Summary:

• Stephen is anexperiencedhands-on software architect with over 25 years experience of successfully delivering solutions using in J2EE, SOA, and Cloud technologies.
• During that time he has participated in all aspects of the software development life cycle and has led technical and business development initiatives for a large number of major enterprise organizations.
• Stephen has substantial pre-sales and business development experience including working as a Technical Account Manager for BEA. Hehas architected solutions, delivered business value assessments and helped to build out Proof of Concept POC demonstrations. He also has experience of team leadership and project management.He was an active member of the BEA/Oracle SOA practice and has made presentations on SOA at several events.

Specialties:

• Extensive working experience of architecting, designing, and implementing enterprise applications using Java, J2EE, OSGI, Client-Server, SOA and Cloud technologies.
• Stephen has detailed experience of designing and implementing software systems using a wide range of technologies including the Tuxedo, WebLogic, Oracle SOA Suite, IBM WebSphere, RedHat Fuse ESB, OSGI and has developed SOAP and REST style web servicesandopen source solutionsusingRuby, MongoDB, Camel, Spring MVC Controllers and CXF.

Work Experience:

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SOA Architect: Provided architectural oversight on a major enterprise project for a leading bank. Reviewed the SOA and EDA approach and evaluated Service Mediation and Message Brokersolutions. Derived the detailed design for a new application that processed the output from a BPMS solution that resolved to REST API calls.

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Chief SOA Architect: Responsible for promoting web services, SOA and Cloud solutions across the UC System. Lead SOA architect for the UCPath project that deployed Oracle PeopleSoft as the centralized HCM system for the whole UC System.

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SOA Architect:

• Solutions architect specializing in SOA, Cloud and Devops solutions. Lead architect on a number of projects including a strategic SOA and Cloud initiative at a major bank in Australiasuccessfully, which build out a SOA platform as a private cloud solution PaaS using WebSphere and SOA Software products.
• Delivered REST API solutions using Spring Controllers, JSON and Jackson and also using Ruby and MongoDB. Part of team that developed a Hybrid cloud solution for Backup as a Service based on VMware and the Transcend CloudMux and Stack Studio private cloud products.

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Senior SOA Architect: Active member of BEA/Oracle SOA Practice. Responsible for helping many of BEA's larger corporate customers to realize the benefits of SOA when using BEA products. Worked with customer's senior management to derive reference architectures, organization and governance frameworks and service engineering frameworks for their SOA initiatives.

Technical Account Manager: Worked within the BEA consulting management team to provide pre-sales technical and business development support for many of BEA's corporate customers throughout Northern California. Responsible for ensuring the technical effectiveness of any solutions architecture proposed by BEA to the customer and the appropriate positioning and use of the BEA products.

Consultant/Solution Architect: Senior product expert with hands on experience of delivering enterprise software solutions using a wide range of BEA products including Tuxedo, WebLogic and AquaLogic product suites.

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Team lead on a number of major initiatives for Ford Motor Company based on Oracle, Oracle forms and Oracle reports.Led an initiative to build a middleware business unit for Logica in San Francisco based on IBM MQSeries Certified MQSeries Engineer .

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Software engineer and consultant on a number of IT projects for many of Logica's larger corporate customers using a variety of technologies including C, C , Tuxedo and Oracle Forms/Reports.

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Software engineer and consultant on a number of major IT projects in the telecommunications, defense and financial sectors.Developed software in C, C , Visual Basic and Oracle Pro C

Core Competencies:

• Experience of delivering SOA solutions while implementingboth SOAP web services and REST APIs using:
• Delivered a number BEA SOA Planning Services including: SOA Assessment, SOA Reference Architecture, SOA Organization and Governance, SOA Service Engineering.
• Hands on experience of a number ofBEA ProductsincludingTuxedo 4.2-10.0 , WebLogic Server 5.1-10.3 , WebLogic Integration 7.0-10.3 ,AquaLogic Service Bus 2.5-3.0 , AquaLogic Data Services 2.5-3.2 , AquaLogic Service Manager 2.6 , AquaLogic Enterprise Repository 2.6, 3.0 , WLE-CORBA 5.1 .
• Substantial experience of working with customers to scope projects,architect and design solutions while managing the relationship with the customer.
• Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Manager, Oracle ESB etc
• IBM WebSphere products including Enterprise Service Bus, Process Server, Business Services Fabric, Registry Repository .
• SOA Software's Repository Manager, Portfolio Manager, Policy Manager and Service Manager.
• RedHat Fuse OSGI, ActiveMQ, Camel, CXF .
• REST: Spring MVC controllers, JSON and Jackson. Ruby RSpec, Representers etc