SUMMARY

An Information Technology Leader possessing hands - on expertise in Integration and Cloud Computing with progressive experience in a variety of sectors including consulting, banking and insurance industries. An innovative and results-oriented professional who thrives in fast-paced environments. Excels at contributing to business strategies and overall technical visions by collaborating with stakeholders at all levels to understand data needs and information flows. Key talent in finding cost effective common solutions, enhancing customer experience and process improvement in highly charged situations. Managed up to 10 technical professionals, both locally and abroad, inspiring commitment and peak performance. A cost-conscious professional, administering project budgets of up to $ 2M.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Leadership
• Innovative
• Project Management
• Results Driven| Business Focused
• Collaborative Stakeholder Relations
• Architecture (SOA, Integration, Enterprise, Solutions EDA)
• Architecture Management Enterprise Patterns
• API Management
• Cloud Integration
• Digital Platform| Product Development
• Open Source Stack
• Product Evaluation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• JAVA
• JSON Ubuntu Message Broker DB2
• IIB
• JEE Javascript Redhat Datapower MySql
• XML HTML5 Apache / IIS Websphere SQL Server
• XSLT / WTX
• REST CSS Weblogic Oracle 10g
• API Tomcat CICS / IMS
• Micro Services SOAP Web Services
• JMS / MQ XtremeScale (cache)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lead Architect

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Responsibilities:

• Directed Enterprise Alerts Platform enhancement to ensure 100% delivery of email and text alerts within SLA by removing deadlocks increasing processing by 62.5%.
• Streamlined and enhanced processes to ensure code integrity prior to release.
• Resulted in a 25% improvement in development time.
• Improved Architecture and Solution Delivery quality by facilitating consensus among teams.
• Resulted in substantial increase in reuse, improved system performance and an overall reduction in development & operational costs .
• Designed and implemented a "Service Version Lifecycle Strategy" outlining how to manage change requests, exceptions, migration and product retirement.
• Involved mapping existing processes and consulting with internal stakeholders and receiving buy-in.
• Resulted in streamlined internal processes and procedures and increased satisfaction for the end user.
• Built loosely coupled Integration architecture based on Event Driven Architecture using JMS / MQ in compliance with bank standards.

Technologies: Webs Services, Microservices, API, SOA, SOAP, REST, JSON, JMS/MQ, XSLT, Node.JS, Apigee, JavaScript, JAVA, JEE, Message Broker, Webmethods, SQL Server, Oracle 11g, Websphere, Datapower, ODM DSI / AI, XtremeScale

Senior Principal Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Rebuilt reputation with client; met commitments and raise independence of off-shore team members by guiding them to meet project deliverables on time and budget.
• Enhanced client relationship resulted in an opportunity to identify and provide further business.
• Collaborated with Sales team to pitch proposal.
• Resulted in expanded business offering to client.
• Created Caching Strategy that resulted in an enhanced customer experience and drastically reduced customer complaints.

Technologies: IIB, DB2, Websphere, SOA, SOAP, Web Services, JMS/MQ, XML, XSLT, JAVA

Owner

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Launched and managed website using open source platform, JEE technologies, HTML and CSS3.
• Procured cost effective hardware to ensure it meets current and future needs including and not limited to power consumption.
• Built battery backed highly available data driven website on fault tolerant hardware which is also scalable both horizontally and vertically.
• Installed, configured and hardened Ubuntu Linux operating system, Tomcat application server, MySql database and Apache web server production environment with replica for development environment.
• Developed shell scripts and other programs necessary to maintain systems.
• Architected and designed database, JEE components utilizing appropriate design patterns.
• Created marketing campaign using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and PPC (Pay per click).

Technologies: Eclipse, Tomcat, Mysql, Apache HTTP webserver, JEE, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST, JSON, Ubuntu Linux, JAVA

IT Architect/Managing Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Saved more than $10M leading the management, integration architecture and delivery tasks of over 25+ projects.
• Saved 8 times product development cost, 120K chargeback cost in first year by implementing enterprise pattern and standardizing legacy technology.
• Increased agility and human resource utilization; reduced delivery time and hardware resource utilization by implementing more than 7 integration patterns.
• Reduced operating cost by 50% in 6 months by building team of 4 resources eliminating vendor dependency.
• Appreciated in helping team avoided legal litigation and saved software license cost during migration.
• Collaborated with engineering team to raise availability of ESB to 5 9's.
• Led creation of ESB best practices and guidelines.
• Led and contributed towards creation of SOA patterns standards and REST patterns standards.
• Established guidelines for creating estimates by getting hands-on & self-learning which helped customers with near realistic integration cost estimation.

Technologies: Web Services, Microservices, SOAP, SOA, REST, JSON, SAML, XSLT, JMS/MQ, Websphere, IIB, Datapower, DB2, CICS, IMS, WTX, JAVA, XtremeScale

Senior Consultant / SOA Architect

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Gathered business requirements and contributed to architecture planning, project management and resource planning of Weblogic Portal initiative for brokerage house.
• Supported Sales team with technical aspects in pre-sales calls and pre-engagement scoping including creating portions of RFP.
• Promoted customer satisfaction and collaborated with Sales to provide onsite customer coaching and training.

Application Integration Architect

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Guided architecture team in identifying needs to scale the existing infrastructure into SOA infrastructure.
• Recommended use of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to aggregate and transform the data from multiple sources and designed implementation strategy.

Business Domain Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Increased shareholders' value by reducing operational cost and improving customer experience by enabling Straight Through Processing (STP) using business process modeling.
• Minimized risks by designing security architecture, identifying security risks and developing mitigation strategies.
• Reduced project failure risk by managing Proof of Concepts, exploiting technologies & recommending alternatives.