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Resume Headline: chief architect

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Name:                             Iosif Valentin Ionas

             

 

Residence:               Switzerland

Citizenship:              Canadian, Romanian

Languages:              English, German, French, Romanian

 

Education:               1987-1991              B.S., Computer Science

GPA: 9.00 out of 10.00

University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

             

1982-1986              GPA: 9.00 out of 10.00

Multiple times awarded at national Olympics for math and several times published in national magazine for mathematics

Moise Nicoara Math & Physics College, Arad, Romania

 

 

 

Technical:              Languages

·         Proficient in: C++, C#, Java, VB.NET, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, Ajax, WCF, WPF, Silverlight, WWF, QT, Sockets, UDP, Multithreading, Boost, STL

Software & Technologies

·         Database: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSql, Vertica, CouchDB

·         Platforms: Microsoft Windows and Linux

·         Web: JavaScript, HTML5, ASP.NET, Ajax, Silverlight, JSP

·         Business Intelligence, Date-Warehouse, Share-Point, IBM Cognos

Databases and Data-Governance

·         Database: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSql, Vertica, CouchDB, MapReduce, Hadoop, NoSQL

·         Data-Governance: InfoSphere Master Data Management, IBM Enterprise Records, IBM eDiscovery Manager, IBM Classification Module

Project Management Skills

·         TOGAF, Zachman, MS-Project

·         Risk-Management, Budget Management

Development and Operations Methodologies

·         Agile Software Development, Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming

·         Waterfall, RUP

·         Continuous Integration Delivery, Jenkins, Automated Testing

·         Automated Provisioning of Virtual Machines in private and public Clouds

Cloud Computing

·         Amazon Technologies, Azure, KVM, XEN

·         Services based Framework for VM Provisioning, OpenStack

·         SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

·         VLDB

·         Cloud Security, SARBOX, HIPPA

·         Cloud Storage, EC2

IT and Operations

·         Data-Center Management

·         Support Models, Ticketing System, Testing-Frameworks, Deployment Frameworks, Continuous Integration Delivery

Security

·         Federated Authentication

·         SAML, Active Directory, LDAP

·         Claims based Authentication and Authorization

 

Consulting

·         Proposals; RFP, Project Management, Process Optimization

·         Business Analysis, BPM, EAI, SOA

Architecture

·         SOA, Cloud Computing, Loosely Coupling

·         Design-Patterns, UML, Services

·         Security Frameworks, SAML, LDAP, AD

·         EAI, BPM, ESBs – BizTalk, Tibco, Oracle SOA Suite, Mule, WSO2

Mathematics

·         Advanced Mathematics and Statistics Background

·         Awarded multiple times at National Olympics for Math

 

 

Contact: +41 79 215 1952

 

 

 

Employment Summary:             

 

                           

Oct 2011 – present              Director of Architecture with Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland +

Advisor Solique AG, Rickenbach, SO

 

 

 

·         Company Details: World Leader in Biomedical Research. Over 6000 Researchers worldwide need sophisticated software infrastructure and tools to support them in their goal of creating new drug targets and saving lives. About 500 Software Developers in house and outsourced work on creating the required software.

·         CORE Project: Creating an Enterprise SOA Platform for managing an Ecosystem of Services and allow for a very agile execution in an environment that is constantly changing. Technology spectrum is maximal heterogonous containing among other things C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, HTML5, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, JSP, JavaScript, Oracle, SQL Server, Vertica, MySQL, Windows, Linux, BizTalk, Tibco, Oracle BPM, etc.

·         Creating and Implementing a Strategy for Federated Authentication and Authorization with mixed private and public Cloud Services Infrastructure based on SAML, LDAP and Active Directory

·         Creating an Architecture that allows for reusability and lower TCO of the Systems despite a very agile and short-term oriented development.

·         Continuous Integration Delivery with Agile Scrum and Kanban Development

·         Automated Tests and Builds on several environments in parallel

·         Automated provisioning of Virtual Machines to offer a scalable (out, up, down and in) Service Hosting Platform and optimize the cloud usage of the infrastructure (PaaS)

 

 

 

Oct 2008 – Oct 2011              CTO unio AG – Rickenbach, SO, Switzerland

 

CTO

 

·         Company Details: Market Leader in Switzerland in the Advertising Industry. 70 People working for unio including outsourcing and freelancers. 30 Programmers working for unio, 6 Project Managers, 6 Support Engineers. Over 500 Customers using unios’s products, where each customer can have hundreds of thousands of its own direct customers.

·         CORE Project: Creating a Real-Time Advertising Exchange between Publishers and Advertiser. Creating the architecture and the business model for the usage of the platform.

·         Create Strategy for an overall Technology and Market Portfolio for Market Leader in the European Advertisement Space

·         Create a Business Intelligence Solution for a Hub SaaS based Advertising Server Platform allowing most flexible and configurable reporting structure for a “Business to Business” Market.

·         Define and Implement a Strategy to Automate Software Development Life-Cycle for a heterogeneous Environment, both technology- as well as resource-wise

·         Define an outsourcing and transition plan to a Next-Generation Service Platform that allows the federation of all participants in the Advertisement Eco-System, from Publishers, Consumers, Gateways to Professional Users, etc.

·         Articulate and Implement a patent portfolio across all the Technology spectrum in house

·         Define new markets and business models especially with focus on the Mobile Advertising space

·         Search, Interview, hire, train, operate in an outsourcing model and create next generation version of products in the Advertisement space

·         Technologies used, C#, Silverlight, WPF, WCF, WWF, Java, J2EE, JMS, JavaBeans, Java Identity, J2ME, C++, Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Data-Warehousing and Analysis Services, Oracle Hyperion, IBM Cognos, Web-Services, PostgreSQL, Groovy & Grails, JBoss, ASP.NET, DOJO

·         The overall User Interface for the latest Auctioning and Brokering Platform is being created using Silverlight and WPF making calls into a WCF Services Layer that in turn retrieve Data from SQL Server. The Silverlight Architecture is creating using MEF and MVC, it is throughout very decoupled from the Services Layer, makes extensive use of LINQ and Aspect Oriented Programming, several Patterns not only in the User Interface Layer but also in the Services Layer and in the Integration Layer. The Back End Architecture contains over 400 WCF Service-Methods and is in the industry one of the most advanced services architecture when compared to our competitors. The Silverlight Architecture makes also use of WWF and an XML Description for the Workflow, makes extensive use of XML Schemas and auto-generated C# Objects. The SQL Server Layer is highly optimized by making use of fine tuned indexes and optimized execution plans as well as exclusive use of Stored Procedures and Set-Oriented logic. In the Presentation Layer we make use of XAML and an XML Engine that auto-generates XAML for the purpose of dynamically adapting the Silverlight Screens to Customer specific Requirements, at runtime.

·         Continuous Integration Delivery with Jenkins and MSBuild

·         Automated Testing with Selenium

·         Automated Builds & Deployment

·         Overall operation of a mixed model with Outsourced Development Teams

 

 

                           

Oct 2005 – Oct 2008              VP of Engineering & Chief Architect Linqware LLC – Bothell, WA

 

 

·         Over 50 Employees working for Linqware and over 8 Startups that cooperate with it in an incubation farm model. My responsibility lied in creating a converging architecture both technical and business wise to accelerate the process of taking an idea into an operating startup.

·         Architect N2N SOA Based IT solutions for the Hospitality Industry

·         Architect a SOA  ESB Platform that can easily be customized and deployed in a variety of customer deployments across several industries and market scenarios, using C#, Java, J2EE, Oracle Financials, WCF, Web-Services, SQL, Oracle, DB2

·         Enhance the overall Communication Platform at Linqware with a comprehensive Business Intelligence Cockpit allowing near real-time reporting across all sectors in a Business 2 Consumer as well as Business to Business Solution.

·         Creating a Healthcare focused Patient Data Management System and a platform that promotes convergence of Healthcare and Hospitality. Architected the overall system architecture and business plan for a separate startup.

·         Creating a Scale-Out architecture for parallel execution of Genetic Algorithms. Worked together with a Nobel Prize Winner Biologist to create a portfolio that addresses the accelerated execution of Genetic Algorithms. My role was to architect a generic platform that allows an exponentially faster execution and a business plan for a new startup in that field.

·         Creating the architecture and productize strategy for a portfolio of Pattern Matching algorithms in the area of Medical Imaging. Create the business models for a new startup in that area.

·         Create long term vision for scalability, availability, maintainability and carrier-class Enterprise Solutions

·         Create strategy and architecture for the next generation Pattern Matching and Behavioral Analysis Business Intelligence Solutions across a variety of Industries (Financial Industry-Hedge Funds, Media & Entertainment, Gaming, Hospitality, Medical, Government, Telecommunication)

·         Architect an Commodities trading-platform (oil end energy) for managing the overall business processes for a very large US commodities market.

·         Architect next generation of distributed Artificial Neural-Network moving towards Enterprise Grade IT

·         Architect a Trading and Funds Management platform based on Pattern Matching and several other Artificial Intelligence Technologies; designed and implemented financial algorithms, management of credit derivatives, statistical arbitrage, private pension funds, long-short equities,  currency derivatives 

·         Architect pattern matching based solutions across a variety of industries

·         Architect Data-Warehousing solutions and a SOA based ETL Enterprise Server

·         Technologies used, Java, J2EE, JMS, JavaBeans, Java Identity, J2ME, C#, C++, WCF, WPF, Silverlight, SOA Service Broker, WWF, Oracle, SQL Server, SQL Data-Warehousing, Web-Services, IBM WebSphere, SAP NetWeaver, Share Point Server, BizTalk, Data-Mining, Tibco, LDAP

·         The overall Platform Architecture of Linqware makes extensive use of WCF and a large collection of services in the back-end driven by a SOA Enterprise Service Bus. The User Interface makes use of Silverlight and asynchronous calls into the WCF Services Layer.

·         Automated Testing using Selenium

·         Automated Builds with MS Build

·         Automated Deployments

·         Agile and Scrum Development

 

                                         

 

 

Oct 2004 – Sep 2005              eTalk Corporation – Irving, Texas, USA

 

Lead Sr. Software Architect  (Main Architect)

 

·         Company Information: Over 300 Employees; My role was to create a unique architecture across all eTalk products to enable them to scale and move into a new generation of software, away from the very component oriented to a loosely coupled, distributed  service based architecture.

·         Architect N2N Call-Center solutions based on Microsoft Technologies

·         Create long term vision for scalability, availability, maintainability and carrier-class Enterprise Solutions based on Microsoft solutions for the Contact-Center Industry

·         Create strategy and architecture for the next generation carrier class VOIP solutions for the Call-Center & Customer Care industry

·         Create an unstructured Data-Warehouse that brings unstructured voice-recordings into an Enterprise Warehouse for a next generation 360 Degrees View of the Call-Center Customer using SQL Server Data-Warehousing.

·         Create strategy for hosting solutions in the Call-Center industry and architect a framework which will allow eTalk solutions to be deployed and maintained in various topologies from fully-hosted to fully on-site deployments

·         Technologies used, Java, J2EE, JSP, JDBC, Oracle, DB2, BEA Web-Logic, IBM Web-Sphere, SQL Server, SQL Server Business Intelligence, Web-Services, SAP ABAP 4, Share Point Server, BizTalk, Crystal Reports

 

 

 

 

Jun 2000 – Oct 2004              Microsoft Corporation – Redmond, USA & München, Germany, EMEA

 

Senior/Principal Consultant/Architect                                                             

 

·         Focusing on SOA Architectures, ESB Deployments, BizTalk, Tibco, IBM Web-Sphere, SharePoint Server, C#, Web-Services, SQL Server, SQL Business Intelligence

·         Advisory role across all subsidiaries in the area of .NET

·         Project-Management, Knowledge Transfer, Communities Building around topics required by European Subsidiaries

·         Working for MCS Subsidiaries (customer) in the role of Project Lead or Architect

·         Worked for/with MCS Austria, Germany, Spain, France focusing on the Financial Industry, FX, Derivatives, Asset Management

·         Created some of the largest Data-Warehouses based on SQL Server for the Financial and Telecommunication industry for the purpose of better understanding Customers and Services.

·         Creating the architecture for a Country-Wide Data-Warehouse and Online Product that manages Healthcare Patient and Record Information for the Czech Government.

·         Led a FIX Implementation for a Dutch Bank and created a  SOA  Extension from FIX to XML Web-Services.

·         Created a Payment Gateway System based on SWIFT for large financial institution in Brasil

·         Led Business Process Automation based on BizTalk, Java, C#, SQL, Oracle, DB2, ASP.NET, WebServices for France Telecom

·         Cooperate with MCS Germany on projects for BMW (Share Point Server), Bavarian Finance Ministry

·         Cooperate with MCS Austria on Mobilkom Austria Project

·         Focusing on .NET Framework, BizTalk,Tibco, IBM Web-Sphere and generally Messaging and EAI Scenarios

·         All MS programming language + Java/J2EE

·         Led Architectural Design Sessions, Proof of Concepts and Production Level Development Engagements through all phases including Business Analysis and Project Management

·         Led ADSL Provisioning Architecture and Development for Korea Telecom, based on BizTalk, PubSub, WebServices, C#, SQL Server, SharePoint Server Oracle Migration

·         Lead a .NET Engagement for Qwest based on WebServices, C#, SQL Server

·         Led a large OSSBSS project in the Microsoft Partners Solution Center based on WebServices, C#, SQL Server, SAP Web-Services, Exchange Server, Microsoft CRM and various off the shelf offerings

·         Led a migration-project to .NET of a Corba/COM/DB2/AIX/Mainframe CRM/Ordering/Billing System at Verizon, Dallas

·         Location based services Pocket PC engagement at AT&T for managing of online presence and the backend Customer Care for that system

·         Lead a J2EE Migration/Integration  project for a Storage Provisioning Company in San Jose, Maranti Networks.

·         Focusing on .NET, BizTalk, Commerce Server, SQL Server, SQL Server BI, Active Directory, C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET

·         Proof of Concepts for integrating Siebel with Web-Services

·         Proof of Concept using Clarify and Web-Services

·         Lead various Proof of concepts and Architectural Design Sessions for customers from all industries, focusing on the Government Industry

·         Designed and Developed Internet Software for schools part of the Microsoft Class Server Product Group.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jul 1997 – Jun 2000              Jonas Software – Burnaby, BC, Canada

 

Chief Architect and Owner                                                                                

 

·         Company Size: 5 Employees plus 3-5 freelancers. My Role was to create a profitable services organization selling Engagements to Canadian companies and my former Employer Heureka Klett.

·         Architected a Case-Management and Distributed Management of Imaging Records for Health Vision in BC, Canada.

·         Architected, Designed and Led the development of an Intranet/Internet Document Management/Knowledge Management Portal for 4000 internal users and 10000+ external customers, using  Site Server 3  Membership & Authentication, Knowledge Management, Commerce Server (Sales + Marketing Campaign)

·         Project Management, Designed, Lead development for various Internet/Intranet projects in the area of for different financial institutions in BC, Canada (such as Royal Bank and HSBC) in the area of  Stock, Commodities, Currency Exchanges, Asset Management, 

·         Designed an intranet based authoring tool for teachers in Germany used for content management of various schoolbooks.

·         Technologies used: Java/J2EE, Visual C++, VB, ATL, COM, MTS, Oracle, SQL Server, Rational Rose, SAP, Siebel, Clarify, ADSL/LDAP, Site Server

 

 

Dec 1994 – May 1999              Heureka Klett Softwareverlag

München, Germany (12 1994 - 07. 1997)

Burnaby, BC, Canada (07.1997-05.2000)

 

Director of Software Engineering                                                                

 

·         Company Information: over 70 Employees, of which 30 were technical resources technically reporting to me. I was the architect of the transition and re-engineer of the overall product portfolio (about 20 Products) from the MS DOS world to Windows, Object Oriented Architectures. Programs developed were sold each over 200000 times across Germany, rendering revenues of over 20 Million German Marks.

·         Directed, Designed, Led the Development of Learning Software for the biggest schoolbook publisher in Germany

·         Managed about 10 Projects per year with a budget of approximately 20 M  / year.

·         Led a team of  30 Resources

·         Technologies used:: Java/J2EE, Visual C++, VB, ATL, COM, MTS, Oracle, SQL Server, Access, DAO

 

 

Sep 1993 – Dec 1994              CPG GmbH – München, Germany

 

Software Engineer                                                                                            

 

·         Company Info: about 30 Employees and Freelancers. My primary focus was to architect, implement and deploy a System for the Kassenärztliche Association that automated the reading of healthcare records and manage the billing systems.

·         Designed and developed a payment gateway systems for various Finance Institutions in Germany such as  Hypo Vereinsbank

·         Designed and developed an Asset Management system for the financial Industry

·         Technologies used: C++, Oracle, Informix, OS2, Windows SDK

 

 

Mar 1992 – Sep 1993              Isotronic GmbH – Bad Königshofen, Germany

 

Software Engineer                                                                                        

 

·         Company Info: over 300 Employees, of which 4 in the Development Team. Re-Architected and developed a distributed Windows Object Oriented Architecture taking MS-DOS Source Code and recreating the systems. Also, creating a distributed and integrated architecture, database design and management systems capable of taking disconnected MS-DOS systems, creating network drivers for an internal network protocol that allows systems to communicate with each other in real time for the purpose of quality assurance based on each other’s image processing results. System was deployed in various industries, from healthcare to pharmaceutical, to production systems.

·         Designed and developed a data-management system and  a distributed  image-processing systems used for: quality assurance in the  production of, medical ampules or any other serial production. The system increased the quality assurance of the systems at nearly 100%.

·         Technologies used: C++, Pascal, Assembler, dBase, MFC

             

 

Courses

Business Leaders in IT Munich Germany, 1994, 6 month course

 

 

 

Certifications

·       Microsoft Certified Application DeveloperFor Microsoft .NETJun 19, 2002

·       Microsoft Certified Professional + Site BuildingNov 19, 1999

·       Microsoft Certified Solution DeveloperNov 08, 1996

·       Microsoft Certified Solution DeveloperFor Microsoft .NETApr 15, 2003

·       Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0Nov 08, 1996

·       Microsoft Certified Professional Oct 11, 1996

·       300 Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures Apr 15, 2003

·       315 Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET and Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET Jul 12, 2002

·       305 Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET and Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET Jul 10, 2002

·       320 Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft Visual C# .NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework Jun 24, 2002

·       310 Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET and the Microsoft® .NET Framework Jun 19, 2002

·       230 Designing and Implementing Solutions with Microsoft® BizTalk Server 2000, Enterprise Edition Jun 17, 2002

·       229 Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Enterprise Edition May 06, 2002

·       316 Developing and Implementing Windows®-based Applications with Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET and Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET Apr 08, 2002

·       306 Developing and Implementing Windows®-based Applications with Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET and Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NETApr 05, 2002

·       57 Designing & Implementing Commerce Solutions w/ Microsoft® Site Server 3.0, Commerce Edition Nov 19, 1999

·       15 Designing and Implementing Distributed Applications with Microsoft® Visual C++ 6.0Nov 04, 1999

·       16 Designing and Implementing Desktop Applications with Microsoft® Visual C++ 6.0Nov 04, 1999

·       100 Analyzing Requirements and Defining Solution Architectures Sep 30, 1999

·       152 Designing and Implementing Web Solutions with Microsoft® Visual InterDev 6.0May 13, 1999

·       175 Designing and Implementing Distributed Applications with Microsoft® Visual Basic 6.0Jan 29, 1999

·       24 Developing Applications with C++ Using the Microsoft® Foundation Class Library Nov 08, 1996

·       69 Microsoft® Access for Windows® 95 and the Microsoft® Access Developer’s Toolkit Oct 25, 1996

·       151 Microsoft® Windows® Operating Systems and Services Architecture II Oct 18, 1996

·       150 Microsoft® Windows® Operating Systems and Services Architecture I Oct 11, 1996

 

 

Objective

I am seeking a position that will enable me to further grow and exploit my previous experiences while being able to innovate at large scale

 



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