Part of the Fractional CTO team at Freeman Clarke

Part of the Fractional CTO team at EXIT83

Schedule briefings and write summaries of them, work with customers on product and market advisory, write for The New Stack, write blogs and whitepapers, participate in webinars.

Eric is responsible for driving WSO2’s technical vision for cloudcomputing and helping to promote the adoption of products and projects, with a focuson enterprise customers. He recently led the design work for the WSO2 Choreo cloud native application development and deployment capability based on the alignment of Domain Driven Design and Cell-Based Architecture.

Leading the Senior Application Security Architecture (SASA) team to design secure solutions for consumer banking applications and infrastructure, focusing on mobile and cloud computing. Defining best practices, standards, policies, patterns, and templates for secure development and deployment, including automation tools and techniques. Enabling new functionality while navigating the risks and threats that are part of the daily life at one of the world's leading banks.

Introducing new technologies and techniques as we upgrade our systems from batch to event based processing for institutional cash management, foreign trade financing, and commercial credit cards, including cloud, DevOps, micro services, big data, APIs, messaging, and security. Based at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island to identify university research, student projects, and startups to address key business requirements.

Defining standards and best practices globally and driving a federated adoption model across the TTS Division.

Leading the Architecture and Validation functions for the Treasury and Trade Services division, overall around $35M and 700 staff, delivering horizontal services across all product lines. Synergy with Architecture involves adoption of automated build, test, and deploy and collaborating on test requirements during project inception, creating a unified testing model across Tech and Ops, introducing Dev Ops, Docker, Microservices, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery, automated regression and functional tests, synthetic and virtual test data management, virtualized test environments, and significantly reducing offshore vendor expense through unit based pricing (as opposed to headcount based pricing).

Treasury and Trade Solutions is a global IT division of Citi's Institutional Client Group, developing and supporting applications ad systems for electronic payments, funds transfers, receivables management, foreign trade, and other corporate banking services for the world's largest corporations and governments.The TTS architecture department is responsible for technology standards, vendor evaluations, peer reviews and other governance activities, and deep dives on particular applications and systems that need improvement. This year we are extending and enhancing the architecture department to become more proactive, develop and enterprise architecture capability, and improve innovation.

President of the co-op in which I live in NY.

The goal of the job was to promote the adoption of enterprise architectural and IT best practices, including application rationalization, technology rationalization, target architecture and roadmap development, governance and controls, training, and the introduction of SOA based design practices.During the two years I built a core architecture team of 40 and managed an existing engineering team of about 50. The core architecture team was subdivided into the areas of application architecture, data architecture, technical architecture, integration architecture, and governance and controlling, with direct reports heading each. The shared engineering team was subdivided into areas of development tools, messaging, grid, business intelligence and data warehousing, and GUI frameworks. We established the first truly functional architecture department in the Investment Bank's history, which represents about a decade of trying. Our accomplishments included:--Reducing the total number of applications by about 10%, saving $3M immediately and $10M total over 4-5 years--Training more than a thousand developers in architecture best practices --Gaining adoption of bank wide infrastructure standards for virtualization, Windows 7, Java EE, .NET, messaging, industry standard data formats, and SOA interface repository--Putting into production the initial SOA based services for client on boarding in partnership with the business, who were very pleased with the results--Establishing standards, templates, and best practices for target architectures and roadmaps to execute business and IT strategies, including a complete front to back SOA design to guide simplification of the entire application landscape

As an integration architect in the global architecture department of Credit Suisse, I was responsible for creating and defining global standards and best practices, and for influencing projects of high architectural significance toward the adoption of global standards. The projects included the trading horizontal and risk horizontal in Investment Banking IT and the financial services infrastructure project in Corporate Systems IT. Achievements included the first Investment Banking IT SOA based target architectures for trading and risk, development of best practices and design principles for SOA, and an investment banking wide training session on SOA.

Progress retained me as a consultant following the acquisition of IONA to maintain focus on Enterprise OSGi. I was co-chair of the enterprise expert group, spec lead on distributed OSGi, and helped promote its adoption.I served as chair of the OSGi EE group from its inception through the initial release of the EE specification set.

Lead the development and release of the next major revision of the OSGi specifications, also known as the enterprise release, since it is focused on adding features and functions to support modular enterprise application development.

I represented IONA Technologies on the Eclipse Board of Directors from 2006-2008, during which time IONA was sponsoring the SOA Tools project, which focused on SCA, JBI, and OSGi compatible development environments. Board responsibilities included oversight on the budget, strategy, and program of work.

Member of the senior management team, responsible for technology direction and standards participation. Initiated company strategies for Web services, open source, Eclipse, and OSGi. Responsible for standards strategy and key customer and partner relationships. Ran CTO Council for product and technology vision and strategy, including open source projects at Apache, Eclipse, and ObjectWeb. I organized and ran the Customer Advisory Board, represented IONA at the W3C, Eclipse, and OSGi, and worked closely with key customers on their enterprise architecture designs, especially as related to the adoption and best use of IONA's integration products.Customers and partner relationships assigned to me included AT&T, Boeing, Visa, Credit Suisse, GAD, Business Objects, Computer Associates, Microsoft, BEA, Snap On Tools, Intel, and Lockheed Martin.Together with Intel, drove the Occasionally Connected Computing strategy and internally directed the engineering project for the Mobile Orchestrator product line. Contributed to key Web services standards, including WS-Transactions at OASIS and the Web Services Architecture specification at W3C, initiated IONA's participation in OSGi and led the distributed OSGi specification work, drafted the initial proposal for IONA to engage in the open source market leading to the acquisition of LogicBlaze. Helped establish the CXF project at Apache and helped organize the AMQP Consortium as a founding member.

Responsible for software engineering and product development for IONA's then line of Web services integration products, including B2B, EAI, Web services toolkit, and Web services orchestration. Primarily located in Santa Clara, CA, additional staff was located at Reston, VA. One of the major responsibilities was integrating technical staff from acquisitions into IONA and establishing IONA agile development and quality control processes. Also worked closely with major customers to evangelize product line and gather requirements.

Part of the Applied Research department, responsible initially for transaction processing strategy and development across new line of products (including CORBA, J2EE, and mainframe), incl. chair of OTS V2 committee at OMG, and later for Web services, incl. requirements editor for SOAP 1.2 spec at W3C. Involved in external customer activities around transactions and Web services, and participated in strategic planning around new line of products based on emerging Web services technologies.

I was elected to the OSGi Board of Directors for the 2007 year to represent IONA Technologies and the Enterprise Edition activities. Board responsibilities included oversight on the organization budget and work program, and developing proposals for revising the membership structure.

Mainly I worked with Microsoft within the Compaq-Microsoft partnership office. Compaq had acquired Tandem and Digital as part of a strategy to bring "hardened NT" to market. With 45% of the Windows Server market share, the bet was on enterprise computing as the next wave for Microsoft. Unfortunately Intel could not get its 64 bit chip ready, and Microsoft did not want to go to market with the only 64 bit version of Windows on Digital's Alpha chip. The whole thing unraveled a few days before the planned launch at a Compaq customer event.I was running the Architecture Services Lab, designed to help enterprise customers adopt Windows DNA (as .NET was called at the time). In addition to "training the trainers" in Digital Services, I served as the Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) expert. The Labs were a weeklong engagement in which we implemented a skeleton of an end to end use case from a real enterprise application. We did labs for Merrill Lynch (multiple), the Hartford, and others.

Final position at Digital was TP architect, helped design, implement, and standardize Structured Transaction Definition Language for Unix version of Digital's ACMS TP monitor.