Amir Javanshir
Architecte SI / Market Developer, Oracle
I'm part of the worldwide ISV Engineering team at Oracle (150 engineers). The team comes from the Sun Microsystems acquisition, and we are specialized on the technologies issued at Sun: Servers, storage, Solaris etc.
We work with software vendors (ISVs) with whom we create and develop a technological partnership, in order to maintain a healthy ecosystem around Oracle/Sun platforms.
Our partners take advantage, among other things, of our technical expertise, early transfer of information and access to labs.
We do not offer consulting services, but a long term technological partnership.
We conduct the following projects with our partners:
* Port applications on Oracle/Sun platforms: Solaris SPARC & Solaris x86/x64
* Access to hardware in our labs and data centers: Servers, Storage solutions
* Tuning, benchmark and sizing of our partner's applications on our platforms.
* Assistance and expertise for technological adoption
* Assistance and expertise for creating reference architecture
* Problem resolution: Bug/performance issue detection and reporting to Oracle's R&D
We are always looking to work with innovative software vendors, so please don't hesitate to contact me to discuss how we can best support you.
Part of a global team in charge of promoting and supporting the adoption of Oracle/Sun technologies (Solaris, Servers, Storage solutions, MySQL, Java, etc.) by independent software vendors (ISVs)
My position is a blend of technical expertise, architectural skills and business development.
Among my responsibilities, I can state:
* Managing partnership with software vendors, from startups to top players
* Driving engineering relationship between our partners' and Oracle's R&D teams: Software porting, certification, optimization
* Setting up proofs of concept with software vendors
* Architectural recommendations given specific requirements: High availability, performance, security,...
* Knowledge capitalization and sharing: Publication of technical posts or official documents, webinar presentations, workshops for ISVs
2003 - 2007* December 2004 – May 2007: Project manager
- Integration of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application, an enterprise budgeting solution based on Microsoft technologies, for France Loisirs (French book club). 800 man/day project with team management (Up to 15 people, internal employees or contractors, involved) Project delivered in time and budget.
- Creation of a marketing tool (J2EE, Struts, Oracle) used to count and extract addresses from a multi-Terabyte client database. 200 man/day project, and management of a team of three engineers. Project delivered in time and budget.
* November 2003 – December 2004: Application Architect
- Applications and business process cartography
- Active member of the internal project management methodology comity
- Oracle et SQL Server expertise, and definition of development standards.
- Oracle programs and interface Optimization
- Interface between business users and the IT department.
1999 - 2003* Nov. 2001 – Nov. 2003: Affected to BMG (Bertelsmann Music Group)
- Responsible for the Web front end of a commercial and logistic system. In charge of customer contacts, task estimations, maintenance of the production environment, system evolution and tuning etc.
- Development of several order entry, order tracking and maintenance (product, price etc.) Web modules for BMG International and Arvato Services. These modules are all based on the J2EE and Struts architecture.
* Mar. 2001 – Nov. 2001: Affected to BMG North (New York, USA)
- Design and development of a prototype for a new 3-tier application based on the central artist’s database for BMG International using Java (Swing) and Weblogic technologies.
* Nov. 1999 – Mar. 2001: Affected to BMG France/Europe
- Development, maintenance, and user assistance of a commercial and logistic system for BMG France.
- Part of the migration project leading to the merge of the German and French distribution centers into a central European distribution center.
1998 - 1999Development of a Client/Server system, used by the commercial courts’ clerks in France. Based on Oracle V8 and PowerBuilder 6.5.