Kavamala is a UK based company with a software product catalogue of release automation tools, and also offers consultancy services. Kavamala’s Customers include Deutsche Bank (Finance, Systemic Bank), TIBCO (Software Vendor, Fortune 500), Ladbrokes (Gaming, FTSE 250), Tesco (Retail, FTSE 100), Deloitte (Professional Services, ‘Big Four’)- Technology vision and development of products- Products roadmap- Development of services portfolio- Review, analyse and approve the department’s operational and project budgets- Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of services and productsMoreover:• Designed and oversaw the implementation of a set of APIs and business services to leverage a T1 bank’s new global trade store. The solution currently handles 1+ billions records with a growing rate of ~12M/day. Among other notable features, it offered a fluent DSL for the application consumers to query the services and was designed to be both scalable and fault tolerant.• IT Initiative, Vision: Full SDLC for Release Butler: a state-of-the-art software for automated build, deployment and release management inspired by ITIL best practices (Kavamala’s flagship product). Release Butler proved to reduce the errors in deployments and configuration from 100s to <5 and reduced average release deployment time from 40+h to 3h. • Roadmaps and optimizations: SOA Strategic Improvements Architecture Group at Tesco ‘dotcom’: achieved recurrent savings exceeding £ 1M per year by streamlining the service transition. Improved the synergy between Application Support and Development, and strengthened the development practices, achieving an 87% reduction of defect tickets in just 3 months.• Middleware Architecture and development for retail banking solution (TescoBank), SOAP web services for orchestration and abstraction of back-end and third party systems.

· ActiveMatrix Production Lead & Strategic Improvements Architecture Team at Tesco: tescodotcom. Infrastructure support for a marketplace solution aimed to compete with Amazon. Main achievements: re-desing and automation of the release and deployment processes, stabilization of the platform, performance tuning. Streamlined installation and configuration of production and non-production environments bringing provisioning-to-runnable times down from 2 months to 2 weeks. Provided help on Architecture and Design of a messaging bus for a sister project in the “Tesco International” team.· ActiveMatrix Production Lead & Strategic Improvements Architecture Team at Tesco: tescodotcom. Infrastructure support for a marketplace solution aimed to compete with Amazon. Main achievements: re-desing and automation of the release and deployment processes, stabilization of the platform, performance tuning. Streamlined installation and configuration of production and non-production environments bringing provisioning-to-runnable times down from 2 months to 2 weeks. · Provided support on Architecture and Design of a messaging bus for a sister project in the “Tesco International” team.

· Architecture and Code review, team coaching and mentoring, definition and implementation of release/change management guidelines and best practices (SOA with TIBCO BW 5.6, EMS, MQ, Java, Ant)

· Implementation of “Orinoco” platform for backoffice operations. (SOA with TIBCO BW 5.4, Oracle, EMS, XML/XSD/FpML, Java, Shell Scripting, Ant, Hudson)· Redesign and implementation of release build and deployment procedures. Review and substantial improvement of the existing release management process. Extensive task automation for infrastructure support.

Tibco specialist in the R&D department.Major project: Strategic Transaction Reporting

• application maintenance on the EAI platform (TIBCO BW 5.2, BWWF 5.2, ActiveDatabase and SAP Adapters, Java)

architectural review and audit of the Univadis Portal (TIBCO PortalBuilder 4.5.3)

integration project in the telecommunication industry. Integrated Billing, CRM and the Provisioning systems: Geneva, Siebel and a proprietary solution. (TIBCO BW 5.4 and ActiveDatabase Adapter, Java)

· at Conforama (Warehouse - Lille, FR), TelecomItalia (Telco - Rome, IT), La Mondiale (Insurance company - Paris, FR): various POCs and Pre-sales support of TIBCO products. [on behalf of TIBCO PSG Italy]· at MSD (Pharma company - Bruxelles, BE), architectural review and audit of the Univadis Portal (TIBCO PortalBuilder 4.5.3) [on behalf of TIBCO PSG BeNeLux]:· at Italgas (Utilities/Gas - Torino, IT): development of an order management application (Java: MVC servlet/jsp, Shell script, TIBCO PortalBuilder, TIBCO BW, Oracle) · at Electrone spa (Energy consortium - Torino, IT): B2B and EAI interfacing Electrone’s systems with Enel’s (Italian national energy company), : Owersaw all phases of the software lifecycle of a “energy consumption forecasting & booking” system targeted at corporate clients (Java: JSP/Servlet/SAP interface via JCO – Oracle)· at SIET spa (Energy and Gas company - Torino, IT): development of a dashboard for Salesmen’s activity management and file synchronization (C++, Visual Basic and VBA)· Managed product lifecycle for a new company product: a Quality control system for the textile industry. (MS .NET+Firebird)· at Autogerma spa (Italian national importer for VolksWagen group - Verona, IT): POC of data mining and report extraction integrating AS/400 with different systems, design and implementation of EAI between several client applications and an AS400 back-end. (various technologies)· at Cefin-Sateltrack (GPS service provider), Development of VMML(XML) bridge for GPS/Telecontrol system (C++, XML: VmML)· Implementation of Tomcat based High Availability Application server Clusters for the company’s customers.· at CGIL (Labor Union): Security audit, analysis and new design of the Piedmont regional CGIL network and infrastructure

• Corporate portal development and maintenance, improvements of portal architecture (TIBCO PortalBuilder, BW+BWWF, Java)• Architecture, design and development of Human Resources Management workflow (TIBCO BW+BWWF/ Java: Spring)• Maintenance support on Production Planning application (TIBCO BW)

• For Italgas (First italian gas company) I was in the development team of the main application for management of backoffice tasks. My role in this project has been as analyst programmer for the web application (enviroment: MVC servlet/jsp + Tibco Portal Builder, DB: oracle 8i, OS: HP-UX)

• Product Manager: managed all phases of the project which developed a multipurpose network appliance (Emediasolutions Miniserver, now sold by dgware brand) (Debian Linux + various)• Implemented a Linux based HA-Load Balanced Cluster (Debian Linux + various)• For Cefin-Sateltrack, Development of VMML(XML)/proprietary-format adapter for GPS/Telecontrol system (C++, XML: VmML)• Refactored an e-learning portal (PHP, MySQL)• Teacher of Web Authoring courses• Project manager of several Web Applications (mainly with Java / Oracle)• Implemented a Tomcat based High Availability Application server Cluster