Delivering enterprise blockchain solutions.

End responsible for architecture across all product lines; driving ideas from decisions to implementation. Next to designing and performing hands-on proof of concepts I am a listener, part-time referee and a mentor / coach for my teams. Currently leading the automation transformation program; owning the transformation of a financial enterprise system into a scalable, extendable & cost efficient cloud native deployable solution and defining the foundations for a headless (API based) pricing & billing engine.

As chapter director responsible for anything related to resourcing for chapter leads, principal engineers & technical leads. Hiring, career planning, coaching, and defining the roles + responsibilities for the sub chapters Architecture, Engineering & DevOps.

As chief architect drove cross cutting initiatives such as the overall architecture road map, public API design, unification, documentation & developer portals, NFRs (everything which ends on “ility” - scalability, security, extensibility, etc…) and multi-tenant product readiness for SaaS/BaaS.Participated in BIAN (Banking Industry Architecture Network) work groups as representative for Technisys for Architecture Framework & Foundation and Event streamingNext to this I also work closely with (pre-)sales for larger, strategic accounts and I participate in executive steering committees.

The Cyberbank platform from Technisys is a white label digital retail-banking platform that leverages Machine Learning and predictive analytics, delivered through APIs and an Omni channel UX.Technical pre-sales, leading workshops and deep-dives considering deployment, hands-on coding extensions and recording demo’s.Contributed to Gartner’s Composable Enterprise Architecture white paperWorking on a webinar series (46 episodes) to attract new technical talent within South / North Americas by showcasing how to deploy a 3rd generation core banking system + web / mobile channel on a Raspberry Pi 8 node cluster within Kubernetes; in these series I demonstrate applied hyper convergent infrastructure & GitOps principles, security and encryption services (HashiCorp Vault, automated certificate management) and implement extensive monitoring to reach full observability for operationsPerform hands-on proof of concepts and coding in Golang by building a headless core banking emulator.

Responsible for the business, application and cloud architecture for a transaction banking platform based upon microservices, real-time data streaming and big data technologies -Cloud Foundry/Openshift deployed and managed using the public, private or hybrid cloud.Lead development and supported sales/service teams globally (India, UK, USA) as well as providing regular architectural/technical progress briefings to C-level o Performing business requirement gathering sessions and definition of user journeys with clients as well as the business units responsible for the individual backend domains.Defined front-to-back architecture blueprint (Angular 5, business/data architecture, API first, API gateway, DX (Developer Experience) service layer, GraphQL, security token management, service orchestration, trust management).

As technical director responsible for governing all technical architectural aspects of implementation projects, leading the regional solution architecture team, as well as technical briefings and business requirement gathering sessions. Responsible for defining and governing the cloud based technical architecture. Managing client expectations concerning integration, deployment, monitoring, training, migration and support.

Subject matter expert for all DBS architecture and technical product specificationsLiaison between Product Manager, Product Architect and Backbase expert servicesResponsible for Digital Banking Services (non) functional specifications and requirements, mostly on supporting sales, customer documentation and project roll-outsDefined and created DBS technical tracks and workshops for developers, architects and DevOps

Implemented UML as documentation standard for integration, deployment and process flowsAutomated end-to-end development / deployment chain using Jenkins, MavenPerformed feasibility study (gap analysis for technical and functional requirements, costs & time to execute) to replace current online banking solution large Malaysian bank with Backbase DBP Designed process flows, widget APIs and developed integration logic using Apache Camel

Introduced integration architecture; re-defined solution architecture to remove all integration logic from products. Performed vendor selection for an integration layer and had all integration logic moved there, including complex transformations (SEPA, SWIFT). Lowered maintenance costs, increased on flexibility and reliability.Single Sign On (SAML 2.0); defined architecture and performed proof of concept for externalizing identity management for the Internet Banking solution, currently implemented at two customers.Initiated and launched “Help Center”; provide customers with up-to-date product documentation such as manuals, deployment guides, howto’s and knowledge base. Wrote large part of the content in the last couple of years.Significantly lowered solution OTC and TCO; initiated migration from mainframe hard- and software to common (Intel) based platforms, incl. support for virtualization. Migrated to JBoss, HornetQ and SQL Server 2008/2012 for both core banking and Internet Banking solution. Created and provided technical product training to customers, mentor for colleagues (developers, QA & services).Hands-on ITO implementation for Internet Banking and the core banking products. Implemented in three months end-to-end solution including monitoring and SLA reporting.Solution architect and 3rd line support for two major private bank implementations in the Netherlands and for a car dealer financing organization.Provided RFI responses and demos of our solution to foreign banks (Czech Republic, Sweden, Egypt).

IBM AIX p5 upgradeo Responsible for middleware (ESB, application servers, databases) impact analysis and architectural changes during migration to the new target platform. Internet banking platformo Defined architecture and implemented a high-available and scalable Internet banking solution using software from an external vendor. Performed load testing, system tuning and support during penetration testing. Lowered TCO by leveraging from the advanced features of WebLogic.Middleware architectureo Defined enterprise-wide middleware architecture incl. development standards, deployment methodologies, key performance indicators and security requirements.

Interim position where I defined the integration architecture between an external data center (MQ Series based) and the internal ESB (MS Biztalk). Consultant during implementation of an Internet banking solution and disaster recovery project.

Team manager and technical lead of the ITS group (5 staff members). This group is responsible for consultancy, design, implementation, benchmarking and system tuning of all Internet and core banking related middleware and infrastructure (availability, scalability) for our customers and internal software development group.Technical architect involved at all customers. Responsible for design, sizing, security, migration and deployment of Internet Banking / core banking infrastructure, middleware and application components.

Designer for the Business Internet Banking application andJAVA programmer.Designed and implemented a generic traffic queuing mechanism for the Application Framework of the Internet Banking Application.

Networks ICT architect role in redesign Internet Banking infrastructure including network components, application servers and middleware. Responsible for defining the functional- and technical requirements/design for each component in the Internet Gateway considering the ABN AMRO Bank Internet Banking application infrastructureRedesigned large parts of the Internet Gateway for increase of stability, performance, simplicity and security.Lead designer for troubleshooting the Internet gateway in case of problems with L4-7 load balancing-, SSL acceleration-, proxy-, firewall- and UNIX components.

Designed, implemented and supported the internal infrastructure (Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, Win NT 4.0/2000 Server) including network services (DNS/DHCP/WINS/NTP), application services (Multiple NT domains with trusts, LDAP (Netscape) integration, messaging, calendar, Intranet services and Asset management), network security (firewall, packet filters and DMZ segment), logical security (PKI infrastructure, policies) and disaster recovery (backup systems, RAID-5 / RAID-1, UPS). Set up of a complete test environment for all developers using VMWare including backup, restore, disk undo and procedures.ConsultancyUK, London: worked on a web based office environment. Mostly user interface and java scripting.France, Paris: for a large marriage portal (re)designed and implemented an upgrade of their existing network including user management, disaster recovery and physical security.Sweden, Visby: for one of the leading Swedish game sites, worked in a team to implement an iChannel eCommerce solution. The part I worked on was solving security / performance issues.

For a large insurance company designed and implemented an SMS (Systems Management Server) framework to support up to 6000 workstations and > 800 servers. Wrote small tools to support the implemented environment. Using an IIS web server, SQL server 6.5 and the NT integrated domain security I developed a system, which could remotely install NT workstations. For an international lightening company, designed and implemented a Windows 2000 environment using Advanced Server and the professional release. Set up services such as Exchange 5.5, Proxy-server 2.0, RRAS (using Cisco 760/ISDN routers for dialling in and out) and file/print servicesIntegrated Microsoft Windows NT and UNIX, including file/print sharing and password synchronization. Implemented NIS and NFS, Samba and CVSup server to sync the FreeBSD source code tree.