TRISHA WILLIAMS

55 Dice Way  |  Portland, OR 97206  |  000-000-0000  |  trisha.williams@dice.com

Enterprise architect with 7 years of experience ensuring IT roadmaps meet business objectives

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Successful background working with stakeholders to develop architecture framework that aligns strategy, processes, and IT assets with business goals.
• Work closely with project managers, developers, and focus groups to avoid redundancy, minimize expenditures, and improve overall synergy within organization.
• In-depth experience establishing best practices and guidelines for selecting, developing, and implementing information systems within enterprise.
• Acute knowledge of hardware, software, networking, applications, and systems engineering.
• Familiar with architectural concepts of Information Technology Infrastructure Library, Open Group Architecture Framework, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and organizational skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Create future vision architecture to expedite delivery of new products and services to market while meeting company's cost and risk reduction objectives.
• Outline current and future vision enterprise architecture, including traceability from business and IT strategies to suggested technologies.
• Coordinate with architects and business experts across IS to translate key strategic objectives into actionable and governable roadmaps and designs.
• Analyze business and technology challenges, assess costs, and suggest solutions.
• Design and execute proofs-of-concept for critical enterprise capabilities, including building business case with costs, benefits, and efficiency measures.

• Collaborated with key stakeholders and internal teams to define enterprise architecture principles, standards and guidelines, and blueprints.
• Developed, enhanced, and maintained reference architectures for various capabilities.
• Translated business requirements into systems qualities and repeatable design strategies and patterns, such as adaptability, scalability, availability, and reusability.
• Assured enterprise application integration by selecting tools, specifying shared data and code resources, defining interfaces and data-flows, and monitoring progress.
• Performed design reviews across company and collected enterprise architecture performance metrics to assure continuous improvement.
• Conducted evolution planning for systems and technologies and maintained application life cycle inventory.
• Ensured development and incorporation of business architecture with other layers.

• Assisted senior architects in developing current and to-be systems architecture artifacts.
• Helped analyze legacy applications and systems to derive required business functions and rules from existing applications.
• Performed requirements definitions, system analysis and design, interface and data architectures, lifecycle cost analysis and estimation, and governance.
• Worked with 5-member team and project leaders to establish standards and guidelines.

• Served as lead designer and technical architect for this start-up company specializing in developing business applications for financial industry.
• Played key role in client meetings by determining requirements and specifications. Worked with 3-member team of designers to conceptualize, program, and test software programs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

EDUCATION