Andrea Bisiach
Verified Expert in Engineering
Technical Project Manager and Developer
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Toptal member since December 7, 2021
Andrea is a passionate technologist with over 30 years of experience focused on delivering top customer satisfaction. He enjoys building creative solutions, driving innovation, and solving complex problems while keeping business needs on the radar. Andrea likes challenges and always follows through with every task, driven by a high work ethic. Strongly analytically skilled with extensive horizontal knowledge, he quickly digs into details. Andrea is proactive, speaks up, always asks, and learns.
Portfolio
Experience
- System Integration - 20 years
- Performance - 20 years
- Complex Problem Solving - 20 years
- IT Consulting - 20 years
- Architecture - 15 years
- Technical Project Management - 11 years
- Product Development Manager - 11 years
- Azure - 3 years
Preferred Environment
IBM Domino, IBM WebSphere, Azure, Git, Gradle, System Integration, Complex Problem Solving, Performance, Cross-departmental Collaboration, CI/CD Pipelines, Microsoft Azure
The most amazing...
...thing I've implemented are worldwide distributed workgroup applications based on Lotus Notes.
Work Experience
Senior Consultant | Owner
Bisiach Consulting ApS
- Created an application to automatically register, rename, recertify, and delete users using MS Active Directory as the source and IBM Domino as the target so simply and automate user management.
- Created an MS Outlook VSTO add-on to archive emails from Outlook into an IBM Domino-based car-leasing management system.
- Redesigned and migrated a monolithic, Java and WebSphere-based, B2B portal to component-based and Azure DevOps managed by complex Gradle build scripts and self-developed plug-ins. Coached customer developers on the usage of Git, Gradle, and Eclipse.
- Designed, deployed, configured, and managed multi-tier inside/DMZ/outside web applications based on IBM WebSphere, IBM Domino, IBM HTTP Server, Resin, and IBMi (AS400).
- Deployed, designed, configured, upgraded, administered, and retired several IBM Notes/IBM Domino installations for multiple customers (200-2000 users each) in the financial, pharmaceutical, and transportation segments.
- Analyzed, coordinated, and solved performance and application problems from end-user reports to source-code analyses for customers' mission-critical applications.
- Implemented several forms of the single sign-on, using OpenID Connect (OIDC) and ADFS.
- Designed, implemented, and configured complex SMTP co-existence setups based on Exchange, O365, IBM Domino, and Salesforce.
- Designed and implemented an Azure-based infrastructure for a fintech startup web and mobile applications. Integrated CI/CD GitHub pipelines with Azure App Service, PostgreSQL, Blob services, Key Vaults, Virtual Networks, and VPN.
- Designed, implemented, managed, and administered several IBM Notes-based applications, like Car Leasing management, Unlicensed Medicine sourcing, CRM, CMS, ITL, and more.
Senior Architect
Symfoni Software A/S
- Implemented i-Seven/Symfoni Software's standard products, including CRM, CMS, and ITL, at customer sites, integrating them with existing systems and technologies, using web services and other methods.
- Analyzed, coordinated, and solved applications and systems performance problems and operational failures for mission-critical customer applications.
- Contributed to the product management and design of Symfoni Software A/S as an application and system architect.
- Worked on the contractual and technical aspects of the company takeover, integrating systems, procedures, and best practices.
Product Manager | Architect | Senior Consultant | Co-owner
i-Seven A/S
- Designed, co-developed, product managed, sold, and trained xArc, an OOP application development framework to create upgradeable and extendable applications for the IBM Domino/Notes platform.
- Implemented i-Seven's standard products, including CRM, CMS, and ITL, at customer sites, integrating them with existing systems and technologies, using web services and other methods.
- Analyzed, coordinated, and solved applications and systems performance problems and operational failures for mission-critical customer applications.
- Designed and deployed multi-tiered IBM WebSphere Portal systems, with automatic custom portlet installation and configuration.
Product Development Manager—Tools and Architecture
IT FACTORY A/S
- Acted as an implementation consultant, traveled in Europe and the United States, deploying and customizing solutions based on the standard IT Factory products.
- Served as a product development manager for the research and development department to help define, document, and enforce development standards and architecture for the SDK of the ITF Suite.
- Helped performance optimizing the core architecture and application by performing standardized stress tests and identifying bottlenecks in the code.
Lotus Notes Consultant
Nets A/S
- Designed and implemented a new Lotus Notes infrastructure and applications to replace office vision for 1000+ users.
- Created development standards for application development and deployment. I also implemented integrations between Lotus Notes and other corporate systems.
- Conducted training for developers, superusers, and end-users.
Internal IT
PALL
- Supported 200 end-user installations in areas like networking, operating system, client/server, and application development.
- Created and managed telecommunication integration between AS/400 and PC networks and services.
- Implemented worldwide distributed workgroup applications based on Lotus Notes.
Experience
xArc - Extendible Application Architecture
xArc was used to build several CRM, CMS, ITL, and other standard applications that allow customer customization and branding.
CopyMoveTo
The add-on is designed to be generic so it can integrate with any IBM Domino application, yet create appropriate receiving code in the target.
SFTP Java Command Line Tool with Proxy Support
The utility allows specifying credentials for the host as the user, certificate, and credentials for the outgoing proxy server.
Domino Directory Service (DDS)
Windows users of AD groups and OUs can be automatically registered and maintained in the Domino directory applying custom mappings and policies.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
The University of Milan - Milan, Italy
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Outlook Redemption, ADSI
Tools
IBM Notes, Git, Gradle, VMware, Bitbucket, IntelliJ IDEA, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Eclipse IDE, WebSphere Portal Server, Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO), GitHub
Languages
LotusScript, Java, XML, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), YAML
Platforms
IBM Domino, IBM WebSphere, Azure, Citrix, AIX, Salesforce, Docker, Azure PaaS, Azure IaaS
Paradigms
Abstract Factory, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Development (CD), DevOps, Azure DevOps
Storage
IBM Db2, JSON, IBM Mainframe, Azure Active Directory
Other
System Integration, Complex Problem Solving, Performance, Cross-departmental Collaboration, IT Consulting, OOP Designs, Computer Science, CI/CD Pipelines, Architecture, SMTP, Freshdesk, Coaching, Vendors & Suppliers, Software Development, Troubleshooting, LDAP, IT Infrastructure, Product Development Manager, Technical Project Management, Microsoft Azure, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Web Services, AS400, Outlook Add-ons, PDF, Frameworks, Upgrades, Proxy Servers, Product Management, Product Design, ServiceNow, IT Product Management, OS/2, Networking, ISO 9001, Training, Due Diligence, Active Directory Programming, SSH, SFTP, SSL Certificates, Technical Product Management, Office 365
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