Patrick - Architecte ACTUATE

07/2011 – present Real estate, Geneva
Project description: Migration of the company’s Actuate 9 platform to Actuate 11, including the report server (iServer / BIRT server), the intra- and extranet web-reporting portal (iPortal / Information Console), the SOAP-based IDAPI’s Java programs and servlets, the report templates and the information objects
Roles: Architect, senior consultant, developer
Software / OS: Actuate 9 and Actuate / BIRT 11, Java 6, myEclipse 9, Tomcat 6, AIX 6.1

11/2010 – 07/2011 Large international private bank, Switzerland
Project description: Development of a new batch and on-demand reporting solution
Roles: Technical architect, lead consultant and project manager for the development of the report template and the integration of the report server with the batch workflow engine, the internal on-demand portal and the customer web portal
Software / Actuate 10 SP1, IBM DB2, Java 6, Java-based web applications, SVG
Technologies:

05/2010 – 10/2010 Investment bank, Germany
Project description: Migration of the bank’s entire Actuate reporting platform from one data center to another data center
Roles: Technical project manager and lead consultant
Software: Actuate, Oracle

11/2005 – 09/2010 Small BI software and consulting IT company, Switzerland
Roles: Managing director
Sales of consulting and software products, software product management, software development and consulting project management, HR and team management, business administration, consulting

05/2010 – 10/2010 Local state bank, Switzerland
Project description: Migration of the bank’s entire IT platform
Roles: Technical project manager for the migration of the portfolio management applications
Software: Triple’A, Actuate

05/2010 - 08/2010 Local state bank, Switzerland
Project description: Installation and customization project of a mass- and web reporting portal software
Roles: Project manager, technical architect and project manager
Technologies: Java, J2EE, Web, MySQL

11/2009 - 01/2010 Private bank, Brussels
Project description: Installation and customization project of a mass- and web reporting portal software
Roles: Project manager, technical architect and project manager
Technologies: Java, J2EE, Web, MySQL

11/2009 – 02/2010 Large private bank, Lugano
Project description:
• Development of specialized report object libraries
• Design and development of a private banking report
Role: Project manager, senior consultant
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 8, Triple’A 4.30, Sybase 12.5

6/2009 - 10/2009 Private bank, Zürich
Project description: Installation and customization project of a mass- and web reporting portal software
Roles: Project manager, technical architect and project manager
Technologies: Java, J2EE, Web, MySQL

6/2008 – 6/2009 Real estate, Geneva
Project description: Design and development of a real estate web reporting portal for building owners and co-owners
Roles: Architect, senior consultant, developer
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 9, Eclipse 3.2, myEclipse 6, Tomcat 5.5

11/2008 - 6/2009 Private bank, Zürich
Project description: Extension of our mass- and web reporting portal software to support a new reporting engine and new core banking system
Roles: Project manager, technical architect and project manager
Technologies: JAX, XML, SQL
Software: FinAware, DB2 / Olympic

8/2006 – 12/2008 Large private bank, Paris
Project description:
• Development of an online-reporting solution
• Design and implementation of a meta-layer using Actuate Information Objects
• Migration from Actuate 8 to Actuate 9
• Coaching and workshops
• Report iServer performance tuning
• Development of specialized report object libraries
Role: Principal consultant, developer
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 8 and 9, Oracle, Eclipse

7/2008 Investment bank, Frankfurt
Project description: Workshop, brainstorming, documentation and prototyping of a web-based analytical reporting solution with flexible user interface
Role: Principal consultant

5/2007 – 11/2008 Local state bank, Switzerland
Project description:
• Analysis, integration, customizing and testing of a mass-reporting solution
• Analysis, integration, customizing and testing of an online-reporting solution
• Redesign and upgrade of a private banking report
Role: Technical architect, developer
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 7, Triple’A 4.20, Sybase 12.5

1/2008 – 6/2008 Large private bank, Geneva
Project description:
• Development of specialized report object libraries
• Design and development of a private banking report
Role: Senior consultant, developer
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 7, Triple’A 4.20, Sybase 12.5

8/2007 – 9/2007 Large state bank, Frankfurt
Project description:
• Design and development of an online-reporting portal
• Migration from Actuate 8 to Actuate 9
Role: Principal consultant, developer
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 8 and 9, Tomcat 5.5, Struts, JSP, JavaScript

9/2006 – today Private bank, Basel
Project description: Design, development and tests of private banking reports
Role: Senior consultant, developer
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 7SP1, Odyssey Triple'A 4.03, Sybase 12.5

9/2005 – 11/2006 Large investment bank, Frankfurt
Project description:
• Design, development and tests of a web-based e.Reporting solution for the fund management department
• Development of Actuate report components and reports
Roles: Project manager, technical architect and business analyst
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 7, SQL-Server, .NET 1.1

7/2003-12/2003 - 4/2004-8/2004 - 12/2006 Investment bank, Frankfurt

Project description:
• Migration of an Actuate 5 production architecture to an Actuate 7 Cluster-based architecture for the fund management department
• Strategic planning, technical planning, technical design, development and tests
Role: Principal consultant
Technologies: NAS, load balancing, Actuate Basic, Java, SOAP, JSP, JS
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 7, Eclipse

11/2002 – 4/2006 Large IT provider for several state banks, Switzerland
Projects description:
• Design, development, tests and maintenance Actuate reports for a portfolio management application
• Design, development, tests and maintenance of an Actuate-based e.Reporting portal for portfolio managers, relationship managers, external managers and customers
• Design, development and rollout of an automated report testing tool
Roles: Principal consultant, technical architect, business analyst
Technologies: JSP, JS, Java, JDBC, SQL, SOAP, Visual Basic, Java, SOAP, Axis
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 8, Odyssey Triple'A 4.03 and 4.11, Sybase ASE 12.5, Eclipse 3.0, Tomcat 4.0.6, Axis

1/2006 - 6/2006 Private bank, Zürich
Project description: Development of a report scheduler for the mass production of statements
Roles: Project manager, technical architect and developer
Technologies: DHTML, JS, JSP, Java, JDBC, SQL, SOAP
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 8SP1, Odyssey Triple'A 4.11, Sybase ASE 12.5, Eclipse 3.1 and myEclipse 4.1.1, Tomcat 4.0.6, Axis

11/2004 – today Large investment bank, Frankfurt
Project description: Customization of an Actuate-based e.Reporting application
Roles: Project manager, technical architect and developer
Technologies: DHTML, JS, JSP, Taglibs, Struts, Java and Torque
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 8, Eclipse 3.1 and myEclipse 4.1.1, Tomcat 4.0.6, Oracle 9

3/2006 Real estate, Geneva
Project description: Development of SOAP-based Java programs that access Actuate web services
Roles: Senior consultant, developer
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 8, Eclipse 3.1, Axis

12/2005 Private bank, Zürich
Project description: Performance analysis and tuning of an Actuate / Triple'A-based reporting system
Role: Principal consultant
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 8SP1, Odyssey Triple'A 4.11, Sybase ASE 12.5

11/2005 Large IT provider for several state banks, Switzerland
Project description: Performance analysis and tuning of an Actuate / Triple'A-based reporting system
Role: Principal consultant
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 8SP1, Odyssey Triple'A 4.11, Sybase ASE 12.5

3/2005 - 8/2005 Raiffeisen bank, Slovenia
Project description: Design, development and user tests of an Actuate-based printing system for the Globus core banking system
Role: Architect, developer
Technologies: Java, SOAP, UNIX/C-Shell and DOS/BAT scripts, FTP
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 8, Globus (Temenos), Sun Solaris

7/2005 Large investment bank, Luxemburg
Project description: Workshop on Actuate e.Spreadsheet, iServer and Information of Actuate
Role: Principal consultant
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 8, Oracle 10

4/2005 - 7/2005 Large automotive group, Germany
Project description:
• Development of an Actuate-based web-based reporting dashboard
• Consulting on Actuate e.Spreadsheet and iServer
Role: Architect, developer
Technologies: JSP, JS, Struts, Taglib, Java, XML
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 8, Eclipse

5/2005 and 7/2005 Large local bank, Zürich
Project description:
• Help on several operational issues with Siebel Reports (Actuate)
• Performance tuning of the Actuate server
• Actuate consulting
Role: Senior consultant
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 7, Siebel 7.5

3/2005 Financial institution, Frankfurt
Project description: Performance benchmarking and tuning of an Actuate iServer
Role Principal Consultant
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 7

8/2004 - 9/2004 Private bank, Geneva
Project description: Design, development and tests of Actuate-based portfolio management statements
Role: Senior consultant, developer
Software: Actuate e.Reporting Suite 7SP1, Odyssey Triple'A 4.03, Sybase ASE 12.5

9/1998 – 3/ 1999 Large Irish bank, Dublin
Project description: Systems integration and installation of the Opics and OpenSeries back office systems for the money market and foreign exchange products of the treasury department.
Role: Senior consultant
Technologies: Windows NT and Digital Unix client / server, Sybase environments; Token Ring and Fast Ethernet LAN types; ATM backbone and WAN.

11/ 97 –9/98 Large German bank, London and Frankfurt
Project description: Systems integration and installation project of the Murex back office systems for the derivative (listed and OTC) products of the treasury department. Preparation and execution of the performance test.
Role: Consultant.
Technologies: Windows NT and Sun Solaris client / server, Sybase environments.

2/97 – 11/ 97 Large German bank, Frankfurt
Project description: Systems integration and installation project of the Summit back office systems for the derivative products of the treasury department.
Role: Consultant.
Technologies: Windows NT and Sun Solaris client / server environment, Sybase; C and Embedded-SQL development.

Aug. 96 – Feb. 97 Large German bank, Frankfurt
Project description: Development of an automatic interest and foreign exchange rates calculation and publishing system on the Reuters network.
Role: Programmer-Consultant. Development, testing, user training and support.
Functional areas: Money market products
Technologies: Sun Solaris client / server environment, Triarch network and other Reuters products.