SUMMARY:

• Visionary Chief Technology Strategist and Architect with over 23+ years of IT leadership and achievements in transformation, modernization and cost & performance optimization. A versatile change leader continuously innovates, educates, evaluates and responds to technology trends, disruptive technologies, and proactively manage strategy, tactic and technology life - cycle. Manage large scale IT initiatives resulting in consolidation, standardization, cost reduction, optimized service delivery and high performance. Extensive knowledge of Public Sector, Kto12 and Higher Education, Automobile, System Integration and Airport Communications.
• Highly passionate and proficient in specifying, coaching and implementing strategy, compliancy, standards, enterprise architecture, risk management, security & privacy, and project management. Proven records in product development, optimize operational processes, and excel Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Possess extreme and unique range of technical skills and leadership expertise in managing multiyear multimillion large size projects, cloud migration, internal & external auditing, client management, vendor management, diversify business and revenue, along with hands-on experience in networking, programming (Microprocessor BIOS, C, C++, Java, C#), Mobile application development, and designing and implementing software, data and hardware.
• Quickly adapts to corporate culture and possesses excellent attitude towards leadership, sudden shifts in corporate priorities, people management and excellent teamwork.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Windows
• Linux
• Unix
• Mainframe iOS
• WP7
• Windows
• Azure
• Android
• AppLogic
• Amazon AWS EC2
• Akamai
• Service Now
• Service Desk
• Footprints
• Remedy UML
• BPMN
• TOGAF Power Designer
• Rational Rose
• MS Visio
• MS Visual Studio
• Rational Architect Java. J2EE
• .NET
• C#
• C
• C++
• Silverlight
• Spring
• Hibernate
• JPA
• XAML
• XML
• XSD
• HTML
• WDSL HTML5
• SAML
• JavaScript
• COBOL
• FORTRAN
• VB
• MVC MVVM
• OOD JBoss
• Tomcat
• Apache
• Mod jk
• Websphere
• Weblogic
• EAI
• BizTalk
• Oracle SOA suite
• TIBCO
• Autosys
• JBPM
• BRMS
• People Soft
• JDE E1
• SOLA
• GT - Ivory OAM
• OIM
• SSO
• JON
• SSRS
• SSIS
• SharePoint
• Vignette
• GT Ivory
• SharePoint
• Active Directory
• AD (LDAP)
• Tumbleweed
• Exchange Server
• SOASTA
• Interneer
• Kofax
• KTA
• Interneer
• LightSwitch
• Wavemaker
• XMetal
• XML Authoirty
• JRebel
• ReplayDirector
• Aerohive Tealeaf
• JON
• SCOM
• Vantage
• Dynatrace
• OPNET
• OracleGrid
• Arcsite
• Keynote
• Zenoss Oracle
• MS SQL Server
• DB2
• IDMS
• Datacom
• Exadata
• Oracle Coherence WAN
• LAN
• EVPL
• Wireless
• Satellite
• Routing optimization
• Cloud Connect.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Trenton, NJ

Chief Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded and completed federally mandated CDLIS Modernization project in less than 8 months saving the State for more than $150M for the highway transportation fund. The original estimate to complete this project was approximately 2+ years.
• Estimated $28 Million NJMVC Transformation Project (TP) and obtained approval from the Governor’s Office and initiated the project execution.
• Managed 6 Project Managers, 12 state employees, 32 consultants and 8 vendor professional services for the NJMVC Transformation Project.
• Developed exit strategy for NJMVC previous larger mission critical multimillion initiative (MATRX project).
• Worked closely with C-Level executives and introduced three to five-year technology strategy for NJMVC with the concepts of the Transformation project. The execution of this project impacted the Commission, the State and the Nation on transformation and Mainframe modernization approach for State / Local government large scale (multimillion, multiyear) projects.
• Introduced and implemented GT Technology in Mainframe exposing core mainframe services as secured Web Services complying with State security standards saving months of time and millions of dollars for the state.
• Introduced and implemented BizTalk ESB, .NET UX technologies, Team Foundation Server, DynaTrace, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Key Vault and Advanced Security Option, Kofax KTM, Kofax KTA, Kofax Capture SDK, FraudOne, PowerDesigner, PowerBI, SalesForce, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle coherence in-memory grid and Hyper converged servers with Simplivity. Introduced and estimated Master Data Management and ERP strategy and implementation.
• Completed several Proof of Technologies and Proof of Concepts in short periods of time as part of technology innovation and adoption. Introduced two cloud technologies for the Transformation project.
• Defined multiyear Digital Transformation strategy for NJMVC and introduced 5 innovative initiatives applying machine learning and Artificial Intelligence.
• Spearheaded and completed larger phases of the TP projects including federally mandated initiatives CDLIS Mod 5.2, CDLIS Mod 5.3 and an internal CAIR (Customer Abstract Information Retrieval) application.
• Innovated and implemented optimized program and project management methodology for the TP project “7 Month Progressive Cycle” handling high demanding stakeholder expectations using agile development.
• Defined development strategy and rapidly built optimized team structure to meet immediate needs for TP
• Tactically and timely worked with C level executives and kept the projects on track until completion.
• Strategized long-term vision for the MVC and prioritized larger corporate initiatives.
• Quickly built teams and kept State employees motivated and maintained projects enthusiastic and challenging changing state cultures with long-term employees
• Introduced technologies and vendors tactically, managed and maintained consistent development progress and reported project status in timely manner to all stake holders. Responded to SSA (Social Security Administration) and OLS (Office of Legislative Services) audits.
• Budgeted and created research LAB platform for NJMVC technology innovation, research and adoption.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with C Level Executives and reduced time to market, simplified application portfolio, and reduced total cost of service delivery through IT strategy and SOA implementation
• Attained operational efficiency, high customer satisfaction and quality through proactive problem solution, quick trouble shooting and business performance trend analysis. Implemented ITIL based Business Service Management (BSM) using Remedy
• Eliminated cost prohibitive and unmanageable spaghetti of point-to-point integrations, enabled application modernization and reuse of existing services by deploying corporate wide Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
• Obtained continued cost savings, operational efficiency and quality through real-time view into business transactions. In tegrated ESB & BSM and end to end Application performance monitoring (APM). Specified strategy, roadmap, evaluated technology and built solution architecture for ESB, BSM and APM.
• Attained quick turn around and reduced development cost by implementing enterprise IT reference architecture for Java - J2EE (Spring, SEAM, Hibernate, JPA etc.), .NET and Mainframe
• Minimized operational cost through business process automation, and hardware & software consolidation
• Continuously improved IT quality and efficiency through SDLC, ALM and proactive management of technology lifecycle
• Defined and implemented Architecture Governance processes based on TOGAF 9. Peer reviewed several ETS mission critical application solution design and deployment
• Spearheaded enterprise technology hygiene initiative and remediated enterprise wide obsolete and vulnerable technologies
• Instituted corporate wide standards for application metadata documentation and Model Driven Development (MDD) by deploying and practicing Sybase PowerDesigner
• Managed and instituted IT technologies through methodical technology research and adoption processes
• Remediated security vulnerability of midrange batch jobs by deploying centralized batch job service facility using CA Autosys
• Architected internet based educational assessment development and delivery application (iBT). iBT delivers millions of ETS assessments to students around the globe through internet based technologies
• Implemented voice activated assessment delivery system for ADA students meeting corporate mission
• Spearheaded and implemented uninterrupted, distributed local caching solution with routing optimization
• Introduced XML and invented Question/Item Display Interpreting (ISET) language. Implemented ISET display framework for iBT and other ETS assessment development and delivery systems
• Joined Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) industry initiative and implemented QTI for ETS scoring processes
• Implemented mission critical proprietary assessment delivery algorithms such as ETS CAT, Linear On the Fly Test (LOFT), CMT for Adaptive Test and standard linear and CMT tests
• Specified and developed common assessment scoring service for all ETS delivered assessments
• Consolidated multi program ETS test delivery applications to SOA based solution