Solution Architect Resume

Desired Industry: Information Technology	SpiderID: 21292
Desired Job Location: Toronto, Ontario	Date Posted: 6/14/2008
Type of Position: Contractor	Availability Date: Sept 1, 2008
Desired Wage:
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Experienced with over 2 years experience	Willing to Travel: No
Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors	Willing to Relocate: No

Objective:
Proven track record of career success in positioning companies to achieve accelerated growth and competitive advantages through start-up ventures, new technology development/commercialization and market diversification. Adept in building business models, go to market strategies and growth initiatives through sound strategic planning, business development and marketing credentials. Navigated the convergence of communications, voice/data, and other advanced technologies through combined technical and business management competencies and contemporary insights into what next generation solutions will fuel revenue, profit and market share. Complete expertise in system integration, data consolidation and data migration between vendor’s and client’s legacy applications. Built business intelligence and reporting architecture that helped business users' access and analyze data in a data warehouse, data mart, or operational systems. Provided technical leadership and thought leadership for the design and development of Enterprise Reporting and Information Delivery Systems.

Experience:
Consultant – Business Intelligence Architect Jan 2008 – Sept 2008
Government of Ontario – Children and Youth Services – I&IT Cluster

• Evaluated, recommended and procured over 2.0M in software and hardware from major vendors
• Determined the approach, architecture and infrastructure for the IBM Web Sphere / Rational Series Hosting Services.
• Establish, maintain and QA data provisioning and BI data management strategies
• Assess and manage architecture impacts
• Oversee quality, testing and implementation of data acquisition and information delivery
• Communicate to Corporate Architecture new or changes to data management standards and convention
• Facilitating client meetings and working closely with senior management to ensure successful completion of on-time and on-budget project deliverables

Consultant – Business Architect Jan 2007 – Dec 2007
Government of Ontario – Family Responsibility Office

• Lead Consultant to set up data warehouse system administration, operations and production application infrastructure.
• Senior Consultant at all phases of the creation of the Enterprise Reporting Tool - Corporate Data warehouse including data modeling, system administration, application development and operation support.
• Developed an integrated technical architecture (based on ASP.NET, SQL Server, Microsoft Analysis Server and Oracle) for business intelligence delivery including, data marts, reference tables, dimensional database models, web portal, web reports, application metadata and security.
• Extended and designed data warehouse logical and physical models and data structures to integrate data from diverse operational systems and business units.

Consultant – Data Extraction & Transformation Specialist – Data Migration Jan 2005 – Dec 2006
Government of Ontario – Ministry of Human Services Cluster

• Implementing a 500 gigabyte Data Warehouse / Data Mart environment initially with 25 years of historical data.
• Defined business requirements, data acquisition rules, logic, and data validation processes for Enterprise Data Warehouse and Departmental Data Marts used by six developers for coding extract programs.
• Facilitating user sessions of business experts, developers, managers and telecommunications consultants to gather, group and define business, historical and trending requirements.
• Participated in developing corporate methodology, modeling standards, and abbreviations for development environment.
• Created the migration plan and presentation for senior management to understand business, hardware, software and funding requirements.
• Created and maintained functional and technical conversion design
• Generated reports using Oracle tools querying database.

Consultant –Data Migration Procurement Specialist Jan 2004 – Jan 2005
Government of Ontario – Ministry of Justice

• Lead role in the procurement, implementation and administration of a Data Migration tool
• Working with internal resources: Architecture, procurement and technical teams.
• Responsible for defining the development methodology, source control processes, standard coding conventions, and deployment strategy.
• Designed and developed a proof of concept application for a Case Management System. The proof of concept validated all of the major technical design issues and greatly decreased the technology ramp-up time in the implementation phase of the Data Migration Project.

Consultant – Technical Team Lead Dec 2001 – Aug 2003
Government of Ontario – Management Government Services

• Responsible for managing requirements documents, mapping processes, client relationships, and change management for the MQ Series Hosting Services.
• Designed, implemented, tested, and deployed a reusable, configurable, distributed framework for application integration, comprised of a workflow server, distributed messaging server, and database server.
• Supported and provided On Call support for the Drive Clean System and EDI Credit Card Application running on a Mainframe platform using WebSphere MQ Series, and IMS DB/DC written in COBOL/370.
• Developed Enterprise wide Naming standards and convention for MQSeries.(addresses operations as well as application design and development).
• Performed MQ Series problem analysis and provide technical assistance to other staff.

Consultant – QA Lead / Senior Enterprise Application Integrator Feb 2001- Dec 2001
The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited

• Migrated SEDAR to use MQ Series, DB2 and embedded C from an INTERRA messaging system on a RS/6000 Server to ensure reusability of the system.
• Served as MQ Series administrator responsible for setting up the connection between the Mainframe and the UNIX platform.
• Lead Quality/Performance Assurance Team of two testers and one programmer in the development of automated release documentation and auditing.
• Lead product performance benchmarking activities to ensure operational and quality improvements per product release.
• Performed reviews of development documentation, creation and review of test procedures and process improvements.
• Provided analysis, reports and status of all products in test, including the final QA recommendation of product's shipping viability.

Systems Consultant – Enterprise Application Integrator Aug 1998 - Jan 2001
Resource Information Systems (worked at client site, Canadian Pacific Railway)

• Charged with re-writing aging but mission-critical Purchase Order Management processing system. New design increased throughput 10 fold while increasing reliability and decreasing user intervention by using MQ Series as its Data Transfer system.
• Member of team designing, coding, and testing a new standard EDI messaging system using IBM's MQSeries messaging-and-queuing facility.
• Designed and coded wrappers for MQSeries, DB2, and CICS functionality, for use in Cobol II applications; and coding BMS maps.
• Migrated client/server application to 3-tier with PowerBuilder, Unix Application Server (in C), an Oracle DB using MQ Series from a Legacy system (MVS) written in COBOL.
• Converted a 3270 Messaging Process (from an OS 390 Platform written in COBOL) into MQ Series V, running on Windows, AIX, Oracle, and provided post implementation support.
• Developed and implemented tools and strategies to export the source system processing from legacy Cobol and Screen Grab mainframe systems to the Unix platform to centralize and standardize processing, reengineer system architecture and retire systems that have been running for over 10 years this improved normalization and Data Integrity.

Programmer Analyst, Credit Risk Application & Processing May 1997 - July 1998
TD Bank, Systems Research & Development

• Wrote, tested and implemented several on-line and batch IMS DB/DC programs that were part of: VISA, CMHC, Mortgages, Line of Credit, and Loans subsystems.
• Developed test plans and scripts for applications developed under C++, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder and MS Access, VMS and COBOL accessing DB2 and Oracle Databases.

Education:
ShowCase Ontario – Presented “A Complete Strategy on Data Migration / Integration” to CYSSC I&IT Cluster
Informatica Upgrade Workshops – January 2007 / June 2007 / November 2007
Ralph Kimball – Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing Boot Camp, June 2007
Intensive Systems Analysis, Standard Programming Design and SDLC, May – July 1997
COBOL & IMS DB/DC Workshop, October 1997
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Memorial University Newfoundland, April 1997

Skills:
Programming Experience with: C/Pro*C/C++, MQ SERIES (5.2, 5.3), PL/SQL, DB2, VB (6.0, .NET), PERL, ASP, Java, JavaScript, XML, WebSphere, COBOL, Data Advantage, Informatica, Crystal Reports (7.0, 8.0), TELON, HTML, ODBC/ADO, IIS (4.0, 5.0), CSS, SSL, REXX and Unix Scripts.
Databases: Oracle (7.i, 8.i, 10g, and 11.i), SQL Server 2005, DB2, UDB, MS Access, and IMS DB/DC
Operating Environments: UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, Sun OS), Windows X/2K/NT/ME/98, OS2 Warp4, IBM MVS
Physical Environments: Sun Solaris, RS/6000, PC, IBM Mainframe OS/390
Misc Technology: Client/Server, N-Tier On-Line Transaction Processing, OO Programming,
Batch Processing, EDI
Other Tools: Informatica PowerCenter / PowerExchange, IBM Websphere,, Rational Application Developer, Microsoft and Corel Office suites, Lotus Notes, Visual Studio, IBM Visual Age, AutoTester, VERITAS, Microfocus Workbench, Microsoft Project, Visio

Candidate Contact Information:

Name: Karim Jessani
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