Bruce Fraser

Application Architecture for green field development: Loyalty Accounting System and offer management system; Customer and Application Master; EOD settlement management system; Case management system for tracking customer cases

• Onboarding and Integration of low-code application platform (Decisions) into FLX application landscape
• Design and Implementation of Event-Based Architecture on SNS and SQS
• Architectural Governance: Participation in ARB and setting architectural direction
• Mentored junior developers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and professional growth.

• Architectural Project Governance: Administer & facilitate Architectural Council (QTS ARB) and previews of same
• Develop new governance processes as required: examples: cloud adoption, data quality controls
• Evaluated emerging technologies for potential adoption into the organization''s technology stack.
• Architectural leadership for early-stage initiatives
• Work with business stakeholders with scope definition, requirement refinement, towards solution design or high-level architectures.
• High-level enterprise architecture work: Technology strategies, Service & API Strategy, Data Architecture
• Aligned IT strategy with business objectives through proactive engagement with organizational leaders and understanding core needs.

• Architectural leadership for early-stage initiatives, including RFP/RFIs in areas such as securities lending, trading systems, CRM, market and credit risk management systems, data warehouses, application integrations, reporting systems and agile initiatives
• Work with business stakeholders with scope definition, high level architecture and roadmaps for application portfolios
• Provides leadership to application development teams in the TMS space
• Advocate for new technology where appropriate, including micro-services and event-based architectures
• Provide guidance on decision-making, problem-solving, hiring, skill development and constantly building the teams’ bench depth
• Connect teams with other parts of the bank to solve problems and develop new capabilities.
• Architectural Governance: Assess project architectural impact and complexity
• Represent I&TS at the RBC Architectural Review Board and Architecture Leadership Council, and most recently at I&TS design board
• Develop a broad understanding of entire I&TS IT application portfolio, keep abreast of new technologies, and ensure business value is delivered.

• Trained in Design Thinking, Innovation, and Lean Startup methods
• Developed an innovative new product in the Wealth Management space from scratch to the POC stage
• Worked with executive sponsors to define a new approach for improve retention of client assets across the Wealth Transfer between generations
• Meteor/MongoDB stack on the cloud.

• Lead development team that replaced risk and cash flow management solution with a new Calypso implementation for Treasury Services
• Managed internal team of six developers and worked with groups across Capital Markets and I&TS to integrate Calypso into RBC
• Designed architecture for all data integrations (15+)
• Hands-on leader and developed capabilities for rest of team
• Lead early adoption of DevOps practices for I&TS
• Deep experience managing applications for FIs, particularly in Cap markets
• Experienced with modern approaches to risk management, particularly operational, IT and security risks, and familiar with the application of global regulatory regimes to the securities industry and banking generally
• Expert in Treasury Services space: IR and Liquidity risk management, cash management, fixed Income products including IR derivatives, repos, and floating-rate money market instruments
• Manage projects, oversee and mentor business analysts, as required
• Help analysts elicit, analyze and document business requirements; Work with traders and other business stakeholders to capture real project requirements
• Focus on isolating real business value to inform prioritization and building business cases for change programs.
• People manager: leads development & support team for Calypso, Libor Submission Tool and Libor Loan applications; work with team to streamline development processes and enhance employee skillsets.

• A summer research project, under the supervision of two mentors
• I was responsible for all the work and a lot of the technical contributions
• Our goal was to devise a research plan for improving retrieval and reuse of a knowledge base of IT architectural assets
• We gathered requirements from IBM practitioners and produced a plan for further research
• Our focus was on architectural diagrams, of the kind produced by Visio or PowerPoint.
• Developed infrastructure to extract meta data and graph theoretic structure from example artifacts
• Got really deep into the structure of PowerPoint XML.
• Implemented, in Python, applied machine learning (EM) techniques to architectural document retrieval problem.

• Cycorp is an artificial intelligence research company, and the home of Cyc, a large scale knowledge base and inference engine, with the ambitious goal of representing all human common sense knowledge.
• Member of core technology group
• Lead developer of AI Planning technology for company
• Integrated planning technology with inference engine; developed and implemented novel algorithm changes that improved performance by several orders of magnitude.
• Developer of attack planning component of an innovative AI-based network vulnerability assessment application
• Enhanced algorithms for specific requirements of network analysis domain
• Additional duties included contributions as software architect, release engineer, and system administrator for team.
• Set new research direction for stalled Scenario Generation project
• Led team of five in development of a new abductive inference technology
• The new component is now used by multiple different projects at the company.
• Learned and practiced ontological engineering, enough to develop some useful skills in knowledge representation tasks.
• Took initiative in starting independent research program into program representation and logic-driven code generation
• Initiated research into computable heuristic approaches for computing knowledge relevance.
• Left position to start graduate studies towards PhD.