Candidates About

 

Jed Harbach

Director/Sr. Integration Architect/Sr. Cloud Architect

 

Education

University of South Florida

·         BS – Information Systems Management

 

Certifications

·         MCTS – TS: Developing Business Process and Integration Solutions by Using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010

·         MCPS – Microsoft Certified Professional

·         MS – Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3

·         70-532 – Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions

·         70-534 – Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions

 

Technical Skills

Platforms

·         Microsoft Azure IAAS

·         Microsoft Azure PAAS

·         .Net 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.5 / 4.0 / 4.5 / 4.6,

·         Visual Studio 2017/ 2010 / 2008 / 2005 / 2003

·         Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004 / 2006 / 2006 R2 / 2009 / 2010/2013/2016, BAM, BRE, ESB 2.1

·         IIS 6/7

·         AWS

·         Service Oriented Architecture

·         Restful Service Oriented Architecture

·         Enterprise Architecture

·         Solutions Architecture

·         Application Architecture

·         SSIS, SSRS

·         MSMQ

·         WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ

·         HP Nonstop, Pathway

·         FIX

·         SWIFT

 

Languages

·         C#

·         Java

·         Visual Basic

·         JSON

·         XML, XSLT, XPATH

·         Cobol

·         SQL

 

Databases

·         SQL 2000 / 2005 / 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2014 / 2016, Enscribe, MySQL:NOSQL

 

Operating Systems

·         Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2016

 

Expertise

·         Azure

·         BizTalk

·         .Net Development Stack

·         Solutions Architecture

·         Microservice Architecture

·         Service Oriented Architecture

·         Cloud feasibility analysis

·         Design, build, deploy enterprise applications on the Azure Platform

·         Developing Solutions Architectures for large multi-platform systems with a budget between 500K and 5 mil.  These systems include between twenty and thirty individual applications and are implemented in 12 to 48 months.

·         Enterprise Application Integration architecture utilizing Microsoft BizTalk Server, SQL Server, MSMQ, MQSeries, Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

·         Integrating Enterprise Systems (PeopleSoft, Microsoft CRM, BroadRidge)

·         Financial Services Domain (Brokerage); including Trading, Fixed Income, Operations, and Back Office Processing.

·         Implementation of FIX and SWIFT integrations with trading partners.

·         Knowledge and experience in software design methodologies, software design patterns, and object oriented design.

·         Implementing Enterprise Application Integration architecture utilizing IBM Websphere MQ

·         Software Development Lifecycle

 

Experience

Independent Consultant Triple H Consulting, Inc 10/2017 – current

Sr. Hyperscale Architect/Cloud Architect

Projects

Consulting at Coca-Cola responsible for implementing their big data platform which includes HDInsights, CosmosDB, SQL Azure, Azure Analysis Service, Azure Storage, and DataBricks. Managed the provisioning of the environments, configuration of the platform, and finally the deployment of the coded. Capacity is lead ar

Environment:

SQL Azure, Service Bus, Azure AD, Azure Functions and Serverless Applications, Azure PAAS, Azure IAAS

 

Matrix

Sr. Hyperscale Architect/Cloud Architect 10/2016 – 10/2017

Projects

Responsible for managing the development of a client facing portal exposing real time cloud information, including private cloud, Azure, and AWS.  Responsibilities included interfacing with product management, management of engineering resources, project planning, providing architectural guidance and documentation of the overall solution as well as the individual components.  This role included hands on coding in Azure, AWS, JAVA, .NET, JavaScript, and SQL.

Roles: Hyperscale/Cloud Architect (Azure/AWS), Resource Manager, Technical Lead, Enterprise Architect, Solutions Architect, Application Architect

Environment: JAVA, .NET, JavaScript, SQL, Eclipse, NetBeans, JRebel, Jenkins, ExtJS, HighCharts, Azure, AWS, Tomcat, JDK, Linux, Liferay, MySQL, Cloud Solution Provider API’s, Internal Web API Management, Azure IAAS, Azure PAAS

 

Phidiax 01/2012 – 10/2016

Director Consultant/Sr. Integration Architect/Sr. Azure Architect/Solution Architect

Projects/Roles

Responsible for Sales and PreSales of consulting services.  Additionally, management of multiple client engagements, each engagement includes a staff ranging between 2 - 10 employees, with budgets ranging between 100k to 1mil+.  Staff is assembled of FTE and outside consultants to fill out teams to address UI to database development staff.  Scope of engagements include consultation with IT leadership to review current state architecture, determine current pain points and architectural limitations, collaboratively create a future state architecture and finally create the implementation plan.  This implementation plan is executed over a series of phases, laid over a calendar becomes the 1 - 5 year plan.  Execution of implementation with roles of project management, architecture, and development lead.

 

This process was developed and implemented for multiple clients over the past 5 years.  The philosophy utilized is relatively simple, we enable the business to quickly adapt to constantly changing market conditions by constructing an architecture that enables agility.  Engagements include hands on application development, generally developing prototypes for developers so a consistent pattern is utilized across application domains.

Roles: Relationship Manager, Project Manager, Resource Manager, Technical Lead, Enterprise Architect, Solutions Architect, Application Architect, Azure Cloud Architect

Environment: BizTalk Server 2010 /2013/2016, AppFabric, WCF, SCOM, IIS, Microsoft Azure

 

Sr. Integration Architect Consultant/Solution Architect

SOA Architect

Responsible for the SOA technology adoption on the Microsoft platform. This role includes client engagement, hardware and software topology design, technology selection, technology implementation, SOA pilot creation and deployment, documentation and training. The SOA stack utilized in this role includes BizTalk, AppFabric, WCF, and Azure.  Engagements include hands on application development, generally developing prototypes for developers so a consistent pattern is utilized across application domains.

Environment: BizTalk Server 2010 /2013/2016, .Net, AppFabric, WCF, SCOM, IIS, Microsoft Azure , Azure IAAS, Azure PAAS

 

BizTalk Architect

Responsible for the Architecture, Implementation, and utilization of the BizTalk Solution Stack for Enterprise Solutions. The scope of this role includes hardware topology design, technology implementation, developing Solutions Architectures for EAI, as well as developing Architectures in support of Enterprise SOA. Engagements include hands on application development, generally developing prototypes for developers so a consistent pattern is utilized across application domains.

Environment: BizTalk Server 2010, .Net

 

SCOM Architect

Responsible for the Architecture, Implementation, and configuration of SCOM for monitoring Enterprise Solutions. The scope of this role includes the analysis and design of the hardware and software infrastructure based on user requirements. Additionally, configuration of the monitoring environment is performed iteratively as monitoring and alerting is tailored to suit customer needs.

Environment: SCOM Server 2007 R2, SCOM Server 2012

 

Raymond James Financial 11/2006 – 01/2012

Solution Architect

Projects

Solution Architect

Responsible for collaboration with Fixed Income leadership to identify future state, identify top priorities, create implementation plan, and execute re-architecture of the solution platform to enable business agility.

Responsible for collaboration with Equity Trading leadership to identify future state, identify top priorities, create implementation plan, and execute re-architecture of the solution platform to enable business agility.  Engagements include hands on application development, generally developing prototypes for developers so a consistent pattern is utilized across application domains.

Roles: Solutions Architect for Fixed Income, Equity Trading, and part time for Regulatory Reporting

 

SOA Architect/Solution Architect – Enterprise SOA

Responsible for the creation, implementation, and ongoing support of the Enterprise SOA. This included the creation of organizational models, governance, and the acquisition of technology.

This role included leading the vendor evaluation (RFP) for best of breed SOA stacks including Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle. This effort led to the eventual adoption of a SOA technology stack (IBM), which required the creation of a deployment topology, the implementation of the technology, the creation of a pilot, creating the accepted usage and patterns (governance), and the creation of sample applications.  Engagements include hands on application development, generally developing prototypes for developers so a consistent pattern is utilized across application domains.

Environment: BizTalk Server 2010, .Net, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere WSRR, WebSphere Toolkit, Oracle SOA Suite

 

BizTalk Architect – Implement BizTalk Server 2010 and the ESB Toolkit 2.1

Created BizTalk 2010 deployment strategy including; hardware configuration, deployment topology, and migration strategy. This deployment included a portal server, services web farm, database cluster, application cluster (active/active), SSO cluster (active/passive), and an MSMQ cluster. Deployed environment to development, QA, Production, and BCP environment while training System Engineer and operational staff. Supervised the conversion of 30 applications from BizTalk Server 2006 to BizTalk Server 2010.

Environment: BizTalk Server 2010, .Net, ESB Toolkit 2.1, WebSphere MQ, RA-Shortcut, UML, Borland Together

 

Integration Architect

Responsible for the technology domain catalog that pertains to integration, this meant keeping the catalog up to date as well as providing guidance on the technology in the catalog. This portfolio included MSMQ, IBM WebSphere MQ, Attunity, SWIFT, FIX, WCF, and BizTalk Server.

Additional responsibilities include consulting on over 50 different enterprise solutions to assist in determining which technology and pattern to apply for integration.

Environment: MSMQ, IBM WebSphere MQ, Attunity, SWIFT, FIX, WCF, .Net, and BizTalk Server.

 

Solutions Architect – FOCUS and Regulatory Reporting

Responsible for the design of the Enterprise Regulatory Reporting System, this design automated the manual processes that produced Haircuts(weekly), Daily Net Capital, Weekly Reserve, and the creation of FOCUS (Financial and Operational Combined Uniform Single report) reporting. The result was the creation of a rules driven platform for Regulatory Reporting that provided the agility to quickly adapt to the volatile changes in the regulatory environment. This system eliminated thousands of man hours and completely eliminated the need for human intervention into the process.

Environment: .Net 4.0, SQL Server 2008, SSIS, SSRS, Web Services, GoldenGate, ASP.Net, UML, Borland Together

 

Solutions Architect – Trace Reporting with FIX

Responsible for the creation of the architecture which automated TRACE Reporting from the internal Trading System to FINRA. Worked with the development staff to ensure development of solution was in line with architectural vision. Also responsible for the identification, acquisition, and the proof of technology for the Rapid Addition - Shortcut FIX Adapter.

Environment: BizTalk Server 2010, .Net, WebSphere MQ, RA-Shortcut, UML, Borland Together

 

Solutions Architect – Convert Institutional Fixed Income backoffice to BroadRidge Impact

Responsible for the creation of the strategy to convert the Institutional Fixed Income business unit’s back office process from SIS to Impact. In addition to the strategy and conversion plan the creation of the Solution Architecture was provided, this architecture detailed the integrations between the new system and the legacy BackOffice. These integrations included accounting, payroll, stock record, OFAC, commission management, and document storage.

Environment: BizTalk Server 2006, .Net 3.0, Impact, WebSphere MQ, UML, Borland Together, WCF Web Services, SSIS

 

Research and Development

Responsible for creating proof of concepts around multiple technologies including BizTalk as an ESB, WCF as a service provider in a SOA, the use of App Fabric as a Hosting environment as well as a caching solution, utilizing IBM message broker as an ESB, the utilization of an ODS in the overall strategic vision for SOA.

 

Raymond James Financial, St. Petersburg, FL 10/2004 – 10/2006

Integration Architect

 

Projects

BizTalk Developer

Designed and developed a framework to handle common tasks within the BizTalk environment, including authentication, alerting, logging, and exception handling. The result of this project was a set of orchestrations and assemblies that automated and standardized common tasks that were needed for each application within the BizTalk environment.

Environment: BizTalk Server 2006, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, .Net 2.0

 

BizTalk Developer

Designed and developed a reusable integration that facilitated the synching of data between CRM systems and Microsoft Exchange. This system enabled the synching of contact information between a proprietary contact management system and the Exchange server in a message based fashion. The system provided two-way synching and provided a conflict resolution module that allowed users to intervene on messages that were in conflict. This system replaced the need to purchase a commercial off the shelf solution that was estimated to cost 500K for purchase and integration.

Environment: BizTalk Server 2006, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, .Net 2.0, ASP.NET, WebDAV

 

BizTalk Architect

Led the effort to adopt BizTalk Server 2006 into the enterprise. This effort consisted of the evaluation of the new features of BizTalk Server 2006, the creation of the business case, and the creation of an adoption plan. Executed the adoption plan while training operational staff on how to install the BizTalk Runtime as well as training developers on the new BizTalk version. The results of this project led to the successful adoption of BizTalk Server 2006 as well as the conversion of all existing assets to BizTalk Server 2006.

Environment: BizTalk Server 2004, BizTalk Server 2006, .Net

 

Integration Architect

Responsible for evaluating vendors in the EAI product space including BizTalk Server, BEA, and IBM. This evaluation led to the creation of a proof of concept with BizTalk Server and the eventual adoption of BizTalk Server 2004. Responsible for designing the deployment topology (HA), deploying the BizTalk Server artifacts, and creating a pilot that integrated account managements systems on disparate platforms.

Environment: BizTalk Server 2004, .Net 2.0

 

Southwest Securities, Dallas, TX 10/2001 – 10/2004

Senior Consultant

 

Projects

.NET Developer

Designed and developed integration with Advent Software to provide account information, including positions, cash balances, and activity. The results of this project provided the financial advisors of Southwest Securities the ability to provide performance reporting for their clients.

Environment: ASP, SQL, VB, HTML, .Net 1.0, DTS

 

.NET Developer

Designed and developed a complex integration with Wall Street Concepts to provide activity around dividend payment for client accounts. The results of this project were the full reconciliation and reclassification of dividend payments for the entire firm. This project resulted in a 99% accuracy rate in dividend classification for the firm.

Environment: ASP, SQL, VB, HTML, .Net 1.0, DTS

 

.NET Developer

Designed and developed a reporting portal for enterprise wide use. This portal provided access to reports while also enforcing authentication and authorization. The result of this project was the elimination of the need to run thousands of print jobs on nightly basis, this allowed for the retirement of several pieces of print hardware and a significant reduction in operational cost.

Environment: ASP, HTML, VB, SQL, .Net 1.0, DTS

 

Dynamic Computing Services, Seattle, WA 10/1998 – 10/2001

Consultant

 

Projects/Roles

Conversion Specialist

Responsible for leading the conversion effort of the day trading and order entry portions of a back office conversion. The result of this project was the retirement of the legacy (SIS) back office system and the implementation of a completely new windows based back office platform (CSS).

 

Technical Relationship Manager

Responsible for managing the technical relationships with the firms’ largest daytrading clients. This included the creation and maintenance of trading interfaces, data extracts, and providing consultation on third party integrations.