Curriculum Vitae

Björn Halvorsen

I am a business driven IT professional. I have a long record of successful deliveries of critical Business

applications for various verticals throughout Europe.

My preferential assignments involve turning Business requirements into a realizable solution using forefront

Architecture and Technologies.

I contribute to every team with my enthusiasm and long experience in fostering and leading off shore

development throughout all project life cycles.

I am looking for interesting projects or positions in a Project Management role and/or combined role with

Architecture responsibilities.

I got a long success history in IT sales / pre sales situations creating new business opportunities.

Competences

Solution Architecture

BPM/EAI/MDM

CEP/RETE

SAP ECC, ERP

Project Management

Presales/Sales

Assignments

Integration Solution Architect / Project Manager – ERP/BPM/EAI/MDM projects

Dell, Zurich (CH)

Duration: 2014-01 – present

Integration as a Service in the Cloud with Dell Boomi SaaS at Zurich International School (ZIS).

SAP Integration Solution Architect / Project Manager – ERP/BPM/EAI/MDM projects

Alstom Power, Baden (CH)

Duration: 2011-09 – 2013-12

My role is in the Key Applications Delivery Centre of the Alstom ITSSC Power Solution Centre at the site in Baden

(AG). Our IT projects have an international scope and require a coordination of work across business functions, skill

sets, and geographic locations.

As Project Manager and Architect I am responsible for the initiation and delivery of Integration projects,

coordinating between development teams and Business Stakeholders.

Controlling internal resources, vendors (involving on shore, near shore and off shore resources), as well as software

providers. Liaise directly with the key business stakeholders. Assume control (risk management) within the frame of

the Key Applications Delivery Centre Mission and in compliance with IS&T policies and strategies. Prepare project

reports.

Securing that chosen solution Architecture adheres to Alstom ITSSC Templates and Industry Best Practices. I am a

key member of the Alstom Power Architect Board. Responsible for Strategic decisions later concretized into the

business.

Highlights of projects I do/did:

Global eBanking with Swift / without Swift

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Global Manufacturing

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Global Templates for Data Security (Based on Industry Leading Standards, i.e. AS2, OAuth 1.0a for data

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security)

Enterprise central repository of Vendor master data (MDM)

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Proof of Concept with IBM Sterling Commerce Connect Direct Managed File Transfer (MFT)

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Proof of Concept for End to End Monitoring based on TIBCO BusinessEvents CEP engine

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Manage the Alstom Enterprise Data Model – CDM (Common Data Model)

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Role SAP Integration Solution Architect / Project Manager

Applications SAP ECC, Tibco Middleware, Tibco CIM 8.3 (MDM), Tibco BusinessStudio MDM (Eclipse with

plugin for MDM Workflow and Data Catalogue), Tibco BusinessEvents 5.1

Team Lead & Tech Lead – Provisioning TIBCO BusinessEvents/BPM/EAI project

Tech Mahindra, London (UK) at KPN (NL)

Duration: 2010-09 – 2011-09

Team Lead and Tech Lead of Service Network Integrator (SNI) 2.0 Developments.

Leading a team of Indian and international IT Professionals, both on site as well as off shore.

The application is used for provisioning of Broadband services and products.

Use cases realizations using orchestration (BPM) and a service oriented architecture (EAI).

Highlights of architecture:

My team added a rule layer based on the RETE algorithm with in memory / cached business entities of

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customer data implemented with the TIBCO BusinessEvents (BE) tool.

TIBCO BE was used to propagate state update from multiple sources to a central place. BE allowed to keep

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up with processing real time Big Data to an excellent performance.

Role Team Lead & Tech Lead of the Provisioning project

Products/Technologies Tibco BusinessEvents 4.1, Tibco iProcess 11.x, Tibco BusinessWorks 5.7, Tibco EMS

5.1, MS SQL 2005, Tibco Business Studio, Tibco Designer 5.6, MS Visio

Lead EAI Architect – SAP R3 TIBCO BPM/EAI/MDM projects

Alstom, Baden (CH)

Duration: 2009-11 – 2010-08

I am a Single Point of contact for Alstom Power Switzerland and the off shore development hub in India.

My responsibility is to produce a Solution of Alstom’s business requirements or functional requirements for

development in India.

As the Lead Designer I contribute in all areas of the evaluation, the implementation of new solutions and ensuring

the best suitable architecture considering business requirements and strategies, group architecture directives, ISC

framework, timely constraints and operability.

I have successfully delivered the following projects, all with SAP as the central system:

• eBanking

• Power Plant Manufacturing and supply chain

• eTravelExpense

• MDM (Master Data Management)

Few of my responsibilities are listed below:

1. Evaluate and assess architecture options and technical scenarios along above criteria. Further develop the

Enterprise Application Integration Framework for the purpose and needs of Business and in compliance with ISC

and Group Architecture Directions.

2. Provide guidance, direction for integration Platform topics and evolution in alignment with Group Architecture

Directions, Framework and Integration Strategy. Supervise approved Development steps (SOA and BPM platforms,

Monitoring and Error handling, Test Automation).

3. Supervise development.

4. Enforce application of Design, Development and Testing Standards in accordance to ISC Framework within the

delivery team

5. Conduct Design and Development Reviews, Gate reviews.

Role Solution Architect

Products/Technologies Tibco SAP Adapter 6.0, Tibco iProcess 10.6, Tibco BusinessWorks 5.7, Tibco EMS 5.1,

Oracle 10g, Tibco iProcess Modeler 10.6, Tibco Designer 5.6, Altova UModel 2010

System Architect – TIBCO Migration project

Alstom, Baden (CH)

Duration: 2009-09 – 2009-11

Instigated as a result of the TIBCO license compliance negotiations, Project "TINA" had the objective to migrate

the current TIBCO Development, Integration, QA and Production environments from a server based platform

onto four (4) new zone based virtual zones.

Not only has this project saved ALSTOM over €1m in additional license fees by drastically reducing the number

of processors that are required, it will also reduce the hosting costs by about 30% on an ongoing basis.

Conducted load performance tests to benchmark the Zone environment and existing layout.

Role Tibco Product Expert of iProcess Engine (BPM) and BusinessWorks (SOA Suite)

Products/Technologies Tibco iProcess 10.6, Tibco BusinessWorks 5.7, Tibco Hawk 4.8, Tibco EMS 5.1, Java

SDK 1.5, Oracle 10g, Tibco iProcess Modeler 10.6, Tibco Designer 5.6, Solaris 5.10, Unix scripting

Project Manager / Solution Architect – SIO project

Telia Sonera Broadband Services, Stockholm (S)

Duration: 2008-02 – 2009-09

SIO Project is a fix price project run by three different suppliers to Telia Sonera, one for Billing, one for CRM Siebel

and one for the Service or Integration Platform (IPL). I authored the winning business proposal. The business model

is a combination of on site and near shore resources developing in Novisad, Serbia (TMNS Empiry).

During the project execution phase I acted as a combination of Project Manager and Solution Architect with overall

responsibility.

The purpose of the SIO Project is to develop a new IT platform for Telia Sonera Wholesale business (B2B Channel).

The services exposed though this B2B Channel are Provisioning (Order) and Quote. The core Application in this

solution is Siebel CRM 7.8. Total number of Legacy Applications involved is eight.

Executive Business Rules isolated from the Technical integration solution (IPL).

A product catalogue implemented with BE Database concepts.

As the lead Architect I was responsible for the Data modeling and Data logical mapping between Siebel Data model

and the legacy Data models.

Design, development, test, delivery and support of Integration Handlers (IHs) to the SIO Project and support the

project during test phase. Open Application Group Integration Specification (OAGIS), a canonical business language

for information integration. Main architectural principals imply that the legacy applications within the scope of SIO

Project will not maintain direct point to point connections between each other. In order to decouple them, the

applications will have to obtain the needed data and functionality of other applications through the IPL. To support

reusability, all data sent to the IPL is mapped to OAGIS data format. The IPL decided and established at Telia Sonera

is based on TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS). Tibco EMS is an implementation of the Java Messaging

Service (JMS).

A critical matter is to design and implement a connection to one of the legacy applications offering only a CORBA

IDL API. When there is no off the shelf Adapters available for this specific CORBA implementation I both

Design and Implemented a Tibco standardized SDK Adapter in pure Java. This Adapter offers both

synchronous request/reply services and publication services exposed to the IPL.

The IPL project methodology is Agile and follows Scrum principles.

Role Project Manager / Enterprise Architect

Products/Technologies Tibco BusinessWorks 5.6, Tibco BusinessEvents 3.0, Tibco Hawk 4.7, Tibco EMS 4.3,

XML, XSLT, XSL, Java SDK 1.5, Oracle 10g, PL/SQL, Tibco Designer 5.5, GreenHat Tester 3.3, Altova MapForce

2008 Enterprise Edition

As a Freelancer

1993 – 2007

2006 – 2007 Solution Architect – Tibco SOA Suite

Oslo Börs (Stock Exchange), Oslo (N)

Solution Architect BSCS Billing system, Tibco Product Suite

2006 – 2006

T Mobile b.v., den Haag (NL)

2005 – 2006 Portal Solution Architect – Struts Web Framework

Vodafone plc, Düsseldorf (D)

Tibco Product Suite Expert – Tibco Siebel CRM Adapter

2005 – 2005

O2 plc, München (D)

Java/J2EE Developer – Amdocs Billing system, Tibco SOA Suite

2003 – 2005

Telia Sonera Norway (Netcom AS), Oslo (N)

Java Architect (Hands on) – IBM WebSphere

2002 – 2003

Capital Tool Company b.v., Amsterdam (NL)

2002– 2002 Java Developer Portal Solutions

EzGov Inc, Amsterdam (NL)

Java Architect and Developer – Micro Payments / ePayment

1999 – 2002

E C2000 AB, Stockholm (S)

Solution Architect – Billing System

1997 – 1999

Ericsson Hewlett Packard Telecom (EHPT) AB, Stockholm (S)

1993 – 1997 C++ / Java Developer

Ericsson Radio System AB, Stockholm (S)

Employments

Lead Internet Applications

1992 – 1993

University of Oslo, Institute of Information Technology, Oslo (N)

Technical Project Leader

1988 – 1992

Apple Computer AB, Scandinavia (S, D, N, SF)

Business Consultants – Financial Applications

1984 – 1988

IBM AB, Stockholm (S)

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