Alexander Samarin

Current

Enterprise Solutions Architect at Teamlog (Suisse) S.A.
Owner (samarin@bluemail.ch) at samarin.biz

Past

Senior IT Architect (as BPM and SOA coach) at CLIO S.A., Geneva, Switzerland
Chief Enterprise Solutions Architect at A.C. Consulting S.A., Chêne-Bourg, Switzerland
Product specialist at Team Partners Suisse, Geneva, Switzerland

Support Coordinator for Electronic Publishing of Standards at ISO Central Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland
Senior IT scientist / Researcher at IHEP, Protvino, Russia
Scientific associate (consulting position) at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

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Education

IHEP
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (aka PhysTech)
Moskovskij Fiziko-Tehniceskij Institut (Gosudarstvennyj Universitet)

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Information Technology and Services

Alexander Samarin’s Summary

My professional specialisation and interests are how information technology can be used to transform business operations to improve significantly their
-- effectiveness ("Do the right things") and
-- efficiency ("Do the things right").

I am concentrating on the practical aspects of architecting future flexibility for enterprise solutions.

Also writing a book "Improving business process management systems"; its introduction and table of content are available at www.samarin.biz/book

Alexander Samarin’s Specialties:

*** since 1999 - Business Process Management (BPM)
*** since 1998 - Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
*** since 1996 - Enterprise Architecture
*** since 1995 - Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
*** since 1986 - Electronic publishing; Book "The Latex Companion"
*** since 1977 - IT services provisioning
*** since 1973 - programming

Alexander Samarin’s Experience

Enterprise Solutions Architect

Teamlog (Suisse) S.A.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Main occupation -- An enterprise architect (architecte - urbaniste des systèmes d’information) in the the IT department of the State of Geneva (Centre des technologies de l’information - CTI). Different missions for unification, simplification, industrialisation, improving flexibility and alignment of business and IT systems.

Also looking for short and flexible missions as a BPM / SOA / EA / ECM coach or consultant.
Owner (samarin@bluemail.ch)

samarin.biz

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

Consulting for
- garage Mercedes, Geneva, Switzerland
- IUCN, Gland, Switzerland
- BUPA, Ashford, UK

Technologies: business process modelling, CRM, IT audit, DMS, scanning, BPM, SOA, EA, ECM, IT governance
Senior IT Architect (as BPM and SOA coach)

CLIO S.A., Geneva, Switzerland

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2006 — April 2007 (1 year )

"Senior IT architect" as a BPM and SOA coach for Groupe Mutuel (3rd biggest Swiss insurance company) engaged to redesign a core internal system (including ERP and CRM). Main activities:
– implanting a practical enterprise architecture;
– adapting the implementation approach to the customer’s realities, e.g. a way to achieve flexibility with given tools, a policy for evolution of artefacts, a business process modeling procedure, a diagramming style in BPMN and a programming style in BPEL;
– filling the gap in some architectural issues, e.g. security and data modeling.

Prototyping and implementation BPM on SOA proofs of concept in IBM WebSphere, Oracle SOA Suite and Intalio BPMS,

Technologies: BPM, SOA, process modeling, data modeling, enterprise architecture, DMS, scanning, BPEL, BPMN
Tools: WebSphere, Intalio, Oracle SOA suite, Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate
Chief Enterprise Solutions Architect

A.C. Consulting S.A., Chêne-Bourg, Switzerland

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2004 — June 2005 (9 months)

"Chief Enterprise Solutions Architect" responsible for the architectural design, implementation, deployment and evolution of enterprise systems. The client base comprised international organizations, multinational and local companies, as well as public sector services in the French speaking part of Switzerland.
Product specialist

Team Partners Suisse, Geneva, Switzerland

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 2004 — October 2004 (5 months)

"IT developer" (short-term contract with the International Olympic Committee, Lausanne) responsible for the development, maintenance and improvement of their enterprise document and records management system.
Support Coordinator for Electronic Publishing of Standards

ISO Central Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; International Trade and Development industry)

March 1993 — January 2004 (10 years 11 months)

"Support Coordinator for Electronic Publishing of Standards" responsible for the development and maintenance of IT-based automation for standards production (about 3 000 complex technical documents per year, 50 persons involved, about 50 different tasks, 3 production chains, 7 repositories, 40 IT services).
Senior IT scientist / Researcher

IHEP, Protvino, Russia

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1979 — 1993 (14 years )
Scientific associate (consulting position)

CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

March 1992 — October 1992 (8 months)

Main projects and activities:
– development of LaTeX on all major computer platforms;
– user support for CERN and CERN-related laboratories.

Alexander Samarin’s Education

IHEP

Ph.D. , Computer Graphics , 1979 — 1993
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (aka PhysTech)

1973 — 1979
Moskovskij Fiziko-Tehniceskij Institut (Gosudarstvennyj Universitet)

Computer Science 1973 — 1979