SUMMARY:

• Confidential is an IT Leader and hands - on Solution and Enterprise Architect with a strong customer and business problems solving focus. With 19 years of experience, he has worked in a variety of projects (often concurrently) dealing with business transformation strategy development, procurement processes, COTS products implementation, business and solutions architecture and optimization, and infrastructure design. He has performed multiple roles as IT lead, Enterprise Solutions architect, Product Development Manager and delivered solutions which leveraged a diverse mix of technologies, proprietary and open source software and hardware.
• Managing teams of IT resources, Defining IT strategies, managing products portfolio and budgets, defining business architecture and leading business transformation projects.
• 19 years industry experience including all stages of software development and software support in individual contributor and leadership roles
• Proven track record in delivering mission-critical enterprise solutions in various industries including Higher, Telecommunications, Banking, Insurance, e-Commerce and Utilities.
• 10 years of providing architectural consulting expertise, direction, and assistance to IT teams
• 5+ years of building Business Architecture for enterprises including business capabilities mapped to specific solutions and functions as well as creating efficient enterprise programs roadmaps for mid and long term initiatives

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Leading architecture (define strategy, conceptual, business capabilities, solutions and integration) of HR and Finance domains in scope of Integrated program to rationalize applications portfolio and support organization transformation initiative
• Created business cases (all stages from initial solution and estimates up to getting final approval from C-level executives) for various business critical applications and point solutions, provided technical leadership in procurement of required COTS products,
• Defining strategy of legacy ecosystem replacement (decommission or integrating) by products from Workday HCM, Financial Management and Student suite.
• Defined architecture of new applications ecosystem (business, logical, physical) and lead team of architects and developers to implement new, retrofit existing applications
• Define and communicated to key stakeholders the decommission strategy for end-of-life applications
• Define business services oriented integration framework to interconnect all on premise and cloud based applications using micro services and MuleSoft platform
• Supporting organization executives (VP and C-level) in program strategic decisions by providing technical expertise

Confidential

Sr. Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Defined enterprise level Integration architecture for Online and Mobile Banking solution incorporating Core Banking system, CRM, Identity Management, ERP, etc. solutions into robust and unified ecosystem.
• Defined key vendor selection criteria for procurement processes
• Created High Level Design, Canonical Data Model and major Data Flows for ESB (MuleSoft) platform
• As integration architect defined key SOA and microservices based principles for systems integration and process implementation
• Proposed, got approved and implemented internal SDLC processes including all stages of software business analysis, architecture, implementation and delivery for internal agile project. Conducted RFP process and implemented integration of internal agile platforms Jira, Confluence, HP Octane, Microsoft TFS etc. into integrated and synchronized solution. Provided consultancy to C-level IT leaders about architecture governance models and introduced elements of TOGAF into day to day processes.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• As part of the North America architecture group, provided solutions architecture and telecommunications expertise into ongoing OSS/BSS transformation projects for Confidential Telco clients: TELUS, Confidential
• Designed end to end solution architecture of GPON customers’ data migration from legacy to a new OSS/BSS stack for TELUS (Burnaby, BC). As team lead controlled implementation (design review, code quality control, and peer review) of the toolset (J2EE based app) for ETL procedures. As Performance analyst investigated and tuned performance of core ETL operations using functionality and fine tuning of Oracle DB and PL/SQL procedures.
• As pre-sales solution architect designed solution proposal for service assurance in Confidential . The solution provided end user (agent) with ability to gather current state of the service from multiple network elements, aggregate information and present it to the user in friendly manner. After root cause investigation, agent should be able to initiate proper updates on the network to fix service state. Solution was built on top of existing C# application for network activation, integrated with Hadoop solution to store network elements information for further analysis and reporting and Order Care ( Confidential product for Order Management) for service state updates.

Confidential

Sr. Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Conducted a set of interviews with business (marketing, product, revenue recognition and finances) teams to identify top priorities and business requirements for a new Product Catalogue solution,
• Collaborated with the BAs and business stakeholders to define the RFP evaluation use cases, and conducted RFP workshops with the vendors.
• Architected robust and integrated solution for product catalogue using selected vendor’s (NetCracker) product, product structure was designed to be in compliant with TM Forum SID object model and overall solution was aligned with best practices from eTOM and TAM.
• Collaborated with security architects and infrastructure architects to make solution SOX compliant.
• Designed and as a team lead controlled implementation of new Product Catalogue integration into existing eco-system: integration with billing component, data synchronizations, integration with online portal and Order Management solution.
• Introduced concept of Enterprise Catalogue that in corporate elements of Sales, Product, Services and Resource catalogues into end-to-end integrated definition of customer experience. Got business case approved with Confidential Executives and created roadmap for future projects implementation.
• As a chief domain architect for Order Management and Product Catalogue domain provided architectural oversight and technical analysis during the implementation of multiple CRs
• Translated business requirements into solid technical design, collaborated with vendor’s architect and lead developers to implement suggested features design and deliver it to production in timely manner
• Responsible for the design and validation of NetCracker product features integration and data migrations.
• Led solution design for Confidential OSS initiatives: Resource Inventory design for CMTS devices, VOD back office and integration of OSS systems to BSS stack
• Technical support of NetCracker SOW sign-off process for 2 years’ initiative (over 30 million dollars budget): scope definition, controls and governance, financial negotiations
• As Performance Solution Architect elicited NFR from the business stakeholders
• Collaborated with vendor’s performance analysists (Tech Mahindra and NetCracker) and conducted analysis of existing performance metrics
• Matched results of performance analysis against business NFRs and identified top areas of performance degradation
• In collaboration with domains delivery managers managed to list and prioritize performance defects and get it fixed in either vendor’s product or in customer’s solution
• Managed to get signoff on NFRs and combined performance tuning best practices and added ongoing process of performance metrics analysis and resolution into existing release management process.
• Analyzed new CASL requirements, evaluated the impact to existing solutions and processes
• In collaboration with business teams defined requirements of process and functional changes required to comply with CASL
• Designed required changes to minimize technical impact to solutions that are currently in production and not to affect customers’ services
• Communicated new requirements to existing vendors and got required updates installed into production
• Led RFP process for next generation Commissioning platform for Confidential Residential and Business units
• Architected end-to-end solution for agents’ sales events gathering and commissions rates calculation
• Integrated new solution with both legacy (mainframe based) system and new OSS/BSS stack

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical expertise and deep knowledge of NetCracker products line especially in Order Entry and Management domain as well as 3rd party products to create solid cross-domain architecture for Confidential T3 program, working with project management and customer’s Architecture Group to define architecture approach of program’s development, mentoring development teams from both vendor’s and customer’s sides to implement good development practices and create quality solution
• Mentored the first phase of implementation through all stages of project lifecycle (SDLC: Agile and Waterfall) from gathering detailed requirements and creating software architecture for each of domains through build and test stages and up to final acceptance by business users
• Led a team of experienced developers in application design and implementation

Confidential

Senior Solution and Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architect and delivery of solutions including: Content Management System/Product Information Management, Customer CRM; Learning Management System; Workforce Management System, Resource Inventory, SOA Enterprise Services (Product, Pricing, Tax), Order Management for various tier 1 Telecom provider worldwide including: Looking Glass Networks, Confidential, TeliaSonera, Mobile Tele Systems, Beeline, Confidential, Confidential, du (Dubai), Telecom New Zealand, TWTC, Confidential
• Security for all solutions including: policy compliance, encryption, PCI DSS, OWASP, SSO, s, authorization/authentication, Identity Management, SAML, LDAP, AD, PGP, RSA Key Management (RKM), credit card vault.
• As technical member of Export Control council developed and implemented company’s Information Security policies and as Project Manager executed the project of company’s products: coordinated activities on various levels from technical to legal and marketing.
• As Technical Project Manager implemented NetCracker OSS Platform Upgrade project (about 30 team members and 5 million project budget) for tier 1 telecom provider in Canada.

Confidential

Sr. Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed architecture of the RealCastLive plug-in for BlackBoard learning system (Web Services, Struts, Hibernate). Proposed, designed and successfully implemented the integration with Akamai network for video and audio streaming. Designed the security subsystem of the plug-in and optimized performance of the solution.
• Initiated prepared proof of concept and managed the project of SWAT application (used by Canadian government) performance tuning, gathered customer’s requirements, measured performance and made changes in initial application’s design. In scope of the project performed migration of the project to Java 1.5 and Application Server WebSphere 6.1.
• Created architecture (SOA, Web Services, PHP, J2EE Patterns, UML) of online payment system (for credit, debit and on account transactions). Researched banking standards such as Verified by Visa and controlled implementation of the project.

Confidential

Technical Manager/Senior Java/J2EE Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Created architecture, designed and developed important parts of System Core module of NetCracker OSS product suite
• Managed team of 27 developers

Confidential

Senior Java/J2EE Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Make decisions about functionality implementation approaches and develop complex solutions for J2EE based application. Develop new core modules, research system performance problems, prepare prototypes, and analyse measurement results. Review and modify Java Code and SQL queries prepared by developers. Design, implement and troubleshoot solution architecture for implementation projects.

Confidential

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Develop, test, document and support Administrative Tool and Textual UI modules of NetCracker OSS. Prepare functionality for pre-sales projects demonstrations.