SUMMARY

• Architecture

• System Integration

• Risk Management

• Data Integration

• Cloud

• Big Data

• Innovation/Strategy

• Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Enterprise and Data Architect (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Build target architecture for CCAR, FinReg, Risk and ALM work streams for confidential to produce regulatory reports FR Y 14A, Q and M, LCR, 5G schedules including Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Capital, Projections, Loans, Securities, Commercial Real Estate and Balances for Federal Reserve Compliance. Interact with the business team to understand the requirements and document the AS - IS and TO-BE business process. Build ROI for TO-BE process and plan the transformation. Determine BWE current state for Day 1 and Day 2. Identify gaps and document data flows, workflows, data model, data quality, data integration, data governance and data lineage from source to target. Map source systems to each work stream (CCAR, ALMT, FinReg, Risk). Create diagrams in Abacus to create single source of truth. Consolidate and aggregate data in EDW to provide Regulatory reports. Create IHC BWE Solution Architecture deck for upper management to present to regulators and auditors. Review architecture and design as part of ARB and provide suggestions for improvements. Lead the teams of business analyst, ETL developer and data modeler.
• Create cloud migration strategy for using Microsoft Azure.
• Migrate employees to Office 365, SharePoint and Exchange.

Confidential, San Jose CA

Enterprise Solution Architect (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Architect and design target state to manage global cash flows, debt, investment, foreign exchange, intercompany lending & in-house banking activities to integrate disparate Treasury functions into a single solution that automates cross organization functions. Enhance transaction controls and associated approval, along with operator audit trails that are documented and available in the system for review. Provide a scalable global treasury infrastructure. Build EDW and financial data marts to consolidate data to improve reporting capabilities. Lead a team of developers and manage complete SDLC (Build BRD, SAD, Develop modules, unit testing, system integrated testing, UAT and Go-Live) process.
• Build the architecture for SaaS based applications. Integrate applications and build Infrastructure components for target state to address functional and nonfunctional requirements (Availability, Capacity planning & forecasting, Response time, BCDR, workload analysis etc.). Build predictive model for infrastructure components forecasting and cost model. Migrate various applications to OpenStack Cloud. Engage with InfoSec team to review applications in scope for security audit and compliance. Review enterprise applications architecture as part of ARB process.
• Conduct POC for Azure and migrate in house applications to Azure. Migrate marketing team to Office 365 Cloud, SharePoint and exchange as first phase of the project.
• Analyze complete revenue cycle workflow. Integrate REVAL, FXALL and Webmethods. Conduct Unit testing, system testing, UAT and Go-Live. Interact with Reval and FXALL for integrating end-to-end solution. Document the entire design and conduct training.
• Document the complete business process AS IS and TO-BE. Integrate Trading platform for FX spot, swaps and options trades in multiple currencies with SunGard Quantum (Cash Management System), Banks, WebMethods and SAP. Data mapping the GL file with SAP GL interface. Validate JE and GL entries and files in transit. Generate MTM and validate. Utilize standards like BAI2, MT101, MT940, MT941, and MT942 and integrate with WebMethods and SAP. Build PGP encryption/decryption for transferring the data securely to meet InfoSec standards.
• Document complete AS-IS and TO-BE business process. Build ROI for TO-BE process. Integrate and automate Wire Transfer securely by implementing wire transfer workflow in Salesforce (SaaS), Quantum (SaaS based application for Cash management System) and Banks.
• Integrate BaaS ECC (Billing as a Service) for StubHub with WebMethods and SAP ECC through SNC.
• Use The Open Group of Architecture Framework (TOGAF) using Business, Application, Data and Technology models.
• Integrate SAP interfaces with external entities Reports. Confidential .com, GenPact, Bank of America and Site2GL, FinOps/FinSys.
• Build the target state in compliance to InfoSec guidelines for PCI, PII etc. Encrypt the data using PGP, define appropriate zones based on sensitivity of the data including two factor authentication etc.
• Implement and manage integration of 8 MPLS circuits between Confidential / Confidential - BroadRidge/SunGard. Deploy in Equinix, Confidential and Confidential data centers. Automate failover between Primary and DR MPLS circuits. Test failover sequence. This engagement involves 8 different groups and outside vendors.

Achievements: During Confidential / Confidential split; MPLS project was in red status when it was assigned to me. Successfully delivered on time. Successfully designed and implemented auto failover MPLS circuit in the history of Confidential .

Confidential, CA

Enterprise Cloud Architect (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Build strategies, road map and presentation to upper management for next generation data center, which includes hyper-converged storage, SDN, ACI and SDS. Build cost model against Amazon AWS.
• Lead migration team to map applications from source to target. Migrate several applications including legacy from one DC to another DC including Cloud. Build DR for the mission critical applications and document BCDR procedures. Conduct POC with VMware NSX along with network team. Deploy OpenStack (Nova, Swift, Cinder, Neutron, Glance, keystone, Horizon and Heat) as POC for evaluation purpose for IaaS. Conduct POC for Azure. Good understanding of SDS (Software Defined Storage), SDN (Software Defined Network) and ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure).
• Architect and design target state architecture for Private Cloud using UCS, VMware vCloud, vCAC, vCO, VMAX of a capacity of 2,000 VMs and 1 PB of EMC Storage. Use RESTful API of storage subsystems for EMC storage provisioning. Integrate Puppet Infrastructure in multiple data centers. Integrate private cloud with Amazon public cloud using AWS (EC2, S3, ELB, EBS, Auto Scaling, CloudFront, Federated Identity). Migrate applications in Amazon AWS. Run TCO and ROI for Amazon AWS. Architect and design Big Data Hadoop infrastructure of 100 nodes with 800 TB. Understand data and create data model (conceptual, logical and physical), data mapping for business intelligence (BI) reporting. Review architecture of new applications and make sure that the applications are architected and designed according to SOA and as per standards established.
• Document Quote to collect, Purchase (Buy) to Pay and SCM for SAP. Migrate SAP to private cloud.
• Document AS-IS and TO-BE process and Migrate Siebel (CRM) to Salesforce. Integrate Data, Data Quality and Data integrity.
• Architect and Adobe Design content management system for 50 million users.
• Architect and Design mobile infrastructure for 40 million users to access telemetry data to be ingested in Big Data Hadoop for virus processing. Lead a team to write Map Reduce program in Java.
• Lead a team of developers and business analyst. Work through complete product life cycle (Requirement gathering, architecting, designing, capacity planning, unit testing, integration testing, QA, PROD deployment, verification and go-live) of the project and address gaps. Use The Open Group of Architecture Framework (TOGAF) using Business, Application, Data and Technology models.
• Design the solution for migrating Microsoft Office to Office 365 (Azure Cloud), SharePoint and Exchange.
• Architect and design IoT Cloud platform to monitor IoT devices (medical, home devices, smart phone and automobile etc.). Build the MQTT based hub/bridge/server to have scalable client publisher and client subscriber. Build subscriber based on topic and rule engine to capture data for business intelligence, dashboard and data mining with Hadoop.
• Review architecture and design of various applications. Plan and assess capacity requirements for applications for infrastructure components (IOPS, Network BW, workload analysis, functional/non-functional requirements, SLA, Gap Analysis, response time, capacity forecasting for compute, storage and networking) to make sure that the applications are architected and designed according to standards/guidelines and security guidelines established. Document logical design, physical design and build sheet. Architect and Design the applications as per InfoSec guidelines (PCI, PII etc.) and undergo security audit.

Confidential, CA

Architect and Solution Design Consultant (Contract)

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, capacity planning and coordinate with multiple groups for building National Cost Estimation Application. SaaS application for Cloud with SOA and ESB. Integrate using web services, SaaS application with various modules and components including SAML, SSO, EDI X 12 270 /271, 837, 834 (eligibility, benefits, Claims, Enrollment, CORE and CAQH) and various claims systems, membership systems, including KPHC, EPIC Tapestry, EPIC STS, IHS, KPEG (KP EDI gateway), Datapower, Clearinghouse and outside vendor. Document business requirements, analyze and document SAD, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Manage SDLC for building web services and custom code for integration. Create architecture and design documents using use cases, data flow, interface and sequence diagrams. Solve complex problems including performance, capacity planning to build modular, scalable architecture and solution. Identify gaps to mitigate various risks. Build Hadoop Big Data Analytics on claims extract. Build MapReduce programs in Java to extract meaningful useful data.
• Architect and design IoT for integrating medical devices monitoring heartbeat, blood pressure, ECG, Sleep monitoring, MRI, CT Scan, blood test etc. Build web services based client and server model since these legacy devices were not supporting MQTT. Capture and store data for 18 yrs. to be in compliance.
• Architect and Design the applications as per InfoSec guidelines (PCI, PII, HIPPA, SOX etc.) and undergo security audit.
• Architect and design solutions for the entire technology stack including hardware, software and application platforms for servers, storage, clustering, data replication, disaster recovery, database, and messaging platforms. Lead infrastructure capacity planning, functional/non-functional requirements, benchmarking, monitoring, tuning and optimization initiatives, and contribute to the development of system/platform roadmaps, process improvement, fit for use and standards. Contribute in gap analysis and requirements for building RDE (Rapid Deployment Environment) using FlexPod for Cloud Portal.
• Architect solutions, capacity planning and design infrastructure for 23 applications/projects (Sharepoint 2010, OneLine Vertex, OneLink BI Data Mirror, OneLink Controlled Substance Ordering, OneLink KoFax, OneLink DR Migration, OBIX Fetal Heart Monitoring System, Splitter/Router for claim processing, Genetics System Replacement, RDE etc.), KPHC EPIC EMR/EHR for NFR, LSDD and PSDD for data center infrastructure design, compliance (PCI, HIPPA, SOX), consolidation, evaluating, analyzing, benchmarking, scaling, capacity planning, data modeling, data governance, enterprise application integration, systems integration, Clustering, HA, SOA, Web Services, Middleware, Unix/Windows and articulating solution alternatives, develop sound solutions and recommendations for end-to-end solutions. Document logical and physical design. Migrate several applications from one DC to another DC. Map all the applications from source to target and perform (P2P, P2V and V2V) enterprise applications to other DCs into Cloud. Work on process improvement on EARB using Six Sigma Methodology.

Achievements: Recognized for exemplary performance on NCE project for taking the project successfully from inception to GA. The project involved interacting over 20 different groups and over 200 resources. Met 100% deadlines for Phase 2A, Phase 2B Stage 1 (GA), Multi Channel Connectivity, Environment Dry run and Component Integration (CIT).

Architected solutions and designed infrastructure for 23 projects and virtualized most of the environment, which led to savings in CAPEX and OPEX.

Confidential, CA

Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Confidential, Confidential, is a 13 billion-dollar Data Center (DC) and IT infrastructure hosting company with cloud offerings through VPDC (Virtual Private Data Center). It hosts DCs for small, medium and fortune 500 clients.
• Architect, design capacity planning target state Data Center components for cloud (Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud) which involves Storage, Servers, Network and VMs. Evaluate capacity planning to ensure that performance, capacity, storage IOPS, response time, availability, RPOs/RTOs and SLAs are met. Design and implement business continuity and disaster recovery planning (BCDR). Establish failover and failback processes and procedures for BCDR. Document logical and physical design.
• Engage with sales team to address customers’ technical requirements during sales engagement for cloud, data center hosting and DC migration.
• Integrate NetApp storage with Cloud Provisioning storage module of SavvisStation Portal. SavvisStation orchestration engine is similar to OpenStack. Use RESTful APIs to integrate backend storage system
• Deploy OpenStack (Nova, Swift, Cinder, Quantum) as POC for evaluation purpose for IaaS.
• Create documents on Security Guidelines, Solution Design Guidelines and SOP. Build cost model for service offering as IaaS and SaaS.
• Migrate client’s data centers to hosted data center environment (Colocation, Dedicated, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud). The migration is between homogeneous and heterogeneous storage environment (EMC, NetApp, Hitachi and 3PAR).
• Build collateral on Storage Services, Business Continuity, Data Governance, ILM, Storage Optimization, Storage Tier, Storage Migration and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) with failover & failback (Active/Active and Active/Passive) and Automation Orchestration services

Achievements: Built 14 docs on collateral in 2 months.

Confidential, CA

Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

•  Provide vision and strategic direction towards Enterprise Application Integration, Security and IT Infrastructure.
• Build educational portal. The portal was build with micro web services using Education Enterprise Architecture framework. Use Business, Information, and Application and Technology models of EEA. Use Self Service model for registration, payment, and schedule to deliver training online. PKI was build to secure the contents. Integrate it with corporate portal using Single Sign On (SSO).
• Execute strategies for Cloud Services enablement for compute, Network and storage. Evaluate IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, components for cloud. Define Cloud architecture, services, SOA, virtualization, automation and orchestration. Evaluate service catalog, billing model and TCO.
• Develop proprietary Cloud automation engine similar to vCloud Director and OpenStack.
• Implement Apache Hadoop for business intelligence and analytics for BIG Data as SaaS. Design and develop Map Reduce in Java for various projects. Architect and Design queue management scheduler to handle workload for the customers.
• Execute Pre-Sales engagement with sales team to address customers’ technical needs. Support customer as trusted advisor.
• Deploy and integrate large enterprise applications ERP (FICO, SCM, Purchase to Pay, Quote to Collect), CRM, SAP, Electronic Medical Record Automation (EMR), SharePoint 2007, Cognos, Business Intelligent Portal, Supply Chain) based on SOA. Implement BI Portal with drill down reports on healthcare. Perform analytics and data quality to create baseline on data.
• Work on multiple business intelligence (BI) projects. Implement Dashboard with drill down reporting with various metrics using Cognos business intelligence. This involved data modeling, setting ETL processes and SQL queries to get the data from multiple sources including multi-tier Data Warehouses (DWH).
• Architect, design, capacity planning, storage provisioning, data center migration, data center consolidation, storage virtualization, expansion, Build & Manage Disaster Recovery Sites. RPO, RTO, growth, capacity planning, performance, scalability, manageability, security and availability. Define and manage SLA for services. Implement risk and mitigation strategies.
• Evaluate and implement various security solutions that involve DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) and Encryption solutions for Corporate Governance, SOX, HIPPA and PCI.
• Implement ITIL best practices and framework for Service Design, Service Transition and Service Operation.

Confidential, CA

CTO and Architect (Co- Founder) 

Responsibilities:

Provide vision and strategic direction towards building collaborative enterprise applications based on presence, availability, real time messaging and instant response pertaining to transaction and collaborative services. Build Genius Archiving System (GAS) for Instant Messaging (IM). The enterprise application was built to handle millions of connections to archive each IM conversation.

Achievements: Raised $10 Million dollar VC funding. Delivered the product in 13 months from inception and deployed in beta customer environment. Company got acquired by Ikimbo.

Confidential, CA

SENIOR MANAGER / ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

Architect and design Video Server for broadcasting over IP and ATM network. Architect content management application for managing MPEG contents and play to air list. Integrate Louth Studio Automation System Development with Play to Air.

Responsible for driving the tools, process for performance scalability and capacity planning to size the backend infrastructure for the Sun Connections platform which supported different service offerings to end customers. In addition responsible for business process engineering, architectural governance, 3rd party evaluation and compliance for the Customer Network Services organization.

Achievements: Achievement award in recognition of outstanding performance, Jan 30, 1998. Achievement award in recognition of NAB'98. Achievement award in recognition of NAB'99 Launch - Louth Studio Automation System Development.Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Architect, design and deploy multi-service protocol backbone for VSNL (first ISP in India) to connect 5 metropolitan cities (Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Bangalore). Integrate mail, ftp, web surfing, telnet and many other services for Internet users.

Achievements: Built cluster software for HA. Delivered projects before time.

Confidential

Researcher

Responsibilities:

Research on networking protocols. Design, develop and implement Networking Software and Hardware. Design, develop and implement IEEE 802.6 LAN/MAN Distributed Queue Dual Bus (DQDB) protocol chip set in FPGA. Write system software for DQDB card on DOS platform for testing the card and UNIX device driver for DQDB card on Linux to integrate the card on UNIX host.

Achievements: Presented paper at IITM on DQDB. Automated IT infrastructure and created dashboard with traffic statistics.