SUMMARY

Chief Architect / Technology Executive with extensive enterprise software expertise including architectural analysis, solution implementation and team management. Extensive experience with SOA architectures and related technologies. Core contributor to the creation of major Web Services, BPM and Java industry standards. Highly skilled in evaluating emerging technologies and establishing necessary third-party relationships. Visionary researcher and enthusiastic leader.
Doctoral degree in physics. Bilingual: English/Italian. U.S. citizen.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Enterprise skills: SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), BPM (Business Process Management), EAI (Enterprise Application Integration), object-oriented architectures, databases/SQL/XQuery, document management systems

Core technologies: Java/J2EE, XML, Web services (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, WS-*), BPM (BPMN, BPEL), ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), SCA (Service Component Architecture), RDF / OWL, REST / ATOM, CMIS

Products: IBM WebSphere Suite, Oracle Fusion 11g Suite, Active Endpoints ActiveVOS, Software AG CentraSite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential 2010 – Present

Expert hands-on adviser with strong background in SOA, Web Services, BPM and Java. Technology focus on IBM WebSphere SOA product line, Oracle Fusion 11g SOA Suite, Software AG CentraSite Registry/Repository, Active Endpoints ActiveVOS BPMS, and open source SOA platforms.

Confidential, Glendale, CA 2006 - 2010
Chief SOA Architect

Advised media and entertainment companies, including Warner Bros. and Disney-ABC, on the application of SOA principles and technologies to major enterprise projects. Interacted with business stakeholders to define the proper SOA architecture for the given business domain, selected SOA technologies and products, mentored development teams on SOA concepts, technologies and products. Provided hands-on proof-of-concept validation for the more complex and emerging technologies. Managed relationship with middleware vendors.

The projects relied on Web services, SCA, ESB and BPMN / BPEL orchestration technologies, and used, among other products, the Oracle Fusion 11g Suite and the IBM WebSphere products line including WebSphere ESB, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Registry Repository, WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Business Fabric, and Tivoli Security.

Also evangelized SOA concepts in media and entertainment professional organizations, including SMPTE and AMWA. (See “Publications” section for SMPTE technical paper presentations).

Confidential 2006

Led the architectural definition, design and implementation of a large SOA project at the Disney Company. The project dealt with exchange of media assets across the entire corporation and leveraged the IBM MediaHub ESB.

Confidential, Monrovia, CA 2002 - 2006
Principal Architect - Web Services

Enterprise architect and product strategist focusing on the application of Java/J2EE, XML and Web services technologies to the development of EAI, SOA, ESB and BPM solutions.

International leader and core contributor to the definition and advancement of XML, Web services and SOA technologies. Member of the W3C WSDL, WS-Addressing, XML Query, WS-Choreography, and Rule Interchange Format Working Groups; of the WS-I Basic Profile Working Group; of the OASIS WS-BPEL Technical Committee; of the OMG BPMN Working Group; and of the JCP JAX-WS Expert Group.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA 1990 - 2002

Confidential 1997-2002

Defined and executed Xerox’s corporate strategies for Java, XML and Web services. Led company-wide efforts into advanced software technologies selection and integration by researching, prototyping, and promoting the adoption of Java/J2EE, XML and Web services, creating from the ground up new competency centers throughout the company.

Confidential1997-2002

As corporate-wide technical liaison with Sun’s JavaSoft organization, monitored and exploited key new Java technologies for the corporation. Fostered the establishment of a well-informed Java/J2EE development community within the company.

Confidential 2000-2002

Championed company’s standardization interests at the World Wide Web Consortium as Xerox’s Advisory Committee Representative. Directly contributed to the advancement of new XML international standards as a member of the XML Schema and XML Protocol Working Groups.

Confidential1990-1996

Directed teams that built and integrated document management systems for the capture, storage, retrieval and printing of large, image-based documents.

Confidential, CA 1989 - 1990
Senior Project Leader

Conducted extensive technical negotiations to select the provider of a third-party full-text search engine to enhance the functionality of the company’s Unix multiprocessors-based database machine. Redesigned and prototyped the chosen product so that it would run in parallel mode on the Teradata system. Evaluated the opportunity of augmenting the front-end capabilities of the database machine by integrating a commercial expert system shell.

Confidential, Torrance, CA 1985 - 1989

Project Manager

Developed an ADA Compiler System heavily used by the US military and the Aerospace Industry around the world. Managed a team of senior developers.

Confidential, Milan, Italy 1980 - 1985

Group Leader

Worked on the design and implementation of the first PC-based, commercial Smalltalk system as part of a joint project conducted by Olivetti and Digitalk. Prototyped new application in that environment including a hypertext-based document creation system (see Publications: Concept Browser).

Developed Olivetti’s COBOL and Basic compilers. Managed a team of 15 engineers assigned to the enhancement and maintenance of the COBOL compiler.

EDUCATION

Doctorate in Physics,Milan, Italy.
Certificate in Artificial Intelligence, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

PUBLICATIONS

U. Corda, "Design of a Stand Alone Database System for the Collection of Personal Records," Doctoral Dissertation (1977).

U. Corda and G. Facchetti, "Concept Browser, a System for Interactive Creation of Dynamic Documentation," Proceedings of the 1986 International Conference on Text Processing and Document Manipulation (Cambridge University Press, April, 1986).

S.L. Coles, U. Corda, D.K. Decker, J.S. Elwell, H. Nguyen, C. Schuler, S.G. Swerdlow, "An Expert System for the Analysis of DNA Sequences," Human Genome I --First Annual International Conference on the Human Genome, San Diego, CA (October 2-4, 1989).

Ugo Corda, "Multimedia Semantics - From MPEG-7 Metadata to Semantic Web Ontologies", Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 2008 Technology Conference (October 2008).

Ugo Corda, "Latest Developments in Content Management Standardization - The Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) Standard Proposal by OASIS", Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 2009 Technology Conference (October 2009).