SUMMARY

• Transformational IT leader with a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions to complex business problems by leveraging broad and in - depth knowledge of state-of-the-art technologies, architectures, and design patterns.
• Adept at building high performance global teams in fast-paced technological organizations.
• Oversaw budgets over $8MM and provided high quality, on-time, and cost-effective solutions with a relentless focus on customer satisfaction and continuous improvement.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Big Data & Analytics
• Application/Data Integration
• Data Warehousing
• Application Development
• Enterprise Architecture
• DevOps

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Java, C++, C

Big Data: HDFS, MapReduce, Spark, Cassandra, Flume, Sqoop, Storm, Hive, Kafka, Oozie, MongoDB, Hbase, Pig

DevOps & Cloud Computing: AWS, Jenkins, Chef, Vagrant, Docker, Sonar, Fortify, uDeploy, JaCoCo, SOAP Ul, Git, Subversion, ClearCase, JUnit, QTP, Ant, Maven

ETL, Integration, BPM, BRMS: Talend, HVR, Web Services (SOAP, REST), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), BPEL, SOA Suite/Fusion Middleware, XML, XSLT, WSDL, Messaging (JMS), EJB, Drools

Web Development: HTML, JavaScript, Ajax, Struts/Spring MVC, JSP, Servlets, JSON

Design Patterns Databases Development Methodologies: Gang of Four (GoF) design patterns, Integration patterns, J2EE design patterns Oracle, SQLServer, DB2 Agile (Scrum, XP), Waterfall

Data Warehouse: ETL, Dimensional Modeling, Star Schema, Snowflake Schema

Frameworks & Tools: TOGAF, Spring, Eclipse, JDeveloper, Toad, UML, Sparx Enterprise Architect, XML Spy, Quartz, Rally, JDBC, Hibernate

Application Servers: Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere

Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Director - Data & Analytics

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Developed the platform strategy for Data & Analytics and delivered a petabyte scale massively parallel processing platform to provide data-driven analytical capabilities for various interactive and batch workflows.
• Drove business outcomes through several IT initiatives and achieved $21MM+ in service variable cost reduction and cost avoidance.
• Selected initiatives include: Analytics based maintenance, rapid data forensics, and engine test analytics.
• Created a data warehouse solution for near real-time operational analysis and reporting.
• Provided a 360 degree view of the business and empowered the business users with improved decision making.
• Successfully led the AWS cloud migration effort, saving $5MM+ over a course of 3 years and significantly improving scalability, reliability, flexibility, and performance.
• Addressed the data archival and retention requirements of a $30B business divestiture by building a data lake.
• Successfully utilized Hadoop to ingest, store, and query the data effectively and inexpensively.
• Implemented an enterprise-wide integrated application monitoring, alerting, and web analytics platform to provide real-time visibility into operations and insight into access patterns.
• Improved the mean incident response time by 85%.
• Utilized cutting-edge Big Data technologies such as Kafka, Spark, and Cassandra for data ingestion, storing, processing, and querying.
• Built a data hub and provided numerous data services to integrate the originations, underwriting, asset management, loan servicing, valuation, budgeting, and property management applications.
• Significantly improved the data quality, connectivity and interoperability by employing Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) as a backbone for connecting, mediating, and managing interactions between heterogeneous systems.
• Successfully automated 40+ key business processes, resulting in annual productivity improvements of $1MM.
• As part of the SOA initiative, developed several standards based (SOAP and REST microservices) business services that are reused across the enterprise, improving the time to market and driving cost reduction.
• Established Continuous Integration/Delivery framework, tools, and best practices. Fully automated the application lifecycle management (ALM) activities, including version control, builds, deployments, unit testing, code quality inspections, code coverage analysis, security vulnerability identification, and UI/Web Services testing.
• The automation handles thousands of deployments per year across 25+ applications.
• The effort saved over 4000 man-hours annually and resulted in an error free, consistent, and repeatable process.
• Spearheaded the implementation of a business rules management system (Drools Rules Engine) to manage 15,000+ business rules to support decision-making, provide transparency, improve business agility, enhance regulatory compliance, and reduce development costs.
• The business rules are used to support transaction risk rating, delinquency, troubled debt life cycle, and leverage tagging business functions.
• Headed several regulatory compliance (SOX) initiatives, such as business continuity planning, disaster recovery, automation of the anti-money laundering screening, and automated data reconciliations.
• These efforts resulted in ensuring compliance, reducing financial risk, and improving quality controls.

Software Development Manager

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Led the global development team to integrate First American's next generation web services platform with over 15 clients and vendors, making the platform one of the largest real estate supply chain offerings in the world.
• The platform handles 100K+ transactions per month.

Senior Software Architect

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Architected a material composition tracking application for the bill-of-materials in the supply chain.
• The application helps companies manage eco-compliance by providing sophisticated decision support tools and analytics.
• Designed an ETL software that provides a highly customizable framework for loading data into a data warehouse.
• The solution was deployed in 5 major trading networks.
• Developed a configuration tool and reduced the configuration time by 30%.

Software Architect

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Developed portions of highly successful, world class, and award winning demand fulfillment products (Order Promising/Quoting, ATP, Allocation Planning, Forecast Netting) whose key benefits include: increased order capture, improved delivery confidence, optimized supply utilization, enhanced visibility into supply chain, and efficient management of forecasts and channel allocations.
• This product suite has 200+ client implementations worldwide and was a leader in Gartner's magic quadrant for demand fulfillment.

Member of Scientific Staff

Confidential, Richardson, Texas.

• Designed and developed wireless services (voice mail callback, broadcast messaging, and roamer greeting) for Nortel's wireless service node.
• These services were deployed to serve 2 million wireless subscribers.