Joao - Architecte COM

06/2003 – 01/2008 Senior IT consultant ******** /IVIS Group - Retail, London, UK
IVIS Group is a retail consultancy employing 75 people in the UK
Role: Project IT Architect Lead from April 2007 to 10/01/2008
Project: Migration of ******** - “Wine Club” to a new “Multi-Channel Architecture” (MCA)
Responsibility:
• Managed a team of 3 Designers and researched and designed the MCA for ******** web site.
• Investigated and designed the migration of ********/wine web site to a new platform.
• Managed the overall IT architecture for the programme. This included designs for product setup functionality, warehouse management systems, finance systems, website, order management systems and an after sales support system.
• Coordinated and communicated the technical solution internally to stake-holders, project managers, project team and to external partners.
• Implemented using .NET 3.0, IIS 7.0, WCF, Web Services, SQL Svr 2005, C#APS.NET and BizTalk Svr 2006.

Role: Dev Team Lead (team of 8 people) – 09/2006-03/2007
Project: Migration of ********/flowers – “Flowers web site” to the Direct platform (single basket).
Responsibility:
• Investigated and designed the migration for the new ******** web site for flowers.
• Helped the business to develop the customer offer and scale operations by streamlining the process of adding new fulfillers to the website.
• The customer experience was improved with the “single basket, single checkout” process.
• Communicated solutions internally to stake-holders, the project team and to external partners.
• Helped implement the final solution using .NET 2.0, WebServices,SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006.

Role: Technical Specialist – 09/2005-09/2006
Projects: Designing the new Integration Service Layer to support future ******** future partnerships.
Responsibility:
• Part of the MS-Technical Adoption Program (TAP) for BizTalk Server 2006, building the next generation of Integration Services Layer for ********
• Designed the infrastructure for a reliable and scalable BizTalk Server 2006 group and get it rolled-out across all environments (Dev=>Build=>Test=>Production)
• I was the communication link between Operations, Development and the Infrastructure teams.
• Supported and documented the Integration Service Layer for “Tesco Direct” (********)

Role: Senior Software developer – Jun/2003-Sep/2005
Projects: Evolving Grocery and National Store web sites. Part of the “Dynamic Scheduling” project.
Responsibility:
• Designed, developed, tested and supported web applications in the production environment, front end and back end. Use of .NET, C#, COM+, IIS, ASP.NET, XML, XSL, MSMQ, SQL Server.
• Use of XP methodology and “test-first” approach. Use also of waterfall methodology. Use of UML.
• Worked on Food web site (Grocery) and non-food web site (Direct, Flowers, Wine, and Entertainments), helping the business to develop the customer offer and grow the business (********)..
• Looked after the build server for the entire web site. Documented the process and successfully handed it over to the development team.
Other Roles
Senior IT consultant – BizTalk Team Leader (team of 4 people) – Since Aug 2006
• Appraisals, Holidays/Absences, Timesheets, and expenses management.
• Helped recruiting new talent for the “professional services” team.
• Initiated a dinner event, “Piz’ Talk”, for the team (every 5 weeks) to talk about BizTalk et al.
Trainer – December 2005 – 3 days course
• Co-written and delivered a course on “Patterns and Practices for Enterprise Architecture” and “Security”.
Key Achievements: Develop my mindset from a department vision to an Enterprise vision.
Skills developed: Increase communication and presentation skills with customers. Improving my enterprise architectural skills to a greater depth and gaining experience within the retail area.
10/2002- 06/2003 EAI Architect - Consultant Reuters Consulting - Finance, Paris, France
Reuters is an International news agency employing 16,000 people world-wide

Role: EAI Architect from 10/2002 to 06/2003
Project: Part of the first integration project using BusinessWorks in France, “Front to back office”, EfiPoste (today “La Banque Postale”).
Responsibility: (part of a team of 6 people)
• As part of a major Integration project, front to back office, I helped to develop and deploy the EAI solution using TIBCO BusinessWorks.
• Helped Sales Solutions Team to build Proof-Of-Concept projects for French banks.
• Gave "BusinessWorks" training (two days course).
• Support to clients on TIBCO Products (BusinessWorks, ActiveEnterprise, and SDK).
Key Achievements: Quick learning of new products and shared my knowledge through Trainings.
Skills developed: Developing communication and presentation skills with the customer. Improving my enterprise software architectural skills to greater depth and gaining experience within the financial area.

07/2000-09/2002 Sr. Software Engineer Elsevier Science - Publishing, London, UK
Part of Reed-Elsevier a global publishing group, employing 35,000 people world-wide
Role: Senior Software Engineer – System Architect assistant
Project: Improving content offer,search and navigation for scientific information on the web (e.g. The Lancet).
Responsibility: (part of a team of 30 people)
• As part of major migration project for six web sites to use COM technology, I helped to put in place internal procedures, developed core components using C++/Java, (D)COM, ADO, IIS, XML/XSL-T.
• Made Technical Assessments for an important project at the group level.
• Wrote technical documents, made code reviews, produced planning documents and tracked them.
• Helped to recruit contractors. Tutor and help new people to gain speed on development.
• Participated in developing Web Sites projects: products were always delivered.
o Project managed by "Resources & time constraints". Analysis of the new functionalities.
o Created a database source in order to support e-commerce (Shopping Mall) using Oracle8i.
• Gave a "UML presentation" as part of an internal knowledge sharing. Used UML when needed.
Component Administrator (4 component administrators):
• Check correct use of internal procedures before releasing a component (1-10 per month).
Support Developer for six web sites (during 2 months – rotating role):
• Provided weekly reports about urgent problems and current statistics about web sites problems.
• Initiated a new procedure for migrating to ClearQuest, reducing the time to allocate a problem and getting a better system to track old problems.
Key Achievements: Became a COM expert and shared my knowledge (technical articles, presentation). Put in place internal procedures in order to standardise documentation and development. I made a procedure to reduce the allocation time of web site problems.
Skills developed: To be pragmatic and develop new system architecture skills. Reuse was the main idea in each process I put in place or participated. To communicate in English.

10/1999-06/2000 Software Engineer Thales - Telecom, Paris, France
Thales is a world leader in Mission-critical information systems for the Aerospace, Defence and Security markets, employing 55,000 people world-wide.
Role: Software Engineer
Project: Delivering private secure radio mobile network for civil organisations (police, fire-fighters).
Responsibility: (part of a team of 30 people)
• Software development for Protected Radio Mobile network.
• Designed applications (use of UML and ‘Design Patterns’) and developed them in C++ on Windows NT using MFC for the GUI. Designed and Developed COM/DCOM components. Used MS SQL Server 7.
• The whole system makes use of a main central database and distributed part of it on remote station. Certain operations that occur locally have to be reported on the central and transmitted to other stations. I was responsible for the development of the "main console application" which manages three different operators with different security accesses and set of functionalities to the main central database.
Key Achievements: Improved the GUI for the end user (easier access to the system functionality).
Skills developed: Improve my technical architecture knowledge and shared it with the team.

06/1998-06/1999 Software Engineer Trimaran, Multimedia – Paris, FRANCE (8 people)
Role: Software Engineer
Project: Animate satellite pictures for weather forecast videos on the French TV channel “France 3”.
Responsibility:
• Created applications to animate satellite pictures for weather forecast videos. These applications were created to replace old ones. The rendering time was reduced by 9 times (40 minutes instead of 6 hours).
• I have done technical benchmarking and make recommendation about material to choose and buy.
• Designed (design patterns and UML) a portable real-time 3D rendering application. Development in C/C++ with OpenGL on SGI station and Windows NT station (use of MFC).
Key Achievements: Delivered a solution which reduced the rendering time by 9 times.
Skills developed: Analysis of bottlenecks in software to improve the final solution.

07/1994-04/1997 Software Developer CD’France, Multimedia – Paris, FRANCE (4 people)
Role: Manager
Project: Delivering browse able and searchable multimedia content on CD media (off-line) for professionals.
Responsibility:
• My duties were to put in place an architecture for browsing and searching on indexed multimedia databases. Technologies used were: C, C++, MFC, COM (OLE) and modules embedded in DLLs.
• For the project "L'électricité au service de l'environnement dans l'industrie" (for E.D.F.), I helped recruiting people for team, manage part of the team and project, implement part of Quality Assurance (ISO 9002), wrote documents, presented the final product and was in direct relation with the customer.
• Participated in AFNOR - ISO/CGTI/CN 29 about: JPEG (10918), MHEG (13522).
Software Developer (with Multimedia skills)
• Involved on development of three commercial multimedia CD-ROMs (two for younger children and one for adults). As a technical expert for multimedia sources (pictures, sounds, videos) I helped artist people making choice about the content format for the products and the techniques to use. Developed a "navigational engine" used as the core technology for one of the product.
• Did demonstrations and presented some of the products at public show conferences.
• Built internal tools to check performance, to do data transformation and to validate them.
Key Achievements: Put in place a software architecture in order to consolidate our business in B2B sector. Had an active role in all the products, from their inception until their public show.
Skills developed: Ability to take over and delegate project tasks. Effective teamwork, awareness of the complete software lifecycle. Developing communication and presentation skills with the customer and the public. Improving my technical skills to greater depth and gaining experience with a wide r of new technologies.

06/1993-06/1994 Technician Groupe S.E.R., Industrial – Paris, FRANCE (1200 people)
Role: Technician
• Helpdesk line for many Office Windows (v3.11) applications (WinWord, Excel, and MS-Project).
Key Achievements: Put in place a task tracking system using MS-Project for a team of 4 people.
Skills developed: Analysis of work systems and practices.
Professional Training

Dec-2006 BizTalk Server 2006 (5 days), QuickLearn (Reading) – BizTalk Deep Dive.

Apr-2005 BizTalk Server 2004 (5 days), DevelopMentor (London) – BizTalk Server 2004.

Oct-2002 Tibco BusinessWorks (2+2 days), Tibco (Paris & Munich) – EAI Architectures and Solutions building.

Nov-2001 XML / XSL (3 days), Escala (London) - XML (DTD, XML-Schema, XPath, XSL / XSL-T).

Sep-2001 Effective Communication (1 day), Hawksmere (London) – Enhance your communication style

Jun-2001 Coaching for Success (1 day), The Coaching Company (London) – Coaching approach

Mar-2001 Java for C/C++ Programmers (4 days), QA (London)

Internship / Part-time
2001,2002 Lecturer for a COM / DCOM course at the University of Orsay.I wrote technical articles about "COM Architecture" ********.asp

1998-99 Developed a be spoken application for rendering and animating whether satellite picture for national TV (C++)

1998 Developed an Expert System (Artificial Intelligence) using Rules base engine and Facts exploration (in C++).

1992 Developed computer graphic software enabling the use of Morphing effect (in C).

1991-92 Developed a 3D graphic animation on HP-9000 (C and Unix) with Starbase.

1989-92 Pilot of a team on AMIGA developing sound and graphical demonstration (in assembler).