Senior Solution Architect

FRANK R. MORALES AGUILERA, BSC, MSC

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SENIOR SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Accomplished, focused and detail-oriented professional with more than 25 years of hands-on experience in software and systems

architecture, system integration and project management; complemented with proven achievements in providing high-performance business

solutions architecting in both biomedical technology and aerospace industries. Possess impeccable work ethic and exemplary dedication

to drive performance beyond established goals and expectations. Exhibit a naturally personable and team player attitude, capable of

leading and performing with high-calibre teams of professionals. Exemplify analytical problem-solving proficiency to formulate

innovative and strategic solutions, as well as to resolve complex situations. Demonstrate articulate verbal and written communication

skills, along with effectiveness in interfacing with professionals of all business levels. Possess fluency in English, Spanish,

Russian and Ukrainian, with working knowledge of French.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

- Network and Data Center Administration - Research and Development Software Engineering

- Client and Supplier Relations Management - Business Needs and Systems Analysis

- Agile and Scrum Methodologies - Systems Integration, Conversion and Migration

- Private and Public Cloud Computing - Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Systems

- Database and Systems Architecture - Computer Operations Optimization

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jeppesen Canada, Ltd. - Montréal, QC, Canada

Senior Solution Architect 2007–Present

- Engage in product development operations, from conceptualization to completion of technical development requirements

- Render expert oversight to product configuration based on virtualization as well as research and development (R&D) projects

based on AMAZON EC2

- Direct a number of projects utilizing various technologies, including Amazon Cloud Computing, Software and System

Integrations, RESTful Web Services, Java Messaging Services (JMS), IBM WebSphere MQ, Schedule Optimization and Operation Optimization

- Manage authority, responsibility and accountability for new technology try-outs, proposed architecture choice proof-of-

concept prototypes and potential new product prototypes

- Develop prototypes and keenly examine new analytical algorithms and methodologies

- Received various awards, including the Boeing Merit Award Trophy (2013), Jeppesen Special Inventor Award Desk Trophy (2013),

Award for Five Years of Services in Jeppesen (2012), Achievement Awards for Finding Integrated Solutions (2011) and Jeppesen Award of

Excellence for Product Integration (2010)

XamrySoft Medical Solutions Inc. - Montréal, QC, Canada

Chief Software Architect 2005–2007

- Comprehensively evaluated software requirements and user needs to identify the viability of developed design

- Collaborated with various teams, including system analysts and engineers, to develop system designs and obtain information on

project capabilities, limitations, requirements and interfaces

- Applied scientific analysis and mathematical models to design, formulate and revise software systems to further enhance

performance

- Provided guidance and direction to a team of programmers, technologies and technicians to efficiently manage software

architect operations

McGill University, Biomedical Engineering Department - Montréal, QC, Canada

R&D Software Scientist/Project Leader Prototype Modeling Instructor 2003–2006

- Assessed the performance of Mascot Distiller in mitigating raw mass spectrometry information to high-quality peak lists for

database searching

- Collaborated with the Genome Quebec to pioneer design and development operations of the McGill Bioinformatics Pipeline for

TOMAS, a mass spectrometry data processing tool, which was featured in the Nature journal in 2007

Caprion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Montréal, QC, Canada

Bioinformatics Research Scientific Project Leader 2001–2003

- Functioned as proactive technical lead in building and designing the computer automated methods and tools which enabled the

identification of the peptidic signal from characteristic mass spectrometry features and mining protein expression from the abundance

of individual peptide readouts

McGill University - Montréal, QC, Canada

Research Associate, Teacher Assistant - School of Computer Science 2000–2001

- Proficiently built various guides and tools for data analysis and simulations for computational geometry utilizing MATLAB and

C/C++

Visiting Software Scientist - McConnell Brain Imaging Center (BIC) 1998–1999 2000

- Assumed full accountability in transferring brain imaging software developed at the BIC from a Silicon Graphic Unix platform

to Windows; as well as designing and implementing Computer Graphics Applications (2D/3D/4D)

Cuban Neuroscience Center - Havana, Cuba

Head of Neuroinformatics Laboratory 1999–2000

- Spearheaded efforts in introducing the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) of the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill

University Solutions to the Cuban Healthcare System

Database Architect 1996–2000

- Initiated the creation of the database supporting a large amount of data provided by MRI, FMRi, EGG, and other neuroimaging

technology

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) - Juriquilla, Mexico

Visiting R&D Software Engineer

- Expertly taught and trained on ways to use the brain imaging processing solution and application from McConnell Brain Imaging

Centre (BIC) of the Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University

EARLIER CAREER

Havana Medical Institute - Havana, Cuba

Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic 1995 - 2000

- Served as the professor lead for the concepts, principles, and application of artificial intelligence methods for diagnostics

and therapeutics in medical science, particularly in clinical evolutions follow-up for chronic diseases based on Fuzzy Logic Methods

International Center for Neurological Restoration (CIREN) - Havana, Cuba

Head of Information Group Software Architect 1994 - 1995

- Developed the CLECOS_P system to register and automate the processing of clinical evaluations conducted on patients with

Parkinson’s disease undergoing functional neurosurgery and neural transplant

- Received an award at the 1994 National Forum of Science of Technology, and was invited as a speaker for the 8th World

Conference on Medical Informatics (MEDINFO)

Senior Software Engineer 1992 - 1994

- Played a notable role in the system administration of the datacentre and the development of database applications for the

hospital information system

Military Technical Institute “José Martí” - Havana, Cuba

Junior Software Engineer Database Designer, Faculty of Aeronautics 1989 - 1991

- Formulated the Novel Computer Algorithm to support the installation and implementation of the aviation instrument landing

system, thus earning an award in the 1990 National Forum of Science of Technology

EDUCATION

Master in Computer Engineering in Artificial Intelligence and Expert System

KIEV INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL AVIATION ENGINEERING (KIIGA) - KIEV, UKRAINE

Outstanding Technical Real Diploma Two Times Best Student Paper

Bachelor of Engineering Science in Avionics

KIEV INSTITUTE FOR CIVIL AVIATION ENGINEERING (KIIGA) - KIEV, UKRAINE

ACADEMY OF CIVIL AVIATION - SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA

First place for Mathematics Olympics

TRAINING

Biomedical Engineering - 1998–2001 MCGILL UNIVERSITY - MONTRÉAL, QC, CANADA

AWARDS AND HONORS

2013 Boeing Merit Award Trophy

2011 Achievement Awards for Finding Integrated Solutions

1998 Cuban Science Academy (CSA) Annual Award

1998 Special award for Outstanding Scientific Contribution at CSA

1995 Medal for original contribution to the Science of Health and Medical Informatics Vancouver

1994 Distinguished Service of Cuban National Health System

1994 National Forum of Science of Technology

1994 Organizing Committee of the International Congress on Medical Informatics

1990 National Forum of Science of Technology

TECHNICAL ACUMEN

OPERATING SYSTEMS AIX (IBM UNIX) IRIX (Silicon Graphics UNIX) Novell Netware Solaris (SUN UNIX)

Microsoft Windows NT 3.51, 4.0, NT, 2000 Linux (Mandrake & RedHat)

PROGRAMMING Python JAVA C++ Visual C# .NET MATLAB Parallel Virtual Machine MPI

Java Messaging Services (JMS) Apache Web Server and IIS: Configuration and Maintenance

SOFTWARE Oracle MySQL Firebird IBM WebSphere MQ Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Microsoft Access MATLAB Ajax (GWT & Eclipse)

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION CENTOS and RHEL System Administration

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2001

Member, Airline Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (AGIFORS) 2009

PATENTS

Kearney, P.E., Butler, H., Jaitly, N., Swamy, S., Hamaidi, L., Filgueira, M., Morales Aguilera, F., …Boulos, M. (2007). U.S. Patent

No. 200********. Location: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Morales Aguilera, F., Faubert, D., Boulos, M., Tsang, J.S.C., Hu, M., Ostermann, J.B., …Thibault, P. (2006). U.S. Patent No.

200********. Location: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Valdes Sosa, P.A., Bosch Bayard, J.F., Aubert Vazquez E.F., Virues Alba, T., Morales Aguilera, F., Trujillo Barretto, N.J., … Fuentes

Montero, M.E. (2006). U.S. Patent No. 7,092,748. Location: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

ABSTRACTS

Beaudrie, C., Yanofsky, C.M., Carrillo, B., Liu, J., Morales, F., Boismenu, D., Kearney, R.E. (2005). Estimating tandem mass spectra

quality via spectral feature-based scoring for optimizing protein identification [Abstract]. Proceedings of the 53rd ASMS Conference

on Mass Spectrometry San Antonio.

Faubert, D., Morales, F., Boulos, M., Masciotra, S., Brunet, S., Ostermann, J., …Thibault, P. (2002). Monitoring protein expression

profiles between differentiated cells using the normalized abundance of native tryptic peptides [Abstract]. Proceedings of the 50th

ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics.

Morales, F.; Kearney, R.E., Bencsath-Makkai, Z., Bergeron, J. (2003). TOMAS: Toolbox for mass spectrometry data analysis [Abstract].

Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 2(9), 832.

Yanofsky, C.M., Kearney, R.E., Morales, F., Lam, T.K., Blakney, G.T., Marshall, A.G., …Bell, A.W. (2004). Determination of the

systematic and random measurement error in an LC-FTICR mass spectrometry analysis of a partially characterized complex peptide

mixture [Abstract]. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Liu, J., Carrillo, B., Yanofsky, C.M., Beaudrie, C., Morales, F., Kearney, R.E. (2005). Boosting speed of MS/MS peptide sequencing

via database search by spectral profile comparison. Online Journal of Bioinformatics 6(2), 174–183.

Morales, F., MacDonald, D., de Sosa, P.V., Evans, A. (2000). Transferring the Montreal Neurological Institute image processing tools

to a Windows platform. NeuroImage 11(5), S922.

Morales, F., Molina, H., Cruz, N., Valladares, P., Muñoz, J., Ortega, I., …Leon, M. (1995). CLECOS_P: Clinical evolution control

system on Parkinsonian patients undergoing neural transplantation. Medinfo 8(1), 626-630.

Stuart, L.M., Boulais, J., Charriere, G.M., Hennessy, E.J., Brunet, S., Jutras, I., …Ezekowitz, R.A.B. (2007). A systems biology

analysis of the drosophila phagosome. Nature 445(7123), 95–101.

Valdes, P., Bosch, J., Jimenez, J., Trujillo, N., Biscay, R., Morales, F., Ozaki, T. (1999). The statistical identification of

nonlinear brain dynamics. In Pradhan, N., Rapp, P.E., & Sreenivasan, R., Nonlinear dynamics and brain functioning (243–264).

Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Vázquez-Barquero, J.L., Vázquez Bourgón, E., Herrera Castanedo, S., Saiz, J., Uriarte, M., Morales, F., …Ustün, T.B. (2000). Spanish

version of the new World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II (WHO-DAS-II): Initial phase of development and pilot

study. Actas Espanolas De Psiquiatria 28(2), 77-87.

Wiesemann, T., Sindlinger, A., Zimmer, N., Schiefele, J., Clark, J., Morales, F. (2011). An integrated operations solution for gate-

to-gate airline operations. Integrated Communications, Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS), 2011, M8-1–M8-12.

Worsley, K.J., Liao, C., Aston, J., Petre, V., Duncan, G.H., Morales, F., Evans, A.C. (2002). A general statistical analysis for fMRI

data. NeuroImage 15(1), 1–15.

Yanofsky, C.M., Bell, A.W., Lesimple, S., Morales, F., Lam, T.T., Blakney, G.T., …Kearney R.E. (2005). Multicomponent internal

recalibration of an LC-FTICR-MS analysis employing a partially characterized complex peptide mixture: Systematic and random errors.

Analytical Chemistry 77(22), 7246–7254.

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