Senior Sterling OMS Architect

Stabilizing & Scaling
Global Retail Ecosystems

High-impact Solutions Architect combining 27 years of IT experience with deep expertise in the IBM Sterling Order Management lifecycle. I augment deep OMS expertise with modern AI methodologies to accelerate development and streamline analysis.

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Professional Experience

Product Architect (ISG)

May 2022 – Present

Cognizant | Valrico, FL

Orchestrated operational stability of critical Sterling Order Management ecosystem, utilizing Apache JMeter for performance profiling.
Developed server-side scripts for critical workarounds and bottleneck resolution.
Led cross-functional triage between operations and engineering using JIRA.

Lead Programmer / Analyst

May 2014 – Apr 2022

Genesco | Nashville, TN

Managed end-to-end IBM Sterling OMS ecosystem for 4 major retail brands.
Architected custom "Order Blacklist Application" achieving 100% stability.
Spearheaded OMS v10.0 implementation and Web Call Center modernization.

Java Developer

Aug 2013 – May 2014

Northrop Grumman | Nashville, TN

Executed complex migration of healthcare system logic (Wyoming to TennCare).
Utilized SoapUI for API testing and HQL queries to verify data integrity.

Lead Web Programmer

Aug 2004 – Jul 2013

Cutco | Olean, NY

Directed architecture of recruiting portals handling 2.5M+ annual hits.
Migrated legacy systems from Struts to Spring 3.1 / Hibernate 4.1.
Architected "VectorLive" Java enterprise application.

Lockheed Martin

1998 – 1999

The career foundation where it all started.

Technical Expertise

Core OMS Architecture

IBM Sterling OMS (v9.x - v10.x) Global Inventory Visibility (GIV) Reverse Logistics Call Center COM & DOM

Sterling Technical

SDF Custom API Agent Servers Integration Servers User Exits IBM MQ

Modernization & AI

Python (Automation) GitHub Copilot Prompt Engineering Spring/Hibernate Angular XML/XSLT

Databases & Tools

Oracle DB2 AppDynamics Kibana JMeter Docker/K8s JIRA

Featured Projects

Selected works from my personal portfolio and enterprise architecture achievements.

Wealth Flow App

Live

A personal finance and wealth management application designed to track cash flow and visualize financial growth.

React Vercel

Live Demo

Order Blacklist System

Enterprise

Architected custom fraud prevention app to block fraudulent activities by region. 100% stability.

Sterling OMS Security

VectorLive Integration

Enterprise

Rewrote third-party system into an in-house Java enterprise standard for recruitment workflow.

Java J2EE Scalability

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

SUNY Fredonia | 1997

Patents

Identity Verification Algorithm

WO2004114075A3

Certifications

IBM Sterling OMS Specialist
Agile Project Management (2022)
ITIL Foundation (2018)
Applied AI (2024)

Stabilizing & Scaling Global Retail Ecosystems