OTHMAN HABLANI
(514) 318-9988
•[email protected]
TECHNICAL ARCHITECT and SOLUTION INTEGRATOR
Effectively Integrating Technology with Business
PROFILE
IT Technical Architect specialized in infrastructure and integration with a record of developing and supporting successful solutions incorporating a wide range of applications and technologies. Recognized and tasked by executive management to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency through the proper implementation of software engineering principles. Exceptional leadership qualities that align the business process and program infrastructure to realize cost savings, accelerate performance, and sustain strategic flexibility for the organization. Diverse analysis knowledge spanning cross-functional systems and teams. Oversee and lead all phases of project lifecycle, numerous software applications, change management, and assessment of end-user needs while efficiently resolving IT issues. Exemplary track record of success in strategic planning, issue resolution, customer service, and software design. Motivate cross-functional project teams to perform within budget and schedule constraints while meeting or exceeding clients’ expectations.
Develop technical architecture for mid-sized and large private / government enterprises, constructing innovative target architectures in collaboration with different groups. Analyze technology trends to identify emergent technologies and recommend project selection based on business and technological transition. Expert in architecture supporting business development with pre-sales solutions or products. Managed a variety of solutions involving web application development, creative user experience design, and marketing strategy, overseeing infrastructure migration of applications and version migrations of applications.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Architecture / Infrastructure / Operating System (OS) Version Migrations • Status Reporting Conflict Management • Vendor Management • Quality Management • Microsoft SharePoint Workflow
Process Improvement • Process Re-engineering • Project Management • Performance Optimization Delivery Methodology • Risk Management • Technology Integration • Storage Management • Backup and
Disater Recovery Management • Strategy Development • Infrastructure Design & Management • BusinessStrategy • Issue Management • Team Building
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PM6 inc
Mai 2011 to present
BOMBARDIER’ AEROSPACE / Teksystems & R3DSolution Integrator EPM 2010 / SharePoint 2010 / SharePoint Designer et Infopath Visual Studio
Workflow Designer, SQL Server 2008 R2.
Administrator and responsible of EPM 2010 support in different locations, continents,
departments and culture. Developer of BI / Analysis services (OLAP), Reporting et Cubes
architect and Designer. Team leader of Portfolio Management. Out-Of-The-Box (OOTB).
Solution developer with SharePoint Designer Data Extraction to Excel / SQL OLE DB and other
providers. Technical support of EPM 2010 level 2 and technical leader of SharePoint Governance.
CBC/RADIO-CANADA
Perform an audit of SharePoint platforms at Montreal and Toronto before a massive migration of
legacy applications to SharePoint 2010. Complex multi sites, many applications, 10000 users,
more than 4000 sites.
Teledyne Dalsa
Provide feasibility study; design the architecture of SharePoint 2010; Install, configure and
implement the platform for 2 branches at Mississauga and Bromont.
Hewitt
Audit SharePoint 2007 platform and provide architecture to migrate from SP 2007 to SP 2010.
TOP ACES
Help Microsoft Provider to provide a course for a team at Top Aces on « Mastering Microsoft
Project 2010 » Course 50413A
Collège Edouard-MontPetit
Provide a course on SharePoint administration to a group in Continuing Education.
Sirius Conseils
2010 to 2011
Technical Architect of SharePoint 2010 and EPM 2010 at Hydro-Québec, DPTI and IREQ
Implemented EPM 2010 application at Hydro-Quebec for 3,000 users, defining and identifying infrastructure needs for Enterprise Project Management servers farm based on SharePoint 2010. Collaborated with various cross-functional teams to understand EPM 2010 requirements, designing and recommending the best infrastructure options. Planned and provisioned different environments including Planning, Evaluation, PoC, Pilot, UAT, DEV, and PROD for different functional releases of EPM 2010 configuration. Conducted capacity planning, server sizing, optimization, security, HR resource transfer from AD, protocols such as NTLM, Kerberos, secure authentication, and encryption. Managed all aspects of systems setup / architecture and utilized DataProtector and PHD to backup and restore SharePoint in VMware and Citrix environment.
Systematix
2010
Auditor, performance of SharePoint 2007, EPM 2007 at Hydro-Québec, “VP Marché de Gros”
Provided an audit of the architecture of SharePoint 2007 / Project 2007 platform performance, examining projects from a global perspective, and analyzing actual situation related to platform, data, and user. Defined objects, guidelines for acceptable performance, calculation factors, and scope of impacts. Provided results, such as enhancement of procedure, reports, lab tests of sum functionalities and / or implementation of tools or usage of best practices to boost performance.
LGS / IBM Canada
2006 to 2009
Microserv implementation of 40 blades for supporting PeopleSoft applications 2009
Served as project manager and technical leader, overseeing scanning project implementation by working with the Project Director to deliver on the plan on time and to budget. Organized team into appropriate work groups and collaborated with Team Leaders to support preparation of project documents. Fostered and maintained effective communications customers and focused on meeting contractual obligations.
Coordinated stakeholder communication efforts, including status reports, and management supporting documents, and managed customers and partners at appropriate level to achieve project success.
Project Integrator for Hydro Quebec - Infrastructure Architectures 2006 to 2009 Served as technical architect at Technology Group (DPAS), leading opportunity studies, analysis, and TCO construction. Leader in following projects:
Build security referential template for Technology Group based on ISO 27002, creating patterns of security processes.
Optimized multiple Microsoft Project instances and tools at Technology Group, performing an opportunity study to consolidate many instances and project tools at Group Technology.
Email archiving with Enteprise Vault and Netbackup:
Email archiving feasibility study and proof of concept of several applications, such as ZL Technologies, Enterprise Vault, OpenText, Sunbelt, Zantas, and Mimosa. Comparison of these products Installed in Proof Of Concept environment. To let executives get best choice. An analysis study and comparision of many products was done. A TCO was presesented for many commities, such as “Comité Aviseur de l’Architecture d’Entreprise (CAAE)”. The man objectives of implementing Enterprise Vault with
o Respond to clients needs of more MailBoxes capacity (they have just 25 Mb);
o Provide definitive answer for historical PST;
o Provide an answer to the « Vérificateur Général (VG » who ordered this mandate;
o Decrease volume and cost of storage by grouping documents attached to messages and use of HSM Provide an answer for compliance for certain business domains
o Resolve mailboxes management in the context of document Management;
o Réduce support.
Messaging Services:
Developed and defined 24 x 7 messaging service level agreement for 25,000 users, formalizing and distributing information related to different services, such as mail box capacity, delay for service delivery, archiving, encryption, remote access, recovery and high availability.
Software Distribution:
Technical Expert in Software and OS Distribution, providing expertise on applications distribution. Prepared an opportunity study of distribution tools and methodologies regarding software distribution with Tivoli (ITCM) at Hydro.
CGI Inc.
2004 to 2006
Project Director for Caisse de dépôt et Placement du Québec, (CDPQ) 2006
Managed a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) for "Operational Management Systems” (OMS), Latent Zero, which recovers the application and the system. Supervised team and tracked project progress, including scheduling, cost, SPI, CPI, and deliverables. Reported weekly progress of projects to steering committee, tracking changes and creating request for change documents. Coordinated all activities of operational DR solution of OMS with Latent Zero, and supervised all applications and infrastructure team activities to reach disaster recovery objectives.
GIMI / HMI Programs as Project Director for National Bank of Canada 2005 to 2006
Directed Horizon Micro-Informatique (HMI) project, providing Infrastructure Services to different departments. Established and maintained project communication internally and externally, developing project plan based on the established timeline and budget. Tracked actual project performance and costs against project plan, identifying and managing risks to the established project timeline and budget. Applied the PMI project approach and development process to meet project objectives and business drivers. Managed end-to-end planning and delivery of projects to meet customer expectations remaining within the approved scope, time, and budget while ensuring the delivery of quality products.
Articulated and communicated objectives, requirements, expectations, concepts, issues, and progress to the team, senior management, and stakeholders. Prepared monthly project status reports and financial reports, including YEO. Define procurement and solicitation plan, participating in solicitation and source selection.
Administered contracts and ensured successful transition of the project deliverables to core support. Applied and ensured compliance with all appropriate IT standards, including Security, Architecture, Project Delivery Methodology, and Sarbanes-Oxley.
CGI Inc. continued
DR test AFP-003 for ALCAN, Food Packaging 2005
DRP coordinator conducting, supervising, and performing a simulation demonstrating ability to recover its environment in compliance with the disaster recovery contractual terms agreed upon by the parties. Coordinated all test activities remotely during disaster simulation and then returned back to production when completed.
CGI, Project Manager LDAP Migration 2005
Served as Project Manager and technical leader on many projects, initiating project and charting mandates, time, managed cost, scope, quality, execution, control, and closing. Implemented SunOne Java Enterprise Directory
Services 5.2 (LDAP), Active Directory Services for 30,000 users, and installed tools / policies (Identity Manager) to manage Password Expiry in PeopleSoft.
Windows Project Manager Migration for Laurentian Bank Of Canada 2004 to 2005
Acted as Technical Architect and technical leader, performing opportunity studies and developing strategies to migrate applications from Windows NT to Windows 2003 / XP. Performed a preliminary analysis and developed a proof of concept to test migration issues. Migrated workstations and applications from NT to 2003 / XP and documented different phases of the projects.
PM6 Inc. for CSST
2002 to 2004
Technical Architect, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery 2004
Commission for Work Health / Security
Served as technical architect for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, constructing recovery plans and coordinating all interdependencies involved with programs. Integrated the Business Requirements from the Business Impact Analysis, the Risk Assessment, and Business Continuity Planning into the Disaster Recovery Program, assisting in managing all milestones and deliverables for any projects associated with the BCP and DRP programs. Developed project timelines, milestones, and tasks, providing an analysis of the critical systems and an assessment to other project managers and chiefs of department on the recoverability of their systems.
Maintained responsibility for the success of the data center disaster recovery exercise, performing two tests per year with assistance of SunGard for mainframe and with Montreal for middle range servers and telecommunication.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
PM6 Inc.
2002 to 2003
Agora Scriptor Portal for Informatique EBR 2003
Windows Technical Architect Migration for Ministry of Industry and Commerce 2003
Technical Architecture for Conseillers Informatiques D’Affaires 2002 to 2003
Siemens Business Services, SBS
2000 to 2002
Director of Technical Architecture at National Office of Drinking Water
PM6 Inc.
1999
Technical Architect for Ministry of Revenue of Quebec (MRQ)
Technical Analyst for Société d’Assurance Automobile du Québec (SAAQ)
EDUCATION
Master of Science, Project Management
Thesis: Feasibility study of Media manufacturing implementation in Levis, Canada
Université de Québec à Rimouski, Canada
Master of Science, Management Information Systems
Thesis: A Priori Evaluation of IT / IS at big Enterprise $50,000,000 of IT budget
CAPES, Natural Sciences - Biology
ENSET, Tunis, Tunisia
CERTIFICATIONS
Project Management Professional (PMP) Microsoft Certified Professional - Windows
LINUX - Administration (LPIC2) CISSP and SharePoint(In Progress)
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES
Languages: HTML, Informix-SQL, Oracle PL / SQL, Oracle SQL*Plus, PL / SQL, Rexx, SAS, SQL, VBScript, Visual Studio 2010, WinDev, VBA.
Data Bases: FileMaker Pro, Foxbase, Informix, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, MySQL, Oracle, Oracle 10g, WinDev, ZIM.
Operating Systems: Active Directory, Banyan VINES, DOS, IBM DOS, IBM MVS / OS390, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2003, Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, SCO UNIX, UNIX (Sun Solaris), Linux, Mac OS X 10.6.7.
Computer, Server: Intel Servers (CISC): Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, Proliant DL385 G7 RISC Servers: Fujitsu, Hitachi, Sun Microsystems,
Intel Laptops and desktop and Mac Book Pro.
Hardware / Software: Switches, printers, routers, wireless, firewall, SMTP / POP, UPS, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, SharePoint 2007 / 2010, EPM 2010, NetBackup, Enterprise Vault ZL Technology, SAP / R3, PeopleSoft.
Technologies: Ethernet, Integration applications enterprise, Linux, Microsoft Office,
Microsoft Terminal Services, FTP Protocols, RDP, ICA, ADFS, LDAP, TCP / IP, VoIP, Virtualization (VMware 3.5, vSphere 4.0 & 5.0, VirtualBox, Parallels), VDI, TCO Calculation.
