SUMMARY:

• Technology architect with hands - on java development experience for more than 17 years in financial industry
• Experience in implementing ALIP for new business and policy administration at large insurance companies
• Experience in designing and developing application to be deployed in AWS cloud
• Experience in migrating applications from company data center to AWS cloud
• Reduced AWS EC2 billing by almost 50% by implementing automation to start EC2 instance only when there is request to process otherwise keep EC2 instances down
• Experience in all the phases of SDLC including Planning, Requirements Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment and maintenance of enterprise applications
• Expertise in building web applications using Spring framework
• Worked on building single page web application using various JavaScript frameworks
• Experience in enterprise application integration using JMS with IBM MQ, Web Services and CTG technology for CICS
• Experience in leading teams onsite and offsite
• Experience in Agile process for development project
• Worked with Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase and DB2 databases
• Extensive experience with IBM RAD and Eclipse for application development

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Java, JSP, JDBC, HTML, AJAX, JavaScript, Bootstrap, JNDI, JMS, EJB 2.0, Servlet, Oracle, DB2 on mainframe, MS SQL Server, Navisys Front Office (ALIP), GGY AXIS, WebSphere application server, Tomcat, RAD IDE, PVCS, IBM MQ Series, Toad, PVCS, Struts Framework, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Microservices, Enterprise integration using Web Service (SOAP and Restful API), Messaging, FTP and CTG, VB, DevOps, AWS and cloud native applications, Terraform, Jenkins, PowerShell Scripting, Ant, Maven, Familiarity with Big Data technologies such as Map-Reduce, Pig, Hive, Spark

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pennsylvania

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed minimum viable checklist (MVC) to analyze applications to migrate to AWS
• Solution design for new applications to be deployed on AWS
• Support cloud first strategy for application development
• Develop CI CD using Jenkins tool, Terraform, PowerShell and Shell script
• Build Terraform script to provision AWS resources
• Write java code to deploy application on AWS, interact with S3 bucket using Java
• Remediate existing application to make then minimum cloud native to deploy on AWS
• Built microservices using Spring Boot to expose data to different applications in order to maintain application isolation
• Mentor offshore development team

Confidential, New York

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed scripts for data conversion to handle input data in multiple formats and produce consistent output format
• Built life insurance business architecture model consisting of breakdown of all processes, workflow diagram and capability maturity model
• Created comprehensive framework for vendor solution selection and assessment
• Onshore Delivery manager responsible for team management, Client scorecard meetings, and inter team escalations - for actuarial assumptions, rates and inforce data management for GGY AXIS platform. Team spread across onshore and offshore locations
• Assist EY leadership at the client site in budgetary controls, and other adhoc PM tasks

Confidential, New York

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading solution architecture, design and development to build and enhance individual life insurance new business capability
• Built application structure, base framework using Spring, Spring MVC and JavaScirpt frameworks and SCM configuration for web based policy administration system.
• Built process workflow with different levels of user access control
• Engage with business partners to collect, and analyze business requirements, propose IT solutions and set expectation for delivery timelines
• Manage onshore and offshore team, allocate work to programmers and review work product to ensure quality
• Coordinate with quality assurance and user acceptance groups to review all defects and propose fixes and delivery timelines
• Participate in steering committee to define the technology solutions roadmap for individual life division
• Work with business and user team to refine and adjust business process workflow and task routing to meet changing business needs
• Evaluate how much work can be completed in release period and negotiate with business partners on new functions to build
• Evaluated and created scorecard to evaluate system virtualization products for seamless testing
• Use ACORD standard to integrate with different systems

Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created solution architecture and foundation framework to implement GPAC system
• Created prototype to interface with CICS using CTG, built single page app using Spring framework and YUI
• Collaborated with other teams to establish standards and guidelines for inter application communications
• Managed STP offshore development team to oversee development of various functionalities
• Worked with end users and business analysts to understand and analyze requirements, define scope and implementation timeline
• Configuration of underwriting rules and questionnaires for new business for individual life insurance

Confidential, New Jersey

Senior J2EE Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with offshore development team to build system functionality
• Interacted with system’s users and business analysts to understand and analyze requirements, define scope for implementations and implementation timeline
• Managed development process - defect tracking; defect assignment; coordinating with testing team; and coordinating with interface system’s team to define system communication protocols
• Configured of underwriting rules and questionnaires for new business for individual life insurance
• Java coding for the new business system for individual life insurance

Confidential

Assistant Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led development team for agent facing client management application for Confidential
• Managed offshore development team based in India and later moved to US as onshore offshore coordinator.
• Automated new business underwriting process for life insurance and lab requirement ordering process for life insurance customer.
• Participated in meeting with clients to review and discuss design and implementation strategies
• High level and Low level design, Coding, and Review
• Provided production support for new business system and Remedy Management for production defects
• Technical documentation to create technical specifications and walkthrough and signoff from client before coding