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Art van Meeteren
artsycs@yahoo.com
401.234.4586

*Enterprise Architecture*  *Vendor Relations* *Applications*
*Infrastructure Virtualization*  *Cloud Computing*  *Consulting*

OVERVIEW

Experienced information technology leader with a diverse background in virtualization, data center design, disaster recovery, enterprise solutions, document/content management and networking and server and storage infrastructure.  Specialization in evaluation, solution architecture and implementation of new technology.  Skills applied in Healthcare, Manufacturing, Financial, Retail, and Insurance industries.

  • Managed teams of systems architects and developers to develop solutions and standards for various domains and specialty divisions
  • Designed new production data center, disaster recovery data center and new technology center
  • Installed and configured WebSphere Portal and supporting products for Development and Production
  • Performed lead architect role for enterprise-wide migration from Vignette to Interwoven; built CMS foundation to adopt WebSphere e-business strategy
  • Researched and managed relationships with numerous vendors and business owners to pilot, select and perform implementations of web-based applications

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

    Hardware: EMC – Clariion, DMX, IBM- X and P Series, Google Search Appliance, McData SAN

    Products: vSphere, VDI3, View, Lab Manager, SRM, Virtual Center, WebSphere (WAS & Portal), TeamSite, Worksite, SRDF, Documentum, Freenas, SmoothWall, CheckPoint, Qualys, NetScaller,

    Tools: VMWare's Fusion and Workstation, Rational Application Developer (RAD6), MS Project, Visual Studio, Visio, Dreamweaver, NetObjects Fusion, PhotoShop, WebTrends, Eclipse

    Servers: WebSphere, Apache, IIS, iPlanet, Oracle, DB2, SQL, LDAP, Active Directory

    Languages: JAVA, JavaScript, PERL, HTML, XML, ANT, PHP, C/C++ and ASSEMBLY

    Platforms: ESX, AIX, VIO, Solaris, Windows, Linux, OSX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2007 – 2009 Blue Cross Blue Shield of RI; Providence, RI

  Director of Enterprise Architecture (2008 – 2009)

  Infrastructure Architect – Enterprise Architecture (2007 – 2008)

      • Developed design methodology products to facilitate new technology adoption
      • Designed and built out Disaster Recovery Datacenter
      • Evaluated and implemented VMWare products that virtualized server and desktop infrastructure
      • Conducted proofs of concept (POC) to validate new technology for production environment

2004 – 2007 IBM

2000 - 2002 Infrastructure Architect

      • Consulted with companies on WebSphere Portal and content management system implementations
      • Implemented WebSphere Portal to retail stores to support new Point of Sale (POS) system
      • Standardized J2EE code change; built and deployment process and tools
      • Transformed previous assessment into actionable roadmap to correct and enhance management system to support future search and personalization to portal environment
      • Reviewed existing infrastructure and made recommendation to support at 10x growth in customer base
      • Built CMS foundation and developed standards to adopt WebSphere e-business strategy
      • Demonstrated double-byte character support to senior management
      • Performed development and production installations of Interwoven products.
      • Developed technical response to RFP for Enterprise implementation
      • Consulted with client corporate executives to consolidate enterprise governance model, infrastructure and standardize web publishing strategy
      • Investigated client's current web publishing strategy; generated web content management system strategy to remove bottlenecks, standardize single style guide, increase customer satisfaction and reduce process complexity

2004  Digitas; Boston, MA

  Systems Architect

      • Consulted with Fortune 100 companies on implementations of Web Content Management Systems

2002 – 2004 Fidelity Investments; Boston and Marlborough, MA

1998 - 2000 Director of Architecture – Fidelity eBusiness Retail

  Systems Architect – Fidelity eBusiness Institutional

  Principal Software Engineer

      • Managed team of systems architects and developers to design and build systems to manage content, code and application build process for division, providing backend for flagship and other sites
      • Performed lead architect role for upgrade of Vignette v5.0 environment to Vignette v6 platform
      • Implemented intrusive messaging system to notify clients' associates of changing marketing conditions and web content publishing system to improve accuracy and ease of revision
      • Upgraded and customized Documentum installation for FIIS style guide and Y2K compliance

1993 – 1998 Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing; North Kingstown, RI

  Corporate Network Architect Administrator and Manager

  Product Support Engineer/Software Developer

      • Designed and managed international software development environment
      • Designed and led implementation of international roll-out of services; established training program/facility
      • Managed day-to-day operations with international team of developers
      • Developed Windows software to calibrate coordinate measuring machines using laser interferometer systems for reference

EDUCATION

College: BS – Electrical Engineering; University of North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina

        Graduate studies in physics, optics and precision machine design

TRAINING

  • IBM:   Workplace Web Content Management;
  • WebSphere Portal
  • Fundamentals of Application Development in Vignette 5.5
  • Sun:  Architecting and Designing J2EE Applications;
  • jPeople: WebSphere Studio 5.0
  • Boston University:  Project Management
  • Open Market: Architecture and Administration
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