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Chris Ahrendt 

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Jacksonville, FL  32221
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Christopher Ahrendt

11233 Panther Creek Parkway

Jacksonville Florida, 32221

(904) 377-7643 (Cell)

chrisahrendt@bellsouth.net

Technical summary

Chris Ahrendt is a Senior Solutions Architect who can perform complete system life cycle implementations from design to implementation. He has been involved in several key application efforts. These systems have been successfully implemented solutions for these key accounts on numerous occasions in the roll of a Solutions Architect or Systems Consultant.

 

Professional experience

Profile

Implemented the core business event process and business process management.

Served on the architectural design board for the next generation SOA.

Served on the architectural design board for the next generation business event processing.

Implemented a base SOA reference architecture using several event based technologies.

Technical Lead for North America on Business Events in ISSW.

Assisted in the Architecture of a MQ ESE enterprise solution

Architected  WSRR solutions to provide service registry services for dynamic process routing.

Architected and implemented several large MQ infrastructures.

Architected and implemented several large message broker implementations.

Architected a dynamic routing architecture for the base WebSphere Message Broker product.

Assisted in the design and initial implementation of a SOA ESB for the banking industry.

Assisted in the messaging architecture for a several fortune 500 companies.

Assisted in Code and Architecture Evaluation for a large east coast cable provider.

Designed and began the implementation of a Wholesale and Retail payments SOA Infrastructure for the financial sector using IBM and third party vendor products.

Migrated Enterprise TIBCO installation over to WebSphere Technologies.

Implemented on-line adjudication of health insurance claims using the Tuxedo messaging.

 

 

Career History

2010 – Present  BOA FL,US

Architect 

  One of the Architectural Leads for the Business Process Management space. Architected and Implemented several Event Driven Architecture Systems for the bank. Developed the enterprise specifications for events and Architected the current events repository for the consumer products space. Additionally designed several BPM Solutions. Supported migrations from one platform to the current Apian platform. Within the SOT Architecture we have to participate in both Waterfall and Agile projects in various portions of the lifecycle of the project. Provided key architectural components for several bank systems. These include Bank Amerideals, Global Wealth, Financial Analyst Alerts, and Apple Pay. These systems used event driven architecture coupled with business rules to provide a targeted event for these systems. Assisted in the migration and architecture to Apian of a key business process within the bank. Provided key architectural evaluation of event processing engines including WSO2, Apian, and Tibco Business Events.

 

 

2000 – 5/2010IBM, FL, US

Solutions Architect

North American Technical Lead for Business Events Space.

Member of the event driven architecture Specifications team

Member of the ESB SOA specifications Team

Designed and implemented base SOA reference architecture for event services for several fortune 500 firms.

Assisted in the Architecture of a MQ ESE enterprise solution

Architectural design and provided troubleshooting for several WebSphere Message broker clients. Among them a content based processing architecture which has been included as part of the WebSphere Message Broker.

Developed and Implemented the Architecture for WSRR for several fortune 500 and government organizations.

Installed and configured WSRR to provide dynamic process routing and service definitions.

Developed messaging architecture several fortune 500 firms.

Developed the architecture for SOA ESB in the banking industry.

Assisted in Code and Architecture Evaluations for several fortune 500 firms.

Assisted in the implementation and migration to WBI-FN for a large clearing house.

Developed the architecture of a Wholesale and Retail payments SOA Infrastructure using IBM and third party vendor products. This Architecture provides a SOA implementation to the financial industry.

Developed several Architectural stories for Agile projects in various industries.

Participated in the ISO20022 development committee for SWIFT payments.

Core member of the IBM Academy of Technology SOA-Complex Event Processing Committee

Member of the ISSW Architecture best practices committee for SOA-ESB

Implemented enterprise architecture solutions for Distributed and 390 platforms.

Provided the solution architecture for a large Caribbean Telecom used to run the enterprise business processes.

Problem determination and performance tuning for J2EE applications on distributed and Mainframe, platforms

Developed and Implemented the architecture for several clients with high transaction volumes and complex business transformations.

Architected a scalable, extendible, open solution for growth for the manufacturing and retail sector using several web based technologies.

Provided Custom node evaluation and implementation utilizing current production code for message manipulation in WebSphere Message Broker flows for a large government agency.

Implemented several high availability solutions for infrastructure using various clustering services and high availability packages under the several distributed and mainframe environments.

Team Lead for a project to porting several adapters HP/UX platform

Provided guidance on MQ architecture, administration and installation of various MQ technologies.

Integration with WebSphere and WebSphere ND on Distributed and Mainframe Environments

Integration with MQ business integrator to transmit information to business partners.

Participating on a national board within IBM to provide direction and information on IBM’s adapter strategies

Participating in a national forum for WebSphere Message Broker within the IBM community.

Developed intellectual capital for Linux and high availability to assist in services offerings

Installation and configuration of WebSphere Data Interchange on distributed platform and then was tasked with integration of the application with current middle-ware infrastructure.

 

01/2000 - 11/2000BCBS, FL, US

Consultant

 

 

Courses and Training

Bid management

Business Writing

Wholesale and Retail  Banking Process

Intercope Meadow Telex and Fax

IntraNet IMTS

IBM Liquidity Manager

 

 

Education

 

Qualifications

B.S. in Computer Engineering

University of Maryland European Division, Germany

 

Languages

EnglishFluent

GermanGood

 

 

Other relevant information

 

Skills

Global Skill Sets

Architect Solutions

Solutions Development

Class Development

System Administration

Project Management

Infrastructure Implementation

Certified Master Architect from TOGAF

Certified MQ series

Software

WSO2

Apian

Webmethods

WebSphere Business Events  up to version 8.x

WebSphere Message Broker up to version  8.x

WebSphere MQSeries up to version  8.x

WebSphere Application Server  up to version  8.x

WebSphere Process Server  up to version  8.x

WebSphere Registry Repository up to version 8.x

WebSphere Extended Security Edition 7.x

WebSphere Business Integrator and  Financial Networks

WebSphere Rational Method Composer

WebSphere Business Modeler

WebSphere Datastage TX

WebSphere Transformation Extender

WebSphere Data Interchange

Datapower

Tibco Business Events

Infosphere Streams

Drools

Cassandra

MongoDb

Messaging Technologies

Tuxedo

WebSphere MQ

Microsoft MQ

TIBCO

Sonic MQ

Rabbit MQ

Messaging  Related Software

MQ Workflow / Flowmark

MQ Adapter Framework and Adapters

JCA Adapters

Intercope Meadow for Telex / Fax

Monitoring Applications

HP Open View

CA Unicenter

Tivoli

AppWatch

Industry Expertise

Banking

SWIFT

ISO20022 (Member of the implementation committee)

FED / FEDWIRE

CHIPS / CHAPS

ACH / CPS

Merva

Debit Card  Processing

Credit Card Processing

Apple Pay

Wholesale Banking

Retail Banking

Consumer Banking

Medical

HIPPA

Retail

EDI X12

POS

TLOG

Travel and Transportation

Passenger management

TSA Security Procedures

Baggage Management

LTL Freight

Full Container

EDI X12

 

 

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Job Title

Company

Experience

Systems Architect

Bank of America

- Present

 

Additional Info

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Current Career Level:

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Date of Availability:

Within 2 weeks

Work Status:

US - I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

Active Security Clearance:

None

US Military Service:

Citizenship:

None

 

 

Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Systems Architect

Desired Job Type:

Employee

Desired Status:

Full-Time

 

Target Company:

Company Size:

Occupation:

IT/Software Development

·         Software/System Architecture

 

Target Locations:

Selected Locations:

US-FL-Gainesville/Jacksonville/Ocala

Relocate:

No