Rashad M. Saad

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SUMMARY

Chief / Senior Architect, Designer, Developer and Manager, with 20+ years

of experience in enterprise- wide global projects. Developed multi-tier,

long term strategic enterprise architecture visions and roadmaps.

Provided business with thought leadership during requirement gathering and

analysis. Translated requirements into architecture and technical designs.

Designed web-enabled, customer-facing business capabilities. Subject matter

expert in the enterprise design; systems architecture; project and

personnel management; Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) of

architectural paradigms; and component / multi-tier / client-server

architectures. Present new ideas effectively at various levels of

abstraction (e.g. C-Level executives, upper management, peers and

students). Strong team mentor / builder with excellent leadership

abilities. Languages: English, French, Arabic, German and Greek. Presented

at multiple conferences and published 2 conference papers and 1 journal

article. 1 Patent.

Areas of Expertise

. Evaluation of enterprise systems

. Definition of performance criteria

. Establishment of Enterprise Architecture Principles including SaaS.

. Defining Enterprise Metadata & Ontologies.

. Asset management architecture and capabilities

. Leading and developing Privacy and Party Reference architectures

. Developing integration architecture for various SDLC components

. Service Oriented Architecture

. Leading Architecture Review Board

. Event Driven Architecture

. Cloud computing principles (including workflow, BPM and Rule engines)

. Build vs. Buy criteria and analysis for Rule Based Architectures using

Rules Based Engines

. Reverse engineering of legacy systems.

. Extensive knowledge of product development methodologies and processes

(e.g. Scrum)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems Linux, UNIX BSD, SUN Solaris, HP_UX, Windows, OS / 390, VAX

/ VMS, MS-DOS, CP / M

Database ORACLE, SQL 2005, SQL 2008, INFORMIX, INGRES, Vax / Rdb,

Management Systems ACCESS, Paradox, IMS, DB2

Development J2EE, JAVA, JDBC, .NET, C / C++, SOAP, HTTP, REST, TCP / IP,

Languages, Threads, sockets, UML, XML, DOM, JAXP, Rational Rose, HTML,

Protocols, Tools COBOL, ProC, FORTRAN, Pascal, PL / SQL, BASIC, Assembler,

and Environments X-windows, Motif, MS Office, visio, MS Outlook, Microsoft

Project, Apache, JBoss

Enterprise SOA, EDA (Event Driven Architecture), Zachman Framework,

Integration CORBA / Orbix, JMS, MQSeries, Vitria BusinessWare, Tuxedo,

Paradigms and Ethernet, Novell, Reflection, TOP END, Siebel, Oracle

Middleware Fusion, Pega Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GENERAL ELECTRIC HEALTHCARE, San Diego, CA Present

Chief Architect - Specialties

Lead a global team for Imaging, Pathology, Cardiology, High Acuity Care,

Perinatal and Periop to create an integrated global serving architecture

and products. Re-architected Radiology RIS/PACS systems. Interface using

DICOM and HL-7.

COGNIZANT, San Diego, CA 2010 - 2012

Associate Director / Senior Enterprise Architect

Used Pega PRPC to develop main applications with major clients to identify

enterprise needs and lead their offshore development.

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WELLPOINT, Thousand Oaks, CA 2010

Senior Enterprise Architect

Product domain and enterprise architect.

. Provided thought leadership in requirement gathering of strategic

projects: Benefit Analyzer, Modular Product Architecture and Customer

Benefit Process Approval.

. Authored Architecture Solution Documents.

. Provided detailed designs for projects and led development teams in low-

level system designs. Participated in the definition of the enterprise

roadmap.

. Led assessment of product domain systems.

ICW GROUP, San Diego, CA 2008 - 2009

Senior Enterprise Architect

Provided multi-tier enterprise architecture vision, while balancing short

and long term goals. Designed enterprise-wide architecture and implemented

Auto Line of Business architecture.

. Chaired Enterprise Architecture Review Board.

. Served as Senior Solution Architect for the Auto Insurance line of

business, architecting, designing, managing and approving releases.

. Proposed new SOA-based architecture and evaluated the build vs. buy

options (including the assessment of Business Rules Engines - ex: iLog,

as part of a team that determined the Next Generation of auto systems.

INTUIT, INC., San Diego, CA 2005 - 2008

Enterprise Metadata / Senior Solution Architect

Developed portfolio management software by defining and developing multiple

enterprise architectures, from basic principles to high level requirements.

. Obtained shared vision with various business units: Architects, chief

architects and top executives.

. Developed business value propositions, return on investment (ROI) and

cost benefit analysis, including various Build vs. Buy analyses. Involved

in standard operating (SOA) and Research and Development (R&D) efforts to

determine major SOA components.

. Enterprise architectures successfully developed included, Privacy and

Party reference, Registry / Repository (WSSR), SDLC tools integration

architecture: Using SOA and EDA (Event Driven architecture), Customer

Asset Architecture. Metadata/Asset Catalog architecture, Geographic

Context Architecture and Master Data Management Architecture.

BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS / ACCENTURE, Birmingham, AL 1995 - 2005

Technical Architect

Developed architecture. Introduced the new concepts to upper management.

Assisted in creating timelines and defining deliverables.

. Designed, implemented, re-engineered and remodeled a number of legacy

systems in order to migrate to the new Enterprise Architecture (EAI) and

bridge the mainframe (OS / 390) and midrange (Sun Solaris) gap.

. Designed, architected, developed, released and maintained EAI systems.

. Authored white papers, delivered presentations and taught classes to

introduce the new technologies to the current staff and upper management.

INTERPROVINCIAL PIPELINE INC., Edmonton, AB, Canada 1989 - 1995

Project Leader / System Analyst III

NORTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Edmonton, AB, Canada 1988 -

1989

Instructor of Electrical Engineering Technology

EDUCATION

MSc, Electrical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

BSc, Electrical Engineering, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt.

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