Matthew Reed
Geneva,IL
Summary
Highly experienced Enterprise Architect experienced in technology product development and strategic planning. Proven success in leading teams, creating innovative technology solutions, and driving product conceptualization through to delivery. Experience in various programming languages, software architectures, and agile project management methods. Skilled in technology assessment, service-oriented architecture, and scalable high transaction architectures. Adept at collaborating across organizations and ensuring security compliance. Excels in mentoring and developing exceptional technical teams to deliver high-quality products. Specialized in integrating and managing projects, requirements analysis, and leadership.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Solutions Architect
Sears Holdings Corporation
09.2013 - Current
- As a Solutions Architect at Sears Holdings Corporation I was tasked with many roles ranging from helping develop to team lead
- I began with architecting web services for the Home Services department from design to implementation
- Moved onto leading a team of 4 to replatform the entire Home Services web services to an API tiered approach using Mulesoft
- Finally, transitioned to the AWS team where we helped move our current in house architecture to the Cloud
- Designed and implemented full stack Mulesoft solution to rewrite all Service Order Management APIs utilizing 5 contractors with no company knowledge
- Did full research and API discovery tasks to understand legacy APIs and their touchpoints
- Also helped develop a full pipeline solution and API framework template to keep all APIs developed consistent and highly reusable
- Designed and led Offshore team to develop Web Services for Technicians to use to finalize service calls
- Designed and developed Groovy/Grails Administration panels that provided the Field Service team the ability to optimize service calls being routed to proper technicians
- Implemented full Mulesoft framework into Sears Home Services
- This includes, but not limited to GitHub CICD, Logging via ELK, jFrog repository artifacts for builds
- The team consisted of all contractors with no corporate knowledge
- I lead the team in daily SCRUM meetings and worked to drive all requirements and helped design APIs
- Over 40 APIs were developed in under 1 year
- These APIs include rewriting the entire Service Order Management flow
- Performed L4 on call support rotation duties
- Integrated into AWS support team, leading onshore efforts for daily maintenance and enhancement of full architecture stack
- Worked with IAM, S3, EC2, RDS, CloudTrail, CloudFormation and Transit Gateway
- Team member on legacy migration of all Home Services servers moving from on premise to the cloud
- Responsible for writing FABRIC scripts to ensure server specs matched during transition and no lost configurations
- Also worked with team to build servers and adjust configurations to optimize in the Cloud
- Began GoAnywhere MFT solution integration and movement of vendors off of old architecture into updated solutions
- Worked directly with vendors to coordinate changes and testing new secure key share transfers, alleviating antiquated unsecure ID/PW frameworks
Project Manager
CTI
07.2012 - 08.2013
- Company Overview: Contractor working for Chicago Board of Options and Exchange
- During my tenure at CTI, I served as a Project Manager, leading the regulatory department and handling offshore staff delegation and communication, ensuring daily results
- I was also responsible for gathering requirements for projects and assuring completion, playing a pivotal role in driving project success and regulatory compliance
- Project Lead for Regulatory Departments to move all applications and processes from Chicago facility to New York
- Project required 7 GUI applications and 100+ batch applications to be modified, tested and deployed across country on a fixed time frame
- Contractor working for Chicago Board of Options and Exchange
Lead Systems Engineer
Sears Holdings Corporation
06.2010 - 10.2012
- As a Lead Systems Engineer at Sears Holdings Corporation, I led small to mid-level projects through the SDLC process
- My role involved gathering technical and architectural requirements from multiple teams across the company and maintaining the same responsibilities of a Systems Engineer
- I successfully automated all daily processing for Sears/Kmart BAI and Concentration banking files to the online Treasury system via GROOVY scripts and developed an end-to-end process for Sears Treasury system conversion to Bank of America
- Additionally, I provided emergency project leadership, developer, and architect lead for critical projects, ensuring seamless transition and efficient operation
- Automated all daily processing for Sears/Kmart BAI and Concentration banking files to online Treasury system via GROOVY scripts
- Developed end to end process for Sears Treasury system converting to Bank of America
- Development included VBS scripting, JAVA online reporting and SQL data loads
- Provided emergency project lead, developer and architect lead for a project to move Sears Property Tax software to a new vendor software package when previous vendor went bankrupt and ended support with no notice
- Reengineered and automated file feeds to new Peoplesoft General Ledger system from the Sears Property Tax system, Kmart Treasury system and Sears Treasury system
- Methods include JAVA process and MS SQL Server Procedures
- Performed application transition to TCS consulting
- Worked via webinars and phone calls across the globe to mentor and transfer knowledge of how to perform SME role for applications
- Ensured all supported applications were moved to SVN version Control
- Worked as project lead and all technical phases to convert the Sears Headquarters visitor registration and visitor badge printing systems to a Third Party Vendor software
- Coordinated weekly meetings with the Business Unit, Vendor and all technical teams
- Created nightly PERL script to send LDAP user list of valid Sears employees to the vendor via SFTP
Systems Engineer
Sears Holdings Corporation
06.1998 - 06.2010
- At Sears Holdings Corporation, I served as a Systems Engineer, performing system support and driving small to mid-sized projects to completion while maintaining system stability
- I played a critical role in providing 24/7/365 pager support for multiple departments and participated in all phases of SDLC documentation for small to mid-sized projects
- My contributions included the migration of Sears Vendor Allowance system, engineering Store Planning systems, and conversion of various systems to use a February-January fiscal calendar as part of the merger of Sears/Kmart
- Furthermore, I was responsible for the creation of CRUD STRUTS application with JNDI connection to Mainframe DB2 backend and backup support to numerous 3rd party vendor software
- Responsible for 24/7/365 pager support for multiple departments (Tax, Store Planning, Treasury)
- Participated in all phases of SDLC documentation for small to mid-sized projects
- Worked on team to migrated Sears Vendor Allowance system from legacy code written in Superbase to Powerbuilder
- Engineered Store Planning systems to adapt for the ability to plan for Hardware, Outlet and The Great Indoors stores
- Implementation was architected without the addition of new servers or database requirements, and no additional software
- Converted various systems to use February-January fiscal calendar from January-December calendars as part of merger of Sears/Kmart
- Conversion of Access 1997 applications and databases to Access 2002
- Created CRUD STRUTS application with JNDI connection to Mainframe DB2 backend
- Worked with application certification and PC deployment team to create distribution of updated software
- Responsible for creating well documented installation plans, requirements and test plans
- Responsible for backup support to numerous 3rd party vendor software
Education
Computer Operations Management
December 1998
Skills
- Details
- Skills
- Web Services
- Scripting Languages
- Agile Project
- Software Architecture
- Technology Assessment
- Leadership
- Database Management
- Strategic Planning
Timeline
Solutions Architect
Sears Holdings Corporation
09.2013 - Current
Project Manager
CTI
07.2012 - 08.2013
Lead Systems Engineer
Sears Holdings Corporation
06.2010 - 10.2012
Systems Engineer
Sears Holdings Corporation
06.1998 - 06.2010
Computer Operations Management
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