Alexei Lapouchnian, Phd Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

Teaching the regular and/or executive delivery versions of the Masters-level courses "Designing Sustainable and Resilient Machine Learning Systems with MLOps", "Systems Analysis and Process Innovation", "System Requirements and Architectural Design", and "Information Management and Systems".

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Part of a consulting team working on a data integration and analytics implementation project on Google Cloud for an entertainment industry client. Focused extensively on data integration/transformation in Google BigQuery and on developing customizable self-serve dashboards in Google Looker. Helped transfer knowledge and educate the client. Assisted in.

More than doubled the data science team. Managed AI/ML/data science projects. Reported to upper management, including Assistant Deputy Ministers and the Deputy Minister. Developed collaborative partnerships with other government departments, technology companies, etc. Responsible for the unit’s strategy, procurement, budget proposals, and supplier.

Led a team of data scientists. Responsible for customer engagement, project scoping and requirements. Oversaw the delivery of AI/ML/data science projects – on-premise and in Azure ML. Agile project management.

Delivered data science/ML/deep learning projects on-premise and in Azure ML; data wrangling; ML pipelines; technologies used: Python, Jupyter, pandas, scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, Docker, Kubernetes, MinIO, Flask, data visualization libraries, Power BI.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Leading the development of requirements-driven method for designing flexible BP architectures (BPAs) to enable enterprise-wide process analysis/reconfiguration with the focus on agility and flexibility.
• Developed a method for continuously evolving BPAs along the four novel dimensions of change. Devised approaches for reasoning about business decision making granularity and for exploring business context information.
• Applied the approach within the domains of transportation and logistics and to software processes (DevOps).

Toronto

• Taught the course "Introduction to Software Engineering" focusing on practical software engineering and agile project/product management.

Markham, Ontario

Part of the project “Cognitive Business Operations Made Easy” aimed at the development of model-based methods for simplifying the integration of AI/ML-based cognitive services into business processes for improved support for decision making. Includes the development of flexible and evolving user engagement models, feedback, adaptation, etc.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Taught the courses "Requirements Management" and "Systems Analysis and Design II".

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Taught in the Master of Health Informatics program.

Toronto, Canada Area

Our mission is to help suppliers, buyers, and financiers extract maximum value from the vast and largely untapped supply chain data, including ERP, CRM, procurement integration, credit files, e-mails, etc. We build highly customized intelligent engines designed to assist in informed decision making on credit, risk, and pricing in near real-time and return.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Planned and led requirements efforts (stakeholder identification/analysis, document analysis and interviews with SMEs, business/system use case development and documentation, definition of business, stakeholder, and.
• Helped manage project scope; performed gap analysis and change impact assessment; communicated requirements to the project sponsor, development team, and SMEs for validation and approval.
• Worked in a multi-functional team, was a liaison b/w IT and business users.
• Worked with the lead software architect to analyze alternative solutions, refine/improve software architecture, define a test plan, and determine outsourcing feasibility and requirements for hiring developers.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Analyzed Business Intelligence (BI) implementation efforts in organizations based on reports and interviews.
• Applied process- (BPMN) and goal-based notations for modeling BI implementations as continuously evolving information systems. Identified requirements for an improved approach for analyzing such systems.

Trento Area, Italy

• Part of the project “Lucretius: Foundations for Software Evolution” aimed at developing a framework for RE for evolving systems, focusing on adaptive systems and compliance.
• Developed and implemented a requirements-driven methodology for self-adaptive software systems (SAS).
• To help specify and analyze evolving systems, developed the novel idea of software evolution requirements.
• Performed document analysis and interviewed SMEs to create requirements models for SAS in a number of domains. Co-developed system prototypes and simulations to validate the approach.

Trento Area, Italy

• Instructor for the course “Conceptual Modeling”. Delivered lectures, advised on course projects.

Toronto, Canada Area

• To support the development of adaptive systems, proposed awareness requirements that capture desired success rates for objectives (KPIs) and are used to derive monitoring and control requirements for self-adaptive.
• Adapted the system identification process to RE for adaptive systems, allowing for qualitative modeling of relationships between system parameters and KPIs to identify appropriate system reconfiguration options.

Toronto, Canada Area

• The work was performed at the Dept. of Computer Science.
• Developed an influential requirements-driven approach for engineering adaptive software systems and BPs.
• To help produce specifications for complex customizable and/or adaptive systems from requirements, developed a method for a semi-automatic generation of flexible system designs (captured using statecharts, feature.
• Developed a goal-driven method and tools to make BP (re)configuration accessible to non-technical users, based on their preferences over quality criteria (KPIs). Given user priorities, requirements models were used at.
• Elicited BP configuration/customization needs from users through interviews and requirements work-shops. Acted as a facilitator. Developed a technical requirements specification for the implementation.
• Presented prototypes and UI mockups to stakeholders for review. Performed user acceptance testing.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Won the IBM CAS fellowship for the project “From Business Requirements to Adaptive Business Processes”, a joint project with IBM WebSphere Business Modeler/Monitor team.
• Lead the project aimed at streamlining and simplifying BP adaptation and evolution. The method integrated goal and BP modeling for business requirements elicitation, process specification, and adaptation.
• Obtained US Patent No. 2009/0198,532 “A Method and a Tool for BP Adaptation Using Goal Modeling and Analysis”.
• Developed project plans and reports. Delivered presentations to project sponsors and senior management. Secured a project funding extension. Worked with minimal supervision.
• Elicited modeling and analysis needs from BP consultants through interviews, questionnaires, and group requirements elicitation sessions. Helped develop a shared understanding, obtained agreements and sign-off..
• Identified gaps in existing BP adaptation approaches. Produced requirements for the new method.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Teaching assistant for the University of Toronto Computer Science courses on Requirements Engineering, Software Engineering, Databases, etc. and the School of Information course "Designing Information Systems".
• Developed teaching materials, delivered lectures and seminars on business requirements elicitation and modeling techniques, requirements specification/documentation, risk assessment, software modeling (UML), software.
• Supervised and evaluated projects, including those on requirements elicitation and documentation, graded assignments and exams.
• Provided hands-on training on the use of software engineering and modeling tools.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Developed a formal approach for agent-oriented software engineering to support modeling and reasoning about social software agents’ knowledge and goals.
• Designed tools to support the development of intelligent agents.
• Produced training materials (including a website) on the use of the framework for creating intelligent multi-agent applications.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Supported over 400 ERP consultants. Responsible for asset management.
• Assisted SAP Basis consultants at client sites. Installed and supported client-side ERP applications (R/3, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards) and SAP training servers.
• Extensive experience in rolling out hardware/software. Coordinated trial rollouts, scheduled and delivered announcements, kickoff meetings, training, user setup and configuration, setup custom templates.

Ph.D., Computer Science

- Dissertation titled "Exploiting Requirements Variability for Software Customization and Adaptation" - Areas: Requirements Engineering.

M.Sc., Computer Science

- Thesis titled "Modeling Mental States in Requirements Engineering -- An Agent-Oriented Framework Based on i* and CASL" - Areas.

B.Sc. Honours, Computer Science