Canada
Executive architect with experience in solution design and architecture development focusing in large accounts in finance, public and aerospace&defense industries. Achieved Thought Leader level in IBM Architect certification being also Master and TOGAF 9.1 Certified in Open Group Community. Appointed IBM Academy of Technology Member. In total had an experience in pre-sale roles, implementation and product development roles. In the architectural part of the career led projects and initiatives for IT Infrastructure strategy preparation, Disaster Recovery and High Availability solutions design, Cloud adoption, Big Data implementation, innovative technologies approbation (In-memory, Blockchain e t.c.). For the last several years was driving technical activities from IBM side in the largest financial institution in Central and Eastern Europe with focus on innovation technologies helping client to adopt IBM best practices to their IT environment and transform IT architecture in alignment with business goals of the company. Recognized speaker and evangelist of cutting-edge technologies in CEE market, having proven track of publications and presentations in Cloud, API, Blockchain and IT architecture and infrastructure areas.
Leading large platform, cloud and GenAI transformations across NA
Led product development for Lilli (major internal RAG-based GenAI platform) driving architecture modernization, quality metrics, named entity recognition and tooling. Achievements: - New implemented architecture to support new business functionality (doubled number of users) - Defined and established the first set of quality metrics (10+) as product OKRs - Launched unique debug tool to accelerate root cause analysis - Enhanced testing and provisioning tooling to accelerate time to market
Helped NA clients to drive digital transformation through core technology modernization (e.g. cloud, infrastructure and data architecture, DevSecOps) - Achieved 30% product delivery acceleration in the largest FinTech - Built cloud migration strategy for a large on-prem product portfolio - Identified 20M+ saving opportunity for cloud through FinOps - Launched industry-wide survey to collect master data management trends and issues
Led architect profession development by creating and implementing technical career path for architects at Sber. Activities included: - Creating architect skills matrix including professional, digital and soft skills - Establishing open experienced-based architect professional certification program with 5 levels and 8 categories of required skills. Certification has Open CA from The Open Group as reference and motivates architects to develop skills in line with the matrix, share their practical experience and create more architectural artifacts. - Creating educational programs and courses in the areas of cloud and platform architecture to develop skills in these strategic areas - Linking professional certification levels with job roles and internal grades in HR to make smooth career journey for certified architects
Responsible for a wide range of architectural activities in Sberbank account by functional leadership of the technical team including the following: - Proactive technical counsel to the client stakeholders on a new IT trends and technologies - Developing technology frameworks, enterprise and technology architectures at a corporate level - Working with client Line of Business representatives in order to identify client's needs and design high level solutions to fit business problems - Performing architectural governance and review of the proposed solutions in the account - Promoting cutting-edge technologies in the account: In-memory computing, Cloud and Mobile applications development, Microservices architecture, Machine learning, Security Intelligence, Blockchain
- Applying industry-specific knowledge, including knowledge in the IBM products and experience to bring new business and technology insights to assigned client - Overall technical leadership and territory responsibility for designing solutions that leverage the capabilities of the IBM portfolio - Anchoring Proof of Concept developments and supporting opportunity identification and pursuit processes and evangelize IBM brand - Establishig Enterprise Architecture principles/guidelines for design patterns, system platform and components dependencies - Driving opportunities and client adoption of IBM's Strategic Growth plays. Cloud, Analytics,Big Data, Mobility
- Leading in design and implementation of end-to-end enterprise solutions and infrastructure architectures that support the strategic objectives of the client. - Delivering specialized architectural skills that result in IBM being the leading vendor on target customer accounts - Acting as a Trusted technology Advisor to clients, Business Partners and ISV companies - Proactively leading and creating reusable assets and technical plays to generate and drive opportunities across all partners (ISV companies, business partner) - Establishing internal IBM STG RCIS architect community to organize team work and knowledge transfer between team members
- Participating in project with purpose of creating catalog with shipbuilding equipment for the whole industry - Modeling integration scheme of life-cycle data based on ISO 15926 - Developing data warehouse architecture for this shipbuilding catalog - Data description using XML - Working with Aveva products
- Learning IBM products and tools - Participating in system’s architect activities: Dynamic Infrastructure and Cloud Exploration Workshops, TCO studies - Preparing different pre-sale documents: PoC, IT strategies, competitive analysis, architecture design - Making presentations for customers and internal use