Project Manager Management

PERSONAL DATA

Jim Wallace

IT Architect

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Jim Wallace has twenty years of experience in designing and delivering IT solutions in a wide range of technical and business environments. He successfully made the transition from mainframe systems through client-server to enterprise scale, component based, n-tier architectures and platforms. These technical skills are enhanced by an ability to apply advanced conceptual and methodological techniques in designing and implementing software solutions that are focused directly on business requirements.

He recently has specialized in high availability, J2EE based retail finance (banking) applications and integration with the enterprise back office. Before terms as a Solutions Architect with Railinc and with Pivotal Corporation, he worked for Software AG as an enterprise and solutions architect; fulfilling a consulting and technical evangelist role with their J2EE integration broker technology and leading a group of system engineers developing custom adapters. He subsequently focused on building and supporting relationships with ISV partners and providing architectural expertise and mentoring to Software AG s Canadian based consultants.

Mr. Wallace has extensive IT consulting and systems delivery experience, both as a free-lance consultant and as a senior employee of DMR Consulting Group (now Fijitsu Consulting). He has architected solutions for both world class corporations and government clients, and has repeatedly demonstrated the leadership qualities critical to the successful implementation of enterprise scale initiatives.

For the past few years, he has specialized in the architecture of thin client and n-tier applications, and is an expert in middleware and integration techniques. These have typically been enterprise scale solutions with substantial transaction throughput, often featuring low latency integration with mainframe or COTS back office resources. They have increasingly focused on SOA and Web Services paradigms.

PRIMARY SKILLS

Vertical Industries

Finance and Banking, Manufacturing, Transportation, Retail, Government, etc.

Database

DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, various other

Application Servers

WebSphere, WebLogic, Apache

Operating Systems

Windows, IBM Mainframe, UNIX

Technologies

Java and J2EE; EAI technologies including ESB, SOA, Web Services, RMI/IIOP; XML; Client Server; Struts; High Availability

Tools and Methods

UML; OO; ER; Rational Modeler; RAD, ERwin; Eclipse, LDAP, Subversion, Clearcase, Productivity Plus

Process and Management

RUP, Agile, SDLC, Planning, Estimating and Configuration Management techniques

A.

ORACLE SIEBEL EMPLOYEE

(2004-2008

)

1)

Systems Engineer

Jul 08 Sep 08

Troubleshooting a Siebel Branch Teller installation through SIT and UAT. Focus on Web Services integration gateway and interactions with legacy mainframe apps via an Enterprise Service Bus.

Siebel Teller, WebSphere, RAD 7, Oracle DB, IBM Message Broker, Tortoise, Subversion

2)

Solutions Architect

May 08

Jun 08

Formulating a strategy and estimating level of effort for migration of a Siebel Branch Teller installation for a western N.A. financial institution;

Accommodated an eventual transition of the core banking system from legacy mainframe to SAP, based on utilization of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

Siebel Branch Teller, WebSphere, RAD 7, DB2, Web Methods

3)

Integration Specialist

Jan 08

Apr 08

Designing and implementing Web Services to support Oracle Siebel OnDemand CRM clients.

These services exported transactions from Oracle EBS, transformed them to On Demand standards, converted them to SOAP messages, and forwarded them to a remote installation of Siebel CRM.

Java 1.5, Apache AXIS, Oracle DB PL/SQL, Oracle EBusiness Suite, Siebel CRM OnDemand

4)

Project / Technical Architect

Oct 06 Aug 07

Design, technical, and implementation leadership for a project customizing and installing the Seibel Retail Finance Branch Teller product for a financial institution in the western U.S;

Included validation of the client high availability architecture, design of U.S. specific banking transactions, and integration with Check Imaging and Cash Machine services.

WebSphere / Oracle DB / AIX environment, using Web Services and IBM Message Broker for Back Office Integration; Rational RAD; Rational Modeler; Alogent Check Truncation; J/XFS

5)

Chief Project Architect

Mar 05 Aug 06

Project architect providing strategic direction for a project customizing and installing The Seibel Retail Finance Branch Teller product for three major financial institutions in South America;

Led Teller Core Services development team during design, implementation, and testing.

Sales Engineer delivering product demonstrations, working architectural and technical issues, resource planning and estimating, and mapping customer requirements to product capabilities.

WebSphere/DB2/AIX platform; various middleware including Tuxedo (JCr), MQ Series, Web Services, Hibernate; Sock Servers; FIX; Rational RAD, ClearCase, and Clearquest.

6)

Technical Architect

Oct 04

- Feb 05

Technical and product oriented consulting during the architecture definition phase for an Internet Banking project at a major East Asian bank. Based the Siebel Retail Finance J2EE product.

WebSphere / Oracle RAC / SUN platform, XML:, Rational Modeler; SSO, MQ Series

7)

Technical Architect

May 04

Sep 04

Providing technical, implementation, configuration, and deployment support for various initiatives undertaken by Siebel Retail Finance Product Marketing;

Design and delivery of specialized functions and capabilities for specific product demonstration and Proof of Concept (POC) engagements, focusing on North American banking requirements.

WebSphere and WebLogic app servers, Alogent, JXFS for peripheral integration; Struts

B. INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT

(2002-2004)

1) Railinc Corporation - Solutions Architect

Sep 03

Mar 04

Co-leader in establishing a systems and applications architecture for an Equipment Health Monitoring System (EHMS) to be collaboratively developed and deployed by the major North American railways;

Articulated the strategy, requirements, and software architecture for the next generation of Railinc s Value Added Networking services;

Member of the North American Class 1 Railway Architectural Committee;

Architectural reviews and consultation on a number of projects internal to Railinc or conducted under the auspices of the railroad industry architecture committee

J2EE architecture and design, Java, RUP, J2EE Frameworks; WebSphere, Web Services, Entrust, MQ Series, Rational Rose, Legacy IBM Mainframe

2) Various Organizations -

Independent

Solutions ConsultantDec 02

Aug 03

Various consulting assignments primarily centered on J2EE and integration broker based architecture, validating client s architecture, design, and product selection;

Short term solutions consulting for Cognicase and other clients, assessing business opportunities, defining high level solutions, and building proposals;

Contract through a third party with the Economics and Business Cluster of the Ontario government, on the EBC Systems Environment Project.

J2EE architecture and design, Java, Zachman, ITIL, RUP, Enterprise, SQL Server, Oracle, Portals, Design Patterns, WebSphere, WebLogic, WebMethods, Web Services, Eclipse

3) Pivotal Corporation Chief Integration Architect

Aug 08 Sep 08

Defined and positioned integration solutions for Pivotal CRM and Call Center products during pre-sales and post sales engagements;

Responsible for developing and implementing and integration strategy for Pivotal Professional Services, and coordinating this strategy with Pivotal R&D;

Managed technical and operational relationships with Pivotal integration ISV partners;

Provided architectural and technical consulting with Professional Services teams, including assessment and review of integration products and solutions.

Pivotal CRM, COM+, SQL Server, Oracle, BizTalk, and various integration technologies such as Attachmate, WebMethods, and SeeBeyond

C. Software AG - SAGA SOFTWARE

(1999-2002

)

1)

Software AG Inc

Senior Solution ArchitectApr 01

Jan 02

Managed ISV partner s technical integration with the Tamino XML server advising them on best architectural and technical practices.

Developed a rapid deployment architecture for Internet Electronic Bill Presentation (EBP), using Tamino, a J2EE framework (JSP, servlets, JNDI), and partner tools.

Provided technical and architectural support in marketing and relationship efforts with Software AG ISV and SI partners, especially including Content Management vendors and consulting firms.

Served as an architectural and technical resource for Software AG product positioning initiatives, including adapter packaging using EJB/JCA technology.

Developed a web based, customer self-service architecture for product distribution applications for a major international media firm.

Java, J2EE, J2EE servers (WebLogic, WebSphere), EJB, EDI, XML, Web Services, Struts, MVS, Windows NT, Stellent, Adabas, Natural, EntireX

2

) Software AG Inc Consulting ArchitectFeb 01

Mar 01

Delivered a strategy and design for modernizing a legacy Natural Adabas application for a world class music producer and distributor; including effort estimation and planning.

Design included addition of a Web based capability allowing customers to enter orders remotely.

Construct Spectrum, Visual Basic, Adabas, Natural, IIS

3) SAGA Software (Canada) Inc

- Senior EI ArchitectJul 99

Jan 01

Led Professional Services Custom Adapter team in special implementation projects (typically Java based adapters or EJB packaged integration services).

Technical evangelist / architectural expert for the Sagavista integration broker product suite.

Provided architectural mentoring, support, and consulting services for SAGA internal, pre-sales and professional services engagements.

Designed a Sagavista: (1) LDAP adapter for accessing directories, utilizing JNDI and (2) a RMI descriptor adapter for generating interfaces to Java resources.

Provided strategic consulting services for SAGA clients.

Managed the design and development of a Sagavista adapter for a major international software vendor, supplying critical enterprise connectivity options for their flagship software product.

Delivered architectural and consulting services at to a national Canadian public corporation, extending their client server and thin-client architecture. Introduced use case modeling, and provided methodological support.

Conducted an Enterprise Architecture Integration (EAI) study for the IT secretariat of a provincial government. Delivered a blueprint for the transition to an n-tiered, layered enterprise architecture and for web-enabling their legacy applications.

J2EE, JMS, RMI-IIOP, COM+, Sagavista, Adabas, Natural, EntireX, XML, UML, MQ Series, Sonic MQ, Rational Rose, UNIX, NT, ERP Adapters (SAP/PeopleSoft/Siebel), LDAP, C++

D. US Bancorp (

1998

-1999

)

1)

U.S Bancorp - Enterprise Architect

(Term Position)

Dec 98

Jun 99

Served as an enterprise architect for the Client Server architecture team, providing architectural, design, and planning expertise to project teams, and evaluating application architectures and vendor products for compliance with enterprise tenets.

Developed architecture and managed product selection for a Treasury Management application providing a range of financial services to corporate clients, selecting FileNet for workflow and document management capabilities.

Delivered an in depth assessment of the caching and persistence layers of a WebSphere application offering credit card monitoring services via the Internet, issuing recommendations to remove performance blocks and improve scalability.

Redesigned the security infrastructure of an application offering Internet access to corporate bank clients tracking credit card accounts.

Java, WebSphere, MVS, COBOL, AIX, DB2, SQL Server, FileNet, MQ Series, RMI-IIOP, EJB LDAP,PKI, XML, CORBA, Verisign, Rational Rose, Cold Fusion, JAD

E. DMR (Fijitsu Consulting) (

1986

-1998)

Project manager

on an internal proof of concept project, building core competencies in multi-tier and thin client app development technologies for subsequent marketing to DMR clients.

Java, Oracle DBMS and App Servers, CORBA, RMI, JBuilder, C++, Visual Studio

Served as a lead analyst, architect, and team leader for a project customizing and installing installation of a provisioning and invoicing system for a national telecom firm in Europe. This required the development of a new front end interface.

MVS, ObjectStar, DB2, Convergys billing software (CBIS), JAD

As a methodology specialist, wrote a version of Version 3.1 of DMR Productivity Center, using traditional Productivity Center notation.

UML 1.1, DMR Productivity Center, OOA & OOD

As a Systems Architect, he delivered a Systems Architecture for a Prescription Drug Monitoring program operated by a health insurance organization. The application featured integration with rule based adjudication software that advised pharmacists of potential infringements of provincial standards on a real time basis

UNIX Client Server, PowerBuilder, Oracle, Tuxedo, Solaris, HL7

As a Team Leader, he led a team supplying methodology support and quality assurance functions, including coaching, for a system enhancement and deployment project for a coalition of Canadian telcos.

As a Process Architect, he developed standards and procedures defining an application repository and a configuration management plan for this project.

IBM Mainframe, IMS, DB2, MicroFocus COBOL, PVCS, System Architect

As a System Analyst and Team Leader, he was contracted to a major US commercial aircraft manufacturer, developing functional architecture specifications for a Product Definition Management system (PDM), as part of an enterprise wide reengineering project. He also designed a configuration management process for a related project.

Metaphase, OOA, OOD, Oracle, CORBA, MQ Series, Visual Basic, UNIX, SourceSafe, JAD

E. DMR (Continued) (

1986

-1998)

As Application Architect on a contract management application (CRMS) project for a major US aerospace firm, he led requirements analysis, package selection, and system architecture. The application integrated COTS document management and workflow products with custom built components into an enterprise document management system.

Oracle, HP-UX, PowerBuilder, Documentum, FileNet, SGML, HTTP, HTML, FileNet, JAD, ERWIN

As a Project Manger and Architect on PowerBuilder deployment project for a provincial government agency, he designed and implemented a product calculating corporate insurance rates. He also designed a System Development Environment for implementation and maintenance of client/server applications.

DB2 on AIX and OS/2, PowerBuilder on Windows, OS/2 clients

As an Applications Architect, he provided consultation on GUI design approaches and principles for a telecommunications company, and designed and prototyped the GUI presentation layer for a trouble ticket system.

Visual Basic, IVR, UNIX, DB2 & IMS back office systems, JAD, Prototyping

As lead Application Architect, he worked on a client/server project building an Inbound Control System (incoming shipments) for a major national retailer.

Sybase on AIX UNIX, PowerBuilder, EDI, CASE, Lotus Notes

As a Developer, Systems Analyst, Project Manager, or Architect, on a number of contracts for various DMR clients involving many different combinations of technology and business requirements.

COBOL, CICS,OS/390, IMS, IDMS, Natural, Adabas, MVS, JCL, TSO, ADS/O, VSAM, C

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1988

University of New Brunswick,

Fredericton, NB

Bachelor of Arts,

Majors: Sociology and Political Science

1986

Nova Scotia Institute of Technology (NSIT),

Halifax, NS

Business Applications Design and Programming

Oracle

Oracle Application Server Administration

Oracle BPEL Process Manager: Services Orchestration

Oracle SOA Suite 10g: SOA Essentials

Siebel CRM Essential (8.0);

ITIL

Siebel Systems

Siebel Retail Finance

Siebel CRM Fundamentals (7.x)

Siebel EAI (7.7)

Siebel Workflow (7.7)

.NET Concepts

Pivotal

Pivotal Call Center Fundamentals

SAGA / Software AG

EntireX Concepts & Implementation Courses

Sagavista Configuration and Implementation

Enterprise Architecture / Zachman Framework (Intervista)

WebSphere Application Server Fundamentals (IBM)

DMR Group

Release Development and Release Estimation

Project Management Techniques

Conceptual Process and Data Modeling

System Architecture

Preliminary Analysis

DMR ArchitectureLab

DMR Productivity Center Version 3 - Intensive Course For Senior Practitioners

Other

Business Accounting (Saint Mary s University)

GUI Design

Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS) Object Oriented Analysis & C++

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Concepts

Function Point and Quality Metrics

ITIL

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