Enterprise Architect E-Commerce

Aidyn CHEKIKHANOV, Ph.D.

Boca Raton, Florida

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SENIOR ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

(with extensive experience in Banking, Ecommerce, Enterprise Digital Transformations, Legacy to SOA and to Cloud Migrations)

SUMMARY SKILLS:

Strong organizational and analytical skills with attention to details.

Strong verbal and written communication skills

Profound on-hand knowledge of IT Technologies - SOA, Micro Services, SSO, APIs, Domain-Driven and Event-Driven Design with Separation-of-Concerns, ESB, E-commerce, CRM, Databases and Data-Marts, Enterprise Systems - with focus on high capacity data-centric systems with high volume of traffic.

Extensive experience in large-scale as well as small and mid-size CIS / IT development projects for various industries, including government industries.

Highly experienced problem identifier and problem solver; leader and mentor

Goal- and dead-line oriented professional with "know-how" and "can-do" attitude

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

E-Payments, E-Commerce / Enterprise Architect – 20+ years of experience

PCI-Compliant Systems – 15 years

Data-Drive Systems Expert - 25+ years

Cloud – since 2013

APIs & Micro-Services – since 2008

Containers – since 2015 (Docker, Kubernetes)

SOA – eight successfully completed SOA projects since 2004

PayPal, Stripe, Fiserv Integration

Mainframe Migrations – 5 years

REST & Microservices (since 2010); event driven and domain driven enterprise systems – 7+ Years

MuleSoft – 10 years

Strong knowledge & skills in all tiers of distributed web-based systems – web tier

(20 years), data tier (25+ years), and business tier (17+ years).

PERSONAL SKILLS:

Always reliable, consistent, flexible and adaptable

Ability to build and motivate a team of highly skilled systems professionals

Achievement oriented, decisive and "make it happen" attitude.

Able to work under stressful circumstances and deliver results with minimal support

Excellent communication and presentation skills and ability to articulate complex technology subject matter to senior management, business units and vendors.

Very strong Service Partner Orientation and ability to work effectively with Business Units, internal S&T departments and vendors to ensure the success of projects.

Expert-level knowledge of IT technology, solutions and tooling.

Work well in various roles simultaneously with a minimal supervision and the ability to deal effectively with peoples at all levels

IT TECHNOLOGIES OF EXPERTISE:

Enterprise Systems Architecture Expertise:

Web-based (since 1998) and Mobile (since 2010) Data-Driven Systems.

UML & OOD (since 1995), Sparx EA (since 2010).

Enterprise Governance – 10 years.

Identity and Access Management – 5 years

Cloud Technology - Private Clouds – 7 years; AWS – 3 Years, Azure – 5 Years.

SOA and SSO (Single-Sign-On) – since 2004, Micro-Services – since 2010.

Domain-Driven Design and Event-Driven Architecture with ESB and CQRS.

Extensive experience in n-tier MIS architectures with focus on SOA, SaaS and APIs.

IT Best Practices – TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL, COBIT, CMM (since 2010).

Strong industry experience in building SOA, Micro-Services and APIs.

Strong integration and digital transformation expertise in different industry verticals.

Software Development Methodologies Expertise:

Scrum Methodology; Agile-Development; SAFE, Kanban, Extreme Programming;

JAD (Joined Application Development)

Lean Control (Lean Enterprise)

Iterative waterfall;

Programming Technologies of Expertise:

MS DOT.NET Technology - C#, WCF, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Visual Studio (18 yrs.)

JAVA, JAVA Spring and LAMP Stack (since 2004)

Web Services (18+ yrs.), Micro-Services (10 yrs.); REST (10 yrs.), APIs – 10 Years

Object-oriented technology (OOP & OOD) - 20+ yrs.

Mobile – 10 years.

Web Technology - HTML (20 yrs.); DHTML (15 yrs.), JavaScript (18+ yrs.),

SQL (25+ yrs.)

Database Platforms of Expertise:

MS SQL Server 2017, 2014,2012, 2008, 2005, 2000, 7.0 (20 years),

ORACLE 7.x, 8x, 11.i (8 years)

NoSQL Databases - 7 years (MongoDB, Apache Cassandra)

Elastic DB – 4 Years (NuoDB); MySQL, MariaDB - (since 2005); PostgreSQL – 6 years

EDUCATION:

D.Sc. and Ph.D. in Information Measurement & Computing Systems

M.Sc. in Automated Management Systems, Department of "Information & Computing Systems", Faculty of Automation, Industrial State University,

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified Scrum Master and Scrum Trainer

SAFE Trained Professional ( v2 – 2016; v5 – 2020)

EXPERIENCE HISTORY:

FEB 2010 – PRESENT BorSystems Inc., Boca Raton, FL

Position: Chief Enterprise Architect, Principal Consultant

Duties & Responsibilities: Leading Company’s IT Consulting Business serving Business Clients with focus on SOA, SaaS, Enterprise Systems and Solutions.

Projects Delivered:

SEP 2023 – PRESENT; BorSystems Inc., Coral Springs - FL

Project: Architecture, Design and delivery of payment aggregation gateway for PayPal and Stripe payments.

Role: Principal Consultant

MAY 2021 – AUG 2023; JM Family Enterprises, Deerfield Beach - FL

Project: Enterprise Digital Transformation to Azure and AWS Toyota Regional Auto Distributor Business.

Role: Technology Consultant - Leading Company effort in migrating Enterprise Eco-System to cloud environment. MuleSoft, TDA Security Controls, Paved Road projects, ML & AI, Copilot.

MARCH 2020 – APRIL 2021; Wawa Corp, PA

Position: Enterprise Solutions Architect – Orders, Payments & Fulfillment Domains.

Duties & Responsibilities: Architecting Next Generation Omni-channel Solution

for Wawa‘s distributed E-Commerce Platform with Domain-Driven-Design,

Event-Driven Architecture and API first approach (Swagger) using TOGAF.

Order management system architecture and design with in-house developed

Java business objects.

Integration with data mining proprietary platform based on AWS data lakes

powered by events with Kafka. Architecting and Design of Wawa’s Vendor

Management System with MuleSoft, Stibo, SAP Order Management System and custom

vendor web portal. End-to-end design of fulfillment domain with BOM

(Bill-of-Materials), dynamic pricing, discounts and hierarchical customizable

products. Architecture and design of electronic Payments Domain with integration

with FirstData (FiServ), Wells Fargo, SWIFT and mobile payments platform P97

(integrates with gas station payments).

SEP 2018 – DECEMBER 2019; Barclay Bank USA, Wilmington, DE

Position: Enterprise Domain Architect – Accounts, Payments and Products Domains.

Duties & Responsibilities: Architecture and Design of Next Generation Omni-channel Solution for Barclays Domain- and Event-driven PCI-Compliant ISO 20022 Unified Platform Architecture, Mobile Web, Digital Banking, SWIFT, Consumer, TOGAF, Micro-Services, RESTful API – design and mapping, API Gateways, Identity and Access Management, RAML – design and code reviews, Active MQ ESB, Kafka, MuleSoft, Java Spring, AWS, private data cloud, integration with other banking domains.

MAY 2017 – AUGUST 2018; E-Commerce Payment Gateway, Boca Raton, FL

Position: Chief Enterprise Payments Solution Architect.

Duties & Responsibilities: Designing General Architecture Solution, API integration with PayPal, 2Checkout, Authorized.Net and other payment gateways. PCI Compliance. SaaS and private Clouds in payments.

MAY 5th, 2015 – APRIL 1st, 2017; Department of Technology, State of Michigan, MI

Position: Sr. Enterprise Integration Solution Architect (DTMB AS MDOS).

Duties & Responsibilities: Designing Enterprise Architecture Solutions in migrating legacy (Unisys Mainframe COBOL) IT system to Modern Computer System Architecture.

Integrating Corporate Digital Payment Channel with First-Data-based payment service; responsible for overall payment system security design including authentication and authorization solutions, leading annual PCI-compliance effort in software and infrastructure domains. Facilitating design sessions and brainstorming efforts with business partners and internal parties / agencies involved in payments.

Technologies Used: Migration legacy Unisys Mainframe enterprise system to SOA, APIs, SSO, Domain-Driven and Event-Driven Design for high volume enterprise; SWIFT, Payment module for cross-platform applications, Infrastructure sizing recommendations and solutions, Identity and Access Management, CloudDB and SaaS, Sparx EA, ESB, MSMQ Messaging, MuleSoft, middleware, C#, .NET 4.5, UML, Object Oriented Design, Unisys DMS II, Unisys COBOL, reporting system.

JULY 2014 – FEB 2015; Auto Classifieds Project, FL Auto Dealers, Boca Raton, FL

Position: Chief Solution Architect.

Duties & Responsibilities: Architecting, Design and Development Management of automotive multitenant classifieds web product with proprietary e-payment channel. Creating blue-print solutions; buy vs develop in house analysis for payment domain.

Technologies Used: Sparx Enterprise Architect, WCF, SaaS, C#, .NET 4.5, MVC, UML, Object Oriented Design, Web UI Architecture, HTML 5, Mobile UIs, jQuery, CSS3. SQL Server 2012, ETL channels.

MAY 2014 – JUNE 2014 ActiveHealth Management Corp. (Aetna, NY)

Position: Solution Architect (Consultant).

Project: Enterprise Architecture Gap assessment for performance optimization in ActiveHealth family of products.

APRIL 2013 – APRIL 2014 American Health Tech Corp. (Long-Term Care)

Position: Chief Enterprise Architect (consultant).

Duties & Responsibilities: Architecting, Design and Development Management of SOA / SaaS-centric services-centric distributed hybrid-cloud based enterprise system for long-term care industry. Facilitating inter-departmental meetings and design session related to new payment system. Designing highly secure single-sign-on (SSO) user authentication and authorization solution; Architecting and design of cloud-based e-payments enterprise layer, creating payments implementation blue-prints for other departments; workflow management, ESB, Mule ESB, MSMQ messaging, drag inventory management and payment system for AHT360 cloud-based product.

Technologies Used: Sparx Enterprise Architect, TOGAF Framework, SOA, SaaS, APIs, SSO, Identity and Access Management,private Cloud Storage and services, Azure, Mule ESB, MSMQ messaging.NET, WCF, MVC 4.0, WF, ESB, SOA, SaaS, C#, .NET 4.5 and 4.0, PowerBuilder, UML, Object Oriented Design, HTML 5, CSS3. Mobile, jQuery, Angular.js, SQL Server 2012.

AUG 2012 – MARCH 2013; CarGalaxies.com, Boca Raton, FL

Position: Chief Solution Architect.

Duties & Responsibilities: Architecting, Design and Development Management of automotive web portal with electronic payments via PayPal. Designing blue-prints for integration with CC payment providers.

Technologies Used: Integration with PayPal APIs; Sparx Enterprise Architect, WCF, SaaS, MSMQ Messaging, C#, .NET 3.5 and 4.0, UML, Object Oriented Design, Web UI Architecture, HTML 5, Mobile JS, CSS3. SQL Server 2008.

SEP 2011 – JULY 2012; Direct Insite Corp., Sunrise, FL

Position: Chief Enterprise Ecommerce Solutions Architect (Consultant).

Duties & Responsibilities: Architecting, Design and Development Management of company’s SOA Payment Ecosystem for Account Payables and Account Receivables (including ACH, SWIFT and Credit Card Payments with FiServ backend integration). Architected mobile prototype of Early Payment Discount Cloud-based system. Leading Authorization, Clearing & Settlement design initiative in corporate e-payments system; Introduced and trained Company staff in scrum/agile software development methodology. Drove development effort as a technical project lead, conducting design and code reviews with development team, mentoring less senior team members, making presentations for Executive Management Team. Four successful SOA releases for Direct Insite’s high profile corporate clients.

Technologies Used: Sparx EA, TOGAF, WCF, MVC, SOA, SSO, Identity and Access Management, CloudDB and SaaS, Workflow Management, ESB, Mule ESB and MSMQ, PowerBuilder, UML, Object Oriented Design, Web UI Architecture, HTML 5, CSS3, MVC, jQuery Mobile, TFS, SQL Server 2008.

JUNE 2011 – SEP 2011; Synergistix Corp., Sunrise, FL (Pharma)

Position: Principal Enterprise Solutions Architect (Consultant).

PROJECT - Migration of WinForm-based Client-Server .NET Product to SOA-based Mobile Platform with e-payments.

Duties & Responsibilities: Architecting Company’s new generation SOA for mobile direct sale CRM & Inventory Management for pharmaceutical industry. Creating blue-print solutions for payment implementation by other departments / offices. Facilitated technical discussions between business partners and affiliate businesses in transitioning to new corporate e-payment facility.

Technologies Used: Sparx Enterprise Architect, TOGAF, WCF, MSMQ, C#, .NET 3.5 and 4.0, UML, Object Oriented Design, HTML 5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery Mobile, SQL Server 2008.

OCT 2010 – JUNE 2011; CIGNA Corp. (Vision & Dental), Sunrise, FL

Position: Lead Technical Architect (Consultant).

Duties & Responsibilities: Architecting, Design and Development Management of Distributed Healthcare System for Dental & Vision Services. Personally responsible for CIGNA's new advanced version of Appeals & Complains Web System; providing technical expertise for N-tier Web-based applications and integration solutions with third party systems. Facilitating design sessions between software and infrastructure teams in adopting newly designed system.

Technologies Used: Web-based N-tier architecture; TOGAF F Identity and Access Management ramework, Sparx Enterprise Architect, PowerBuilder UML, Data Models; Web Services, SOA, SaaS, MSMQ, AJAX, .NET Framework, SQL Server 2008 and ORACLE 11; Data Marts.

FEB 2010 – AUG 2010; Campus Management Corp., Boca Raton, FL

Position: SOA Solutions Architect (Consultant)

PROJECT - Migration VB6-based Product Family to SOA-based Unified Technological EcoSystem.

Duties & Responsibilities: Architecting & Design of SOA-based Cloud-friendly Unified Enterprise System; developing technology blue-prints in conceptual and logical architecture enterprise solutions. Actively contributing to the company’s e-payments technology vision, strategy, requirements, and solutions for large-scale domain specific initiatives; working with project teams - both onshore and offshore - during system development to assure compliance with architectural principles, guidelines, and standards.

Technologies Used: N-tier SOA architecture; Hybrid Cloud, TOGAF & Zachman Framework, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Web Services, WCF, WIF, MVC, jQuery, Entity Framework, ESB, MSMQ, UML, SoML.

NOV 2005 – FEB 2010; Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA

Position: Software Architect (full-time permanent employee)

PROJECT 3 - XBOX LIVE E-COMMERCE SYSTEM.

Duties & Responsibilities: Architecting, Design & Development of "Xbox Live High Performance

(2.5 million concurrent users) E-Commerce Platform" for entertainment industry; translating business objectives and needs into technical solutions; developing logical and architectural models and specifications; integrating with Microsoft internal divisions (Payment Center, Release & Deployment, Data Center, Marketing) as well as external vendors and partners.

Technologies Used: n-tier architecture; Azure, private cloud back-end, Web Services, Identity and Access Management, MSMQ, ASP.NET, Object-oriented design & programming, MS SQL Server 2008, 2005, SSIS, T-SQL, database design and programming.

PROJECT 2 - Office Live Personal Workspaces (workspace.officelive.com)

Duties & Responsibilities: Design & Development of "Office Live Personal Workspaces" product.

Technologies Used: SaaS, n-tier architecture; Web UI, AJAX (ATLAS), Web Services, WSS, ASP.NET, JavaScript;; HTML, CSS, Object-oriented design & programming, Designing and developing client-side web controls in Script #, SQL, MS SQL Server 2005.

PROJECT 1 – Expo Live Team (Microsoft Classifieds; expo.live.com)

Duties & Responsibilities: Design & Development of "Microsoft Classifieds" product with online payments; working with Microsoft internal teams – e-payments, shared storage, map services, EFP, release and deployment - and external partners (Omniture, Kanoodle) to assure high quality of software product.

Technologies Used: n-tier architecture; Microsoft CloudDB pilot project, AJAX, XMLHTTP, Web UI and Web Services tiers, Object-oriented design & programming, Designing and developing client-side/server side controls in C#/JavaScript; MS Visual Studio 2005, JavaScript, MS SQL Server 2005.

SEP 2004 – NOV 2005; Transcore Link Logistics

Company Business: Logistics Industry, Transportation; Load Tracking Services.

Position: Enterprise Systems Architect / Tech Lead.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Developing Link Logistics company standards for SOA (web-service-oriented architecture)

Developing technology strategic roadmaps; creating business plans to ensure compatibility and integration of software products throughout the company.

Collaborating with business-, sales- and support departments to drive continues improvement initiative inside the Company.

Architecting n-tier web-services-based database-driven proprietary software product LoadLink.NET for freight/load matching in logistics industry.

Technologies Used: n-tier SOA (service-oriented architecture); Web Services; AJAX, OOP & OOD, PowerBuilder UML, XML, DOT.NET; ASP.NET, ASP; ADO.NET, ADO, ADOX, JavaScript, XMLHTTP, HTML, W2K/NT/9.x/XP, IIS 6; Visual SourceSafe; MS SQL Server 2000.

JAN 2004 – SEP. 2004; AHN Consultants (Toronto – ON, Canada)

Company Business: IT Consulting, CRM, Web Internet, Intranet Systems

Position: Team Manager / Principal Solution Architect.

Duties & Responsibilities: Developing Customer Relationship Management Systems (CRM)

Technologies Used: SOA, AJAX, C#, VB.NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, VS.NET, OOP & OOD, UML, XML, XMLHTTP, Web-Services, ASP, ADO, ADOX, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, Crystal Report for .NET (VS.NET 2001); SQL, SQL Server-2000, stored procedures, data architecting / modeling / design, data migration, DTS; HTTP; SMTP; WSDL; W2K/NT/9.x/XP.

MARCH 2002 – DEC. 2003; Cydcor Ltd.

Company Business: Direct Marketer/ Retailer (Industries – Utilities, Energy, Insurance, Telecom)

Position: IT Development Manager, Sr. Enterprise Systems Architect / Tech Lead.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Gathering and analyzing customer's business requirements, creating conceptual, logical & architectural models and software designs;

Developing Functional- Design- and Version Release documents.

Managing application development in all phases of software development life cycle

Architecting n-tier Web-based Database-driven Enterprise Systems for E-Commerce / Retail Industry

Developing Enterprise technology strategic roadmaps and business plans

Leading and mentoring software development team using Agile Methodology and "lead-by -example" approach;

Developing new (proprietary) web services and integrating existing web-services from commercial web-service providers into enterprise architecture (.NET, SOAP, WSDL)

Architecting, Designing & Developing the payroll module for "Agents-on-the-Field" payroll system

Technologies Used: Web-Services, AJAX, C#, VB.NET, VS.NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, OOP & OOD, UML, XML, ASP, ADO, ADOX, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, SQL, MS Access-2000, SQL Server-2000, stored procedures, data architecting/modeling/design, data migration, DTS; HTTP; SMTP.

SEP. 2001 - FEB. 2002 - PFSL Investments Ltd. (PRIMERICA) – Scarborough, ON.

Company Business – Insurance Industry.

Position: IT Consultant (Developing Customer Contact Management Center)

Duties & Responsibilities:

Gathering and analyzing client's business requirements in Life, Sickness & Accident insurance for PFSL Scarborough office;

Design & Developing Customer Relationship & Contact Management System for PFSL insurance agents and representatives;

Creating IT-training facility for PFSL associates and trainees.

Technologies Used: C#, VBScript, JavaScript, ASP, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, ADOX, HTML, DHTML, XML, SQL, stored procedures, MS Access-2000, SQL Server-2000.

JAN. 2001 - AUG. 2001 - King Products Inc. (Mississauga - ON)

Company Business: E-banking / E-payment Systems with Internet Kiosks

Position: IT Consultant / Architect

Duties & Responsibilities: Architecture, Design and Development of proprietary E-Payment System.

Project - Extranet for King Products E-payment System with Internet Kiosks v. 2.0

Personal Duties in Project:

Architecture, Design & Development of Extranet for Company's e-commerce system;

Creating functional specifications, design- and test- documents for Extranet Application of KINGNet proprietary credit/debit cards electronic payment system;

Analyze data schema for the e-payment transaction database;

Developing the whole database-driven web application;

Developing test cases and testing Extranet system,

E-commerce system release and training.

Technologies Used: VBScript, JavaScript, ASP, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, ADOX, HTML, DHTML, C++, SQL language, stored procedures, MS Access-2000.

OCT. 1995 - OCT. 2000 - Gigabyte Ltd. (Ankara-Turkey, Lefkosha – N.Cyprus)

Company Business: Software development; e-commerce, IT consulting

Position: Principal Architect /Tech Lead / Branch Manager /

Duties & Responsibilities: Managing Company's branch in Ankara; tech leading the

e-commerce projects in all stages of the project life-cycle; budgeting; people management.

Technologies Used: Web/Internet; Databases and Data Marts; E-commerce.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING:

April 2020

SAFE 5 – Wawa Corp. Internal Training program – Media, PA.

March 2016

SAFE 2 – DTML Agency, Michigan State Internal Training program – Lansing, MI.

October 2008

Scrum Methodology in IT Development - Microsoft Internal Training program –

Redmond, WA.

April 2008

Agile Development in C# Lab.

Scrum Methodology - Use Case Scenarios - Microsoft Internal Training program –

Redmond, WA.

August 2007

Debugging Web Applications with Visual Studio 2005 - Microsoft Internal Training

program – Redmond, WA.

July 2006

SQL Server 2005 – Architecture & Internals - by SQLSoft Corp.

(http://www.sqlsoft.com/Public/Home/) – Redmond, WA.

October 2003

Developing Data-driven Business Applications on Post-relational Database Cache

- by InterSystems Corp. (www.Intersystems.com) – Toronto, ON.

May 2001 - VITAL Payment Processor (now First Data Corp,) for on-line e-Payment

Transactions – in King Products Inc. (Canada) by VITAL

March 2001 - ProtoBase – Communication Software for on-line Payment Transactions

– in King Products Inc. (Mississauga) by Southern DataComm Inc.,

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