Previous Experience

While at IBM, Andrew worked in the CIO Organization as a Cloud Solutions Architect on a global transformation effort to produce an in-house cloud platform, built to eliminate areas of profit leakage in the end-to-end services sales lifecycle. He was responsible for leading cross-functional agile teams, eliciting requirements from key stakeholders, designing scalable microservices architectures, building specs for development teams, as well as ownership of performance engineering and platform monitoring tools. Andrew's solution designs have utilized a range of technologies, platforms, products, approaches, patterns, and tools including: IBM Cloud, scalable microservice design, API gateways, API management, relational databases/DB2, MongoDB/document-oriented databases, Kafka event-driven architecture, business process/decision automation and management tooling, platform performance engineering and monitoring, integration with enterprise communication tooling (Slack, MS Teams etc.) and complex Salesforce/Force.com platform integrations.

Professional Background

• IBM, Information Technology Architect, 4 years

Education

• Bachelor of Arts: Spanish Linguistics, Composition, and Literature
• Bachelor of Science: Information Sciences and Technology
• Integration and Application Focus, Dean's List Honors
• Penn State University
• Penn State University