SUMMARY:

• Extensive knowledge and 17+ years of experience in performing Strategic Planning for executives, forming SOA governance policy and life cycle design, enterprise application architecture design and development using Service - Oriented Architecture principles specifically in Insurance domain
• Executed Development projects and programs using Agile scrum, Iterative, Waterfall methodologies, with strong Business and Technical foundation, architecting solutions in Java/J2EE, Web services, SOAP, ESB, EAI, SOA, BPM, e-commerce technologies.
• Strong Leadership, Creative Problem Solver, Keen Planner, Strategist and Implementer with demonstrated success in end-to-end project management and ensuring effective management of large team to meet project outcomes.
• Significant experience working with senior stakeholders, customers, Functional managers and technical teams
• Project Management Professional offering demonstrated career in setting up and executing IT Projects, Programs in Insurance using advanced technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology/Languages: Java/J2EE, Web Services, MQ, WSRR, TOGAF, EAI, ESB, SOA, WSRR,, BPM, BPEL, SOAP/WSDL, XML/XSD, JAX-RPC / JAX-WS, C, C++, E-Commerce, ANT Scripts, Java Scripts, JSP, JAXB, XSLT, ACCORD

Operating Systems: AIX/UNIX, Microsoft Windows ((Vista, NT, XP).

Framework: TOGAF, Struts, MVC, Hibernate, Spring, SOA, JMS

Servers: WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Message Broker Server, JBoss 4.x, BEA Web Logic Application Servers, WebSphere Portal Server

Databases: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server

Tools: IBM Rational Tools Rational Application Developer, Rational Team Concert, Rational Software Architect, Rational Asset Analyzer, Rational Rose, WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit, XML Spy, Data Power, LDAP / Active Directory, SOAP UI, AJAX, Hibernate, Rally Agile, Jenkins, Build Forge, StarTeam, CA Clarity, SharePoint, Microsoft Project, MS Visio, Load Runner, Green Hat, Appwatch, Ignite XML, Interscope Wily

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Senior Technical Manager

• Effectively manage multiple projects as a Senior Technical Manager.
• Lead the Development for event-driven SOA framework for consistent innovation that enabled (1) consumer-preferred interaction points, (2) bi-temporal intelligent consumer analytics and (3) faster speed-to-market products.
• Implemented ESB architecture design strategy and security safeguards using IBM WebSphere Message Broker resulting in cost reductions, accelerated time-to-market, and improved transaction processing quality.
• Developed ESB template development process that enables increasingly sophisticated levels of program personalization.
• Plan all aspects of project development including scope, objectives, deliverables, tasks, budgets, and resources, schedules, coordinating teams, and managing dependencies.
• Create and reflect WBS in clarity including all tasks required following organization processes as well as milestones and phases.
• Accountable for architecture, conceptual design and deliverables of the project and validation of design implementation.
• Responsible for Legacy System architecture and design of various SOA services.
• Initiate and Coordinate analysis, design and development review meetings.
• Identify issues and ensuring their resolution involving all required stakeholder and proceed with escalations when needed.
• Oversee all aspects of the project execution, project data analysis, troubleshooting, and seamless cross-functional teamwork.
• Continually adapt to changing needs and priorities by analyzing and incorporating new information to understand impacts.
• Worked as SME for Performance and Stress testing Analysis and providing solutions in case of Performance issues.
• Held Governance meetings with Senior Client leadership to monitor progress of the programs as per schedule/ budgets, and ensuring timely completion and delivery of programs. Developed dashboard for various stakeholders
• Managed SOX and Security Program while monitoring multiple projects and established strong client
• Leveraged technical and business background by providing inputs to Business and Technical Architecture
• As an Agile Scrum Master, Facilitating Product backlog discussions with business team, Sprint backlog planning and facilitating daily standup meetings.
• Followed Waterfall and Agile/Scrum methods (team velocity, team demos, retrospectives and sprint planning) to plan sprints and releases.
• Developing financial plans including budgets, monitoring expenses, adjusting resource allocation accordingly and processing CRs when needed.
• Conduct detailed analysis exercises and present reports/metrics to program manager/portfolio managers.
• Ensure transition to Production support teams following the proper Release management process as well as communicating results, project status, and sign off systems.
• Developing vendor statements of work, deliverables and Service Level Agreements.
• Doing Group integration strategy updates and Integration Roadmap planning.
• Managing the Vendor offshore and on Shore team and to Ensure vendor performance and deliverables meet contract specifications.
• Worked as Lead and involved in planning, directing and coordinating IT project activities to accomplish goals and objectives, review proposals to determine time frame, staffing requirements, coordinating activities of project personnel to provide technical advice and resolve problems.
• Trouble shooting of performance related issues in integrated environment and implementation of Portal Modules and Web Services using B2B strategies.
• Took initiatives in introducing cutting edge technologies and doing Proof of concepts.
• Create services to data-marts for essential initial information, centralize collected, calculated and saved data to an Experience Rating specific, dedicated database.
• Translating complex business requirements into technical solutions.
• Worked closely with third party vendors to review business proposals and deliverables, business analysts, IT & business partners, QA and other enterprise-wide support personnel to support application development & maintenance.
• Managed and coordinate Off-shore team and provide technical advice and solve issues where needed.
• Integrating database services to load balancing AIX servers.
• Developed an end to end framework for handling transactions, logging, exception handling, caching and other common routines.
• Have implemented modules using Struts Framework.
• Configuration and Installation of Web Sphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal Server.
• Developed solutions to enhance session management and scalability.
• Hands-on experience on StarTeam which was used as a Configuration Manager to support the project for timely builds and concurrent changes.
• Setting up the Build forge environment - an Automated Build taking tool.
• Actuates’ e-Spreadsheet Engine- One of the Major Goals our Business Partners had for this Project was the standardization of data and Analysis results for Products that were being Experience Rated by the NSC Underwriters and Account Specialists. Due to the vast number of algorithms associated with the processing Life, Dental for Disability Experience Rating calculations, we needed to find a simple yet elegant solution. Did R&D for this E-spreadsheet API and incorporated a framework to use in the system.

Environment: WMB Toolkit 8.0, Web Services, MQ, WSRR, Java/J2EE, JAXB, RSA, RTC, Rally, RAA, SOAP, WSDL/SOAP, AJAX, XML, WSDL, RAD 8.0, Hibernate, e-spreadsheet APIs, ACCORD, WebSphere Application Server, Advanced Addition, SQL, Data Power, LDAP / Active Directory, SOAP UI, Jenkins, Build Forge, StarTeam, CA Clarity, SharePoint, Load Runner, Green Hat, Appwatch, Ignite XML, Interscope Wily, Test Director, Altova XML Spy, DB2, DB Visualizer, MS Project, MS Visio, Windows Vista, NT/2000 and Windows XP Professional.

Confidential,NJ

Technical Team Lead /Senior Application Developer

• To overall analyze the workflow and existing Web phased Wins System and designed the enterprise application as standalone Web Module level
• Implementation of Web Modules using B2B strategies.
• Have implemented modules using Struts Framework 1.1.
• Implementation of some applet based modules using JAVA SWING.
• Using Struts and Model View Controller architecture incorporated with XML and EJB enabled framework to design the whole System.
• Back End database interface is developed using XML and IBM Record Access strategy.
• Implementation of Session through Session EJBs
• Using Aldon Affinity, configured with WSAD and using it as source control.
• Setting and configuring the LDAP server.
• Implement a pilot prototype based on the proposed framework and to do the research and development work in order to accomplish the goal.
• Writing core design APIs in Java for proposed framework architecture.
• Written optimized and efficient Connection Pool API for IBM Web Sphere. Configured the Connection Pooling in Web Sphere.
• To do R&D for IBM Webfacing tool and to utilize it in converting the existing AS400 based modules as web based and incorporating it with the current WINSDIGITAL system.
• To generate PDF forms using the FDF APIs and customizing as per client’s need.
• Research and development on converting the modules into Web Services using SOAP messages.
• Led the team to make WinsDigital Application as an IBM benchmarked application.at IBM Rochester MN. At IBM benchmarked center, Winsdigital was tested with different sets of Hardware and front end configurations settings in order to meet the success criteria to lead the application with maximum number of concurrent users and keeping the response time as low as possible and meeting all the client specific requirements too.

Environment: Java Server Pages, Servlets, EJB, Java Beans, EJB, XML, WSAD 5.1, WDSC, WebSphere Application Server 5.0/5.1 Advanced Addition, Clear Case, SQL, Network Protocols, Aldon Affinity source Management System, MS Project, DB2/400, OS/400 and Windows NT/2000.

Confidential,NJ

Senior Application Developer/Analyst

• Type of connectivity
• Maximum & minimum speeds offered
• Connectivity type technology specific information like “loop length” and “egress information” in case of DSL
• CPE information
• Immediate CLLI information
• Other information like address that is an echo of the address input.
• To design front end prototype and to prepare the Business requirements Document.
• Using Unix VI editor to develop all the business logic in Enterprise Java Beans and Servlets.
• To develop and deploy different session Beans that are used to store the response that we get from different vendors that provide DSL connections.
• Have prepared GUI requirements documents and presentation that is considered as base line for the upcoming phase.
• Have played a key role in troubleshooting and resolved different problems occurred in the previous phase that is in production concurrently.

Environment: JAVA Servlets, JAVA Beans, EJB, JDBC, HTML, BEA WEBLOGIC SERVER, UNIX and Windows NT

Confidential,NJ

Senior Analyst Programmer

• To design front end (JSP) using Page Designer.
• To program business logic using Java Beans and controller part is written in Java Servlets using WebSphere Studio.
• I was responsible for the packaging of different modules by integrating group of classes together.
• I was also involved in interacting with client (CHL) in USA and also with the head office Visionet Systems Inc. in NJ for any correspondence and handling different queries faced during the whole project in that.

Environment: JAVA Servlets, JSP, JAVA Beans, JDBC, HTML, SQL, IBM WebSphere Studio 3.0, DB2/400 and Windows NT/2000