SUMMARY

• 14 years of IT experience in strategizing, architecting, analysis, designing, requirements elicitation, process modeling, analysis, development for application development, product development, maintenance and production support based projects
• 10 plus years of experience across various verticals and domains performing leadership responsibilities like Lead Developer, Project Lead, Development Manager, Technical Project Manager&Senior Architect
• Content Authoring and Management Systems (Wolters Kluwer)
• Retail Chain Management domain (Pricer)
• Supply Chain Management domain (Conexant)
• Telecom Billing Solutions (Convergys)
• Digital Advertising ( Confidential - Ewald),
• Health Care (CMS) in client facing roles such as Project Leader, Software Architect, Senior Consultant, Lead Consultant and Technical Project Manager.
• Extensive industry experience in implementing enterprise integration solutions using the following
• Resolve OWASP Web Application vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL Injection, Unsecure Cookie/Session, Request/Input Validation, Unauthorized Access Control
• JSR 168 portlet based open source frameworks and Proprietary framework portals
• Content authoring, processing and management using Epic Editor and Arbor text languages
• Implementing network communication solutions through JAVA Communication API
• Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services and high volume transactional applications, SOA Messaging
• Extensive knowledge about event driven systems, schema, orchestration, mapping, and ESB exception handling
• Expert in database engineering using Oracle and SQL development
• Knowledge about various architectures and protocols such as MOM, XSLT, SOA, UDDI, REST, XML, FTP, WSDL, and SOAP
• Expert knowledge about secure transmissions, digital certificated, SSL/https configuration and setup
• Strong experience with data architecture and application architecture
• Cognos SDK based BI reporting solutions
• Proficient and well experienced working on, J2EE enterprise applications and JSR portal/portlet open source frameworks like Life ray and JBOSS
• Involved as a COE member in proposing and defining solution approaches in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with some of the major Fortune companies at Executive and Technical level. I was also part of the COE team in building SOA implementation roadmaps for such organizations and have expertise in helping teams in implementing successful SOA with the organization / business unit level
• Experience in managing Windows Servers/ Messaging servers and Cloud Migration
• Basic Experience in Windows Administration and Linux Administration
• Extensive experience in Installing software, application servers in highly secured network zones in Linux and Solaris operation systems
• Undertaken lead responsibilities forDR (Disaster Recovery ) Exercises, resolving any network related production issues and lead the High severity incident calls involving multiple teams
• Demonstrated my outmost multifaceted abilities in resolving application performance issues, database redundancy issues, production deployment issues with 3rd party vendors, IDM/LDAP issues, HTTP Apache SSL issues and complex Cognos SDK issues
• Participated with Infrastructure partners in SOX IT Audits, Change Management and IT Audit Remediation processin highly secured network zones for CMS and EPA clients
• Basic understanding of Amazon Terramark Cloud and Amazon EC2 Webservices
• Well experienced in implementing SEI CMMI Level process compliance metrics across all the stages of the SDLC life cycle. Involved in CMMI Level assessments and KPMG audits for my projects during my tenure with HCL technologies and Cap Gemini
• Proficient and experienced in Rational Unified Process, Object Oriented Analysis & Design and UML using Rational tools like Rational Rose, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational SODA. Microsoft VISIO, Magic Draw UML. Good at providing solutions using various design patterns (GoF, J2EE patterns etc) and UML
• Extensive experience in using IFPUG based project estimation techniques like Functional Point Analysis, Object Size Count Analysis and Use Case Estimation techniques (Was a member of estimation council board during my tenure with HCL technologies as a Project Leader)
• Experienced in delivering solutions using different software development life cycle methodologies like Agile model, Waterfall model, Iterative model and Prototype Model
• Well experienced in Project Initiation, Project Management, Project Planning, RFP documentation, Project Estimation and Cost benefit Analysis
• Well experienced in providing technical pre sales support to Business Development Managers in various Geographies. Experienced in writing RFP’s and solution approach based case study documents.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Windows, UNIX/Linux

Environment: Client Server, Distributed, Web based, B2B, EAI, SOA

Database: Oracle 8.0/9i/10g, SQL-Server 7.0, MS-Access, MySQL

Open Source: Spring MVC, Apache Struts, Log4j, JSF, Spring Core, Apache Ant, Apache Axis, Apache Cocoon, Jakarta Taglibs, Struts 2.0 Taglibs, Jacarta Commons, Castor JDOM, dom4j, jaxen, SAXPath, Xerces, Xalan, Jakarta JXPath,, OS Cache, PDFBox (PDF parser), Apache Commons, Apache POI, Display tag, IBatis, MyBatis

JSR Portal Frameworks: Life ray 4.2.1/5.0, JBoss Portal, Healthy Planet - (J&J Proprietary), ATLAS (Wolters Kluwer proprietary), BEA Aqua Logic Portal

J2EE Technologies: JSP, J2EE, Servlets, RMI, Java Beans, JMS, Java Mail, EJB,JTS, JAXP, JSTL, JNDI

Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, JAVA, PERL, PHP 3.0, C++

OOAD & UML: UML, OOAD, Rational Unified Process

UML/Rational Tools: Rational Rose, Rational SODA, Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Clear quest, Magic draw UML, Altova UModel, Microsoft Visio

XML Technologies: XML, XSLT, SGML, XPATH, XSL, XML Beans, XML Binding

Web server: Jakarta tomcat 4.0/5.0/6.0, Apache HTTP Web server

Application Server: BEA Weblogic 7.1/8.1/9.1/10.1/10.3 , IBM Websphere Application Server 5.0, IPlanet Server, Orion Server, JBoss Application Server

Java IDE: JBuilder 2005, Eclipse 3.0, My Eclipse and plugin environments, Altova XML Spy, Edit plus

Source Control/Version Management Systems: VSS, CVS, Rational Clear case, CM-Synergy, SVN

ORM Tools: Toplink, Spring JDBC, Spring DAO, Hibernate3.0, Castor JDO, IBatis

Business Intelligence: Cognos SDK, Cognos Report Studio, Cognos Analysis Studio, Cognos Administration, Cognos drill down and drill through. Cognos Portal Services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Development Lead/Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Serving as a development lead and Manager in leading the vendors, partners, stake holder, requirements, design efforts for transforming the functional specifications into technical design (high level and detailed)
• Serving as a development manager for release planning, project estimation, resource management and project coordination.
• Defined, implemented and enforced development and design standards
• Implemented standardized and secure information collection services and infrastructure for CMS Shared Service Partners
• Performed R&D, built prototypes and POCs to identify and roadmap relevant new technologies like UAM Mcafee Service, Pitney Bowes Address Validation Service, D&B Integration Manager, Truven Physician Surveillance Service, SAS Interfacing
• Influence the technology strategy and establish reusable systems, infrastructures, frameworks, and tools for use across enterprise-wide architectures.
• Analyze and identify potential problem areas that could degrade system performance. Analyze and understand the limitations, technology gaps, design glitches and performance issues, design and develop code to stabilize the system.
• Architected, designed and developed SOAP and Restful based web services
• Coordinated Infrastructure and deployment architecture with LM, CMS, CPI and other vendors
• Generate OOAD and UML based design artifacts and design documentation where ever necessary
• Assesses system requirements and specifications and translates them into functional architecture.
• Educate project members on existing standards and on the adoption of the enterprise architecture
• Review peer systems designs and code modules for consistency and adherence to standards and design principles
• Maintain awareness and promotion of development tools, programming techniques, best practices, design principles and problem solving techniques

Confidential

Project Lead/Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implemented and supported Environmental Information Exchange Network (Exchange Network) to manage thousands of data submissions from states and industry through a service oriented architecture.
• Implemented standardized and secure information collection services and infrastructure for EPA program partners
• Analyze and identify potential problem areas that could degrade system performance. Analyze and understand the limitations, technology gaps, design glitches and performance issues, design and develop code to stabilize the system
• Educate and adapt to ARRA (FederalReporting.gov) project technologies and business processes quickly and begin to immediately help solve some of the complex issues facing ARRA to help improve performance and keep the website running smoothly.
• Served as a project lead in leading the design efforts for transforming the functional specifications into technical design (high level and detailed)
• Responsible for overall cloud direction for the project, with a particular emphasis on building a scalable infrastructure.
• Served as an enterprise integration architect for capacity planning, provisioning, automation and standardization of cloud VM’s on CGI GSA cloud.
• Defined, implemented and enforced development and design standards
• Implemented highly transaction multisource and format (SFTP, Batch, online and XML and Excel) datacollection and report submissions. This has resulted the report submissions with data quality, timeliness, accessibility, and security
• Performed R&D, built prototypes and POCs to identify and roadmap relevant new technologies
• Hand-hold the team members in performing routine maintenance on the website, especially during reporting months when responsiveness is critical and support must often be done during off-hours.
• Influence the technology strategy and establish reusable systems, infrastructures, frameworks, and tools for use across enterprise-wide architectures.
• Analyze and identify potential problem areas that could degrade system performance. Analyze and understand the limitations, technology gaps, design glitches and performance issues, design and develop code to stabilize the system
• Generate OOAD and UML based design artifacts and design documentation where ever necessary
• Assesses system requirements and specifications and translates them into functional architecture.
• Educate project members on existing standards and on the adoption of the enterprise architecture
• Review peer systems designs and code modules for consistency and adherence to standards and design principles
• Maintain awareness and promotion of development tools, programming techniques, best practices, design principles and problem solving techniques

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading the design efforts for transforming the technical specification into MIS technical design (high level and detailed) with a through end-to-end integration by working with functional leads and component leads
• Analysis, design and architecture analysis for a Java/J2EE BI reporting web application built with Struts 2.0, Spring Framework, Apache server (httpd), Oracle Weblogic 10.1, Cognos 8.3 SDK, Cognos Web services, Hibernate 3.0.
• Demonstrated my outmost multifaceted abilities in resolving application performance issues, database redundancy issues, production deployment issues with 3rd party vendors, IDM/LDAP issues, HTTP Apache SSL issues and complex Cognos SDK issues
• Implemented secure web application practices as outlined by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).
• Acquired technical understanding of COGNOS SDK by attending IBM Cognos workshop on SDK, Self-taught and implemented cross functional and high volume transactional reporting solutions for J2EE middle ware and Cognos SDK
• Implemented multithreaded and concurrent Java/J2EE custom module via Cognos SDK API to interface MIS application with Cognos report net. This custom module has been facilitating MIS application to submit report jobs, process report generation process, retrieve the report output, export the report outputs and configure the reports for MIS GUI population
• Extensive experience in multithread processing of CLOB and BLOB data types at database level and at application level
• Extensive experience in using JProfiler (Java Profiler) to troubleshoot, performance tuning, eradication of performance leaks for Java/J2EE applications
• Extensively demonstrated my abilities to analyze and resolve Infrastructure, deployment, production and security assessment requirements as a CGI MIS liaison with PMBR, CMS and BCSSI third party contractors

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Project Lead/Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 7 engineers (Developers, Business Analysts, testers, CM) in developing custom, multi-tiered Internet software systems for DTE.
• Responsible for Requirement Analysis, Release Management, Project Estimation, Design and Enhancement of Electric Choice (ECIT) eCommerce portal and infrastructure. This portal is the converging point customer, vendors and billing systems for DTE.

Confidential - Warren, MI

Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Business Requirement Analysis, Design and Implementation of customer portal for client GM-Chevrolet.
• Responsible for delivering project status report to management and stakeholders.
• Feasibility study and identification of JSR open source portal frameworks Liferay & JBoss
• Provided solution approach for RADIUS channel based LDAP authentication for the Confidential Ewald employees and GM users
• Configured, customized and provided out of the box portlet solutions using Liferay open source portal framework
• Developed portlets inline to the Liferay framework using JSF, Spring, Hibernate and Velocity template