SUMMARY

• Proven expertise in successfully strategizing and completing large scale initiatives wif 18 years of progressive experience wif responsibilities including Directing, Architecting, Managing Enterprise Programs
• Successfully engineered teams for TEMPeffective business outcomes and provided enhanced service levels across multi - domain, multi-vendor business units
• TEMPEffective Leadership in cross functional, matrix management setting wif excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills
• Over 9 years of experience as Enterprise Program Architect, Solutions Portfolio Architect and Integration Architect.
• Led team of teams in development of software platforms as Enterprise Architect, Program Architect, SOA Architect and Solutions Architect including talent management.
• Strategized solution delivery across multi-vendor, multi-domain business.
• Regularly briefed C-suite management.
• Exercise expert judgment in balancing business, legal, management and technology drivers
• Architected high performance, high throughput, high volume, and business critical systems.
• Proven competency in Master Data Management- MDM, Mobile application architecture, Big Data Analytics, Cloud Architecture, BPM, Business Rules Management (Drools, ODM)
• Proven expertise in TOGAF, Zachman, RUP, CMM, CMMI and Agile methodologies
• Phased in methodology that reduced release timelines, total cost of ownership and increased operational efficiency.
• Modeled including Enterprise Information Model, Canonical Data models, Functional Models using toolkits including SOMA, SOMF, SoaML, UML/OCL and BPMN
• Hands-on experience in Financial/Insurance, Technology and Retail verticals.
• Institutionalized best-practices driven, pattern oriented approach.
• Good experience in IBM, Open Source and Oracle stacks including Web Sphere Application Server, ILOG JRules/ODM, MDM, BPM Advanced, IIB and Mobile platforms.
• Proficient in tool selection, adoption and roll out.
• Have capability to implement modern cutting-edge analytical methods like Problem Frames, SAAM, ATAM, SNA - Survivability Network Analysis Model
• Good experience in setting up full cycle enterprise development environment including setting business vision, requirements management, configuration and change management, planning and resource management.
• Proactive, well organized, efficient, a team player and foster collaborative work environment.
• Financially savvy Technology executive- strategy based, metrics driven, intelligent analytics oriented, optimistic forward-looking.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Helped establish enterprise governance strategy and realize the decision rights and accountabilities
• Used IBM RSA and workbench for model driven engineering developing canonical data model, message model and SOA artifacts using SOMA 2.9 methodology.
• Worked extensively providing solutions over IBM full stack including RSA, Data Power, WSRR, IIB, MQ etc.
• Designed extensively adopting SOA design patterns, Integration patterns, security patterns.
• Decomposed complex business operations along functional lines, aligning the operational aspects wif PMO
• Modeling and providing engineering oversight for Costco’s mobile development.
• Took top-down approach in realizing business process, streamlining multi-channel operations into robust reusable asset.
• Provided architectural oversight for developing SOA and integration across different domains and products.
• Developed taxonomy and ontology for Master Data Management and Enterprise Integration domains
• Integrated disparate systems over different ports and mechanisms.
• Worked closely wif business analysts to provide functional imperatives for realizing product use cases including probabilistic search.
• Provided data and behavior extensions to OOTB model.
• Created additions and extensions to the MDM model.
• Provided mapping from IBM model to Costco’s canonical data model.
• Implemented batch transaction processing leveraging MDM server capabilities
• Exposed capabilities to search and find parties leveraging web services.
• Implemented SDP to dedupe members and customers
• Implemented suspect duplicate processing to SDP, dedupe customers using probabilistic matching PME
• Extended behavior by triggering events.
• Used MDM workbench for realizing use cases, including model extensions, based on membership (Party) domain.
• Extensive hands on coding experience in Java, J2EE stack.
• Built end-to-end maturity of the project portfolio.
• Provided leadership in standing up MDM in different architectural styles, communication and patterns.
• Oversaw creation of canonical data model objects including catalogs, hierarchies, specs, UI, workflows, search/selection, and security model decision-rights management governance.
• Provided integrated approach to IBM MDM Advanced Edition, Party domain, system as enterprise asset class.
• Provided 360-degree view of the MDM Site hub and federated virtual view of golden record
• Helped shape business outcomes by constantly relating the operational activities to business and technology capabilities
• Reduced operational risk profile
• Helped realize security and identity propagation patterns across different tiers including MDM Party domain and Facility (Location)
• Helped set up maturity across engineering disciplines including governance of assets and processes.
• Oversaw engineering activities for MDM group and SAP Financials integration
• Involved in information and data analysis for lineage and data quality management.
• Designed and built the golden record for customer domain.
• Analyzed and synthesized weights for match and merge - suspect duplicate processing.
• Worked wif data stewardship team for match and merge process closure.
• Exposed the MDM Customer (Party) domain as enterprise level asset over web service and messaging infrastructure.
• Helped develop business architecture, identify service development and integration patterns
• Identified and fixed gaps in software development process for implementing business critical software assets for high availability systems.
• Helped stand up monitoring and operations infrastructure
• Developed Business process definitions for different use cases.
• Directed the engineering for standing up and building services across different domains.
• Successfully managed delivering engineering solutions in multiple stages
• Built out Converged enterprise information and communication models
• Held accountability for identifying, analyzing, modeling service based approach to realizing use cases for synchronous, asynchronous and process orchestration patterns.
• Worked closely wif infrastructure team for provisioning/configuring load balancers, VIP devices, firewall rules and other network assets.
• Aligned technology architecture wif the business architecture artifacts modeled and defined in Troux Architect
• Integrated Costco applications wif 3rd party systems like SAP, JDA, and EDI- Electronic Data Interchange.
• Involved in specifying and provisioning SAML policy as a part of federated security.
• Inbound and outbound services for orchestrating business process flows across different systems including MDM and CRM.
• Operations assessment viz-a-viz network segmentation and business-technology alignment
• Evaluated 3rd party tools as a part of technology gap analysis
• Built highly scalable reusable services reducing the TCO and risk for the modernization initiative
• Developed and reviewed XSL transformation scripts on the data power.
• Handled integration using Informatica Powercenter as a part of middleware stack. Also used for metadata management.
• Governance for SOA and MDM assets fully utilizing decision rights, user configurations and access control.
• Mentored team members across different teams for SOA(SOAP, RESTful, MOM), MDM.

TEMPPrincipal

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built a ground-up view of technology landscape and identified technology hotspots.
• Got the stakeholder buy-in for high-impact, high-yield heat-map based on multi-pronged scenario analyses.
• Came up wif roadmap to build synergy across the assets, rationalizing the asset catalogue and providing prescriptive guidance.
• Delivered on the vision of the end state.
• Overshot annual enrolment target fully realizing the synergy potential.

TEMPPrincipal Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Bootstrapped the Mobile Architecture group including talent acquisition and vendor management.
• Developed reference models and initiated cataloguing end-to-end capability.
• Rolled out mobile apps for different devices and OEMs wif native and hybrid architecture wif big data backend
• Oversaw development of feeder systems for catalog creation.
• Rolled out geo-location centric context aware shopping experience.

Sr. Architect- IBM

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed the software asset portfolio for the Application Process & Analytics group
• Institutionalized the Enterprise Architecture framework based on TOGAF (including Business Architecture, Information Architecture, Technology Architecture, Data Architecture).
• Charted the roadmap and the phases for building business application maturity and technology maturity
• Drove the architectural road map for next generation analytics integration intensive applications and services based on enterprise messaging/integration patterns.
• Advisory Architect for implementing the MDM Customer domain, Advanced Rules Management Platform which provides a high volume-high throughput platform.
• Extended MDM customer entities based on the business requirement and provided suspect duplicate processing while onboarding customer loans.
• Leveraged batch processing capability of Infosphere MDM server to onboard loans.
• Architected around deep analytics and in-memory analytics
• Continuously evaluated key alternatives adapting to change and discoveries
• Designed messaging heavy streams oriented platforms for handling analytical processes
• Used IBM Infosphere Advanced Edition in successfully rolling out service based use cases for master data management for customer domain
• Designed and led the development for HAMP-NPV and Derived Fields suites.
• Led the development of orchestration of Predictive Analytics Models
• Member of the ARB and committee for defining, enforcing and refining Rules Development Life Cycle.
• Integrated services wif Avaya based VOIP platform to schedule calls automatically.
• Built out enterprise integration patterns based on Camel and ActiveMQ cluster.
• Participated in steering committees and working groups for the program life cycle.
• Championed the MDM and BRMS CoE
• Set up the Rules Governance around managing rules driven assets
• Architected using enterprise XOMs, generated BOMs leveraging RETE Plus, sequential and FastPath Algorithms for the right problem context.
• Catalogued/authored business rules, orchestrated rule flows, integrated using different styles, created rule app for deployment
• Technical Advisory role for technology operations and infrastructure groups including interfacing wif cloud management vendors.
• Interacted closely wif data center build-up team and built service profiles for the cloud.

Enterprise SOA Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Set up Business Architecture, Application Architecture and Technology architecture based on process oriented framework wif TEMPeffective/successful outcome.
• Developed Reference Architectures for systems engineering, eComm and SOA Environment
• Delivered Enterprise roadmap for evolving business strategy
• Member of EARB - enterprise architecture (review) board
• Evaluated different tools and frameworks
• Developed the High and Low Level Design document for various flows like Customer sign up, Order process, Billing process, EIP provisioning, Rating process, Tax calculation process, Sprint Integration
• Developed POC and reference architectures for phasing in ESB and BPM for mediation and audit
• Modeled different inter-services communication patterns wif prescriptive guidance.
• A core contributor for Security Review process, starting wif PCI compliance and the High-Availability Initiative.
• Did high-level and detailed design for use cases around services for VCP (Vlan Capture Portal) for wholesale consumers on WiMax.
• Laid out the overall end-to-end system flows for different use cases including information flow through BSC, MSC, metering/rating, sales and billing.
• Architected and designed the Order Management Process using Amdocs system
• Architected and designed the coverage maps for Customer Service management
• Instituted the audit-driven change management process.
• Designed mediation components between the engineering and the billing system.
• Modeled the rules and semantic layer for calculating tax using Vertex software wrapper as a part of the overall billing process orchestration for Amdocs Billing module
• Developed the HLDD and LLDD for Equipment Installment and provisioning using Amdocs Module for real-time integration.
• Architected the process choreography for PreQual Process, rolling up the flows across different business domains like CRM, Product Catalog and coverage management
• Derived the rules for pricing strategy based on customer event driven habits and services offered.
• Worked wif different stakeholders including functional architects for different modules
• Prioritized significant architectural features for the High-Availability Initiative (24X7 Initiative)
• Worked closely wif network engineering and infrastructure services team to layout the network topology
• Provided architectural alternatives for existing in-house solutions halping align technology wif business imperatives
• Introduced SOA/SDLC Governance framework at Clearwire’s massive eComm group including governance policies
• Synthesized candidate architectures for enterprise wide web services security using WS*-.
• Developed a candidate architectural framework wif federated identity systems management.
• Developed data models and data architecture
• Aligned the business process wif key goals and KPI perspective.
• Developed enterprise solutions around message bus and transaction bus.
• Developed functional process maps and data maps.
• Developed PCI/PII compliant architectural solutions for standards compliant billing solution components
• Performed program reviews and design reviews
• Integrated wif B2B and B2C systems.
• Interacted closely wif data center build-up team and built service profiles for the cloud.

Program Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architected and modeled several product suites including service components.
• Involved in Core architectural processes
• Successfully integrated a multi-products suite of business COTS application for successful rollouts, multiple launches and go-live date commitments
• Worked wif extended enterprise systems like third party systems(confidential business information)
• Architected services to align wif business objectives and fit into overall SOA driven program
• Analyzed and documented architectural trade off analyses
• Led and contributed to the architectural review processes
• Migrated and refactored existing applications.
• Designed, analyzed and documented security policies and procedures
• Led/participated Request for Proposal, Request for Estimate, Solution Proposal and Solution Complete processes.
• Developed Security processes and participated in vendor selection
• Developed reusable common body of noledge
• Participated and drove SOA governance
• Participated and drove road maps for technology adoption
• Refined and used estimation process
• Refined Vendor engagement processes
• Engaged corporate vendors and Outsourcing vendors from architectural perspective. Continuously evaluated architecture for AMFAM ecosystem.
• Mentored and guided teams for optimizing resources and harvesting reusable components.
• Developed and leveraged enterprise and industry best practices for gaining efficiencies
• Ensured Service design fits into overall SOA driven program
• Documented architectural trade off analysis for key architectural decisions.
• Documented enterprise architecture best practices
• Regularly interacted wif the upper management.
• Drove highly complex design of core integration infrastructure for managing enterprise prospects
• Helped using architectural patterns, GOF patterns, J2EE patterns and Application Integration patterns.
• Identified and halped manage key risks early on, for successful multi-deploys of Program suites.
• Phased in rules based architecture.
• Provide architectural directions and recommendations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Patterns: Recognition/Reuse of GOF, J2EE Design Patterns, Security Patterns, Application Integration Patterns, SOA Design Patterns, Application Architecture Patterns, Enterprise Integration Patterns, Architectural patterns including anti-patterns, Security Patterns, Architecture Blueprints

Modeling tools: Eclipse, Rational Software Architect, IBM Websphere Integration Developer, IBM Blueworks, Modelio, Enterprise Architect 10, IIB,BPMN, BPEL workflows, Use Case, Class, Object, Component, Composite, Interaction, State Machine, Sequence, Timing, Package, Deployment

Analytics: Smart Analytics, Pattern driven analytics, forecasting, web analytics, big data, event driven analytics, sales-driven analytics

Development/Architecture Frameworks: Rational Unified process, ICONIX, Catalysis Approach, Zachman framework, TOGAF, Product Lines Architecture

Languages: UML2.3, OCL, SoaML, VXML.

Application Servers: Websphere Application Server 8, WAS, IBM RAD 8, Weblogic, Apache-Tomcat, JBoss, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle SOA Suite.

Architecture Styles: n-tier, pipeline style, distributed computing, autonomous self-configurable JINI, (Staged) Event Driven Architecture SEDA, SOA, Complex Event Processing CEP, HADR

Database: Oracle, DB2, MS-SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, NoSQL- MongoDBOther Tools and techniques: Program management, Risk Management, MS-Project, Visio, MS Powerpoint, PPT, JAD, Costing/Estimation & Scheduling techniques, TDD

Software Process Definition models: BPMN, PSP, TSP, IDEAL, CMM, CMMi and PCM