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Recognized industry thought
leader adept at incubating,
adopting, developing, and
converging strategic
technologies via unified/agile
methodologies to rapidly apply
best-of-breed disciplines for
iterative IT transformation.
Pragmatic Thinker
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TONY SHAN
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Extensive project experience in
connecting dots to solve big,
challenging, and complex business
problems with ambiguity and
deliver awarding-winning enterprise
solutions, to adaptively align IT
capabilities with ever-changing
business demands and priorities.
PROFILE SUMMARY
Guru Practitioner
linkedin.com/in/tonyshan
Results-oriented, seasoned
emerging technology visionary
specialized in new tech like big
data/SMAC/cloud/IoT/SOA/EA,
with a unique blend of business
and technical skill sets to innovate
and pioneer cutting-edge products
and services systematically.
Innovative Leader
Practice Lead/Big Data/SMAC Architect/Sr. Delivery Manager. 2009–present, Global Big Data/SMAC Consulting
• Operationalized big data technologies for eServices in the largest IT firm ($112B revenue): Hadoop, Vertica, QV
• Jump-started database as a service on Openstack for No.6 largest bank: Trove, MongoDB, Postgresql, MariaDB
• Hadoopified inventory analytics system for a Top-10 retailer in US ($40B revenue): Hadoop, Pentaho, HBase
• Designed and implemented Hadoop data lake at No.1 personalization vendor: various protocols and formats
• Constructed an open source big data platform in one of Big 4 companies (largest audit firm): LDAPS, Kerberos
• Bootstraped portable file system to support HDFS protocol via network mounting at Hitachi: Bigtop, HDP
• Developed big data genome analytics solutions at world largest genomics service company: MapR, MongoDB
• Directed transformation to a big data platform for largest media company ($35B): approach, POC, transition
• Assessed and prototyped real-time bidding (RTB) with Kafka, Storm, Impala, Drill, Spark, YARN, Dynamo
• Launched Big Data practice for a big IT firm: strategy, blueprint, roadmap, ref arch, end-to-end stack, patterns
• Originated Big Data strategization and enablement for large telco provider ($30B): suitability, adoption, conversion
• Designed a NoSQL cloud-based solution for a large retail vendor ($40B): near real-time analytics & visualization
• Productized supply-chain services/solutions at Siemens: cloud and big data platform + killer applications, R&D
• NoSQLized databases and kicked off integration as a service in biggest hotel chain ($22B): Cassandra, RDS, EC2
• Designed an innovative data ingestion method to accelerate HBase loading: 50X faster via native HFile/splitting
• Transformed various applications to cloud: migrate to Hive, Hypertable, local cluster, EMR on EC2, Azure
• Built a platform for data collection and visual ETL with MapReduce: parallelize multi-feeds with compression
• Implemented a big data solution to phase out a traditional EDW at a large Telecom firm: Hive, Tableau, HDFS
• Cloudified $7B complex healthcare systems with SOA & cloud: service discovery, integration patterns, delivery
• Baselined the cloud-centric SOA execution in a $2B insurance firm: naming, REST, service lifecycle practice
• Created a comprehensive architecture strategy at $1.3B insurance company: conversion roadmap, platform
• Defined enterprise architecture roadmap in $6B credit rating firm: redo operation plan, kickoff shared services
• Commenced EA consulting delivery: EA management in DoD/DoJ ½ B$ budget SOA/Cloud programs, state IT
• Advised CXO of big firms on adopting disruptive tech: Bank Transaction Services at $10B LoB in largest bank
• Designed architecture, cloud-based disciplines, & value engineering in largest telecom equipment vendor ($40B)
• Initiated ideation and incubated new offerings: ground-breaking cloud accelerators, CoE, jumpstart program
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Practice Lead & Executive Architect/Strategist (Senior Technical Staff Member). 2008 – 2009, IBM
• Pioneered the first-ever IBM public storage cloud product: completely disruptive virtual store from ground up
• Led consulting of system engineering to large clients like eBay: turnkey solutions, HPC scaling strategy
• Devised unified cloud roadmaps: phased buildouts, work tracks, cross-disciplinary blueprint for operationalization
• Managed a cross-functional team to evolve product lines: systems services, overhaul existing suites for lower TCO
SOA Strategy Lead & Adjunct Professor. 2006 – 2008, Bank of America and University of Phoenix/CPCC
• Championed the planning, development and governance of a SOA program: team lead of a matrixed group.
• Innovated a SOA strategy metamodel and oversaw architecture roadmapping – establish governance program
• Led annual planning of SOA technology to prioritize initiatives & estimate budgets: accelerate execution by 80%
• Created a service spectrum, service specification template and guidelines – set up a service repository for reuse.
Chief Architect/Team Lead & Adjunct Professor. 1998 – 2006, Wells Fargo and University of Phoenix/CPCC
• Served as Chief Architect for Basel risk projects ($100+M spending): oversight, design, guide and governance
• Directed lifecycle development of award-winning IT systems: on-demand knowledge portal, push messaging, alerts
• Spearheaded the shared services CIO group & Developer’s Forum: buildout of CoE and expert groups, incubation
• Introduced key rising technologies to the organization like Ajax and REST – mitigate risks via POC/POT & pilots
Enterprise Architect/Emerging Technology Planner. 1997 - 1998, Harris Communications Corporation
• Planned technical strategy of the telecommunications network product line: holistic roadmapping & productization
• Webified a first-of-a-kind interface to a Unix CUI system: inventive solution for largest Telco network vendors
• Guided POC design of pen-based handheld devices: launch a mobile solution with critical differentiators
• Reengineered a dataload application for ETL and rearchitected an interactive voice-response (IVR) system.
Senior Consultant. 1996 - 1997, Development Office of University Foundation
• Led system analysis and design of large-scale fundraising database systems – embedded SQL and COBOL in legacy system.
• Migrated a mainframe database application to an Internet-based client/server – modernize a multi-user database system.
• Researched feasible approaches of direct web access to the distributed relational databases – explore Java client technology.
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Tech Lead/Researcher/Freelancer. 1992 - 1996, private firms and College of Eng. and Science at Clemson Univ.
• Invented a new ART2 algorithm for real-time threshold self-adjusting – dynamic machine learning and pattern recognition.
• Architected various database systems – increase efficiency of delivery operations, customer services, and sales leads by 40%.
• Conceptualized system model methods and advised web languages – advanced HTML, dynamic web, server-side computing.
• Redesigned the kernel job scheduling & memory management algorithms in Linux OS – breakthrough analysis of geotextiles.
• Initiated an applicability study of a pattern-driven rapid development approach – widgets for feature-rich GUI & templates.
Lead System Designer/Solution Architect. 1989 - 1992, Textile Machinery & Technology Corporation
• Worked on information system design methodologies – introduce OOAD, system modeling, client/server, and expert system.
• Architected various database systems – increase efficiency of delivery operations, customer services, and sales leads by 40%.
• Steered technical trainings to the operation staff of PC facilities and supervised Information Systems management.
• Provided pre-sales solutioning proposals and consultation to customers for technology upgrades – CAD/CAM, & robots.
Consultant/Research Assistant. 1985 - 1989, private companies and university
• Invented a brand-new spinning method that was granted a patent – applied optimization and engineering analysis.
• Employed expert systems to automate a fiber identification procedure – automation via artificial intelligence in Prolog/Lisp.
• Designed numerical analysis applications in composite regression experiments – faster search algorithms for optimization.
• Conducted advanced research on computer simulation – yarn-manufacturing process to increase production stability 100%.
• 3 Graduate Degrees and 1 Undergraduate Degree
- Computer Science
(Database &
Client/Server): Dec 1996
(Straight-A)
Enterprise Arch
EDUCATION
- BS in Mechanical Engineering (Computer Aided Design/Manufacturing): Jul 1986 (1st-ranked student 4 years
in a row, merit-based scholarship every year, only student exempt from admission exams to graduate school).
- Polymer/Textile Science
(Computer Simulation and
Modeling): May 1995 (Top
student with research grants)
- Mechanical Engineering
(Computer Aided Design &
Optimization): Dec 1988 (Best
Thesis, Honor student)
COMPUTING SKILL SET AND EXPERTISE (PARTIAL LISTING)
Big Data/Cloud/SMAC
- Views: Contextual,
conceptual, logical, physical,
- and deployment
penText Metastorm,
- Software AG. Shipley.
Styles: Business, process, app,
service, platform, tech, & data
U Service modeling: SML, DSL,
ML, SOAML, SysML, SCA
ZpenUP, MSF, MDA, TRAK,
A SPL, GERAM, E2AF, BMM,
achman, TOGAF, FEA,
MOF, Archimate, ARIS, XP,
C SCRUM, DSDM, ITIL,
SOA/Web Services
- WSRR, Systinet, RAM,
I Flashline, webMethods,
- Axis, CFX, Camel, WSO2,
- XACML
nfravio, CMDB
W3C, OASIS, OMG, DMTF,
SNIA
- Oracle/Sun Certified
Enterprise Architect, Java
I Programmer, & Faculty
- IBM Certified eBusiness
/SOA Solution Designer
nstructor
Tony Shan’s Resume
WI BPM, BPEL, xBML, BAM,
D, WS-I BP/BSP, WSM
PQC PCF, SPEM, CBM, I*,
MMi, COBIT, ATAM, 6s
- UDDI, WSDL, SOAP, XSD,
REST, ebXML, WS-*, SDO,
- WSE, JAX-RPC, JAX-WS
- NoSQL store: HBase, Hive,
Hypertable, Cassandra, BigQuery,
I Infobright, CDH, MapR, Big
- Tooling: Troux, RSA/Popkin,
O Sparx EA, BiZZdesign, Mega,
- SOA method: SOMF, SOMA,
SOAD, mainstream, SODDM
- Practice 50+ arch frameworks
O & processes : RUP, EUP,
ouchDB, Drill, DynamoDB, Bigtop
- - Ingestion: Pentaho, Talend, HParser
Cnsights, Neo4j, MongoDB,
- Appliance: Netezza, Greenplum,
- Vertica, Big Data Appliance
Ja Data presentation: Pentaho, BIRT,
H Management: Fuse Fabric, Hyperic
Q, Groundwork, CDH, Ambari
- - Analytics: Mahout, Weka, Splunk
- Container: OSGi, AppFabric,
OpenStack, Docker
Program/Design Lang.
- Java, Scala, C#, Ruby on Rails,
C/C++, VB .Net, Visual C++, IDL,
ML, JavaBeans, UML, XML, XSL,
WML, WSDL, WSSL, WSFL,
WSXL, BPEL, BMPN, WSCL,
SAML, XACML, DSML, SQL,
V SQLJ, PL/SQL, ESQL/PROC, dBase,
RML, HTML/DHTML, JavaScript,
Per JScript, VBScript, Latex, OpenGL,
Fortl, Smalltalk, COBOL, JCL,
ran, Python, PHP
- IBM Senior Technical Staff Member
- appointed within 8 months after joining
Soci UPE Computer Science Honorary
- IEEE standard on SOA Reference
Architecture
ety (Straight-A in CS graduate)
Processing: MapReduce, HDFS, Pig,
Solr, ElasticSearch, Lucene, R,
Storm, Kafka, Revolution ScaleR,
Marklogic, YARN, Spark
PaaS: Azure, GAE, OpenShift, Cloud
Foundry, force.com, Redshift, Trove
sperReport, SpangoBI, Quantum
- 4D, Datameer, QlikView, Tableau
Service/Cloud Eng. Stack
- Web/portal server: Apache, Jetspeed,
Liferay, eXo, iPlanet,
- Weblogic/Aqualogic, IIS, Ajax
A Process server: BPMN, BPEL,
- ODE, BizTalk
ctiveBPEL, jBPM, WPS, WSO2 BPS,
Je App server: Websphere, JBoss, Tomcat,
tty, JRun, JONAS, Struts, JSF, Spring
- - Store: Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Middleware/MQ: WMQ, MQSeries,
MSMQ, ActiveMQ, SonicMQ,
- SwiftMQ, RabbitMQ
- Auth/auz/audit: OpenID, oAuth, JOSSO,
B Yale CAS, Acegi, Securent, JSSE, JCE,
D Business rule engine: iLOG, Blaze,
rools, NxBRE, SweetRules
- Security: OpenSSL, OpenSSH,
Jacksum, OpenSAML, Enhydra Oyster
Web Application Frameworks
Safe, Cryptix, Ping Identity, OIDAM
- SCA, Ajax, REST, Struts/Shale,
JSF/MyFaces, Tapestry, Webwork,
- Stripes, Wicket, RIFE
O Spring, Keel, Beehive, SEAM,
- Yahoo UI, OFBiz, Sofia, Expresso
- Batis, Cayenne
penLaszlo, Dojo, DWR, Echo2,
- JSON-RPC, GWT
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS (PARTIAL LISTING)
EJB session/entity/message beans, JDO,
i SDO, Hibernate, OJB, Castor, .NET,
- ISO 9000 Certified Auditor
- Contributor to Open Cloud and SOA
- Manifestos
Judge for 2010-2013 Cloud World
Series Awards in Cloud Computing
World Forum
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ESB/XML Appliance: Datapower,
WMB, ServiceMix, Camel, Mule iON,
- OpenJMS, Open ESB, Fuse ESB
Microsoft Application Blocks/Enterprise
Library, CORBA, ORB/IIOP, DCOM