SUMMARY:

• Brings more than 16 years of expertise within the banking sector in Middleware applications. AWS certified as a Cloud Certified Practitioner with technical expertise in building Rules Applications, developing/deploying/maintaining large enterprise applications. Adept at managing multiple, large multi - million-dollar projects, project planning, and budgeting. Able to manage the intake process with multiple vendors for bulk hiring.
• Outstanding record of success in improving the monitoring and alerting process to efficiently oversee applications and reduce application down time.
• Demonstrated proficiencies in Strata Rules engine. Well-versed in collaborating with DevOps teams in establishing automated processes using Jenkins for building the projects into lower environment. More than 10 years of experience in managing IBM ODM Rules applications and relevant resources, projects, and impacts across large areas in consumer community banks. Capable of generating multi-million-dollar revenues through selling offers using multiple channels and remediating risk for checks deposited in teller, SDP, ATM, and online channels. Able to simultaneously manage up to 50 offshore/onshore resources.
• Project Leadership/Delivery
• Strategic Analysis
• Relationship Management
• Team Development
• Training Facilitation
• Rules Orchestration
• Multilingual
• Working with Auditors
• Agile Methodology
• Strata Rules Engine
• IBM ODM
• Risk Management
• Collaborations
• Communication
• Reporting
• Compliance/Audits
• Statements of Work
• Vendor Management
• Source/Version Control
• Application Development
• Designing/Authoring Rules

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• IBM ODM 8.x | ILOG JRules 6.x, 7.x |FICO Blaze Advisor | IBM Decision Rules Composer | CGI Strata Rule Engine| Drools | IBM WebSphere Lombardi (BPM) | JAVA/J2EE | Spring Boot | Hibernate |SQL/PLSQL | AWS | GCP | Docker | Kubernetes | Linux | Web Services |IBM WebSphere Application Server 9.x, 8.x | SOAP | REST | JSON |YAML | XML | Jenkins |Splunk | Rapid7| DynaTrace | Oracle Cloud | ORACLE 11.x, 8i | IBM DB2 9.x | Swagger | Git | Bitbucket| Postman | SoapUI | Eclipse | AIX 5.3 | JMeter | JPprofiler | SVN | WSAD 5.0(BPM) | Linux MQSeries | Windows NT/2000/XP | JAVA 1.8| JDBC | JSP | Servlets | HTML | RAD7.x |Rational Clear Case 7.x | SYBASE | MicroSoft Office | Word | Excel |PowerPoint | Visio |Enterprise Architect | Plant UML | Service Now |Peregrine |HP Quality Center ALM | Mercury Quality Center | Visual Age 4.0 | SharePoint | JIRA | PUTTY |WINSCS |Maven | TOAD | Tomcat

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Application Development Manager

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Assemble/develop two Agile teams in Plano while simultaneously overseeing the delivery for Rules enterprise application.
• As an additional duty as an Application Development Manager, validated IT risk and compliance for 11 applications.
• Make significant contributions to Hub level activities including diversity and inclusion.
• Lead Hub level hiring for other groups; responsible for technology innovation; and serve as a mentor for multiple female employees in the organization.
• Accountable for the well-being of Agile teams and setting goals for each team members; manage career progression; and hold year-end progression/performance discussions.
• Work collaboratively with senior leaders and Rules Leads to develop a Decision Tree for Application Development teams to help foster wise decision-making between IBM ODM and SAPIENS for project implementations.
• Orchestrated the BOW for the Rules team across all locations (Columbus, Hyderabad, Plano).
• Successfully modernize the Rules application and deploy the application into the internal cloud; deploy the DB in the internal cloud (GAIA on Oracle).
• Lead the upgrade of the Strata application from 4.2 to 5.2, including working with the Sourcing team and vendors on assembling the SOW.
• Extend contracts from vendors; set the plan for upgrades; partner with other impacted teams and persuade the business to complete the upgrade to engender better business results.

Application Development Manager

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Originally hired as an Application Development Manager for the Rules team and assumed leadership for IT Risk and Compliance for Rules, as well as 10 other applications.
• Assembled, empowered, and developed a team of 40, including 15 FTCs, tasked with meeting the Risk Model upgrade, and the IBM ODM product upgrade.
• In addition to regular deliveries, charged with preventing fraud across all channels such as Web, Teller, and SDP/ATM while completing other functions such as check deposits, account openings, and fee refunds, among others.
• Owned the automation of deployment and build automation processes.
• Developed automated test suits for all Rules applications in conjunction with DevOps to create CICD for the Rules application code in GIT repository.
• Ensured application stability, resiliency, and DB failover; triaged production/testing issues.
• Accountable for the well-being of Agile teams and set goals for each team members; managed their career progression; and held year-end progression/performance discussions.
• Made significant contributions to Hub level activities including diversity and inclusion.
• Led Hub level hiring for other groups; responsible for technology innovation; and served as a mentor for multiple female employees in the organization.
• Perform rule harvesting and preparation of rules harvesting document (Agile Business Rules Document).
• Code the business object model using JAVA, Author the business rules using rules designer and decision center.
• Build and deploy rule sets, perform Business Object Model Updates, Repository synchronization with rules designer studio, and implement the required Dynamic domains.
• Perform Rules development, Orchestration, BOM/XOM Mapping and Exposing Rule Application on RES as HTDS Service using WSDL.
• Expertise in working with Decision Center, Decision Server, Business Rule Execution Server, Rule Scenario Manager and Rule Project Map.
• Managing the code using application code in Git.
• Deployment and monitoring using Jenkins and Splunk.

Lead Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built, owned and maintained the production support team for the largest Middle tier application that encompassed 700+ services with 1B+ calls across 100’s of servers and data centers.
• Authored a process to cover the 12-hour shift across locations using Alarm Point; developed monitoring scripts/alerting mechanisms to stabilize production environments.
• Managed all priority tickets affecting multiple channels and applications within a given RTO; created RCAs for multiple priority tickets; and managed action items coming out of RCAs.
• Supervised the Business Rules Engine team with up to 25 resources; successfully administered teams across several locations using outstanding coordination.

Rules/Java Developer

Confidential, Columbus, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• As a Business Rule Developer authored business rules using Decision Tables, BAL, TRL and created Rule Flows in ILOG JRules for business logic implementation.
• Developed vocabulary using BOM (Business Object Model) in JRules rule studio.
• Involved in full SDLC of Rules development and Java development. Including production / Performance / Test Support.
• Involved in offshore and Onshore collaboration.
• Perform rule harvesting and Harvesting the business rules and preparation of rules harvesting document.
• Build and deploy rule sets, perform Business Object Model Updates, Repository synchronization with rules designer studio, and implement the required Dynamic domains
• Analyze business strategy requirements and prepare the rules design.
• Interact with business and cross-functional teams to select, design, and implement risk management solutions.
• Perform rule harvesting and rule authoring activities, build, and deploy rule sets, perform data model updates, repository synchronization for retail marketing and risk applications.
• Developed and Maintained middleware services for various retail bank functions using JAVA/J2EE technologies.