TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Industries: Energy, Education, Telecommunications, Telecom Billing

Applications: Aspen, TIBCO suite of products, ETL, Maximo 6.2, MEA, Kenan Arbor BP, Rational suite of products, Remedy Action Request System, Maximo Asset management

Expertise: Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, Rational Unified Process, Use Case Modelling

Languages and Web Technology: PL/SQL, J2EE, Java, C++, C, PERL, UML, Visio chart application, XML, JMS Messaging Queue, TIBCO RV messaging, Simple Java Servlets.

Operating System: WINDOWS 2000/NT/XP, UNIX, LINUX

Databases: MySQL, Oracle 9i/11, MS Access, RDBMS architecture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Software Engineer - Senior Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented procedures in Java EJBs, making full use of Aspen’s existing EJB interfaces.
• This vastly improved performance compared to procedures that had SQL calls from within Java.
• Managed delivery of Java reports, procedures, imports and conversions in agile methodology and through on-demand scrums.
• Took on critical additional role as migration lead to oversee all tasks of Aspen upgrade.
• An urgent Aspen platform upgrade (5.1 to 5.3) was determined as a last ditch effort to address key performance issues. This involved delicate coordination as it took place in parallel alongside go-live data conversion effort.
• Helped set up guidelines and practices in place so they can function seamlessly as an agile operating environment.
• Improved knowledge sharing across IT team members to aid in active design sessions
• Operationalized review of metrics and error reports into tasks that improves end-to-end data process

Confidential

Software Engineer - Programmer & Consultant - TIBCO

Responsibilities:

• Served as a senior TIBCO integration consultant on a SmartGrid Analytics initiative between Confidential & Confidential and Confidential .
• The effort involved implementation and support of several SOA based interfaces between the two vendors.
• Served as technical lead on Phase 2 of the data analytic project. All interfaces were revisited, revised and delivered with full regression testing and integration testing.
• Served as migration coordinator for Confidential jobs during project go-live (a new system that I became very familiar with in the first 3 weeks of my engagement). It is a fancy scheduling system for back-end enterprise jobs.
• Worked with several groups within the organization to instill a comprehensive operational mode to reduce risk of data integrity and transfer issues.
• Raised technical design issues up-to enterprise IT to implement the right and most efficient solution for the whole company instead of just the project. Supported an innovative complex and in-house style of TIBCO interface mapping developed by Confidential .

Confidential

Technology Integration Lead

Responsibilities:

• Established key communication channels between the commercial and technology work efforts to ensure effort alignment and alignment with larger objectives.
• Took over critical projects that were at a stalemate and completed product delivery on revised timeline through carefully negotiated prioritization and focused effort within 7 months.
• Became subject matter expert on technology integration solutions in the Demand Response arena and fully engaged technology resources towards streamlining integration efforts.
• Became well-versed in Metering and Control technologies, communication protocols and devices within months so as to effectively make decisions that serve the larger strategies and objectives of the group.
• Served as project manager and technology lead for multiple alliance integration efforts coordinating and managing relationships across teams of several external companies.
• Delivered a REST based web services solution for load response for use and integration with external third party entities.

Confidential

Software Engineer - Data Architect/Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed client’s data repository needs and delivered a MYSQL database solution that was cost effective, efficient and lean.
• Designed, developed and managed ETL scripts between data warehouse and several data sources
• Developed PL/SQL procedures and PERL/WSDL based web enabled ETL scripts.
• Helped with process and project documentation such as requirements, business flow, activity diagrams and program documents.
• Helped establish change management protocol and administer post go-live transition between client and third-party consultants.
• Helped with testing and go-live of several internal client projects.

Constellation

Solution Management

Responsibilities:

• Engaged corporate business architects, data architects and fleet architect in several discussions to develop and put in place an integration architecture that is platform independent, application agnostic, and extremely scalable.
• Engaged several of the application vendors in architectural discussions and provided solutions to them that would make their product more SOA ready.
• Ensured vendors provided these SOA compliant versions to us within internal project timelines.
• Ensured all members of the build team were well versed in the solution to be implemented.
• Served as lead accountable contact on several issues through the build and test phases of the project.
• Ensured potential changes to schedule was effectively communicated to upper management.
• Served as lead contact for Director of Fleet IT.
• Laid out templates for functional requirements and technical requirement recording.
• Kept all specification documents up-to-date and ensured a well controlled and approved change management cycle was followed for all modification requests.
• Team involved 7 on-shore resources and 4 off-shore resources.
• Daily task list was provided every night for next day’s activities. Task list was highly detailed.
• Communication with offshore resources was very effective and efficient.
• Engaged with team as a lead developer, with full understanding of code being developed.
• Fixed many a code problem with a clear eye and out-of-box thinking.
• Personally reviewed all code to ensure it strictly followed corporate IT best practices.
• Provide technical and functional support to Nuclear site business representatives
• Analyze user issues to identify larger technical issues and provide resolutions through change management.

Confidential

SOA Consultant

• Key player in integrating procurement business process of a sub-business unit with a suite of corporate applications.
• Integration involved 2 different companies (sub-business units) within client.
• Developed and consulted on various corporate application integration
• Provided design and process modifications on enterprise services
• Supported new application integration with existing financial systems
• Worked on exposing common financial operations as a set of enterprise financial services

Confidential

SOA Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed SOA implementation of legacy provisioning systems (Remedy Action Request System)
• Translated existing functionality to enterprise model
• Streamlined previously released version of enterprise billing solution into a more efficient framework.
• Served as consultant for migrating tightly coupled systems over to enterprise architecture.

Confidential, McLean VA

Sr. Management Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Design Analyst for Hawaiian Telcom SOA implementation
• Lead developer and designer for Billing Integration solution
• Configuration management administrator
• Maintained and supported workflow enhancements
• Developed system-wide architecture diagram and unified interface matrix of all interfaces across domains for entire project.
• Involved actively in managing and gathering requirements. Designed Rational Rose use case model, logical model and use case realizations view. Authored design document of technical and functional solution to client.
• Involved actively in change management of requirements by identifying cascading effect of change.
• Maintained project reports and plans for billing integration solution.
• Developer and designer for exposing back end billing services within SOA framework.
• Submitted weekly progress reports and maintained project plans for billing integration solution.
• Built, and maintained custom TIBCO adapter using J2EE to integrate with CSG Kenan FX Billing Solutions.
• Adapter was built using JAVA DOM and TIBCO SDK framework.
• Adapter used XML API parser libraries and Apache JDOM, SAX DOM utilities.
• Multi-threaded event based adapter supported multiple subscribers within each thread.
• Built, and maintained TIBCO BW billing process services.
• TIBCO BW process supported graceful shutdown and fall out queues.
• Certified message queue was used to ensure message guarantee.
• Multiple subscriber points were instantiated in TIBCO to ensure load balancing
• Authored several client documents for solution during both design and post development.
• Maintained TIBCO dynamic workflow using TIBCO BusinessWorksWorkflow and TIBCO Inconcert Server.
• Supported bug-fixing and enhancement requests in workflow solution.
• Handled TIBCO workflow and collaborator deployments via TIBCO administrator.
• Deployed configuration management solution that satisfied tight budget constraints. Used CVS (concurrency version control system - Open Source)
• Maintained CVS and scaled its performance gracefully across more than 440 users.
• Editor for in-house technical newsletter
• Maintained chargeability of more than 95%

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Developer/Analyst/IT Services Associate

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analysis, design, integration testing, user acceptance testing, implementation, and maintenance of several software tools and packages.
• Designed and deployed a heterogeneous Beowulf cluster solution and related documentation to satisfy the computational needs of a research lab. Performed numerous benchmarks as part of the requirements gathering phase. Automated the load-testing benchmark processing.
• Deployed an audio/video remote conferencing system
• Used WinVNC (free ware)
• Constraints included international participants, diverse end-user platforms and firewalls
• Key budget constraints - integrated several open source technologies on Windows XP platform
• Performed quantitative analysis using Praxis
• Wrote extensive PERL scripts to extract data
• Used data fitting algorithms and statistical tools to analyze research data
• Developed utility tools to convert various file formats to RTF (Rich Text Format)
• Automated literature research by developing cgi/perl scripts which automatically query online research databases. Scheduled script through Windows task scheduler on NT server and as CRON job on Linux server
• Interacted with users and other businesses frequently to gather and document requirements
• Mentored novice users and fellow developers .