SUMMARY:

Versatile, results - oriented business technology leader with demonstrated success in application architecture, solution architecture, integration architecture and software development. More than 18 years of accomplished IT experience, providing Information Technology solutions architectures, maintain customer, vendor relationships, and skillfully leading project teams towards increased results and performance. Worked in multiple business domains- telecom, bank, credit assessment, government and health care.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE:

• Requirement elaboration, Use cases, Defining Architecture.
• Vendor product selection.
• Provide strategy and roadmap, SOA, Microservice architecture, API.
• Identifying various IT solution options, design techniques, component-based modeling,
• Top down analysis, architecture patterns, and integration patterns.
• High level architecture, High Level Design, Detailed Design documents including class diagrams, sequence diagrams, collaboration diagrams.
• Prepare technical documents (architecture, detailed design, code review comments) as per organization’s process.
• Ishikawa technique for identifying root causes of application issues.
• Team Leadership, Solution Negotiation, Collaborative Influence, Innovation, Define processes.
• Conduct code review.
• Enforce governance & standards of organization for architecture, application development and support.
• Capability Patterns - System Engineering and architecture, Service Oriented Modeling architecture

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Enterprise Architecture - TOGAF9
• System Analysis and Integration
• Emerging Technologies
• Software Development
• Problem Solution
• Software Development Lifecycle
• Requirement Gathering
• Design Solutions (High level &detailed level)
• Strategic & tactical planning
• Business Process Automation
• Innovation
• Unified Modeling Language
• Client Services
• Process Improvements

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical Proficiencies: JEE, UML, DB2, ORACLE, WEB APPLICATIONS, STRUTS, WEBLOGIC, WEBSPHERE, SOA, SITESCOPE

Languages/Tools worked on: Java, JEE, SQL, Web services, IBM Web Sphere Application Developer, IBM Web Sphere Application Server, IBM MQ Series, DataPower, Aqualogic (Weblogic) Service Bus, Infor EAM, BEA Web logic Application Server, JBOSS Application Server, IBM Rational Rose, IBM Rational Software Architect, IBM Rational Data Architect, Borland Together Architect, Eclipse, Caliber RM, Microsoft Visual Basic, IBM Rational Requistepro, IBM Rational Clear quest, IBM Rational Manual Tester, IBM Rational Functional Tester, IBM Rational Clearcase, CVS, ESB, AIX, XML,WSDL,SOAP, IBM DB2, SQL Server Integration Services, Oracle Database and Assembly Language of 89C51Microcontroller.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Application Solution Consultant/ Solution Designer

Technology: DataPower/ESB, Java applications, Microservices, Zafin products, Confidential API Framework

Responsibilities:

• Interacted with Business stakeholders, in order to, understand business pain points/requirements.
• Provided High level Conceptual IT solutions considering multiple customer messaging, product catalogue, offer management, loyalty domain’s IT capabilities.
• Build consensus for IT solution with different stake holders typically business, architecture, security, data, delivery teams.
• Presented IT solutions and its estimated cost for management review. Tuned IT solution to reduce cost and achieve business objectives
• After IT solution(s) is approved, Lead Business analysts in elaborating business requirements.
• Lead Business system analysts in defining system requirements.
• Support Delivery teams in implementation of IT solution.
• Provide draft IT roadmap for loyalty domain. Provide recommendations inputs in defining strategy of multiple business domains.
• Used Confidential ’s API strategy in defining IT solutions.

Confidential

IT Manager(s), Sr. IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Interviewed business stakeholders and captured business pain points relevant to user identity.
• Applied Ishikawa technique and identified root causes of pain points.
• Discussed root causes with stakeholders and received their approval on identified root causes.
• Provided a strategy and roadmap to address pain points.
• Road map has multiple phases. It starts with improving business processes and step wise introduction of technology components.
• For initial phase of roadmap, defined improved business processes using BPMN notation.
• Defined “To Be “state of “Architecture” and “Business Processes” for next phases of roadmap.
• Used Component Modeling technique in defining “To Be” state of architecture. Components included in “To Be” architecture are “Enterprise User Repository”, “User Provisioning Component”, “User Access Enabler” etc.
• Built consensus with stakeholders for strategy, roadmap and “to be “state of architecture and business processes.
• Built Consensus and provided key decision criteria, which helped stakeholders select technology product for achieving “to be” state of architecture.

Confidential

Technology: Comarch Loyalty Management System, Apache, Tomcat, Oracle Web logic Application Server, Oracle Database, ESB, AIX, Linux

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Delivered detailed Issue resolution steps of IT problems for Call center team.
• These steps were applicable to all use cases and multiple error conditions of interfaces and system.
• Provided recommendations/ improvements to IT Team, which will reduce IT team’s system maintenance effort.
• These improvements were to both at system, infrastructure level and process level.
• One of recommendations were to increase connection pool size in Weblogic application server.
• Defined processes required for operation support work of system. Supported IT system.
• Interfaced with business, to ensure business teams is aligned with process.
• Analyze and Identify root causes of application and application related infrastructure issues. Validate defect fixes provided by Vendor.
• Worked with multiple interface teams to identify root causes, of issues, these teams included application support teams, Database Administrators, Hardware support etc.
• Did monitoring of infrastructure and application components using agents defined in site scope.
• Lead application’s production deployments. These deployments included opening of Network Firewall ports.
• Prepare documentation required, as per process, to get approvals of production deployments.
• Lead teams for defining and implementing process, required for repetitive operational data configuration required for system.
• Prepare and provide project status/dashboard documentation on ad hoc basis.

Confidential

Technology: JBOSS Application Server, SQL Server 2008, Autosys, JEE, Spring MVC, Apache Shiro, Memcached, iBatis

Solution Architect, Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with business managers and business analyst to understand current requirement.
• Identified key use cases and non-functional requirements.
• Identified multiple architecture patterns, as candidate solutions to business problem.
• Built selection criteria for IT Solution. Built consensus within organization for Extract Transform Load Pattern.
• Identified selection criteria and selected technologies, products for IT solution (Jboss, SQL Server 2008, Autosys, JEE, Spring MVC, Apache Shiro, Memcached, iBatis)
• Created Application architecture, data architecture and technology architecture deliverables. Documented architecture and its multiple views.
• Advised project management for development methodology to be used for project and provided macro plan. Provided process for development of project.
• Provided standards for project and established review/governance process, in order to get quality work from vendor
• Lead outsourced vendor’s architect, developers, for development, deployment of project.
• Defined sizing of production servers. Lead Infrastructure team for deploying jboss, sql server, etc.
• Lead production support activity of project. Identify root cause of application, infrastructure issues.

Confidential

Technology: Infor EAM Product, SAP, Java

Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with business managers and business analyst to understand current requirement
• Identified multiple Integration architecture options
• Build the consensus for the option which was a simple Java based standalone application, which picked data from Infor EAM product and send over to SAP middleware infrastructure (SAPXI)
• Ensured the selected architecture to be scalable, fit to management's cost and schedule expectations
• Lead developer(s) for development.

Confidential

Technology: J2EE, Java, Unix, Web logic application Server, Qualicomm POS, ALSB, Oracle Database.

Solution Architect, Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Effective interaction with business to understand and refine business requirement.
• Analyzed existing IT systems of corporate stores to identify impact to existing systems for this project.
• Liaised with interfacing systems to understand changes to existing interfaces.
• Retail Information System (RIS), Retail Management System Bridge, Point of Sale system of corporate stores were impacted.
• Successfully developed high level solution document, got it reviewed from enterprise architect and attended formal compliance review.
• Prepared detailed design document & provided detailed design document to the vendor for implementation.
• Lead vendor for implementation.

Confidential

Technology: J2EE, Java, Unix

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with business/stakeholders holders to understand the business problem.
• Conceptualized following 4 options to make application compatible with PCI standards. build ticketing system using clear quest build ticketing system using remedy build ticketing system using J2EE
• Replace current PERL script with J2EE, not much change to current process, though application will replace credit card number with token. In order to access credit card number user has to log on to application.
• Collaborated with enterprise architecture team and business group to build consensus & option 4 was selected based on the presentation given by me as it provides little impact to current business process and comparatively lesser cost solution.
• Worked on high level architecture of this application. Attended architecture compliance review meeting.
• Created Confidential method deliverable of Application Solution Blueprint, Component Design Document.
• Used struts, existing Sun Access Manager (authentication) for IT solution.
• Succeeded in producing detailed application design & explained the design to technical lead for implementation.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Technology: Java, Unix

Responsibilities:

• Liaised with Confidential representative in order to finalize interface with Confidential after gathering the business requirements.
• Produced high level architecture solution. The High level Architecture solution provided technical approach for efficient processing of payment transactions to Confidential, on daily basis.
• Planned & followed component based approach in which scheduler and transaction extractor were two major components. Performed detailed level design of these components.
• Acquired decisions on the technology & the payment transaction database to be used

Confidential

Technology: J2EE

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Produced use case document, high level design, low level design also performed implementation of detailed design.
• Provided key recommendations to management regarding improving application. The application was using custom web framework and has improvements points for current code. Hence I recommended using struts framework and suggested key code refactoring in order to improve maintainability of application.

Confidential

Technology: Oracle Web logic application Server, ALSB

Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Successfully handled a module of this project, having taken up when a first cut High level architecture overview and component model was delivered by an IBM Architect.
• I was assigned a set of subsystem called “Declaration Module”.
• Efficiently tracked the errors in the overview & component model; analyzed the existing work products and made remarkable changes.
• Identified various issues in logical data model and effectively fixed those issues together with IBM Denmark's architect.
• Created Physical data model using tool - IBM Rational Data Architect.
• Recognized for tracking the error in the business rule document & also fixing those issues.
• Provided an introductory presentation to entire project team regarding System Engineering and Architecture capability pattern.
• Productively performed on micro design of a use case named “receive tech system declaration”
• Lead the Tech Lead and 4 application developers.

Confidential

Technology: J2EE based IBM's EAD4J Framework, IBM WebSphere application server, IBM DB2, MQ Series,AIX

Solution Designer, Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed the work both onshore & offshore.
• Analyzed requirements specific to geography & provided detailed information in terms of use case documents.
• Produced SE&A (System Engineering and Architecture) capability pattern's key deliverables for e.g. System Requirement Specifications, Requirement Traceability and verification matrix, System context diagram etc.
• Participated in System requirement review meetings. Received necessary approvals on the System requirements.
• Explained design to developers and lead developers in order to implement solution ensured requirement traceability and verification matrix is filled in all phases of project (till deployment).
• Worked on architecture related documents of projects especially in terms of architecture decision /architecture proposal documents.
• Lead team in order to take key architecture decisions.
• Attended architecture board's architecture compliance review meeting & presented project's architecture in end customer's architecture review meeting.
• During my tenure at on-site, worked with IBM India's offshore project manager & provided inputs to avoid schedule slippages and achieved customer satisfaction.

Confidential

Technology: J2EE

Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Identified root causes of key production problems and analyzed architecture.
• Recommended project manager for many improvements in current architecture and processes.
• To move towards IBM's EAD4J's JADE gem framework instead of current third-party web framework. The application was highly dependent on third-party framework; it also lacked a clean separation of responsibilities within application layers. Lead the team to do code refactoring in order to improve on separation of responsibilities within application layers.
• Create separate environments for developers for testing.
• Create separate environment where developers (pre-prod environment) which is connected to a minimum set of production live data
• Improved unit testing by use of Junit
• Improved coverage of code review using automated static code review tool.
• Improved the code review guidelines.
• Recommended to change wording severity definitions of defects which were mentioned in SOW (Statement of Work).
• Successfully designed and implemented the generic solution as per the customers’ requirements.

Confidential

Technology: Java servlets, Enterprise Java Beans, MQ Series and Mainframe database, IBM Web sphere Application Server

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed as Technical Lead
• Estimated the high level effort for the project using Use case points technique.
• Worked on project's implementation level Design. The Design focuses on reusing existing architecture components.
• Implemented components, lead developers and provided support for testing of the project.
• The architecture involves the Java servlets, Enterprise Java Beans, MQ Series and Mainframe database; Request for data flows from Java Servlets - EJB- MQ- Mainframe.
• Stateless session Beans are used as transaction processing was taken care of by Backend.

Confidential

Technology: Web services, Java servlets, Enterprise Java Beans, MQ Series, IBM DB2, IBM Web sphere Application Server

IT Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a primary offshore lead for development of web services.
• Interacted with the customer for finalizing and improving web services’ method signatures.
• Built components required for web services enabling legacy data.
• Developed Java classes which were invoked by apache soap, these classes in turn invoked components which fetched data from mainframe.