MZMichael Zinda
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Experience

Increasing scope. Consistent connection to delivery.

A career built from application development outward—into consulting, architecture, modernization, platform operations, and leadership of complex enterprise delivery.

May 2017–Present

Long-term global pharmaceutical client

Eigen X

Senior Manager | Client Lead Architect

Senior ManagerJan 2023–PresentManagerMay 2017–Dec 2022

Leads architecture and delivery across a portfolio of five business-critical enterprise applications, connecting technical direction, matrix delivery leadership, application operations, and stakeholder priorities.

  • Provides day-to-day work leadership for approximately 10–12 matrixed technical contributors across North America, Europe, India, and China.
  • Prioritizes the Jira backlog, shapes sprint scope, coordinates dependencies, manages delivery risk, leads Agile ceremonies, and guides consequential technical decisions.
  • Owns or administers major elements of AWS-hosted application environments, application operations, CI/CD, Octopus Deploy, release sequencing, and production readiness.
  • Led two SharePoint-to-.NET/Angular migrations and established a reusable framework now supporting the five-application portfolio.
  • Led an approximately $1.3M infrastructure and codebase modernization to its targeted June delivery milestone.
  • Coaches and onboards team members, supports recruiting and candidate screening, and brings formal direct-report and performance-review experience.
  • Applies AI-assisted engineering workflows to architecture analysis, implementation planning, development, testing, code review, documentation, modernization, and production-support investigation, with human review and technical validation.

Aug 2012–May 2017

OpenGate Consulting

System Architect

Worked with substantial independence and directly with client IT teams to scope, architect, estimate, build, integrate, migrate, and support enterprise solutions.

  • Led architecture, taxonomy, development, SharePoint configuration, migration, and production support for a regional bank knowledge-management portal.
  • Reverse-engineered a legacy database and built a .NET extraction process that helped preserve and migrate thousands of documents.
  • Built Salesforce, SharePoint, REST, FTP, and data-warehouse integrations, including automated medical-billing workflows.
  • Architected onboarding and approval workflows using .NET, SharePoint, Nintex, and custom development.

Mar 2011–Aug 2012

Grant Thornton LLP

Senior Associate

Continued an acquisition-related consulting period delivering enterprise applications, client-facing architecture, and systems analysis.

  • Supported shared application frameworks, custom business applications, financial-data analysis, and enterprise software implementations.
  • Translated client requirements into detailed functional specifications and practical delivery plans.

Sep 2007–Mar 2011

SMART Business Advisory / LECG

Senior Engineer

Architected and delivered web, database, compliance, budgeting, and property-management solutions across consulting engagements.

  • Independently architected a custom web-application framework used for a government-compliance time-tracking solution.
  • Created budgeting and property-management modules and led client-facing analysis, estimates, negotiation, and delivery for smaller projects.
  • Implemented MRI Cash Flow Budgeting for a real-estate client with more than $1B in managed assets.

Nov 2003–Sep 2007

Procura Management Inc.

Programmer/Analyst

Built the application-development foundation of the career: working directly with business leaders to improve claims, service, reporting, and regulated data workflows.

  • Designed a customer-facing claims application that eliminated manual claims-data entry and reduced turnaround time by 80%.
  • Delivered ASP.NET and SQL Server applications, encrypted data-transfer processes, large data imports, reporting, training, and production support.