SUMMARY:

• A Proven leader in technology with over 18 years of experience delivering critical programs for large enterprises
• Proven experience in Connected Vehicle (Automotive) and financial service industries
• Experienced in providing cross - functional leadership to large teams
• Experienced in strategic business & technology assessment, design, implementation, and deployment
• Experienced in defining Product vision, Product roadmap and Managing the Product backlog
• Technology roadmap planning & execution in alignment with critical Business operations
• Experience with design and implementation of scalable enterprise, and connected vehicle applications
• Experience managing and implementing highly-available, multi-tiered applications, co-located and cloud applications across global locations
• Program Management & Execution - Offshore/Onshore technical program management
• Vendor management - Contract negotiations, scope management, process definitions and architecture reviews
• Experienced in international business environment having worked in the US, Europe, and Asia
• Experienced working and leading multi-cultural, globally distributed teams
• Proven record of internal and external stakeholder management.
• Experience in building consensus and getting a buy-in from stakeholders
• Experience in building and managing large teams

SKILLS:

• Strategy & Planning
• Product Roadmap
• Product Owner
• Connected Vehicles
• Iot Platforms
• Big Data
• Enterprise Architecture
• Solutions Architecture
• Application Architecture
• Data Warehousing
• CRM Systems.
• Full Life Cycle Software Development
• Team Building
• Cloud Architecture
• Client Relationship.
• AWS
• Azure Cloud
• Identity Management
• Application Monitoring
• NOC/SOC
• Operations
• Microservices/REST API
• NOSQL DB
• UI/UX - Web/Mobile development

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS: Linux, Mac OS, Windows, Unix, IOS, Android

Cloud Platforms: Azure and AWS

Languages: Java, .Net

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Product Owner/Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created and Implemented the Telematics Product Strategy and Product Vision
• Created and Implemented the Enterprise Architecture for telematics program (E2E ecosystem)
• Defined the Product and Architecture roadmap, including specification for Hardware/Software
• Lead 4 cross-functional teams (over 40 team people) to deliver the Telematics Platform
• As the Product Owner for the customer onboarding/renewal Portals (customer portal), created & prioritized the Customer Portal, Agent Portal, and Dealer Portal backlogs
• Lead, Designed and delivered the architecture for Safety Connect, Service Connect, Remote, Destination Assist, Wi-Fi hotspot, Dynamic Navigation, Voice recognition, and App Suite for multiple generations of Lexus and Toyota vehicles (Lexus Enform/Toyota Entune)
• Created Mobile App consolidation strategy (one App)
• Supervised implementation of the next generation of telematics program by building the cloud platforms, integrating multiple suppliers (tier1 & tier2) and various on-prem enterprise systems.
• Simplified the architecture by modernizing the legacy platform and removing complex enterprise and mobile integrations, resulting in a robust streamline and improved customer experience.
• Steered architecture design and product implementation of next Generation remote service telematics program, providing, remote engine start/Stop, Door Lock/unlock, Vehicle Status, Vehicle finder, Geo-Fencing (Guest Driver Monitor), Speed Alerts, Driver score, and Alexa integration features.
• Lead architecture design and product implementation of remote vehicle diagnostic program spanning over 5 Million vehicles and data collection of 20TB per month (big data platform)
• Lead single identity initiative for Telematics, implementing IDaaS, and consolidated all customer identity directories into a single directory in Azure AD, streamlining the customer experience
• Created Technical Architecture presentations, documents, and analysis work.
• Spearheaded conversations to Get Stakeholder Buy-in and build consensus around product strategy
• Hired and Built Product development and platform teams
• Spearheaded Build vs Buy Decisions & Evaluate COTS products.
• Lead Vendor Selection and Vendor Management activities (including MNO)
• Participated in Contract Negotiation
• Help Legacy team transform from waterfall to Agile/DevOps methodology
• Achieved cost efficiencies by rigorous vendor management process
• Lead architect for the Fuel Cell Vehicle telematics program supporting revolutionary vehicle powertrain
• Developed target architecture for 3-5 year horizon across multiple enterprise systems
• Communicated to wide audiences including Toyota executives, senior management and the user community
• Reviewed, validated, and approved deliverables (architecture/design, estimates, code)
• Lead High availability strategy for Telematics platform, which was later adopted as a standard across Toyota
• Lead APM strategy for global NOC and SOC
• Participate in various Governance meeting (e.g. Architecture review board, Infrastructure Management Committee)
• Provided mentorship to other architects to develop skills to grow within the organization

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Lead Enterprise/Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Create EA Blue Print
• Facilitate Roadmaps session and help stakeholder define final states
• Create Technical Architecture presentations, documents, and analysis work.
• Create Architectures for platform Integration, data warehousing, and Application rationalization
• Collaborated with stakeholders to understand business goals and requirements
• Help facilitate strategy session
• Coordinate sessions and activities to deliver Business Capability Models & Technical capability models
• Provided thought leadership and technical direction by managing the design, development, installation, and operation of the technical solution.
• Evaluate and propose new/improve Governance model
• Facilitate Governance/ continuous improvement committee
• Participate in various Governance meeting (e.g. Architecture review board, Infrastructure Management Committee)
• Ensure that systems analysis, design and execution plans are based on business requirements and IT strategies
• Responsible for solution design and its alignment with all EA initiative
• Worked with stakeholders to highlight opportunities and risks.
• Communicate and champion the business value of Information Architecture.
• Developed and implemented best practices and knowledge sharing opportunities.
• Communicated effectively all financial impacts, risks, and complexities to steering groups
• Provided mentorship to other architects to develop skills to grow within the organization

Confidential, CA

Lead Enterprise/Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Create EA Blue Print & Roadmaps for strategic initiatives utilizing TOGAF and Zachman Framework
• Responsible for solution design
• Provide Technical guidance for Data Center move and Consolidation
• Provide Technical guidance for Disaster Recovery project
• Lead effort to implement Daily limit project across multiple platforms
• Facilitate Roadmaps session and help stakeholder define final states
• Create Architectures for platform Integration and Application rationalization

Confidential, Chicago/Los Angeles

Enterprise Application Architect/ Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with internal/external stakeholders to understand business goals and technical direction and translates to architectural solutions.
• Produced IT architecture that accurately reflected the customers IS/ IT landscape, produced component architecture, that captured the high level and low-level design
• Lead multi-discipline teams to ensure the right strategy was implemented.
• Provided thought leadership and technical direction by managing the design, development, installation, and operation of the technical solution.
• Communicated effectively all financial impacts, risks, and complexities of the commercial proposition.
• Identified and implemented solutions that align with corporate offerings and governance. Worked with stakeholders to highlight business opportunities and risks.
• Through consultation influences the future focus and development of the client environment at all levels.
• Developed and implemented best practices and knowledge sharing opportunities.
• Worked with team members and management to streamline processes to meet and exceed customer expectations while reducing costs and eliminating waste.
• Lead Solution Technical Reviews to ensure architectural alignment and compliance with corporate standards and the Client requirements.
• Provided mentorship to other architects to develop skills to grow within the organization

Confidential

Enterprise Solutions Architect/Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the existing back office and front office applications used at the group level and in retail
• Identify areas of improved performance and efficiency and work with business to implement the change until the value is realized
• Propose overall solutions
• Research impacts of the decommissioning application
• Propose alternate solution approaches
• Create OSD designs document
• Perform impact analysis
• Create and manage work breakdown structure (WBS) and project plan
• Define and manage the project scope
• Perform GAP analysis on the requirement
• Define end-to-end architecture and infrastructure for internal and external applications, including the front book, back book and payments (CHAPS & BACs)
• Identify risk and purpose risk alleviation plans.
• Define and enforce standards & processes
• Buy consent of key stakeholders
• Report progress to SCM board

Confidential

Enterprise Architect/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Identified requirements and functional specifications to meet business’s strategic needs.
• Worked directly with underwriting/claims management business team and end clients to define custom integrations needs.
• Created and managed work breakdown structure (WBS) and project plan.
• Defined and managed the project scope.
• Performed GAP analysis on the requirement.
• Defined end-to-end architecture and infrastructure for internal and external applications, including the claims workflow system, underwriting dashboard, and risk modeling applications.
• Designed and built service-oriented architecture to support all activities.
• Led a team of over 7 developers, architects and analysts in the development of the enterprise architecture based on, SOA, MQSeries, Webservices, .Net, C#, VB.Net, SharePoint, MOSS, K2.NET Spring.net, nHibernate, MVC, COM+, DCOM, XML, XSLT, SOAP, ASP, nUnit, Optimize-It, LoadRunner, HTML, LDAP and SQL Server 2005.
• Mentored full-time staff on .NET, Web Services, SOA architecture, C# design and development, and MQSeries.
• Created and managed project budget vs. actual expenditures (capital and expense).
• Managed the teams day to day activities ensure on budget and on time delivery of all applications.
• Identified risk and purpose risk alleviation plans.
• Defined and enforced standards & processes.
• Bought consent of key stakeholders.
• Reported progress to the steering committee.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Solutions Architect/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked very closely with the business in identifying the requirements and functional specifications to meet their needs.
• Worked directly with the traders and back office teams to define custom Integration needs.
• Designed the end-to-end architecture and infrastructure for internal and external trading applications, including advanced real-time risk calculations engine and advanced reporting system.
• Architected, Designed and Built a Service Oriented Architecture.
• Led a team of over 25 developers, architects and analysts in the development of the enterprise architecture based on WebServices, MQSeries, .Net, C#, VB, Spring.Net, nHibernate, ASP.Net, MVC, XML, XSLT, SOAP, nUnit, Optimize-It, LoadRunner, HTML, LDAP and Oracle 10g.
• Mentored full-time staff.
• Defined a real-time messaging system.
• Defined processes (development process, Change Management, code review process, build process and release management).
• Prepared Project plan and delivery schedules. Briefed steering committee on progress report of projects. Set Development standards and best practices guidelines. Defined and Prepared handover document

Confidential, New York, NY

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Identified business requirements and functional specifications to meet business strategies.
• Worked directly with prime brokerage business team and end clients to define custom integrations.
• Defined end-to-end architecture and infrastructure for internal and external prime brokerage applications, including the pbDirect trade capture system.
• Enhanced reporting real-time risk calculation and reporting system and trade matching system for all fixed income and foreign exchange products.
• Designed and built service-oriented architecture to support all prime brokerage activities.
• Led a team of over 25 developers, architects and analysts in the development of the enterprise architecture based on, SOA, MQSeries, Webservices, .Net, C#, VB.Net, Spring.net, nHibernate, MVC, COM+, DCOM, XML, XSLT, SOAP, ASP, nUnit, Optimize-It, LoadRunner, HTML, LDAP and Oracle 10g.
• Mentored full-time staff on .NET, Web Services, SOA architecture, C# design and development, and MQSeries.
• Migrated Confidential Bank infrastructure from the Traiana TRM trade capture system to the pbDirect trade capture system.
• Led the architecture and integration efforts for interfacing with Traiana TRM, Traiana Harmony, HotSpot and Lava for capturing bank and ECN trades.
• Defined the architecture and led the technical efforts for all client integrations to capture client trades from external and internal clients.
• Defined the architecture and infrastructure for an enterprise-wide trade matching system that supports all prime brokerage applications within the fixed income and foreign exchange technology landscapes.
• Led technical efforts and defined the architecture and infrastructure for risk calculations and reporting, including Greek risk reports on trade and aggregate level data and shocked risk data for what-if scenarios.
• Led GUI design and layout efforts for all internal and external client-facing applications. Applications were built and deployed on Linux, Solaris and Windows platforms.

Confidential, Cedar Rapids, IA

Lead Solutions Architect / Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the initial feasibility study of the project and created the strategy.
• Partnered with the business to define the functional requirement to meet the business need.
• Defined the end to end architecture of the complete product suite.
• Defined and build the complete SOA architecture of the product.
• Designed the smart client application using .net C#, web services, win forms, SOAP, XML XSLT and design patterns such as MVC, Singleton, Meta-data provider and other GoF patterns.
• Led a team of 50 developer and designers distributed between US and India.
• Led the implementation of RUP and Agile methodology.
• Defined the Development standards, coding best practices, development process, change management process, build & release management process and code review guidelines.
• Worked with project management team to create/maintain the project plans, task distribution, and status reporting.
• Created project briefing for the steering committees.
• Led the architectural governance committee to ensure departmental Architecture standards were followed.
• Assisted junior staff members by mentoring and to develop their skills in ASP.Net, C# and COM.
• Helped develop test data and specifications for use in performance tuning, unit, integration, and user testing to ensure that an application meets design specifications.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Systems Analyst / Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participated in platform strategy planning.
• Designed, coded, tested and modified web-based, Client Server (DNA / .NET) applications.
• As Team Lead, responsible for a technical team of 7-12 people
• Coordinated requirement gathering and functional design documentation.
• Oversaw the infrastructure and QA activities.