James Mills Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Ab, Ca

Calgary, Canada Area

Responsibilities:- Managing global delivery teams- Communicating conceptual ideas and design rationale to executive and senior management- Working with the technical leadership team to identify technical hurdles and create innovative solutions for an integrated product suite- Building and documenting extensible architectures- Evaluating and selecting the technology stacks- Defining the product deployment strategy, maintenance strategy, security model, and the software design- Collaborating with business development and product managers to market products to clients- Creating working prototypes- Identifying and resolving performance issues within product implementations- Proactively recommending improvements/enhancements to processes and development environments- Communicating and presenting ideas effectively- Managing the delivery of multiple projects and schedules

Calgary, Canada Area

Key responsibilites: - Manager for a team of senior solution architects - Create and plan the strategic direction for the Integration and Architecture practice - Build trusted relationships with clients through pre-sales and proposals - Create and build relationships with delivery partners - Member of CGI's Western Canada technology council - Practicing architect on multiple client engagements.

Calgary

Lead Architect and Team Lead of a multi-disciplinary team of Ux designers, business analysts and developers. Engaged in the provisioning of user interfaces and services to implement Order-to-Cash business processes. The system adopted a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based upon Oracle Fusion 11g Middleware and Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g.Led a team of senior architects in a design review of a Java based, complex, real-time, mission critical system. Reviewed results with senior IT leadership.Scrum Master and Agile Mentor for a large health record processing system. Team was distributed over multiple geographic locations.Scrum Master and Agile Mentor of an enterprise level dynamic website with global reach. This utilized Sharepoint 2007 for CMS and Web-site Delivery.Architect and Scrum Master of a web application to administer a health records messaging environment. The application utilized JSFs, EJB 3.0Architect and Scrum Master of a J2EE mobile O&G field data capture solution.

Led a team of 4 developers on the reporting sub-section of a very large (>30 developers, >20000 unit tests) project developing a Production Accounting system.

Architect and Scrum Master on a large ($7 M) hydraulic simulation software package integration.Architect and Scrum Master on an award winning web based system used to maintain gas facility information.Created an architecture road map to move Facilities information distributed across 28 separate information stores to a "single source of truth".

Application Architect responsible for application and data integration of a large- scale SAP implementation.Information Architect on numerous project teams. Focused on integrating project models into a corporate data architecture of over 3000 entities. Also heavily engaged in corporate information governance.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bsc, Computer Science