Joao (John) Chaves
jchaves@joaochaves.com
Experienced Senior IT Architect, expert in the design and delivery
of cost-effective, high-performance technology solutions in support of rapid
international growth division with budget responsibilities up to $22 million
annually. An
accomplished multi-language facilitator as well as a successful manager at both
project and design level with experience in proposal & project development,
planning/task management, budgeting, and scope management. Effective at building culturally
diverse, team-centered operating units, with excellent business process and
strategy development skills. Over fourteen years of experience in
the analysis, design and development of global enterprise systems, with
emphasis in the learning, content, and intellectual assets management areas.
Architected and managed the implementation of wide array of client-server and
web-based, CRM, Data Warehouses, Collaboration Management, and Project Data
Management systems. Currently championing the use of various Web 2.0 technologies such
as REST,
Business Experience
IBM Global Business Services,
Senior IT Solution Architect
Senior IT
Architect for IBM’s Global Business Services. Technical liaison for all
operating groups in the
Responsible
for all aspects involving the design, implementation, integration, maintenance
and operation of GBS’s learning management and collaboration systems (90,000+
users worldwide), overseeing all internal software implementation, operation,
and integration efforts for their entire lifecycle, including system
requirements, data modeling, application architecture & construction, and
prototyping,
Recognized as
an accomplished facilitator, frequently invited to support major accounts in
sales meetings in the US and South America where a new technology has the
potential of being the major enabler of the proposed solution for top-tier
clients such as Sprint, Petrobras e Vale do Rio Doce.
Proposed,
designed and delivered IBM’s first cross-repository search service that allow
users to search for people, assets and learning activities from a single point.
Spread in 14 different repositories, the resources are searched in “real time”
by unique set of central services that utilizes the latest technologies in
http-based communications (REST,
Lead architect
of GBS Automatic Asset Classification System, which implemented an uniform –
SOA-based document classification services to IBM Asset repositories by using
state-of-the-art text pattern recognition technologies developed by the IBM
Research Labs in
Championed and
architected the GBS Component Model project, created to define a comprehensive
set of components and content standards from which all learning content should
be developed and re-used. Proposed and developed a series of development tool
prototypes and repositories to demonstrate the benefits of adopting and
applying content design standards.
Project
architect for the implementation of GBS Content Management system, to support
the internal design, development, and publishing processes for learning content
and visual communication assets. Configured with learning development processes
in mind, the system offers development teams extensive search capabilities,
Wikis, Blogs, and user-defined asset libraries specifically designed to support
GBS Learning Component Model.
Author and the
current Data Steward for the IBM Learning and Knowledge Taxonomy, recognized by
the CIO’s Office Business Data Standard team as the enterprise ontology for
classifying learning, knowledge and method assets in IBM. Currently in
production in several global systems, the taxonomy is used to classify people
and assets, providing the basic foundation of the IBM’s Learning Delivery
Strategy for recommending, cataloging and tracking learning.
Active member
of the IBM Methods community, collaborating in all layers of the development
and delivery of methods across the enterprise. Member of the stakeholder team
that set forth the requirements for the new method development tool built by
the Rational Software group.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers -
Business Consulting Services – 1997- 2002
Principal Consultant
Architected
and managed the implementation PwC’s first Global Internal Web Services,
designed to provide global access to the firm’s enterprise core systems,
effectively integrating twelve disparate HR and Financial systems in fifteen
countries.
Systems
architect for the Ascendant 2.0 project, a J2EE\Oracle-based global application
architected to facilitate the integration of methods, project management,
project data, and resource management for complex, global projects. This web-enabled version of this innovative
application was designed to assist PwC practitioners and project planners in
developing and managing project plans, resource utilization, and project
documentation for client projects. Released in 1998, the system pioneered the
use of client-side JavaScript and XML for client-server communications (today
known as
Technical lead for the Global Knowledge Object
framework project, a specification of a common set of attribute names required
for all PricewaterhouseCoopers knowledge management applications. The GKO
attributes represented actual content together with the content's context in
the form of meta data attributes. Designed to
provide a globally adopted, consistent, flexible, platform independent,
and simple data model, GKO paved the way for the standardized implementation of
modular, user-friendly applications for the firm’s global knowledge management
and its underlying processes.
Managed the
development and delivery of the E-Bridge course, designed to bring ERP
consultants up-to-speed with new Object-Oriented programming, methods and
design techniques. This 2 week course guided students through Java, CORBA, EJB,
HTML, XML and Web Services providing guides, samples and lab exercises. Managed
and delivered the Ascent FastTrack course, a technical bootcamp designed to
introduce J2EE, OOP, SQL, XML, and method-based system design.
Lead the
transitioning of all legacy PwC e-learning and method authoring systems to the
IBM environment including authentication for external systems, content
migration from 8 different sources to 5 distinct destinations. Leveraged
technical solutions (i.e. common authentication gateway) across the service
groups significantly reducing development, maintenance and support costs.
Geac Publishing Systems,
Consultant
Architect and
project leader of Visionshift’s Database Marketing, a newspaper industry
specific application entirely written in ASP and Visual Basic 6.0 on a Windows NT/Win
95 platform using Microsoft’s SQL Server 6.5 as back end. Designed, developed
and documented the DBM system's Data Model, Entity Relationship Model and Data
Dictionaries. Designed and developed the DM Statistics, a web-based
(HTML/ISAPI) module of the DBM application that provided marketing-oriented
statistical analysis such as RFM and Chi-square (CHAID).
Designed and
developed all customer search, profile and data entry routines keeping a
flexible and user-defined database structure. Responsible for the design,
administration and development of all on-line Help documentation as well as the
installation and training of GPS’s Database Marketing and Advertising Systems
at customer sites around the
The American
Consultant
Contracted to
implement a FoxPro-based SBT accounting software from the ground up. Analyzed
the old accounting system to ensure a parallel and smooth transition converting
the existing databases and financial information into SBT. Developed and coded
the College’s Referral Program, a full relational database application that
allowed data entry, storage and user-friendly query module based on eighteen
different variables, such as experience, organization size and degree.
The
Database Marketing Analyst
Engineered and
implemented the Tribune’s Database Marketing System. Designed and coded all
front-end applications that allowed on-line daily input, sales prospect list
generation, and reports on a client-server environment. Designed and coded all
custom applications for the Circulation News, Advertising and Market
Development departments.
Created and
developed the Tribune Analyst, an RFM database-modeling tool designed to
provide upper management constant monitoring over the newspaper’s 500,000+
household database.
Trained and
provided support for the Tribune’s Market Research and News departments on
FoxPro and MapInfo.
IT Skills
Programming
Platforms: J2EE, J2ME, XHTML, PHP,
Application
Frameworks: Spring/Velocity, Cayenne,
Struts, Hibernate, Cake PHP, PEAR, IBM SOA,
RDBMs: DB2 UDB 9.0, MySQL
5.x, Oracle 8i, SQL Server 2005
Development
Software: Rational Software
Architect, Eclipse, Visual Studio .NET
Application
Modeling: Rational Software
Architect, Rational Application Developer, Visio 6.0 EE.
Server
Platforms: IBM WebSphere Application
& Portal Servers, Apache\Tomcat, Domino.
Methods &
Tools: Rational Method
Composer, WebSphere Business Modeler.
Content &
Learning
Standards: SCORM, DITA, AICC,
Business
Intelligence: Cognos BI, Brio,
Publications
& Training
Application Architecture Standards & Guidelines – PwC, March 2001
Web Application Framework – PwC, July 2000
Maintaining Security and State of Web Applications – PwC, March 1999
Ascent FastTrack – PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2001-2002 – Course Architect
Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic – PricewaterhouseCoopers,
1998-1999 – Lead instructor
Education
Bachelor of Science in Marketing, FMU -
Mechanical
Engineering, Universidade Gama Filho - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 1981