ANDY Y WU

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

o Talented, innovative and open-minded DevOps & cloud Architect and author passionate about designing and developing contextual relevant solutions.

o Die-hard advocate and practitioner of MicroServices architecture and its corresponding benefits. o Extensive experience in pinpointing and remediating flaws in application architecture and design. o Specializes in App Modernization as part of Cloud Native transformation initiatives. o Certified Cloud Architect proficient in all of the three leading Cloud Providers: Azure, Google and Amazon Web Services.

o Extraordinary fast learner, able to translate and transfer computing concepts, application architectures and best practices from platform to platform.

o Proficient in architecting and developing single page applications (SPA) using popular frontend frameworks such as Angular, React or Vue.

o Uniquely qualified Full-Stack developer & architect with extensive hands-on experience in delivering solutions at all stages of the software development lifecycle. o Consistent delivery of exceptional results that delights and exceeds stakeholders’ expectations. o Proven track record of cultivating and building rapport with business and technical project stakeholders. o Comprehensive understanding of using Azure DevOps in creating CI/CD Pipelines. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Azure, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, GCP, AWS, Containers, Microservices, Kubernetes, Dockers, DevOps, PaaS, IaaS, C#, WEB API, .NET, .NET CORE ASP.NET, MVC, SQL, Ansible, Terraforms, JavaScript, Angular, React, SPA, XAML, REST, SOAP, Node.js API Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

OCTOBER 2018 – CURRENT

Lead IT Enterprise Architect Fremont Bank Fremont, CA As the Enterprise Architect for the Bank, I am responsible for paving a path forward for enabling the bank to migrate their current infrastructure, workloads and applications onto a public cloud. As part of this initiative, I was tasked to evaluate and review the 3 leading Public Cloud Providers: Microsoft (Azure), Google (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to ensure the most appropriate vendor is chosen based from a cost, service offering and synergistic operation model with the bank. As part of cloud migration effort, the following tasks was performed:

Application rearchitecting & modernization via containerization and orchestration will also be part of this effort to provide better agility, velocity and mobility for the bank. I was also responsible for fostering a new DevOps-first, automate everything culture (using scripting language such as PowerShell) to enable greater velocity in IT application and Infrastructure change management. Lastly, I’m also advocating the adoption of a new data, API-driven Enterprise Architecture (EA) to drive the success of bank’s various Digital Transformation initiatives.

Revamp Bank’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) infrastructure using Azure AD, Implementation of Single-Sign On (SSO) using SAML and multi-factor authentication (MFA) was also added as new capabilities.

APRIL 2016 – SEPTEMBER 2018

Solution Architect/Principal Consultant Magenic Technologies Inc. San Francisco, CA As a Solution Architect, I evaluate and discern technical and business challenges facing Magenic’s key customers. Technical thought leadership is provided through the design of optimal solutions for addressing customers' pain points. These designs are used as key artifacts for driving the development of Statement of Work (SOW) as well as the eventual engagements Magenic will deliver to its customers.

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• Conduct requirements gathering workshops and lead the solution design process jointly with customers and Magenic subject matter experts in order to come up with an appropriate architecture suited for the project initiatives.

• Contribute technical and subject matter expertise to effort estimation and SOW development

• Articulate recommendations through presentations and architectural blueprint documentation

• Identify ongoing risks, pain points throughout the project, develop and implement mitigation measures through an Agile methodology

• Develop Reference Architecture and Implementation One of three largest public cloud service provider in the world

• As commissioned by the client, I authored a set of Whitepapers detailing the best ways to harness the distinct and unique features offered by the client’s cloud platform. I also developed the accompanying Reference Implementations for these Whitepapers to concretely illustrate how to utilize the concepts and techniques described in the Whitepapers (see listed publications below). Trade association for Credit Unions

• As the architect for the CU’s first public cloud project, I ensured the system’s security and application architecture are fully leveraging the cloud platform to achieve the performance, agility and cost saving sought by the association in migrating to the cloud. Fortune 500 medical technologies firm

• As the client was transiting one of the their most profitable product from a packaged software into a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, I reviewed and ensured the technical architecture and implementation will meet the system load, reliability and security demand of the new delivery model. Cloud Architect Wells Fargo San Francisco, CA

As an Architect on the Advanced Cloud Platform Service team, I was responsible for the design, architecture and best practice development for migrating over 2,000 of Wells’ system portfolio onto an Azure-based, private Cloud platform. I help developed the guidance documentation, Reference Implementation and Architecture in order to assist the bank’s developer and architect community in their learning and utilization of this new platform. Senior Consultant Microsoft Redmond, WA

Worked with Microsoft’s largest enterprise customers to design and deliver mission-critical system development projects, accelerating their adoption and productive usage of advanced technologies and architectures. One of largest Financial Service Company in US with more than $2 trillion assets under management

• Successfully re-platformed client’s Web Site Content rendering system from Java to .NET, resulting in a 25% reduction in server utilization while dramatically increasing system performance. These improvements have led the client to be consistently ranked among top 3 brokerage websites in US, as validated daily by Keynote Brokerage Performance Index (KBTI).

• Architected a cloud based, Platform as a Service (PaaS) version of the aforementioned Content Rendering system. Vision was to enable the system to “burst to cloud” for handling unexpected spike in system load.

• Designed a Hybrid App/Web architecture that will enable developers to create a single code base that will serve across a variety of Mobile platforms: Mobile Web, iOS, Android and Windows Phone. One of the four major professional sports leagues in North America

• Developed a tablet-based, sideline replay viewing app and supporting backend system for the replacement of current paper-based system. This app has enabled real-time collaboration scenarios such as image annotations that were previously not possible with the paper-based system.

• Prominent usage of this app by the league teams has synergistically enhanced the effectiveness of a concurrent marketing campaign for the tablet.

Leading provider for Mobile Banking solution with more than $5 Billion in revenue

• Correctly identified vital implementation flaws in client’s Software as a Service (SaaS) based mobile banking solution that was hindering the company’s explosive growth.

• Created and presented short, medium and long-term remediation and implementation roadmap to enable the platform to meet the projected explosive growth within next 5 years. Largest Professional Services firm in the world

• Developed and enforced SDLC and agile best practices for team of 80+ onshore and offshore developers responsible for maintaining the most important system for the client as this system is accountable for generating more than 65% of the firm’s revenue: Tax Audit System.

• Provided architectural guidance and concrete migration strategy for client’s need to transition the system’s platform from WinForm to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Fortune 10 Oil & Gas Company

• Successfully leveraged SOA guiding principles in defining a foundational architecture and development Best Practices for company's Upstream operations division, this architecture was leveraged by more than 90+ developers and architects in the division.

• Designed and developed a large library of reusable component, reference architecture and reference implementations to facilitate the adoption of this Upstream Foundation Services. Enterprise Architect Federal Home Loan Bank San Francisco, CA Leadership – demonstrated in the establishment of a charter and mission statement for the Enterprise Architecture group, led the effort in articulating and evangelizing these charters across IT groups in the bank. Technology Advancement – Pushed the envelope by setting .NET Framework as the Bank’s standard, created numerous Proof-Of-Concept projects and reference architecture to demonstrate the value, advantage and viability of this new platform.

Solution Architecture - Architected and developed a mission critical solution used for monitoring and managing Bank's liquidity. Web Services and Visual Studio for Office (VSTO) transformed antiquated Excel macros into a well-defined Service Oriented, standardized solution that performed up to 10x faster than the previous version. MAY 2001 – SEPEMBER 2005

Systems Architect Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) San Francisco, CA

• Designed and developed PG&E's internal Energy Trading and Scheduling system.

• Successfully evangelized the advantage for migrating the implementation from PowerBuilder to .NET to lower TCO

• Architected a plug-in based framework to facilitate EAI related services, this framework provided developers with increased flexibility and agility by allowing new functionality to be injected at runtime without recompilation of existing code.

OCTOBER 1997 – APRIL 2001

Technical Architect, Director RCM Capital Management San Francisco, CA

• Defined and enforced Systems, Technical and Integration Architecture for the enterprise.

• Designed and developed a proprietary, custom logic Security Order Management/Trading System. By leveraging a multi-tier, distributed architecture, the system was able to meet the scalability and performance requirements needed by the traders.

• Envisioned and architected the delivery of an immersive browser-based Global Portfolio Research and Analytic System. Due to its seamless integration with the firm’s research process, the firm’s Sales and Marketing team have consistently identified it as a “difference maker” in winning deals with clients.

• Viewed as a trusted advisor to the C-Level executives in the firm EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts: Management Information Systems and Finance, San Francisco State University (Graduated Cum Laude), San Francisco, CA

PUBLICATIONS

• Modernizing your .NET Application for Google Cloud

• (https://cloud.google.com/files/maximizing-cloud-computing-through-application-modernization.pdf)

• Running your modern .NET Application on Kubernetes (https://cloud.google.com/files/whitepaperrunning- your-modern-dotnet-app-on-kubernetes.pdf)

• Using Google Cloud to host .NET Applications (https://magenic.com/media/2217/using-google-cloud- tohost-net-applications.pdf)

• How to lift-and-shift a line-of-business application onto Google Cloud Platform

(https://magenic.com/media/2216/how-to-lift-and-shift-a-line-of-business-application-onto-google- cloudplatform.pdf)

CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Professional Developers

Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions

Microsoft Specialist: Architecting Azure Solutions

Pivotal Cloud Foundry Developer

Google Professional Cloud Architect

Microsoft Specialist: Developing Azure Solutions

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Cloud Platform

Microsoft Certified Professional

FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese ● Conversant in Japanese

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