Paul Peters

Current

rainmaker at Fluxology partner network
CEO and Principal at Fluxology SA

Past

Principal Consultant at Sun
Technical Trainer at Tec Plus - Egypt
Principal Enterprise Architect & Project Manager at Sonae - SeeBeyond

Principal Enterprise Architect at BRFkredit - SeeBeyond
Senior Enterprise Architect at SeeBeyond
Enterprise Architect at SeeBeyond - Variable
Senior Enterprise Architect at SeeBeyond - Fiat-GM Powertrain
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
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
Antonius College, Gouda
klimop, Gouda

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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 some 50-60 projects in 18 different countries.

Main areas of expertise are Integration, EAI, BPM, SOA, B2B, 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

rainmaker

Fluxology partner network

(Fine Art industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

Fluxology facilitates two cooperative global partner networks around OpenESB, JavaCAPS, its SeeBeyond predecessors, enveloping the Sun Java Enterprise System and complementary technology partners, to pave a pathway into the future towards "the adjacent possible" in both business relations and information technology.

Fluxology, along with the partner networks, "unit 42" and "n-simplex alliance", offers open-ended and packaged services, solutions, frameworks and technologies to take OpenESB to the next level. Our global partner network of senior experts currently involves some 137 senior experts ranging from 1 to 16 years of experience with the Sun/SeeBeyond toolsets, projects, architectural styles and management approach.
CEO and Principal

Fluxology SA

(Alternative Medicine industry)

February 2005 — Present (4 years 6 months)

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

Sun

(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — April 2009 (3 years 1 month)

Principal Consultant / Enterprise Architect / Senior Manager

Various, EMEA - Feb++ 2009

Turksat - eGovernment, Turkey - January 2009

Colorline, Norway - November 2008 - January 2009

SWIFT, Belgium - March - December 2008

Bank of Valletta plc, Malta - November 2007 + July 2008

Ministry of Health, Turkey - October 2007

Ministry of Justice, Portugal - January - May 2007
Set up integration backbone for National ID Card.
Analysis and architectural design of several e-government solutions.
Deliver environment for online tax declaration.

Cadbury Schweppes - October - Novemeber 2006.
Architecture validation of existing integration solutions.
Initial program management roadmap for risk and issue management in relation to migration and transition of existing integration solutions.
Initial business and technical analysis and design for SOA-based global Common Services Framework .
Initial analysis and design SOA Governance framework.

Hera, Italy - June - July 2006
Risk and issue management.
Architectural validations, clustering and hosting model design and verification.
Ad hoc development troubleshooting.
Performance and stability tuning.

AR Telecom, Portugal - May 2006
Setup and physical design for Sun JCAPS + training

Carrfour, France - May 2006
Troubleshoot development environment.
Setup procedures for migration management.

EDS/SKF, Sweden
April 2006 + May - September 2007 + November 2007 – March 2008
Troubleshooting, architectural health check of integration solution.
General performance assessment.
Advice on perfomance recommendations and related project estimates.
Issue management, technical account management.
Troubleshooting and set up migration guidelines of the existing EAI framework.
In-depth analysis of varied architectural areas and product features.
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.
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.
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.
Enterprise Architect

SeeBeyond - Variable

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 1 month)

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

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

LPP - Poland
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.
Enterprise Architect

SeeBeyond - Variable

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2003 — October 2003 (7 months)

Italian Railways
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.

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; HPQ; 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.

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
Antonius College, Gouda

VWO , 1982 — 1990
klimop, Gouda

Metaphysics of Quality , 1974 — 1982