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Albert T Wong,atwong@alumni.uci.edu, 949-870-9664http://www.linkedin.com/in/atwong
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Co-author of the IBM Redbook "SOA Retail Business Patterns" and co-author of several IBMDeveloperWorks best practices articles, Mr. Wong is a certified IT Architect with 11 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies designing and implementing innovative businesscentric, technology focused solutions that consist of multiple hardware and software products in atechnical leadership role. His background in enterprise IT solutions provides him with the ability tonot only to design, implement and deploy, but also instruct, on the whole spectrum of the ITlifecycle across application, integration, infrastructure and operations domains. His ability toeffectively realize proven design concepts has also furthered his experience in the procurementof customer requirements, managing relationships, project management, and technicalmentorship. He has extensive knowledge and experience in 1) business process executionexcellence using technology and programming language agnostic tools, 2) Java EnterpriseEdition (JEE/J2EE) application development using open source frameworks and libraries 3)process/application/data integration using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) techniques, 4)designing and deploying geographically dispersed, high availability SOA infrastructures in aprivate and public cloud and traditional data center environment 5) leading the development of ITroadmaps, IT business value assessments and IT maturity models and 6) implementing ITarchitecture design, IT lifecycle management and IT Service Management using Rational UnifiedProcess (RUP), IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and other industry-wide recognized methodologies.He is certified in ITIL, SOA and RUP, and is a US Patent Inventor.Not at work, Mr. Wong is an ACM Distinguished Speaker and was a past president of theUniversity of California Irvine Alumni Association Information and Computer Science Chapter. Heenjoys traveling all over the world, eating at local restaurants, shopping, learning about anythingand everything, and donating time to noble causes.
Employer History05/2010 – present ScoreBig, California, United States of AmericaIT Architect
Mr. Wong is working at venture-backed e-commerce company building the first, opaque channelspecifically for the liquidation and sale of “undersold” ticket inventory in the $26B live-event ticketcategory. As one of the IT architects and one of the first 10 IT staff members on the team, heleads and develops key e-commerce, merchandising and partner integration modules in Microsoft.Net 4.0 using C# and ASP.NET and the Scrum Agile methodology.
05/2009 - 05/2010 Blue Shield of California, California, United States of AmericaIT Architect
Mr. Wong is working at Blue Shield of California as one of their senior technical leads on creatingand executing a multi-year SOA and ESB Roadmap in collaboration with the ApplicationsArchitecture Services Group, Enterprise Architecture Group and other IT and Businessstakeholders to support the core health benefits application for 4.1+ million Californians. As their ESB Application Integration team lead and ESB Infrastructure team lead and ApplicationMonitoring team lead, he leads the strategy, design, development, operations and ongoingmanagement for the ESB and application monitoring components including break-fix,maintenance, enhancements and project implementations while managing and holding BlueShield teams and 3
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party vendors to SLAs.As the ESB Integration team lead, he is in charge of gathering requirements, designing andintegrating EDI and trading partner data to the health benefits application for 4.1+ million
 
Californians. As the ESB Infrastructure team lead, he is responsible for standing up the softwareand building the IT roadmap to meet the nonfunctional and operational requirements to supportdata integration for millions of transactions that goes across the ESB. As the team lead for application monitoring, he is responsible for monitoring and generating dashboards/reports onavailability, performance, capacity planning and exception metrics on the 9 different applicationsthat makes up the health care benefits business processes.
04/2009 - present Appliance Foundry, California, United States of AmericaFounder 
Founder of a company to deliver production-ready software appliances of IBM Software. It is our belief that there is a need in the marketplace for appliances that allows IBM Software customersto deploy business process infrastructure more quickly with reduced risk to the organization andproject. With that said, our goal is to configure the IBM Software to meet 90%+ of the typicalrequirements that customers have of IBM Software. Our appliances are available on AmazonEC2 and on the VMWARE platform. Mr. Wong is currently responsible for the sales, marketingand technical development the offerings that Appliance Foundry provides. Appliance Foundry is aregistered IBM Business Partner.
02/2009 - present VetAnyware, California, United States of AmericaFounder 
Founder of a Veterinary Business Software Solutions company. Our main goal is to enableveterinarians the ability to better manage their practice and provide better service throughbusiness software. Our first offering is commercial services and support around OpenVPMS, anopen source veterinary practice management software providing electronic health records,customer relationship management, appointment scheduling management and pharmaceuticalinventory management to veterinary clinics (see more athttp://vetanyware.com/products/openvpms). VetAnyware believes that by focusing and optimizingon the most important business aspects of a veterinary practice and providing technologyfeatures that enhance flexibility, ease of use and freedom to users of the software, we canremove the largest barrier for veterinarians to adopt practice management software and anelectronic animal health records system and improve the financial and operational fitness of theveterinary practice. VetAnware OpenVPMS is available in a SasS or appliance configuration. Mr.Wong is currently responsible for the sales, marketing and technical development theVetAnyware OpenVPMS product.
01/2006 - 02/2009 IBM, California, United States of AmericaIT Architect
Mr. Wong is an IT Architect with IBM Industry Solutions organization focusing on the Retail andIBM Retail Integration Framework, an enterprise-level SOA framework to help you better manageyour business and to help you integrate and unleash business capability across your ITenvironment. The main solution offerings he supports are Total Store (Point of Sales, LossPrevention, RFID, Digital Media, Workforce Management), Multi-channel retailing, Supply Chainand Merchandising, and Retail Business Intelligence. His primary responsibility is the design andimplementation of the offerings he support in accordance with the client’s requirements andglobal and local IBM standards. Due to the dynamic nature of the IBM Industry Solutionsorganization, his skills span the whole spectrum of I/T business and technical development fromtechnical pre-sales, business IT value assessments, solution design and implementation, toecosystem enablement. Notable achievements during this period were: designed and launchedthe largest IBM SOA middleware infrastructure deployment in South America (500+ locations,multiple applications on 500+ instances of IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2, IBMWebSphere MQ on 500+ servers), co-authored an IBM white paper on SOA Retail BusinessPatterns explaining the benefits and use of using SOA in a Retail environment, managed a multi-million dollar store level RFID pilot for a 3,000+ store chain to reduce costs in their supply chain(multiple applications on 3000+ instances of IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2, IBMWebSphere MQ on 3000+ servers), designed a multi-million dollar loss prevention solution for a
 
3,500+ store chain to reduce customer theft (multiple applications on 3500+ instances of IBMWebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere MQ on 3500+ servers), designed amulti-million dollar point of sale solution for one of the top 5 retailers in Mexico, conductednumerous IT roadmaps, IT business value assessments and IT maturity models for Fortune 500companies and wrote several IBM software best practices articles.
07/2004 - 12/2005 IBM, California, United States of AmericaIT Architect
Mr. Wong is an IT Architect with IBM Linux and Grid Computing Emerging Business Opportunities(EBO), the IBM skunkworks organization missioned to develop solutions based on Linux for theIT marketplace. His specialization is JEE/J2EE application development and applicationdevelopment on Linux, Linux system management, LAMP and multi-platform Grid Computing.Due to the dynamic nature of the EBO, his skills span the whole spectrum of I/T business andtechnical development from technical pre-sales, solution design and implementation, to offeringdevelopment. Lead the IBM Open Source Software Review Board in IBM Global Services,Americas geography. IBM Open Source Software Review Board is part of the IGS QualityAssurance Process that reviews IGS engagements/projects with Open Source licenses for riskassessment and mitigation. Notable achievements during this period were: Lead knowledgesharing and intellectual capital management activities for 7,000 IBMers as the IBM Open SourceCommunity leader and development of the IBM Grid and Grow offering, a mid-market offeringthat allows companies to purchase a pre-configured compute Grid.
06/1999 - 06/2004 IBM, California, United States of AmericaIT Specialist
Mr. Wong is an IT Professional with IBM Global Services (IGS), the consulting arm of IBM, withfive years experience specializing in business-to-business and Enterprise Information Portalsolution design/implementation for the Manufacturing, Health Care, Government industries. Hisbackground in enterprise-wide web-based solutions provides him with the ability to not onlyimplement, but also instruct, on the whole spectrum of IT development. His ability to effectivelyrealize proven design concepts has also furthered his experience in the procurement of customer requirements, software application construction, customer relationship development, andtechnical mentorship. He has extensive knowledge and experience in object-oriented designprinciples, n-tier architecture, Sun JEE/J2EE, web application servers, open source/closed sourceframeworks/libraries like Apache Struts and IBM's EAD4J framework. Notable achievementsduring this period were: Part of the team that migrated the website for one of the major automotive manufactures in North American to IBM Software, worked on developing a portal for a100,000 user, 2,000 co-current user supply chain for the United States government and lead thedesign and development of a consumer portal for one of the major automotive part manufacturersin North America.
01/1998 - 06/1999 University of California Irvine, California, United States of AmericaUndergraduate Researcher 
Mr. Wong was a member of University of California Irvine NetGroup Research Team under thedirection of Professor Tatsuya Suda from 1997 to 1999. He spent two years of undergraduateresearch dealing with autonomous mobile agents in a peer-to-peer architecture and edge server architecture and design. Paper submitted for publication titled, "Real World Applications withMobile Agents" co-authored with University of California, Irvine Computer Science Netgroupresearch team.
09/1997 - 06/1999 University of California Irvine, California, United States of AmericaLead Residential Computing Support
Founded and managed the University of California Irvine Residential Computing organization atUniversity of California Irvine. With a staff of 20+, Residential Computing provides computer technical support and services for 8,000+ on campus residents.
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