Robert Howard

About Robert Howard

Experienced Manager and Enterprise Software Architect with 20 years experience developing practical and scalable software solutions. I enjoy leading large technical teams where I can provide vision and direction organizing complexity and communicating to diverse audiences.I am a data scientist and information architect at heart. I take pride in being intellectually creative as an inventor with granted patents in software and database technologies.

Experience

1. Manager and Enterprise Cloud Architect

   Capgemini

   Feb 2018 — Present · Scottsdale, AZ, US

   Manager acting as Principal Architect, Senior Software Engineer, and Data Scientist in the Greater Phoenix Area. I have extensive experience helping clients solve problems and develop scalable solutions relating to enterprise cloud architecture (Azure and AWS)and big data science (Hadoop, scikit-learn). MANAGEMENT: I manage an offshore native azure cloud agile team (10 people in Mumbai) remotely on Microsoft Teams.ARCHITECTURE: Primarily Azure API enterprise cloud architect, patterns and systems optimization. Extensive documentation, software process specifications, and diagrams (Visio/Lucidchart). OpenAPI + SwaggerHub + Azure API Management (APIM). Cryptography and SOX/PII compliance. CLOUD: Develop API and persistent storage for mobile/web apps customer in US, CA, and PR. 7B/yr Fortune 500 client. Millions of transactions per day. C#.NET 6.0, async optimizations, ESB, and Cosmos DB with throughput and CAP considerations. High-speed Redis searching of periodic App Logic-triggered FTP imports from data providers. Azure Functions and Microservices. Realtime point of sale systems servicing 1500 stores nationwide. OAuth2, Traffic Manager, WAF, Application Gateway configuration and routing, Slots Deployment, PowerShell swap, canary deployments, and AD security. Create NuGet package to manage secrets and certificates for Azure Key Vault. DEVELOPMENT: GitHub CI/CD collaboration, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, and Slack. Write JMeter test plans for performance tests and optimization via various profilers. WinDbg diagnostics. App Insights/Splunk. Teach and advise. Strong coverage unit testing and mocks. C#, Blazor WebAssembly (WASM), Python, Angular 8, REST.DATA: Wrote custom C# scripts for a SSIS ETL project in a large Phoenix-based Bank. Azure SQL Server Lift and Shift, PowerBI.

Education

• Coursera

  9-month Data Science Specialization Certificate (2016) Johns Hopkins, Data Science, Machine Learning

• Universite De Josef Fourier, Grenoble France

  Exchange Student, ASU International Programs, French literature, computer science, mathematics, statistics

• Arizona State University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics, Minor in Computer Science Engineering

Skills

• Nodejs
• Customer Service
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Data Science
• Software Development
• Python
• Web Development
• C++
• C#