Albert T Wong,atwong@alumni.uci.edu, 949-870-9664http://www.linkedin.com/in/atwong

Professional experience

Profile

Mr. Wong wants to leave corporate America because he couldn't stand the crushing bureaucracy,the tolerance of incompetence, and the lack of any visibility into what customers actually wanted.As a result, he's looking for a new job. A job that allows a smart, get things done, execution-oriented jack of all trades to get nerdy and tackle difficult problems. Mr. Wong brings:

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passion – loves technology which led him to be a published IBM software subject matter expert

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experience - 10 years of consulting experience working with startups and fortune 500 on4 continents. IT Architect that has spent half his career as a developer and other half ininfrastructure and operations. Certified in various IT methodology/processes andsoftware products.

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intelligence and academic background – graduate from a top 10 computer science school

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hunger and risk-tolerance and scrappiness – done his own startup and knows how toughit is

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attitude – it's all about execution and getting things doneWhat are you bring to the table?

Employer History05/2009 - present Blue Shield of California, California, United States of AmericaIT Architect

Mr. Wong is working at Blue Shield of California as their Technical ESB Infrastructure Lead ondesigning, implementing and deploying their next generation health care insurance system for 4.1million Californians. He is responsible for leading the design, implementation, deployment andday to day operational support team of the ESB Infrastructure along with managing the vendorswho are involved with the ESB Infrastructure.

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. Mr. Wong is currently responsible for thesales, marketing and technical development the offerings that Appliance Foundry provides.Appliance Foundry is a registered 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 can

remove 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. Mr. Wong is currently responsible for the sales, marketing and technicaldevelopment the VetAnyware 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, solution design and implementation, to ecosystem enablement. Notableachievements during this period were: designed and launched the largest IBM SOA middlewareinfrastructure deployment in South America (500+ locations, multiple applications on 500+instances of IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere MQ on 500+servers), co-authored an IBM white paper on SOA Retail Business Patterns explaining thebenefits and use of using SOA in a Retail environment, managed a multi-million dollar store levelRFID pilot for a 3,000+ store chain to reduce costs in their supply chain (multiple applications on3000+ instances of IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere MQ on3000+ servers), designed a multi-million dollar loss prevention solution for a 3,500+ store chain toreduce customer theft (multiple applications on 3500+ instances of IBM WebSphere ApplicationServer, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere MQ on 3500+ servers), designed a multi-million dollar point of sale solution for one of the top 5 retailers in Mexico and wrote several IBM software bestpractices 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, and

technical 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.

Key Skills

Experience in design, implementation and deployment of the following: Service OrientedArchitecture. IT Service Management. IBM WebSphere runtime and (EAI) integration portfolio.Rational IT lifecycle and software construction portfolio. Tivoli services management portfolio.IBM Information Management (ETL) data integration portfolio. Community development.Practitioner Knowledge Management. Practitioner Education/Skills development. Open Sourcetechnology. Linux. Sun Enterprise Java. Business process execution language (BPEL).Enterprise application integration (EAI). Extract, transform, load (ETL) technology. Industry keyperformance indicators. Rational Unified Process and Unified Modeling Language. IT MaturityModels. Industry body organizations. IT Service Management. Collaboration tools.

Key Courses and Training

IT Architect Introduction, ICM Asset Web / Knowledge Portal, Foundation of the IT ArchitectProfession, Client Consulting for IT Architects, IBM Unified Method Framework, ArchitecturalThinking, Systems Engineering and Architecture: Introduction, Performance Engineering, UseCase Modeling, Project Management Orientation, Project Management Fundamentals, Processand functional modeling, IBM Global Services Proposal Development Seminar, SolutionOptimization (SOP) Technique, Systems Engineering and Architecture: Foundation, ComponentModeling, Operational Modeling Workshop, Architecting for Performance.

Key Courses and Training

ITIL v3 Foundation, IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer, IBM Certified Solution Designer - IBMRational Unified Process, IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server,Network Deployment V6.1

Education

Qualifications

Bachelor of Science in Information and Computer ScienceUniversity of California, Irvine, United States of America, 2001

Other relevant information

Publications

Kulvir Bhogal, Sunil Dube, Rashmi Kaushik, Geert Van De Putte, Albert Wong, SravanYallapragada:

Case Study: SOA Retail Business Pattern

, in: White paper, IBM, 2008Albert T. Wong, Andrew R. Freed, Tian Wang, Yashodhara Patnaik:

Step-by-step guide on howto integrate and manage your old and new Retail devices

, in: Website, IBM DeveloperWorks,2007Andrew R. Freed, Anhdao Nguyen, Vinod Bijlani, Albert Wong:

Step by step how-to onintegrating your application with IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1

, in: Website, IBMDeveloperWorks, 2007Ruth Willenborg, Kyle Brown, Keys Botzum, Albert Wong: