Asst. Vice President JPMorgan Chase
Columbus, Ohio Area
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- Co-Founder at IT Martini
- Assistant Vice President at JPMorgan Chase
- Past
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- Lead Integration Architect at KeyBank
- Senior Consultant at Crowe Chizek and Company
- Education
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- The Ohio State University
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Aladin Gohar’s Summary
Business and technology transformation leader – building frameworks and realigning business technologies to deliver profitable growth.
Expertise in application/data integration across business functions and acquisitions
An accomplished enterprise architect skilled at applying technology strategy with business directives incorporating comprehensive IT governance techniques.
A team builder with considerable experience creating and leading diverse, cross-cultural, talented project and program teams as well as a creator of centers of excellence and profit centers with P/L responsibility.
Experienced program manager and operations leader in IT and banking operations.
Aladin is a graduate from the Ohio State University with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also mentors inner-city high school seniors for Big Brothers Big Sisters. In his spare time, he enjoys golf, running, biking and live music.
Aladin Gohar’s Specialties:
Enterprise IT resource planning. Payments strategy. Operational infrastructure optimization. Management and site consolidation. Application management. Business case development. Application integration. Technology governance. IT Architecture
Aladin Gohar’s Experience
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Co-Founder
IT Martini
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
What’s IT Martini?
IT Martini connects IT Professionals with people and knowledge in fun, industry focused settings.
IT Professionals are in unique roles, being that extended personal networks and industry-savvy knowledge are both necessary for continued success. IT Martini brings these concepts together into quarterly IT Martini Hour events, while maintaining a desirable, fun decorum.
The focus on local IT Professionals also creates a community atmosphere. In general, communities experience growth with the socialization of ideas and people. The growth of local IT Communities is spurred by IT Martini, which produces the catalyst needed for this socialization. -
Assistant Vice President
JPMorgan Chase
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JPM; Banking industry)
June 2003 — Present (6 years 6 months)
Responsibilities include organizing, directing, managing, controlling and executing the activities of operational optimization program to achieve infrastructure efficiencies within corporate strategic and business goals and objectives. Provided architectural direction, development and operational support for highly visible, mission-critical customer-facing technology. Key contributor to the success of new releases of the application while working in a fast paced, high performance development group that integrates web front-end retail and commercial clients, external business partners, and back-end systems of record. Created and enforced firmwide technology standards by developing and communicating IT strategies that promote cost-effectiveness, cross-channel integration, and redundancy reduction. Keen ability to form ad-hoc, cross-departmental teams in order to gather and disseminate business and technology architecture requirements following a standard methodology
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Lead Integration Architect
KeyBank
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; KEY; Banking industry)
March 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 3 months)
Created an EAI center of excellence for the entire corporation.
Planned and executed ground up EAI infrastructure--including environment setup, management and administration, license planning/purchasing, human resource planning (including training plans), and disaster recovery.
Developed processes and methodologies that standardize application and systems integration company-wide.
Managed EAI development teams for multiple concurrent integration projects.
Accomplishments:
Multi-billion dollar per day global wire transfer system which required the integration of WebSphere 4.0 front-end to back-end wire transfer system via MQSeries, webMethods Enterprise 5.0.1, DB2, JDBC, XML schemas, and HTTP on Solaris, AIX, and CICS environments. Emphasis on non-repudiation, security, and transaction integrity.
Global on-line leasing system using an ASP hosted web-app to database integration via web services using webMethods IS 4.6, Sybase, Oracle, and .NET on Solaris, HP-UX, and Win2K. -
Senior Consultant
Crowe Chizek and Company
(Partnership; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1999 — February 2002 (2 years 4 months)
Enterprise application integration line of business leader. Developed EAI business model for Northeast and Midwest markets.
Projects include management, design, development, testing, installation and implementation of applications/systems in networked, multi-vendor web-enabled and mainframe environments.
Aladin Gohar’s Education
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The Ohio State University
BS , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 1994 — 1999
Researcher - Laboratory of Vascular Diseases in the College of Medicine
President - MSA- Activities and Societies:
- IEEE, Honors
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Aladin Gohar’s Interests:
Golf, Running, Listening to live music performances
Aladin Gohar’s Groups:
Big Brothers Big Sisters, Chase Leadership Academy, President-The Sterling Lofts Condo Association
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Security MBA
Aladin Gohar’s Honors:
Battelle Memorial "Leaders for Tomorrow" Scholar
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