Joseph Rutherford

Vice President of Solutions Architecture at Ultra Commerce
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Flossmoor, Illinois, United States, US

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Rajitha Aluri

I worked with Joe on an e-Commerce project from 2008 to 2009. He is a good team player and has very strong knowledge in Java and J2EE technologies. I would definitely recommend Joe and would love to work with him again.

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Experience

    • Australia
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Vice President of Solutions Architecture
      • Oct 2023 - Present

      UltraCommerce will increase your customer’s experience through a seamless digital commerce ecosystem, orchestrated with microservices. As the Vice President of the Solutions Architect team, I ensure success in designing, building, and migrating applications, software, and services on the UltraCommerce platform (built on AWS) • Participate in deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create large scale Digital Commerce solutions • Educate customers on the value proposition of UltraCommerce Enterprise eCommerce Platform and UltraServe’s services • Build deep relationships with executives and senior technical executived within customers and partners to enable them to be UltraCommerce advocates and implementers. • Partner with the sales team to design/develop solutions for customers that drive Ultra Commerce adoption and revenue • Continue to drive the development of cutting-edge functionality for the UltraCommerce platform • Drive product initiative roadmap and develop product initiative functionality. • Drive technical training of partners, SI, and customers • Drive development of POC and MVP implementations for an overall implementation of the platform • Drive, develop, and code partner integrations via POC and ultimately the overall implementation framework. • Areas of focus within platform development and integrations - PIM, OMS, Inventory Management, ERP integration, Payment Gateway Integration, API, Microservices, DAM, CMS, overall 3rd party integration. Show less

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Senior Technical Consultant
      • Apr 2022 - Oct 2023

      Technical Consultants design and articulate enterprise-grade technology solutions for our clients to help them achieve their goals. We track the enterprise technology trends and best practices, share our thoughts within the organization, and offer expertise externally. We are knowledgeable about enterprise solution standards in the areas of Content Management Systems, Analytics, Digital Commerce, Enterprise Resource Planning, API Development & Middleware. *Assist Business Development team with new project estimates and drive conversations with client IT stakeholders *Translate client’s business goals into achievable technology strategies and high-level requirements, keeping user experience as a top priority * Author and manage technology development and overall engagement details, ensuring all parties are well-equipped to execute roadmaps and the right stakeholders are seeing business value *Serve as the principal liaison between product management, operations, and technology teams *Evaluate potential candidates for technology partnerships Show less

    • Senior Solutions Architect
      • May 2019 - Apr 2022

      UltraCommerce will increase your customer’s experience through a seamless digital commerce ecosystem, orchestrated with microservices. As a key member of the Solutions Architect team, ensure success in designing, building, and migrating applications, software, and services on the UltraCommerce platform (built on AWS) • Participate in deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create large scale Digital Commerce solutions • Educate customers on the value proposition of UltraCommerce Enterprise eCommerce Platform and UltraServe’s services • Build deep relationships with executives and senior technical staff within customers and SI/Developer partners to enable them to be UltraCommerce advocates and implementers. • Partner with the sales team to design/develop solutions for customers that drive Ultra Commerce adoption and revenue • Continue to drive the development of cutting-edge functionality for the UltraCommerce platform • Drive product initiative roadmap and develop product initiative functionality. • Drive technical training of partners, SI, and customers • Drive development of POC and MVP implementations for an overall implementation of the platform • Drive, develop, and code partner integrations via POC and ultimately the overall implementation framework. • Areas of focus within platform development and integrations - PIM, OMS, Inventory Management, ERP integration, Payment Gateway Integration, API, Microservices, DAM, CMS, overall 3rd party integration. Show less

    • United States
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Technical Architect
      • Apr 2018 - May 2019

      Worked closely with our eCommerce Practice Lead to rapidly build and deploy innovative digital solutions with a concentrated effort in the B2B Commerce Cloud platform. As a member of the client project team, was heavily involved in all phases of the project life cycle; from initial strategic roadmap to implementation. With a focus on client satisfaction and service, l demonstrated a keen interest in solving business problems and implementing a well architected, scalable, and extensible solution that delivers on that promise of customer satisfaction. With expertise in Commerce Solutions Architecture I brought relevant experience back to the practice to further its maturity. * Assessed the business needs; the ability to achieve those needs with existing systems and organizational structure * Analysis of current system capabilities and business processes, focusing on pain points and areas for improvement * Recommendations on changes needed to address future needs for a business process and systems perspective * Worked with a wide variety of vendors and change agents to deliver the most appropriate solution to clients * Delivered rich interactive sites * Projects included back-end integration, business process design and organizational change management * Prepare and lead technical interview sessions with customer * Consult on business and functional capabilities, and feasibility/level of effort for customizations * Collaborated with PM to develop estimates for future project phases and assemble project plans * Lead the technical aspects through the design of the solution Review technical, functional, and front-end designs Show less

    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Technical Architect Websphere Commerce
      • Oct 2013 - May 2018

      Senior WebSphere Commerce Developers will utilize creative problem solving skills, a thorough understanding of e-commerce concepts and design considerations needed to build supportable, extensible websites, experience with various integration strategies, and the ability to gather complex business requirements and translate them into comprehensive solutions. Senior WebSphere Commerce Developers will utilize the following skills: XML, Web Services, WebSphere MQ and other integration solutions; Single Sign On / LDAP / Portal integration; Design and develop a catalog load process for customers (ID Resolver/Mass Loader); Payment Processor integration; JSTL and the creation of new tag libraries; DynaCache modeling and configuration; agile development methodology Show less

    • Singapore
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • Enterprise Technical Architect
      • Oct 2005 - Oct 2013

      Senior J2EE/ Websphere Portal/Websphere Commerce Enterprise Developer/Architect - Client list includes banking, manufacturing, education, insurance, government, and retail. Architected solutions to provide custom end-to-end implementations of WebSphere Commerce 6/7 within a B2C environment. Solutions included order management, order processing, web service implementation (json and xml), back-end service integration, custom extension tables, BOD development, payment web-service integration, credit reporting web-service integration, back-end database tuning. Developed custom and extended existing REST web service components within the WebSphere Commerce 7 framework. Developed custom webservice communication layer for back-end processing within WebSphere Commerce 7. Developed custom payment web-service integration. Developed custom credit reporting web-service integration. Developed custom J2EE B-to-B product ordering and fulfillment application to streamline phone ordering process. Developed custom automated Content Delivery Framework(CDF) that was integrated into a large-scale WebSphere Commerce environment. Installed, managed, and developed client company portals utilizing WebSphere Portal v6.0/6.1. Developed real-time bulk package tracking utility that interfaced with UPS and FEDEX back-end systems. Developed custom Vendor Extranet for B2B communication that is being utilized to streamline vendor to distributor communication. Show less

    • United States
    • Advertising Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Contractor
      • Jan 2011 - Oct 2012

      Provided development and architect expertise for projects that included credit reporting, banking and the health care field. Development was based on the Websphere Commerce 6 and Websphere Commerce 7 platforms. Implemented: Commands, custom database tables(extension tables), BOD, EJB platform, REST services,custom development ehnancements, web services, xml, json. Provided development and architect expertise for projects that included credit reporting, banking and the health care field. Development was based on the Websphere Commerce 6 and Websphere Commerce 7 platforms. Implemented: Commands, custom database tables(extension tables), BOD, EJB platform, REST services,custom development ehnancements, web services, xml, json.

    • United States
    • Banking
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • AVP - Applications Development
      • 2004 - 2005

      Technical lead and lead developer for multiple projects that were aimed at improving performance, features, scalability and customer satisfaction. Lead developer for architecting, designing, coding, and testing of the implementation of enhanced functionality. Technical lead for production software support. Duties included Weblogic server management, deploy director support, UNIX support, and production software development to fix bugs discovered in the production environment. Also, was the lead technical resource for customer contact involving technical system issues. Utilized Java, J2EE components(EJB, JDBC, JMS, JMX), Servlets, SQL for development. Utilized Oracle 9i as the database. Utilized Weblogic Server 8.1(SP2/SP4). Show less

    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Software Developer
      • 2003 - 2004

      o Lead architect and developer of prototype for the re-design of BEZPlus v6 Alpha. Implemented Struts framework as the new MVC model for the new product. Project included design of new data models, EJB’s, servlets, JDBC, JSP’s, and Ant scripts. Lead code reviews and design sessions to co-ordinate that all requested functionality was completed to specifications. Project included setting design standards, mentoring developers, and performing prototype reviews with senior management. Based upon prototype design investors agreed in principal to add additional funding to BEZ Systems venture funds. Show less

    • Netherlands
    • Financial Services
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Lead Business Systems Analyst/Programmer
      • 2000 - 2003

      Co-Technical lead and lead developer for the architecting, designing, coding, testing, documenting and implementation of the ABN-AMRO Chief Financial Officer/Financial Analysis Portal intranet sites and applications. These suite of applications enabled line managers, senior and executive management, in real-time, to perform financial audits, create and maintain financial reports, estimate future budgeting cost, manage account payables, general ledger, and corporate signing authority. Technical lead and lead developer for architecting, design, coding, testing, documenting and implementation of Structured Finance Deal Tracking and Management Intranet Website and application. The suite of on-line and stand-alone tools is utilized by the North America Structured Finance department to manage all bank own corporate loans. The deals the tool manages range from 50 million dollars to a max of 4 billion dollars. Currently the application manages over 150 deals, totaling over 25 billion dollars, for the Structured Finance department. Utilized SilverStream, WebSphere 4.0 and Tomcat 3.2/4.0, Java, JDBC, JSP, JNDI, EJB, Servlets, SQL, XML, Oracle, Sybase, OOA, OOD, OOP, UML, Design Patterns and People Soft in the design of all Intranet sites and applications. Show less

    • United States
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Consulting Business Systems Analyst/Programmer
      • 1999 - 2000

      o Technical Lead for the designing, coding, testing and implementation of the Portfolio Balance Transfer Internet application. Implemented application using Java, Servlets, JDBC, Netscape Application Server, Oracle 7.3.3,OOA, OOD, Sun Solaris and Netscape Enterprise Server. Generated programming and support documentation. On-line Balance Transfer is projected to generate over 10 million a month. Portfolio Balance Transfer is an addition to the Account Center at www.discovercard.com. o Co- Technical Lead for the reengineering of Discovers Account Center session manager. Guided the design, coding, testing and implementation of a reengineered session manager. The Session manager was developed using Java, Servlets, Netscape Application Server, OOD, Sun Solaris and Netscape Enterprise Server. The resulting redesign improved efficiency by more than 50 . The session manager is part of the secure Account Center at www.discovercard.com. o Technical Consultant/Programmer for Discover Virtual credit card project. Lead designing of Java Object framework that is the data handler for XML document form fills. Framework was design and coded using Java and Rational Rose. Project also called for a redesign of the Internet architecture for which our group was responsible for designing and testing. Lead consultant for the evaluation and "proof of concept" of new application servers and architecture design. Evaluated IBM Web Sphere, iPlanet Application Sever 6.0, and Netscape Application Server 2.1. Show less

Education

  • The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
    IMPACT Fellow
    2020 - 2021
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    1994 - 1999

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