Stephen Bechler CISSP
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Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA LLC
Cybersecurity Architect
• Regional Enterprise Architect for Global Products, Processes and Systems
• Author of Global Integration Policies and Guidelines
• Member of the Global Integration Center of Compentency (NAFTA, EMEA, APAC)
• Lead Architect for NAFTA Identity Management integration (SAML/SiteMinder)
• Managed and directed testing and implementation plan for the first to phases of separation from Chrysler Corporation
• Managed smart car financing implementation in Q4 2007 for sales of the vehicle in the Americas beginning Q1 2008
• Managed implementation of a systems catalog to support change management
2007 : 2018
Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA LLC
Enterprise Architect
• Develop integration opportunities between Chrysler AG and Chrysler Financial Systems including SSO and asynchronous messaging
• Define system and throughput capacity requirements from an application perspective for dealer POS applications
• Manage execution and analysis of load testing for go/no-go decisions for application and infrastructure changes that impact the shared hosting environment
• Manage the use of performance testing to trouble shoot existing application and infrastructure issue in all four environments and to recommend tuning of infrastructure and application for performance optimization
• Analyze performance testing results and compare with active production monitoring data to assess potential impact of changes to the end user experience at the dealership
• Coordinate scheduling of load testing with all applications in test & integration
2006 : 2007
Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA LLC
DaimlerChrysler Financial Services - Test & Integration Manager/Dealer Systems
DaimlerChrysler Financial Services - POS contract system/portal (approximately 500 NAFTA dealers)
• Performed capacity analysis with vendor representatives for future hardware procurement strategy
• Co-designed 4 load-balanced/failover J2EE extranet environments (dev/test/stage/prod)
• Managed/designed integration of security administration and SSO with corporate system
• Analyzed current build for encapsulation and extensibility. Develop framework and processes for future module integration and extension to other Markets outside NAFTA
• Production support
• Developed performance testing best practices in conjunction with vendors. Developed QA milestones and tools to assure repeatable processes. Lead Analysis of testing results to identify application and infrastructure issues.
2004 : 2005
Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA LLC
Lead Systems Analyst/Infrastructure Architect/QA Analyst
B2D J2EE web application with COBOL DB2 stored procedure transaction management, 4 developers, 4300+ dealers, 20,000+ end users
• Created phased project plan for development and deployment for critical sales system.
• Developed J2EE architecture (Model 2 Front-Controller) and best practices for DB2 stored procedure development
• Directed application team through all phases of the SDLC including requirements gathering, planning, design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance (including language translation)
• Maintained production system for both the US and Canadian markets during phased deployment of the new system
• Developed online documentation and streaming training video for field personnel/dealers (approximately 4300)
• Coordinated development/maintenance with all interfacing systems
2003 : 2004
Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA LLC
DaimlerChrysler AG - Lead Systems Analyst/PM/Application Architect
About
Development of global architecuture, technology and integration standards for global product CoCs. Experienced planner, developer, architect and project manager for a wide variety of global information systems supporting Finance, Procurement and Supply and Engineering business functions. Planned and developed of J2EE enterprise applications under a variety of architectures. Managed infrastructure implementation and capacity planning efforts. Developed and implemented performance testing quality assurance practices for rapid application offshore development. Interests include developing enterprise wide standards for infrastructure, architecture and security. MBA completed in 2001. CISSP certification issued 1/10/2006
Specialties: Technical Pattern Development, Architecture Reviews, Incident Management, Problem Management, Root Cause Analysis, Production Profiling, Security Audit, Performance Test Planning, Execution and Analysis, Project Management for Large Scale Enterprise Applications
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