SUMMARY

• Strategic IT architect with more than 12 years of diverse IT experience in the fields of Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Enterprise Cloud, Big Data Strategy, Application Development & Information Systems/Technologies
• Strategy Consultant with Wipro’s Consulting Services in the Enterprise Strategy and Planning for small to large scale Enterprises
• Provide leadership thoughts towards the development and enhancement of programs/products
• Evaluating technology landscape limitations and develop strategies for adoption of new technologies, standards, processes and models to increase business value, reduce costs enabling continuous growth
• Providingoperations and infrastructure consulting and technical content creation for small to large scale business.
• Guiding technical and architecture teams for building SOA based applications and systems with real - time instrumentation for operational monitoring, alerting, tuning and self-recovering
• Develop techniques for measuring and optimizing software designs and system architectures; measure business process effectiveness and efficiency; measure and optimize IT architectures for quality attributes (reliability, availability, performance, security); network design and maintenance
• Conceptualize, develop and maintain the detailed targetenterprisearchitecture blueprints
• Expertise in IT transformation and building Clould and Big Data Strategies for small to large scale enterprises (including deploying solutions in public, private and hybrid clouds
• Technical leadership in Mobility, Digital Strategy, Business Process Integration, Enterprise Application Integration, Enterprise Information Integration, Data virtualization, Middleware Packaged Solutions, Enterprise Service Bus(ESB), Collaborative Portals and Business Process Management
• Expertise in defining organization specific Data Models, Data Governance, Data Transformation, Data Migration, and Master Data Management
• Provide pre-sales engineering for new business opportunities.
• Enabling pre-sales support for large multi-million dollar, multi-year contracts for Managed services in the north American region enabled by Cloud computing and Application operations through creation and defense of innovative solution
• Transformation - Build synergy and consensus between business and IT leadership, teams/partners to drive change, increase efficiency and meet strategic objectives.
• Visioning, Ideation and Strategy Service - working with key stakeholders to discuss and explore opportunities for new strategies, products, services.
• Assessment of the current-state of products and services. Identify the challenges/gap and provide recommendations.
• Directional oversight of technology initiatives within all business systems that impact the strategic objectives, critical business capabilities spanning all products and services.
• Enable prudent business decisions by defining a plan for key business capability needs, the constraints on usage of these capabilities and the plan for appropriate technologies supporting these capabilities.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Enterprise Architecture
• SOA and Information Integration Frameworks
• Data and Program Governance
• Process Improvement
• Leadership and team building
• Solution Architecture
• Application Development
• Emerging IT and Technology Trends
• Enterprise App, Data and Tech Ref Models
• Enterprise Data Modeling

SKILLS & EXPERTISE:

• Enterprise Architecture
• Currently being a part of the EA Team for Confidential Insurance Group of Companies ( Confidential New World Life), one of the country's largest insurers of Vehicle, Home, Life and Small business, responsible for integration architecture, SOA, and other aspects of the IT strategic planning. Along with other architects on the team, provide architectural guidance to the IT processes
• Provided IT advisory and consulting services for real estate agents in North America region. Delivered a current state analysis and developed a business and technology strategy for expanding the company’s market reach.
• As Enterprise Architect, responsible for strategic planning of the enterprise, and held sole responsibility for the most of technology aspects. Architected and managed the delivery of repeatable solutions for several verticals, Championed best practices in solution delivery, streamlining the processes across different projects. Started Enterprise Architecture practices building a formal EA process based on TOGAF.
• System Integration
• As an Integration Architect for Confidential Life, have completely changed the organization's integration approach from point-to-point to SOA. Currently oversee building new integration paradigm within Oracle Fusion(zSOA),
• Designed an innovative approach to integrating real estate data from a number of different MLSs, for a variety of data sources, including ones based on the RETS (Real Estate Transaction Standard) industry standard.
• As a Enterprise Architect, build integration strategy for organizations, championed Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) projects. Built best practices around Microsoft SQL Server, MOSS, BizTalk, and .NET as well as integration patterns using SOA.
• Solution Architecture
• Designed and managed the implementation of a template driven Web based solution that provided services and brought customers to 2000+ real estate agents in North America. Designed an innovative approach to integrating real estate data from a number of different MLSs, which significantly increased Web traffic and company revenues. Designed data mapping and transformation for a variety of data sources, including ones based on the RETS (Real Estate Transaction Standard) industry standard.
• Technical leadership in Mobility, Digital Strategy, Business Process Integration, Enterprise Application Integration, Enterprise Information Integration, Data virtualization, Middleware Packaged Solutions, Enterprise Service Bus(ESB), Collaborative Portals and Business Process Management
• Software Architecture
• Performed technology analysis, planning, architecture, and managed the implementation of many HP’s intranet and internet based web applications and migration to .NET 4.0/3.5 and WPF..etc. The product has been deployed to a significant user base (about 1, 00,000 end-users) for all HP’s business units spread across the globe. The changes brought customers a completely new user experience, including richer user interface and more convenient workflows.
• Designed a notification mechanism for a data sharing middleware product using C#, SQL Server, and SSNS.
• Designed several significant parts of the LifeNet system for a large insurance organization, which utilized major .NET technologies, such as SQL Server, SharePoint, and BizTalk. Designed and managed the implementation of the ‘bridge’ between the new system and a legacy LIFE-COMM system for the transition period.
• As a software architect, have significant accomplishments in the areas of Processes Modeling, Enterprise Application Integration, Enterprise Information Integration, Integration of Information from Heterogeneous Data Sources, and others.

AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE:

Industries: Financial Services, Real Estate, Insurance and Retail

Process Frameworks and Methodologies: RUP,RAD, MSF, Agile (Scrum, XP, TDD),PMBOK

EA Frameworks: TOGAF,FEA,COBIT, SOA Governance

Architectural Styles: SOA, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, MVC,MVVM,MVP,REST, EAI, EII and Enterprise Cloud

Integration Tools: BizTalk, Layer 7 SSG, IIS, MSMQ, SQL Server, SSIS, Oracle, Cordys, TIBCO, Hadoop, AppFabric + WF

Industry Standards: IFX, BIAN, ISO 8583, HL7, GJXDM,NIEM,ACORD,RETS, WS-*Mobile Platforms and Applications iOs,Android and Windows Phone 8

Scripting Tools: VB, Power Shell, JavaScript, jQuery, Knockout, Navigation, D3

Others: Enterprise Architecture Governance, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Security, Enterprise Tools and Standards, Guidelines.

TECHNOLOGIES & FRAMEWORKS:

Frameworks/Technologies: With .NET Framework 2.0/3.0/3.5/4.0/4.5 C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, LINQ, NHibernate, MyBatis.NET, ADO.NET, WPF, WCF, WWF, MVC, ADO.NET Entity Framework, MS Unit Test Framework, XAML, TOM.NET, BizTalk, TPL, PLINQ, Cloud(Windows Azure), Metro Apps, XML, XSLT,ASP.NET MVC,WebAPI,REST, COM, COM+, VB, MSMQ, Cordys, Data Power, Unity Framework and CruiseControl.NET

Development Tools: Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010 and 2013, FxCop, StyleCop, Structure101, TOAD, VSS, TFS, SVN, Clear case, Rational Suite, and Mercury Quality Center

Web Designing Tools: HTML, DHTML, XAML and ASP, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Expression Blend and HTML5

Databases & Tools: SQL 2005, 2008, 2012, Oracle 9i,BI, MS Access, SSIS, Data Transformation, ETL Ware house, Data Analyzer, Data Modelling, Data Migration, MDM, Data Mining, Hadoop, HDInsight, DB2 and MySQL

Modelling Tools: UML, Borland Together, Rational Software Architect, ERWin Data Modeler, Troux and Enterprise Architect

Version Control Tools: Visual SourceSafe (VSS), Star Team, SVN, Clear Case, Source Offsite and Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Testing Frameworks & Tools: MS Test, NUnit, Load Runner, SOATest, and Win Runner

Web Debugging Tools: Fiddler, Web Developer Toolbar, FoxPro, Safari Web Inspector, Page Inspector and Firebug

Architecture Frameworks & Design Patterns: TOGAF, FEA, COBIT, EAI, EII, SOA, Creational, Behavioral, Structural and architectural patterns (MVC, MVP, MVVM & Confidential ..etc)

Platforms: Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, 2008 R2, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8, AS/400

Others: Netmon, SQLIO, Structure101, Resharper, ANTs Profiler, Enterprise Big Data Strategy, Cordys ESB, Oracle ESB,BIAN Gated Solutions and Enterprise Cloud, Core JAVA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise/Solution Architect

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, XML, LINQ, WCF, ADO.NET Entity Framework, TFS and SQL Server 2008, Cordys, Documaker, JBossFuse, Enterprise Architect, Streamweaver, iPipeline’s iGO, AS/400, Mainframe, LiFE-COMM, Host Bridge, Informatica and Web Services.

Responsibilities:

• Define IT strategy and build enterprise architecture to align with Zurich’s Global Life Strategy
• Define EBD and roadmap components including landscape
• Define SOA Strategy and Integrated Infrastructure Framework
• Helps define key initiatives that supports the Optimus vision
• Communicates key business drivers and plan for architecture to tech lead.
• Prepare ASD and Micro RAD documents to address the concerns of technical and non-technical teams
• Guide the architecture teams to enable the MDM requirements to satisfy the needs of individual business functions.

Confidential

Enterprise/Solution Architect

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, XML, LINQ, WCF, ADO.NET Entity Framework, TFS and SQL Server 2008, BizTalk 2010 andDB2

Responsibilities:

• Identify Key business drivers for the engagement
• Build and develop Architecture and Solution Artefacts
• Drive the architecture with best practices, reference models using industry trends
• Helps the technologies and tool selection to realize the architecture vision
• Project governance including end to end solution implementation
• Prepare and build architecture and solution continuums
• Build physical and logical data model for this project
• Create the object oriented service orientation and catalogs to enable end points between B2B(Gated Solutions) and external systems
• Build the support model to improve IT efficiency

Confidential

Solution Architect

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, XML, LINQ, WCF, ADO.NET Entity Framework, TFS and SQL Server 2008, DB2

Responsibilities:

• Identify Key business drivers for the engagement
• Build and develop Architecture and Solution Artefacts
• Drive the architecture with best practices, reference models using industry trends
• Helps the technologies and tool selection to realize the architecture vision
• Validate existing applications and Infrastructure architecture
• Identify performance bottlenecks and the root causes
• Validating Service Configurations(Lookup service)
• Validate IIS Settings and configurations

Confidential

Solution Architect

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, LINQ, WCF, Pega Systems, ADO.NET Entity Framework, TFS and SQL Server 2008/2005, DB2,Oracle 9i

Responsibilities:

• Identify the key business application and processes for server migration
• Prepare migration plan and risk assessment repository
• Validate existing applications and Infrastructures
• Prepare solution alternatives/approaches, technology guidance, patterns and tool selection
• Communicates with the release team and execute server migration
• Guides the technical teams to upgrades the solution for Confidential platform compatibility
• Migrate applications to newer frameworks/technologies
• End to end solution support and implementation

Confidential

Solution Architect

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, XML, XSLT,LINQ, WCF,MVC,ADO.NET Entity Framework Silverlight, SDL Tridion 2009,TFS and SQL Server 2005

Responsibilities:

• Identify the key architectural drivers for the solution including Confidential infrastructure landscape and platform
• Prepare architecture and solution artefacts using industry best practices, patterns, frameworks and tools
• Create the views and viewpoint to address the concerns of stakeholders
• Build re-usable components using interface based design approach
• Guide the technical teams for solution implementation and technologies to realize the Confidential architecture
• Helps technical teams in test driven solutions using industry trends
• Support solution deployment and
• Defining support model for future enhancements

Confidential

Solution Architect

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, XML, LINQ, ADO.NET, MVC, Silverlight, SQL Server 2005, TFS and WCF.

Responsibilities:

• Identify the key drivers for the solution
• Design the solution using layer approach with industry trends,practices,patterns and frameworks including reference models
• Build logical physical data models
• Prepare technical design documents including TSD,LLD and HLD
• Technical guidance for the selection of Confidential infrastructure and platform
• Support application implementation including bug fixing and support

Confidential

Solution Architect

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, XML, AJAX, Custom Grids & Controls, TFS, SQL Server 2005 and JavaScript

Responsibilities:

• Identify the key drivers for the solution
• Defining architecture landscape and infrastructure topology
• Design the solution using layer approach with industry trends,practices,patterns and frameworks including reference models
• Build logical physical data models
• Prepare technical design documents including TSD,LLD and HLD
• Technical guidance for the selection of Confidential infrastructure and platform
• Build re-usable components
• Support application implementation including bug fixing and application support

Confidential

Sr.Tech Lead

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, XML, XSL, SQL Server 2005, Ultraseek Engine and JavaScript

Responsibilities:

• Solution Design & Project Architecture
• Defining Project architecture landscape
• Involved in defining infrastructure landscape of system.
• Prepare technical design documents including TSD,LLD and HLD
• Technical guidance for the selection of Confidential infrastructure and platform
• Involved in defining Business cases for the system
• Involved in High and Low level design of the system.
• Involved in designing business component (UltraseekRequestHandler) for the system.

Confidential

Sr.Tech Lead

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, AJAX, Star Team XML, XSL and JavaScript

Responsibilities:

• Solution Design & Project Architecture
• Defining Project architecture landscape
• Involved in defining infrastructure landscape of system.
• Prepare technical design documents including TSD,LLD and HLD
• Technical guidance for the selection of Confidential infrastructure and platform
• Involved in defining Business cases for the system
• Involved in High and Low level design of the system.
• Involved in designing business component (UltraseekRequestHandler) for the system.
• Involved performance testing and statistics gathering.

Confidential

Tech Lead

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, XML, XSL, SQL Server 2005, Windows Services, VSS, and JavaScript

Responsibilities:

• Solution Design & Project Architecture
• Defining Project architecture landscape
• Involved in defining infrastructure landscape of system.
• Prepare technical design documents including TSD,LLD and HLD
• Technical guidance for the selection of Confidential infrastructure and platform
• Involved in defining Business cases for the system
• Involved in High and Low level design of the system.
• Involved in designing business component (UltraseekRequestHandler) for the system.

Confidential

Tech Lead

Environment: ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, XML, XSL,Source Offsite, XML Web Services, .NET Remoting, SQL Server 2000,Windows Services, Source Offsite, and JavaScript.

Responsibilities:

• Solution Design & Project Architecture
• Defining Project architecture landscape
• Involved in defining infrastructure landscape of system.
• Prepare technical design documents including TSD,LLD and HLD
• Technical guidance for the selection of Confidential infrastructure and platform
• Involved in Analysis / Coding /Unit Testing of various enhancements in Confidential .
• Involved in design and developing the Business components for the modules.
• Involved performance testing and statistics gathering.