ASHRAF GALAL

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Mississauga, On, L5M 5N9

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ENTERPRISE OBJECTIVE

To improve the cost effectiveness and profitability of medium to large scale enterprises by effectively providing leadership for the alignment of business processes, user needs, and technology through industry best practices, innovative extensions, and enterprise specific methods.

INTRODUCTION

•Twenty one years of engineering experience in leadership and individual contribution in roles such as technical, process and enterprise architect, business and systems analyst, data and information architect, requirements manager, and engineering team manager. •Proficient in business process architecture methods, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN 2.0) & tools and translating results into system requirements, communicating non-technical business details to the executive staff while supplying the technical requirements and details to the development staff. • Extensive experience in TIGAF, and Zachman methodologies for enterprise architecture. •Experienced in the application of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to support Object Oriented Development as well as SOMA for SOA. • Proficient in modeling and analysis methods including Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and all UML work products - Use Cases, Collaboration Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, State Transition Diagrams, Class Diagrams - and other techniques. • Extensive experience in JAR/JAD Facilitation, Documentation, Scope Management, Change Control, Impact and Traceability analysis. Background includes all phases of software development lifecycle. •Domains of experience include accounting, health care and insurance, airport systems and travel industry, process and supply chain, and aerospace communications. •Strong team skills and a proven ability to develop sound working relationships with team members, clients and customers. •

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

IBM / Global Knowledge – IBM Data Power Instructor Planning and teaching on-class and online courses related to IBM SOA Data Power Appliance. The courses address the development and integration as well as administrating the appliances.

Sr. Solutions Architect/Infrastructure December2011 – Present

Shoppers Drug Mart

Planning the transition to SOA, including developing the SOA Reference Architecture (RA) based on TOGAF RA for different business domains and in multiple levels of abstracts.

Architected & designed the solution for core common services such as Billing, Security, logging and monitoring, integration gateway with external e-health authorities around Canada.

Architected and designed an e-commerce application which is categorizing three line of businesses: grocery, pharmacy, and cosmetics The project utilizes Websphere e-commerce Server v7.0 and Oracle 11g as backend. Including Trading, Catalog Management, Order Management, Member Management Sub-systems.

Architected, & designed an ESB gateway that integrated the store front HWNG with the e-health authorities around Canada e-health, using DataPower X150 and WMB (WebSphere Business Modeler) v7& IBM MQ that transforms the message between different format and protocols using IBM MQ Advanced Message Security (AMS).

Designed infrastructure solution that uses DataPower to federate ESBs within the organization.

Modeled the reference architectures in UML SOA profiles.

Architected and designed a solution for migrating the enterprise’s email, enterprise Mobile Devices, MS Share Points and collaborations to the cloud and designed a Mobile Data Management (MDM) solution to be used with any mobile devices including: iPhone & iPad, Android and BlackBerry.

Evaluated RFP’s based on functional and technical requirements to select vendors.

Designed Master data Management system (MDM) as bookending process; to provide clean master data entities to a Big Data system for further analysis, and the insight (result) gleaned from the Big Data system been fed back to MDM for action using the IBM InfoSphere’s probabilistic matching engine (PME) that is integrated with InfoSphere Master Data Management’s BigInsights and InfoSphere Streams.

The Constellation Search Pattern is used, that utilizes master data management (MDM) concepts where a constellation of metadata is used to confirm the repetitive occurrence of a set of variables. This constellation is refined and added back to the MDM system.

Provided business cases with high level estimates and evaluation metrics.

Architected and integrated a supply chain management System for the procurement department, including Vendors Network (VPN), data warehouse (informatics) and security design, and integrated it into the overall enterprise network and systems.

Architected & deigned data center services in support of system-to-system interconnection.

Developed the roadmap for transforming the data center from a traditional, visualized, and centralized IT infrastructure into service oriented and economically efficient internal cloud.

Have started the ITIL journey by focus specifically on configuration management that helped the business to implement the core discipline and to build critical set of information that will be the foundation for better decision making.

Technologies: IBM WMB v7, IBM Data power x150, J2EE, XML, Tivoli ITCAM, HL7 (v2 & v3), IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (formerly WebSphere Customer Center), Manhattan, ITIL V3.

Sr. Solutions Architect January 2011 – November 2011

Schwab

Architected, Designed end-to-end hybrid ESB solution consisting of both hardware and software implementations augmented with SOA service registry and management capabilities using DataPower X150, WebSphere Process Server (include WSEB), WebSphere Business Integration Adaptor (integration with backend system), IBM Tivoli Composite Management for SOA (ITCAM) (service monitoring and management), & WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (service registry)

Architected and designed IBM e-commerce solutions in response to business requests to enhance and optimize company’s e-commerce web sites.

Architected, Designed solution that protected from XML threats, such as xDOS, system comprise attacks...etc., by configuring hardened web services aware gateway, using X150.

Architected, designed and configured an XSL Accelerator service (XSL proxy) and built a proxy for an HTTP server and defining a policy to transform based on XSLT processing instruction. The client issues a request and the response is transformed and returned to the client as HTML.

Designed and developed a layer of reusable services to enable integration and workflow automation by standardizing the entities used across the enterprise, identifying the business events in each system, and building the services that were required in each system. This layer also included the ability to secure the services, and leveraged SOA governance to maintain and organize the SOA artifacts.

Developed SOA Governance that provided visibility into all SOA artifacts and impact analysis of any changes.

Designed the information model that incorporated the semantic web technology to address the business needs.

Defined the SOA Governance process in an iteration and incremental manner.

Developed the business maturity model to align the IT with the business.

Implemented SOA architecture in an economical manner that reused the technology in place.

Provided a road map for moving from current state to SOA (REST & SOAP WS*) and recommendations for using information as service that created a single view of different systems such as customer.

Lead the data center transformation into service oriented and economically efficient internal and external cloud.

Auditing the development artifacts during the SDLC.

Designed and implemented ITIL configuration management that helped the business to implement the core discipline and to build critical set of information that will be the foundation for better decision making.

Designed mining system that collected information about security’s market around the world and output the best security to buy or sell on top of Hadoop MapReduce & HDFS.

Designed a solution that extended IBM Cognos BI, a component of IBM Cognos Enterprise, for use with Big Data through its integration with the IBM Big Data platform. Allowing Cognos to access data that is stored in Hive. The solution integrated and certified with InfoSphere BigInsights (Using PME), InfoSphere Streams (Streams), DB2, the IBM PureData System for Analytics (formerly known as Netezza), and the IBM PureData System for Operational Analytics (formerly known as the IBM Smart Analytics System).

By using the MDM probabilistic matching engine (PME), that enabling matching on Big Data sets. Raw data is refined and structured, and then matched against other records.

Managed costing and budgeting with business side in order to provide ROI to senior project stakeholders.

Have started the ITIL journey by focus specifically on configuration management that helped the business to implement the core discipline and to build critical set of information that will be the foundation for better decision making.

Architected, built a prototype predictive model with Hadoop and Java using open source tools by employing Hadoop to perform various types of data pre-processing and feature engineering tasks, followed by applying Scikit-learn machine learning algorithm on the resulting datasets. In addition, we showed how we could continuously add new and improved features to obtain a better predictive performance model by doing iterations and by introducing various variables with predictable results.

Arcgitecture/Technologies: Apache Hadoop Yarn as the architectural center of Modern Data Architecture (MDA) allows purpose-built data engines such as Apache Tez and Apache Spark to process and iterate over multiple datasets for data science techniques within the same cluster.

Architected and built different Hadoop clusters for marketing and sales using the three analytics methods: descriptive, predictive, & prescriptive analytics for the airline’s marketing and sales.

Architected and built a pilot project to Find the ROI of implementing IoT, using Beacons, to rapidly

Improve Ppssenger experience, both on the ground and in flight and make airline operations more

responsive and real time.

Technologies: SOAM, SoaML modeling language, WebSphere sMash, Dojo, J2EE, XML, WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0, WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for Service Component Architecture (SCA), WebSphere Data Power x150, WebSphere portal, DB2, IBM Master Data Management (IBM InfoSphere Advanced Edition), Web standards (JSR 53 and JSR 127), portlet applications (JSR 286, and JSR 168), mashups (OpenAjax and iWidget), and rich desktops/devices (Eclipse and iView), W3C open / Web standards and open frameworks for client containers (Web browsers and Lotus Expeditor) and Eclipse and SWT for desktop and mobile applications, Citrix XenApp Presentation Server (the MetaFrame Presentation Server), FileNet Content Management System, Hadoop, ITIL V3.

Solution Architect July 2010 – December 2010

MTS Allstream

Architected workflow system for quote and order that used WebSphere Business process server, to integrate with different component in the backend including mainframe CICS, using the ESB as the entry point following SOA principles.

Architected different solutions that supported the Switched Ethernet, Ethernet over Copper, &VLAN tagging.

Architected a service management solution that manages the customers’ SLAs, integrated with different OSS and BSS system to provide proactive and historical reports using digital Fuel and Granite for the service/network inventory.

Developed the experimental development plans (EDP) for different projects that gain Revenue Canada credit to the company.

Technologies: TOGAF, WPS 6.2, Application developer, Oracle 1og, IBM mainframe, WebSphere application server, MS SharePoint

Solutions/Infrastructure Architect January 2009 – July 2010

France Telecom

Provided an integration plan for a cross global integration project between international and French entities.

Created the roadmap and the architecture for the movement toward 3NG that allowed the customer accounts to be moved to the network edge, which allows better services and revenue.

Architected, designed SOA solution that used DataPower appliance to retrieve data from a database to enable lookup-based routing and augmented service requests as they pass through the appliance to enrich the message with data dynamically.

Designed solution using DataPower Appliance X150 to provide content from a SOAP/HTTP based web service in the Atom Syndication Format (Web 2 based technology).

Designed solution that uses WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) to provide the interface to the existing application (CICS) as a Webservice. (HTTP protocol) The DataPower components used were XML firewall and web Service Gateway and multi protocol gateway. It is used the message request and reply processing pattern where the information, like the HTTP/HTTPS identifier of the original request persisted on the inbound.

Identified enterprise business objects, enterprise business services, and enterprise business flows using Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) methodology and Oracle SOA.

Designed and developed dashboards using Oracle ADF to view integration errors, approval work list, and to display documents that require approval.

Increased user visibility into the automated purchase order and invoice approval process by using Oracle Human Workflow and its integration to the existing document management system.

Developed event management solutions that maintaining high availability and disaster recovery capability. This technical architectures employed Operating systems failover clustering and database mirroring to eliminate single points of failure in the data centers and enable fast recovery from a possible disaster at the primary data center.

Added semantic web to web services by relating concepts in WSDL to DAML_OIL ontology in web service description and providing an interface to UDDI that allows querying based on ontological concepts.

Designed system architecture that was driven by available hardware and system software, system management requirements, and compatibility using modeling tools.

Designed the User Interface and prototyped it.

Coordinated the service specifications across different projects and business units and ensured that a good compromise between ease of implementation, usability and reusability were been achieved.

Balanced different requirements while attempting to create an enduring order within the enterprise software landscape.

Communicated the architecture and maintenance process to its users and supporting users of the architecture. This involved training, publications, Web sites, groupware tools, hotline support, internal consulting, and competency centers, so-called “centers of excellence.”

Developed and maintained a roadmap that documents the current physical architecture and the desired target architecture, defining how one is to evolve into the other.

Developed with the business a conflict resolution and exception handling process

Detected & resolved Conflicts early in the project.

Monitored the effectiveness of the architecture and encouraging / enforcing compliance.

Managed the business processes of developing, deploying, and maintaining the architecture.

Defined end-to-end and/or domain specific BSS-OSS solutions for Telecom provider.

Combined the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), the Service Component Architecture (SCA) and WS-BPEL and used them jointly to model, deploy and execute business process choreographies.

Managed and led the design, construction and delivery of complex application frameworks supporting the deployment of large scale applications.

Provided technical leadership, coaching teams and assisting with technical issues.

Participated in the selection of the VoluBill’s ChargeIt integration tool, to allow true “on the network” charging and billing.

Acted as a trusted advisor providing recommendations and solutions.

Produced practical technical solutions for customer requirements.

Assisted carriers with IP services (VoIP, IPTV) technology deployment, including BSS/OSS solution definitions and vendor selections.

Planned OSS architecture and solution design in the service configuration and activation domain for DSL and Wi-Fi services.

Designed web services and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs), that ensured the authenticity, integrity, and non-reputability of XML messages by using Apache WSS4J, IBM WebSphere, DataPower, and SOA Appliances (X150) to enable the signing and verification of XML documents.

Designed an effective customer relationship management that was supported by a strategic (data warehouse with associated marts) and a tactical (operational data store and operation mart) decision-making capabilities.

Conducted a class-like class to teach the SOA and its Implementation and to transfer the knowledge to the others.

Audited the development artifacts.

Integrated BSS/OSS COTS (Commercial Off the Shelf software) applications for service fulfillment, service assurance, billing and back office domains.

Technologies: Oracle SDP architecture, Oracle Telecom Platform, VoluBill’s ChargeIt, Oracle SOA suite, WSS4J, Rational Unified Process (RUP), J2EE, XML, IBM Data power X150, Web Services Security (WS-Security), Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0), WebSphere Transformation Extender Design Studio

Systems Architect / Planner April 2008 – November 2008

NortWestel

Provided high-value leadership and individual contribution in the role of Enterprise Architect, specializing in Business Architecture, supporting multiple in-house development projects while promoting the use and advancement of MDA and Enterprise Patterns. Some highlights of contributions include:

Provided leadership and mentoring to staff and contractors on tools and techniques for model driven architecture.

Identified the relevant business entities that are represented by data-centric services.

Solved the business problems using SOA and BPM starting with the business process modeling and ending with the application that implements such processes.

Advanced and implemented the Use Case Point Estimation method for estimating development effort.

Mentored staff and contractors on the value and implementation of goal-based use cases in functional analysis and project planning.

Developed highly useable templates for Use Cases and Use Case tracking

Coached teammates on workflow analysis and identification of systemic boundaries.

Interviewed subject matter experts to understand and faithfully represent, through models and descriptive text, their visions of system functionality with respect to the business problems being addressed.

Coached teammates on selection of modeling techniques for best representing that information which they were trying to convey to their intended audience.

Cofounder of the Business Architecture and Analysis Center of Excellence.

Technologies: ITIL V3.0, eTom/NOGSS, SOA, Web Services, WS-*, REST, Java CAPS, J2EE, Oracle 10g suite, Sun portal, NetBeans IDE 6.5, Glassfish ESB, AJAX, Web 2.0, XML, SOAP, UDDI, Vitria 3.4, Citrix XenApp.

Enterprise Architect December 2006- April 2008

Orion

Oversaw individual software projects from the strategic point of view of the overall organization, as well as from the tactical, goal-oriented viewpoint of the individual project. Highlights of contributions include:

Developed structured and traceable, to business use cases, architecture that realized the requirements by walking through use cases scenarios.

Coordinated the service specifications across different projects and business units and ensured that a good compromise between ease of implementation, usability and reusability were been achieved.

Arranged and conducted multiple functional reviews to insure unity in team understanding.

Developed a comprehensive Process Specification that provides high value as a guid.netpost for current and future process execution as well as a foundation for planning process improvement.

Crafted the Business Process Architecture model for the global brokerage system and incorporated into the Process Spec. Crafted a series of workflow models for to illustrate the lower levels of detail as an aid to current and future process execution and improvement teams. Incorporated these workflows into the Process Spec.

Implemented configuration management system as a team standard for collaboration, document version control, and code management.

Interviewed subject matter experts to understand and faithfully represent, through models and descriptive text, their visions of system functionality with respect to the business problems being addressed.

Integrated the existing e-brokerage application with different back-ends including Oracle finance, built-in accounting system using SOA, web services, ESB, RUP, XML gateway appliances.

Conducted a class-like sessions to teach OOAD, RUP, SOA and BPM.

Senior Consultant May 2006- October 2006

IBM

Individual contribution as Integration Architect for a short-fused business process automation project. Crafted and delivered the Integration Strategy Specification that defined the physical and logical integration strategy for information exchange with the clients remote legacy information systems.

Architected designed and configured SOA solution as a way to modernize the IT, while leveraging substantial investment in mainframe (z/OS) applications written in COBOL, Assembler, and PL/I using DB2 and IMS databases, and user communication through CICS. The solution uses IBM WebSphere IBM MQ to provide intra application and Inter application messaging backbone. The architecture composed of composed of X150 appliances as security firewall in the DMZ, and hardware ESB in the trusted zone. WebSphere Process Server/ESB is used to choreograph complex service interactions. IBM WMB used to handling complex message transformation needed to interact with traditional systems. Many regulations, security and auditability were handled by existing ESB along with other SOA technology.

Re-factored current solutions, to reduce complexity and increase agility in constantly changes to and expansion of functionality using Cerner package, J2EE, SOA, RUP, ESB, Rational architect, SOA data power appliances, HL7.

Enterprise Architect April 2005 – April 2006

Computer Vision

Provided team leadership and individual contribution through the roles of business analyst, system engineer and project leader to support various healthcare, insurance domain, travel industry and financial services projects.

Developed Information Architectures, and Software Requirements Specifications using IBM Insurance Application Architecture (IAA).

Operated in a Rational Unified Process (RUP) development environment.

Developed the federated architecture for the Jordanian e-government, the deliverables included: the federated architecture based on SOA, Information interoperability framework & technical reference manual all based on the ISO reference Model for Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP).

Designed a flexible e-government portal using WSRP.

Developed Activity and Use Case Models, and use case descriptions.

Extended Use Cases into descriptive sequence diagrams with linkage to constituent classes and objects.

Produced State Transition Diagrams to elaborate workflows.

Evolved Use Cases into Test Cases with traceability linkage.

Used UML Class Diagrams for business object and logical data models.

Mentored customers and staff on business object modeling, information architecture, requirement specification techniques and test case development.

Validated system functional and non-functional requirements for meeting customer business objectives.

Generated Reporting Requirements documentation.

Defined and implemented change control process.

Developed team collaboration tools using MS SharePoint technology.

Linked technical solutions to customers enterprise processes.

Facilitated JAR and JAD sessions.

Mapped complete enterprise end-to-end information flows.

Aggregated business process models and technical architectures using IDEF0.

Technologies: Rational Rose, RUP, Visio, Clearcase, ClearQuest.

Architect / Team lead August 2004 – December 2004

Titan

Architected and designed the Saudi Arabia national ID card is a wallet-sized card that embeds a microprocessor containing the cardholder’s digital information such as demographics, facial image and fingerprints. It also features a bar code and an optical stripe to ensure enhanced security to citizens. The national ID card can be used as a travel document that facilitates legitimate travel within all GCC countries. In addition, the e-ID card offers strong authentication to enable citizens to prove their identity. Digital signature is also available through a Public Key Infrastructure application.

Architect April 2004 – May 2004

TD Security

Investigated different open source technology and selected the best-fit technology to the project requirements.

Designed the content management that included text mining and clustering to related unstructured information, and foundation for the future portal application.

Exposed EJBs as a CORBA server that was used by CORBA clients written in C++ or any procedural language that supporting CORBA clients.

Migrated Lotus Notes Applications to OpenCms, including both Functionality and data. Developed the architecture documents and the design documents.

Architect October 2002 – September 2003

Ministry of Health

ePhysician Project: Defined and designed the interface architecture that provided EAI strategy for ePP. The architecture reflected an effective balance between stakeholders, risks, costs, budgets and funds, and deployment and provisioning.

IBM Security Information Systems (SIS) September 2000- August 2002 Architect

Architected and designed e-brokerage system, which provides integration of data from various back-end systems, both internal such as banking systems and external, such as BETA systems for brokerage book-of-record information and ILX for delayed and real-time quotes.

Architected, designed, and developed Healthcare Information systems prototyped in big private hospital in Saudi Arabia, 500 beds.

Documented the existing information flows, determined current information processing costs, and determined problems, inefficiencies, gaps, and duplications in the existing procedures for processing information and the integration layer used HL7.

AMAC IBM Business Partner) September 1990- March

2000 Senior Architect

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), Member.

Project Management Institute (PMI), Member

IEEE, Member

ACM, Member

EDUCATION

Master of Computer Science. IT, University of Liverpool, UK

1BA of Comm. Accounting, Cairo University

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ADDITIONAL TRAINING:

Big Data – Hadoop Cluster (infrastructure), Accumulo and HBase (data repository), Sqoop and Flume (data transport tools), Yarn and MapReduce (Data Refinery layer), Hive, Pig, Spark, and Oazie (Data Factory), machine learning technology (Mahout), Data Visualization tools ( Datameter / Pentahoe)ture)

Big Data Strategic Planning

SOA

TOGAF

eTom

Rational Software Modeler

Model Driven Architecture, MDA

Project Management Methodology

Requirements Management

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, HIPAA

Doing Business in Foreign Countries

Systems Engineering Methods

Business Acquisition Process

Communicating Effectively in the Workplace

Object Oriented Analysis & Design

Unified Modeling Language, UML 2

Business Process Reengineering

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Leadership Skills

Programming in Pascal

Real Time Object Oriented Structured Analysis

UNIX

Hazards Control Engineering

Operations Research

Industrial Mental Health

Assertive Communication

Presentation Skills

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