Sr Principal Software Architecture Leader

Miguel Bardos Jr.

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Summary

A highly experienced professional in the IT industry with experience primarily with US global companies.

He has been involved in a wide range of roles from application developer to manager and executive. In addition, he has broad experience in software development/maintenance, testing, project and process management, and pre-sales/bid management. His recent work has focused on management of IT service delivery (pre-sales/bids, applications maintenance/delivery and process improvement).

Technical experience on applications development & maintenance (Java, C, COBOL); products experience on SAP (performance and stress testing), HP Quality Center, Microsoft SharePoint, Salesforce.com and Google Apps for Work. Process experience on SDLC (Waterfall and Agile). Quality frameworks and experience on ISO, CMMi, ITIL, Lean, KANBAN and DMAIC/PDCA. Project management methodology on PMBOK.

Certifications:

• Agile SAFe 5.0 Agilist (March 2021-2022)

Experience

Period: 2023-07-17 to Present

Company: Satellite Office

Business Domain: Solutions architecture (applications portfolio & governance) Position: Solutions Architect

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Focus areas:

• Smart Group Australia (client) - Applications

modernization and optimization program with cloud

migration and applications portfolio streamlining to improve delivery efficiency and cost reduction.

o Managed their architecture group responsible for creating architecture principles for solutioning and approving high-level designs

o Managed a delivery squad handling the fleet

management application

o Support and issues management in audits of

process and quality.

Period: 2022-09-01 to 2023-07-15

Company: Accenture

Business Domain: Solutions architecture (Microsoft products) Position: Solutions Architect (Senior Manager)

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Focus areas:

• Applications development and maintenance –

Responding to RFP/RFIs and creating the solutions in the area of applications development and maintenance. Key products proposed are M365 migrations, Sitecore upgrades, Azure Data Factory and apps assessment.

Period: 2018-01-22 to 2022-08-31

Company: DXC Technology

Business Domain: Solutions architecture (applications management services) Position: Solutions Architect

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Focus areas:

• Applications development and maintenance –

Responding to RFP/RFIs and creating the solutions in the area of applications development and maintenance. Proponent of automation and lean process to increase productivity

• Business development – identify, design and

implement improvements to current processe to achieve in scope targets of RFI/RFPs. Part of working group of the Agile process development in DXC.

• Process

o Agile development, DevOps, SDLC, Kanban, CMMi

Services and product areas:

o Business architecture

o Application development maintenance services

o Cloud products (Amazon Web Services)

Period: 2017-07-03 to 2018-01-15

Company: People4U

Business Domain: IT – solutions delivery (cloud applications and services) Position: Consultant (business development)

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Focus areas:

• Consulting and business development – Creating

the consulting line of business. Involved in creation of proposals to the client (Fortune 100

companies/conglomerates in the Philippines) focusing on Salesforce.

• Services and product areas:

Business development

Application maintenance services

Salesforce (Sales and Service cloud)

Period: 2016-05-10 to 2017-07-02

Company: IP Converge

Business Domain: IT – solutions delivery (cloud applications and services) Responsibilities/Deliverables: Focus areas:

• Consulting and business development – Creating

the consulting line of business. Involved in creation of proposals to the client (Fortune 100

companies/conglomerates in the Philippines) focusing on Salesforce and Google.

• Process improvement – identify, design and

implement improvements to current delivery processes

(Agile-based) to hit operational excellence and

efficiency targets.

• Services and product areas:

Business development

Application maintenance services Salesforce (Sales and Service cloud)

Period: 2011-04-25 to 2016-04-29

Company: NNIT A/S

Business Domain: Senior Management

Position: Manager

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Part of the NNIT (a leading Danish IT consulting firm) management team in the Philippines office involved in most aspects of the company’s management including

operations, HR, dealing with customers and suppliers, as well as upper management.

Focus areas:

• Business Development and Operational Excellence

(SCRUM and Kanban)

o Co-authored the Agile development process that is now used in the entire company.

o Implemented Kanban in the PH office (conducts

weekly and monthly Kanban meetings with the

management team and other seniors to ensure

capacity/utilization of resources); resource

requirements of existing projects and those

opportunities in the pipeline are handled and

necessary actions are taken including reallocation of resources and/or hiring when needed.

o Implemented shared services offerings and

migration of internal infrastructure support making the PH office a key site in NNIT global

• Creates country level business plans with other senior managers.

o Opportunity and pipeline management

• Opportunities are tracked weekly and actions are taken to ensure correct and adequate resource allocations; pipeline management is also used for revenue

forecasting for the unit

• Management/Liaison for internal/shared services teams Responsible for the overall performance of internal captive teams. And as the people manager, responsible for coaching the teams and employee development.

Technical areas:

• Sharepoint development/configuration

Period: 2007-10-01 to 2010-10-31

Company: Hewlett-Packard

Business Domain: IT Delivery

Position: Manager

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Based in Philippines, managed 12-15 IT resources

(developers/consultants) working on application packaging and software development.

Focus areas:

• Line manager of project resources (IT professionals); created the partnership with HP New Zealand for testing services

• Opportunity management and business development

• Process & quality - CMMi (all 22 process areas)

assessment team member

• Test management – testing strategy development and implementation

Technical areas:

• HP Test director – testing suite

• HP Project and Portfolio Management Center

Period: 2000-03-01 to 2007-09-30

Company: IBM

Business Domain: IT Delivery

Position: Project Manager

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Started as a Developer/Analyst in IBM and eventually moving into project and applications management.

As a Developer/Analyst in IBM, Miguel was involved with WebSphere suite doing pre-sales and proof-of-concept demos. He was also trained in networking tools such as IBM's Tivoli. A member ASEAN team formed to handle opportunities and initiatives in mobile consulting (an extension of the IBM e-Business team).

As a Service Manager, Miguel was responsible for migrating and consolidating the support and maintenance of Lotus Notes based applications of the IBM ASEAN region. This was followed by the migration of support and maintenance of the mainframe systems of the IBM ASEAN region as well. As a Project Manager, Miguel was involved in the migration and transition of the SAP R/3 helpdesk of one of the largest thread manufacturers in the world, Coats. The support was moved from the client's location in Hungary to Manila. This also resulted in IBM PH doing SAP roll-outs in other countries where Coats had sites.

As Program Manager, Miguel was responsible for starting the testing competency in IBM PH - from planning, to hiring/recruitment and working with IBM Global Services to move testing work to Manila.

Period: 1995-06-13 to 2000-02-28

Company: Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting)

Business Domain: IT Delivery

Position: Team lead/Consultant

Responsibilities/Deliverables: Focus areas:

• 1999-2000: Led an IT team of developers, testers and consultants to maintain and support a US bank -

mainframe and client-server systems. In addition to being delivery responsible for the team's output, Miguel also coached and mentored the junior members of the team

• 1998-1999: Performance tester on SAP systems and was assigned in Houston, Texas (US). Helped formalize the Performance and Stress Testing Service Offering in the Houston Solution Center. Coordinated with the

project manager to create templates, checklists,

training material, and job aids. Developed test scripts for and analyzed business data. Provided analysis of performance results of key SAP transactions

• 1995-1998: Developer with the Atlanta team in the USA to develop applications for a telecommunications

company. Supervised a group of analysts in

programming and testing enhancements of modules;

conducted evaluations and mentored teammates.

Technical areas: Java, C/C++, COBOL & mainframe

environment, SQL, UNIX

Education

Ateneo De Manila University (1991-06-01 to 1995-03-31) BS in Management; minor in International Business

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