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D. Taylor Holmes
Solutions Architect
Mt. Pleasant,SC
Summary
A seasoned Solutions Architect specializing in the analysis, design, diagramming, and implementation of technical solutions to complex business problems applied to on-prem and cloud-based systems. Solution-focused professional with a rich background in architecting and deploying innovative solutions tailored to meet specific client needs. Known for collaborative approach and results-driven mindset, consistently delivering high-quality outcomes. I have served in public and private sectors, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to implement enterprise-scale, transformative digital solutions.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Solutions Architect - NBC Universal Destinations
TEKsystems
04.2025 - 09.2025
- Created solution architecture design for the Universal Team Member Experience (TMX) value stream of applications and products.
- Translated stakeholder requirements into architecture designs.
- Researched, analyzed, and documented the Identity and Access Management (IAM) subsystem across Team Universal, Universal Destination Experiences (UDX), and NBC Universal (NBCU).
- Created UML component diagrams to capture the current and future state system landscape including on-prem and cloud-based platforms and systems.
- Enhanced solution architecture for a Mobile-Food and Drink Ordering (MFDO) capability including web and mobile-based software products and integration with the Oracle Simphony Point-of-Sale platform.
Solutions Architect
Hilton Grand Vacations
02.2023 - 09.2024
- Primary Solution Architect for a net-new travel experience booking and fulfillment application hosted on the MS Azure Cloud platform.
- Collaborated with Product team and business analysts to derive functional and non-functional requirements. Translated stakeholder requirements into architecture designs.
- Designed and socialized a microservices architecture leveraging APIs to extend and abstract the functions of legacy property management, contracts, and accounting systems.
- Created UML behavioral and structural diagrams to model the actors, web-app workflows, system and component interfaces, system dependencies, API sequences, data sources, and information flows.
- Designed IAM strategy leveraging integration with Azure Active Directory (AAD) to achieve team member authentication and role-based authorization.
Enterprise Software Architect - NAVAIR US Navy
Savvee Consulting
01.2013 - 04.2022
- Enterprise Software Architect SME supporting the US Navy NAVAIR Systems Command's Application-based Architecture (ABA) program.
- Coordinated with government, fleet, and industry stakeholders to design and implement a modular open-system architecture (MOSA) to host heterogeneous mission applications for the U.S. Navy's P-8A Poseidon aircraft Family-Of Systems.
- Assessed and consulted on technologies, platforms and vendor offerings across the enterprise technology portfolio.
- Directed software architecture activities for an Agile scrum team to create a prototype system achieving multi-year funding for production implementation.
- Led a team of Systems Engineers in soliciting, deriving, tracing, and managing functional and technical requirements leveraging model-based techniques.
- Architected and developed integrations with Boeing real-time avionics to demonstrate SOA, microservices, and geospatial data management solutions.
- Architected and implemented service-oriented, event-driven, publish-subscribe, and request-response architecture patterns. Implemented hardware and software virtualization techniques.
- Designed integrations for Identity & Access Management (IAM), Security information and event management (SIEM), and off-board data distribution.
- Researched, architected, and enhanced predictive data analytics solutions applied to mission scenarios.
- Contributed to government capability acquisition activities through multi-year capability planning, capability modeling, and requirements management.
Sr. Software Engineer/Architect - SPAWAR US Navy
Gov Solutions Group
01.2006 - 09.2012
- Sr. Software Engineer/Technical Architect supporting the US Navy's Navy ERP modernization initiative.
- Led architecture, software engineering, system integration, and data analysis in the functional area of user management for the implementation phase of the Navy ERP (SAP R/3 ECC 6.0) system across the SPAWAR Systems Command.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to solicit business requirements for IAM and User Lifecycle Management.
- Architected and developed a User Lifecycle Management (ULM) system leveraging Java/JSP, LDAP, Oracle 11g database, ETL processes and the Oracle 10g Fusion stack. The system provisioned end user accounts and authorization roles for more than 10,000 users within the Navy ERP system. Additionally, four other Navy SYSCOMS implemented it to support concurrent Navy ERP migration initiatives.
- Successfully achieved DoD IA accreditation applied to the ULM system for deployment to US Navy Data Center hosting environments.
- Coordinated with DevOps to execute iterative software deployments to Navy production environments.
- Earned SPAWAR Innovation Award.
Sr. Software Engineer - SPAWAR US Navy
P.D.I.T.
01.2002 - 01.2006
- Sr. Software Engineer SME supporting the US Navy's Task Force Web (TFW) enterprise modernization initiative.
- Championed the web-enablement and SOA modernization of US Navy mission applications through the design, development, and delivery of the TFW Enterprise portal system-of-systems.
- Architected and implemented core Java and .NET software components of the TFW Enterprise Portal system utilized by ashore and afloat instances.
- Collaborated with U.S. Navy mission application owners to assess, analyze, develop, and implement practical web-enablement strategies.
- Designed and demonstrated SOA prototypes used to train and mentor mission application support teams.
- Demonstrated SOA and emerging web standards to facilitate data integration between heterogeneous and monolithic mission information systems.
- Presented technical sessions at formal Navy Application Developer conferences demonstrating and socializing SOA design, development, and integration patterns.
- Achieved DoD Information Assurance security accreditation for the TFW Portal system enabling deployments to US Navy Data Center and afloat platform hosting environments.
- Contributed to author the Navy Enterprise Application Development Guide (NEADG) defining architecture best practices and development standards.
- Earned SPAWAR Lightning Bolt Award.
Sr. Software Developer - SC State Dept. of PRT
Integrys Solutions
01.2001 - 02.2002
- Served as Software Developer lead on a multi-disciplined team in the original development of a data-driven web portal for the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (www.discoversouthcarolina.com).
- Integrated disparate SC-PRT static web sites into a single, data-driven public internet portal with site content administrated by SC-PRT personnel.
- Developed COM+ business logic tier that dynamically generated a web UI for heterogeneous browsers and emerging mobile devices.
Software Developer
Nuvox Communications
04.1999 - 02.2001
- Collaborated with a consultant team to architect and develop a web-based telecom order entry & provisioning system supporting the remote sales team at telecom start-up TriVergent Communications.
- The browser-based system enabled the company to receive and process digital orders for telecom services via the internet, including an intranet-based workflow and back-office API integration with commercial switch provisioning (MetaSolv Telecommunications Business Solution).
- Championed the order-entry and provisioning system as a corporate asset during TriVergent's acquisition by Nuvox Communications.
Software QA Analyst
DataStream Systems
01.1996 - 04.1999
- Served as Automated Test Coordinator championing the use of test automation in the SDLC applied to commercial Maintenance Management ERP software applications.
- Coordinated an automated test team who researched, developed, and applied automated testing techniques to supplement QA activities executed against client-server and emerging web-based software products.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
Clemson University
Clemson, SC12-1995
Skills
- Architecting solutions
- Agile Architect expertise
- Business capability modeling
- IT Architectural design modeling
- Cross-functional stakeholder engagement
- Requirements analysis & management
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Identity & Access Management (IAM)
- Full-stack software development
- Engineering leadership
Software
JIRA
Microservices
Web-Services
Java
JavaScript
JSON
XML/SOAP
SQL
Git, GitHub
UML, PlantUML
MS Visio
Active Directory/Azure AD
LDAP
PostgreSQL, PostGIS
SQL Server
Oracle RDMS
Oracle JDeveloper
Open API/Swagger
Visual Studio Code
Timeline
Solutions Architect - NBC Universal Destinations
TEKsystems
04.2025 - 09.2025
Solutions Architect
Hilton Grand Vacations
02.2023 - 09.2024
Enterprise Software Architect - NAVAIR US Navy
Savvee Consulting
01.2013 - 04.2022
Sr. Software Engineer/Architect - SPAWAR US Navy
Gov Solutions Group
01.2006 - 09.2012
Sr. Software Engineer - SPAWAR US Navy
P.D.I.T.
01.2002 - 01.2006
Sr. Software Developer - SC State Dept. of PRT
Integrys Solutions
01.2001 - 02.2002
Software Developer
Nuvox Communications
04.1999 - 02.2001
Software QA Analyst
DataStream Systems
01.1996 - 04.1999
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems
Clemson University