SUMMARY:

• Focused, and technology oriented architect with 23 years of experience in IT industry. Excellent client facing skills, able to influence key client stakeholders, as well as leading technical teams to identify, analyze and design complex projects with best practices and methodologies.
• Proven records to lead team design and implement complex mission critical applications, expert in application architecture design and improvement, including key areas like performance, security, scalability, and stability.
• In depth knowledge of various industry domains, including banking, trading and securities, mutual fund, telecommunication, travel & transportation, public sector. Clients include Confidential, UBS, BMO, Rogers, Cathay Pacific Airways, Ontario government.
• Technical leader with effective communication and facilitation skills. Mentor and community leader in architect careers. Architecture course instructor.
• Extensive expertise in cloud, DevOps, CI/CD, micro - services architecture, object oriented analysis/design, and design patterns.
• Hands on experiences in designing and deploy applications running in public cloud, include both AWS and Azure, refactor application using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud with 12 factor app methodology.
• Hands on experience in Tomcat, JBoss, WAS, Weblogic, Java/JEE, Spring framework, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead development team to deliver projects under Commercial Banking & Payment Technology group, provide technical guidance and support throughout different phases of projects.
• Lead team to implement high complexity Java based payment application, this application offers Payment Canada compliant payment products including Wire, EFT, ACH, cheque and remittances, Interac EMT, channels including SCA, FTS, FIN, formats including ISO 20022, SWIFT MT messages.
• Help management to collaborate with different LOB teams and infrastructure team, manage and guide vendors, integrate applications with various integration technologies, includes FTP/SFTP, API, SOAP web services, MQ messages.
• Lead team to adopt DevOps practices in agile environment, build cloud native application using Spring boot / Spring Cloud to address micro-services related complexity like service registry and discovery, Routing, Circuit Breaker.
• Lead team design and implement application running on AWS and Kubernetes/EKS.

Confidential

Senior Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead architect in UBS bank’s private bank CRM application portfolio, act as a technical liaison between Shenzhen delivery team and UBS client, helps team to analyze, prioritize client requirements, and make sure application can meet both functional and non-functional requirements, POC use Activiti as BPM tools.
• Lead architect in Cathay Pacific Airway channel service project, led CPA enterprise SOA solution’s architecture and design, transform application integration architecture from ad-hoc style to an ESB based (WebSphere Message Broker & DataPower), SOMA guided service oriented architecture. Led team from technical aspect starting from opportunity identification, proposal and feasibility study, design, and implementation phase. Lead Shenzhen team to work with Hong Kong team do PoC on move Passenger Portfolio projects onto AWS cloud.
• Lead architect in China Everbright Bank’s marketing application, with focus on improve the application’s scalability and stability.
• Solution architect in IBM Sametime infrastructure project, collaborate teams across line of business including GTS, GBS, and CIO offices, manage projects progress and present to senior management on all major milestone, delivered 3 successful enhancements.
• Lead application architect in Guosen Securities IT Strategy & Planning project. Based Guosen’s transform to a worldwide investment bank enterprise strategy, analyzed Guosen’ current IT portfolio, use gap analysis and scenario based development and evaluation, proposed application roadmap for short-term and long term.
• Architect leader in AIS & ADI service line, provide bid and solution support to various important projects and clients, include Huawei BPM project, China Telecom mobile project, HSBC DevOps initiatives, DBS bank mobile initiatives, Lead AIS service line team transform to Cloud, including Bluemix.
• Speak on China Architect Summit 2012 Shenzhen event (China version of QConn) on topic of IBM Watson architecture.
• Frequent speaker on IBM technical leadership events.
• Role model in china architect CoE, developed and delivered technical session on various topics, includes Domain Model, Design Patterns.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed IRIS application, Ford’s global incentive management application. Technologies used in the project include: Websphere application server, Struts, DB2 database, JCA connectors, OOA/D.
• Led technical team to work with business users from Dearborn headquarter, communicate and collaborate with various business users, provide technical expertise/solutions when project meets challenges, mentor Java developer in implementation phase.
• Co-ordinate and collaborate with Ford enterprise architect team to ensure project meet enterprise policy, guidance and standard, led the effort for application release and deployment for corporate centralized hosting.

Confidential

Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Rogers portal (roger.com) performance and scalability enhancement solution.
• Implemented several agile methodology best practices to the department. Including test-driven development and continuous integration, selected Cruise Control as the continuous integration platform.
• Act as technical focal for Portal project, collaborate with other project portfolios and enterprise architecture team to make sure project compliance.

Confidential

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Advised and made key architectural and design decisions for CCS application, enterprise credit and collection project, insured the projects meet both functional and service level requirements.
• Proposed, designed and developed key technologies used in this project, includes provide web services with AXIS2 implementation, Hibernate as O/R mapping tools, JAXB as interface between java and XML, using JMS queues to separate concerns between different processes, Aqualogic Service Bus as the SOA platform, JSF as presentation tier framework, quick rule as rule engine.
• Mentored junior java developers; insure team follow development standards and best practices, help team members when meeting technology difficulties. Advocate and help the team make the paradigm shift from transaction scripts based solution to domain rich model.
• Tuned and improved application performance by using hibernate tuning, application code level tuning, profiling and JVM tuning.

Confidential

Senior Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Confidential credit card online application solution, technologies used include: WAS 5.1, Eclipse, LDAP (Sun ONE server), ANT scripts, Jacl Scripts, Cocoon, Struts, EJB, Web Services, Unix Scripts, and PL/SQL.
• System requirement gathering with use cases, object oriented design with rational rose and produce different documents for various stakeholders.

Confidential

Senior Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed several key components for BMO’s online banking redesign project. Includes Database Connectors, Special request forms, Message centre, and Printer friendly pages.
• Designed and implemented project development framework and common components: Exception (error message) handling, Layered application design, XML-based configuration, Packaging mechanism, Security component (SQL & CSS injection), logging (log4j).