Forest Sun

Senior Architect, PMI-ACP, PMP

forest.x.sun@gmail.com, 571-296-0475

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

PMI certified PMP and PMI-ACP, IT architectural expert and leader with excellent communication skills and 20 years of experience in leading all phases IT projects following the Software Project Life Cycle including Enterprise Architecture, OOP Analysis and design, project conception, development, implementation, maintenance, and closeout, experienced in leading analytical and technical teams that vary in complexity and size. Very knowledgeable in management methodologies, architectural design, implementation, maintenance and technical support of complex application systems utilizing cutting edge methodologies and technologies. 

EDUCATION

M.S., Construction Management, University of Wisconsin

B.S., Civil Engineering, Jilin Architectural and Civil Engineering College

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sunrise Dreams LLC. General Manager, April 2015 to Present

Ø       As a Senior Architect, working at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), working on system, network and solution design, producing system diagrams and other deliverables.

Ø       As a practitioner faculty, teaching technical and management course at University of Phoenix

SRA, Java Development Lead, January 2015 to March 2015

Working at the Department of Justice, working on several key solutions, including:

Ø       Quartz Scheduler – a Java based task scheduling tool

Ø       WSO2 – a open source frame work for SOA governance registry.

Data Networks Corp., Senior SOA architect, October 2013 to January 2015

Working at the Department of Defense, working along with a group of IT professionals who provide DoD with high level SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and EA (Enterprise Architecture) support. Helping the client in adapting Agile Methodology by mapping out processes and common tool sets. Deliverables produced so far (in less than a year):

Ø       VLER (Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record) EA artifacts

Ø       Data Federation Analysis and Solution Architecture

Ø       Enterprise Application Integration and Solution Architecture

Ø       Identity and Access Management Application Architecture Support

Ø       Business Rules Engine Architecture Support

Ø       Common User Architecture Support

Ø       Cloud Architecture Support

Ø       Caching Framework Support

Ø       DMIX SOA, SOI and SOE Governance Volume 1 ~ 4

SEC, Senior Java Architect, May 2012 to August 2013

Working on government contracts at Security Exchange Commission, leading a group of developers on a project using J2EE technologies on EDGAR – Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval, which is an online application for business to deal with SEC regarding their security related filings. Worked on design, development, refinement, and deployment of EDGAR.

Ø       Practicing Agile methodology in development work

Ø       Configuring Hibernate framework for the team

Ø       Using core Java and Spring, Hibernate to design and develop web based database driven application.

 

CACI, Senior J2EE Developer, July 2011 to May 2012

As a leading Senior J2EE Developer, working on government contracts using J2EE technologies, main focus being on a project for HUD – Integrated Disbursement and Information System (IDIS), which is a mission critical application for tracking and reporting on HUD grants funds. Technologies used include Oracle 11g, Sun Application server, GlassFish application server, Spring, Struts, JSF and Hibernate frameworks.

Ø       Using JQuery, AJAX, JSP in the front end developmen

Ø       Configuring Spring framework for the team

Ø       Using core Java and Spring, Hibernate to design and develop web based database driven application.

Ø       Mentored junior team members in following software life cycle and good practices. 

 

American Red Cross, Lead Software Engineer, November 2004 to June 2011

Working as a Technical Lead on multiple projects, taking up critical assignments, working with upper management and coordinating with stakeholders from both internal and external organizations to deliver mission-critical, FDA regulated software applications, with the following highlights:

·  As a technical team lead, responsible for projects scope/schedule negotiation, management, prioritization, risk analysis, and risk management.

·  Provided technical expertise about solution architecture, design, development, application knowledge to team. Used Rational Rose as a design tool for variety of design diagrams.

·  Managed the development, integration and implementation of COTS products with the organization's internal systems.

·  DevelopedService Packs using UNIX (shell script), Java and PL/SQL (oracle). Created packages, stored procedures, triggers etc. for NBCS, InTouch, and DBCU applications.

·  Developed Design Documents, Installation Instructions and Unit Test Cases.

·  Managing stakeholders’ expectations and resolving issues and conflicts.

·  Responsible for Tier 3 support, provided technical support to Tier 2 and customers. Worked with requirements, operations, QA, and customers to resolve issues.

·  Responsible for root cause analysis, engineering assessments and corrective and preventive process for many critical issues.

·  Author and instructor for Standard IT Operational Procedures used by nationwide Chapters and national headquarters. Created standards for design and coding.

Key projects delivered for American Red Corss:

Ø       NBCS – NBCS stands for National Biomedical Computer System. It is a UNIX based, database driven complex system for managing blood donation and blood products.  There are 7 live production servers, with each server supporting multiple blood regions across the nation for their daily operations of collecting blood donations, processing into blood products, and distributing to hospitals. These production systems are mission critical; FDA regulated; and with “24 by 7” availability.

Ø       eBDR – eBDR stands for electronic Blood Donor Record system. This system consists of master laptops, client laptops, Wireless Access Points, Printers, Scanners and blood processing handheld units. The master laptops contain donor and donation information which has to be synchronized frequently with the main database on UNIX system.

Ø       InTouch– Intouch is an application in support ARC’s effort of reaching out to our donor base. InTouch has its own database which has to be synchronized frequently with NBCS. InTouch also has a web-based application which allows authorized users to perform various InTouchadministration tasks such as adding, editing, and deleting rule sets or blocktypes, configurations and drives.

Ø       eDOCS – eDOCS is a COTS product with heavy ARC customizations. IT is an automated documents management and distributing system which makes variety of documents available to ARC staff and volunteers.

Ø       SmartCAPA – SmartCAPA is another COTS product with heavy ARC customizations. It refers to the full system for ARC’s problem management needs.

Ø       NDDR  – National Donor Deferral Registry  isa custom built application used for managing donor defereal information from all 36 blood regions nation wide. It is an application regulated by the FDA..

Ø      Interfaces and reporting among the above applications through XML data sharing and data warehousing

Avendra LLC, Senior Software Engineer, April 2002 to November 2004

·  Planned, designed, developed, and maintained software applications used by internal as well as external users.

·  Hosted weekly CCB meetings

·  Coordinated and managed company wide application development and maintenance efforts.

·  Negotiated with multiple stakeholders to set priorities and resolve issues and conflicts.

·  Implemented client-server billing and reporting systems.

·  Authored proposals and statements of work.

·  Initiated and managed the implementation of version control and issue tracking tools.

·  Provided technical solutions in software customizations, defects identification, and issue resolutions.

Dimension Data/Proxicom, Senior Consultant / Technical Lead, May 1999 to April 2002

·  Technical lead of the Incentive Database (IDB) project team. Developed and supported IDB application for General Motors using Java technologies, including Netscape application server, Java, Java Beans, JavaScript, RDBMS (Oracle and SQL).

·  Lead developer on the AcquireX project for Davidson Networks. AcquireX.com is a procurement network that empowers educational institutions to streamline purchasing processes and aggregate buying power. Using J2EE architecture, this web-enabled digital marketplace system integrates supplier electronic catalogs, electronic order transactions, and Oracle Financials.

·  Senior developer on the Direct Market Online website project for Merrill Lynch. Created a portal for all of Merrill's products targeted to its institutional investors. Used Microsoft technologies, including ASP, VBScript, Visual Basic, SQL, IIS, MTS, and Site Server.

Proxima, Senior Software Developer, April 1996 to May 1999

·  Led technical team in newly established New York office, helped with recruitment and training of new team members.

·  Technologies used include PERL, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, LiveWire, IIS, Netscape Server, Oracle, PL/SQL, SQL server, VB, Visual Studio, CodeFusion.

·  Provided a technical analysis for a search engine implementation project for Value Americabased onmultiple functional and scalability criteria.

·  Authored a search engine with a perl version and C version, which was then customized for a dozen of clients’ websites, including Amtrak, the US Senate, and Canadian National.

·  Developed numeral web-based applications for American Tissue Corporation, Visa International, MCI, Roche Laboratories, US Senate, etc.

University of Wisconsin, Teaching Assistant, November1994 to April 1996

·  Designed and implemented multiple websites for classroom use.

·  Designed curriculum and taught an Introduction to Internet Technology class.

CERTIFICATES

PMI certified PMP and PMI-ACP

Sun Certified Web Component Developer for J2EE

Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)