SUMMARY

• Dynamic, results oriented senior IT Executive / Architect & Enterprise Information Management Strategist. Ph.D. in fuzzy soft computing, with 18 experience in architecting and managing enterprise scale IT projects and SDLC for wide range of industries.
• Extensive experience in developing diverse technology strategies and initiatives that enforce best practices enable future growth, minimize risks, and optimize capital investments to align with business objectives, priorities and systematically directing successful execution with a goal of leveraging technology to extend the competitive position of the organization.
• Proven ability in multiple complex technologies; can develop easy - to-understand value propositions. Apply a client centric approach to IT strategy and solutions with excellent leadership, trusted relationship, persuasive communication, tactical planning with focus on ROI.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Enterprise Architecture & Planning
• SOA & SaaS
• Ecommerce & Insurance
• Mentoring & Team Development
• Data Analysis, Segmentation, Classification and Pattern Recognition
• IT Strategy and Roadmap
• Client Relations & Delivery
• Agile Development & Process Standardization
• Enterprise Search and Recommendation
• Offshore & Global Development
• Project Management
• Web CMS & Search Technology
• Analytics and Classification
• Knowledge discovery, management, Multi-variate Optimized inference

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Soft Computing Technologies: Fuzzy Set theory, Fuzzy Clustering, Neural Net, Neuro-Fuzzy module, Robust Statistical Estimators, Genetic Algorithm

Mathematical Tools: FCM, HT, RHT, NC, PC, Shell Clustering, LS, TLS, LMS, LTS, FRC, RFCM, AP, FANNY, M-Estimators etc.

Fuzzy Computing Tools: fuzzyTech, MatLab, SAS, JASS

Technologies: Java, Servlet, JSP, EJB, JMS, XML, SAX, XSLT, JAXB, JTA, JDBC, SOAP, RESTful, JSON, ANT, UML, AJAX, DHTML, Java Script, Design patterns, Perl

Servers & Databases: WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, IIS, Apache, ORACLE, Sybase, MySQL

Tools: & Frameworks: Struts, Spring, CXF, Hibernate, TOGAF, Eclipse, Rational Rose, Visio, MS Project

OEMs: Endeca, Adobe/Day CQ, Lucene, Solr

Project Management: Iterative, RAD, RUP, Agile, Scrum, TDD, CI, Burn down Chart

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Enterprise Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed and implemented multiple e-commerce projects from inception to delivery. Recently implemented an enterprise search solution for multiple online store fronts that accounted for 10% incremental revenue by increasing the customer base and the usage occasions. Experienced in all aspects of eCommerce projects such as product catalog (sourcing product information through PIM systems, tagging and enriching the product attributes, and managing the workflow), Content management (site layout with templates/cartridges, page builder, Image/video repository, content creation and publishing), promotions/merchandizing including search and navigational state based merchandizing, payment modules (PCI compliance), data-driven marketing including email marketing, loyalty programs, analytics based dynamic recommendation, customer information management, and customer service.
• Facilitated workshops and project meetings with key stakeholders from marketing/merchandizing, editorial/content authoring team, operations and to perform project feasibility, vendor selection, break-even analysis and assist in budgeting for 3 projects worth almost $2M
• Responsible for technology infrastructure, provisioning, overall IT strategy and roadmap to align with business requirements and priorities for shared services group.
• Led high-performance development teams successfully through various phases of software development life cycle. Well conversant with SDLC, Agile/Scrum, latest design patterns and methodologies.
• Lead the new enterprise search initiative Confidential ADP to generate an end-to-end solutions plan from concept to delivery. This enable easy knowledge gathering, sharing, discovery and BI by leveraging the globally distributed enterprise information
• Drive the project description for B2B and B2C business scenario, explore and define a unified view of business entities and its metadata. Scoped out the SLA (20 M+ users), technology and infrastructure, delivered the logical and physical architectural artifacts, as per ADP EA guidelines
• To lead the buy-vs.-make decision, technically appraised Microsoft and IBM, vendor enterprise search products, the features & capabilities and weigh against in-house custom built open source solution
• Architect the enterprise search future state roadmap, being aligned with ADP enterprise data integration strategy, configure search features, security, cashing and performance through a live reference implementation
• Architected framework for enterprise search with Apache Solr and exposed it as SaaS utility. Leveraged benefits of open source solution: saving cost for license fees ($5+ million), access to open codebase ensure security, easy customization and not locked-in to one vendor etc. The future state vision is demonstrated through a custom reference implementation and validated the competitive edge comparing the features against the licensed vendor products
• Architected a SOA solution for Bloomberg Venture’s financial aptitude test and job portal integrating Search Engine with Webservices based middleware. Designed a strategy for online transactions to keep live Search index and database in sync. The lightweight service platform enabled custom search query execution on distributed Search indexes.

Confidential

Sr. Search Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Introduce a brand new line of solution: Enterprise Search on CMS Content, using the open source Search Engine to leverage the opportunities ($2 + million) with existing customers. Facilitated an initiative for strategic technology partnership with other enterprise search vendors to complement Valtech’s core technical strength in CMS solutions
• Prepared the SOA based middleware design/architecture for a Web CMS portal with enterprise search for Credit-Suisse proposal. Prepare multiple RFPs, Chanel, Nike etc. for Web-CMS powered ecommerce portal design with Search. Prepared a proposal for Adidas on How to leverage Social Media for ecommerce.

Confidential

Search Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architecting search application, custom integration and data solutions to leverage the technical benefits of Endeca enterprise search platform Confidential ’s online global vacation exchange and rental marketplace. Improving the find-ability of member’s customized vacation search is the key to better ROI on Confidential ’s ecommerce portal
• Designed custom web tools to merchandize products and inventory changes and enable fast and easy integration to online portal. Created a complex web dashboard to graphically publish near real-time current business status. Created a high performing application to derive customer analytics from Endeca log files and extract customer behavior statistics, market trends analytics for revenue management team.
• Build consensus, resolve issues between business units and IT, communicate and socialize technical solutions to key stake holders. Vision and scope out requirements and use-cases; foster close partnership with offshore teams and service vendor to align them with Confidential ’s strategic vacation search implementation goals.
• Lead and partnered with upstream and downstream data and application teams for transparent data flow and easy support. Created inside Endeca configuration techniques as key steps to facilitate integration to remote distributed applications
• Successfully implement Guided Navigation Confidential enterprise e-business site, sizing, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and downstream impacts to achieve search performance SLA ( < 5.0) sec
• Refactored the B2C ecommerce site. Re-engineered the site search feature with open source Solr. The site navigation and online transaction rate both increased by 15% to 20% seasonally.

Confidential

Sr. Designer/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of a J2EE project from external vendor that interfaces the Global repository of D&B name and addresses of 4+ million records. Lead the enhancements of Web GUI by interfacing with SOA based EJB middleware and JAXWS WebServices client. Develop and expose the SOA based services and lead the heterogeneous integration of consuming remote client. Data serialization in Java, XML, JAXB.
• Optimized data retrieval using functions, stored procedure, partitions, indexes and SQL tuning. Developed several multi-threaded Java clients to benchmark performance of system modules. Worked with D&B data, developed a concurrent loading mechanism and message notification through MDB.
• Designed and implemented an object model to capture hierarchical structured data, in Web tier, interfaced to backend as per SOA framework. Optimized Role based security management in EJB and Web tier. Develop and implement asynchronous SOAP/XML over MQ messaging system and integrate to transactional WebServices application through MDB and CORBA integration to Trillium server
• Plan/estimate resources requirement, delivery timeline; resolve design and development bottleneck, prepare release plan, UML diagrams and manage onsite offshore teams of resources. Partnered with Marsh’s global multi-location teams

Confidential

Senior Developer and Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, design and develop the modules for online scoring Software to create and administer a performance Test, manage comprehensive scoring process andgenerate and publishreport. Implement a complex OOD for multifaceted scoring functionality in n-tier MVC frame-work in Java, J2EE, Oracle 9i on WebSphere 5. Mentored development team
• Role based user-security management using Intercepting Filters. J2EE Patterns, File Upload, CSV download, image rendering and capture graphical user annotations JDBC, Query Optimization, Stored Procedure, handle Oracle Blob & Clob, Soap/XML based WebServices for data upload and transfer

Confidential

Senior Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned web application s to track user issues/tasks in a workflow and online Physician lookup directory. Managed client interactions, application design, coding and deployment. Integrated third party People Soft HR component interface to J2EE application through Session EJB remote call.
• Business analysis, design and development a J2EE web application for time & attendance and payroll management. Framed in an XML based configuration to add/edit web modules. Designed Java/XML to implement a single sign on (SSO) application for login for CyberShift.
• Explored the design of a rule engine for using J2EE components for work-force scheduling function. A framework to configure business rules as conditional logic in session EJB business method for CyberShift
• Business analysis, redesign/refactor two global supply-chain management web-applications that enable tracking DuPont’s Tyvek manufacturing, inventory and deliver schedule together. Groomed two developers by mentoring.

Confidential

Systems Architect and Developer

Responsibilities:

• Architected a Workflow application to track Confidential & Confidential consumer customer disputes in a Java/J2EE based middleware on WebLogic integrated with Tibco/InConcert. Design the solutions for several client RFPs; on middleware design, integration and infrastructure. Explore J2EE distributed technology: JMS vs. XML-RPC over HTTP through a POC.
• Lead an Confidential & Confidential project for web-based issue tracking system, with Struts Java XML with Oracle 8i.
• Investigated, analyzed, and documented: How to establishing a Web Center of Excellence for Confidential & Confidential 's Consumer division. Investigated infrastructure, development process, technology, and implementation and management issues. Reviewed web technologies, tools, methodologies and strategies
• Reduced processing time by 15% for Confidential & Confidential consumer provisioning data using Perl UNIX shell script system