Technical Architect and Delivery Lead
15 years of experience in wealth management, capital markets, banking, insurance, and software industries with a proven track record of delivering in demanding, business critical environments. Originally a developer, moving quickly into infrastructure consulting with a strong client focus. Currently specializing in infrastructure architecture, enterprise software implementations and integration. A strategic, adaptable and client-focused leader taking a highly analytical approach to translating complex business requirements into diverse and unconventional technical solutions.
(CPIC - 3 Cleared - Enhanced)
- Architecture (enterprise, solutions, systems, integration)
- Project delivery and vendor management
- Cloud (private, public and hybrid)
- IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, virtualization strategy / deployment
- HPC / Hadoop / Cloudera
- DC migration / automation
Methodologies:
ITIL, TOGAF, SDLC, PMLC, SOA/SOI, Agile, SCRUM
Applications:
Croesus, Charles River, Salesforce / Wealth, ETL, Detica Netreveal, GuideWire, Moodys (risk and rating), Morningstar, Streetscape, Fundserv, Broadridge, Commissions, MS Dynamics / SharePoint, Telepresence
Development:
PHP, MVC, Smarty, XML, UML, Perl, Bash, KORN , Shell, iRules, Cfengine, Puppet, SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB
Infrastructure:
VMware VSphere, HA, DRS, XEN, KVM, QUEMU, LDOMS, Containers, Zones, RHEL AS/ES 2,3,4,5,6,7, Solaris, UNIX, AIX, Windows 2003-2012, ZFS, EXT(3,4), LVM, SVM, VERITAS Volume Manager (VXFS), GFS2/GPFS, VERITAS Cluster Service (VCS), Solaris Cluster Service, Zone Clusters, VERITAS Volume Replicator (VVR), Doubletake, Avamar, HPDP, Cfengine, Puppet, HP Opsware, BMC Blade Logic (BBSA) / Orchestrator, Jumpstart/Kickstart, SharePoint, *SQL, DB2, Oracle (7,10,11,12), Berkley DB, JBoss, Apache, WebSphere (WAS), Tomcat, GlassFish,
Hardware:
IBM Power, Oracle Midrange/Blade/Enterprise/Exadata/(T/M Series), HP DL/Blade/HPC, EMC, Hitachi, 3PAR / HP StoreServ, BigIP (F5), NetScaler
Delivery Architecutre / Integrator (Consultant) @ • Assigned pilot position within pilot department that was responsible for creating and executing changes, with direct impact to Intact's ability to execute technical projects. Contributions included delivery and integration strategy, program level template design and deep dive tactical resolution of issues spanning multiple groups
• Designed technical and program level templates that spanned all teams within program to produce a comprehensive, forward looking view identifying delivery gaps and facilitating changes well ahead of project impact
• Related key Architecture (current, proposed, vendor), Project (timeline, sizing, impact) and Execution (state, delta, platform, time) values on Intact's core Claims Center (GuideWire) program
• Successfully revived 10 month delivery roadblock on our core claims application. Led performance testing effort with direct technical input as well as building consensus on all published results
Skills:
ITIL, TOGAF, SDLC, PMLC, SOI, Agile, SCRUM, Delivery strategy, standards / process definition, training, vendor management (escalations, architecture, performance), program level technical leadership, virtualization, IBM POWER / AIX, LPAR’s, OEL, WebSphere, Oracle 11g / 12c, Netscaler From March 2015 to August 2015 (6 months) Toronto, Canada AreaSr. Infrastructure Architect – Global (Consultant) @ • Infrastructure and architecture consultant for CMRI global core infrastructure team reporting directly to Technical Head (IT)
• Designed and implemented CMRI's Virtualization platform globally (VMware, DR, Storage) supporting critical services to the business (trading systems, automation, infrastructure management) 83 physical / 800+ virtual hosts (26m total / 14m direct involvement)
• Responsible for proactively leading POC efforts across multiple technologies within the enterprise
• Deployed global VMA back-end and logging system for automation and devops. Included event based actions and alerts
• Documented and trained local design and support resources across all aspects of new core infrastructure delivery platform
Skills:
ITIL, PMLC, TOGAF, Agile, SCRUM, Devops, SOA/SOI, IaaS, Cloud, Hadoop, Vendor management (RFP, POC, procurement, escalations, delivery, implementation), Technical leadership and portfolio documentation / training (architecture / operations), Croesus, HPDP, Cisco Telepresence, Virtualization / VMware VSphere 5.5/5.1, RHEL, Windows 2012 R2, DFS, HP 3PAR (InServ), P2000, Symantec VCS, Symantec VVR From July 2014 to March 2015 (9 months) Toronto, Canada AreaInfrastructure Architect / Specialist (Consultant) @ • Infrastructure and architecture consultant for OTIS within the Ontario Justice Ministry
• Liaise with project, operations and business groups to ensure all technical objectives were delivered within a multi-year, 18 million dollar / 200+ physical host program
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of Enterprise Architecture design artifacts and presentation to ARB
• Provided infrastructure and solutions architecture services for Ministry portfolio as well as platform specialist for Solaris, RHEL and VMware. Includes operations, best practice (SOP’s), platform standards and program level technical resolution
• Planning and implementation for program critical requests
Skills:
ITIL, PMLC, SDLC, TOGAF, Vendor management (architecture, escalation, delivery), enterprise architecture, platform leadership, project delivery, OTIS (Offender Information and Tracking System), Virtualization / VMWare VSphere 5.1/5.5, RHEL 5/6, Red Hat Satellite Server, Solaris 10, Zones, Oracle 11g, Oracle T Series, Oracle mid-range storage From November 2013 to June 2014 (8 months) Toronto, Canada AreaTechnical Architect / Technical Lead (Consultant) @ • Technical Architect and Delivery Lead on a multi-year, enterprise wide fraud prevention program requiring multiple streams of environments, rolling deployments and complex data refreshes
• Interface between business and the technical team for all technical deliverables. Key in solving business critical project issues, both technical and program related with 9m in scope
• Responsible for developing infrastructure services architecture and delivery strategy on large scale projects such as conversions, acquisitions and anti-fraud claim scoring solutions (Detica Netreveal)
• Led large scale implementations through all environments including coordination between vendors, infrastructure services resources and the business
Skills:
ITIL, PMLC, SDLC, TOGAF, Agile, SCRUM, SOI, Vendor management, (escalations, solutions, implementation, delivery), Technical leadership, Detica Netreveal, Virtualization / LPAR’s, AIX 6.1, RHEL 5/6, KVM on IBM POWER, Hitachi SAN, Brocade FC, Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, Oracle 11g / 10g From May 2012 to October 2013 (1 year 6 months) Toronto, Canada AreaSr. Consultant / Infrastructure Architect – National @ • Provided professional services for Blade Logic Server Automation, Blade Logic Atrium Orchestrator and Cloud Lifecycle Management implementations for major accounts such as RIM Canada
• Proactively partnered with client architecture and engineering resources to source new opportunities and expand current engagements
• Responsible for automating VGP (VMware) builds, configuration, middleware installation, configuration and service management for BES, Exchange and Domino services
Skills:
ITIL, PMLC, TOGAF, Pre-sales, IaaS, Cloud, BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management (CLM), BMC Bladelogic Server Automation (BBSA), BMC Bladelogic Atrium Orchestrator (BBAO), Virtualization, RHEL, Domino, BES, Exchange, Windows Server From November 2011 to March 2012 (5 months) CanadaSr. Infrastructure Architect / Team Lead (Consultant) @ • Designed DWM’s flagship mutual fund trading platform (Charles River). Implemented HPC (High Performance Computing) design principals. The solution became a case study for the vendor and later replaced Scotiabank’s trading platform when Dundee / Dynamic Funds were acquired. Project had 9m in scope
• Responsible for managing the UNIX / Linux team, primary interface representing the UNIX / Linux team to the business and escalation point for all mission and business critical services as well as project issues within the portfolio
• Data center migration to co-location facility (all hosts moved). 1000+ server direct responsibility and in support of other groups moving 2000+ servers. Also redesigned disaster recovery strategy
• Deployed Cisco Tidal enterprise scheduler and designed migration plan of over 2000 existing ETL jobs that were responsible for DWM’s entire book of business
• Web services re-architecture for all front facing advisor services. Handled 2 million hits a month
• Platform migration from Oracle / SUN to HP blade / VMware / RHEL. 400 servers providing infrastructure for 18 internal and external services
• F5 (Big IP) infrastructure design and deployment as high availability retrofit for existing services
• Ensured all business critical ETL jobs completed within the given SLAs for all LOB’s within Dundee / Dynamic. Mobilized and led team in troubleshooting during failures and managed all communications with the business
Skills:
ITIL, PMLC, SDLC, TOGAF, SOI, HPC, SOI, People management(6), Vendor management (RFP, POC, architecture, escalations, procurement, implementation, delivery), Technical Leadership, Virtualization, Portfolio Aid, Broadridge, Moody’s Risk and Rating, Charles River, In house commissions system (institutional trading), SFDC, Fundserv, Tradeweb, Liquidnet, MPower, VMware, Red Hat, Solaris, Zones, ZFS, Solaris Cluster Suite, Red Hat Cluster Suite, GFS, Apache, Tomcat, Glassfish, WMQ, CF Engine, Oracle 10g / 11i , KSH/Bash From August 2010 to November 2011 (1 year 4 months) Toronto, Canada AreaSr. Infrastructure Architect (Consultant) @ Providing hands on consulting services on the Linux and Solaris platform for all lines of business.
-- Title before promotion (see above) From August 2010 to November 2010 (4 months) Toronto, Canada AreaDelivery / Technical Architect (Consultant) @ • Responsible for designing and delivering the centralized IaaS Cloud hybrid solution for Shoppers Home Health Care, Western Canada (200+ host, 4m in scope)
• Architecture of 17 Regional and 6 Satellite offices as well as central hub infrastructure (VMware) and CRM solutions at LOB level. Utilized multiple private circuits (MPLS) and a private cloud hybrid design to complete the project
• Technical delivery of enterprise workforce management solutions for over 46,000 employees and 9m in scope
• Responsible for delivery of corporate web solutions servicing Canada’s largest local pharmacy chain
• Designed and delivered cross-LOB (90% virtual, VMware) integrated lab infrastructure and services
• Principal project resource in solving complex technical / project issues impacting project delivery and design. Contributions included augmenting in-crises projects to meet delivery dates or filling hands-on resource gaps for high risk implementations (design and engineering), with 200k-7m in scope
Skills:
ITIL, PMLC, SDLC, SDM2, TOGAF, SOI, IaaS, Vendor management (RFP, POC, escalations, implementation, delivery), Technical Leadership, Virtualization, VMware Vsphere, DRS VMware ESXi, Microsoft Dynamics, SUSE, Oracle, MS SQL, Windows 2003/2008, IBM P-Series, Various HA solutions, EMC Avamar From February 2010 to August 2010 (7 months) Toronto, Canada AreaInfrastructure Specialist (Consultant) @ • Developed all training materials, solutions, support and operations documentation including all implementation templates (X.EYE Run book)
• Provided SAN migration plan for primary storage infrastructure servicing the Scotia Capital division. Handled all vendor engagements for project
• Provided platform migration plan (Sol9/Oracle10g to Sol10/Oracle11) with 200 host / 8 service scope
Skills:
ITIL, PMLC, Technical Leadership, Vendor management (RFP, escalations, implementation), Virtualization, SUN Solaris 9/10, Oracle 10g/11g, Veritas VCS / Storage Foundation, Citrix, VMware, MS Windows Server 2003, Tomcat, Apache, MS SharePoint (MOSS), Cisco CSM, SUN T52, SUN M5000, X.EYE From June 2009 to January 2010 (8 months) Toronto, Canada AreaTechnical Architect / Sr. Systems Administrator @ • Data center consolidation planning and implementation via virtualized infrastructure (VMware, Solaris zones and RHEL) 500+ servers in scope
• Infrastructure and solutions architect for new enterprise HR solution and infrastructure (60 hosts 400k in scope)
• Infrastructure architect for all front facing F5 appliances responsible for serving some of Toronto's largest media organizations (thestar.com, globeandmail.com, CTV, CBC) servicing 11m unique visitors per day
Skills:
ITIL, PMLC, Vendor management (RFP, POC, Implementation, escalations), Training and Technical Leadership, RHEL 5, CentOS, Big IP (F5), Tomcat, Apache, Virtualization / VMware 3.xx/VSphere, Citrix, SUN Solaris 7/8/9/10, GFS, SVM, LVM, SUN Blade Center From January 2009 to June 2009 (6 months) Toronto, Canada AreaTechnical & Delivery Architect (Consultant) @ • Short engagements with multiple clients (PS)
• Enterprise MOSS architecture and implementation (MOSS, MS Project, WINTEL)- Swift Trade
• Emergency PROD support with RCA and department wide technical and governance recommendations (HA reimplementation + policy change). - Guardian Capital
• Implemented new, primary billing solution infrastructure (Sol10, RHEL5, SUN) – Rogers
Skills:
ITIL, PMLC, SDLC, Vendor management (Delivery), Technical leadership, Virtualization, SUN Midrange, IBM Blade, Solaris 10, RHEL, Windows Server, Hitachi SAN, SVM, LVM, ZFS, MS Sharepoint, Microsoft Dynamics From October 2008 to January 2009 (4 months) Toronto, Canada AreaSr. Consultant / Platform Owner (Linux) – CIBC (Consultant) @ • Primary technical lead in support transition to Costa Rica and Bangalore (L1/L2). Authored, planned, and delivered all training material and presentations for project
• Responsible for initial technical discovery, subsequent documentation as well as training on change management, problem management, incident escalations and HP/CIBC infrastructure and process as a whole. Reported to Program Director.
• Lead highly visible root cause analysis efforts involving Symantec (VERITAS), Oracle and SUN in joint VOS escalations affecting a series of retail customer facing services and LOB's related to incidents in PROD, PTE and UAT
• SME on multiple projects concerning Solaris and Linux (RHEL)
• Provided L4 (on shore) team training on the Linux platform and its presence within CIBC Bank’s infrastructure
• Represented the UNIX tower for various RFP's ranging from compliance implementations to application and infrastructure builds ranging between 200k-3m in scope
• Provided Level 4 support (DEV/QA/STG/PROD) for all Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AIX issues
• Responsible for ensuring documented build process was followed on existing as well as net new
builds
• Mentored / trained junior staff
Skills:
ITIL, PMLC, SDLC, TOGAF, Vendor management (escalations, team transitions, standards definition) , Virtualization, RHEL 3/4/5, Solaris 8/9/10, HPUX 11, OS390, Oracle, EMC SAN, IBM SAN, Qlogic, BASH, KORN, PERL, Tumbleweed, BIND, SEOS/E-TRUST, Measureware, HID's (Various), Weblogic, iPlanet, VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Cluster Guard, HP MC Service Guard, SUN MC, OVSD, Tumbleweed, SUN Midrange Hardware, Morningstar, Streetscape From April 2008 to October 2008 (7 months) Toronto, Canada AreaInfrastructure Architect / Security Specialist (Consultant) @ • Led a security and compliance audit of all nodes monitoring IBM's tier 1 client environments. This included devising long term, scalable compliance solutions
• Responsible for all middleware infrastructure for IBM's external secure mail solution, targeting F.I.'s and Telco's in the global market
• Planned and implemented a major upgrade to the secure mail fabric infrastructure
• Developed a custom log monitoring solution across all nodes that acted as a “first alert” agent to potential issues impacting production monitoring services
Skills:
ITIL, PMLC, SDLC, Vendor management (delivery, escalations), Technical Leadership, Virtualization, RHEL, AIX, HP Midrange / SAN, RHEL, SecureMail by EcoWorx, CFEngine, Bash From October 2007 to April 2008 (7 months) Toronto, Canada AreaSolutions Design / Systems Administrator @ • Responsible for coordinating / moving all Dundee web infrastructure to new data center with zero minute’s downtime. The objectives were met with disk to disk SAN replication and a temporary virtual infrastructure that acted as a stop gap between the physical move and service redeployment
• Designed an automated C-SOX compliant web infrastructure management solution (devops style). Data, app and web layers for DEV/QA/PROD were included. Solution covered self-healing production services, automated diagrams, single command deployments and more importantly, single command roll backs
• Responsible for rolling out the DR solution for all Dundee web services. This required engaging business to determine requirements, aligning portions of infrastructure (HA), solutions design, security policies, testing and negotiating new internal SLA’s
• Designed a Windows SharePoint Services / Portal framework for documentation
management / standards introduction, as an enterprise solution
• Responsible for the daily operation, maintenance and planning of a 116 domain, high availability web environment servicing 3.5 - 5.5 million hits a week
• Responsible for mission critical securities reporting environments as well as other financially oriented, high availability solutions designed to aid the day to day activities of Dundee Traders and Risk Analysts
• Responsible for SVN repositories hosting multiple types of data used in development, QA and production
• Responsible for solutions planning, executing and closing medium to large projects important to business
Skills:
ITIL, SDLC, PMLC, Vendor management (RFP, POC, Implementation, escalations), Portfolio Aid, Broadridge, Moody’s Risk and Rating, Fundserv, Virtualization / VMWare, SVN, CVS, CF Engine, RHEL (AS 3,2), RH 9, Apache 2.xx, Tomcat, WebSphere (WAS, Express), JBoss, HP OpenView, IIS, Windows Server 2003(2000), SharePoint Server (TeamServices), RedDot 5, oo-PHP, Perl, Shell, DB2, MS SQL From June 2006 to June 2007 (1 year 1 month) Toronto, Canada AreaTeam Lead / Software Developer @ • Team Lead for a prototype system used by AzoogleAds to handle the acquisition and sale of real-time leads to various industries with 2m in revenue, per day
• Implemented a test environment that was integrated into AzoogleAds code repository system. Every update that was made to each code base had to pass unit testing
• Responsible for the daily operation and development needs of a multi-million dollar vertical utilized by AzoogleAds
• Responsible for developing in part, Azoogle's framework for all current and new application
• Key in development of web services used to create an Azoogle presence in the mobile space
Skills:
PMLC, Technical leadership, People management, oo-PHP, MVC, SVN, PHPUnit, PEAR, Smarty, Soap, CURL, MySQL, RedHat AS 3, Ubuntu From October 2005 to May 2006 (8 months) Toronto, Canada Area
Steven Matic is skilled in: Enterprise Architecture, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, ITIL, SDLC, Data Center, Disaster Recovery, VMware, Vendor Management, TOGAF, Hadoop, Big Data, NoSQL, MongoDB, Automation
Websites:
http://www.stevenmatic.com