Brian Robinson
Boca Raton,FL
Summary
Dynamic Solutions Architect with extensive experience at Hewitt Packard Enterprise, specializing in hybrid cloud solutions and enterprise architecture. Proven track record in optimizing systems through innovative design and implementation. Skilled in Kubernetes and Agile methodologies, driving high availability and performance enhancements across complex environments. Adept at leading teams to achieve strategic goals. Experienced in Healthcare (BlueCross/BlueShield and KY), Realtime Clearing Houses, Transportation (Sabre, Worldspan, Appolo, GM) and Financial (Conduent, EBT, WIC).
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
Work History
Solutions Architect
Conduent
Boca Raton, USA
12.2020 - Current
- Industry: Financial (Conduent, EBT 14 States, WIC Government).
- Led discovery, scoping, and design phases for major IT initiative involving Cloud Enabling ISO Financial Middleware.
- Refactored Java JPOS ISO Middleware to operate in Tanzu Kubernetes containerized on-premise solution.
- Drove transformation initiatives, optimizing systems through re-architecting, refactoring, re-platforming, and re-hosting.
- Implemented hybrid cloud native solutions using technologies such as Tanzu, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, Maven, Jenkins, Harbor, and Nexus.
- Championed Agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines to enhance automation and deployment processes.
- Ensured high availability with self-healing strategies, load balancing, and both horizontal and vertical scaling.
- Managed transaction systems, messaging services, dynamic JPOS event processing, and data warehousing functions.
- Utilized Azure Boards for task assignment, code base management, unit testing, and integration.
Senior Developer
Voyce Global
Boca Raton, USA
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Industry: Florida Health Translations (VoyceGlobal)
- Designed and implemented end-to-end cloud solutions for all project life cycles.
- Produced and cross-trained managers on Agile/Scrum processes and supporting solutions.
- Developed cloud solutions using Salesforce platform, enhancing operational capabilities.
- Utilized OO, MVC, Java, JavaScript, jQuery, Apex, HTML, CSS, and Visualforce for development.
- Implemented mobile web front-end on Google Cloud using MVC and JavaScript frameworks.
- Provided data warehousing with SQL Server clusters, including schemas and stored procedures.
Solutions Architect
Hewitt Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Boca Raton, USA
01.1995 - 12.2018
- Industry: Kentucky State Health and Public Assist Benefits
- Led teams to assess, scope, plan, and implement enhancements across KY’s virtual, logical, and application layers.
- Adopted AGILE methodology to manage components within KY’s multi-tenant architecture.
- Identified inefficiencies, obsolete technologies, and required enhancements throughout infrastructure.
- Collaborated with systems engineers and SMEs to address technology designs and associated risks.
- Developed roadmap with milestones and resource requirements, completing project in under 18 months.
- Re-engineered virtual infrastructures, middleware systems, messaging solutions, and data warehousing backends.
- Managed distributed database collections and application clusters for optimal performance.
- Oversaw DMZ infrastructures, disaster recovery protocols, and network security measures.
Cloud HPE Infrastructure Architect
Hewitt Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Boca Raton, USA
01.2014 - 12.2016
- Industry: Movie and Entertainment (Avatar)
- Produced HPE Hybrid Private Cloud initiative with AWS Public Cloud global presence.
- Secured $10 million budget to discover, design, build, and deploy HPE-AWS solution.
- Architected and deployed HPE’s first hyper-converged hybrid private cloud solution across Asia Pacific, Europe, and US regions.
- Hosted Big Data Hadoop and Vertica for global data assimilation on scalable virtualized platforms.
- Implemented comprehensive solutions in AWS, HPE, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and virtualization technologies.
- Developed automation and orchestration for provisioning and streaming solutions at scale.
- Enabled deployment of high-availability clusters with fault tolerance and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Managed load balancing and performance across complex compute processing environments.
Solutions Lead Architect
Hewitt Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Boca Raton, USA
01.2004 - 12.2014
- Industry: Financial (Bank Of America)
- Initially assigned as Senior Software Developer, promoted to Lead for all Development Teams.
- Advanced to Solutioning and Infrastructure Architect after 10 years of developing BOA’s Multi-Tenanted Federation Infrastructure.
- Employed Agile, SCRUM, Iterative, and Waterfall methodologies during architecture and implementation phases.
- Architected and implemented large-scale distributed architectures for enterprise systems.
- Executed solution and application consolidations, optimizing coding structures and algorithms.
- Utilized diverse development technologies including Java, JavaScript, C++, SQL, and various IDEs.
- Managed data warehousing with Oracle databases and highly available SQL Server clustered farms.
- Produced and optimized virtualization infrastructures using Hyper-V and VMware for high availability.
Senior Developer
Hewitt Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Boca Raton, USA
01.2000 - 12.2004
- Industry: Security (ADT)
- Delivered Enterprise Distributed Security Transaction System and scaled Reservation Messaging Clearinghouse.
- Utilized Agile methodology for architecture, design, development, integration, and deployment of reservation and transaction systems.
- Executed solution consolidations, technology alignments, and performance enhancements across multiple platforms.
- Developed over 600,000 lines of source code for UNIX deployment environments.
- Designed and implemented object-oriented multi-threaded message brokers and socket servers in C++/C/Pro C.
- Created distributed multi-threaded transaction monitors and reporting systems with optimized coding structures.
- Managed data warehousing solutions involving SQL Server and Oracle databases with extensive reporting integrations.
- Accessed back-end Oracle data warehousing through 500+ Pro C modules in logically organized SO libraries.
Senior Developer
Hewitt Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Boca Raton, USA
01.1995 - 12.2000
- Industry: Healthcare (BlueCross/BlueShield)
- Architected and implemented Java, J2EE, Oracle, CORBA, and C++
- Designed and developed the foundation Object Layer and libraries for Java, C++, and C server-side.
- Executed data warehousing and managed Oracle instances with clustered MS SQL Server farms.
- Optimized database performance through index tuning, report interfaces, and systems interfaces.
- Developed PL-SQL, TSQL, Pro C scripts including tables, views, stored procedures, and triggers.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
ITT - HPE
Tempe, AZ06-1988
Skills
- Enterprise Solutions
- Financial, Healthcare
- Chartering
- Architecting
- Road-Mapping
- Designing
- Developing
- Implementing
- Deploying
- Hybrid Cloud
- On Premise Cloud
- Tanzu
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Containers
- Maven
- Jenkins
- Harbor, Repos
- Prometheus, Grafana
- Java, J2EE, JQuery
- Spring Boot
- REST API, JSON
- SQL, PL-SQL
- JPOS, MVC
- Scripting, Batch
- JS, HTML, CSS
- GIT
- Agile, Waterfall
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- SharePoint
- Salesforce
- Portlets
- Web Servers
- Web Services
- Microservices
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- Windows
- Linux, Unix
- Clustering
- High-Availability
- Self Healing
- Multi Threading
- Load Distributions-Balancing
- Horizontal, Vertical Scaling
- Containerization
- Virtualization
- Clearinghouses
- Middleware
- Integration
- Databases
- Portals
- Content Management
- UI
- Transaction systems
- Event processing
- Data warehousing
- ISO, EDI
- Storage, Networks
- Health Check
- Monitoring, Notification
- Capacity PlanningCapacity Planning
Roles
- Solution Architecture
- Java Architecture
- Senior Developer
Timeline
Solutions Architect
Conduent
12.2020 - Current
Senior Developer
Voyce Global
01.2019 - 01.2020
Cloud HPE Infrastructure Architect
Hewitt Packard Enterprise (HPE)
01.2014 - 12.2016
Solutions Lead Architect
Hewitt Packard Enterprise (HPE)
01.2004 - 12.2014
Senior Developer
Hewitt Packard Enterprise (HPE)
01.2000 - 12.2004
Solutions Architect
Hewitt Packard Enterprise (HPE)
01.1995 - 12.2018
Senior Developer
Hewitt Packard Enterprise (HPE)
01.1995 - 12.2000
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
ITT - HPE