Bryan Miller Bio

Bryan Miller
Director, Enterprise Architecture

Professional Overview

Bryan Miller has over 26 years of information technology and engineering experience delivering mission critical enterprise, business and military systems. Bryan has a broad and deep understanding of technology and demonstrated knowledge in a number or areas including:

Experience in industry analysis, strategy development, alignment of IT goals with business strategy, developing architecture vision, principles, architecture roadmap, reference architectures, identifying, prioritizing opportunities and solutions, managing strategic initiatives, developing governance models and establishing centers of excellence in support of business and IT initiatives.

Practical leadership and guidance in transforming an enterprise to a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) approach built upon key tenets such as business event modeling, business process service definition, standard data modeling and mastering, and standardized technology stacks for implementation.

Deep knowledge and practical experience delivering cloud technologies, managing and building data center server, network, storage, and networking, providing Infrastructure architecture and engineering guidance, building large scale internet data collection systems and data warehouses, and PaaS and SaaS solutions for multiple companies.

Delivering system development life cycle projects in all areas: architecture, requirements, hardware design, software engineering, and all stages of testing and operation support.

Wide experience with technology solutions and implementations with many different vendor technologies in both and development and operational support role.

In addition to years of architecture and technical management experience, he is knowledgeable in Oracle’s Architecture Development Process (OADP) and Oracle Enterprise Architecture Framework (OEAF).

Industry Experience
Bryan has worked with companies in a variety of industries including Finance, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Services, Entertainment, Web, and Federal Government. His experience includes:

For a Financial Services company he performed the roles of lead architect and and lead infrastructure engineer on a enterprise wide transformational project to move towards SOA and migrate silo applications to the Oracle suite of products, including data warehousing on Oracle RAC, Oracle Fusion Middleware (SOA+BPM), E-Business suite, Hyperion and OBIEE. He was responsible for engineering an infrastructure solution to mimic Exadata using HP Blade systems, 10G Ethernet and 8G Fiber channel.

In the Pharmaceutical industry and GMP process he was the lead architect for the design and deployment of a hosted Learning Management System (LMS) using Sun, Cisco, F5 hardware and hosted on a 10g Oracle DB with Oracle Application Server 10g. He designed the logical network and physical rack, documented the installation of all of the software and supported the operation of the LMS.

For the Paper and Chemical Industry he performed the role of CTO at a startup initially specialization in paper optical property optimization. He built a hosted simulation and real-time process control database solution which collected data from the plant and used that data against a simulation engine. He was responsible for building out the hosted infrastructure using Dell and Cisco hardware and Microsoft and OSI Soft software.

For an Internet audience measurement company he was the VP of systems. In less than 9 weeks after starting he and his team delivered a hosted solution for capturing web surfing behavior from a panel of users. By the end of the first year, the team had built a Sybase IQ data warehouse holding 2TB of data collected from 5 different geographically diverse data centers and data from over 1 million web users.

For a complex web site management and hosting services company he performed the roles of Director of Unix technical operations and Director of Professional Services. His team migrated from used clone Sun hardware running on SunOS to new Sun hardware running Solaris in a little over three months. He helped create the professional services group as both a sales tool and as a means to manage the implementations of our customers who needed a wide array of support as they moved to the Web.

For military flight and marine control systems, he performed roles such as lead systems engineer, lead technical project manager and software manager. He was responsible for the testing program that lead to first flight test of the V-22

Education
Bryan has earned a Masters of Electrical Engineering magna cum laude from Syracuse University. He also has a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University.

Functional Specialties
Bryan has a deep technical understanding on a wide array of hardware and software technologies with a strong focus on Java, Open Systems and Standards, Unix (and GNU), Microsoft .NET and Windows/Server , Cloud (Internet) and data center infrastructure.

Architecture: Service Oriented Architecture, Service Bus, Event based messaging, Business Process Management, Content Management, Information Architecture and Data Warehousing, BI and Reporting, Technology and Data Center Architecture, High-Availability, Clustering, Disaster Recovery

Hardware: Sun, HP, Dell, EMC, NetApp, Cisco, F5, IBM

Networking: Ethernet, Fiber channel, Infiniband, FDDI, SAFENET, WAN, Global and Local load balancing, SAN

Development: Java/JEE, Eclipse, JDeveloper, Netbeans, Weblogic, OAS, JBOSS, Spring, .NET, C/C++

Software: Oracle Fusion Middleware (SOA,BPM, CEP, Coherence, OSB), Oracle Database (RAC), E-Business Suite, OBIEE, Hyperion, Essbase, WebMethods, Windows Server, Sharepoint, PI, Tivoli, Openview, Solaris, Linux (RedHat, SUSE, Oracle Unbreakable).

As a member of Oracle Enterprise Architecture practice he has access to extensive Oracle assets, methodologies, knowledge and people that can be leveraged, including:

Oracle Technology and Industry Reference Architectures

A wide variety of Functional and Technical Subject Matter Experts

A complete set of proven hardware and software solutions engineered to work together

Bryan Miller bio