Frank Rupp Email & Phone Number

Calgary, AB, CA

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Canada Area

• Enhance and maintain the OASyS SCADA System, a highly resilient and secure enterprise industrial accusation and control system: capable of high availability, scaling up and/or out service-based solutions integrated.
• Provide support and direction to the team and cross-functional teams
• Implement new customer features: for the Liquid Management System (LMS) – Pipeline Management System; in remote terminal unit (RTU) protocols which control and monitor 1000’s field telemetry devices, using protocols.
• Resolve internal and customer defects by way of service packs, patch releases and hotfixes
• Perform in a fast-paced Agile Scrum development team: 19 team members consisting of developers, testers and documenters – half located offshore; Sprint planning, retrospect, refinement and standup
• Engage in advanced design, proof of concept

Calgary, Canada Area

Transitioned from consultant to employee – see above

Calgary, Canada Area

• Responsible for leading all aspects of application development in a startup organization
• Worked closely with senior management to ensure alignment of application deliverables
• Architected and designed application components required for the overall solution
• Lead a team of developers to a successful build and implementation of application components
• Lead adoption of a new technology stack for more effective use of development resources
• Developed credit bureau integration layer to Equifax and TransUnion Technologies: NodeJS, JavaScript, JSON, JSON-Schema, WebStorm, UML

Calgary, Canada Area

• Improved the OASyS SCADA platform, a highly resilient and secure enterprise industrial automation control system
• Participated in ISASecure IEC 62443-4-1 (SDLA) and IEC 62443-3-3 (SSA) certification processes towards deploying and managing industrial automation control systems
• Preformed tool-assisted Static Code Analyzer (SCA) to identify software security vulnerabilitiesTechnologies: HP Fortify, OASyS SCADA, Visual Studio, C, C++, C#

Calgary, Canada Area

• Re-architected.Net custom application environments providing enhanced resilience and scaling through F5 technology
• Defined process and templates to streamline COTS application upgrade project
• Delivered COTS technical assessments and solution
• Identified solution risks and provide mitigation options
• Contributed to operationalizing new solutionsTechnologies: Windows Server, SQL Server, IIS,.Net, BIG-IP (F5)

Calgary, Canada Area

• Collaborated with business analysts, business owners, and stakeholders to determine solution’s architectural and technical requirements
• Created solution specifications that align with enterprise constraints
• Worked closely with development teams and QA to ensure adherence to technical and architectural specifications, QA coverage and testability
• Identified risks and provide mitigation options during the project lifecycle
• Solution a financial goal and planning portal providing self-serve investment assistance
• Responsible for all architectural and technical aspects for the following solutions: SaaS electronic signing solution – services provided by DocuSign; SaaS compliance monitoring solution to meet regulatory requirements.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided architectural support to the Critical Care’s electronic multidisciplinary charting system project: Identified risks and collaborated on mitigative options; Worked with QA team appropriate coverage to minimize.
• Prepared RFP material for downtime electronic whiteboard solution for the Emergency Departments/Urgent Care CentresTechnologies: MetaVision (iMDsoft), SQL Server

Calgary, Canada Area

• Responsible for solutioning a Wealth Management COTS solution and other smaller initiatives
• Worked with business analysts, internal and external stakeholders to determine solution’s technical and architectural requirements
• Constructed overall solution specification while collaborating with other subject matter architects
• Solicited high-level estimates for solution specification from internal and external partners as required
• Socialized high-level solution specification to numerous stakeholders for endorsement
• Provided technical and architectural input to business case

Edmonton, Canada Area

• Developed proposal to implement a data warehouse and business intelligence solution
• Worked to enable enterprise-level reporting of the company’s financial landscape
• Gathered technical and functional requirements from stakeholders
• Designed and developed data warehouse and business intelligence solution
• Designed and implemented ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) packages
• Conducted analysis for reporting requirements

Calgary, Canada Area

• Lead requirement gathering sessions with internal stakeholders
• Created design documents to communicate the solution to stakeholders
• Conducted impact analysis to identify technical implications of changes
• Implemented system enhancements using.Net and C#
• Documented system changesTechnologies: C#, ASP.Net, NUnit, PL/SQL, Oracle

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided overarching architectural direction and continuity for the significant migration effort
• Assess scalability of numerous core systems in preparation for the migration effort
• Solution infrastructure enterprise business intelligence and reporting services Technologies: AIX, IBM pSeries, Cognos, Oracle, SQL Server

Calgary, Canada Area

• Responsible for solutioning a multimillion-dollar Production Accounting System (PAS a product from CGI)
• Lead technically aspects of PAS implementation
• Provided architectural expertise in the areas of integration, infrastructure and application development
• Identified potential technical risks and mitigation options
• Collaborated with vendor’s development team
• Lead and mentored a junior team of.Net developers

Calgary, Canada Area

• Quadrus is a Calgary based solutions company that is focused on providing IT solutions.During my term of employment at Quadrus I provided consulting services to the following clients:
• Devon Canada Corporation February 2005 – January 2008
• Powerex Corporation January 2003 – July 2003
• Enmax Energy Corporation September 2002 – January 2003
• Microsoft May 2002 – August 2002
• Shaw Communications December 2001 – April 2002

Calgary, Canada Area

• Lead team of developers to create a high-performance computational software for financial risk analysis
• Created architectural application framework for cross-platform computing solution
• Architected and designed heterogeneous computational grid processing solution
• Planned project sprints by using components of the agile and SCRUM methodologies
• Established test plans and unit testing
• Performed code reviews with team members

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Develop a straight-through-processing (STP) system to automate the manual process of entering data from real-time power trades
• Conducted requirement gathering sessions
• Documented high-level assessments of TIBCO, SeeBeyond and BizTalk ROI
• Provided recommendation to implement an Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution
• Architected and designed robust and scalable EAI framework in support of real-time power trades
• Coordinated testing, deployment and knowledge transfer strategy across several separate functional IT groups within the organization Technologies: BizTalk 2002, MSMQ, VB6, ZaiNet, COM+, Microsoft Clustering, SQL.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided BizTalk expertise to assist with the integration of two legacy systems
• Resolved architectural issues in the sustainment of the system
• Lead analyst in integrating time tracking, invoicing and contract management processes
• Facilitated requirements gathering sessions and directed the development team accordinglyTechnologies: BizTalk 2002, IIS, XML, XSLT, VB 6, COM+, C#, MSMQ, Oracle, SQL Server

Calgary, Canada Area

• Lead technical architecture and design of.Net solution to leverage MS Word and Excel to access enterprise application data stores
• Worked closely with the client to gather functional requirements
• Architected and designed solution
• Facilitated technical design and specification sessions to define implementation tasksTechnologies: C#, XML,.Net Web Services, ADO.Net, VS.Net, IIS

Calgary, Canada Area

• Assisted in the assessment of a corporate work order system
• Assisted with architectural designs to re-engineer the corporate work order system
• Created the initial framework for a software development process
• Architected an internet-based solution for a B2C web application
• Utilized Commerce Server and encryption technology to ensure secure internet transactions

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Provided architectural assistance to build a highly available and scalable medical image archival and retrieval system
• Performed analysis and design of system iterations
• Conducted quality assurance reviews of analysis and design artifacts
• Provided mentorship in RUP, UML and OOADTechnologies: JMS, JDBC, JNDI, JSX, Cocobase, Forte, JTS, JTA, JSP, EJB

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Lead a team of junior developers to architecture, design, and implementation a micropayment application
• Gathered user requirements and translated them into an architectural design

Calgary, Canada Area

• Performed analysis, design, architecture and implementation of a web-based architecture solution which included a backend for real-time card processing
• Designed an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) system to enable deposits/withdrawals of funds