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About me¶

I am an accomplished technology professional with a diverse background in event-driven architecture (EDA), hybrid cloud solutions (kubernetes and AWS services), business process and business rule implementation. With a strong track record as a former IBM Distinguished Engineer and my current role as a Principal Solution Architect at AWS, my expertise lies in guiding customers through their hybrid cloud journey, including messaging, data pipeline, decision systems and AI model development and integration.

In my career, I have had the pleasure of assisting customers in a consultative manner, helping them adopt decision management, business process automation, data streaming, and complex event processing. I have a deep understanding of lean and agile methodologies, having authored books and blogs on agile business rule solution development, and being part of IBM Garage from the creation. Additionally, I have engaged with customers to facilitate the adoption of asynchronous and reactive systems based on IBM middleware, AWS serverless services, containers, and Kubernetes deployments.

I led a lot of event-storming, and domain-driven design workshops with customers willing to innovate and break their monolithic applications. I also created an agile methodology for developing intelligent automation solutions, and used by IBM automation product consultants for years.

Furthermore, I have contributed to the definition of the next generation of several middleware products, showcasing my ability to drive innovation. I have led the development of IBM reference architectures for event-driven solution, Cognitive, and Data and AI.

How I can help¶

Here is a summary of how I can help your organization:

• Leading Intelligent Automation Solutions: I specialize in guiding customers towards developing cutting-edge automation solutions by leveraging machine learning, LLM, expert systems, and agents. My expertise lies in creating deployable solutions in hybrid cloud environments (AWS and on-premises or kubernetes deployment).

• Enabling Cloud Adoption: I have a proven track record of assisting strategic customers in embracing cloud technologies and deploying their own software as a service (SaaS) solutions. I can provide valuable insights and guidance to help organization leverage the power of the cloud effectively.

• Architectural Workshops and Prototyping: By leading architecture workshops, I ensure that solutions are aligned with business requirements and demonstrate their business value through the creation of minimum viable products (MVPs). This approach allows for rapid validation and helps in making informed project decisions.

• Event Storming and Domain-Driven Design: I excel in facilitating workshops focused on event storming and domain-driven design, which enable the identification of key business domains, bounded context and microservices. These workshops foster collaboration and innovation within teams.

• Technical Relationships and Mentoring: I have extensive experience in building and nurturing long-term, deep technical relationships with C level audience. Furthermore, I enjoy mentoring developers, consultants, and technical sellers, empowering them to enhance their skills and excel in their roles.

• Knowledge Sharing and Best Practices: I strongly believe in capturing and sharing best practices and tribal knowledge within teams. By doing so, I actively contribute to the accelerated learning and increased productivity of team members.

• Customer-Facing Publications: I have a passion for authoring, presenting, and contributing to customer-facing publications, particularly for conferences. This allows me to share insights, experiences, and innovative solutions with a broader audience.

As a technical expert, I sell, create, and lead First of a Kind cloud projects and resolve customers’ critical issues. I harvest architecture, best practices, and lessons learned from customer's experiences.

I try to commit myself to be a trusted advisor, so I focus to continuously deeply learn new technologies, programming habits, and agile practices. I try to code and play with new things on a daily basis. The goal is to help customers to innovate and bring business values with new technologies.

Outside of work, I am a devoted parent to three children, with my youngest daughter at WashU in St Louis studying environmental engineering, my sone currently pursuing a master in aerospace engineering at Cornell University, and my oldest daughter working as a software engineer in France. In my leisure time, I enjoy skiing, golfing, sailing, hiking, and engaging in family board games.

Thank you for taking the time to read my bio. I look forward to the opportunity to contribute my skills and experience to new and exciting projects.

Publications¶

Books¶

• Co Author: Sustainable IT Architecture Wisley

• Co Author: Agile Business Rule Development Springer.

  

• Event-driven solutions virtual book, I think a more flexible way to develop a book, and more agile to change content.

  

• AWS Studies for Solution Architect Professional Certification

• Machine Learning studies, same approach, it may become a book.

Assets¶

• Messaging in AWS, Active MQ
• AWS Serverless - Lambda studies

Blogs¶

• Medium - Unveiling the Future with Insight Storming: Enhancing Event Driven Architecture (EDA) Solutions
• Medium - Event-driven solution is still a hot topic
• Medium - Updated EDA reference architecture - 08/2021
• Medium - Developer’s experience with an event-driven solution implementation - 03/2022

• Linkedin- Why Event-Driven Architecture is important in 2020s Multiple articles on IBM developers site, and BPM journal.

• Strategies for managing reference data in a business rules application using IBM Operational Decision Manager.

• Best practices for designing and implementing decision services, Part 1: An SOA approach to creating reusable decision services.

• Best practices for designing and implementing decision services, Part 2: Integrating IBM Business Process Manager and IBM Operational Decision Management.
• Using IBM Operational Decision Manager DVS simulation features for risk scoring analysis use cases.
• Best practices for designing and implementing decision services, Part 3: Integrating IBM Business Process Manager and IBM Operational Decision Manager RESTful protocol.
• Policies and Rules – Improving business agility: Part 1: Support for business agility
• Policies and Rules – Improving Business Agility: Part 2: Demonstrating the value that can be derived from using Policy and Rules.

What is in this site¶

The goal of this site is to keep references and notes from my different studies and may be define some best practices I have used to implement customer's solutions. It addresses some of the common problems I encountered while trying new technologies.

All views expressed on this site are mine only, and do not represent the views of my current and past employers and customers.

Study Repositories¶

Repository list