Robin * Slomkowski Almstadtstraße 35 D-10119 Berlin Germany email: robin202100@starconsul.com phone: +49 (0)177 197 7827 html docx pdf txt odt Profile I am looking for positions in systems or technical-product design and management with a technical leadership role that will provide me with opportunities to effect the direction of organization, allow me to be an active contributor to business growth, and to create leading products and services for clients. I have over 20 years of professional experience in Information Technology with specialties in Internet services, service commercialization, developing software tools, cloud automation, release and quality management, location based services, e-commerce, Internet-media, continuous integration/delivery, technical and business processes automation. Languages: English as native language, German level B2.2 Citizenship: USA, Deutschland Management Skills I am experienced in technical leadership of geographically diverse teams, vendor relations, hiring, mentoring, and negotiations. I have extensive experience in working through schedules that optimize tradeoffs for clients that can be met within the resource limitations given. I also have excellent presentations skills for persuading and communicating to diverse audiences. Education University of Chicago 1993-1995 Training Goethe-Institut (Berlin) German B2.2, 2004 Completed BGS Capacity Planning Training course, 1996 Completed SUN course SysAdmin 285, 1996 Experience Nokia/Here Berlin, GERMANY: Jan 2009 – present Sr. Principal Solutions Architect Principal Solutions Architect Head of Location Service Transition and Application Operations Transition Manager Nokia/Here is a world leading location services company providing mapping and other location based services to major Internet sites (bing.com/yahoo.com), mobile phones (Windows Phone, Nokia: Symbian, S40, Android), automotive industry (BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen, etc…) under the Nokia, Here, and Navteq brands. I am member of the engineering staff. 2020- present Sr. Principal Solution Architect Customer Lifecycle Management, HERE • Migrate Sales Efforts from custom deals to Platform Deals ◦ Consolidated to Single Product Catalog a broad collection of products from 25 years of acquisitions and spin-offs ◦ Migrated from multiple billing vendors to single consolidated billing (with Zuora) • Designed and led Billing Usage Tracking System development ◦ direct development with 4 geographically separated scrum teams, and concluded integration and testing with another 8 scrum teams • Designed and Automated Provisioning System development ◦ direct development with 3 scrum teams, and integrated integration and testing with 6 product and 8 scrum teams. • Developed and delivered use case base training for sales teams for solution design and pricing ◦ Document, Videos, workshops creating competence in Platform selling for Business Solutions Architects • Delivered Marketplace Feature for the Platform ◦ Architecture for agnostic data and services marketplace with audit and authorization management 2017-2019 Principal Architect Open Location Platform, HERE • Delivered customer reporting system ◦ Feature Usage, Spend Analysis • Led customer solution design with automotive customers ◦ Supported customer led development on the HERE platform for in vehicle solutions • Provided software development training • Developed Platform Business Models • Led Software Instrumentation and Measurement ◦ designed software debugging and monitoring features, for internal and external platforms 2014 – 2016 Principal Architect Technical Operations, HERE • Led operational architecture development for sales engagements and compliance efforts ◦ Platform AAAA Solutions ◦ End to end billing designs, financial, legal, and technical analysis ◦ Customer data isolation design for multi-tenant systems, customer requirements feature articulation, technical analysis and documentation. ◦ Tech: Splunk, Java, Oauth2, JWT, Kafka, TLS • Provided detailed responses for customer quotes ◦ Analyzed customer technologies and requirements fit with HERE technologies ◦ Produced SLA templates and Communications materials for Sales efforts ◦ Analyzed HERE operational data for customer commitments for both future and existing products ◦ Negotiated technical details for strategic deals ◦ Worked with customer negotiation teams to find best price feature fit ◦ Explained HERE operational capabilities and technologies for customer value and expense trade-offs. • Documented technical strategies for standardized customer offerings ◦ Implemented Metrics Management ◦ Designed processes and tools for transforming technical data into business information for metrics based management ◦ Designed technical architecture for metrics documentation system ◦ Tech: mysql, php, python, tableau • Developed IT Cost Show-back ◦ Worked to change IT from single bucket cost to split across products in a meaningful way for internal customers and develop internal profit and loss ◦ Developed automation processes to repeatedly break out costs with accountability and meaning. ◦ Tech: Apptio, python • Migrated 37 Services to Public Cloud (AWS) ◦ Planned migration of many divergent services to AWS ◦ Consulted on technical integration and component replacements when moving from out of private DC to AWS ◦ Tech: Linux, Java, AWS APIs • Designed Hosting Structure for companies first connected car solutions ◦ Designed hosting and support structure for long term (10+year) support of automotive services for R&D, business modelling, and operations teams. ◦ Project planning, cost planning, and operational architecture 2012 – 2013 Location Solutions Architect, Nokia • Led solution design for location based application hosting platforms ◦ Deployment Automation Design ◦ Started team (4-6 developers) to develop fully automated software deployment system based on Puppet, Centralized Configuration DB. Standardizing 40+ software teams deployment practices and allowing wide variety of release and maintenance schemes. ◦ Tech: Puppet, python, AWS • China Map Hosting Rollout ◦ Worked with China JV to deploy a data-center and operational and legal capability to deliver maps • Korea Map Hosting Rollout ◦ Cloud provider evaluation, selection, build-out, and production roll-out ◦ Technical integration of deployment, support, and security technologies ◦ Location based content and operational security measures • Self-Serve Virtualization Environment ◦ Proto-Private Cloud, for migrating application from server-hardware to virtualization in a system with 50+ engineers able to simultaneously deploy services within the same hardware system. Defined requirements, technical architecture, led inception of R&D team. ◦ Tech: KVM, Python, Puppet, git • Planned Migration to Public Cloud (AWS) ◦ Evaluation of public cloud, developed strategies, requirements, and infrastructure architectures for 37 services migrations ◦ Planned integration DevOps, AWS, 24/7 oncall support Solution Architect: Feb 2011 - 2012 • Technical designs for APAC international legal compliance around location data • Requirement, solution, and technical documentation for IPV6 build-out for mobile sales • AWS service migration strategy and practices ◦ public, private, and hybrid cloud strategy analysis and presentation • Developed automated deployment platform integrated with corporate IT policies ◦ designed, prototyped, documented ◦ founded 5 person team and transitioned to BAU • Developed private cloud solution ◦ 5 month time to implement dynamic virtualization platform with no extra costs • Designed, documented, and guided implementation of globally load balancing solution pattern for service resilience and performance Head of Social Location Service Transition: Nov 2009 – Jan 2011 • Ramped up 50+ applications to end consumer usability • Averaged 15 releases per week, from 500+ engineer R&D organization • Built up 24/7 T3 Application Operations organization • Rolled out first real-time B2B services for Yahoo! • Provided solution architecture for first real-time B2B services • Managed 12 person team • Implemented ITIL change and incident processes for application portfolio Transition Manager: Jan 2009 – Oct 2009 • Went from 5 to 37 customer facing applications with over 10 million monthly users • Supported integration of acquisition company into corporate standards: data-centers, processes (ITIL), support systems Flock Inc. Redwood City, CA, USA : May 2005 - Nov 2008 Senior Engineer Flock Inc is a software company providing an Internet web-browser optimized for social network users, I was a member of software engineering staff. • coordinated release-management: with marketing, QA, engineering, delivering up to 114 download-builds on 3 platforms, which required website and web-service coordination, including localization of website content. • engineered a developer environment to rapidly get developers working (under 1hr) while integrating 6 source repositories including code controlled by outside sources (mozilla, clucene), that worked in a cross-platform (Linux, MacOS, Windows-Cygwin, Windows-Msys) way. Including support seamless transitions between 3 source control systems (CVS, Subversion, Mercurial). • engineered a build system to manage 240 unique builds. The build-manger was written in house in perl, integrated with tinderbox display system, and integrated with testing systems. Provided event driven integration testing and build distribution. • maintained cross platform c/c++ components and merges from the Mozilla code-base. • developed web-tools for tracking build infrastructure, automating release processes, monitoring business processes, monitoring operational functionality. (php, python, perl, shell-script, javascript) • developed systems for metrics, distribution, and partner tracking, including core product modifications to support partners and detailed user-behavior reporting categories by business objectives. (c, javascript, make, perl, sql, php) • managed operations architecture including nodes at 3 data-centers, 2 office locations including networking, remote-access, security-model, capacity-planning. (Linux, Windows, php, MySQL, SQL-Server, LDAP, OpenVPN, IPSec, Apache, SQUID, Cisco CS load balancers) AOL/TW Streaming Operations San Francisco, CA, USA : Oct 2001 - Sep 2003 Senior Systems Administrator, Tools Team Lead AOL is the world's largest ISP and the largest provider of Internet radio and video products; I was a member of the production operations staff. • managed systems and projects for 2,000 node production cluster (Linux, Solaris, Win2K) • architected secure, 24/7/365 media applications for operations and development teams (J2EE, PHP, Real Server, Shoutcast, Ultravox) • managed and maintained schedules for hardware and software integration (Sun, Compaq, Foundry, Cisco, Extreme, Solaris, Linux) • managed a 6-person development team in 4 locations, in 3 time-zones (Perl, Java, C, Shell Script, TCL, Oracle) • led team to develop a real time business/operational data monitoring, data visualization, alerting, and alarming system. ◦ collected product requirements ◦ evaluated competitive systems ◦ built work plan ◦ developed and managed development ◦ automated testing systems ◦ planned roll-outs ◦ fixed bugs and rolled out updates • technical liaison to business development ◦ provided analysis of digital media rights to technical and marketing teams ◦ analyzed new partner technology and estimated delivery capacity ◦ performed competitive analysis of market share in different media spaces • architected and implemented low cost, high reliability, scalable Linux web cluster (Apache, PHP) • developed and implemented automated server installation and upgrade systems (Linux, Solaris) • developed a network services security and inventory system • provided technical training for business development, product management, and development teams • performed security analysis of new projects: network architecture, code review, cryptography review, privacy concerns, database model • wrote software with Perl (mod_perl, cgi), C, PHP, shell script (bourne, bash, awk, sed), rrd, cryptography (blowfish, md5) • managed systems from Sun, Compaq, Foundry ServerIron, Extreme Networks, EMC, Hitachi; Linux,  Solaris, Oracle, DB2, Apache, J2EE, ATG Dynamo (JSP), Tomcat, PHP, Veritas (cluster, file-system), DNS (Bind), NFS, Shoutcast, Real Media Server, Windows Media Server, Ultravox Eazel Inc. Mountain View, CA, USA : May 2000 – Jun 2001 Release Manager/Build Tools Team Lead Eazel was a software development firm producing Linux desktop software and services; I was a member of the engineering staff. • managed product releases ◦ time estimates ◦ features vs. deadline decisions ◦ integration of code components between development teams (open source client and proprietary services team) ◦ integration of schedules between internal development teams and GNOME community to meet business needs • designed processes for ◦ development milestones ◦ QA testing ◦ release acceptance ◦ operations procedures ◦ content vs. code updates • managed 3-person team to develop build-tools including: ◦ automated builds ◦ automated software testing ◦ automated developer environment synchronization ▪ tracking correct branches ▪ coordination tool and library version ◦ bug tracking systems (based on bugzilla) ◦ build health system (based on tinderbox) • architected production services platform (Weblogic, Solaris, Oracle) for reliability and scalability • analyzed applications for security concerns (data flow, authorization, use of cryptography) • wrote software with Perl (mod_perl, cgi), Java, SQL, J2EE, Apache, Weblogic, Oracle, automake/autoconf, ant, rpm, SOAP, python, Glib, GNOME, GTK, webdav, CVS Linuxcare Inc. San Francisco, CA, USA : Dec 1999 - Apr 2000 Sr. Systems Administrator Linuxcare was a Linux services (support/consulting/education) company; I was a member of the IT staff. • automated software installations for a global data center (Hong Kong, San Jose, NYC, London) • grew and architected network for basic IT services for a company that grew from 75-250 ◦ email (qmail, qpopper, cyrus IMAP, webmail) ◦ information services (DNS, DHCP, LDAP, NIS) • mentored and managed team of 4 systems administrators • managed projects for offices in Canberra (AU), California (US), Toronto (CA), Paduva (IT). • designed and implemented security procedures for network accounts, firewalls, and remote access. • managed production web site, site releases, and CRM applications • wrote software with Perl, shell scripting (bourne, bash, csh, awk, sed) • managed systems from Compaq, HP, Sun, Apple, Cisco; Linux (x86, PPC, Sparc, Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, Turbolinux, Mandrake), Oracle, mySQL, Ingres, Apache, PHP, Perl (mod_perl, cgi), qmail, sendmail, postfix, cyrus, LDAP, NFS, Samba, IPSEC (Free S/WAN, Cisco), qpopper, IMAP, POP, DNS (Bind), Firewalls (Cisco PIX, Checkpoint, Iptables, FW/TK), SQUID Uniteq Application Systems Redwood City, CA, USA : Jun 1998 – Dec 1999 Sr. Systems Administrator/Release Engineer Uniteq was a business automation software company, I was a member of the engineering staff. • managed corporate IT systems including: email, file-servers, source control, Internet access, development workstations, database servers. • worked at customer sites installing and integrating Uniteq software • tuned performance and planned capacity for both in-house and customer systems • ported in-house C software to Windows NT 4.0 and various UNIX variants • architected deployment architecture for the Uniteq application ◦ wrote automated installers and configuration tools • trained staff and clients on our products and UNIX administration • wrote software with Perl, C (gcc, MS Visual C++ - ported application to UNIX variants and Windows NT), SQL, shell script (bourne, csh, awk, sed) • managed systems from Sun, HP, IBM, Tandem, Cisco, Symbol; Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, OS 400, Windows NT, NFS, DNS, NIS, Firewalls (FW/TK), SQUID, CVS, Clearcase, Rational tools, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Informix First Options of Chicago Chicago, IL, USA : Sep 1996 – Jun 1998 Systems Administrator First Options is a financial services company, currently owned by Goldman Sachs; I was a member of the production operations staff. • managed a cluster of 100 systems for providing various real-time equities trading services for professional trading firms: ◦ stock & options order execution on multiple exchanges ◦ wireless order entry systems ◦ basket executions systems ◦ risk management system • integrated systems to communicate with multiple clearing systems, NASDAQ, NYSE, and others • managed and verified backups of trade and system data • lead server consolidation project ◦ capacity planning to ensure performance and application responsiveness ◦ cost analysis of consolidation for capital and service budgets ◦ analysis of reliability and systems management risks • maintained contracts with vendors • automated systems management tasks (creating the first company Intranet). • wrote software with Perl, shell script (bourne, csh, awk, sed) • managed systems from Sun, Centronics, Livingston, Cisco, EMC, OpenConnect; SunOS, Solaris, TCP/IP, Token Ring, X25, SNA, IPX, IBM S/390, OS 400, Legato, NIS, NFS, DNS, SMTP Sendmail, SOCKS Proxy, Apache, Lotus Notes, BGS Best 1, Sybase, MVS, CVS University of Chicago Academic Computing Services Chicago, IL, USA : Jun 1995 – Sep 1996 Resource Lab Coordinator/Sr. Support Technician The University of Chicago is a private research University. Its resource lab provided computing facilities for academic staff's special projects; I was a member of the non-academic staff. • managed networks services including: backups, printers, file-servers for the campus community • set up and configured applications and networks for special research projects • supported Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX systems for members of the University academic community • managed the Macintosh servers and lab machines for the University's public computer labs • provided Internet connectivity support to member of the University. • managed systems from Apple, IBM, DELL, Sun, SGI; MacOS, Windows, SunOS, Solaris, Linux, IRIX, Retrospect Remote, SAS, SPSS, Photoshop, Quark Express, Pagemaker, FTP, AppleShare, NFS, TCP/IP (for all systems), modem connectivity (SLIP, PPP) • provided support on Internet connectivity, provided training in basic use of the Internet (email, web browsing, gopher, WAIS) Other Experience Linux Trainer 2001: developed course materials and led classes for Linux Certified Inc. Support Technician 1995: provided desktop support for MacOS, Windows NT, UNIX at The University of Chicago Teaching Assistant 1994: taught first year college calculus at The University of Chicago Laboratory Technician 1991-1994: molecular biology research, protein preparations, x-ray crystallography at The University of Oregon