Thought leader, community leader, software architect
Sacramento, California Area
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- Lead Application Management Engineer at Blue Shield of California
- Founder at VetAnyware
- Distinguished ACM Speaker at Association for Computing Machinery
- Sales Associate at Y and D Fine Jewelry
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- Open Source Worldwide Community of Practice Co-Leader at IBM Global Services
- Information and Computer Science Alumni President at University of California Irvine
- IT Architect at IBM
- IT Specialist at IBM
- Undergraduate Researcher at University of California Irvine
- Lead Residential Computing Support at University of California Irvine
- Education
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- University of California, Irvine
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Albert Wong’s Summary
Mr. Wong is an IT Architect with 9 years of experience working with industry specific technology solutions that consist of multiple hardware and software products in a technical leadership role. His technical area of expertise is 1) business process execution excellence using technology and programming language agnostic tools, 2) Sun J2EE/JEE application development with open source frameworks and libraries 3) process/application/data integration using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) techniques, 4) designing and deploying high volume, geographically dispersed SOA infrastructures and 5) IT architecture design, IT lifecycle management and IT Services Management using Rational Unified Process, IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and other industry-wide recognized methodologies.
Mr. Wong is also a published author writing books and articles on the application of Service Oriented Architecture in a business environment and best practices with IBM Software products like WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, DB2, Tivoli Monitoring and Tivoli Provisioning Manager. He is ITIL v3 Foundations certified, and IBM Certified Solution Designer in SOA and Rational Unified Process.
Not at work, Mr. Wong is very active in Asian American Civil Rights as an officer for the Organization of Chinese Americans, an ACM Distinguished Speaker where he speaks as an advocate of the IT profession and was a past president of the UC Irvine Alumni Association Information and Computer Science Chapter. He enjoys traveling all over the world, eating at local restaurants, shopping, reading and learning about anything and everything.
Albert Wong’s Specialties:
1) business process execution excellence using technology and programming language agnostic tools, 2) Sun J2EE/JEE application development with open source frameworks and libraries 3) process/application/data integration using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) techniques, 4) designing and deploying high volume, geographically dispersed SOA infrastructures and 5) IT architecture design, IT lifecycle management and IT Services Management using Rational Unified Process, IT Infrastructure Library.
Albert Wong’s Experience
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Lead Application Management Engineer
Blue Shield of California
(Non-Profit; Insurance industry)
May 2009 — Present (3 months)
Working at Blue Shield of California on designing, implementing and deploying their next generation health care insurance system.
Products: WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Process Server, IBM WebSphere Datapower, WebSphere ESB, Tivoli Monitoring, ITCAM for J2EE/RTT/SOA, WebSphere MQ -
Founder
VetAnyware
(Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2009 — Present (6 months)
Founder of a Veterinary Business Software Solutions company. Our main goal is to enable veterinarians the ability to better manage their practice and provide better service through business software. Our first offering is commercial services and support around OpenVPMS, an open source veterinary practice management software providing electronic health records, customer relationship management, appointment scheduling management and pharmaceutical inventory management to veterinary clinics (see more at http://vetanyware.com/products/openvpms). VetAnyware believes that by focusing and optimizing on the most important business aspects of a veterinary practice, reducing software acquisition costs near zero and providing ubiquitous access to the practice management software through an internet browser, we can remove the largest barrier for veterinarians to adopt practice management software and an electronic animal health records system and improve the financial and operational fitness of the veterinary practice.
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Distinguished ACM Speaker
Association for Computing Machinery
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
The ACM Distinguished Speakers Program is an outreach program of ACM that brings distinguished leaders from academia, industry, and government to give presentations to ACM chapters, members, and the greater IT community in a variety of venues and formats. Request an ACM Distinguished Speaker for your next event. See http://www.dsp.acm.org/ for details.
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Sales Associate
Y and D Fine Jewelry
(Luxury Goods & Jewelry industry)
1986 — Present (23 years)
My family's business. You'll find loose diamonds and diamonds that have been set in 14k or 18k gold earrings, pendants and rings designed for occasions like everyday wear and jewelry for that special day (birthday, valentine, xmas). What I think makes our store stand out is our asian diamond collection. They represent some of the best asian jewelry workmanship that you can purchase today (without going to asia). This is where you'll find diamonds that are cut in a shape of a leaf or clusters of diamonds in a channel set that stress on quality over karat size (mom taught me that and that's how you should buy too!).
As for price, we're very competitive due to the fact that as a family business and our overhead isn't as large compared to our competitors. Come on by and take a look and see for yourself. -
IT Architect
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — February 2009 (1 year 2 months)
Mr. Wong is an IT Architect with IBM Industry Solutions organization focusing on the Retail and IBM Retail Integration Framework, an enterprise-level SOA framework to help you better manage your business and to help you integrate and unleash business capability across your IT environment. The main solution offerings he supports are Total Store (Point of Sales, Loss Prevention, RFID, Digital Media, Workforce Management), Multi-channel retailing, Supply Chain and Merchandising, and Retail Business Intelligence. His primary responsibility is the design and implementation of the offerings he support in accordance with the client’s requirements and global and local IBM standards. Due to the dynamic nature of the IBM Industry Solutions organization, his skills span the whole spectrum of I/T business and technical development from technical pre-sales, solution design and implementation, to ecosystem enablement. Notable achievements during this period were: designed and launched the largest IBM SOA middleware infrastructure deployment in South America (500+ locations, multiple applications on 500+ instances of IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere MQ on 500+ servers), co-authored an IBM white paper on SOA Retail Business Patterns explaining the benefits and use of using SOA in a Retail environment and managed a multi-million dollar store level RFID pilot for a 3,000+ store chain to reduce costs in their supply chain (multiple applications on 3000+ instances of IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere MQ on 3000+ servers).
Software Products: WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, DB2, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Configuration Manager, Tivoli Provisioning Manger for Software, Tivoli Enterprise Console, IBM Retail Environment for SUSE Linux, IBM Remote Management Agent, WebSphere Message Broker, InfoSphere Information Server -
Director of Technology
Organization of Chinese Americans
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
January 2005 — December 2008 (4 years)
Technology person for the Organization of Chinese Americans - Orange County Chapter and Organization of Chinese Americans - Sacramento Chapter
Founded in 1973, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) is a national organization dedicated to advancing the social, political, and economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans in the United States. OCA aims to embrace the hopes and aspirations of nearly 12 million Asian Pacific Americans in the United States.
OCA’s goals are:
• to advocate for social justice, equal opportunity and fair treatment;
• to promote civic participation, education, and leadership;
• to advance coalitions and community building; and
• to foster cultural heritage. -
IT Architect
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — December 2007 (2 years)
Mr. Wong is an IT Architect with IBM Retail On Demand Emerging Business Opportunities (EBO), the IBM skunkworks organization missioned to increase IBM business and technical solutions within the Retail industry. His specialization is the IBM Store Integration Framework, a store-level SOA framework, and IBM WebSphere Remote Server, a software package designed to provide a centrality managed, geographically distributed Java runtime environment for business process execution. Due to the dynamic nature of the EBO, his skills span the whole spectrum of I/T business and technical development from technical pre-sales, solution design and implementation, to ecosystem enablement. Notable achievements during this period were: designed a multi-million dollar loss prevention solution for a 3,500+ store chain to reduce customer theft (multiple applications on 3500+ instances of IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere MQ on 3500+ servers), designed a multi-million dollar point of sale solution for one of the top 5 retailers in Mexico and wrote several IBM software best practices articles.
Software Products: WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, DB2, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Configuration Manager, Tivoli Provisioning Manger for Software, Tivoli Enterprise Console, IBM Retail Environment for SUSE Linux, IBM Remote Management Agent -
Open Source Worldwide Community of Practice Co-Leader
IBM Global Services
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 2002 — June 2006 (3 years 7 months)
As a result of Mr. Wong's thought leadership and knowledge in the Open Source space, he has been assigned as the Co-Leader of the IBM Global Services (IGS) World Wide Open Source Community of Practice, a position within IBM Global Services’ Global Strategy and Operations Organization.
As IGS World wide Open Source Community of Practice co-leader he oversees the community governance functions, advise IGS on their Open Source strategy, help design and implement IBM’s Consulting processes within the Open Source space to the IGS lines of businesses and responsible for the IGS' Global Open Source Intellectual Capital database.
Served as one of IBM Global Services representatives to the IBM Academy Study on IBM's Knowledge Management Process and Tool Strategy. He advises the team on what IBMers would like in their Knowledge Management tools and what are the emerging solutions in this space. -
Information and Computer Science Alumni President
University of California Irvine
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
June 2002 — January 2006 (3 years 8 months)
Mr. Wong is very active and committed to contributing back to his alum mater and to his community. As a result he was the acting president of the University of California, Irvine Information and Computer Science Alumni Chapter between 2002 to 2006 where he coordinates alumni, college and community events and mentors students that attend the University of California, Irvine.
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IT Architect
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 6 months)
Mr. Wong is an IT Architect with IBM Linux and Grid Computing Emerging Business Opportunities (EBO), the IBM skunkworks organization missioned to develop solutions based on Linux for the IT marketplace. His specialization is JEE/J2EE application development and application development on Linux, Linux system management, LAMP and multi-platform Grid Computing. Due to the dynamic nature of the EBO, his skills span the whole spectrum of I/T business and technical development from technical pre-sales, solution design and implementation, to offering development. Lead the IBM Open Source Software Review Board in IBM Global Services, Americas geography. IBM Open Source Software Review Board is part of the IGS Quality Assurance Process that reviews IGS engagements/projects with Open Source licenses for risk assessment and mitigation. Notable achievements during this period were: Lead knowledge sharing and intellectual capital management activities for 7,000 IBMers as the IBM Open Source Community leader and development of the IBM Grid and Grow offering, a mid-market offering that allows companies to purchase a pre-configured compute Grid.
Software Products: IBM middleware on Linux, LAMP, Redhat Linux, Novell SLES, Platform Computing, Altair, DataSynapse, IBM WebSphere XD -
IT Specialist
IBM
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1999 — June 2004 (5 years 1 month)
Mr. Wong is an IT Professional with IBM Global Services (IGS), the consulting arm of IBM, with five years experience specializing in business-to-business and Enterprise Information Portal solution design/implementation for the Manufacturing, Health Care, Government industries. His background in enterprise-wide web-based solutions provides him with the ability to not only implement, but also instruct, on the whole spectrum of IT development. His ability to effectively realize proven design concepts has also furthered his experience in the procurement of customer requirements, software application construction, customer relationship development, and technical mentorship. He has extensive knowledge and experience in object-oriented design principles, n-tier architecture, Sun JEE/J2EE, web application servers, open source/closed source frameworks/libraries like Apache Struts and IBM's EAD4J framework. Notable achievements during this period were: Part of the team that migrated the website for one of the major automotive manufactures in North American to IBM Software, worked on developing a portal for a 100,000 user, 2,000 co-current user supply chain for the United States government and lead the design and development of a consumer portal for one of the major automotive part manufacturers in North America.
Software Products: IBM WebSphere Application Server, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere MQ -
Undergraduate Researcher
University of California Irvine
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1998 — June 1999 (1 year 6 months)
Mr. Wong was a member of University of California Irvine NetGroup Research Team under the direction of Professor Tatsuya Suda from 1997 to 1999.
He spent two years of undergraduate research dealing with automous mobile agents in a peer-to-peer architecture and edge server architecture and design. Paper submitted for publication titled, "Real World Applications with Mobile Agents" co-authored with University of California, Irvine Computer Science Netgroup research team. -
Lead Residential Computing Support
University of California Irvine
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1997 — June 1999 (1 year 10 months)
Founded and managed the University of California Irvine Residential Computing organization at University of California Irvine. With a staff of 20+, Residential Computing provides computer technical support and services for 8,000+ on campus residents.
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Albert Wong’s Interests:
Technical consulting, web application design and implementation, software processes, technical mentorship, open source software/solutions (not necessary in that order).
Albert Wong’s Groups:
Organization of Chinese Americans, University of California Irvine, Association for Computing Machinery
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The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees -
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Overseas Chinese Youth Language Training and Study Tour to the Republic of China (Loveboat) -
The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group -
Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Science -
IBM Certified SOA Specialists -
ICS.UCI -
Rational Unified Process Practitioners
Albert Wong’s Honors:
ITIL v3 Foundation, IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer, IBM Certified Solution Designer - IBM Rational Unified Process, IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server, Network Deployment V6.1
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