Brad Bahmanpour

  • Enterprise & Cyber Security Architect
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Member Since Jan 30, 2023

Candidates About

 

Brad Bahmanpour

 

Senior IT Professional/Enterprise Architect with 20+ years experience in Information Technology, expert in defining and designing IT-enabled business solutions that help Global companies win in a flat world. The ability to discover and define functional requirements, transform them into technical requirements and architecture definition, with the strong business and technology decision-making skills.

 

Delivering cost-effective, high-performance technology solutions with excellent verbal and communication skills. Proven track record of increasing operational efficiencies, improving customer service levels, and implementing and maintaining IT initiatives to support successful business processes. With the ability to handle multiple projects within tight deadlines, effective communicators who can create a solution that hurdle many obstacles to achieve a success in terms of project delivery. My diverse project landscapes afford me the opportunity to understand many different industries and synthesize their own style and notion of what it takes to realize an effective solution.

 

Experience is balanced and spans a wide spectrum of industries, e.g. Finance, Entertainment, Healthcare, Automotive, Retail, Game Industry, Human Resources, Telecommunication, Manufacturing, Insurance, Government, Transportation, Wholesale, Print & Publication, Advertising, Distribution and Textile.

 

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

 

 

§  Full Stack Application Architect (Mobile, Web, ERP, Augmented Reality)

§  Infrastructure Architect (Mobile, Web, Cloud)

§  Data Scientist (Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligent)

§  Ecommerce Solution Architect (IBM Commerce and ATG)

§  Oracle Solutions Architect (Forms, Report, Mobile Inventory, EBS, Primavera P6, Unifier, OBI)

§  Design and Implement Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Solutions

§  Healthcare Solutions Architect (HIE, EHR, HIX, MMIS, MU2, Healthcare Reform initiatives)

§  Cloud and Virtualization Solutions Architect (Amazon Cloud, Google, Ms Azure Cloud, Rackspace)

§  Security Architect (GLBA, SOX, FFIEC and PCI)

§  Oracle/Sun Enterprise Architect

§  Open Source Solutions Architect

§  Network & Infrastructure Architect

§  Enterprise Application Integration Architect (Hybrid Platform)

§  ERP & CRM Architect

 

 

EDUCATION

 

UCLA Full Stack Web Development BootCAMP - Westwood, CA - 2018

Full Stack Web Development

 

UCLA Extension - Westwood, CA - 2010

Directing, Film & Television                            

 

California Lutheran University - Thousand Oaks, CA - 2005            

MBA in Computer Information Systems   

 

Bosphorus American University - Istanbul, Turkey - 1990

BS in Computer Science

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

 

 

Security, legislation:          AWS Security, PKI, Passport.js, Identity Management & Provisioning, SolarWinds HP ArcSight, Splunk, Enterprise Security, Product experience with Ping Federate, Ping Access, Ping Directory, Ping Data Governance, Janrain, OpenSSL, SSL/TLS, RSA Keon Certificate, SpiDynamic, WebInspect, Penetration test, PGP, Keon, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, PCI

Access Management:         IAM, PAM, SailPoint, Ping, Saviyant, ForgeRock, CyberArk. Ping Federate, GetAccess, Siteminder, Oracle SSO, IBM TIM&TAM, Oracle Access Manager, Active Directory, LDAP, Federated Authentication

Web Development:                      HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Materialize, AngularJS, Bootstrap, Node.js, React.js, React Native, Ajax, NPM, JSX, User Auth, Handlebar.js, Mustache.js, Sequelize.js, JSP, Servlets

Scripting Languages:         Python, Perl, PHP, Shell, Awk, Perl

Programming Languages:   Ruby, Java, , EJB, JEE, C#, C/C++, Objective-C, Pascal, Cobol, Informix 4GL

ERP:                               Oracle Forms, Oracle Unifier, Oracle Primavera P6 Portfolio Management, Oracle Finance, Oracle Contract Manager, Oracle BI, JDA, Oracle EBS, Oracle APS, OTM, PeopleSoft, SAP, Work Brain, ADP, JDE, OSB, Oracle AIA

SOA/Microservices            IBM SOA Suite, Oracle SOA Suite, JBOSS SOA Platform, Microservices

Mobile Technology:           Oracle Mobile Inventory, Mobile Web, IPAD - iPhone development                                                               (Objective-C, Swift), Android, Microsoft Mobile, Porto.io

Application Servers:                    Oracle Weblogic 11g/12c, OHS, IHS, Apache, IBM Websphere,                                                                    JBoss, Tomcat, Cold Fusion, ATG Dynamo, Apache, IIS/MTS, JRUN, SUNONE

Portals:                            Oracle Portal, IBM Websphere Portal , Oracle Application Server                                                                 Portal, JBoss Portal

Cloud:                             Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azuer, Ms Office 365, Cloud security, Google Cloud, Rackspace, Heroku, Toolbelt

Augmented Reality:            Metiao, DAQRI, Total Immersion, Juanio, Layer, Blipper, Wikitude

Content Management:                  Vignette, Oracle Unifier, RedDot, Microsoft Sharepoint

Core Technologies:            JEE, .Net, AngularJS, Node.js, Rest/Soap Web Services, AJAX, Hibernate, JMS,                          JBoss, Cache, RMI, LDAP, CGI, JNI, EAI, CORBA, IBM Initiate

Health Care:                      Epic, Meditech, Intersystem HealthShare, Intersystem Ensemble,                                                                 AllScripts, DBMotion, HL7 RIM

Architecture Frameworks:    TOGAF, ArchiMate, AZIFA, FEFA, COBIT, CMMI, ITIL

Frame works/Tools:           BootstrapJSF, Seam, Struts, Spring, JUnit, Cactus, Dom4j, log4j, CVS, Borland Star Team, VSS, Clear Case, Ant, Eclipse, Visio, Ms Project, Oracle JDeveloper, JBoss Developers Studio, IBM Rational Application Developer, Ms Visual Studio, Docker, Chef, Git, Github, Oracle Text, Oracle Intermedia, Install Shield, Windows Installer, Demo Shield, PVCS, JBuilder, Visual Interdev, Samba, Tuxedo and Jolt, XMLSpy

Information Modeling:        MDA, XML Schema Definition (XML Spy), Class Diagrams (Rational Rose), UML, RUP, RAD, Scrum, Design Patterns,

Collaboration/PM Tools      Basecamp, Rally, Ms Project, BPM

Database/DB Modeling:      Big Data, Hadoop, MongoDB, MySQL, No SQL, Oracle 10/11g/12R, MySQL, MS SQL Server, PEAR, Sybase, DB2, Informix 4GL, Embarcadero DBArtisan , Erwin Data Modeling, Power Designer, Epic Cache, FoxPro, Ms Access

Reporting/BI Tools:            Oracle BI, Crystal Report, Brio, Business Object, SQL                                                                     Report/Loader/Plus, Cognos, CUPS, Oracle Report

Disk/Network Management: Cloud Technologies, Disk Suite, Veritas Disk Management, CMD, Syncsort, VMWare, storage (HSM, SAN. NAS, SATA), networks (DNS, firewalls, switch / routers, media flow & data flow).

Monitoring/Perf-Stress Tools: Gomez, Hyperic HQ, JON (JBoss Operations Network), PerfMon,                                                             LoadRunner, WinRunner, Silk Performer, Wily, Wily Interscope,                                                                    Web Trends, Web Methods, Jmeter, Peregrine BenchMark, Top,                                                                    Tivoli. PerformaSure, Jprobe.

Operating System:             SUN Solaris, LINUX, Unix, IBM AIX, Mac OS X, HP UX, Windows                                                                 OS, MAC iOS, Android

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

BART, Oakland, CA                                                                                           05/2018 – Present

Enterprise & Cyber Security Architect, Contract

 

·         Evaluating and recommending the selection of enterprise hardware, software & services.

·         Developing comprehensive Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

·         Analyzing problems, identifying alternative solutions, projecting consequences of proposed actions and implementing recommendations in support of goals.

·         Researching, analyzing and evaluating new service delivery methods and techniques.

·         Modern cloud based technology services

·         Enterprise data center best management practices

·         Enterprise network architecture

·         Enterprise relational database management systems (Oracle preferred)

·         Operational characteristics, services and activities of a comprehensive information systems program.

·         Principles and practices of information systems design and data processing.

 

 

 

UCLA Full Stack Web and Mobile Development Boot Camp                                    01/2018 – 05/2018

 

Completed full-time Coding program at UCLA - The Full Stack Web and Mobile Development Coding Boot Camp, developing many Web and Mobile applications. Focusing on the following technologies,

  • Computer Science applied to JavaScript
  • Browser Based Technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, jQuery, Ajax, NPM, JSX, User Auth, Handlebar.js, Mustache.js, Sequelize.js)
  • React, React Native
  • Creating and consuming REST API
  • Databases (MySQL, MongoDB)
  • Deployment (Heroku, Git, GitHub)
  • Java
  • Quality Assurance
  • Server Side Development (Node.js, Express, MERN Stack)

·         Responsive Design

 

Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, CA                                                                           07/2017 – 02/2018

Enterprise & Security Architect, Contract

§  Working closely with the business and Technical teams to design and implement Oracle Mobile Application.

§  Implemented cloud-native enterprise-wide IAM solutions 

§  Implemented Oracle Mobile (Oracle Mobile Inventory.

§  Implemented Oracle ADF Framework.

§  Leading the effort with Network, Database and application teams to troubleshoot any performance related issues.

§  Implementing Ping Federate server for user authentication and standards-based SSO for partners and customer identity types.

§  Working closely with business to create test scenarios for Oracle Mobile App

§  Creating user stories for daily standup and sprint meetings based on Agile methodology

§  Created the current state and Future State Architectural Design Diagrams for Dev, SYSTEST, UAT, Preview and Production environments utilizing TOGAF and ArchiMate 3 framework.

§  Created and implemented System and platform integration design among various platforms.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disney Studios, Glendale, CA                                                                             03/2016 – 06/2017

Enterprise and Ecommerce Architect, Contract

§  Worked closely with the business and collaborating with Application Development, offshore, Security, Architects and other Technical teams to design and implement the new Acquisition site for Disney Movie Club on WCS platform and Oracle 12c Forms Platform.

§  Designed and developed a new design and Architecture for DMC User Interace utilizing AngularJS, React and Native React.

§  By utilizing TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate 3 framework created current and future states of architecture models showing business, technology and application layers and their connection in detail.

§  Designed and implemented cloud federated Identity management using SailPoint and IBM IDM.

§  Designed and Implemented IBM Websphere Portal V.8 and V.8.5.

§  Created the current state and Future State Architectural Design Diagrams for Dev, SYSTEST, UAT, Preview and Production environments.

§  Created and implemented System and platform integration design among various platforms.

§  Worked with the security team to remediate the findings during penetration test

§  Created and implemented solutions for PCI compliance

§  Created & Modified build scripts for the very complicated IBM Commerce application (WCS) and SOLR implementation

§  Worked closely with Oracle Forms 12c implementation team to guide them on installation, configuration and sizing the necessary information for different environments, Upgrading IHS server from version 7 to version 9.

§  Created user stories for daily standup and sprint meetings based on Agile methodology

§  Worked closely with Network, Database team and application teams to troubleshoot any performance related issues using Heap dumps and Thread dumps and Jmeter

§  Installed and configured Feature pack 8 for IBM Commerce, SOLR in WCS cluster environment.

§  Generated when occurred out memory exceptions. 

§  Installed and configured cluster nodes for Web Sphere Application Server, WLM (workload management)

§  Supported production environment for Linux and Windows platforms.

§  Enabled Feature pack 8 for IBM Commerce in all environments.

§  Worked with team to Dockerize the application components in IHS and Gateway servers

 

 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA                                          02/2015 – 03/2016

Lead Enterprise Architect, Contract

§  Worked closely with the business and Technical teams to design and implement Hybrid Cloud solutions, utilizing VMWare, Amazon and Oracle Cloud platforms.

§  Led the effort of upgrading Oracle Primavera from version 8.2 to 8.3.

 

§  Designed and Implemented Oracle Primavera 8.3, Oracle Unifier, Oracle Portal, Job Services, Oracle BI and worked with business to configure the application to their needs for a billion dollar bridge project.

 

§  Designed and implemented cloud federated Identity management using SailPoint , Microsoft and Oracle Identity Manager.

§  Utilizing Ping Identity and Ping Federate to provide advanced SSO and authentication to all applications, both on-premises and in the cloud,

§  Implemented Oracle Mobile (Peoplesoft Mobile Inventory).

§  Implemented and Upgraded Oracle Primvera Unifier 16.1 and completed POC for Unifier 17.2.

§  Implemented Oracle ADF Framework.

§  Implemented PeopleSoft HCM suite and People tools with all related security components.

§  Implemented Oracle SOA Suite with all related security components.

§  Utilizing Agile methodology for Software development projects.

§  Performed code reviews and worked with the developers & Architects on best practices and software design patterns Created overall Technical Architecture design, Diagrams for MnDot Applications and infrastructure

§  Led the effort of upgrading Weblogic Servers and applications to 11g (10.3.6).

§  Planned and implemented the migration of JBoss 4/5 Apps to JBoss 6.1.1.

§  Created JBoss 6 and Weblogic 11g 1.6 Cluster environments on Redhat Linux.

§  Acted as Application Architect and working with the development team to upgrade JBoss applications to JBoss 6 and Apache servers to Apache 2.4.

 

MUFG – UNION BANK, MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA                                                    11/2014 – 02/2015

Enterprise Architect, TOGAF, ArchiMate & COBIT 5 Process Expert

      

·         As COBIT 5 subject matter expert, I led the effort to benchmark the existing IT processes and practices of Quality Engineering team at Union Bank using the best practices of TOGAF, ArchiMate & COBIT 5 maturity Models.

·         Led the series of meetings with the senior management and executives of the bank to understand and finalize the requirements, and the overall approach and methodology for the assignment.

·         Identified the current state of maturity for QE related processes and compared with the expected level of maturity in TOGAF & COBIT5.

·         Identified the gaps and areas of improvement in specific processes at Quality Engineering team.

·         Led the interactive workshops and discussions with the identified business process owners and senior management from Quality Engineering team.

  • Preparing a dashboard of the existing/future maturity level for identified IT processes.

·         Preparing an outline of the road map for bridging the gaps.

·         Prioritizing the transition plan, and identifying brief projects for each action.

·         Discuss and submitting a draft report followed by a final COBIT 5 report of recommendations to head of Quality Engineering team.

 

 

 

CHARTER COMMUNICATION, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI                                               05/2014 – 11/2014

Oracle Solution Architect

      

§  As Enterprise Architect worked closely with Charter’s Enterprise Architecture and business teams to enhance the development process, SOA Governance and apply SOA best practices at Charter.

§  Worked closely with middleware team to develop solutions for messaging and EAI technologies, like JMS, Oracle SOA Suite, OSB, OWSM, AIA, BPEL process, Human Interaction, Business Rules and various adapters.

§  Reviewed and redesigned Oracle SSO implementation at Charter.

§  Partnered with the business and Charter Architect team on ATG Ecommerce upgrade project.

§  Analyzed the logging mechanisms and Web Services versioning that were used in different groups at Charter and came up with the recommendations based on SOA Best practices

§  Worked closely with all levels of management and internal and external customers on Ecommerce, SOA and Middleware related projects at Charter.

§  Led and contributed to the architectural review processes.

§  Coordinated with Offshore team on daily development efforts and long-term strategy.

§  Developed full-scale, enterprise SOA integration using Oracle SOA FMW 11g technology stack.

§  Ensured Service design fits into overall SOA driven program.

§  Documented architectural trade off analysis for key architectural decisions.

§  Documented and presented enterprise architecture best practices

§  Applied TOGAF + CMM guidelines to create repeatable processes.

 

 

Bick Health (Bick Group), St. Louis, Missouri (Startup)                               09/2013- 05/2014

Manager of Technical Team/Scrum Master

§  Led Physician & Patient Portal Development, Deployment and Integration for St. Joseph Hospital group.

§  Working very closely with CEO, CIO, CTO, SVP and also the leadership on the client side to understand the business requirements and share them with the technical team.

§  Interviewed, hired and built Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), BPM, Infrastructure, HL7 Integration, Intersystem HealthShare & Ensemble, Business Analysts and Data teams.

§  Introduced Agile Methodology and put together a training program for different teams to adopt Agile      development life cycle using Rally as Agile software management platform. This helped different      groups          to work as unified team, successfully handle the changes and complete the projects on time.

§  Managed Architecture, Infrastructure, Web Service Development, Database, QA and BA    teams. The      team of 28 people.

§  Designed and created Current and Future states of architecture utilizing TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate framework to visualize the proposed Architecture for the team and the stakeholders.

§  Enhanced and integrated SSO to the new platform as part of overall authentication and authorization strategy.

§  Led the team through successful Meaningful Use stage 2 (MU2) Certification of Patient portal.

§  Led the team through the third party product selection for the Backend/Middle/Front tiers.

§  Put together the current and future architecture design and led the team through the      implementation.

§  Led Database team to create a Data Model to represent the current and the future of the   data      architecture of St. Joseph Hospitals.

§  Improved Third party relationship and Risk Management, Such as Software development   providers,      Data Centers, internal & external audits and offshore Vendors/partners.

§  Led the development of Physician and Patient portal at St. Joseph Hospital using SOA, JSON, Java,      Open Source, Microsoft and Web technologies.

§  Coordinated HL7 development efforts with offshore developers.

§  Designed and led the infrastructure team to create Development, Test, Staging and production      environments in Virtual and Cloud base environments.

§  Led the team implementing Intersystem Ensemble, Intersystem Health Share, Meditech, Apache servers, TomCat, MS SQL server, IBM Initiate 9.5,        Web Services, Service Brokers, Workbench, Google Apps, VMware, Amazon Web services & Inspector as part of the Architecture.

§  Leveraged emerging technologies with integration into existing processes.

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