Kevin Perera

Current

Principal Systems Architect at TEMENOS (Product Strategy Group)

Past

Systems Architect at TEMENOS (Technology & Research Group)
Solution Architect at BNP Paribas (contract)
Consulting Architect/Management Consultant at IBM

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Education

Enterprise Solution Structure
Object Technology Practice
Object Technology University

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

BIAN

Kevin Perera’s Summary

• Banking technology architect and strategist specializing in the solution deployment approaches across various technology platforms, as a competitive differentiator for challenging businesses.

• Extensive experience in planning, managing and executing engagements involving audiences from both the business and technology communities, and spanning product, partner, client and prospect organizations.

• Extensive experience with complex architecture workshops across a wide range/scope (including end-to-end architecture walk-thrus),

• Focused on delivering practical strategies, methodologies and solutions in practical yet innovative ways to match an organization's business strategy, goals and culture.

• Approximately 15 years experience spanning management, consulting, mentoring, teaching, engagements, workshops and project execution.

• Exposed to many solution types (examples below)
--- Multi-channel B2B & B2C (e-business / e-commerce)
--- Service Oriented Architecture
--- Business Process Management
--- Business Process Execution
--- Business Intelligence
--- Business Activity Monitoring
--- STP – Straight Through Processing
--- Exception-based Processing & Human Workflow Services
--- Component-based & object-oriented technology & design
--- Real-time, transactional & process execution systems

• Core experience — multi-channel financial systems, particularly around core banking, payments, wealth management and e-services platforms (across private client, retail, corporate, institutional).

• Enthusiastic — team member with a proven record of working in the international banking and consulting environments under own initiative and within a pressurized environment.

• Self motivated — with strong organizational skills (fully qualified project manager).

• Versatile — proven ability to communicate at all levels and form excellent working relationships with colleagues and management.

Kevin Perera’s Specialties:

Business Process Modelling/Management (BPM); workflow (Straight Through Processing - STP & Human Workflow Services - HWS); Business Process Execution (BPEL); Business Activity Monitoring (BAM); Service Oriented Architecture (SOA); Object-Oriented Technology (OO); methodology (PRINCE2, RUP, RAD / DSDM, BPR, etc); enterprise, system & component based modeling (Zachman, UML); integration models (message brokers, EAI, ESB). All to various levels.

Kevin Perera’s Experience

Principal Systems Architect

TEMENOS (Product Strategy Group)

(Public Company; TEMN; Computer Software industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Universal/Core/Multi-Channel Banking Enterprise Platforms
Strategic Partnerships
Enterprise Architecture Evangelist

Strategist for the Temenos universal/core/multi-channel banking platform products, based in the product strategy group. Primarily responsible for organization-wide governance on overall product technology direction, to drive product enablement in accord with market direction and solid architectural principles. Close collaboration with the management consulting and engagements groups, spanning from architectures for business process execution and monitoring to scoping workshops, to drive statements of work which align with the product and organization directions. Deeply involved in strategies for partner technology platform adoption, enablement and roll-out. Chair of the internal Technical Architecture virtual product management group. Chair of the BIAN architecture framework and foundation working group. Permanent member of the BIAN architecture committee. (See http://www.bian.org for more info.)

Additional Information

Kevin Perera’s Websites:

BIAN

Kevin Perera’s Interests:

Cycling; Cooking; Literature; Music; Travel; Alpinism; a little Sailing..

Kevin Perera’s Groups:

Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN architecture committee member); British Computer Society (BCS member); PRINCE2 (certified practitioner); International Association of Software Architects (IASA member).

International Association of Software Architects
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
PartnerPoint - An Online Community of Microsoft Partners
Alumni Network - University of Sussex
Business 3.0™
.NET People
Banking and Finance Technologies
Temenos T24 / Globus - Knowledge Sharing
T24 Group
BCS Membership Group
Microsoft Partner Network
Retail Banking Network
SOA Service Oriented Architecture Technology Architects
.SOA Open Network
BCS in Switzerland
Finance Club
Banking Industry Architecture Network