Project Management

VICTOR ZHANG

PMP, PMI-ACP, SPC, ITIL, TOGAF

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

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Wilmington, DE 19810 Email: ********@*******.***

SUMMARY

A passionate and highly successful Agile Practitioner, Delivery Lead, and Solutions Architect with extensive experience leading software development across industry sectors. Expertise in enterprise digital and Agile transformation, leveraging Lean and Agile principles and multiple frameworks. Recognized for architecture design, solution delivery, building productive cross-functional relationships, and continuous process improvement to deliver value to the customers. Strengths include broad domain and technology knowledge, innovative problem solving, building and developing high performing teams, and strategic planning and execution. Proven record of successfully managing large complex projects through effective collaboration with client business and technology leadership and globally-distributed teams.

Cloud Solutions and cloud powered continuous delivery

DevOps

Java Technology Stack

Systems Integration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Accenture, Philadelphia, PA 2011 – 2016

Technology Consulting Manager

Project: EA 2.0 Program at Dow, MI. Role: Agile PM / Enterprise Architect

•Assisted Dow Enterprise Architect 2.0 practice establishment leveraging my EA experience and TOGAF expertise. Set up project leveraging Dow project delivery methodology and integrated it with TOGAF based EA practice and deliverables.

•Collaborated with Dow lead enterprise architects, systems architects to provide architecture vision, gap analysis and roadmap across business, application, data and technology domains, economic models for various client initiatives leveraging AWS cloud offerings, Accenture big data analytics reference architectures

•Contributed architecture principles, guidelines and created various architecture deliverables and artifacts for EA 2.0 projects.

•Collaborated with Dow DSS leadership and lead enterprise architects to review and refine the EA 2.0 project charter, scope, and determine approach, resources and timeline.

•Facilitated workshops and addressed risks, issue, identified improvement opportunities. Presented in EA program leadership review sessions and facilitated executive briefing

•Pioneered Agile for Enterprise Architecture project using Scrum, contributed to Dow Agile enterprise Agile transformation initiatives leveraging enhanced SAFe framework

Project: Wellpoint Program at Express Scripts, MO. Role: Sr. Scrum Master / Delivery Lead

•Collaborated with client executives to foster the vision and product backlog creation for Wellpoint program. Worked with program office and product owners and other value stream stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment through Business and Technology (BAT) weekly meetings reviewing program pipeline for epic/user story prioritization, risk, issues management

•Worked with client leadership to set up onshore/offshore team structure, tailored the processes and established common practices leveraging SAFe framework, synchronized sprints by implementing scrum of scrums, aligned timeline through synchronizing iterations and grouping iterations into common program incremental, and aligned status tracking across scrum teams through consistent definition of ‘Done’ and consistent sizing method. Set up engineering practices leveraging XP practices and client coding standard, code review process, and tools such as Rally, Jenkins, SVN, Sonar, Crucible, Fisheye.

•Facilitated release/program incremental planning, scrum of scrums, impediment removal, metrics analysis and improvement implementation, leveraged my detailed knowledge of the application of agile practices and principles and experience with metrics to effectively measure execution, performance, benefits and value

•Coached leaders, teams at different levels of maturity across portfolios, programs and development teams with Lean and Agile mindset, partnered with BAT leadership to identify and prioritize opportunities for continuous improvement through inspect and adapt sessions to achieve the goals of Wellpoint Programs and Projects

Project: FUSE program at Fannie Mae, DC. Role: Agile Coach /Technology Lead

•Collaborated with client business and technology leadership to set up framework, processes, tools for FUSE program leveraging Scrum, Kanban and XP practices

•Facilitated various project product backlog creation, release planning and iterations planning

•Determined architecture principles, guidelines to ensure the consistency across the FUSE program. Created architecture principle catalog, applicable architecture patterns and best practices for the FUSE program to foster component reusability, consistent quality across the program, and effective dependency management.

•Created solution package covering execution, development, infrastructure and operations aspects, and communicated the solution options to all levels. Created various architecture artifacts and solution options leveraging architecture styles / patterns, design patterns, and designed a highly scalable, highly available, event driven mortgage backed securities processing system using technologies such as messaging, TIBCO, JMS, Spring Integration, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data/JPA/Hibernate, GemFire, AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, RESTful, Oracle, Sybase, Gems, JUnit, Mockito, Selenium, etc.

•Set up the environments for development, testing and enabled the development teams. Review testing plan, testing strategy, and test cases. Assisted performance testing and addressed performance issues

•Set up Rally, Crucible, Fisheye, CI tools such as Jenkins, Maven, Sonar, Nexus, SVN, established continuous delivery pipeline, along with engineering practices. Monitored and analyzed the metrics to effectively manage dependencies, technical debts.

•Collaborated with infrastructure architects and system engineers to document and version system stacks and layers, enhanced the deployment process to speed up provisioning, automate deployment and ensure consistency across environments leveraging infrastructure as code practices. Designed and led development team to create Test Harness along with acceptance test driven development approach and achieved test automation and greatly enhanced delivery quality, predictability

•Coached teams on Agile best practices comprehension and implementation, and provided recommendations to help transform the Agile teams to become more productive.

•Collaborated with client leadership and systems engineers for DR, implementation, production readiness, and migration

Business Development: NFL Website Redesign Proposal. Role: Solution Architect

•Analyzed Request for Proposal and exhibits. Clarified scope and formulated requirements through work sessions with client and identified critical business scenarios and key architecturally significant requirement, along with data volume analysis. Determined scalability, availability, performance and security requirement

•Provided on premise solutions package covering execution, development, infrastructure and operations aspect as Accenture standard architecture package and technologies for web content management component, web site component and batch analysis component using CMS, messaging, CDN, JEE technology, Oracle, Cassandra, caching and integration patterns.

•Provided cloud solution leveraging AWS cloud offering for high available, scalable and secure content management system leveraging VPC, S3, CloudFront, Route53, ELB, Auto Scaling, SQS, EC2, ElastiCache, RDS and DynamoDB.

Project: Healthcare Insurance Exchange (HIX) at CIGNA, CT. Role: Agile consultant

•Served as Agile consultant to conduct Agile readiness assessment and presented recommendations to the HIX program leadership at CIGNA

•Collaborated with client executives to set up framework, processes, tools and governance for Agile transformation at enterprise level

•Led portfolio/program release planning and roadmap creation

•Communicated the transformation vision and roadmap to all levels to ensure full understanding and buy-in for Agile principles, values and practices

•Facilitated work sessions to assist HIX program set up by creating vision statement, identifying, prioritizing and sizing epics, user stories

•Created product backlog, release planning and determined initial iterations

•Identified risks and mitigations

Project: US Market V2 Assessment at Merck, PA. Role: Solution Architect

•Facilitated work sessions with client executives to clarify the program objectives, partner’s need and confirm the scope, approach, timeline and pricing.

•Collaborated with client enterprise architects and systems architects to identify and clarify the architecture landscape, system integration points and design considerations.

•Conducted detailed assessment and provided integration recommendations for the US rollout of RAAV and Univadis. Focused on 6 US based Web Properties. Assessed existing integration points with Security, E-mail, Campaign Mgmt, Master Data & Analytics, identified all capabilities and backend systems to ensure the successful integration and migration

•Created various architecture deliverables and artifacts, reviewed with client technology and business leads with the final set of recommendations for each objective and validate with the V2 team

•Developed roadmap aligned to the V2 deployment schedule, developed cost model and implementation plan

•Circulated recommendations and roadmap with all key stakeholders and briefed executive team with the final solution options and recommendations with associated economic models.

Dextrys, Philadelphia, PA 2008 – 2011

Principal Solution Architect

Project: GT-Solar, DSS Perf. NH. Role: Solution Architect,

Conducted interviews and work sessions with client leadership to determine the project scope, delivery approach and roadmap. Drafted SOW and reviewed SLA. Collected and formulated the requirements, constructed use cases using UML.

Provided technical advice to client for technology selection for each layers and recommended technical solution to client’s needs and challenges. Developed software requirement specification and system tech design including deployment model diagram/physical topology diagram, domain model diagram, component diagram, security model diagram, system architecture logical diagram, database logical diagram and provided oversight of database physical model design such as selecting the approach for partitioning etc.

Established development environment, change management guidelines and best practices.

Created and maintained product backlog with onshore PO and offshore development team, facilitated Scrum ceremonies, monitored the project progress and identified the issues and provided resolution / mitigation.

Methodologies, technology and tools used: 4+1 architecture model, UML, Visio, AWS cloud offerings with a hybrid architecture – development, CI, and testing leveraging AWS EC2, VPC, production using on premise. OO methodologies and design patterns, Net 3.5 with C#, WCF, SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, web services, XML, WSDL.

Project: Ez Publish websites build, Micros-TIG, MD. Role: Solution Architect

Collaborated with client leadership for project set up and SOW review / signoff.

Collected project requirement and specification. Identified technical risks and provided technology recommendation.

Managed offshore team for POC development to control the risk. Triaged issues and provided resolution and mitigation via communication with client. Conducted daily scrum meeting with development team and provided status report to client.

Environment and technology: LAMP (Linux – RedHat Enterprise 6, Apache 2.2, MySql 5.5, PHP 5.3), jQuery, jQuery Touch, Ajax, CSS, CSS3, HTML/XHTML/HTML5, EZ Publish 4.3, Google Map API, Twitter API, TripAdvisor API, BlackBerry simulator, Mac OS, iPhone / iPad simulator, Android simulator, WebKit API, AWS cloud offering for development and testing environment

Project: Portfolio Analysis Web Services at Fidelity, NC. Role: Technical Architect

Collected project requirement and provided system architecture design and detailed design.

Established development environment, coding guidelines and best practices.

Provided technical direction, participated code review and resolved performance issues

Conducted daily scrum meeting to track and resolve development issues and provided resolution or mitigation.

Methodologies, technologies and tools used: Agile/Scrum, UML, Jude Community, OO methodologies and design patterns, JAX-WS, XSD, XML, WSDL, JAXB, IBatis, SQL Server 2008, JUnit, EasyMock, Rally, RAD, Websphere, XMLspy, SOAPUI, Maven2, GitHub, Hudson, Sonar.

Project: PLUS at Hanover Insurance, MA. Role: Sr. Technology Lead

Worked with upper management for project estimation, risk analysis and planning. Developed workplan, build plan and test plan.

Analyzed system and architecture design, developed tech spec and implemented the framework. Managed the development lifecycle. Coordinated other groups/departments for development environment set up, testing, tuning and releasing.

Managed offshore team of 22 members to execute the workplan, monitored the project progress and identified the issues and provided resolution / mitigation, delivered the product on time and under budget. Achieved the client’s strategic business objective and received the award.

Methodologies, technologies and tools used: RUP, UML, Visio, JEE design patterns, SQL Server 2005, Selenium, web services, XML, WSDL, Java, Spring, Hibernate, Flex, JAXB, RAD, Websphere, DataPower, XMLspy, SOAPUI, Hudson, Sonar, SVN.

Prime Technology Group, King of Prussia, PA 2005-2008

Technology Lead

Project: Starcite, Vendor Management System, PA. Role: Tech Lead / Scrum Master

Collected and documented requirements and created user stories collaborating with product owner and development team. Facilitated sizing, prioritization and estimation, iteration planning. Established development environment, change management guidelines and best practices. Coached team for Scrum best practices and drive for continuous improvement

Led system design and application architecture design. Evaluated technology for different layers. Built the proto type using different frameworks in different layers. Constructed the deployment model diagram/physical topology diagram, domain model diagram, component diagram;

Technologies and tools used: UML, Visio, Enterprise Architect, OO methodologies and design patterns, J2EE design patterns for n-tier application frameworks, JSP, Servlet, JSF, Struts, JBoss Seam, EJB3, Hibernate, Applet, Swing, JWT, SQL Server, MySql, Ant, Cruise Control, Maven, Ajax/Dojo, JavaScripts, JUnit, web services, XML, WSDL.

Project: Dashboard at AstraZeneca, DE. Role: Lead Developer/Change Manager

Designed and developed the Dashboard application to provide a business solution focusing on optimizing the project data environment. Collected requirements from scientists and management team; constructed prototypes, domain model diagrams, and user stories.

Utilized J2EE design patterns for n-tier application framework design. Built web-based GUI using JSP, Ajax, and JavaScript. Developed applet using JFreeChart for complex graphs. Constructed web services using XSD, WSDL and Weblogic web service utilities. Managed the data transaction using EJB and JDBC as database connector for Oracle 9i. Tuned up performance. Developed functions and stored procedures using Oracle PL/SQL for specific scientific application purpose. Utilized Log4J for debugging and error tracing. Configured the LDAP and developed the authentication and authorization using Weblogic security feature.

Worked with project sponsor for the backlog creation and maintenance, release planning and iteration planning and coordinated the team for the release. Constructed maven build files and configured cruise control for the continuous integration build process.

BreakThroughIT, Miami, FL 2004 – 2005

Consultant

Project: Chemistry E-Notebook at Pfizer, CT. Role: Senior J2EE/Java Developer

Designed and developed the electronic chemistry notebook application for medicinal chemists to record experiment data, search chemicals by text and structure, calculate stoichiometry, maintain analytical data, register compound and submit sample to biologists for screening.

Collected requirements from chemists and biologists, constructed prototypes, use cases, sequence diagrams using UML and Visio. Utilized J2EE design patterns for n-tier application.

Built swing-based GUI with third party API, Constructed structure search, registration web services using Weblogic web service utilities. Integrated third party chemistry API for processing and searching structure data. Developed EJB component, DAO layer using JDBC.

Configured and deployed components for clustered Weblogic 8.1 on SUN Solaris. Java Web Start for user to install and update application. Developed ant build files to automate the project build and deploy process. Developed the project using Eclipse and plug-ins.

Skywiresoftware,, Frisco, TX 2003 – 2004

Software Engineer

Project: Connect - Control Panel. Role: Java/J2EE developer

Designed and built web services based n-tier application to provide the hotel management web application using JSP, Servlet, HTML, Javascript, Schema, XML/XSLT, web service and SOAP. Constructed EJB based web services for Sabre connectivity. Managed the data transaction using EJB and JDBC as database connector for Oracle 9i. Configured and deployed components for Weblogic 8.0 on Linux 8.0 and Windows 2000, developed ant build files to automate the project build and deploy process. Utilized Log4J for debugging and error tracing.

Coordinated project with an offshore development team, communicated with the client to collect requirements, constructed use cases, sequence diagrams using UML and Visio.

InventX Inc., Dallas, TX 2000 – 2003

Software Engineer

Project: Enterprise Project Management Ensemble. Role: Java Developer

Designed and implemented GUI using Java Swing/JFC and AWT. Utilized the MVC pattern and OO analysis and design strategies. Used JDBC and Oracle8i. Assisted testing and deployment

EDUCATION/DEVELOPMENT

M.S. Computer Science. 8/2001. University of Texas at Dallas. Richardson, Texas

Ph.D. Candidate in chemistry. 8/1998-9/1999. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, NJ

B.S. Chemistry. 7/1997. Beijing University. Beijing, China

Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Pivotal Labs, New York, New York

DevOps with Chef and Docker, Accenture, St. Charles, Illinois

Delivery Management, Accenture, St. Charles, Illinois

High performance coaching, Accenture, Philadelphia, PA

CERTIFICATIONS

PMP

PMI-ACP (PMI Certified Agile Practitioner)

SPC (SAFe Program Consultant)

ITIL Foundational

TOGAF 9 Certified

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

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