SUMMARY:

• A highly experienced, results - oriented Enterprise Architect with over 18 years of comprehensive IT experience with proven track record of developing technology solutions to resolve significant business challenges and mission critical applications.
• Proven experience in developing IT strategy and governance, evaluating emerging technologies, transforming organizations, future state architecture and innovative solutions.
• Extensive insurance, financial and health care IT domain knowledge in P&C, Risk management Commercial Card and Health Care Management.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Architecture: Enterprise Architecture and Solution ~ Integration Architecture ~ Roadmap and planning ~ Technology Evaluation and adoption ~ Building Reference Architecture

Leadership: Project Management ~ Team Building ~ Vendor and Product Selection ~ Coaching and Mentoring

Delivery: Solutions Engineering ~ Systems Integration ~ Process implementation~ Performance Engineering

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: JAVA, ESQL, PL/SQL

Web Design/J2EE: Ajax, JavaScript, XML, HTML5.0, CSS, XSLT, Java Servlets, Java Beans, JSP, JSF, EJB, Design Patterns, MQ Series, Top link, Hibernate, Web services, Restful Web services, Sencha 2.0, salesforce

IDE Tools: Rational Application Developer 7.0/8.0, Front Page, Spring Tool Suite (STS), Websphere Application Developer (WSAD) 5.0,eclipse, MyEclipse, NetBeans, Fortify plugin

Operating Systems: , Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Unix

Databases: MS Access, MS SQL, ORACLE, DB2, Sybase, Teradata

ETL: SQL Server SSIS, Informatics, Data Stage

Web Application Servers: IBM Websphere Application Server 4/5/6, Tomcat 6.0

Websphere Tools: IBM Websphere Message Broker 7.0.0.3, Websphere Service Registry and Repository 7.5, Websphere Message Queue (MQ) 7.0, Websphere Application Server 6.0/ 7.0

Frameworks: Spring, Struts, TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL

TAM 6.0, LDAP 6.0:

Version Control: Dimensions, PVCS, SVN

Build Tools: Ant, Maven

Architecture Tools: Visio, Sparx EA tool, Rational Software Architect, ActiMate

BPM Tools: PegaPRC and Appian

Methodologies: RUP, JAD, Agile, Scrum, Pair Programming, AOP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Lisle, IL

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led a portfolio rationalization initiative that identified $1.6 million in annual savings opportunity through application and technology retirements and replacement.
• Worked with product managers and business executives to define solution and develop roadmap for strategic sourcing that align with business strategy and goal with potential 4 to 5% realize in savings on addressable direct spend.
• Defined enterprise wide MDM strategy and roadmap for customer data and led the vendor selection process.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Enterprise Architecture Services Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Architected and proposed enterprise solutions for transforming and consolidating Health Care Management portfolio applications with minimum organization impact, resulting significant saving to Confidential .
• Lead the analysis of current technology environment in Health Care Management portfolio to detect critical deficiencies and recommended BPM solution as improvement for care orchestration.
• Analyzed current Integrated Predictive Analytics technology environments in health care business unit and develop target state architecture by performing gap analysis and created candidate architecture and other architecture artifacts using Sparx EA tool.
• Partner with business executives in providing and developing Health Care Management strategy roadmaps that enhance alignment with business strategy and optimizes utilization of existing IT resources.
• Participated in defining EA strategy focusing on simplification, standardization and speed to market through agile solutions.
• Participated in evaluating technology, products, identifying critical deficiencies and recommend solutions to foundational and target architecture.
• Developed business capability model, future state architecture, reference architecture, business architecture along with information and application architecture for health care management portfolio.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Vice President - Architect Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architected and proposed alternative solutions for transforming and consolidating Commercial card applications with minimum organization impact, resulting multimillions saving to bank.
• Analyzed current state commercial card technology environments, which ranged from legacy systems to newer technologies and develop target state architecture by performing gap analysis.
• Participated in evaluating technology, products, identifying critical deficiencies and recommend solutions to foundational and target architecture.
• Provided guidance to other senior technical staff to ensure integration strategies act cohesively and enable them to deliver projects on time with high quality.
• Developed portfolio level current and future state technology architecture along with a roadmap and measurement of success.
• Developed architecture policies and standards to support uniform focus on technology that is essential to global commercial card portfolio.
• Designed conceptual architectural blue print for commercial card space that included proposed solution for anti-monetary laundry project with all business and architecture artifacts.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Enterprise Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided solution architecture and strategy to transfer customer and policy header data from diverse applications to MDM in different phases of the project.
• Architected and proposed solutions for retiring legacy applications with limited organization impact.
• Developed Reference Architectures, Technology Reference Models and Heat maps for ECF project.
• Participated in evaluating and selecting vendor products. Worked closely with EPG team in facilitating discussion with vendors in RFI and RFP process for MDM and D&B product.
• Contributed in developing application roadmaps, Technology adoption roadmaps.
• Designed and developed proposal for introducing new technology; persuaded to stakeholders for securing funds as part of project planning and budgeting process.
• Involved in discussions with CXO’s, PM’s, application engineers and focus groups to minimize expenditure, reduce TCO, and improve overall synergy within organization.
• Developed Conceptual Architectural document for ECF project using industry standard enterprise architectural framework (TOGAF).
• Led Proof of Concept initiative for integrating Sales force and evaluating vendor products (D&B and MDM)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architected and proposed solution for integrating Confidential with legacy ( Confidential and PeopleSoft) and non-legacy system via web service using message broker.
• Proposed effective solution in reducing future enhancement cost for adding new product line in rating engine.
• Provided guidance to design team in developing high-level design document for complex portion of the applications.
• Established Web Service design principles by adopting BIM/DOM/DSM.
• Worked closely with infrastructure team and application architecture in laying down the capacity plan and production deployment strategies.
• Architected SOA solution and strategy, including the concept of ESB, web services implementation, registry & repository, governance strategy and integration patterns.
• Developed reference architecture, SAD and provided leadership in designing Business Architecture, Application Architecture, Data Architecture & Technical Architecture for Predictive analytic project.
• Designed and proposed effective solution in enhancing and improving risk evaluation technique capabilities by exposing and integrating predictive analytic application with other systems using messaging technology.
• Evaluated risks and supervised staff of business analysts and developers for articulating technical artifacts.
• Provided guidance to design team in producing HLD and UML artifacts and performed functional and non-functional quality check through review sessions.
• Lead the performance engineering team in conducting performance test during deployment phase of the project.
• Worked closely with infrastructure and production deployment team in defining the capacity plan and deployment strategies.

Architect / Development Lead (Manager)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Improved customer satisfaction and provided competitive product by designing Proposal letter solution to provide snap shot of the policy in rich text and PDF format. Achieved significant customer appreciation and indirect revenue growth.
• Increased performance by 40% and slashed maintenance costs by migrating and upgrading Confidential central application on WAS6 clustered environment.
• Oversaw enhancement of Confidential Central application. Reduced maintenance costs $3M per year and improved efficiency by leading project planning, software development, and implementation. Utilized Gang of Four and J2EE patterns to ease maintenance cost.
• Actively worked with Enterprise Architects in setting up standards and governance by designing common design patterns and reusable modules.
• Lowered costs and improved efficiency through application reuse, IT infrastructure consolidation, process review, legacy application retirement, and effective estimating.

Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Improved quote processing times and provided ROI of $500,000.
• Reduced project costs and complexity by utilizing existing corporate services and systems.
• Eliminated hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential penalties by completing project on time.