SUMMARY:

• Over 22 years of IT experience in Microsoft Technologies including 2+ years of experience in Azure cloud platform.
• Rich techno - functional experience in the areas of Architecture, technical direction, leadership, system design, development, implementation, integration, migration, support, testing and training for several fortune 500 Companies.
• Demonstrated competencies in guiding the conceptualization / creation of flexible / expandable software service models to meet client requirements.
• An enterprising leader with the ability to lead and motivate cross-cultural teams in optimizing their performance levels.
• Process Operations and experience of implementing procedures, service standards for business excellence.
• Experience with Agile and Waterfall software development methodologies.
• Experience in the creation and migration of enterprise-class data architectures for transactional and non-transactional business systems.
• Possess broad competence in strategic management of technical matters with the distinction of managing onshore and offshore resources and achieving organizational objectives.
• Practitioner in the disciplines of business process architecture, enterprise data architecture, business value proposition, change management initiatives and system development methodology and the deployment of those architectures.
• Expertise covers Business Applications, IT Roadmap and business value proposition, Internet and Intranet Portal Implementations, Custom Applications Design and Development using Microsoft Technologies, Management of development teams and Product Development.
• Lead Architect in implementing the Lifecycle phase of installation, configuration, build and deploy integration components (complex orchestrations) and workflow automations for integrating legacy systems.
• In-depth understanding of the various facets of the software services framework including the on-site/offsite/offshore delivery models.

SKILLS & ABILITIES AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Enterprise Architect
• Strategy Planning and Direction
• Business Requirements gathering and Analysis
• Functional Specifications
• Design and Development
• Technical Documentation
• Unit Testing, Integration testing, System Testing, Load Testing
• Deployment and Support
• Water fall model, Agile Methodology
• Project Management
• Technology Upgrades and Support
• Transition / Migration
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Onsite / Offshore Model
• Training to technical teams

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:

• Microsoft Visual Studio.NET (2010, 2012, 2015, 2017)
• Microsoft Visual Studio (2003, 2005)
• Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 - 2009
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012
• Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS)
• Microsoft SQL Server (97, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012)
• Visual Studio Team Services (2005, 2008)
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
• Windows Workflow (WWF)
• Entity Framework, Enterprise Library
• MVC Architecture
• EAI
• Web Services
• SSIS
• XML
• JSON / JQuery
• GitHub
• IBM Rational Rose
• Crystal Reports 2008, 2011, 2013
• Oracle 7, 8, 9i,10g
• TODD
• NUnit, NCoverage, NANT
• Dynamics 365 CRM
• XMLSpy
• GitHub Repository
• Kawa
• Silk Radar
• Perforce
• C, C++, C#, .NET (2.0 to 4.6.1), Visual C#.NET, Visual C++, Visual Basic, ASP, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, PL/SQL, Perl, WebServices, RESTful API, ETL,HTML, JavaScript, XML, JSON, PowerShell, CLI
• Azure Core Services( compute, storage, networking, AD, DR ), Integration services ( iPaaS: API Management, Logic App, ServiceBus, Event Grid, Data Factory), Event Hub, DevOps, CD/CI, Azure Kubernetes

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, TX

Senior Solution Architect

Technologies & tools: Microsoft Azure Cloud Services, SQL Server 2012, Oracle 10g, C#, Visual Studio.Net, ASP.NET, PowerShell, CLI

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed Infrastructure as service (IaaS) using Azure VMs, VNETs and Sub-Nets, VNET Peering, Application Gateway and Load Balancers.
• Migrating websites (Member Portal, SMV, COB) to Azure cloud platform in both IaaS and PaaS deployment models.
• AzureMigrate used for assessment and cost estimation of on-premise resources for migration. Azure Advisor used to analyze configuration to get cost, performance, and security recommendations.
• Migrating SQL databases to Azure cloud platform using DMA.
• Migrating Oracle databases to Azure cloud platform using SSMA.
• Used Azure API Management service to manage and centralize third party vendor’s APIs. Integrated ID card service to member portal and provider portal. Applied the organizational policies in API Management service. Designed and developed API using RESTful APIs.
• Used site-to-site VPN connection to establish connection between on-premise and Azure platform. Configured on-premise VPN device using IPsec S2S VPN Tunnel. ExpressRoute is planned for production along with Traffic Manager, Application Gateways and Load Balancers for Member Portal and Provider portals.
• Used Azure App Service to host Member portal, SMV and COB websites using the App Service plan under the same subscription. Integrated CDN to see performance of members and providers health video files.
• Designed and developed workflow automation using Azure Logic App for integrating Discovery Benefits daily claim files (text files) to generate XML files, upload to FTP server and send notifications to claims department.
• Created Azure AD in the network for managing users and groups for SSO and Multi-factor authentication. Azure AD Connect sync used to sync on-prem users ids with Azure AD.
• Used Azure Monitor service for alerts, logging, metrics, Application Insights.
• ETL process implemented using Azure Data Factory with monthly provider credential files (excel files, XML files, CSV files) to move the data to the Data Warehouse centers for further data analysis and reporting purpose.
• Plan for re-designing Member Portal using Microservices architecture to bring containers, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Played major role in understanding the business requirements interacting with Business users and Business analysts.
• Lead the teams by providing solutions based on Azure cloud platform from Architectural perspective.
• Technical discussions with Architecture team to discuss about the feasible solutions.
• Technical discussions with security teams in understanding the network security requirements.
• Technical discussions with operations teams in understanding the server requirements.
• Developing the technical specification document for design and development phase.
• Actively involved in designing different modules and development.
• Contribution towards the critical design issues.
• Fast paced self-learning in Azure and mentoring development team.

Confidential, TX

Application Support

Technologies & tools: C#, .NET 3.5, ASP.NET, WCF Services, WWF, Design Patterns, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g, Amysis, Maximizer CRM tool, AboveHealth Member/Provider/Employer portal, Stepwise, Alineo

Responsibilities:

• Senior Lead for the application development.
• Design and development of new modules.
• Played major role in understanding the business requirements interacting with Business users and Business analysts.
• Developing the technical specification document for design and development phase.
• Actively involved in designing different modules and development.
• Stabilizing the framework for the new Confidential migration platform using .NET 3.5 features.
• Contribution towards the critical design issues.

Confidential, CINCINNATI, OH

.NET Developer

Technologies & tools: C#, .NET 3.5, ASP.NET, WCF Services, WWF, Entity Framework, Enterprise Library 4.1, Design Patterns, SQL Server 2005, NUnit, NCover, NANT

Responsibilities:

• Architect/Senior Technical Lead for the application development.
• Design and development of new modules.
• Played major role in understanding the business requirements interacting with Business users and Business analysts.
• Developing the technical specification document for design and development phase.
• Worked closely with WellPoint Architecture team in making architectural and design decisions.
• Involved in some of the common components and helper components design and coding.
• Actively involved in designing different modules and development.
• Stabilizing the framework for the new Confidential migration platform using .NET 3.5 features.
• Contribution towards the critical design issues.
• Significant role in Window Work Flow for the Confidential application automation.
• Issues prioritization and resolution.
• Tasks planning and prioritization.
• Played a significant role in gathering the requirements from different teams from application integration point of view.
• Worked closely with WellPoint testing, supporting teams, IT operations, Infrastructure teams.
• Onsite - offshore coordination to make sure that coding has been done as per the design and coding standards.
• Architect for the application.
• Design and development of new modules.
• Played major role in understanding the business requirements from integration of the application standpoint of view.
• Major role in understanding the existing Vielife Confidential system.
• Active discussions and meetings with Confidential business analysts and technical teams towards integration requirements.
• Worked closely with Confidential Architecture team in making architectural and design decisions.
• Contribution towards the critical design issues.
• Issues prioritization and resolution.
• Tasks planning and prioritization.
• Worked closely with Confidential testing, supporting and IT operations teams.
• Onsite - offshore coordination to make sure that coding has been done as per the design and coding standards.
• Involved in some of the common components and helper components design and coding.

Confidential, Santa MONICA, LA

.NET Developer

Technologies & tools: C#, .NET 3.5, Win Forms, ASP.NET, Web Services, Collections, CLR Procedures, Mutli-threading, Windows NT Services, ADO.NET, Design Patterns, SQL Server 2005

Responsibilities:

• Architect for the application.
• Design and development of new modules.
• Design and development of real time check eligibility functionality, Claims, Code Check, Print Services integration with ZirMed services.
• Single point of contact with ZirMed to integrate their services.
• Design and development of reports using Sql Server Reporting Services.
• Contribution toward the critical design issues.
• Writing the Unit Test cases and executing them as per the standards.
• Coordination with UI team and Database team during the integration.
• Onsite-Offshore coordination.
• Design and development of new modules.
• Design and development of reports.
• Contribution toward the critical design issues.
• Designer and developer for the new modules in the mid-tier team.
• Writing the Unit Test cases and executing them as per the standards.
• Coordination with UI team and Database team during the integration.
• Project management.