Paul Peters

Current

• CEO and Principal at The Fluxology Office

Past

• Technical Trainer at Tec Plus - Egypt
• Enterprise Architect at EDS/SKF, Sweden - Sun microsystems
• Enterprise Architect at Ministry of Justice, Portugal - Sun microsystems

• ... at Sun Microsystems / SKF
• Principal Enterprise Architect at Cadbury Schweppes - Sun Microsystems
• Principal Consultant at Hera, Bologna - Sun microsystems
• Senior Consultant at Carrefour France - Sun microsystems
• Senior Consultant at AR Telecom - Sun microsystems
• Principal Consultant at SKF - Sun microsystems
• Principal Enterprise Architect & Project Manager at Sonae - SeeBeyond
• Singleton at SeeBeyond Italy
• Principal Enterprise Architect at BRFkredit - SeeBeyond
• Senior Enterprise Architect at SeeBeyond
• Senior Enterprise Architect at SeeBeyond - Carrefour
• Enterprise Architect at SeeBeyond - Variable
• Enterprise Architect at SeeBeyond - LPP
• Senior Enterprise Architect at SeeBeyond - Fiat-GM Powertrain
• .. at SeeBeyond
• Enterprise Architect - PreSales at SeeBeyond - Italian railways
• Enterprise Architect at SeeBeyond - Variable
• Enterprise Architect at SeeBeyond - DeSpar
• Consultant Manager - New and Emerging Technologies at EDS - AT Kearney
• Senior Consultant Emerging Technologies at EDS - AT Kearney
• Senior Solution Architect at EDS - AT Kearney - Onetrail
• Senior Change Manager at EDS
• Senior Change Manager at EDS
• Systems Engineer at EDS
• Analyst programmer at Evident Internet
• Private teacher and personal trainer at Freelance & employed (Self-employed)
• Study Councelor at Ministry of Defense

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Education

• Utrecht University
• Leiden University
• Erasmus University Rotterdam

• Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Erasmus University Rotterdam

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Industry

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Paul Peters’s Summary

Near to eighteen years working experience of which some twelve years in Information Technology. During these years acted in a variety of roles such as Information Analyst, Project Manager, Management Consultant and Chief Architect.
Broad international experience throughout the European Union, since 1999 engaged in approximately 45 projects in 17 different countries.
Main areas of expertise are EAI, BPM, SOA, BPR, ERP, Collaborative Commerce, Strategic Consulting and Change Management.

Innovative generalist, combining pragmatism with a creative urge and passion for excellence with both a bird's eye and detailed view on business context and technological means into enterprise scale solution architectures.
Since eight years focused on design, implementation and management of integration and collaboration based solutions.


Mid-long term goal:
~ Provide strategic, tactical and operational counseling and consulting services in the areas of enterprise architecture, system integration and collaboration, the enabling frameworks and the technologies involved.
~ Research and develop evolutionary applications combining approaches of knowledge management, semantic web technology, agent-based computing, artificial life and collaborative commerce and the interdisciplinary application of such in a business environment.

Paul Peters’s Specialties:

Polymath

Architecture design, reviews, quality assurance.
Project and client engagement management.
Sales proposals, presentations, strategic scenarios.
Complex implementations.
Performance optimizations and fine tuning.
Advising, guidance, mentoring, training and setting up best practices.
Set up standards for information exchange, message catalogs, reporting, procedures and documentation.
In flight troubleshooting for architectural issues, code reviews, and management methodologies.

Paul Peters’s Experience

• CEO and Principal

  The Fluxology Office

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

  February 2005 — Present (3 years 9 months)

  Liberty and Creativity.
  Research and initial development into symbiotic models and technologies concerning ontologies, semantics, semiotics, categorization theory, self-organization and artificial life.

• Technical Trainer

  Tec Plus - Egypt

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; E-Learning industry)

  June 2007 — July 2007 (2 months)

  Construct training course and course material for Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite.
  Deliver on-site training.

• Enterprise Architect

  EDS/SKF, Sweden - Sun microsystems

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Machinery industry)

  May 2007 — June 2007 (2 months)

  Troubleshooting and set up migration guidelines of the existing EAI framework.
  Issue management, research and in-depth analysis of varied architectural areas and product features.

• Enterprise Architect

  Ministry of Justice, Portugal - Sun microsystems

  (Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)

  January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)

  Set up integration backbone for National ID Card.
  Analysis and architectural design of several e-government solutions.
  Deliver environment for online tax declaration.

• ...

  Sun Microsystems / SKF

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

  2007 — 2007 (less than a year)

• Principal Enterprise Architect

  Cadbury Schweppes - Sun Microsystems

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

  October 2006 — November 2006 (2 months)

  Architecture validation of existing integration solutions. Initial program management roadmap meant for risk and issue management in relation to migration and transition of existing integration solutions.
  Initial business and technical analysis and design for global Common Services Framework based on SOA principles. Initial analysis and design SOA Governance framework.

• Principal Consultant

  Hera, Bologna - Sun microsystems

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Utilities industry)

  June 2006 — July 2006 (2 months)

  ICAN 5.0.5. (Integrated Composite Application Network) architectural validations, clustering and hosting model design and verification on Sun Cluster. Ad hoc development troubleshooting. Performance and stability tuning. Risk and issue management.

• Senior Consultant

  Carrefour France - Sun microsystems

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

  May 2006 — May 2006 (1 month)

  Troubleshoot development environment. Setup procedures for migration management.

• Senior Consultant

  AR Telecom - Sun microsystems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  May 2006 — May 2006 (1 month)

  Initial setup and training concerning SUN jCAPS (SeeBeyond Java Composite Application Platform Suite)

• Principal Consultant

  SKF - Sun microsystems

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

  April 2006 — April 2006 (1 month)

  Production environment troubleshooting, architectural health check of integration solution.
  General performance assessment.
  Advice on perfomance recommendations and related project estimates.

• Principal Enterprise Architect & Project Manager

  Sonae - SeeBeyond

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Retail industry)

  December 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  General Project Management
  Client Engagement Management
  Architectural reviews + general production environment troubleshooting.
  Document and mentor on architectural design and performance best practices.
  Develop guidelines and samples on e.g. environment migration.

• Singleton

  SeeBeyond Italy

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

• Principal Enterprise Architect

  BRFkredit - SeeBeyond

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Banking industry)

  August 2004 — December 2004 (5 months)

  Business Process Analysis and redesign.
  Lead architecture SOA-based Workflow / BAM solution, using SAS Data warehouse.
  Interface between Business Architecture and Technical Architecture teams.
  Supervise and verify documentation, methodology and merger of architectural models.
  Supervise and mentor resources.

• Senior Enterprise Architect

  SeeBeyond

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; SBYN; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 3 months)

  o Consolidation on integration patterns as implemented at DeSpar.
  Case studies for professional services and pre-sales and package underlying database.
  Architectural design patterns for business rules based many-to-many marketplace implementations.
  Guidelines for implementation on hp-ux and JVM tuning & profiling.
  o Document e*Gate cookbook with design and development best practices.
  The document provides a high level introduction in flow design, common components as used in e*Gate, information on the SeeBeyond standard JMS queuing mechanism and java programming guidelines.
  o Full technical and strategic analysis on Retek Integration Bus. Compose training course.
  Document overview of components, functionality and how to do third-party connectivity reusing the RIB.
  o Research and Develop Mercator to SeeBeyond migration tool for GM.
  o Compose manager and architect crash course.
  o Define new product definitions and solution frameworks in co-op with SeeBeyond R&D.

• Senior Enterprise Architect

  SeeBeyond - Carrefour

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2004 — September 2004 (4 months)

  Development supervision, troubleshooting, mentoring and remote support of first succesful ICAN implementation in Europe
  HP-UX sizing and performance tuning

• Enterprise Architect

  SeeBeyond - Variable

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2004 — July 2004 (7 months)

  FGP - Italy
  Performance tuning + High Availability setup
  KFI, Altria - Switzerland
  Production environment troubleshooting + health check
  Transco - UK
  Architectural review + health check
  e-Utile - Milan
  Assess transition impact + business requirements.
  Upgrade and transition environment due to changing system landscape.
  MCH – Portugal
  Assess viability and planning estimates of Enterprise Event Management,
  Common Message formats and operational data stores.
  ESB, CGE&Y - Ireland :
  Technical and business assessment of B2B designs.
  Document upgrade cookbook for B2B module.
  Assessment, viability study, status report + recommendations.
  Rebuild B2B module (eXpressway) + Quality assurance

• Enterprise Architect

  SeeBeyond - LPP

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2003 — March 2004 (7 months)

  High level training and mentoring on base eGate functionality.
  Analyze, troubleshoot and resolve issues with Retek Integration Bus.
  General assessment, recommendations and project estimates.
  Remote support, general troubleshooting and mentoring.
  Design and supervise error handling procedures.
  Analyze and design future implementations focused on BPM and B2B

• Senior Enterprise Architect

  SeeBeyond - Fiat-GM Powertrain

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2003 — February 2004 (9 months)

  Technical account management. Status reporting and issue management.
  Advice and guidance on company and project strategy.
  Selection, interview and recommendation of internal and external resources.
  Enterprise Application Integration Strategy proposal.
  Integration Competence Center setup and proposal.
  Conceptual and functional architecture design and proposal.
  Document architectural transition checklists, interface functional specifications and interface inventory categorization tool.
  Design logical architecture and construct core architecture.
  Supervise and verify documentation, methodology merger and other deliverables.
  Supervise and mentor resources.

• ..

  SeeBeyond

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years)

• Enterprise Architect - PreSales

  SeeBeyond - Italian railways

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2003 — October 2003 (3 months)

  Analyze RFI and design, construct and describe workflow integration scenarios.
  Analyze and design advanced user facing workflow scenario’s based on RFI.
  Prepare and document SeeBeyond internal strategy for Proof of Concept.

• Enterprise Architect

  SeeBeyond - Variable

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2003 — September 2003 (6 months)

  Lockheed Martin, NHS
  Emergency BPM design and implementation. General troubleshooting and verification.
  AXA
  Integration Strategy consolidation, sizing, scalability, extensibility, high-availability, data retention, system dependencies, high volume and throughput for EAI and BPM.
  Porsche
  Proof of concept, with eMatrix PDM, SAP and CICS.
  General troubleshooting, network traffic issues, performance tuning.
  HDM
  Advice on further strategy and knowledge transfer.
  Barep, Atos Origin
  Emergency review, troubleshooting and fine tuning.
  Support on BPM implementation.
  Monsanto
  General troubleshooting. Upgrade and performance tuning.
  Investigate implementation of B2B.
  Centrica, Accenture
  BPM verification + workarounds + high volume and performance recommendations.
  Carrefour
  Answer and consolidate RFI for global B2B and EAI standard.
  Pfizer
  Proposal and review of EAI based intranet solution.
  Banca IMI
  Crash course BPM and promotion management.

• Enterprise Architect

  SeeBeyond - DeSpar

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2002 — March 2003 (7 months)

  Technical Account Management, Architecture, Design, EAI and Java Mentoring, Implementation, Testing, Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning.
  Implementation is focussed on Business Process-driven Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Activities Monitoring, flexibility, reusability, resilience and ease of use.
  The project’a goal is to fully automate the supply and demand chain for frozen food, including stock synchronisation. The project required full visibilty from order to delivery, sophisticated and flexible errorhandling, all needs to be easily adaptable, reusble and happen with as little impact as possible on the underlying systems.

• Consultant Manager - New and Emerging Technologies

  EDS - AT Kearney

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; EDS; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2002 — July 2002 (7 months)

  EDS, AT Kearney, EDS PLM Solutions, EDS SOLCORP, EDS BPM
  
  Functional area: Business Process Architectures and models – BPM, BPO Content & Knowledge Management, Product Life Cycle Management, Collaborative Applications, Supply Chain Management, Demand Chain Management, eProcurement, XRM, CRM, PRM
  
  Technical area: J2EE Blueprints, Patterns, .NET, Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, XSLT, AOP.
  Grid computing, autonomous computing, agents, semantic web, adaptive networks, ontology and topologies. Next generation web based user interfaces.
  
  Experience:
  o Coach/support/architectural benchmarking A2A, B2B, BPM, Portal models for SKF, Shell NAM, Dutch Railways and AEGON.
  o Research, analyze and define possibilities and feasibility of applying Product Lifecycle Management tools to financial industry, in particular the middle office (insurance agents).
  o Enforce cross LOB collaboration + cross sales.
  o Coach/support on Collaborative Engineering offering Shell, BP and Texaco.

• Senior Consultant Emerging Technologies

  EDS - AT Kearney

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2001 — July 2002 (1 year 2 months)

  SKF - Engineering Master Interface + eProcurement Consolidation :
  Coach, support, design and troubleshoot conceptual architecture.
  prerequisites and relative position compared to other running initiatives.
  EMI gain - $2 mil. eProcurement gain - $ 100 mil.
  ExxonMobile :
  Coach and support on Collaborative Engineering proposal and Digital
  Business Platform (Hybrid architecture of Integration Platform, Application
  Servers and Vertical Portal technology). Possible gain - $500 mil a year.

• Senior Solution Architect

  EDS - AT Kearney - Onetrail

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2001 — March 2002 (10 months)

  Onetrail.Net is a Business Service Provider hub for business partners in the ICT supply chain and offers automation of order management extending to the complete procurement process.
  Analyze, design and implement interaction architecture and interfaces to BaaN IVc, Exact, SAP and CommerceOne.
  Construction of 90% generic web like structure with template transformational and BPM flows.
  Optimize and implement B2B connector.
  Designed customized messages and architectural flows for information exchange between a third parties and web services such as credit checking and logistical forecasting.
  Ad hoc supervision, coaching and troubleshooting.
  Constructed detailed contracts for SeeBeyond hosting and subscription based billing.
  Training of consultants in EAI and specifically SeeBeyond.
  Support and troubleshoot sales initiatives where EDS functions as a reseller. Link to corporate Extended Enterprise Integration Backbone as part of the Agile Corporate Environment.

• Senior Change Manager

  EDS

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 6 months)

  Operational and Program Management of Time Administrators, Project Administrators and Financial Analysts. (8 persons directly, 21 indirectly).
  General SAP support & troubleshooting emphasized on CATS, Project administration, HR and Billing. Advanced analysis and solution implementation. Training and mentoring.
  Processes, procedures, cross-module interaction, advanced reporting, flexible analysis, supervising & troubleshoot overall process. Construct procedural checklists and manuals. Raise support for integration with Corporate Directory Strategy and web-enabling EES related reporting.
  
  Note May 1st 2001: Process, project structures, project administration and billing procedures have proven so efficient and effective they are set as global standard.

• Senior Change Manager

  EDS

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 6 months)

  Construct global reporting standards, internal systems integration, cross-country and cross-LOB collaboration, ES system improvements, new reports.
  
  Note Feb 1st 2002: Proposal was picked up at CIO level and extended to system monitoring. Converted to official setting as EDS Extended Integration Backbone, main focal point for EDS Internal Technology up to 2007.

• Systems Engineer

  EDS

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1998 — January 2000 (1 year 8 months)

  • Several internet projects. (Intra- and extranets)
  • Automate productivity, utilization and P&L reports.
  • Streamline all financial processes concerning contractors.
  • Mentoring of several System Engineers
  • Quality Improvement; prepare EDS NL Solution Center for CMM level 2.
  • Mainframe conversion from Siemens to IBM.

• Analyst programmer

  Evident Internet

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

  December 1997 — May 1998 (6 months)

  • Construction of electronic information pillars for trade fairs.
  • Research & initial development of database driven websites using Java.

• Private teacher and personal trainer

  Freelance & employed (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Performing Arts industry)

  January 1991 — August 1997 (6 years 8 months)

  up to academic level for
  Mathematics, Physics, Economy, Business Analysis, Marketing, Chemistry
  
  Assistant with thesis and exam training : Physics, Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Econometrics, Business Analysis, Business Administration, Geographical Economics, Political Economics, Psychology.

• Study Councelor

  Ministry of Defense

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

  September 1994 — June 1995 (10 months)

  • Arrange courses and education for military personnel.
  • Career development testing and advice
  • Group and individual lectures and informative sessions.
  • Supervise progress technical personnel and arrange compensation of costs.

Paul Peters’s Education

• Utrecht University

  Theoretical Physics September 1995 — August 1997

• Leiden University

  Theoretical Physics and Astronomy September 1991 — August 1994

• Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Philosophy September 1991 — August 1992

• Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Econometrics January 1991 — August 1991

• Erasmus University Rotterdam

  Business Administration September 1990 — January 1991

Additional Information

Paul Peters’s Interests:

Science, Martial Arts, Emerging Technologies, Patterns and Architectures, IFEAD related frameworks such as Zachman Framework, Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, Enterprise Decision Management, Collaborative Product Lifecycle Management, Knowledge Management and Mining, Business Intelligence, Next Generation Manufacturing, Composite Applications, Rich User Interfaces, Semantic web, Grid computing, JavaSpaces, Adaptive and Evolutionary computing

Paul Peters’s Groups:

IEEE

•    Catalysts
•    Java CAPS Professionals
•    SOA Group
•    Open ESB Community
•    IT Solutions Consultants

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