Ray lukas
- 1. Professional Summary Enterprise and Solutions Architect with accomplished career in a variety of industries including pharmaceutical research (clinical trial systems), ecommerce/digital search and advertising, computer security and hardware- software Integration. Highly skilled Java engineer with special interest in Graph Databases/Neo4J & Hume Knowledge Bases, Google Cloud Platform, robotics & automation, machine learning, and distributed systems. Known for ability to architect complex problems into simple component-based solutions. Prepared and presented courses on Containerization, Business Intelligence and Analytics, Computer Security, Agile Methodology Pros and Cons, Software Engineering, Disaster Recovery and Governance. Successful working as individual contributor as well as a collaborative team member. Passionate about innovation, problem-solving and mentoring. Experience Aetna/CVS Health Healthcare Provider 12/2017 – Present Architect Advisor in the office of the CTO for Graph & Knowledge Base Theory Working in, mentoring, and presenting courses corporate-wide in Neo4J and Graph Aware Hume. Containerization: Migrating all systems into the container paradigm (Docker/Kubernetes). Responsible to design, develop, and evangelize the corporate wide containerization process across all technology platforms (Java, IIB, .Net). Developed and presented courses to all levels of the company. BI/Analytics: Select services to build/improve our corporate BI/Analytics infrastructure to gain improved business insights through careful listening and understanding across multiple lines of business. Select and established improved unified data and analytics fabrics, multidimensional database element definition and generation, shared across multiple data visualization toolsets. Conversational Cognitive Interface Design: Design multi-platform (AWS Lambda/Google Dialogflow/ServisBOT/IBM Watson) voice solutions for members and partners. One of my contributions has been filed for a US Patent, with a second currently underway. Architectural Guild Core Member Protecting, evangelizing, and mentoring corporate wide resources in software architecture and engineering to solve difficult enterprise wide issues. Promote the adoption of emerging technologies and solutions throughout the Office of the CTO and beyond. Containerization, Graph Theory, Software Engineering, etc. PAREXEL CRO – Clinical Research Organization 06/2012 – 11/2017 Solutions Architect, Principal Software Engineer 2012-2016 Design and development of; • PAREXEL’s Next Generation Early Phase Clinical Workflow Engine • Laboratory Integration & Laboratory Simulation systems • Hardware-Software Integration services for Laboratory Devices (IoT) • Integration with legacy Clinical Workflow Engine (ClinBase) • Design of Laboratory Early Phase Clinical Trial Mobile Interface (Xamarin) Ray Lukas Computer Scientist University of Pittsburgh (BSCS) Maynard, MA 01754-1056 508.314.4257 ray_lukas@verizon.net www.linkedin.com/in/raylukas Enterprise and Solutions Architect Highly Skilled Java Engineer Architecting complex problems into simple component-based solutions
- 2. Enterprise and Solutions Architect Principal Software Engineer ray_lukas@verizon.net 508.314.4257 • Component architecture and all user documentation Enterprise Architect, Information System Governance 2017 • Coordinated the efforts of multi-disciplinary groups to create Standard Operating Procedure templates. Document templates included policies, ideation, infrastructure, solution design, disaster recovery plans, and more • Added to, and built up, the enterprise application infrastructure hardware, software and capabilities definitions through reverse engineering and developing IT Asset Management scanning services • Provide technical and process leadership and mentoring to bring group ideation materials into production from concept to design, to implementation • Disaster Recovery Architect, established policies, prepared and presented weekly workshops, across a wide array of products and infrastructure • Proposed market/product/initial design to augment clinical trial data with wearable devices (IoT) • Evaluated, selected third party solutions for and/or designed solutions for; o IT Asset Management and Configuration Management Scanning and Databases o Enterprise Data Warehousing o Learning Management Systems o Document Repository Systems o Corporate wide bidirectional video presentation services o Pharmacovigilance upgrade solutions and new on-premise multitenancy solutions DexMedia Media/Search Engine/Computer Security 06/2007 – 06/2012 Solutions Architect, Principal Software Engineer Design and development of: • Audio Ad Generator: System to create audio advertisements from script templates and background music clips, using a text to speech engine. An IVR (Interactive Voice Response) component allowed feedback and confirmation of ads by advertisers • Keyword – Category Services: Multipurpose services which generate and/or associate categories and keywords from multiple sources of advertiser’s data (web pages, taxonomies, and advertisements) • Search Engine & Optimization: Constructed a new Apache Solr-Lucene search engine infrastructure • Pricing and Decision Service: Proposal/Pricing JBoss Rules Engine service for media consultants, eliminates misquotes and access to constantly changing pricing models and promotions • Make a Difference Business Model: Envisioned and designed a solution to increase both traffic and advertisers for print and internet divisions through augmenting advertiser’s listings with visual tokens based on charitable giving • Video Montage: Founded a project to develop videos from still photos, descriptive templates, and product database entries for our advertiser’s web pages. Presented working POC to Senior Executives, achieved funding and developed full scale product • Computer Security and Software Engineering Courses: Key contributor to the PCI compliance effort in DexMedia, developing and presenting courses on the new coding standards and OWASP technology. • Corporate Innovation Effort: As a key innovator in the company I was asked by senior leadership to assemble an innovation methodology, select a platform, and construct a corporate innovation portal Education: University of Pittsburgh, Bachelors in Computer Science Associate Professor at Boston University, Computer Science Technologies Knowledge Graphs, Graph Aware Hume, Neo4J Graph Databases, Graph Theory, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Docker & Kubernetes, HL7 Processing/Parsing, Java, C++, Multithreading & Concurrency, Web Services, REST (JAX-RS), JAXB/XML, RMI/Sockets, Apache Tomcat, Spring & Hibernate Frameworks, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), JBoss Rules Engine (DROOLS), Text-to-Speech (Cepstral), Transform (Java-Flash Libraries), UML (Unified Modeling Language), Object Oriented Design Patterns, Security Frameworks (OWASP, JAAS, OAuth2.0, LDAP, AD), Mobile Development (Xamarin, Native iOS)