CARLOS E. SANCHEZ
carlosucv@aol.com
2645 Greenstone Boulevard, 601
Auburn Hills, Michigan 48326
Residence: 248-761-0445
Cellular: 248-761-0460
CAREER SUMMARY
An SOA Enterprise Architect with extensive and diverse experience in Information Technology and
operational infrastructure. Demonstrated ability to deliver a strategic technology plan for next generation
network, security, and software using business vision.
 Implement a business vision of the network as a Service Oriented Architecture ( SOA ) where the
business drives the services, and the services drive the technology.
 Aligns Information Technology ( IT ) future direction with company strategies and objectives.
 Create business agility for company to respond quickly and efficiently to market change.
 Developed security and risk assessment analysis to ensure protection of IT infrastructure from
unauthorized access and protection of data.
 Experience in SOA, XML and Web services (XML Schema, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI), and Grid.
Reputation as a problem solver with excellent communication and leadership abilities.
Consistent in beliefs and technology recommended solving business objectives.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY CONVERGENCE, Auburn Hills, MI
May 2006 – Present
SOA Enterprise Architect
Ability to create reference architectures for SOA components.
Defined SOA reference architecture and roadmap to support an SOA implementation.
Assessed the current state of the architecture.
Implemented SOA reference architecture aligned with business strategy and drives align with enterprise’s
SOA vision.
Developed architectural design and technology choices across software, database and hardware
implementation.
Research, design, document, build, and pilot prioritized topics for standards. Propose new enterprise
standards based on business need, IT need and technology advances.
Understand business needs; propose options, set technology direction, influence design, and
implementation of standards. Ability to create use cases, best practices, integration patterns.
Experience with SOA stack, SOA governance, SAP, Services registry and repository.
Designed and drove implementation of application architecture, including the application domains
and the integration layer, to drive scalability, and simplify the existing architecture utilizing the
appropriate computing infrastructure.
Simplify existing Applications and integration architecture and build for scalability and
supportability utilizing SOA as a framework.
A lead technologist on multiple successful SOA implementations. Demonstrated experience in
concurrently directing and managing large to medium projects in various industries.
 Providing project initiation, planning, business case analysis, designs, process & quality consulting
and requirements gathering functions.
 Support team members, and vendors from the project stakeholder and business development
perspectives.
Knowledge and experience applying enterprise architecture models ( Zachman Framework, The Open
Group Architecture Framework). Experience with Services identification methodology, and experience
with Services development life cycle (SDLC). Adopting SOA best practices such that Total Cost of
Ownership is minimized while efficiency and effectiveness are maximized.
Experience with software engineering techniques (UML, use cases, service modeling, object
modeling, component modeling, business process modeling, data modeling, enterprise information
modeling).
Carlos Sanchez
GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Detroit, MI
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Dec. 1997- March 2006
Senior Convergence Architect
2003-2006
Responsible for global use of IT technology in all GM facilities including infrastructure effectiveness
and use and evaluation of current Grid technology.
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Developed SOA analysis, designed and implemented as Next Generation Enterprise Architecture.
o Designed and implemented n-tiered Application Architectures.
o Designed services to have the potential of exhibiting the maximum number of serviceoriented principles possible.
o Extensive knowledge in SOA concepts, analysis, design, best practices, and procedures to
planed and accomplish goals.
Created key objectives of an Enterprise Architecture Integration (EAI) utilizing the relevant parts
of entire business practice, including the end-to-end processes and external processes / actor /
partners, and non-functional requirements.
Defined and articulated the Enterprise Architecture required supporting key client business
initiatives and the expected business value.
Assessed, analyzed, built and deployed enterprise wide technology infrastructure solutions that
met client business initiatives and requirements on-time and under budget.
Designed customer SOA solutions using XML and relational databases and infrastructure
specifications to maximize overall system performance and availability.
Designed and developed business and technical architecture and transition model
Communicated and sold the architectural vision to C-level executives that resulted corporate
wide adoption and implementation of SOA.
o Directed the implementation from concept to full scale deployment.
Championed implementation and “proof of concept” for compared Grid Computing vs.
Virtualization which reduced server maintenance and capital expenses.
Performed risk analysis and identified and countered several security threats including
interruption, interception, modification and masquerade.
Network Multimedia Operations
1999-2003
Responsibility for implementation of a consistent, reliable, accessible and centrally managed
networking service to meet today's data, voice and video needs.
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Delivered a global multimedia infrastructure, with quality of service ( QoS ) to implement the
strategic plans for worldwide video distribution in the common IP world that reduced
communication costs $500M / year.
Designed and engineered templates for Virtual Reality rooms using Onyx2 SGI computers and
StereoGraphics CrystalEyes glasses that allowed 3D viewing of vehicles and real time changes.
Teamed with cross - functional business divisions to bring maximum benefit from the new
telecommunications technology ( Voice over IP, Video over IP ).
Developed and obtained global approval for target WAN (wide area network) multimedia
architecture to improve worldwide voice and video communication abilities.
Spearheaded introduction and implementation of global Video over IP systems which improved
video quality and reduced costs.
Network Architecture and Standards
1997-1998
Marketing Test Research and Request for Proposal for different network projects and experience in
vendor evaluation processes.
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Designed and developed GM University as a virtual worldwide university that trained and delivered
technology worldwide and saved $28M / year.
Improved technology and implemented an IP solution for Satellite transmission that saved $51M.
Educate stakeholders (architects, application development managers, developers) on the GM's
architecture standards.
Manage the potential standards and work with the businesses and application development
management to prioritize efforts and developed the standards worldwide in GM Facilities.
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 Work closely with Design, Engineering, Assembly Plant, Development, Network Infrastructure,
and Service Delivery teams to understand their needs and ensure the best enterprise
standards are implemented to help the business.
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Work with vendors (Microsoft, HP, BEA, EDS) and development teams to pilot and prove out
the standards. Drive the identification, development and implementation of key new standards.
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Research, design, document, build, and pilot prioritized topics for standards.
BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATION, Atlanta, GA
April.1996-Oct.1997
Next Generation Network: Overture Project
Responsible for distribution client / server application software to populate the client GUI ( first tier )
with data from the legacy system using Encina DCE to create the application server ( second tier ) that
interface with the resource manager ( third tier ).
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Developed business requirements and design documentation for Overture Project that
maximized efficiency, reduced costs and met state regulatory requirements.
Designed and developed the Analysis Object Model of server software utilizing UML, Rational
Rose, and Paradigm Plus.
CSX TRANSPORTATION, Jacksonville, FL
Jan.1996-April1996
OS / 2 and UNIX Network Design Consultant
Responsibility for the Locomotive Management System ( LMS ).
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Reviewed the application requirements and performed the object - oriented analysis to get the
important components of the locomotive fuel system level analysis.
Designed solutions based on the analysis step, refinement of class hierarchy and performed Use
Cases to support the collection and transmission of data.
Defined configuration control and tracking system processes to reduce out of service locomotives
and increase on - time deliveries.
IBM, Austin, TX
July1993- Jan.1996
Network Design and Test
Responsible for the Distributed Computing Environment / Distributed File System Development.
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Team member of development group and performed tests of the application with AIX DCE DFS
servers ( AIX, LAN server, TCP / IP ) to execute administrative and maintenance task in an OS / 2
DCE DFS clients ( Client / Server environment ).
EDUCATION
BS, Industrial Civil Engineering, Catholic University
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Certifications:
IT Architectures and Infrastructures, Information Technology Management, Application Development,
Infrastructure Integration, Project Management, Telecommunications, Networks and System Security,
Business Implications of Information Technology, VLAN Fundamentals.
Conferences:
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Invited to speak at Video over IP Conference in Monterey, California.
National Association of Broadcasting ( NAB ) Conference: Video over IP, Voice over IP.
Networld + Interop Conference: Business and Technology Convergence, SOA.
Next Generation Network Conference.
Knowledgeable and experienced in the following:
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TCP / IP, UDP / IP, LAN, CAN, WAN, UNIX, OS / 2, Windows Server 2003, Java, C#, C++, H.320 ( ISDN ),
H.323 ( IP ), H.264, SIP, VPN, Multiprotocol Label Switching ( MPLS ), ERP, CRM, SCM, BI, J2EE, .NET
Platform, Visual Studio 2005, ASP.NET, SOA, Web services, XML, SOAP, HTTP, WSDL, UDDI, WSBPEL, WiFi, and WiMAX.