client, backed by MS SQL Server 2008 (C++ on Windows, C on Mac, and C++ on Linux.  SQLite used for data transfer through ActiveSync.)  Application used the .Net 4.0 framework and the MVC Release 2 framework (Some MVVM also used along with AngularJS templates).  Portions of the application used Ext.net/AJAX.  The client installed as both a service and an executable application that can be started by the service.  IDF software uses Microsoft Enterprise Library and is a heavy user of Unity for IoC.
• Work focused on building a distributed version of the application where the workload was determined at the enterprise console level and based on this information clients were loaded remotely individual PCs within the corporate domain.  This operated as a SaaS application with no on site IDF employees.
• In addition, constructed a series of WPF Logical Tree manipulators as well as custom content presenters.  This particular work enables injection much like is possible with JavaScript.

 

GeoFields, Inc. (September 2009 to July 2010)

Software Developer/Architect (10% Technical Manager/90% Developer)

 

• Applications included data management applications, risk assessment applications, sheet generation, and an ArcMap extensions used for visual editing of pipeline data using linear referencing.  Current applications used Telerik Controls in a modified MVVM pattern due to their level of complexity and need to “skin” applications.  Web front-end applications were being moved to Prism 2.2 and Silverlight 4.  (Based upon the original Composite Application Guidance recommendations issued by Microsoft.)
• Applications ran against wither ArcGIS 9.2 or ArcGIS 9.3.1 with work in progress on ArcGIS release 10.  Applications were written in Visual Basic and C#, with the greater portion being in C#.  Work was underway to move applications to Silverlight 4.0 using the ESRI Silverlight API.  For the ArcGIS release, 10 applications feature editing used ESRI’s new feature service.  Moving to Silverlight 4.0 was extremely critical for web based GIS applications because these applications are RIA or Rich Internet Applications where state was difficult to maintain in the asynchronous web environment.  Thus RIA Services introduced in .Net 3.5 and expanded in .Net 4.0/Silverlight were critical.

Environment: WPF/WCF with ASP.Net and Winforms.  Patterns include Structured MVVM, MVC, and PRISM libraries with Silverlight.

 

Expeditionary Technology (April 2008 to August 2009)

Development Manager (40% Architect/Developer, 60% Manager)

 

• Led a Team of 20 as Development Manager.
• Architected and assisted in coding of several GIS projects using the Google API and various data-stores to support various efforts.  (The Google API and AJAX running on .Net 3.5 with time split around 80% development and 20% project management.) Maintained ongoing support of ArcGIS applications built using the C# interface or API’s.
• Architected and developed a LINQ/WCF based application used to build “discovery” type queries against data stores.  The application was developed using SQL Server 2008, Oracle, other data sources, and Visual Studio 2008 (.Net 3.5).  Hands on coding effort involved around 80% of my billable time.
• Developed while also managing developers working on various DoD contracts in the Georgia region.  These efforts spanned technologies including old C++ and VB based ASP applications through current .Net 3.5 applications using AJAX and LINQ.  Focus areas included SAP system support for government entities; data driven applications; GIS applications (ArcGIS); manpower applications; and general informational websites.  All new development projects (except SAP work) were driven using IBM’s Rational Tools.  Some of the projects combined the old technologies with new, i.e. ASP and ASP.Net. 
• Generated the action plan for maintaining a large portal site written using VB based ASP on the portal and ASP.Net in various client modules.  Maintained specific VB/ASP pages while directing the coding efforts of other developers.  (50% hands-on/50% management and design)
• Designed and implemented the security mechanism in the application via AD and Common Access Cards.  (100% hands-on development)
• Developed C# components used by Expression Blend application authors for various Army applications at different sites.
• Heavy MOSS 2007 development for multiple sites.  Work included Windows Workflow Applications running on SharePoint.

 

Cooper Industries (October 2004 to April 2008)

Senior Lead .NET Portal Architect/Developer (20% Manager/80% Developer)

 

• Managed Team of 12, and focused on migrating user interfaces and middleware technologies to Microsoft products, specifically those technologies built around the .Net Framework.  Provided software to Cooper Divisions as SaaS.
• Architect and develop core IT tools used by the PMO that included a custom built Project Tracking Database as well as Capacity Planning tools.  These systems are currently being moved to SharePoint and Project Server using WPF, WWF, and WCF.  (60% developer/40% project manager.)
• Migrated away from the SAP NetWeaver Portal to SharePoint Portal using Active Directory for single sign-on.  This effort included development of code level standards.  (40% hands-on/60% project management)

• Migration of core business systems used for Coopers Cooper Connection sales and marketing tool to the .Net 2.0 Framework using a backend SAP bolt-on for business logic.  (80% hands-on/20% project management)
• Conversion and update of all Visual Basic applications to C# using either Webforms or Winforms.  (100% development)
• Heterogeneous systems still exist within Cooper’s application inventory.  Custom Membership classes were developed with C# to allow single sign-on authentication to occur across systems. (50% architect/50% developer.)
• Movement to core SOA application architecture is approximately 40% complete.  The challenge has been architecting Web Services and exposing them through WPF to allow easily constructing SOA client service requests.  (50% architect/40% project manager/10% development)
• Plant level deployment team lead for Microsoft Dynamics AX (Axapta).  Although Cooper was deploying ECC 6 within the overall corporate structure operations at the manufacturing level utilized Oracle applications that we migrated to MS Dynamics.  Cooper is an Essbase user.  This application suite utilized custom components written in .Net 2.0 to tie to machine level control (PLCs.)
• Development methodologies used were AGILE/Scrum, Waterfall, and Cowboy Coding.  (100% manager and architect.)

 

Varec, Inc. (June 2004 to October 2004)

Senior .Net Architect/Implementation Manager (20% Manager/80% Developer) – Contract

 

• Managed Team of 6 on a short term contract to assist Varec in re-architecting a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system from standard Microsoft C++ technologies in a non-managed code environment to C# Microsoft .Net using web services and OPC (OLE for Process Control) services.  The end result was a system where configuration was possible by assembling base code and various web services designed to accomplish specific tasks.  A web service interface was designed to work in conjunction with remote terminal unit OPC servers.
• Designed core web services supporting non-real time SCADA functionality.
• Designed and developed the web service OPC interface in C# and interfaced to OPC using the System.Interop assembly.
• Began to develop the specification for the presentation layer using beta MS Indigo.
• Developed the security model using ASP.Net SQL Authentication.

 

IBM Centers for eBusiness Innovation (September 2003 to May 2004)             

Verity Search Specialist/.Net Architect – Contract

 

• Managed Development Team of 2/Managed Operations Team of 4. Was Lead Developer 100%, team of 4.
• Project focused on re-architecting a multi-language web site that used Verity’s search engine technologies.  Originally written in VB 6.0, HTML, Jscript, and running against SQL Server 2000, the application was re-architected and moved to .Net 2.0 using VB.Net.  The app used an IBM load balancer running on AIX that spread the workload across the web farm.  C++ services running on NT 4.0 backed a web based authoring tool for publication of documents in the system that was called Comperio (A Price Waterhouse Coopers product.)
• Completed all high level design, data modeling, process modeling, and object modeling for Comperio using .Net 2.0 Framework. Developed test suites for application validation.
• Supported the ongoing maintenance for legacy Comperio spanning VB, C++, HTML, and Jscript coding.
• Developed a C# web replication application with a Winforms interface.

 

Expeditionary Technologies (November 2002 to August 2003)

VP of Development (75% Manager/25% Developer)

 

• Managed Team of 65, while managing and participating in the various development projects undertaken by the company.  These projects ranged in scale from small Windows based applications to enterprise scale data warehousing and core financial systems., i.e. SAP, PeopleSoft, etc.
• Role was to define coding standards and establish software development practices for the organization.  During tenure Expeditionary was assigned a CMM Level III status.
• Established and led a Microsoft .Net development team, and directed marketing efforts to provide clients applications programming services based on .Net 1.1 using Visual Studio 2003. 
• Led team of Twelve J2EE developers.  This staff maintained and developed new client applications using J2EE technologies, primarily web service based applications.
• Work was performed to assist clients in need of embedded development using native assembler and C++.   These efforts were focused on the controls market in support of heavy machinery and other equipment.

 

Booz-Allen & Hamilton (March 1997 to March 1998) (March 1999 to October 2002)

Project Manager/Development Manager/Developer

 

• Managed Teams Varying in Size of 4 to 25. (Some projects 100% Manager, Some Projects 100% Developer:  total development time approx. 60%).
• Project Manager for Oracle Applications Development. Applications architecture and project management of a team of 10 persons, including developers, database administrators, and business analyst.  Tools included Oracle Forms on UNIX (X-Terminal forms), Oracle 7.0, and C++ front end applications (primarily X-Windows apps on Solaris or AIX.).
• Developed using a broad range of technologies including PowerBuilder, J2EE (JSP) development, large scale data warehousing using Teradata and Oracle, ETL Tools such as PowerCenter (and later Ascential), and AI tools such as Gensym to enforce network quality-of-service.
• Developed custom C code based middleware for communications between legacy Prime Computer systems and UNIX based Oracle applications.
• Acted as a developer and manager for Oracle Forms development on UNIX systems.
• Performed C++ development in support of a terabyte scale human resources system using Borland C++. Also performed extensive Visual C++ development across a broad range of applications.
• Acted as a Microsoft Access Developer and as a Visual FoxPro developer on short term projects. Developed QoS applications using Gensym’s product suite.

 

 Industrial Computer Corporation (March 1998 to March 1999)

Professional Service Manager (30% Professional Service Manager/70% Developer)

 

Industrial Technology Systems (December 1995 to March 1997)

Principal/President

 

Energy Conversion Systems (January 1985 to December 1995)

President ECS Operations (100% Manager)

 

Various Manufacturing (June 1977 to December 1985)

Teams Ranged in Size of 4 to 12,600 (Corporate Wide)