SUMMARY:

• 10 years of experience working as a Solution Architect.
• Expertise in Web, Mobile and Digital Solution Architecture as well as in Systems Integration.
• Experience in various sectors with multinational companies, e.g. Financial Services, Postal and Courier, Transport & Logistics, Insurance, Public, Telecom, Automotive.
• Experience in leading the offshore development teams as well as the development centre.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Project work & Know - How: J2EE/JavaEE, SPARX Enterprise Architect, BEA Weblogic Application Server, JBOSS, Apache Tomcat, SonicMQ, WebSphere AS, Hibernate, Struts, Spring, Velocity, Web Services (REST & SOAP), XML/XSL, DTD/DOM/SAX, Xerces, ANT, JLOG, Log4J, JUnit, HTML, MyEclipse, JBuilder, Rational Application, Developer, TogetherJ, Selenium, OO-Methods (OOA, OOD, OOP), UML, Agile RUP, Agile-Scrum, Rational Rose, CodeLogic, Oracle, DB2, SQL, PostgreSQL, PL/SQL, MS Project, MSOffice, Visio, Borland C/C++, Pascal, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, Prolog, PVCS, CVS, SVN, Visual Source Safe, TeamConnection, CCC Harvest, Perfect Tracker, JSON, Ajax, JQuery, JavaScript, Swing, SAP (Portal, BW, CRM, LSMW, XI), Windows, UNIX, VMS, MS-DOS, Sun Solaris

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Solution Architect - Asset Management

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with global stakeholders from IT and the Business, enterprise architects and business analysts and delivery teams to develop the architecture and lead the Solution Architects and the team.
• Create a technology road map. Identify the current and target architectures, identify process and technology improvements.
• Obtain approval for the solution architecture from the Design Authority and chair the DA meeting.
• Translate business requirements (functional and non-functional) into architecture design.
• Prepare options for custom application development, external systems integration, vendor software selection, deployment and customization.
• Engage and lead the Asset Management technology teams for integration of the data sources, collaborate with other architects, technical leads and security risk teams.
• Advice senior business and technology stakeholders and PM on solutions, technology and cloud architecture.

Environment: Enterprise Architect, JavaEE, Tomcat, C#.NET, MSMQ, SQL Server, MS Azure, Microservices, JS Frameworks, Web Service API’s, Messaging Jira, IaaS, PaaS.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Define integration architectures and define a Digital Architecture Roadmap for the Technology Services Unit.
• Define the high-level architecture and the design to integrate forms and applications to the existing Confidential architecture.
• Analyse the design options to integrate the on-boarding process of the Confidential franchises and IBM Datacap to the enterprise transition architectures.
• Ensure that the architecture complies with the target architecture, Confidential standards and policies. Agree architecture designs with stakeholders and the offshore integration team.
• Define the digital architecture roadmap and ensure the alignment with the Confidential target architecture.

Environment: Platforms (Channels, Process/ BPM, Services/ESB, Data, Accounts Opening), Web Services and SOA, Tomcat, IHS, Websphere Application Server, IIB, BPM, JavaEE

Confidential

Lead Mobility Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Identify the mobility requirements together with the group business owners and the global business owners. Lead the definition of the Non-Functional Requirements.
• Define the mobility architecture design and define the Web Service API’s for integration with the KONY MADP (Mobile Device Management, Sync Server and Messaging Server) and the Enterprise backend systems via an Enterprise Service Bus.
• Create the architecture blueprint, SAD and ensure the approval of the solutions by the Enterprise Architects. Ensure the adherence of the architecture blueprint with the Enterprise Architecture, EA policies and EA standards.
• Liaise with the global business and technical stakeholders and 3rd party service providers.
• Provide guidance and support to the offshore design, development and operations teams.

Environment: Android, KONY Mobile Application Development Platform, BizTalk, MS SQL Server, Enterprise Architect, Tomcat, Web Services, Agile Jira, Enterprise Architect, UML, JavaEE

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Enhance and monitor the integration of a Web API based Geospatial solution with the existing environment and online ecommerce and fulfilment systems.
• Evaluate the business requirements and Web Service API’s. Identify the architecturally significant requirements and enhance the existing views of the architecture.
• Liaise and advice the internal stakeholders and the 3rd party solution providers on the best-fit architecture and design as well as provide guidance to agile DevOps teams and testing teams.
• Identify the performance bottlenecks, define performance tests and recommend improvements to the system.
• Monitor thecompliance of theEnterprise Architecture standards and policies in projects.

Environment: Enterprise Architect, Oracle Weblogic, Oracle DB, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, Web Services, TomEE, JavaEE, SAP PI, Snowflake Go Publisher/Go Loader, 1-Transact, Web Services, Agile Jira, HP Trim, Confluence, Open Source Frameworks, UML, JavaEE

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Enhance the online customer service functionalities of the web application platform and integrate the Identity Management solution to the web application.
• Identify the scope, strategy, feasibility and the workload of the enhancements and the solution integration. Define high level requirements with the internal stakeholders.
• Identify the business and technical stakeholder concerns and negotiate the technical solution with the department head, business stakeholders and 3rd party service providers.
• Identify the changed business processes and the technical environment in data centres.
• Produce the solution architecture documentation and the solution design. Liaise with the Security Architect and the offshore development team. Assist the delivery team. Assist the project manager in estimations, technical aspects and the delivery of the project.

Environment: Oracle IDM, Oracle Application Server, Oracle database, Web Application Integration, Web Services, JavaEE, MS Project, Visio, UML

Confidential

Senior Solution Architect/Lead Project Architect

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with the business analysts and change managers to identify the requirements.
• Define the integration architecture and the solution design documents of the web and mobile application integration with the Confidential Secure ID&V framework.
• Identify the applications, databases and the infrastructure which requires change.
• Ensure compliance with the Confidential platform architecture, guidelines and polices.
• Identify stakeholder concerns of the Barclays Retail Banking and Confidential and address the concerns appropriately in the architecture.
• Perform Architecture consulting to the business stakeholders and the project manager.
• Assist the offshore delivery team to complete the low level design.

Environment: Web Applications, Mobile Applications (Native & HTML5), Mobile & Web Applications Integration, Secure ID&V, Messaging (MQ ), Web Services (SOAP & REST), Oracle, Websphere AS, JavaEE, Spring, MS Project, Enterprise Architect, UML

Confidential

Solution Architect - Mobile & Web Solutions

Responsibilities:

• Define the Integration Architecture of the Mobile Applications (Video Streaming, Mobile Sports Book, IOS & Android) to the existing environment.
• Liaise with the business analysts and change managers to identify the requirements and processes.
• Define the integration architecture and create the architecture documentation for implementing mobile applications and their integration to the existing web application architecture and the WH Service Layer.
• Liaise with the internal stakeholders and 3rd party vendors to ensure the delivery of the agreed application design and the API’s. Monitor the service provider deliverables and support the go live process.
• Resolve all technical issues of the delivery team. Analyse the existing systems environment and the performance impact on the existing infrastructure.
• Identify Solutions/Infrastructure/Performance and external systems integration bottlenecks.
• Monitor the compliance of the technical standards, software development process, and agile methodology. Obtain approval of the Solutions from the Enterprise Architecture Board.
• Perform Architecture consulting and assist the PM in all technical aspects and estimations.

Environment: Native iPad & iPhone, Mobile (HTML5) Web solutions, Mobile/Web Integration, Web Services (REST), SOAP UI, Tomcat/SpringSource, Oracle, Jira, Confluence, Enterprise Architect, Video Streaming, OpenBet CMS, JavaEE, Agile Scrum, JavaScript frameworks

Confidential

Enterprise Solution Architect/Managing Director

Responsibilities:

• Management of the company and lead the employees. Manage expectations of the parent company.
• Manage and Lead the offshore company and the delivery team. Prepare project quotations and estimations. Architecture consulting, business change process and project management.
• Define the architecture strategy and roadmaps for customers. Manage customer stakeholder expectations and monitor the delivery of the projects.
• Define the HL architecture for applications and systems integration. Monitor the development work and quality assurance of the deliverables; Domains: Courier operations, sales, CRM, tariffs, billing & accounts management, supply chain, inventory management.
• Introduce agile scrum development methodology to the customer and the offshore entity.
• Monitor the requirements, architecture and delivery of the migration of a vehicle reservation and leasing software to the .Net platform.
• Perform strategic consulting on web applications architecture and usage of web frameworks at VW. Recommend strategy, roadmaps, standards and their initial implementation at VW. Develop a model to forecast application server resource requirements depending on the usage of specific web frameworks in web applications.

Environment: MS Project, Diverse Web Frameworks, Websphere AS

Confidential

Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Define the integration architecture for the JavaEE based web and mobile platform to consume multimedia content and services.
• Define the architecture requirements for the project. Produce the technical and information architecture documentation.
• Evaluate the existing application and network to make recommendations for performance enhancements considering the solution and systems integration requirements.
• Identify the required integration work to assist the 3rd party solution provider.
• Assist the offshore content delivery platform solution provider to deploy the platform.

Environment: Java/Java EE, Messaging, Web Services, SOA, Mobile Integration, IP and Mobile Network, BEA WebLogic Application Server, Apache Tomcat, CMS, Oracle

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reverse Engineer a web based application to an UML model to assist a data centre migration.
• Analysis of the application, generate and specify the UML model to understand the complexities of the application components and the data model.
• Identify relevant code paths for testing on different application layers, i.e. Application Server (Oracle), Messaging (JMS), Integration/Web Services (XML/SOAP) and Staffware (Workflow).
• Code review, identify patterns and make recommendations for change of the application delivered by the external 3rd party solution provider.

Environment: Java/J2EE, XML/SOAP, Enterprise Architect, UML, Oracle Application Server, CodeLogic, Eclipse, Oracle/SQL, JProbe, CVS