Solution Architect

Gary Kam ****.*.***@*****.*** 909-***-**** linkedin.com/in/gary-kam-603736/

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Accomplished solution architect working with stakeholders and technical team to develop enterprise solution that aligns strategy, processes, and IT assets with business goals.

Proficiency with packaged application selection, enterprise application development and systems integration projects in Entertainment, Life Science, Telecommunications and Media Marketing.

Proven expertise in delivering digital media strategy and system implementation - media transformation and digital assets delivery, and developing solution architecture.

Specializes in automated processes with digital asset ingestion, transformation and delivery.

Experienced in agile software development with globally distributed team; leading teams of engineers and functional analysts through all phases of the systems development life cycle for large scale enterprise application.

EXPERIENCE

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Los Angeles CA October 2009 – October 2019

Principal Architect / Technical Manager

Delivered technology roadmap analysis, recommendations and solution, working with business stakeholders and client stakeholders for custom components in service-oriented frameworks. Communicated technical requirements to the development team, supervised installation and development activities. Led the design activities on infrastructure architecture, solution architecture and custom workflow. Designed processes for migration plans of legacy system assets. Manages associates for project proposal & negotiation and client account management. Grew best practice in code quality management and SDLC process.

Led the digital asset management implementation of OpenText Media Management System 16.0 on AWS cloud infrastructure for Thermo Fisher Scientific. Collaborated with client architects on design for custom integration components using AWS S3 bucket & AWS Simple queue, building MicroServices with Spring Boot; provided functions via Restful service for client components.

Led the digital asset management implementation OpenText Media Management System 10.5, OpenText Creative Review, OpenText Audit for Disney, including design activities on metadata model implementation, infrastructure and solution architecture design and system integrations Designed integration components with Documentum for content exchange; consolidated and migrated over 5 terabytes of assets from 5 different systems and Converted entire technology stack from standard VM server instance to Docker Platform and Kubernetes.

Designed an Enterprise Application Framework on service-oriented-architecture for Fox. Leveraged the Oracle enterprise service bus to enable integration for enterprise applications. Established software development practice with Test Driven Development methodology

Transformed a legacy media distribution system to digital media service system for Fox. Led the design activities related to architecture design and system integrations services building on SOA; including media transcoding, media delivery with Signiant and Aspera, Amazon services included Elasticsearch, Simple Notification, Simple Queue, Amazon DynamoDB and CloudFront.

Established software development practice with Test Driven Development methodology.

Managed development team and system components (Playlist Manager & License Management) delivery of a major implementation of digital media service system for Motorola, Verizon including OTT content management, media transformation, content encryption, distribution and Linear and VOD content playback with DRM.

Managed development team and solution delivery of a major implementation of digital media supply chain system including digital asset management, media transformation and distribution for Sony. Managed coordination of launch day activities and post-implementation support.

Independent Consultant, Los Angeles, CA April 2008 – November 2009

To provide technology analysis and custom application development.

Managed solution architecture team on design of a digital media solution platform to combine asset management and media delivery with rich user experience for En2go - Interactive Entertainment. Designed and deployed a system integration framework in 2 months with Enterprise Service Bus on Service-Oriented Architecture framework.

Designed and led development of Advertising Management system and delivery framework for web and mobile client application.

Create Data Analytic Solution based on Hadoop framework on analytics collection.

Developed strategy and project plan for BlueMauMau digital media marketing platform implementation. Led a multi-disciplinary team on development of the platform composed of online marketing web services, multi-media management, content delivery services and location presentation. Created architectural design specifications for the system design and led software selection process on solution platform integration.

Sapient, Los Angeles, CA March 2007 – April 2008

Manager of Technology

Provide technology roadmap and architectural design for custom solution.

Lead Architect for LinkSys, a consumer electronic client, to redesign ecommerce web site with a new branding strategy.

Lead Architect for Disney, an entertainment client, to create technology vision for a social network. Led a multi-disciplinary group of technology team members and creative team to deliver a platform which combine innovative user experience and the latest social networking features.

Lead Architect for TV Guide, an entertainment client, to develop a dynamic portal to interact with customer with innovative user interfaces. The portal framework provided the foundation to deliver new services to subscribers via web-enable device, set-top-box and mobile phone.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Open Bid Exchange Corporation, Los Angeles, CA Director of System Development

Oakwood Worldwide, Los Angeles, CA Director of Systems Integration

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information System

University of Hawaii at Manoa

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Certified Nuxeo Architect

Certified Adobe AEM Architect

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Framework: MicroServices, .NET, MVC, Django, Java EE, Struts, Spring Boot, Hadoop

Web Services: SOAP, RESTful Services with API gateway and WCF

Business Intelligence Tools: Tableau

Digital Asset Management: OpenText Media Management, Adobe Experience Manager, Nuxeo

Amazon Web Services: AWS Components, AWS EC2, S3, Lambda, Elastic Search, Simple Queue

Container Platforms: Docker Container, Kubernetes

.Net: ADO.Net, LINQ & WCF Data Services, Silverlight for dynamic image generation, WPF and Silverlight for User Interface

Languages: C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python

Database: SQL, MongoDB

Digital Media Solutions: Vantage, Rhozet and Agility for transcoding, Aspera, Signiant, SmartJog, iTunes Transporter for distribution, Baton for Content verification, Civolution for identification

Solution Integration: Liferay Portal, Salesforce Integration

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