Raymond Gao

ABOUT US: With 70,000 professionals serving clients from hundreds of locations worldwide, CGI is a leading IT and business process services provider focused on being a partner, employer and investment of choice. À PROPOS DE CGI – CGI se classe parmi les plus importants fournisseurs de services en TI et en gestion des processus d'affaires et s’engage à être un partenaire, un employeur et un investissement de choix.

Teaching Management Information System courses to students at various level. (Please see my presentations on SlideShare). http://www.slideshare.net/rgao2009/

Work for SugarCRM PS organization

- Enterprise Architect, i.e. Business Transformation / Enterprise IT strategy, SaaS , portal and BPM., ... - Making joint strategic decisions with clients' chief architects, VPs of Engineering, and helping them defining long-term and global strategies. For example, Supply Chain Management, Book of Standards, et al. - Project scope definition; Phase / Cost / Effort estimation; Vendor & Technology selection. - Participated in M&A activities. - Verticals: Auto, Financial Services, Telecom, ...

Doing a lot of cool stuff. Having a great time working for one of the best European technology providers in the Cloud Computing and Big Data arenas.

- Start a IT technology solutions company, specializing in cloud computing and social network. - Authored the popular Salesforce RubyToolkit and the DBzilla Demo, which was used by Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, and Byron Sebastian, CEO of Heroku, for their keynote speech at the Dreamforce 2010 conference in San Francisco. The demonstration was given in front of over 20,000+ people, as a proof-ofconcept show for Salesforce / Heroku Integration and validation of C2C Integration - Promoted Cloud Computing

1. Leading multiple programs from inception to finish with budget size from $50k+ to $3 million, starting from gathering projects requirements, developing both software and hardware architecture, estimating cost/resource and approximating project timeline, implementation, testing, and hand-over; 2. Working with diverse platforms and programming languages, for example, Ruby-On-Rails, C# (Dot Net), J2EE, BPM extension, SOA products; 3. Created WS Investigator Tool, for ALUI portal health check

0) Managed program roadmaps, milestones, and integration with the overall Nokia IT (portal) strategy 1) Responsible for enterprise level applications – analyzing, designing, and maintaining system architecture for J2EE, .NET, CRM, CMS platforms 2) Developed system-level architecture (both hardware & software platforms) and project budgets 3) Guided software developers and provided them best practices, e.g. O-R persistence, N-tier, & clustering, … 4) Streamlined processes to optimize best results

- Responsible for architecture led sales initiatives in multiple areas and resulted in winning major engagements for Sun Microsystems, Inc. with clients including Bank of America, Bell Atlantic/Verizon, Bellsouth, Cincinnati Bell, Defense Intelligence Agency (DiA), U.S. General Services Agency (GSA), Brazilian Federal Bank – CAXIA, U of H, etc. - Successfully completed multiple multi-million dollars projects. - Published numerous articles and spoke at conferences.

EDS, E-Solutions (EBPP) Plano, TX - Led the EDS Electronic Bill Payment and Presentment (EBPP) service offerings, e.g. for clients like Freddie Mac, MCI/WorldCom, banks, etc. - Technology transfer to EDS European teams and helped built-up competencies for EDS Denmark team, I-Billing platform for the Scandinavia region. - Architected and built J2EE compliant applications, clustered App-server on Oracle database.

- Implemented E-Vista! Java client interface, which ran on Apache web server and server-side Java. - Built a custom software-delivery tool to automatically distribute Metaphase (a client-server PDM product) to 600+ NT workstations using push technology / Visual C++ and Win 32 APIs. - All projects conform to DoD (Department of Defense) system life-Cycle development procedure.

- Wrote CA-UNICENTER product for Tandem NSK (now called HP NonStop) platform - Built automated full life cycle tests tools, e.g. stress tests, and regression tests, etc. - Wrote authoritative documents on CA-UNICENTER for TANDEM NSK platform. - Ported CA-UNICENTER between HP-UNIX, Sun SOLARIS, IBM AIX, and SGI. - Explored Java language for upcoming CA products.