• Lead the successful implementations of an enterprise-wide IT transformation initiatives, integrating new platforms, cloud technologies, and application architectures to support business objectives.
• Develop and maintained enterprise IT strategic roadmaps for client and customer IT infrastructure and systems, ensuring alignment with business goals and IT transformation initiatives.
• Lead cross-functional teams in delivering large-scale IT transformation initiatives, improving systems scalability, performance, and security across multiple regions.
• Collaborate with C-suite executives to ensure IT initiatives were closely aligned with overall business strategy, enabling faster time-to-market for new products and services.
• Develop and implement Enterprise IT solutions to include secure software development pipelines, hybrid network architectures, and data analytics solutions ensuring robust Enterprise IT systems that meet the mission and business needs of our customers using a systematic approach.
• Translate business needs into application solution architecture requirements, making frequent use of diagrams to help communicate with broad audiences
• Evaluate legacy and current applications, architecture, database design, etc. to make recommendations on improvements on design, performance, and quality
• Assume the role of technology advisor that understands customer business processes and maps them to technology solutions to optimize business outcomes
• Guide the design and development of solutions for complex applications problems, data services, platform services, cloud services and infrastructure services to meet user requirements and align to strategic goals and the Enterprise Architecture.
• Foster collaboration with development, operations, and security teams to ensure a cohesive and integrated approach to cloud solutions. Participate in cross-functional discussions to align technical strategies with business objectives.
• Provide experts guidance to internal teams on cloud architecture best practices, security considerations, performance, and cost optimization. Act as a subject matter expert in cloud technologies and stay abreast of industry trends.

While serving as a key trusted advisor, Dave provided strategic alignment between business strategies and comprehensive IT, cloud, security, governance, and infrastructure architectures across multiple parallel activities and workstreams within PennDOT Core project teams. This role included:

• Led and architected the deployment of the ADS Data Management System (DMS), encompassing Azure big data and application architectures, platform development, and functionality.
• Technical and project implementation guidance to ADS system architecture project teams, with a focus on enhancing understanding of data security, requirements, and standards in adherence to common data models and industry best practices.
• Strategic advisor across workstreams leveraging over two decades of IT and systems design experience to act as a key trusted advisor across diverse workstreams.
• Delivered the technical design, implementation, and management of the system, culminating in the production environment's successful deployment.
• Ensured alignment with governance, security, and compliance requirements through iterative technical support and documentation delivery.

Technical Environment: Azure Commercial CSP, Azure Security Center, Policy, Defender, Azure Storage, Web apps, Lifecycle Management, IAM, SSO/MFA, RBAC, Monitor, Azure Diagnostics, Alerting, SIEMs integration, Log Analytics Workspaces, Enterprise governance and security, integrated solutions.

Led the Technical/SME roles on the successful bid for the $25M AMC RFP by developing the technical architecture, vision, and an enterprise technology roadmap that aligned with long-term business objectives.

• Managed and orchestrated the execution of multiple cross-functional teams (IT, data, security, application engineering, infrastructure) across large-scale, strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with executive leadership goals.
• Served as a trusted advisor to the client and key stakeholders, providing guidance and expertise in enterprise solutions, cloud architecture, data governance, and enterprise data management.
• Collaborated with senior leadership to drive the successful implementation of the Department’s first Knowledge Management (KM) Portal, delivering impactful results aligned with key strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities and Achievements:

• Cloud Architecture Leadership: Led the design and deployment of new AWS GovCloud IL5/6 architectures supporting a fully cloud-managed PaaS container services and serverless microservices application platform and infrastructure.

• Strategic IT Roadmap: Architected long-term IT infrastructure and systems roadmaps, ensuring alignment with 4-star General’s business goals and IT transformation initiatives to support scalable, secure, and high-performance environments.

• Infrastructure Design & Implementation: Designed and executed enterprise-grade infrastructure solutions, optimizing scalability, reliability, and security for mission-critical systems.

• Cross-Functional Solution Design: Led the design and implementation of mission-critical solutions, working closely with engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and operational efficiency.
• Achieved P-ATO approval within 6 weeks and full ATO within 3 months for both IL5 and IL6 environments enabling continuous end-to-end CI/CD pipeline automation for promoting IaC infrastructure, platform, and application from low to high tiers.

Technical Environment: AWS services include, but are not limited to: AWS Fargate, ACS, ACR, SageMaker, Lake Formation, AWS DevOps toolsets, and many more. Solutions designed to be deployed natively on Docker containerized hardened images for portability, reusability, elasticity, cross-platform/cloud deployments, and rapid IaC Il5/Il6 security and compliance services baked-in. Other key services include AWS GovCloud IL5/IL6 CSP, CloudFormation, VPC, ALB, VDSS, VDMS, Docker, AWS Glue, TGW, TGW attachments, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CI/CD, DevSecOps, AI/ML, Data Science and Analytics enclave. Self-service ETL, reporting, data science, AI/ML services and solutions. Integration points with AESIP, ICAM, EAMS-A for SSO/MFA, SAML 2.0, Federated Identities and more.

While serving as the lead solutions architecture subject matter expert in the areas of Enterprise cloud services, big data analytics, data technical, solutions, cloud, infrastructure, and architecture team member helping to enable Deloitte to take to market the latest digital and technologically innovative products and services.

• Determined and developed architectural approaches and solutions, conduct business reviews, document current systems, and develop recommendations of how to continue with the applications.
• Worked with Product Owners and Platform managers to articulate proposed solutions, influence technical roadmap of enterprise platforms, and help business prioritize work.
• Collaborated with IT and Business partners to support the vision and business case of strategic initiatives by creating target state solution and application architectures.
• Managed tactical and strategic architecture roadmaps to solve necessary capabilities and proactively engaged in the execution of the capabilities through collaboration with IT and Business stakeholders to meet business imperatives.
• Identified and recommended process improvements for business and technology cost and performance optimization.
• Analyzed current issues and recommended solutions, creating, and managing a team to develop best practices, and deciding information technology architecture and ensuring it aligns with overall business needs.

While serving in multiple roles, as the lead Technical and lead Solutions Architect, Dave was responsible for driving business and IT transformation across multiple agencies by delivering advanced, scalable, and secure data and analytics platforms using Azure services. He was also responsible for leading cross-functional teams in executing strategic initiatives focused on cloud and big data architecture, governance, and management, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, including the CDO and key executives, Dave guided the development and implementation of the Department’s first Enterprise Data Strategy framework.

Key Responsibilities and Achievements:

• Spearheaded the design and modernization of a cloud-managed, scalable data and analytics platform using Azure services (Data Factory, Databricks, Spark, Machine Learning, Data Lake, SQL), ensuring enterprise-wide transformation.

• Architected the migration of IT infrastructures and applications to the Microsoft Azure Government platform, enhancing performance, scalability, and security across multiple departments.

• Collaborated with engineering, infrastructure, and development teams to design and implement enterprise IT solutions, significantly improving data management, governance, and operational efficiency.

• Led the enhancement of cloud infrastructure, modernizing data architecture and governance strategies using Azure-native technologies to meet organizational needs.

• Directed the integration of Azure technologies (Data Factory, Databricks, AML, Power BI) to improve data processing, visualization, and decision-making capabilities.

• Managed the successful migration of IT infrastructures from both on-premises and Azure public cloud environments to a robust, secure Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

• Fostered collaboration across cross-functional teams to develop and implement critical IT solutions, enhancing service delivery quality and reducing time-to-market.

• Championed improvements in enterprise data management and governance practices, ensuring compliance, data integrity, and best practices across all cloud-based initiatives.

Technical Environment: Azure Commercial/Government CSP, Enterprise data and cloud architecture maturity, Azure Active Directory, ARM Templates, Azure Policy, Security Center, Blueprints, Azure Identity and Access Management (AIM), Monitor, Log Analytics, ICAM, SSO, API Management services, Logic Apps, Function Apps, Docker containers, Azure Container Registry, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Machine Learning (AML), Azure Databricks, Cosmos DB, Azure Data lake, Azure Storage, Azure Search, Cognitive AI services, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Agile, SCRUM methodologies.

Serving as a Enterprise Solutions Architect subject matter expert (SME) in the areas of Enterprise, cloud, IT infrastructure, big data, data architecture & analytics, Dave helped enable Deloitte drive and take to market, the latest digital and technologically innovative products and services for clients and internal teams. Roles and responsibilities included, but not limited to:

• Determine and develop architectural approaches and solutions, conduct business reviews, document current systems, and develop recommendations of how to proceed with the applications.

• Work with Product Owners and Platform managers to articulate proposed solutions, influence technical roadmap of enterprise platforms, and help business prioritize work.

• Collaborate with IT and Business partners to support the vision and business case of strategic initiatives by creating target state solutions and application architectures.
• Manage tactical and strategic architecture roadmaps to solve necessary capabilities and proactively engage in the execution of the capabilities through collaboration with IT and Business stakeholders to meet business imperatives.

• Identify and recommend process improvements for business and technology.

• Analyze current issues and recommending solutions, creating, and managing a team to develop best practices, and determining information technology architecture and ensuring it aligns with overall business needs.

• Build/Create Proof of Concepts to prove technology viability for business needs including AI modeling, testing, training, containerization, packaging, deployment testing, and deployment testing, and deployment AI to Edge device.

Technical Environment: Azure, AAD, IAM, IaC deployments and automation, ARM Templates, Azure Blueprints, Azure Machine Learning (AML), Docker containerization, Container registry, Azure Storage, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts, Streaming Analytics, Big Data processing, batch and streaming ingestion, data store and warehouse design, data modeling, Databricks, AIOps, MLOps, DataOps, DevSecOps, Azure Cognitive Services with advanced AI (custom vision, text analytics, speech analytics, OCR, NLP, NLG, data classification, data sensitivity), Azure IoT Hub services, VS Code, Azure Container Instances, Web app services, Function apps, Logic apps, IoT Hub services, Docker, Python, Flask, TensorFlow, and Jupyter Notebooks