SUMMARY

• Over 17 years of experience in the field of Information Technology specializing in Enterprise Architecture, Software Design and Development, Project Management
• Software: Thought - leader and expert practitioner in areas of enterprise architecture, software design and development of Cloud-native applications using Java, J2EE, Spring, Web Services (Microservices, REST/SOAP), Messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, JMS), JSON/XML, Oracle, SOA, Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), SQL, NoSQL, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• People: Demonstrated influential leadership and supervisory abilities, with experience assembling, motivating, and leading productive, cohesive teams
• Projects: Experience in joint application design development, benchmarking, capacity planning, project and resource management plus cross-functional team training
• Business: Strength in partnering with business stakeholders, management, teams and customers to identify needs and guide the delivery of cost-effective, high-performance information technology infrastructures and applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas TX

Director/Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Guiding various clients and enterprises on their digital transformation journey by employing best practices in the areas of cloud-native application development, XP/agile coaching, product and portfolio roadmap, talent acquisition and continuous process improvement
• Some of the recent engagements include a real-time, event driven, global inventory management system for a major retail chain to support stores, warehouses and website operations.
• Modernizing architecture, applications and platforms for a large franchise chain with thousands of stores and enhancing digital capabilities for business and employees in the process

Confidential, Dallas TX

Principal Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead on a digital transformation initiative for a consumer focused FinTech product
• Established technical architecture and governance models for a reactive, Microservices based applications across multiple business units and consumer markets.
• Leading teams from inception to production by streamlining processes, methodologies and best practices.

Confidential, Dallas TX

Practice Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led several client engagements in areas such as modern UI implementation, microservices architecture, systems integration, cloud migration, content management, CI/CD across a variety of business domains including retail, finance, IT services, insurance, transportation, etc.
• Successfully delivered as a Technical Lead on a website redesign project for a large E-Commerce client involving modernization of UI, upgrading and refactoring the backend services and infrastructure as well as enabling multi-site, multi-datacenter deployment of the platform.
• Helped a large financial client modernize their technology stack - including a responsive modern UI, microservices-based API backend, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines.
• Collaborated with business and project teams through the inception, design and implementation phases.
• Key contributor during the entire project cycle from pre-sales to post-implementation and contract extension. Responsible for winning several upsell and cross sell opportunities with new and existing clients.

Confidential, Dallas TX

Technical Architect/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Over a tenure spanning 9 years, excelled Confidential roles of increasing responsibility - starting as a Senior Developer and moving on to Technical Manager and Technical Solutions Architect.
• Successfully delivered numerous projects of varying complexity and timelines, while building and leading a talented development team in an onsite/offshore model.
• Architected solutions across the entire platform including loyalty solutions, marketing and messaging engines, content management system, E-Commerce operations, CRM, Single Sign On, 3rd party integrations, etc.
• Implemented a variety of features and business functions using industry best practices in the areas of web and mobile experience, service oriented architecture, API management and frameworks, data transformation, systems integration, cloud deployment (AWS), hardware/software infrastructure and monitoring.
• Established a flexible and robust continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline incorporating TFS, Maven, Jenkins, Selenium, etc. Also mentored the development teams to adopt the new workflow.
• Evolved the product into a multilingual global platform with varying deployment options, while allowing for customizable scalability and availability options.
• Acted as a liaison between the client and the technical team to transform business roadmap and requirements into solid technical solutions.
• Increased operational efficiency by implementing strategies including detailed real time monitoring and alerting processes, disaster recovery, build/release automation and isolation of system components.

Confidential, Dallas TX

Sr. Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to enhance and support the Sabre Cruises application. It is an online Web Service catering to the needs of Cruise Management companies and Booking Agents.
• Streamlined the Web Service modules and service contracts with partner companies and middleware providers.
• Implemented various add-on features to the Sabre Cruise Director online application that the booking agents use to interact with the huge but flexible database for cruise schedules, cabin availability, pricing, calendars, destinations and attractions and package configurations.
• Deployed J2EE Application Servers and Web Servers in a clustered environment with load balancing configurations to optimize the heavy real-time traffic.
• Integrated the frontend and backend infrastructure using Java, XML, Hibernate, J2EE Web Services, AXIS, SQL, Oracle, Eclipse, AJAX, HTML, CSS etc.

Confidential, Dallas TX

Sr. Interactive Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Citi Thankyou Rewards website called confidential focusing on server-side development and maintenance.
• Developed several modules of the dynamic application using Spring, CXF, Struts, JSP, Custom Tags, Hibernate, etc.
• Implemented single sign-on and SAML Authentication with various partners websites and 3rd party applications, in addition to an authentication and authorization framework for the platform.
• Enhanced the build system to allow integration of static content in the build on an ad-hoc basis using Apache Ant and shell scripts.

Confidential, Dallas TX

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Part of a dynamic team responsible for the new WAP My Accounts module which allows the subscribers to add/edit features and plans to their account on the fly.
• Wrote the server-side code to integrate multiple back-end information sources and account management systems and rate plan databases.
• Responsible for the end to end development of various components of the application using J2EE, XML, Oracle, PL/SQL, Tag Libraries, JSP etc.
• Designed the client facing façade layer for the WAP JSP pages for easy integration and assembly of dynamic pieces on the various mobile screens.
• Responsible for various modules including Usage Reporting/Query and Change Feature modules.
• Integrated various back-end processes using Session EJBs, XMLBeans, Oracle 9.1, SQL, Hibernate etc.