SUMMARY

• Versatile software Architect expert in designing and delivering secure, high quality, high performance, and cost - effective software solutions in different industry verticals (Finance, Telecommunications, Oil transportation, …)
• Strong experience on Cloud Technologies focusing on Windows Azure & Amazon AWS.
• Hands-on experience with microservices (Service Fabric, CosmosDB, MongoDB, RabbitMQ...)
• Strong experience building microservices based solutions
• Web development using Angular 1,2,4,5, Typescript, Backbone, and CoffeeScript
• Design and implementation of SPA and responsive web applications.
• Expertise using Microsoft Stack: ASP.NET CORE, MVC 4 / Web API, WCF, WF, Entity Framework
• Design and implementation of high performance scalable multi-tier, multi-layer solutions.
• Research on DevOps techniques and Continuous delivery practices.
• Experience setting-up a Continuous delivery pipeline using Microsoft technologies.
• Important experience in developing a PKI infrastructure based on Microsoft’s MS Certificate.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Applications: Angular 1 & 2 & 4, Typescript, Backbone, ASP.NET, HTML5Cloud Azure, CosmosDB, Service Fabric, Service Bus, App Insights, App Gateway, Redis cache, VNET, Azure storage, ...

Cloud AWS: Lambda, Redshift, DynamoDB, EC2, S3…

.Net: .Net Core 2, ASP.NET Core, .Net (WCF & WF & Entity Framework). C#

Data Access: CosmosDB API, Mongo API, Entity Framework, LinQ to SQL, ADO.net

Database: CosmosDB, MongoDB, SQL Server 2012, AWS Redshift, Oracle DB

Testing: FIT Fitness, TDD, NUnit, NMock, RhinoMock, Moq

Tools: ANTS Profiler, dotTrace, Wireshark, Fiddler, SoapUI, NDepend…

Reports: SQL Server Reporting Services 2008

Other: Telerik MVC 2011, TFS 2015, SharePoint 2010, Word & Excel automation. Visual Studio SDK and Office automation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Cloud & Web Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected the transformation of a complex, 20 years old, flight tracking solution into a cloud-native, web based solution.
• Put in place a multi-tenant, scalable, highly available, high throughput, microservices based, cloud native platform to support the new solution
• Re-architected an existing SPA application for better modularity and maintainability.
• Reviewed and Validated the new platform solution with Microsoft experts.
• Put in place the migration and transformation strategy.
• Dealt with the microservices complexities: Consistency, bounded contexts, transactions, idempotency...
• Participated in the infrastructure provisioning and application deployment automation
• Put in place the security solution: Infrastructure and Application
• Put in place the solution to be multi-deployment target and non-cloud vendor locked-in.

Tools: CosmosDB, Service Fabric, VMSS, Azure Service Bus, App. Insight, App Gateway, …

Confidential

Lead Architect (Cloud & RIA)

Responsibilities:

• Worked on building a full Cloud Migration tool (Role: Product Owner)
• Worked on rebuilding our RIA Framework using the MEAN Stack (Role: Product Owner)
• Worked on achieving Amazon AWS Advanced Partnership.
• Helped setting up Confidential Cloud Services Offerings.
• Built a detailed plan for Cloud Migration Discovery activities.
• Built a reusable RIA Framework that was applied to three different projects.
• Set-up a DevOps continuous delivery pipeline using Microsoft technologies: TFS2015 & MS Release Management
• Worked on tens of pre-sales opportunities
• Worked on multiple internal projects: Cloud, MEAN stack …
• Supported Expedia project on Data Ingestion Design Review: AWS Redshift, EMR, and Data Pipeline.
• Supported CEA project on Azure Active Directory implementation knowledge transfer.

Confidential

Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected the migration of the United Shore’s document management system (DMS) from their current vendor’s platform into a new platform, cloud-first, desktop-first SPA.
• Architected a document recognition and classification engine to be built on top of 3rd party solutions.
• Evaluated and communicated with tens of OCR/ADR/ADE providers
• No implementation.

Confidential

Web Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected a green field, Internet facing, mobile-first, Responsive Single Web Page Application to provide asset allocation and security selection advice to individual investors
• Support of Mobile, tablet and Desktop layouts across tens of browsers.
• Integrates site Analytics (SiteCatalyst)

Confidential

Web Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible of the rewrite of a legacy Issue Tracking system from Silverlight into a responsive single page web application (only Front-end)
• Reused the Framework built a year before for Confidential
• Reviewed and proposed solutions to optimize Customer’s Information Architecture as well as existing back-end Performance issues.

Confidential

Web Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected the rewrite of an Incentive Sales Solution (multiple VB6 applications) into a single RIA Application based on the framework built a year ago.
• Worked on designing a full solution to the current Month-end processing activities.

Confidential

Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible of setting-up and executing a Cloud migration plan of 5 legacy web and mobile (IOS) applications to Amazon AWS.
• Set up a fail back strategy in case of unexpected unsolvable migration issues.
• Orchestrated the different IT groups for successful final Production migration execution.

Confidential

Web Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible of the rewrite of a legacy Electronic Loan Authorization solution (VB6) into a responsive single page web application.
• Designed a fully end to end reusable framework on top of AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API to accelerate the development process.
• Client side automatically generated metadata: Entity, validation and security.
• Multiple layers of security: Top10 OWASP, Field Level, Authentication, Authorization

Confidential

.NET Architect

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the Architecture/Design of an Audit Program Generator application.
• Multi-layered desktop application using the MVVM design pattern for the presentation layer.

Confidential

Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of a huge Enterprise Solution (over 50 M$) processing real time stock market data
• Part of a team of senior Architects
• Responsible of assessing the Greeks platform (Risk Assessment)

Confidential

Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed the TransCanada pipeline’s scheduling engine to support multiple forks, multiple injection points, parallel flows and to support future extensibility.
• Added multi-tenancy support to an existing legacy application with minimum update to exiting code.
• Added multiple unit of measure support with cross unit boundary safety net.
• Participated in a full vertical modularization of an existing legacy application.

Confidential

.Net Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architect a web based solution integrating SharePoint2010 and SSRS2008:
• Built an architecture document covering:
• Logical architecture: logical views, interfaces and subsystems.
• Physical Architecture: Database, Software and Hardware.
• Development Architecture: Technology stack, UI designs…
• Quality attributes: Security, Performance, Scalability, and Availability.
• Design the build and deployment strategy.
• Designed the integration of the Role based Security and the Reporting Services with SharePoint 2010.
• Designed a Web dynamic control container to add/remove UI controls at runtime.
• Responsible of applying the bank’s strict security requirements.
• Participated in setting up a continuous build/integration server.
• Code and Design reviews with the whole team members.
• Reviewed the Document architecture and the resulting code with one of the bank’s architects.

Confidential

.Net Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implement Record Level Security throughout the system with minimum impact on the existing code.
• Improve Fit test execution time (parallelization).
• Document a flexible Scheduling Engine algorithm for future Pipeline changes.
• Design and code reviews

Confidential

.Net Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible of the Architecture of a thin web application.
• Distributed transactions support.
• Design the Business and the Data access layers.
• Technical lead of a 5 developers’ team: Code review, design review …

Confidential

.Net Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible of the Architecture of a thin web application.
• Design a reusable order processing component to integrate to a WCSF application.
• Design a shared session management across 2 intercommunicating web sites.
• Implement Mutual certificate based authentication between Presentation tier and ESB tier.
• Technical lead of a team of 5 developers: Code review, design review …
• Design/Integrate 2 heterogeneous systems via Web services.

Confidential

.Net Architect

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the architecture/design of a large .net solution in the oil industry.
• Re-design the core scheduler system for improved performance and better maintainability.
• Provide guidelines to improve the data access layer performance.
• Design exception management, logging and caching for all tiers.
• Work on the overall solution logical layering.
• Lead a small dev. team to build parts of the solution.
• Perform code and design review throughout all development streams.
• Interview new candidates.

Confidential

.Net Architect

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the development of the EspaceBus.ca web site.
• Participate in the solution architecture and the structural design:
• Design the logical layers: Data access, Business and UI layers.
• Design the integration interface with a third party service provider.
• Responsible of the application data model (Database and Business).

Confidential

Developer-Principal

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the development of the project “Dossier Patient” for the Quebec province.
• Participate in the Development of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
• Responsible of:
• Securing the WCF services
• Certificate issuance and delivery using ASP.net. IIS configuration for certificates and SSL
• System Authentication and authorization (using Smart cards + Azman)
• Configuring the client machines
• Develop tools to Generate, Parse PKCS10 requests
• Responsible of the piece of software issuing the certificates from a Certificate Authority (MS Certificate) to be stored on the smart cards used to access the system.
• Participate in the implementation of a SOA architecture based on WCF and WF in a very secure context.
• Replaced for a short period of time, my manager, as a technical team lead.

Confidential

Developer-Principal

Responsibilities:

• Analysis and Design of a huge web application in the financial area.
• Participate in the design and development of Code Review (Compuware’s DEV PARTNER®)
• Write detailed design documents
• Visual Studio Guidance Automation. GAT/GAX
• Developed a small application to add visual effects directly onto Visual Studio’s source code pages.
• Two technical presentations:
• Google Cluster Architecture
• .Net 3.0 on the Web: WPF/E, Loose XAML, XBAP

Confidential

Developer-Principal

Responsibilities:

• Development of an important and complex client server application to generate huge reports (millions of rows) from an OLAP server.
• Completely re-design the architecture of the report execution system to ameliorate its throughput
• OLAP Server stability and Performance Tuning for very large queries.
• Design and development of a Central Logging System that supports heterogeneous client loggers (Oracle, .Net, Shell UNIX…) with a high volume of requests.
• Web Server Stress Testing
• Creation of a windows application for MDX querying into a « flat Table»
• Implementing Excel Macros digital signatures using VeriSign

Confidential

Developer-Principal

Responsibilities:

• XSLT style sheets development intended for the transformation of SQL Query results into WordProcessingML format.
• ASP.NET, C#.NET, Javascript and HTML coding.
• Automating Microsoft Word with MS .NET
• Conversion of DOC files into PDF format using the Acrobat distiller
• Writing of XML Schema validation files
• Participating in the development of a multi-process, multi-thread system.

Confidential

Software Analyst - Developer

Responsibilities:

• Multithreaded Development in C#, Microsoft.NET 2003, VB, VBA
• Implantation of an Oracle relational database.
• Apply the «Rational Unified Process 2000» development process.
• COM/ActiveX programming.
• Automating Microsoft Excel through .NET
• Writing an Add-in for Microsoft Excel.
• Enhance the display response by directly accessing low-level windows routines.
• Study the .NET2003 security policies
• Use of «3rd-party» Libraries. (Xceed Grid, Isis, Accelrys Chemistry Control)

Confidential

Analyst - Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Installation of an Oracle9i database
• Analysis and design of a 3-tier Java application
• Encode Scripts for loading data from textual files into a database.

Confidential

Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Development in C++ under Linux
• Code and design inspection (C++, Java, SQL, JSP, HTML)
• Data migration between different databases using SQL scripting.
• Bug fix on a multi portal page (Oracle Portal 9iAS).