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Objectives
Chief
Technical Officer with
background as a Director
of Architecture and Vice
President of Engineering looking to join a growing
entrepreneurial organization as part of the leadership team with potential
for advancement to executive levels
Education
Masters in Advanced Mathematics and Statistics
Graduated
15.06.1991
Several
times awarded at Olympics for Math, participant over 4+ years at monthly
competitions solving unresolved problems and being many times published in
national mathematics magazines
experience
Chief
Architect | Huawei
Wireless R&D, Santa Clara, CA
06/2015 -
current
Architect the next generation Software Defined
Networking and Network Function Virtualization Platforms and a
Microservices based foundation using an Agile DevOps globally dispersed
team aiming at a very loosely-coupled dynamically configurable platform and
yet achieving extremely low-latency required in the given domain.
Technologies used: Scala, Java, C, C++, Spark, Hadoop, Docker, OpenStack
and a very large collection of fast moving open source technologies
allowing us to use a Docker PaaS approach for DevOps, CI/CD, Automated
Testing and the overall life-cycle.
Chief
Technology Officer & Advisor | Solique
AG, Zoffingen, CH
10/2008 –
11/2014 respectively since as Advisor
creating a real-time
advertising exchange between publishers
and
advertisers,
establishing
the architecture and business model for platform usage. Designed strategy of an overall technology
and market portfolio for a market leader in the European advertisement space.
Created a BI solution and a SaaS-based advertising
server platform to allow the most flexible and configurable operation and
reporting structure for a B2B market. Defined and implemented a strategy to automate
software
development life cycle for a heterogeneous
environment in both technology and resources.
Outlined an outsourcing and transition plan to
a next generation services platform to allow the
federation of all participants in the advertisement eco-system from publishers, consumers, and gateways
to professional users. Articulated and implemented a patent portfolio across
all technology spectrum in-house. Defined new markets and business models.
Recruited, interviewed, hired, trained and operated in an
outsourcing
model, and created the next generation version
of products in the
advertisement space.
Global
Director of Architecture | Novartis
Insitute for Biomedical Research, Basel, CH
10/2011 –
10/2013 parallel to Solique
Created an Enterprise SOA platform for managing
an eco-system of services using a very agile execution using Scrum and
Kanban as well as DevOps enabled lifecycle. Worked within a technology spectrum consisting of C++, C#, Java, Scala, JavaScript,
HTML5, Python, PHP, RoR, ASP.NET, JSP, Oracle, SQL Server, Vertica, Hadoop, Spark, Akka, MySQL, Solr, Linux, Oracle
BPM, Tibco and all the AWS Services. Created and implemented a strategy for federated authentication and authorization with mixed private and public
Cloud services infrastructure based on SAML, LDAP and Active
Directory. Established and implemented a "big data" parallel data
warehouse based on a mix of technologies
from Hadoop, HDInsight, HBase, Hive, Spark as well as Oracle, SQL Server,
MySql, Mongo, Couch. Expertly
automated the provisioning of virtual machines to offer a
scalable service hosting platform and optimized
infrastructure (PaaS) cloud usage.
Chief
Architect & VP of Engineering | Linqware
LLC, Bothell, WA
10/2005 –
10/2008
Established a converging
architecture, both technical and business oriented, to accelerate the process of taking a concept to an
operating startup. Served as the architect for N2N SOA solutions for various industries, and an ESB platform customized and deployed in a variety of
solutions across several
FinTech verticals using C#, Java J2EE, NBus, WCF, web-services, SQL, Oracle, MySql, Mongo,
PostgreSql. Enhanced the
communication platform at Linqware with a comprehensive BI cockpit, allowing near real-time reporting across all
sectors as B2C and B2B channels. Established a scale-out architecture for
parallel execution of various pattern matching algorithms used in the
FinTech industry across various types of commodities. Automated builds,
tests and deployments using an agile execution.
Senior
Principal Consultant, Head of Emea SOA Center for Excellence | Microsoft Corp, USA, Germany, South-Korea
05/2000 –
10/2004
Led, Architected and
Developed very large scale Integration Architectures for largest Microsoft
Customers worldwide SOA enabling Enterprise Architectures by creating and
orchestrating complete back-end systems through employing of Service Bus
and Workflow based Server Products. Managing complete
engagements of multi-million $ value and creating and project-managing
heterogeneous teams across multiple continents. Established and led Center
of Excellence for Integration Solutions across EMEA. Created first
Microsoft SOA based platform for Call-Center Frameworks and OSS/BSS
Provisioning within the Telecom Industry. Used a variety of platforms, the
majority of which being based on IBM, Oracle and Microsoft Stacks. Actively
led and executed SOA based projects with Deutsche Telekom, Mobilkom
Austria, France Telecom, Korea Telecom, Qwest, AT&T and Verizon.
Director
of Engineering | Heureka-Klett,
Munich DE and Vancouver BC
12/1994 –
05/2000
Led, Architected and
Developed 20 Learning Systems for the largest publisher in
Germany creating a revenue source of over 20 million per year. In the area
of Language learning, Algebra, Chemistry, Physics we were the market leader
helping children with learning games achieve better results and having fun
learning. Technologies used were C++, Object-Oriented Programming under
Win32 and various database technologies as well as high-end C++ rendering
Engines. The games had built-in adaptive learning techniques and
sophisticated algorithms for managing the learning progress and adapting
for each student experience. Since 1998, we switched large portions of the
product line unto the Java platform. Led a team of 30 Software Engineers
and about 20 external resources for project management and testing.
Senior
Software Engineer | CPG,
Munich DE
09/1993 –
12/1994
Led, Architected and
Developed Wealth-Management solutions for various banks in Germany using
various statistical modeling implemented in C/C++ for a variety of
commodities.
Software
Engineer | Isotronic,
Bad Koengishofen DE
02/1992 –
09/1993
Developed Pattern-Matching
based Image Processing Quality assurance systems implemented in C++ and OOP
Certifications
20+ Software and IT
certifications obtained since 1997 to date
skills
•Proficient in: Java, C#,
C++, VB.NET, Python, PHP, Scala, Erlang, RoR, ASP.NET, Ajax, Spring, OSGI,
WCF, WPF, Silverlight, WWF, QT, Sockets, UDP, Multithreading, Boost, STL
•Database: Oracle (Exadata, Active
Guard, RAC, Enterprise Manager),
Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSql,
Vertica, CouchDB
•Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Android
and iOS
•SOA: Tibco, Oracle BPM, Biztalk, IBM,
WSO, CA-Layer7, Mule
•Web: JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5,
ASP.NET, Ajax, Silverlight, JSP,
Node.js+Mongo+Angular.js
•Web-Search and Analysis: Spotfire, Apache
SOLR
•Business Intelligence, Data-Warehouse,
Share-Point, IBM Cognos,
Informatica
•Monitoring/Load-Test: Studio Perf
Analyzer, JMeter, Dynatrace, LoadRunner, HP SiteScope, Splunk
•Multithreading with C/C++, POSIX, C#Async,
Java Libraries, Data-Governance, Data Warehouse
•BigData & NoSql: Scala, Hadoop,
Vertica, CouchDB, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Cloudera, ZooKeeper, Cassandra,
Sqoop, HDInsight
•Data-Governance: InfoSphere Master Data
Management, IBM Enterprise
Records, IBM eDiscovery Manager, IBM
Classification Module
•Performance Tuning: Query Analysis,
Execution Plans, Contention Locking, Index Optimization, Caching- and
In-Memory Technologies
Project Management Skills
•TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL, MS-Project
•Risk-Management, Budget Management
Development and Operations Methodologies
•Agile Software Development, Scrum, Kanban,
Extreme Programming
•Waterfall, RUP
•Continuous Integration Delivery,
Jenkins, Maven, Automated Testing
•Automated Provisioning of Virtual Machines in
private and public Clouds
Cloud Computing
•Amazon AWS Technologies: S3, Dynamo, RDS,
EC2, CDN, VPC, DNS, Lambda, Aurora
•Azure Technologies: SQL, Blob, Reporting,
Hadoop, HDInsight, Azure Service Bus, Notifications
•IBM Technologies: SoftLayer, BlueMix,
CastIron
•VMWare: Air, Cloud Suite, Cloud Foundry,
Virtualization, SDN, SDDC
•Services based Framework for VM Provisioning,
OpenStack, Solum, SDS, SDDC, Docker, OpenShift
•SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, BPaaS
•Cloud Storage: S3, CEPH, RADOS
•Cloud Security, SARBOX, HIPPA, VPG, AWS
DirectConnect, Azure AD Cloud Connector
Architecture
•Zachman, TOGAF, Rational Suite, Governance
Frameworks, Business 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,
•CA-Layer 7
•SAP: NetWeaver, DW, BW, ERP-Modules,
Human-Resource
LANGUAGES
German,
English, French, Romanian
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