Bob Giordano

Experience

1. IT Solutions Architect

   IBM

   Jan 2007 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Solution Architect;• Create future vision architecture to expedite delivery of new products and services to market while meeting company’s cost and risk reduction objectives.• Outline current and future vision enterprise architecture, including traceability from business and IT strategies to suggested technologies.• Coordinate with architects and business experts across IS to translate key strategic objectives into actionable and governable road maps and designs.• Analyze business and technology challenges, assess costs, and suggest solutions.• Design and execute proofs-of-concept for critical enterprise capabilities, including building business case with costs, benefits, and efficiency measures.• Collaborated with key stakeholders and internal teams to define enterprise architecture principles, standards and guidelines, and blueprints.• Developed, enhanced, and maintained reference architectures for various capabilities.• Translated business requirements into systems qualities and repeatable design strategies and patterns, such as adaptability, scalability, availability, and reusability.• Assured enterprise application integration by selecting tools, specifying shared data and code resources, defining interfaces and data-flows, and monitoring progress.• Performed design reviews across company and collected enterprise architecture performance metrics to assure continuous improvement.• Conducted evolution planning for systems and technologies and maintained application life cycle inventory.

Skills

• Websphere
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Application Architecture
• Business Intelligence
• Technical Architecture
• IT Strategy
• Disaster Recovery
• Websphere Application Server
• Cloud Computing
• Integration
• High Availability
• Soa
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Eai
• Service-Oriented Architecture (Soa)
• Vendor Management
• Data Center