James Donelan

Current

Principal Architect at Lithium Technologies

Past

CTO at Touristr
Chief Architect & VP Technology at EzRez Software
Principal Architect at Epiphany / INFOR

Director of Technology, Architect at Charles Schwab
Senior Software Engineer at Resolution Technology
Consultant at Summit Integration Consulting Group
Software Engineer at COMPAQ Computer

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Education

University of Limerick
Microsoft Corporation
SUN Microsystems

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Information Technology and Services

James Donelan’s Summary

15 years technology leadership experience in commerical software, internet, e-commerce, travel, social networking, telecom and finance. Experience in Europe, US and Asia including a number of successful startups in Silicon Valley, CA. Engineering leadership of large-scale enterprise systems, SaaS-based platforms and consumer-facing web platforms using a variety of technologies.

Technology strategy, architecture, engineering leadership, effective AGILE engineering, business/product planning, financing, recruitment.

World-class hands-on architect who is very passionate about technology and software. I have great vision, creativity and solid experience in taking ideas to real products. I’m very pragmatic with a focus on delivering quality working software.

James Donelan’s Specialties:

AGILE, XP and lightweight methodologies to deliver software, products and systems quickly and effectively. Extensive experience in architecting and engineering large-scale consumer-facing and enterprise-wide systems using Java, Ruby and the whole spectrum of Open Source.

James Donelan’s Experience

Principal Architect

Lithium Technologies

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

May 2009 — Present (3 months)
CTO

Touristr

(Computer Software industry)

July 2008 — January 2009 (7 months)

Consulting CTO for an early stage startup developing a trip planning and social travel platform. Developed using Ruby on Rails and combining innovative features including trip planning, recommendations/advice, booking, social and intelligent-web features (including semantic web). Deployed using cloud based computing including Amazon EC2 and S3.
Chief Architect & VP Technology

EzRez Software

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2007 — April 2008 (1 year)

Established startup and developer of a SaaS-based enterprise travel platform used by the largest airlines and travel companies in the world including American Airlines, Virgin America and JetBlue.
• Provide oversight of a mid-sized technology organization (20+) including in-house, remote and consulting teams. Responsible for technical strategy, planning, engineering, budget and hiring. Actively involved in equity funding including leading technology discussions with VCs and board members.
• Lead the architecture and engineering of core platform handling millions of transactions/day and over $1 billion in combined travel booking revenue/year.
• Provide leadership for all technology decisions including UI/Ajax, application framework, persistence, caching and supplier integration. Developed on 100% open source using lightweight Java, Spring and Tomcat/JBoss.
• Lead the adoption of Ruby on Rails for new Web 2.0 embeddable travel widgets and social networking tools.
Principal Architect

Epiphany / INFOR

(Public Company; EPNY; Computer Software industry)

February 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 4 months)

Epiphany was purchased by SSA Global in Sep 2005 and subsequently purchased again by INFOR in 2006.

Principal Architect for Epiphany/INFOR CRM enterprise product lines.

Reported to CTO and VP Engineering, responsible for leading architecture and engineering in a number of key efforts including core J2EE platform, service enablement, BPM integration and UI frameworks.

Lead the architecture for the "Open SOA Platform" for all CRM products with a $20mm budget. Comprised of both tooling and runtime platform features for service modeling, development, BPM, and ESB integration.

Principal architect for the "E.piphany CRB Platform" – a metadata-driven J2EE and .NET suite for application development including UI framework, screenflow, platform services, ORM persistence, EAI and web services.

Lead the technology integration (through 2 acquisitions) and OEM partnership with JBOSS and other vendors.
Director of Technology, Architect

Charles Schwab

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SCH; Financial Services industry)

May 1997 — December 2004 (7 years 8 months)

Lead the architecture and engineering of enterprise-wide J2EE and .NET trading systems in the US, Europe and Asia - across key enterprises including Global Technology, Architecture, Frameworks and Desktop Technology.

Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentoring to 20+ person engineering teams. Responsible for the delivery of software architecture specifications, sizings and project deliverables. Implemented software-development best practices including AGILE, SCRUM, XP, Continuous Integration and automated build/test systems.

Architect for one the largest online securities trading systems in the world schwab.com with over 7mm active users. Integrated with mainframe, exchanges (NASDAQ, NYSE) and a variety of enterprise systems.

Lead the design and development of the International Order Routing System – a global trading/FX hub integrating international broker-dealer systems in Europe, US and Japan and enabling multi-country trading.
Senior Software Engineer

Resolution Technology

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

1996 — 1997 (1 year)

IBM spin-off providing workflow-based IT consulting to banking and insurance companies in Ireland and the UK.
Consultant

Summit Integration Consulting Group

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

1996 — 1996 (less than a year)

Client-server and workflow IT consulting to US banking clients.
Software Engineer

COMPAQ Computer

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

1993 — 1995 (2 years)

Software engineering of sales, order management and logistics systems at Compaq’s European, Middle East and African (EMEA) HQ’s in Germany.