Candidates About

 

Alec Goldis

Objective:

Opportunity that utilizes my experience in software design, development and project//team management specifically in the Blockchain environment

 

Skill Set

Cloud	Azure, AWS, Google
Enterprise Data	MS SQL Server (2016 - 2008 (R2), IBM DB2, Oracle 11i, MySQL, RedShift PowerBI, Dynamo, MongoDB, Power Pivot, Blockchain
Technologies	Blockchain (Ethereum), SiteCore 7+, .NET 4.5+, .NET Core, SharePoint 2013, Office365, DAX, Power BI Embedded, SSIS,  Express, React, React Native, Angular 4. OAUTH, Docker, Redux, RxJs, D3

Certifications: Certified SiteCore Developer.

Certified Agile Point Implementer

 

Summary

I have over 20 years of Software development and team management experience utilizing mostly Microsoft product line. During last 10 years, I provided architectural services to a number of clients helping them deliver software on time and within budget.

Cloud solutions	Developed and migrated several MVC application from on-prem to hybrid cloud environment (Azure) and Amazon AWS Developed several SharePoint apps for Office 365 (SharePoint hosted and Cloud Hosted) Developed custom BI solutions using Amazon RedShift and OData. Oauth
SiteCore	Developed custom reporting based on Engagement Analytics API. Led implementation of the Site Core based MVC E-commerce site for a Fortune client.
BlockChain	Familiarity with several Azure and AWS templates (BlockApps, Ethereum Leader, Ethereum Consortium, Sawtooth blockchain). Tools: Geth, Truffle,

 

12/18 – presently WRG, NJ – Blockchain Consultant

Skill set and tools utilized:

Ethereum Solidity, MIST, Oraclize, Truffle, React, Angular, Node, Express, Geth, BlockApps  Also built a multinode blockchain distributed between on-premise servers and Azure VMs.

Direction:

Conducted extensive research of the proof of work concept and possibility to replace it with “proof of usefulness”. Research and implemented Atomic crosschain swap transactions on Ethereum

 

8/17 -11/17  – KOSTYA.NET,  Atlanta, GA – R&D/Blockchain consultant

Prototyped several Ethereum based applications: Recording real-estate transactions by using smart contracts, Custom Distributed Wallet,

Prototyped multicurrency (crypto) exchange adviser system using Python client for sourcing data and AWS GPU for processing

Designed and implemented Oracle for persisting data into SQL database.

 

6/17 – 9/17, Trail Treker – Consultant

Mobile Apps and Infrastructure for trail management

Designed and developed backend mobile synchronization service for Trail Tracker application. Initially prototyped this service in Web API deploying to Azure mobile service. After preliminary testing and cost/benefit analyses switched to AWS Lambda services and implemented service using Node.JS and Express.JS. Also tested combination of Node.JS and Restify.JS.  Introduced Docker based product deployment.

Created “mock” Mobile App using React with the idea that front end team will convert the “mock” code to React Native replacing ReactDom artifacts, but preserving REDUX store.  Replaced SVG based visualizations with D3 taking advantage of the D3 transformations.

Created POC of the cross-platform Mobile App using React Native.

 

12/16 – 6/17, American Tower, Boca Raton, FL (remote) – Solution Architect

Company deprecated MOSS 2007.  Number of SharePoint farms contained Infopath/Workflow solutions that were not upgradable to the Office 365

Designed and implemented a generic solution for “upsizing” SharePoint workflow applications into standalone .NET solutions.    Lead development team in the implementation phase. Skills utilized: Azure, DotNetCore,  Docker, Angular 4, PowerBi Embedded.

Created POC for integrating embedded Power BI into existing company applications.  Architected Project Management solution integrating Microsoft PWA, AgilePoint workflows and .Net applications into one coherent system.  (Project Online CSOM, DotNet Core, Azure Active Directory)

Built a proof of concept of the asset tracking system having Front end on the Agile Point and using REST APIs in order to submit transactions to the Sawtooth blockchain.

 

5/16 – 11/16 Evenflo, Miamisburg OH – Solution architect 

Company was looking for a replacement of the stale Ektron WCMS

Developed a prototype and a plan for Conversion of the Ektron based WCMS into Sitecore WCMS. 

Added support for Javascript Frameworks (React) to SiteCore with the goal of preserving Page Editor functionality within SPA.

Integrated Google Analytics into SiteCore and used Power BI with SiteCore xDB and providing additional insight.

Prototyped integration between SiteCore and Insite 3.7.  Concentrated on seamless integration of the Insite PIM into SiteCore using SiteCore Custom Data Source mechanism.

Implemented claims authentication by mapping ADFS provider to the internal SiteCore database and overwriting PreProcessRequest pipeline processor.

 

3/15– 4/16 NEG Boston, MA (telecommuting) – Cloud Architect

The client requested to build a simulation “cluster” and reporting system on top of it.  Initially the development started on Azure and then was partially migrated to AWS due to some deficiencies in the implementation of the Azure APIs. 

Developing hybrid cloud application where UI and billing data reside on Azure and worker roles and BI is served from Amazon AWS.  Prototyped using Office 365 SharePoint Excel Services and Semantic Model for serving Power View via oData connected to AWS RedShift.

Architected and developed second release where Microsoft SSAS was replaced with the shard of the icCube servers. Developed Python scripts for loading simulation data into cubes and desktop app for connecting clients to the right instance. 

 

7/14 – 2/15, 1800Flowers, NY (telecommuting) – Team Lead/Manager – Sitecore/MVC

Lead the development of the Universal Agent Application.    The catalog was managed by the Sitecore and the population relied on the external service (REST based API).  Product instances were initially synchronized weekly. Later introduced an Elastic Search layer, which allowed almost real-time view of the products and near natural language queries. Reviewed Insite B2C offering and experimented with “Insite” Pricer and Order Manager components.  Found that the Insite “Logic Configurator” for Inventory management insufficient for providing support for the business logic and architected a custom shopping cart as a set of Angular directives and WebAPI services, which also supported a disconnected mode (implemented as IndexDB).    Unity was used not only for unit testing, but also to manage injection of the fake services, because IBM service layer (the production web service) was rolled out in in a parallel track.    

 

2/14 – 7/14 Diageo USA, Norwalk, CT – BI/SharePoint architect

Build a custom BI portal and performed technical mentoring services to the off-shore team.  

Implemented single SSN and integration between on-premises and Office 365 farms initially using PingFederate.   Later switched to ADFS.

Built reports publishing infrastructure for PowerBI objects.  Prototyped Office 365 portal UI by introducing Bootstrap templates into SharePoint 2013 environment and directed off-shore team during the implementation. 

Architected self-serviced BI system (Power BI and SharePoint) that aggregated data from SAP BW and Oracle ERP repositories and facilitated cross-department collaboration. SAP business logic was already implemented in BEx queries and I was able to construct a solution that was reusing that logic. The portal was started as Office 365 application and then was upsized into full-fledged MVC application as PowerBi became cloud-only solution. In the last phase of this engagement upsized the solution to Microsoft Azure Cloud Services.

                                                                                        

6/13 – 2/2014 Direct Insite, Fort Lauderdale, Engagement Architect

Technical supervision of the development of the “FlexiTerm” MVC application for the invoice payment terms negotiation.  The UI has been implemented using Angular JS. The site was developed using “test first” methodology with emphasis on dependency injection (nInject).  Later with update to Entity Framework 5 I switched middleware to Unity.

 

8/2012 – 4/2013 RUST, MN (telecommuting) – Technical Delivery Manager

The company provided solutions for Medicare/medicate case management.

Implementing custom document management subsystem based on SharePoint 2013 CSOM.

Picked up a project from an outsourcing foreign consultancy.  Designed and developed process for validating the inherited code distributing it between senior team members and developing unit and performance tests and analyzing code coverage). Ended up re-implementing 60% of the code which was originally in MVC 3. Upgraded environment to MVC 4, introduced Telerik controls and (Knockout JS) for creating “standard” forms.  Integrated with AgilePoint workflow management system for handling custom “requests” from customers. 

Developed data synchronization layer between iOS clients and current application by adding the API layer(s) (WCF, MVC Web-API).

The next engagement was to develop analytics to “flag” potential fraud. I recruited a team of Data Scientists and interfaced them while building a Neuro-Network, selecting training data sets and training the system. 

 

1/2012 – 7/2012 KNAUF Insulation, Shelbyville, IN - BI Architect (partially telecommuting)

While SAP had been deployed throughout the company, the direction was to use non SAP analytical solutions.

Built data warehouse and ETL (SSIS packages) for loading sales and inventory data from SAP into a star schema. Built several reporting models and SSRS sales and inventory reports.  Convinced management to switch to more analytics and user friendly environment and designed and built an SSAS solutions with several cubes(sales cube, inventory, products, etc..) developed KPIs and Excel based report templates with full life cycle and deployment  into the Excel Services. Initially started with hosting reports in the SharePoint farm and then developed custom .NET  MVC solution (The company decided to deprecate SharePoint installations)

 

8/2011-1/2012  VIPRO Atlanta, SharePoint Architect/Delivery Manager

The customer (Georgia Power) had a number of document repositories located in the internal SharePoint farms. The goal was to facilitate filtering and presentation of those assets to the C-level management and  the board of directors.

Designed and implemented WCM for managing content distributed between several internal farms.  The “aggregator” solution crawled documents with preselected content types and presented them through “front end” Internet farm. Document links on that farm were dynamically replaced with calls to the SOAP services (which resided on the internal farms). The UI was enhanced by the dynamic menu (custom menu provider) driven by the content type meta information.  The site was designed with Safari and IE friendly CSS.  The main customers were accessing it from the iPads.  That was before the Bootstrap was developed so most of the existing browser corks and CSS collisions were handled manually through custom  JavaScript.

 

2/2011-7/211 Atlanta Housing Authority, Atlanta – SharePoint Architect

Responsibilities: MOSS2007 migration to SharePoint 2010, Infrastructure and capacity planning, farms consolidation and data recovery.

Developed several custom solutions including

·         “TheInsider” Publishing Portal, 

·         HR Portal with custom forms, workflows and the client for the HR-XML web services,

·         Dashboard (SSRS) and application for managing employees and clients training

 

Architected several .NET web applications and services in order to support data exchange with partners.

 

9/2010 – 2/2011  Republic Industries, Phoenix, AZ

Prototyped solution for editing Excel Workbook, hosted in SharePoint 2010 Excel services.

Migrated MOSS2007 farm to SharePoint 2010 (including my sites, taxonomy, analytics and security)

Designed High Availability and Backup solutions (combination of Microsoft DPM and custom scripts)

Company had WCM application for hosting Internet sites. That application was tightly coupled with branding templates and was based on incorrectly written site definition, which tampered application scaling.  My role was to:

1.      Rewrite site definition and package it properly

2.      Re-design automated site provisioning

3.      Add plumbing for custom menu implementations (Wrote custom navigation provider for connecting to several LOB applications.)

4.      Convert provisioning and site definition into SharePoint 2010 environment

5.      Establish best practices for “solution” development and deployment specifically for SharePoint 2010.

6.      Architected integration with company e-commerce (Customized and configured Form Authentication provider for Internet sites, Designed and prototyped number of Power Shell scripts for initial sites set up).   

 

5/2010-8/2010 Alternative Apparel, Norcross, GA

 

Designed and developed “Vendor Portal” application, which is a set of connected custom and standard web parts. (SharePoint 2010, VS 2010, WSPBuilder)

Custom web parts are consuming data from Lawson Accounting System (assisted in the design and development of the Lawson SOAP services)

 

 

1/2009 – 4/2010, Allied Waste, Phoenix, AZ – (telecommuting). Principal Solution Architect.

Architected custom WCM solution for the company.  Company is a conglomerate of more than 500 divisions, each of which has to have a controlled web presence.  The decision was made to use MOSS2007 WCM. My responsibilities included:

1.      Sizing publishing and presentation farms for projected traffic

2.      Recommend hardware implementation (virtual vs. physical)

3.      Build custom publishing templates

4.      Build provisioning service and application for automated provisioning and deployment management.

5.      Design number of custom solutions:

a.       Contact us solution and web part

b.      Quick push (granular content deployment for the corporate announcements)

c.       Sub-sites web part

d.      Meta information web part

e.       “Modified by” solution for approval workflow.

f.       Custom output caching

6.      Designed and implemented Backup/Recovery solution based on DPM

7.      Evaluated AvePoint suite (Backup/Recovery, HA and replicator) and found it not adequate for managing medium size farm.

8.      Implemented custom search scoping and relevance tuning.

9.      Designed DR solution using combination of SQL log shipping for application content synchronization and special feature receiver for solution synchronization.

10.  Implemented CardioLog reporting on the farm using custom provider so that data processing does not affect presentation farm. 

Currently Presentation farm caries 197 site collections and 260,000 average unique users per day.

 

Designed and implemented Intranet farm. This farm hosts 250 sites built on branded Publishing and team site templates.

 

2/2008 – 12/2008 Portal/BI Architect, AFLAC Columbus, GA

My responsibility was to provide technical mentoring while helping transitioning from Business Objects to Microsoft Analytics. Specifically:

·         Re architected MOSS 2007 deployment (medium farm)

·         Configured Reporting Services in Integration Mode (SQL 2005 and then re-installed SQL2008)

·         Configured PreformancePoint, developed several scorecards and hosted them in SharePoint.

·         Set up SSIS templates (logging, auditing and configuration) for type 2 dimensions.

·         Introduced SQL 2008 server MERGE for processing large type 2 dimensions (over 10 mil rows).

·         Prototyped the process for converting Business Objects Universes into SSAS Cubes.

·         Built proof of concept for the “Claims” cube (with over 300 million rows in the fact table) and achieve acceptable cube processing and reports generation timing.

·         Designed reports and KPIs with SSAS/MDX sources.

 

6/2005 – 12/2008 Architect, Ista, Atlanta GA

Company had BI portal, implemented with Crystal Enterprise 9.0, which hosted about 130 reports with data sources located in more than 20 databases. Ista wanted to improve the stability of this portal and to expand services by offering clients a new set of energy trending and financial reports.

·         Implemented SharePoint and configured reporting in SharePoint mode so that thus providing source repository for those reports.

·         Designed the solution, which allowed ista to keep 75% of the reports in Crystal and developed specialized data warehouse for accelerating 25% of the existing and most of the new reports.

·         Managed new reports development using SSRS.

·         Developed  Report Delivery Portal which hosted SSRS and Business Objects (Crystal) related functionality. 

·         Styled User Interface of the Crystal and Microsoft Report Viewers so that they become visually indistinguishable.

·         Developed tools for report subscriptions management and monitoring (The system had originally over 3000 subscriptions). 

·         Designed Data warehouse for Energy Management System with the goal of providing forecasts for energy cost, consumption and demand. 

·         Experimented with SSAS mining models (forecasting) and determined that client’s goals will be better served with custom forecasting implementation.

·         Implemented ARIMA forecasting model and delivered energy trending reports. 

·         Designed Data Warehouse, implemented SSAS cubes and decision support reports based on the deregulated energy markets (NY, TX) data

·         Helped with Architecture, design and implementation of some of the modules of the billing system (Rate Engine), Hierarchy Management sub-system and Authentication/Authorization sub-system.

 

2/2003 – 4/2005 Consultant, ADT Decision Support System, Atlanta, GA

Company manufactured heavy equipment and wanted to manage operations more efficiently. The ERP system was Visual Manufacturing from “INFOR” and it was three releases behind.

·         Upgraded Visual Manufacturing and Visual Financing to the current version and replaced SQLBase with SQL server 2000.

·         Prototyped equipment orders pricing module and integration with Visual Manufacturing

·         Performed load test and determined that COM based Integrator SDK does not support necessary performance. 

·         Set up beta testing agreement with INFOR and received bets .NET SDK and improved support

·         Developed Quoting and scheduling sub-systems and integrated with Visual.

·         Developed company internet, company dashboard and BI solution

·         Built production status tracking system by acquiring data from each station PLC (Windows CE).

 

9/2000 – .12/2002, Weather Plus, Atlanta GA

Director of Software Development

Company was a developer and operator of technology to provide digital television (interactive) and complementary data services (web, mobile device) for pan-European Weather and Traffic news and information. A startup company that failed in 2003 (lack of continued funding), but that had revenue generating operations (Germany, UK, Holland, Switzerland) and owned the IP/patents to the advanced distribution, player and content management systems that were developed. Initial rounds of funding totaled $25m, ultimate round was to be $45M (Blackstone Partners) 60 employees with 10 in pure product development.

·         Full responsibility for Technical Development, Deployment and Operations for an advanced digital cable television channel (store and forward, computer-generated content) and WEB/mobile device information portal for Weather and Traffic information for European countries.

·         Deployed the network in Germany, UK and The Netherlands.

·         Performed project support with all levels of management, marketing personnel and staff.

·         Based in Frankfurt, Germany, managed relationships and contracts with our European partner organizations to co-ordinate channel operation projects, resolve problems, and communicate project status.

·         In conjunction with the Chairman of the company, closed several major 'carriage'/distribution partnerships and several co-branding/content relationships with major European brands.

 

Prior to 2001 consulting and permanent positions with various companies including Microsoft, IBM, Autodesk, Rare Medium, DCA, Wall Data,  etc…

 

 

                                                                EDUCATION/Certifications

 

·         Certified SiteCore Developer (SiteCore 7.4)  2015

·         AgilePoint BPO Certified Partner 2016

·         Various Microsoft training classes and boot camps, including .NET C#, Commerce Server, BizTalk Server, BI, Retail System, ADO.NET and XML. 

·         Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer in Developing Internet applications in C# and in Building Secure Applications

·         PM associate Certification from PMI in 1999.

·         Microsoft Certified Product Specialist in Windows Architecture and Visual C++, 1996

·         1981-1984 University of Cybernetics, Kiev - doctorate studies in Computer Science “Efficient heuristics for NP problems”.

·         1973-1979 University of physics & Technology, Moscow - Master Degree: Applied Mathematics.