Thierry Paradan's Resume (Last updated October 16th 2008)

A software leadership or consulting position in the areas of:

 RUP-based process adoption and mentoring
 Compliance Management
 Requirements development
 Project management
 Training and facilitation

I am a seasoned software professional with extensive experience in many roles the of the software life-cycle including:

• Consultant and mentor in software methods, software design, and IT compliance
  

• Software development project manager,
  

• Developer and technical lead in C, C++ and Java environments
  

In the past few years I have drawn on my experience in the software domain to help IBM customers tailor and refine, customize, and adopt the Rational Unified Process (RUP) with special emphasis on:

• Minimality and Agility
  

• Effective development of Software Architecture
  

• Organizational compliance with standards and regulations including ISO and CMMI.
  

With these skills, I can help an organization tune its software processes to:

• Drive practice adoption and process improvement,
  

• Manage software development projects effectively
  

• Achieve effective compliance management and governance
  

I complement these benefits by providing development consulting, guidance, and support in the areas of OOA, OOD, data modeling, and persistence.

Setting up and implementing RUP adoption and process improvement program for a large health insurance organization
 Distilling the essence of RUP into innovative, agile, easy to use practices and techniques
 Promoting process effectiveness through the development of RSA based artifact templates
 Developing and delivering RUP-based training curriculum for the Analysis and Design discipline
 Providing RUP guidance to Web/J2EE project teams in the areas of requirements development, software architecture, and design development
 Integrating RUP and enterprise architecture governance
 Managing and supporting the development of key design work products including software architecture (SAD) and enterprise architecture patterns and practices

2004 -Present Software method architect and RUP content developer with emphasis on standard. and regulation compliance.
 Leading the compliance domain within RUP and author of the first compliance management fundamentals method product and the first RUP product to support CMMI for development V1.2 standard
 Key contributor to the migration to Rational Method Composer and refactoring of the entire RUP method framework.
 Authored new method content in the area of Data Modeling, Method Engineering, and CMMI v1.1
 Made strong contribution to the refinement of the Rational Method Composer method authoring tool.
2002-2004 Focal point for ISO compliant development processes and methodology, I18N standards, and coding standards
 Led ISO certification process for two separate teams in China and California culminating in the ISO 9001-2000 certification of both sites.
 Created effective, compliant method content and procedures, and easy to follow instructions for the development team on how to follow the process, globalize code, and configure development environment
 Trained the entire project team at the Burlingame site in following ISO9001:2000 and FDA compliant processes for the development of enterprise software.
 Defined I18N strategy and delivered logging component maximizing ease-of-use, and pluggable to any state-of-the-art logging framework (JSR 47, JRAS)
 Developed runtime components for JMX based dynamic deployment and data-object mapping service.

Provided software consulting and training services to over 10 clients (including major engagements of a year or more with IBM-SVL, Siemens/ROLM, UCSC-extension, Kadiri, and Nortel). Some engagements resulted in longer term commitment as full time employee in the roles of software architect, technical lead, and project manager.

Major development accomplishments (mainly in C++ and Java on Wintel platforms):
 High performance object to relational persistence layer
 Core reusable component libraries for quality improvement and cross OS portability
 Client/server network management system with high performance client caching.
 Java/J2EE Architectures for Web-based systems.
 High reliability logging, monitoring and exception management server

Services Delivered:
 Mentored teams in object-oriented analysis and design with RUP practices and Rational/Rose
 Defined and implemented customized OO software development process and coding standards
 Developed and delivered customized training curriculum for OOAD, OOP using UML , OMT and RUP
 Managed a number of projects and teams ranging from 5 to 20 members
 Led architecture development and design, and developed key components

ISO 9001, CMMI, FDA 21CFR Part 11, RUP, SPEM 2.0, Requisite Pro, ClearCase, RMC, Rational Method Composer, Rational Rose, ClearQuest, I18N, RSA, RSX, Java, C++, TopLink, RDBMS, OOAD, OOP, OOD, training, mentoring, consulting, manager, Architect, technical lead

 IBM Bravo Awards - Outstanding Contribution - 2005
 IBM Bravo Awards - Outstanding Contribution - 2004

Recent Publication - Managing compliance with RUP: A starter process

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