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 a seven-figure 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.

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.