Brian Walsh

Current

Architect at Attensa
President at bwalsh.com inc.

Past

Customer at Standard Insurance
Client at Timberline Software
Architect at Blackwell

Consultant at TIBCO Software
Client at UxComm at UxComm
Client at Fios Inc
Client at Liberty Mutual
Client at PreCash Inc.
Client at XO Communications
Client at CMP Media
Director of Technology at Cap Gemini America
Manager System Architecture at Avis Rent A Car
Senior Communications Programmer at Unisys

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Education

Saint John's University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Brian Walsh’s Summary

1995 – Present

Responsible for business development and provide services in all aspects of the lifecycle including planning, management, architecture, design, implementation and qualification.

Extensive software engineering and project management experience in high technology companies. Proven expertise in strategic and tactical aspects of software development in leadership positions. Customer focused with business acumen. Effective communicator with extensive written and verbal skills. Results driven and team oriented. Proficiencies include:

Technical leadership with business focus : Work with customers, product management, and executive management to achieve clear engineering product and release requirements. Provide engineering leadership and project management grounded in an understanding of business goals. Able to organize and lead engineering teams as well as contribute directly to “hands-on” software development to achieve business objectives.

Effective software development process : Work well in both high and low process environments, collaborate and lead effectively in team engineering efforts, and encourage and enjoy a strong peer-review environment. Strong practitioner and advocate for software development lifecycle that delivers predictable and repeatable success. Effective cross-functional collaborator and communicator.

Software architect and “hands-on” engineer : Skilled cross platform software engineer and architect and technology expert with an extensive background in systems and enterprise applications. 14+ years experience as an architect and engineer with broad experience in Internet applications, web services, object-oriented systems, client-server computing, interfaces, numerical modeling, simulation, and high-performance computing. Proficient developer with most common programming languages and contributes to all aspects of the software development process.

Clients listed below

Brian Walsh’s Specialties:

Counsel/Architecture/Development:

Technical leadership with business focus
Effective software development process
Software architect and “hands-on” engineer

J2EE,RoR,LAMP and .NET

Brian Walsh’s Experience

Architect

Attensa

(Computer Software industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Attensa puts the flow in Enterprise 2.0 by streamlining communication and collaboration. Attensa provide secure, managed Enterprise RSS publish-subscribe networks that are flexible, easy to deploy and cost effective.

Responsible for Server Team.

• Managed staff reset, grew new team
• Introduced agile methodologies
• Jettisoned NIH approach in favor of components, lean benchmarking and risk management
• Architected solution scalability that grew supported users from less than 10 to more than 10K
• Instrumental in POC solutions that resulted in key customer wins
• Project portfolio included multiple technologies: Java RESTful servers, C++ analytics, neural network ranking engine, ESB clustering, Ajax portlets, PHP rending engine, Windows and Macintosh clients and multiple database platforms
President

bwalsh.com inc.

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

August 1998 — Present (11 years)
Customer

Standard Insurance

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SFG; Insurance industry)

November 2002 — December 2007 (5 years 2 months)

We provided analysis, architecture, and development staffing for several projects at a major Insurance Company. Delivery of the system included:
• Vision statements and reality checks
• Project Management, consensus development, estimating and time boxing
• Assumed 100% of responsibility for project completion and customer satisfaction.
• Hands on architecture, design and coding
• Java/Unix, RUP, WebSphere, Hibernate ORM , XML/XSL, Jacada mainframe connectivity and Blaze rules engine integration
• Sarbanes-Oxley remediation program
• Large scale workflow management
• Business/IT executive interface, project planning and reporting, and resource management
Client

Timberline Software

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; TMBS; Computer Software industry)

1997 — 2007 (10 years)

We provided architecture, project management and staffing . Our responsibilities included:
• developing order entry and product management suite
• CRM itegration
• Inventory control
• Workflow
• MS/SQLServer
Architect

Blackwell

(Computer Software industry)

2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

• Plan and lead enterprise computing projects
• Contributed to the overall system architecture of a real-time enterprise system
• Assisted with the longer term planning for the platforms/infrastructure the applications will be supported on
• Carry out agency strategic planning assignments in accordance with enterprise objectives and plan.
Consultant

TIBCO Software

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TIBX; Computer Software industry)

September 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Delivered architecture, analyst and development services for projects around Tibco's General Interface AJAX framework. These efforts were instrumental in moving the framework into open source. Projects included:

http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=AjaxandSpring
http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/content/AjaxCRUDStruts2/article.html
http://tibco.xignite.com/
Client at UxComm

UxComm

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2006 — September 2006 (6 months)

Responsible for architecture and delivery of a multi platform, multi protocol systems management console and broker. Protocols involved include SNMP, IPMI, WMI, CLI. Resolved all pipes to a DMTF based persistent object model.
Client

Fios Inc

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2005 — April 2006 (7 months)

Fios delivers technology-enabled services for evidence collection, processing, review and production.

Responsible for architecture and design for a grid enabled factory delivering content management and document review.

Technologies include .NET, J2EE, Oracle and Rich Client Interfaces (Ajax)
Client

Liberty Mutual

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)

February 2005 — November 2005 (10 months)

We turned around a 20 person development team. As a direct result of our involvement the next project was delivered on time with 95% fewer issues. Our services included:
• Mentoring and Counsel at the Director, Project manager and Human resource levels
• Defining the architectural core of the system. This encompassed the Acord message schema, Object model, XML mapping, business services, UI and test suites. As a result Phase 2 was delivered with 75% less code.
• Hands on architecture, design and coding
• Java/Unix, RUP, SOA, ESB, JMS, WebSphere, Hibernate ORM , XML/XSL, XMFI rules engine integration
Client

PreCash Inc.

(Internet industry)

February 2000 — September 2002 (2 years 8 months)

We provided architecture, project management and staffing for a telecom service provider (Pre-Paid cellular, stored value cards). Projects included:
• Responsible for architecture and development for all B2B communications and network flow.
• Introduced, architected and implemented fault-tolerant high volume MQSeries message switch.
• Introduced and mentored staff in several technologies including Java and XML
• Java/Unix based, leveraged XML, in-depth Oracle
Client

XO Communications

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Networking industry)

January 1997 — July 2002 (5 years 7 months)

We provided architecture, project management and staffing for a XO. The resulting system included:
• Workflow, Business Rules and a web based user interface for the configuration and maintenance of distributed phone system.
• Challenging business environment. Delivery of system was tied to our customer’s largest revenue source. Telecom industry downturn dictated tight schedules and resources.
• Leveraged SOAP, XML, Client side XSL rendering

Other project responsibilities included:
• design and review of corporate data model
• practical application of that model in an OLTP CTI environment
• trial by fire implementation of that model on the firms largest contract to date
• development of a sophisticated call routing model
• mentoring staff through acquisition and ramp up
• Integrated consumer IVR and Web sites
• High volume distributed database
• Design, development and hosting for enforcement of micropayment policies and fraud controls.
Client

CMP Media

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Networking industry)

1993 — 1998 (5 years)

It has been our privilege to contribute to Network Computing Magazine. Contributions have included; Opinion, Reviews, and Features. Examine our editorial series called the Corporate View see http://www.bwalsh.com
Director of Technology

Cap Gemini America

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years)

We spearheaded a network outsourcing effort for an electronics manufacturing firm:
• all aspects of data and voice networking,
• help desk and desktop support staff,
• server and applications management, support and operations
We were project manager and systems architect for a medical software development firm:
• Development and documentation of overall data and process model
• Review of system architecture in preparation for major design enhancements
• Design of new network product strategy.
We provided network project consulting for a major retail bank:
• responsible for $4M budget
• responsible for establishment of all data, server and voice infrastructure for a new 1300 person facility
• developing strategic plans and business cases for several data network areas
• deploying a router network for retail bank branches
• consolidating SNA networks and mainframe BRP planning
• deploying client/server applications
Manager System Architecture

Avis Rent A Car

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

1985 — 1993 (8 years)

We founded and managed the Advanced Technology Group within the corporate Information Services Department. Our responsibilities included:
• introducing technology that justified the growth of desktop computers to a current level of over 1000 mixed PC, Macintosh and UNIX computers from a starting point of under 100 PCs
• assisting the corporation migrate from mainframe development to PC development, allowing end users access to corporate data for analysis and ad-hoc reporting
• We provided leadership for a team designing and implementing an 800 user reservation system. Our responsibilities included:
• We developed architecture for mainframe to server migration. Our responsibilities included:
• Yield Management systems were developed using Operation Research techniques to optimize the supply and pricing of the rental fleet.
• We were part of an RFP for a 1000 site branch automation team. Responses were evaluated and finalists selected
Senior Communications Programmer

Unisys

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

1982 — 1985 (3 years)

· Initiated, developed and supported a system to generate and manage configurations for a network with over 20 mainframes and thousands of terminals. As a result, full time staff dedicated to network maintenance was reduced from four to one.