Fernando Somoza

Background

About Fernando Somoza

Me, Myself and I Director / Design & Development / Individual Contributor / Team Player / Leadership & Management Skills / Database Performance Tuner Specialties • Technology + Leadership + Passion + Drive • Diversified Industry Experience – Banking & Finance, Prepaid, B2B, EDI • Strategic, Critical, and Analytical Thinking • Complete Transformation – Re-architect/Replace – Implementations and Conversion • Firefighting Leadership • Build teams ground-up, Mentoring • Offshore & onsite management • Collaboration – Business, technology, process, operations • Drive / Manage war rooms • Define / Recommend strategies for senior leadership • Manage / Drive Initiatives with budgets over 40MM Data/Architecture • Architecture Information Models – Conceptual, Business, Logical, Physical • Diversity – online banking, travel, catalog, customer care, fulfillment and warehousing • Mass Data Management – Mass data load migrations / Data conversions – mass data ingestion, transformation and load, reconciliation • Data Science - Reporting and analysis; Advanced Analytics • Multi-tenant Architecture - Saas, IaaS, PaaS • Data Virtualization – DBaas, ZFS Cloning • Volume – Multi-Terabyte databases; Transaction Processing • Data Modeling • Logical Architecture – Multi-tenancy, 24x7 • Physical Architecture – Exadata, AIX, Solaris, Linux • Compliance – Financial, PCI, SAS70, Transactional; Includes data security, frameworks, data encryption, customer, and identity management • Integration Architecture - Implemented Snaplogic as the integration software and created a standard set of API's as well as work on creating custom integrations when applicable. Workflow • Drive end to end data architectural design / solutions across the layers and levels of the enterprise • Implemented Kanban to support Agile driven teams • Database Deployment • Database Release Management (dev, qa, uat, preprod, production) • Identify, evaluate and implement transactional and analytical solutions across technologies • Participate in peer solution design reviews • Partner with enterprise / architecture teams • Data Performance engineering • Business Continuity