Randy Robinette Senior Enterprise/Solutions Architect phone: 470-588-2724  |  email: gorobinette@gmail.com |  Greater Atlanta Area, GA

 

Summary:

Over 25 years’ experience at IBM creating and delivering advanced architectures and business solutions.  Expertise in enterprise domain analysis and developing business requirements, architectures, models, designs and governance.  Proven leadership guiding and mentoring teams of architects, developers and testers through dozens of complex global projects.  Chief Architect for e-commerce site yielding $17 billion in annual revenues.  Extensive background in solution architectures using middleware, ESB’s, web services, databases and enterprise integrations.  Excellent verbal, written, presentation and facilitation skills.

Professional Experience:

2013–present: Hiatus, not employed

•      Hiatus for family, travel, further education and other personal ambitions

•      250+ hours of hands-on business and IT-related courses to maintain currency

2013: Senior Business Architect, IBM Services Enablement

•      Managed portfolio requirements, process and use case models for IBM Services applications, including negotiations with a team of 50+ global  stakeholders and subject matter experts

•      Enterprise Architecture Review Board (ARB) member and advisor, ensuring best practices, governance and the alignment of projects with strategic initiatives and roadmaps

2012: Executive Architect, IBM CIO

•      Consultant and architectural advisor for challenged projects

•      Resolved performance issues in contracts, estimating and price analytics apps

•      Defined and delivered physical architecture upgrades and several application releases

•      Improved system reliability and manageability by redefining architectures to leverage new common service engines for process automation and business rules execution

2008-2011: Enterprise Architect, IBM CIO

•      Led the analysis, modeling and architecture for partner integration solutions covering all client-facing processes, including customer and product data, opportunities, ordering, invoicing, sales reporting, inventory management and others

•      Led a collaborative team of 10 architects and 15 projects within the client-facing portfolio

•      Proposed and delivered new processes and SOA technology layer for partner on-boarding

•      Proposed and delivered a solution for 200+ partners to exchange vital data with IBM and other partners using DataPower SOA appliances as an API  gateway

•      Designed and delivered a flexible solution for electronic catalogs and pricing APIs

•      Thought leader among a team of global experts to define a holistic and sustainable view of Enterprise B2B governing principles, strategy, architecture and road map

 

2004-2008: Enterprise Architect, IBM Global Services

•      Architected a full-stack web application for matching partner orders to opportunities

•      Led and directed a team of 8 architects across full life cycles of 20 integration projects

•      Co-led an SOA diagnostic and organizational maturity assessment with recommendations

1990-2003: Chief Architect, IBM Marketing & Partner Programs

•      Technical lead for mission critical e-commerce website yielding $17 billion annual revenue

•      Integrated with back end order management, catalogs, customer information and other systems

•      Established an EDI Gateway for electronic ordering and $1 billion in annual invoicing

•      Co-chaired EDIFACT Interactive EDI standards body for e.g. travel and insurance industries

 

Skills:

Functional:  Business Architecture (10yr), Enterprise Architecture (16), Solution Architecture (23), Technical Architecture (23), SOA(8), OOA/OOD (16), Requirements Management (30), Process Modeling (16), Data Modeling (16), Software Development (30), SDLC (30), Lead teams (16), Waterfall (30), Agile (6)

 

Software:  IRIS Business Architect;  Sparx Enterprise Architect; Eclipse; IBM DataPower ESB, Message Broker ESB (IIB), Websphere ESB, Business Modeler, Blueworks Live, DB2 UDB, MQ, Data Studio, Rational Software Architect (RSA), Data Architect (RDA), RequisitePro; MS Visual Studio, MSSQL, Office, Visio, Access; Altova XML Spy and Mission Kit; Windows, Linux, AIX, MVS, CICS; Bizagi process engine

 

Other:  C/C++/C#, Java, Python, Basic, SQL, Rexx, XML/XSD/XSLT/WSDL, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, X12, SOAP, REST, API’s, EDIFACT, IDOC, ebXML, OAGi, RosettaNet, Xpath, Xquery, UML, BPMN

 

Certifications:

2009-2013:The Open Group, Distinguished IT Architect

2009-2013:IBM Senior IT Architect

2003-2009:IBM IT Architect

2005:IBM SOA Solution Designer

 

Awards:

2008: Patent Issue Award, Remote Procedure Calls (2 patents)

1998, 1999:Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for PartnerCommerce (2)

1986: Technical Achievement Award for test automation tools

 

Education:

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Liberal Arts and Sciences

250+ hours of recent hands-on education in the following areas:

Development: TIBCO BusinessWorks 6, webMethods, MS Visual Studio 2015, DreamWeaver CC, Aptana Studio 3, Web Development and animation, Node.js, Python, WordPress, IoT, Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google)

 

Data:  Data Science by Johns Hopkins, Big Data by UC San Diego, Cloudera Hadoop, Tableau 9, modeling in Sparx EA and Erwin, MS SQL Server 2014, MySQL, NoSQL

 

Business Analysis: Process, requirements, use case modeling, Business Architecture Guild webinars, IRIS Business Architect, prep for TOGAF 9 certifications

 

Security:  Cybersecurity and its 10 Domains, Kennesaw State University, GA (Coursera)

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