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Singapore

Oversee and direct the organization’s overall architecture and technologies with focus on the organization’s Digital Banking business.RESPONSIBILITIES• Work closely with the different heads and executives to sustain and develop the business through proper technology direction such as multi-tenancy and the cloud strategy• Identify and evaluate the relevant emerging technologies that would enhance or compete with the organization’s current technology stack• Identify and evaluate 3rd party vendors and organizations to partner with• Define the organization’s Digital Banking roadmap with the Director of Digital Banking and Product Management ensuring alignment with the organization’s group architecture• Oversee, guide, mentor, and grow senior architects and promising leads handling different technology and product initiatives within the organization, i.e. Business Process Workflow engines, and ensuring that new features fit into the existing architecture• Oversee, guide, and mentor the newly established DevOps team

Singapore

Build and establish Digital Banking products. Oversee and direct the organization’s Digital Banking design, development, and delivery.RESPONSIBILITIES• Define and deliver the organization’s product roadmap for Digital Banking• Work closely with the Head of Product Development, Head of Product Management and CEO to sustain and develop the business through proper technology direction• Grow and lead the highly skilled multi-disciplined engineering team that deliver technology solution for the Digital Banking business• Ensure core practice of Agile, leveraging cloud-native architectures using Test Driven Development (TDD), continuous integration/continuous delivery, in an on-premise or public-cloud environment during development• Harmonize with the leadership team to establish and execute software engineering hiring and professional career development plans• Identify and/or evaluate emerging technologies that would enhance or compete with the Company’s products• Oversee, guide and mentor senior architects and leads handling different technology and product initiatives within the organization, i.e., Conversational Banking using AI for NLP, and ensuring that new features fit into the existing architecture• Oversee, guide and mentor product managers, architects and development managers define product direction and ensure on-time delivery

Singapore

RESPONSIBILITIES• Collaborated with other product owners to conceptualize a MVP for the Corporate Banking• Launched the Digital Banking Platform group within the organization• Kick-started R&D initiatives to search for new product opportunities or at least improve the organization’s development velocity and efficiencies, such as Kafka, Elastic Search, Graph DBs, Containers and Cloud Platforms• Work very closely with our Product Management and Global Services teams• Design and architect the Corporate Banking product• Establish development technology stack, standards, and guidelines for all Digital Banking products

Singapore

RESPONSIBILITIES• Work closely with the Program/Project Manager/Director to establish a plan and execute the delivery of the program/project• Participate in Steering Committees and manage customer expectations with the Project Director / Head of Services• Conduct and facilitate functional and technical workshops with business users as well as IT users• Participate in pre-sales activities, i.e. respond to RFPs, present solution and ideation decks

Singapore

Mobile Lifestyle Enterprise ApplicationSoftware and Platform: Android, iPhone, JBoss AS, MS SQL Database, Oracle Java SE & EE 7.0

Toronto, Canada

Mobile Banking System - Enterprise ApplicationSoftware and Platform: Android, Blackberry, Blackberry 10, iPhone, HTML5/CSS3/JS, JBoss AS, Oracle 11g Database, Oracle Java SE & EE 6.0Integrated into Royal Bank of Canada to perform the techno-functional role of coordinating and overseeing Tagit delivery and operations for RBC's Digital Stragegy and Experience overall mobile program. This involves:- Gathering and analyzing business requirements and expectations for different projects- Coordinate with architects and review solution decks- Coordinate with project managers on status and project plan to align with the program direction- Preparing/reviewing the implementation plan to production- Ensure both onsite and offshore teams are focused on their responsibilities and following processes put in placeOversaw the development up to successful delivery of the following projects:1. Mobile Expansion (tuning clustered JBoss and Oracle 10g R2 RAC DB)2. Mobile Banking Enhancements for iPhone, BB and Android3. Mobile Investing for iPhone 4. Mobile Banking for BB10 Current notable contributions include on-going review of Tagit RBC program's end-to-end delivery processes:- Implemented industry-standard source code management (SVN) best practices to improve the release and merge process- Implemented the HPQC workflow as defect resolution process during FST and UAT - Proposed an expanded JIRA workflow leveraging JIRA features for internal tracking of issues- Advocating adoption of Continuous Integration (CI) best practices to improve delivery times and reduce human errors such as build automation and test automation.- Enforced Scrum Methodology- Participated in the Java enterprise application performance testing and tuning. a. Reviewed and refactored/cleaned server code including optimizing the JAXB code. b. Tuned JVM garbage collection parameters using DynaTrace and the GC logs c. Tuned DB using Oracle AWR and ADDR from the Oracle 10g RAC

Manila, Philippines

Core Banking System – Enterprise ApplicationSoftware and Platform: Adobe Flex 4.5/4.6, AIR 2.7, Actionscript 3.0, BlazeDS, Oracle Weblogic 11g, Apache Tuscany SCA, Oracle ADF, IPP BPM, Java SE&EE 6.0, Oracle 11g DatabaseDue to use and success of own micro-framework in different SunGard solutions, promoted to the role and responsibility of the Flex architect. Leads global sub-teams in Philippines, Slovakia and Singapore. Applies agile methodologies specifically Scrum to prepare, organize stories and releases with the help of JIRA w/ GreenHopper. Coordinates with other layer’s (BP, Services, BC and DB) architects to plan and achieve the enterprise architect’s goals.Keeps track of advancement of Flex and the overall Flash platform to keep our solutions at leading edge. Implements framework improvements particularly of the performance nature as new features are released by Adobe. Tracked and reported performance and memory management issues with the Adobe JIRA. Aware of most known performance and memory management issues.Involved in technology/product direction decisions. Example of new framework objectives:• Test automation using Flex Monkey and Flex Unit to improve Continuous Integration (CI)• Maven adoption• Dynamic ScreensRe-evaluated the different Flex micro-frameworks for ideas and possible integration.• Swiz and Swiz AOP• Mate• Robotlegs• ParsleyEvaluated the different presentation design patterns for GUI. Decided and advocated use of the Presentation Model pattern. Previously used the pattern used also by PureMVC – Supervising Presenter.Performed monkey patching on Flex SDK 4.5 to address the regression performance issue of styles particularly matching of style declarations using selectors. Improved component initialization time by a margin of 20%.

Singapore

Flex Expert (04/2011 – 08/2011)Online and Mobile Banking System – Enterprise ApplicationSoftware and Platform: Adobe Flex 4.5, AIR 2.6, Actionscript 3.0, BlazeDS, Oracle Weblogic 11g, Apache Tuscany SCA, Oracle ADF, IPP BPM, Java SE&EE 6.0, Oracle 11g DatabaseLocation: Singapore, SingaporeLeads a team of Flex developers including 3rd party developers from Aleph in Singapore to extend current UI framework (see below) for our next-generation online banking system product with social media integration. Micro-management of the each team member to ensure best practices/approach maximizing the Flex framework/Flash technology and avoid “bad smells” or bad coding practices – reduce the # of classes, advocate reuse, externalizing styles to CSS and component/skin-level optimizations.Deployment to mobile platforms (initially Andriod and later on to iOS) included.Participated in UI design meetings going through User Journeys to discuss user experience (UX) issues, technical limitations and alternatives to leverage Flex/Flash strengths. Also participated in discussions with Adobe on future direction of Adobe technologies how it relates to the company’s UI technology direction.Still developed Flex 4/4.5 components and classes to supplement the UI team component developers to meet tight deadlines. Examples of classes developed or helped develop:• TabBar support for unlimited tabs with clipping and animated scrolling• Common Icon Item Renderer interface• StackLayout with intrinsic support for shader animation (http://arj-on-flex.blogspot.com/)• DashboardLayout• Custom ToolTipManager• CoverFlowLayout• CurtainNavigator• GoogleMap integration• Facebook integration• Twitter integration

Bratislava, Slovakia

Flex Expert (2010)Core Banking System – Enterprise ApplicationSoftware and Platform: Adobe Flex 4.5/Actionscript 3.0, BlazeDS, Oracle Weblogic, Apache Tuscany SCA, Oracle ADF, IPP BPM, Oracle DatabaseLocation: Bratislava, SlovakiaIn-charge of a small team of Flex/Java developers to develop the UI for the next-generation core banking system product. Essentially envisioned and developed majority of the UI framework which consists of the data model, module/screen and service managers using industry-standard OO design patterns. The UI framework I designed and developed is targeted to simplify and speed-up development of enterprise applications. The framework is inspired by previous expertise in Rapid Application Development (RAD) using Oracle Forms/Reports, multiple software life cycles participation, previous experience in Flex 3 Enterprise application development using PureMVC and other Flex/AS3 frameworks such as Cairngorm, Mate (event-driven), Swiz (IOC/DI enabled, metadata-driven) and Robotlegs (IOC/DI enabled, metadata-driven too but smaller footprint).The UI framework also includes integration with the company’s proprietary Business Process Management (BPM) product IPP.End-to-end Flex enterprise application knowledge and experience: architect how libraries, modules and application relate to each other as well as handle localization, themes (skinning/styling), deployment, tuning/debugging, compilation/build management and versioning. Profiled Flex applications to optimize performance and track & solve memory leaks especially around Flex modules. Involved in obfuscation and optimization for production release.Miscellaneous modifications to Flex-Java remoting using BlazeDS:• debugged and extended BlazeDS servlet to support serialization of Java BigDecimal without Java-side changes• customized Farata ClearToolkit DTO2FX;• developed Flex-Java end-point that work on Flex / HTTP sessions for security and QoS

Manila, Philippines

PROJECT ASSIGNMENT HIGHLIGHTSErste Bank of Ukraine (2008-2010)Data Migration - System AnalystCore Banking SystemSoftware and Platform: Oracle Forms & Reports, Oracle 10g R2 Database, Java, Linux Enterprise ServerLocation: Kiev, UkraineTasked with leading the migration effort of converting from the bank’s legacy system into SYMBOLS core banking system. His responsibility includes preparation of specifications and participating in workshops with the bank to arrive at solutions or work-arounds to tackle conversion/transformation problems. Business areas for migration include clients, loans, collaterals, current & term deposits accounts, cards and money market facilities. Notable achievements are: (1) tuning of migration scripts from hours to minutes using Enterprise Manager and oracle performance views and (2) receiving the company’s 2008 High Achiever of the Year Award (HAYA) due to exceptional work and contributions to the Erste Bank of Ukraine projectFaysal Bank Limited Pakistan (2010)Lending Task Force - System AnalystCore Banking SystemSoftware and Platform: Oracle Forms & Reports, Oracle 10g R2 Database, Java, Linux Enterprise ServerLocation: Karachi, PakistanTasked with special task force to significantly reduce system incidents on bank’s production system and improve relations with the existing client. Resolved all critical and major incidents and significantly reduced minor system incidents on a 3-week on-site assignment on collaboration with bank and offsite support team.

Manila, Philippines

Product R&D (2008-2009)Flex/Java AnalystFront-Office Banking SystemSoftware and Platform: Adobe Flex 3/Actionscript 3, PureMVC framework, BlazeDS, IBM Websphere, Java EE/EJB service layer, Oracle 11g DatabasePart of a Scrum team to migrate and upgrade the front-office product suite from JSP/Java EJB to new technology. The product suite is a complete front-office banking solution which includes the branch teller platform and customer service platform. Worked with different data visualization components such as those offered by the MX Charts and Advanced Grids library.Provides invaluable contribution to integration with Core (Back-Office) banking system.

Manila, Philippines

Product R&D (2009-2010)Flex AnalystCore (Back-Office) Banking SystemSoftware and Platform: Adobe Flex 3-4/Actionscript 3, PureMVC/Robotlegs framework, BlazeDS, Apache Tomcat/Oracle WebLogic, Oracle ADF/Java service layer, Oracle 10g R2 DatabaseDeveloped a functioning prototype for product research & development. Evaluated early releases of Flex 4 by building components and comparing with Flex 3.Notable contribution is designing and developing a data caching library to reduce network calls of remote service requests. The main feature is to allow caching functionality using an API very similar to what developers use in AS3 requiring minimal changes to implement.

Manila, Philippines

STANDARD ASSIGNMENTSDEV & Support AnalystCore Banking SystemSoftware and Platform: Oracle Forms & Reports, Oracle 9i / 10g R1 / 10g R2 Database, Sun Solaris / Linux Enterprise ServerLocation: MiscellaneousManages support requests for certain clients and domains. Handles system incident reports by assignment and mentoring of junior staff; or resolution of higher priority/category incidents. Also handles change or service requests by providing impact analysis and eventually designing possible implementations of the requests. Notable contribution is improving the accuracy of the equal amortization calculation by using a search algorithm.PROJECT ASSIGNMENT HIGHLIGHTSKarafarin Bank of Iran (2005-2006)Customer Lending - Technical / System AnalystCore Banking SystemSoftware and Platform: Oracle Forms & Reports, Oracle 10g R2 Database, Java, Linux Enterprise ServerLocation: Tehran, IranPart of the team deployed on-site to implement the lending module. Designed and implemented additional penalty calculation rules, a new customized interest calculation procedure and their equivalent accounting requirements for the bank. Notable contributions are: (1) improving the performance of the branch teller SOD processing by utilizing compression and SQL-PL/SQL best practices; (2) extending the multi-lingual support of our system to include all UI items; and (3) expanding remote override support to the CBS using Oracle AQ

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science - Software Technology, 3.308

Activities and Societies: VP Multimedia of La Salle Computer Society

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science