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Most Recent Job Title: Chief Infrastructure Architect
Most Recent Employer: The Associated Press
Career Level: Manager, Director Level
Availability or Timeframe: Negotiable
Authorized to work in the US: Yes
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Education: Masters
Languages Spoken: Arabic, English
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MAJDI HAROUN
13 Pine Tree Lane
Morris Plains NJ 07950, USA
*****@***********.*******://www.linkedin.com/in/majdiharoun
SUMMARY
Senior Enterprise Architect, IT Strategist, and Technical Project Manager with more than
18 years of experience leading Information Technology transformation projects.
Served as a strategic consultant and technical mentor to all levels of corporate and IT
leadership and managed professional services and software product organizations.
As an Enterprise Architect have led the design and implementation of a diverse portfolio
of high-performance, scalable, highly available, and secure IT solutions based on advanced
technologies and architecture, including Service Oriented Architectures (SOA/WOA), Cloud
Computing (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), Data Services, Web Services, Service Component Architecture
(SCA), E-Business, Enterprise Portals, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), and
Computing Virtualization (VDC/VDI).
Technical and managerial experience across industry sectors such as Finance & Banking, e-
Commerce, Pharmaceuticals Research, Wholesale & Retail, Manufacturing, Technology, and
Professional Services.
Extensive experience in managing global projects and leading International teams spanning
across three continents with an in-depth knowledge of cultural and social traditions;
supported by an excellent command of multiple languages (Arabic, English, Urdu, and
Hindi).
Excellent communication and presentation skills with a proven track record of developing
effective relationships with technical staff as well as senior management.
Have passion for people, and a highly effective mentor and coach, adept at inspiring
confidence, leading by example, and building high-performance teams committed to quality
and responsiveness.
Professional Experience
The Associted Press
(AP.ORG), NY/NJ, USA 2009CurrentChief Infrastructure Architect
Lead Infrastructure Architect
responsible for Infrastructure Design and Implementation of
the full life cycle of the projects including:
Solution Infrastructure Design
Server Computing Environment specification
Design for High Availability, Scalability, and Disaster Recovery
Operationalization and Monitoring
(For project work details please refer to the Technical Addendum section of this
document)
Phillips-Van Heusen
(PVH.COM), NY/NJ, USA 20042009Enterprise Architect / Senior Technical Specialist
Successfully Designed, Led, and Managed the Computing Virtualization initiative within
the Corporate IT Development infrastructure. This initiative greatly reduced the overall
cost and time required for provisioning Servers, and improved the disaster and recovery
capabilities of development systems.
Provided strategic and technical guidance to the Executive Management during the creation
of the Corporate IT Strategy blueprint. This allowed the senior management team to be
better informed on various technical areas, deliver a comprehensive series of operational
policies, performance guidelines, and create a delivery processes that assured an optimal
execution of the corporate strategic plan across IT and professional services
organization.
Led the design and implementation of the Enterprise HR & Benefits Portal, resulting in
improving corporate communication, reducing the time required to locate HR documents by
80%, increasing employee satisfaction rate and eliminating a great deal of wasted time and
resources on content recreation. The system was based on Microsoft Office Sharepoint
Server (MOSS 2007).
Spearheaded the Application Development team in a company-wide effort to consolidate and
modernize the PVH Application Portfolio. This initiative greatly improved the business s
speed-to-market delivery and enhanced process tracking and visibility allowing greater
cost saving through well managed multi-channel distribution an sourcing. The modernized
application portfolio is based on Microsoft .NET and leverages various SOA technologies
such as WCF, WPF, and Web 2.0
Deutsche Bank, NY, USA 20002004Senior Consultant/Technical Lead
ORION Systems
Integrators, NJ, USA 1998-2000Senior Solution Architect/Senior Consultant
Clients & Assignments included
KPMG, NABISCO,
Pfizer, Ernst & Young, Hanover Direct
CyberNet Ltd
., India 19981998System Consultant
SpiderTech Consulting Services, India 19961998System Designer/Training Consultant
APTECH Training Institute, India 1995-1996Senior Training Executive
Intech Systems, India 19921995Research Coordinator / Software Engineer
EDUCATION & PROFESIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Master of Science (M.Sc
. in Physics), University of Poona, India.
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc
in Physics), University of Poona, India.
Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI)
Active Member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) NJ, NY chapters.
Professional course in Software Development, Informatics Computers Singapore.
Advanced Diploma
in Computer Studies, Informatics Computers Singapore.
Member of the Rotary International.
LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
More than 10 years communication experience in the following languages, and use them
regularly;
Arabic (Native), English (Fluent), Urdu (Proficient), Hindi (Proficient)
Extensive living/working knowledge of cultural and social traditions of:
North America (USA, Canada), Middle East (Mediterranean, North Africa, Persian Gulf),
South East Asia (India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, South Korea).
Technical Addendum
The Associated Press Projects:
AP News Editorial System
AP decided to develop a new system for authoring, editing, publishing, and managing news
stories to replace the older text based system. The new system provides faster publishing
process, more flexibility, faster development using industry standards, and More intuitive
user experience.
The new Editorial System utilizes Line of Business (LOB) Client development using
Microsoft Office 2010 Business Application (OBA) framework, Microsoft SharePoint Server
2010 as the Backbone collaboration platform (Workflow, Document Management, and Social
Communities), Microsoft FAST ESP (Enterprise Search), Microsoft Application Virtualization
(App-V), and VMWARE View 4.0 (VDI- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure).
(For Details:
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspxCaseStudyID=400******* )
AP News Registry
The News Tracking system to help publishers identify each news piece by type, track it to
determine where it was located on the Internet, which sites were repurposing it for viewer
consumption, which devices viewers were using to access the content, how often it was
being viewed, and where the viewers were located.
The system is based on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 as a holistic BI Platform
providing Business Intelligence Visual Dashboards, combined with SQL Server PowerPivot and
PerformancePoint for more robust data analysis. Cloud Computing (Azure, Amazon)
(For Details See:
http://www.microsoft.com/caseStudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspxcasestudyid=400******* )
AP members Microsites (Vancouver 2010 Winter Games & AP College Football)
The Associated Press ventured into direct consumer news and media distribution on the
behalf of its 8000 members. The websites were hosted on AP s own data center running on
VMWARE vSphere Cluster. To enable greater scalability and higher availability Akamai
CDN/Web Acceleration was implemented.
(For Details See: http://wintergames.ap.org/ and http://sports.ap.org/college-football/ )
MAJDI HAROUN
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