Osama Swedan

Calgary, AB

Canada

T*Y *N*

Cell: (587) 899 – 8446

adzlpk@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

A solution architect with more than 24 years in software development, I have gained solid experience in working closely with business partners to design and implement solutions. Experienced in all aspects of the software development lifecycle from requirements gathering, design, architecture, and testing to implementation and support.

Professional Experience

TC Energy, Calgary, Canada (Jan 2017 – May 2021)

Solution Architect:

-Translated business functional requirements and specs into a detailed architectural design.

- Identified business and technology trends that create opportunities for business improvement, advising businesses on trends and emerging technologies and the impact on the organization's architectures and business strategies.

-Evaluated and architected enterprise business solutions for pipeline integrity, invoicing, and gas contracting systems.

- Produced enterprise architectural artifacts (including enterprise-level strategies and roadmaps).

-Collaborated with business analysts, developers, and technical support teams to define project requirements, and identify deliverables, time scope, and cost of ownership.

-Collaborated with the IT security team to establish a risk assessment of the targeted solution.

-Evaluated vendor products to determine adherence to company security standards and fit-for- purpose suitability.

-Assessed, planned, and re-architected on-prem hosted applications to migrate to the AWS cloud platform.

-Provided and contributed to the documentation of solution and architecture design and analysis work, including project post-mortem documentation and lessons learned.

Latest Accomplishments:

-Designed and implemented an aerial video footage management application on AWS. This solution replaced a vendor solution resulting in cost savings of $180,000/year and reduced turnaround time from 2 days to 1 hour.

-Re-architected a pipeline integrity application to enhance performance, resulting in a 55% performance boost.

-Re-architected mission-critical contracting and invoicing applications to enable migration from on premise infrastructure to the AWS cloud platform. The migration to the AWS resulted in 30% operating cost savings and provided a high availability feature.

-Established enterprise-wide architecture standards for the Pipeline Integrity and Invoicing business area.

-Played a key role in application rationalization activities resulting in a reduced total cost of ownership by $350,0000.

TC Energy, Calgary, Canada (Jan 2001 – Jan 2017)

Technical Lead:

-Provided technical expertise and support duties to the invoicing and contracting team.

-Led root cause analysis activities to identify and resolve production incidents.

-Conduct code review sessions with developers.

-Led the development of new functionalities and enhancements to meet customers’ requirements.

-Worked closely with the business partners to plan testing and code releases.

Accomplishments:

-Designed and implemented a functional testing framework to verify the correctness of invoice contents and charge amounts. This enabled automated verification resulting in eliminating manual work and increased test suite coverage.

-Automated manual workflows in the gas accounting contracting system resulting in freeing up business resources and time and eliminating errors in the workflows verification process.

-Consistently met invoice issuance SLAs thru high availability, timely resolution of production issues, and redundancy design.

Big Server Software, Vancouver, Canada (July 2000 – Jan 2001)

Software Consultant:

- Responsible for enhancing the performance of a proprietary product called Visual Knowledge.

-Visual Knowledge is an enabling environment for e-business, which integrates application development and E-Business operations.

First Data Resources, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (June 1999 – July 2000)

Software Developer – Contract:

-As a software engineer at First Data Resources my main responsibility was to support a credit card processing application.

-Provided application feature enhancements and development of new functionalities.

ObjectWave, Chicago, Illinois, USA (Sept 1997 – June 1999)

Software Developer:

-Member of a team responsible for designing and implementing a registration, administration, and admission system for Oakton Community College.

-Requirement gathering, framework implementation and object design and modeling, testing, and system performance tuning.

Tools and technologies

Linux, Windows 10, VisualAge (Smalltalk), VisualWorks 3.0, C++, C, Java, Python, .Net, J2EE, SOAP, Sybase, Visual Code, Visio, AWS development and architecture, SQL Server 2012, Oracle, Gemstone 4.1, IIS, TopLink, Servlets, Struts, JavaScript, JBuilder, TeamCity, QALoad, XML, XML Spy, XSLT, JProbe, MQ Series and GIT.

Education

Master of Computer Science

(Completed all courses except the thesis)

Acadia University, Nova Scotia

GPA 4.0

Bachelor of Computer Science

Acadia University, Nova Scotia

GPA 2.98

Certifications

Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development

Strategic Decision-Making

Sun Java Programmer

ITIL Foundation

Big Data on AWS

Architecting on AWS

Developing on AWS

Personal Qualities:

Self-motivated, highly organized, and dedicated.

Able to work independently and in a team environment.

Eager to learn and respond positively to challenges.

Punctual, hard-working, and ambitious.

Excellent leadership qualities.

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