Toronix Engineering – Enterprise IT Engineering – Toronto, OntarioEnterprise Architect – Over 60 projects in Canada and US with Toronix including over 40 with IBM US and Canada customers.2006-2022 – Enterprise Architect - IT Management and Strategy/Solution/Infrastructure RolesFormulated the IT Strategy for Metrolinx in order to improve the businesses performance. Delivered intended results on over eight SOA based projects. Key projects included re-engineering a legacy mainframe Securities Trading platform (equities, fixed income etc) to WebSphere SOA on a virtualization stack with full Tivoli monitoring. At Quest Software, delivered a 1-week IT executive SOA strategy workshop. This was followed by a 3-week effort that produced a 3-year, phased delivery, SOA roadmap for transforming specific key processes at the company. Included high level executive project plans for Quest. Technologies: RUP, UML, RSA, WebSphere Process Server, Portal, Application Server, ESBs (WebSphere Message Broker and WESB), mainframe virtualization stack( zVM, zLinux, System z), AIX, DB2, Oracle DB 9/10, Tivoli ITCAM, ITAM, ITM, Loadrunner2002-2006 – Enterprise Architect – Solution/Infrastructure/Business Architect RolesOver 30+ engagements with IBM US related to WebSphere projects in various stages of completion ranging from start-up to production released and having performance and/or reliability issues. Included both run-time and design time considerations. Key projects include determining RBC J2EE enterprise standards, a Business Architect at RBC for Mortgage process re-engineering. Also, at Westfield Insurance building an IT roadmap for implementing app-to-app integration enterprise wide with WebSphere MQ with consideration of cost, manpower, training and technology to make it happen. Technologies: Rational Rose, RUP, UML, WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Portal Server, ESB (WMB), WMQ, MQ Workflow, Oracle 9, AIX, z/OS, MS-Project, Visio, Loadrunner

Multiple Projects all including Cloud Deployments:1. Analytics - Predictive analytics for fuel cost years into the future. Analytics and modelling to predict in REAL TIME power generation needs hours, days and weeks out into the future.2. GRID Protection from potential black swan events related to vegetation encroachment causing catastrophic fires and outages - Identify risks, plan and execute work - includes SAP, Esri-GIS and electric Asset Management systems.3. Modernization of Power Monitoring across the grid.

Over site on various project integrating between Consumer Services and MTO

Transitioning the company to 100% cloud over the next few years.

Largest Power Generator in North America

Operational and Cloud Strategy to deliver greater agility with faster responsiveness to business demands.• Phase 1: Conducted Operational Readiness Assessment including EnterpriseWide Monitoring, Security, Backup and Recovery, Disaster Recovery and ITSM.Developed roadmap to close gaps, refresh End of Support and legacy systemmanagement and business applications. Critical input to cloud strategy.• Phase 2: Created Cloud Strategy to determine roadmap for moving on-premisebusiness applications to the cloud. KPIs included lowering cost, improving agility and responsiveness to business. Considered deployment to IaaS, PaaS or SaaS. Developed Architecture with costing to move on-premise Microsoft Office productsto O365 100% online including Exchange, SharePoint, and TEAMS etc. Also researched and recommended DRaaS, CSP (AWS, Azure), AWS Workspaces and other cloud capabilities.

Execute an IT Transformation that delivers the technology that accelerates the Enterprise 's performance.Includes scraping the old and ancient Enterprise Architecture Practice that exists and create an new one from the ground up.Concurrently develop an IT strategy that delivers the expected Transformation through people, process and technology. Big trends here are the use of all levels of Cloud (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) along with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to improve performance

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery via DRaaS

Enterprise IT Transformation strategies to improve IT’s technologies agility and responsiveness to business demands.• Developed Enterprise Wide Cloud Strategy – goals/objectives, guiding principles, standards, risks, technology trends, legal considerations and contract guidance, CSP vendor landscape, governance, security, SaaS/PaaS/IaaS tradeoffs.• Designed and Implemented LIVE Enterprise Architecture Management System (EAMS) TOGAF based repository. Contains ARB agreed upon product standards, applications and associated components. Based on Software AG Alfabet 9.X & Technopedia & ServiceNow. Developed IT management processes to be incorporated including – application & technology lifecycle management, application portfolio management, risk management, governance process and costing. Also, integration with Technopedia and ServiceNow (cmdb) for complete lifecycle management of applications and associated components.• Showcased Agile Project Management approach for Enterprise Architecture initiatives using JIRA.• Review and Approve IT Standards - Security, Product, Technical, Information and Architecture.. Review major projects for compliance to standards as well meeting agreed upon architecture requirements. Guided initiatives on how to improve landscapes architecture qualities including reliability, availability, performance and security.• Oversaw a portfolio of solution architects – reviewed initiative architecture for completeness, integrity, correctness and alignment with enterprise standards, guiding principles and business goals and objectives.

Responsible for portfolio of projects to insure that good engineering practice are used as well as following all government policies and standards.

Architectural Vision, Design & Project Oversight (RUP/Agile Development) - Key responsibility included getting executive sign-off of architecture vision comprised of Business, Application, Data and Technology, hammering out architecture metrics (security, availability, performance, HA, DR etc), 100’s of NFRS, risks and operational characteristics. Oversaw solution architecture and infrastructure design for alignment with Vision, SOA approach and for deployment to Amazon AWS technology including – SWF/SQS/SES/SNS(Trade Process mgmt), JBoss, Linux EC2 Instances, RDS/MYSQL Multi AZ, DynamoDB(Post-Trade Retrieval), S3 & Glacier (Regulatory Retention of Trades), CloudWatch (System Management), CloudTrail (Audit/Problem Determination), Route53/ELB/AutoScale/Multi AZ RDS for High Availability/DR. Also, multiple VPC environments from Dev, QA, Pre-Prod to Prod.Involves meeting US CFTC DCO requirements for the US and EMIR regulations for the EU. From a clearing perspective it includes risk and trading management, novation, settlement and clearing capabilities.

Biting off one of the biggest chunks of what a CIO does - Developing an IT Strategy for the company to achieve improved business performance and happy business leaders. Includes understanding the businesses vision and strategy and working out the IT that can accelerate the businesses performance. • Interviewed executives - all 15 LOB business executives including the CEO and CFO to determine gaps, bottlenecks in performance, goals and business objectives that IT needed to deliver on. Formulated reasons why change in IT was necessary and communicated those reasons.• Created the IT strategy included consolidating the business strategy, identify top IT Risks, defining IT Guiding principles, identifying the current state of IT, defining the IT goals and objectives, identifying costs and creating the vision and the strategy to obtain the vision.• Captured the current state of management centers - EA (non-existent), Portfolio Project Management(non-existent), Operations and Solutions Development centers. • Captured current state of IT landscape including user compute platforms, datacenters, applications, data, server platforms and networks.• Goals included Streamlining IT processes (PMO, EA, Solution Development and Operations), Evolving to a resilient infrastructure (improved DR, fortified datacenters, clouding, resilient networks). Defining end state major business applications including: Analytics, Supply Chain Management, CRM, HRMS, KM (Knowledge Management), Collaboration platforms and Financial Management.• Some of the laundry list of considerations included hammering out the "nuts and bolts" considerations such as how to mature all process within the 4 management centers for higher performance. Accounting accurately for cost throughout IT is a key factor - direct costing? Consolidation of datacenters, networks and server platforms are chief technology concerns. Should Solution Dev deliver faster with lower defects through automated builds & tools.

Creation of an Enterprise Architecture Office based on TOGAF – Create the Plan and guidelines for EA governance organization wide based on TOGAF 9 and COBIT 4.1. Included discovery of business strategy, Industry trends. Created architecture principles, architecture maturity level (ACMM) and Standards, select architecture repository. Complete the first cycle to discover enterprises baseline architecture. Streamline integration with PMO, Operation and Solution-ing management centers. Set up ARB and compliance process for all on-going projects. Investigated Architecture tools including Troux, PowerDesigner, Avolutions ABACUS.

Projects included: Core Computing Strategy – Enterprise impacting small team of top managers and architects determined slimmer set of platforms to consolidate over 2500+ servers on to including increased use of virtualization. Enterprise Database Strategy – small team of executives and architects updated enterprise wide database strategy for 2010. New Barrie Data Center Migration Project – small team of senior architects reviewed 30+ technologies for migration readiness to new data center. Business Banking Program – reworked with team an underperforming application based on WAS/Oracle - Technolgoies explored at TD - zSeries, z196, zVM, zOS, AIX 6/7, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows Server, SUSE Linux, VMWare(ESX), Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Identity Management, ITM, ITCAM, SAN, Citrix, WAS 6/7, WMQ, VoIP, Backup and Archive.

Worked on enterprise security related to the upgrade of Credit Cards to Smart Chip Technology. Incorporated security regulations and acts such as PIPEDA, Bill 198, Interac, PCI DSS, ISO27002:2005 into security requirements and subsequent risk assessments of credit card process operations. Worked out production ready security architecture for next generation SOA based credit card processing. This includes both application and infrastructure security considerations.

Rob worked in IBM US services at the highest architecture level responsible for TOTAL end-to-end customer satisfaction. The work encompassed solving some of IBM's top 100 customer’s biggest headaches which almost always involved their most mission critical technology. More then deep technology know how was needed to include a 360 set of skills - strong customer interaction capabilities, project management and estimating skills and identifying human factors in IT delivery that would improve IT and resulting business performance. Key customers included JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Regions Bank, Nationwide Insurance, Kroger, Cox Communications and others.Rob was responsible for the entry point at creating service deals in terms of achievable Statements of Works (SOW) including costing details. He worked closely with many regional (e.g. Ohio/Pennsylvania,/Michigan) IBM Practice Managers across the US. Also Rob was a key initiator of many multimillion dollar deals as a result of having deep product knowledge and his own significant customer success experiences. Often he pulled in past customers to corroborate these successes. This triggered customer epiphanies that resulted in reduction of critical pain points while achieving cost savings. For example, a $800,000 software sale in less than two weeks on software that helped identify critical performance bottlenecks within mission critical applications.

Worked-out the first production HA WebSphere Process Server environment on zLinux/zVM for driver’s license discovery across 52 states for driver licenses issuance. System interfaces via WMQ with IMS mainframe and DB2/Oracle. Reviewed and improved project plans and helped hold outsource vendors accountable for timely installs/upgrades of outsourced WebSphere and Tivoli products. Assisted managers in the selection of infrastructure staff. Coached infrastructure and development teams on WebSphere and software engineering best practices. Reviewed team’s construction of WMB message flows and reviewed WMB/WMQ design for improved reliability, performance and scalability. Gave lectures on WebSphere product advanced features and use. WProcess 6, WAS 6/6.1, WMB 6/WMQ 6, zLinux, zVM, ITM , ITCAM 6, Oracle 10g

Worked-out first production HA WebSphere Process Server environment on zLinux/zVM for Quoting System. System interfaces via WMQ with CICS mainframe and DB2. Coached team on building pilot SCA based application interfacing with WMQ. Also, reviewed architecture and design for WAS 5.X to WAS 6.1 migration - WPS 6, WAS 6.1, WMQ 6, zLinux, zVM, AIX

HA ESB on zLinux/Mainframe Virtualization Stack - Implementation of WMB/WMQ, ITCAM, ITM in System z virutalization environment (System z, zVM, zLinux). Reviewed and assisted team in redesign of WMB software engineering of message flows and performance improvements to run high volume of transactions related to purchases at over 2200 JCPenney stores across the US. Reworked infrastructure design for higher performance with geographical failover between Texas and Ohio data centers.

IBM SOA QuickStart with Sr. Managers and Executives. Included SOA education to Sr. Managers and Executives followed by work sessions to determine the requirements and technology needed to automate key business processes over the next 24 months. On-site workshop included technical, organization and project roadmap for next 24 months including cost for for software and hardware in order to build and run the new systems. The 40 hours of education included SOA design, security, management and governance best practices. Delivered 1st phase logical and physical architecture and associated manpower needs.

Led the bank’s team (development/infrastructure/test) to implement all remaining recommendations made during initial visit in July, 2006 – Reviewed high availability architecture with geographical fail-over, WAS, DB2, AIX, and ITCAM, WebSphere Edge Server.

Virtualization Stack – Re-engineered IBM owned brokerage product that manages customers trading accounts including real time stock trades for most Canadian banks – circa 10 million transactions per day. Legacy technology PL/I, Cobol, CICS to new SOA technology – WAS 6, WPortal 6, WProcess 6, WESB 6, WMB 6, DB2, WSRR, HATS, ITCAM, zLinux, zVM, System z 9

Virtualization Stack– Improved the performance of critical on-line quoting system for the North American market – WAS, zLinux, zVM, System z 9, LoadRunner

Reworked/Refactored live Insurance Broker portal serving 78,000 insurance agents coast to coast. Worked over 2 months with multiple Nationwide teams. Performance issues where IBM CRITSIT rated and included refactoring throughout the stack including mainframe hardware, OS, middleware (WAS, WMQ) and application. Had ITCAM product team come in from San Francisco to introduce ITCAM and make it a permanent addition to the Nationwide infrastructure System Management portfolio.

Performance Engineer/IT Strategy – Analyzed WAS V5 z/OS infrastructure and applications for high performance and reliability. Recommended moving to WAS/zLinux based on application SLA requirements – WAS/zOS/zLinux/WMQ/Fair Isaac Blaze/RSA

Researched SOA solution for upcoming projects that would incorporate WebSphere products - WAS, ESB (WMB), WESB, WPS. Tactical - Mentored and corrected source of untamed web services issue through multiple systems that had halted entire medical pricing team’s progress. Corrected issues with CICS/SOA team effort.

Led the bank’s team in the analysis and refactoring of core eBanking application/infrastructure crashing under load. Coordinate customer staff for change – Reviewed/Corrected WAS, DB2, AIX, TAM solution for consistent operation.

Analyzed/Recommended improvements to mission critical Store Managers Workbench application, technical architecture and IT processes and costing approach that delivers the SMW solution. Reviewed high availability WPS, WAS, Oracle, Informix, DB2, AIX, Wily Introscope, RSA.

Quick start for pilot of SOA and ESB. Presentation to executive staff regarding Enterprise Service Bus technology. Coordinate customer staff for change – WMB Toolkit, WMB, z/OS

Led the bank’s 10 member CRITSIT team in the analysis and refactoring of core eBanking application/infrastructure crashing under extreme peak loads above 30,000 concurrent users – Reviewed high availability architecture with geographical fail-over, WAS, DB2, AIX, and ITCAM.

Reviewed application and infrastructure architecture to correct system lockup and crashes. Coordinate customer staff for changes - TAM, WAS.

Created Security Architecture for WebSphere products and associated interfaces. Worked extensively across the organization with Enterprise Security, Architecture, Engineering and operations groups - WAS, MS SQL Server, DB2. Also, – Designed and verified next generation of Internet application environment – Clustered, high performance infrastructure. WAS V6/AIX/RSA/DB2/Fair Isaac Blaze

Reviewed pre-production application/infrastructure’s architecture/design/code that included process automation and workflow. Application had target of 10,000 user and $5 million budget. Detailed source of flaws and issues. Planned and negotiated for management team to get offshore vendor to take remedial action to meet Aetna’s required SLAs. Included reworking identified deficiencies in design and code to improve reliability and performance based on best practices and industrial standards - WMQWF/WMQ/zOS

Analyzed/Improved low performance impacting production applications/infrastructure for 100 + applications – WAS 5/AIX/RSA/JProbe/TPV

Solution Architecture for an application responsible for all automotive incentive marketing pushed to media throughout North America including Canada, United States and Mexico. Worked closely with Fords US Dearborn, Michigan worldwide IT Center to mediate approval for new mechanism and technologies needed for the new application.

Analyzed and recommended architecture (reliability, scalability) improvements for international funds wire transfer solution active across multiple geo-sites (Arizona/California) for ultra high availability. Involved reviewing application, middleware and systems – WAS 5/J2EE/Solaris.

Reverse engineered Private Banking application using Rational Rose into UML models including class and sequence diagrams with the goal of increasing the stability and understanding of the application by JPMorgan staff. Then integrated and interconnected Visibroker Corba bus to application on WAS - WAS/AIX/Entrust.

Created next generation technology roadmap (50%) including people and training required to run it (50%). Conducted reviews and presentations with executives and senior managers during and completion of the engagement. WPS 5/WAS5.0/MQ/MQI/MQWF/zOS and other supporting infrastructure technology.

Led business architecture group to determine the mortgage process/UML models for Phase I re-engineering of bank’s entire mortgage process - $100 million budget. Mentored bank staff on UML/RUP approach. Used business process models, Use Cases and UML to capture current and build future state mortgage processes. Used IBM WebSphere Business Modeler for modeling, Rational Rose for Use Cases and functional break down of business models. Also, used Requisite Pro for requirements gathering. - WPS 5/WAS 5/zOS/Process Modeling/IBM IFW UML model.

Engineered Content Management system -WAS 5.0/ DB2 Content Manager V8.2 for high availability.

Analyzed/Improved production portal application with 3 million users. 30 consecutive days on site for critical situation. Massive cluster of thirty 4-Way Http/WPS servers– WebSphere Portal Server 4/Oracle 9.

Improved application reliability/performance for North American wide dealer application serving 850 dealers - WAS/zOS.

Researched/Investigated next generation of frameworks, build and runtime tools to accelerate solution delivery across the RBC enterprise. EAD4J/WAS 5/zOS/J2EE & Portal Standards

Reviewed pre-production application/infrastructure including architecture/design/code of off-shored $5 US million claims application. Also reviewed LEGAL AGREEMENTS between the company and vendor for conditions of adherence to company and industry standards. Mediated negotiation between company and vendor to come to an agreement that would increase the quality of the solution to levels sufficient to meet business required SLAs.Vendor agreed to rework identified deficiencies in design and code to improve reliability and performance based on best practices and industrial standards - WAS/zOS.

Developed upgrade strategy for WAS 4 to 5. Also, mentored staff on the use of the latest development tools. WAS 4 & 5/zOS/WSAD 4 & 5.

WebSphere Enterprise Architecture developing the next generation of Web based infrastructure and development strategy and approach using rational stack of tooling.

Performance and Application Engineering – Reviewed/recommended application improvements for highly available judicial systems (Wants/Warrants/Convictions) used by law enforcement and end to end judicial personnel 24/7/365 high availability required for 24 hour/day law enforcement - WAS/zOS.

Lead engineering of IT division including PPM, Operations, Software Engineering and Enterprise Architecture. Developed 5 year strategy to deliver IT to a new higher state of performance as well the technology foundation that would deliver that performance. Hired team to develope IT security, technology and developmental standards.

Oversaw the deliver of 6 applications for streamlining of safe drinking water IT delivery approach in Ontario. Included approximately 85 people in the delivery. Worked and guided other Ministries in the resource cluster including MNR and the Ministry of Agriculture.

Designed BMO’s mutual funds application for all the bank’s customers. First BMO WAS application on z/OS – UML/WAS/WMQ/zOS

Audited pre-production mutual funds trading application per security policies. Architect/Design/Code review for security flaws including, trap doors, time bombs etc. Reverse engineering the mutual funds application using UML and Rational Rose.

Delivered the Web-based Business Licensing application using RUP/ UML approach. Captured requirements from business users and analyzed/designed/ managed/coached the development and testing with an iterative approach. Reviewed all the team’s design and code artifacts including class/ sequence/ collaboration/ state diagrams. UML/Rational Rose/WAS 3.0.1, 3.5.1/Solaris

Startup company to sell mutual funds off shore needed a architect to identify all needs for people, systems and processes. Gathered requirements for startup including identifying roles and responsibilities, processes involved and high level systems needed to meet business objectives. Used process maps, UML Use case diagrams and capture of use case details to identify needs.

Designed an eCommerce site for purchase of DuPont Canada products.

MEDS (Mastercard’s Encryption Decryption Server) Project #1 - Designed and coded MEDS Encryption server for all transactions worldwide. Engineered CCDS (Credit Card Disputes Server) application to generate reports for all worldwide banks outlining tally and details on credit card holder transaction disputes– Actuate Reporting, BEA Weblogic, J2EE Java/Windows NT/UML

Tech Lead on new Ajax water treatment plant - $70 million in plant budget. Designed the complex control software to automate the processing of safe drinking water for the region consisting of 32 complex stages. Very complex state machines described with state diagrams, collaboration and sequence diagrams for dynamic behavior. Static behavior described through Use Cases and class diagrams. Forward Engineered software via UML/Rational Rose/OOA/OOD/C++/Unix/Windows NT/Oracle/Visual C++/Perl.

Near real time systems for world’s 1st multi-entry/exit automated toll billing system. Refactored design principally around threading to meet requirement SLA’s. – C++/UNIX Booch OO Design.

Designed improvements to the banks global risk system - C++/HP-UX, Oracle, Sybase.

Designed and coded Credit Card Authorization system – C++/AIX

Developed HA infrastructure for Network Management System for Ameritech – HP-UX, Corba, Oracle 7.3, OPS (Parallel Server), Symmetric Replication, ObjectStore, Orbix 2.0

Worldwide Salesforce Automation SFA - Massive Oracle queries against very large data warehouse creating summary extracts for OLTP for day-to-day sales force access. On-line access to products and parts to assemble bids for sales people while on the road. Cut the sales quote time from days to hours – OOA/OOD/C++/ESQL, Oracle 7.1, Solaris.

As part of a team, designed and coded over 20,000+ lines of software for two very successful UNIX based products for the satellite broadcasting industry. One, the network management software for Pay-Per-View Satellite television headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. Two, developed network management software for the world’s first digital compression over satellite communications channels. Technologies: UNIX, Informix database, C++, Object Oriented Design

Performed Open and Cased Hole services in fields North of Medan, North Sumatra and Borneo. Also worked out of Sale, Victoria, Australia. Wells typically circa 10-20,000 feet deep.