SUMMARY

• 16+ years of IT industry experience.
• 14+ years of experience in building real time applications and engaged in Web technologies.
• 8+ years of experience in providing thought leadership in solving business challenges with cutting edge IT solutions.
• 8+ years of experience in leading technical teams.
• 4+ years of experience in leading Enterprise Architecture practice.
• 8+ years of experience in IT Solutions Architecture domain.
• 2 years of experience in Pre - sale activity.
• Experience working with large distributed applications in industries such as Transportation/Aviation, Telecommunication, Construction, Retail and Commerce.
• Provided leadership in creating technical excellence charter and led a team of 100 IT professionals in creating innovative and creative technology solutions.
• Instrumental in increasing EA maturity within the organization.
• Chaired the Architecture Board, which is responsible for the oversight of the Architecture governance.
• Created Architectural artifacts to create viewpoints, which communicated with different stakeholders of a project.
• Drove the advancement of cloud, mobile, business continuity and big data strategies.
• Provided leadership and guidance in bringing in new Big data and high volume transaction processing technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Flume, Sqoop, Kafka, Storm, etc thereby showcasing the technical possibilities to the business / product teams.
• Provided architectural leadership
• Created Business, Application, Data and Technology architectures.
• Experience in building an Enterprise Architecture Practice from scratch.
• Experience in customizing EA for a company by using specialized tools such as EA Sparx and Troux.
• Ensured technical excellence among the IT community by establishing code governance, Test Driven Development (TTD) and creating a continuous development environment.
• Cultivated creativity and innovation through the creation of an innovation lab.
• Provided support and guidance to establish SOA principles and standards.
• Assessed vendor products such as, IBM Data Power, IBM MQ Message Broker, ActiveMQ, Apigee, Parasoft SOATest.
• Provided architectural roadmap and technical support to implement mobile strategic initiatives like enabling Push Notification, REST backend services, service versioning and mobile user monitoring across many platforms including, iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry, etc.
• Expertise in technologies like JAVA, J2EE, Servlets, JSP, Struts, Spring MVC, JMS, WebServices (REST and SOAP based), XML/XSL, JNDI, JDBC, JMS, Ant, Unix Shell Scripts, C++, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server.
• Experienced in developing and deploying J2EE applications using Weblogic & IBM Websphere (WSAD, WAS).
• Excellent interpersonal and technical skills.
• Possesses the ability to work in tight schedules and efficient in meeting deadlines.
• Self-starter, fast learner and team player with strong personal and group communication skills.
• Skilled in documentation, user presentation and user training.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Enterprise Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Provide Architectural leadership by empowering architects within Softcard to develop reliable, scalable, secure, simple and long term strategy driven products.
• Establish an EA group and lead a team of architects to create Architectural standards, principles and guidelines.
• Provide guidance to the business through cost-benefit & risk analysis.
• Engage in pre-sale activity with the customer banks and other commerce vendors.
• Create an environment conducive for the growth of innovation.
• Work with Product and Business leaders to understand the company and product strategy and lay out a technical roadmap.
• Provided leadership in making build vs buy decisions.
• Participated in App support and operation calls to see possibilities of improvements in Infrastructure, network, application, security architectures.
• Chair the Architecture Review Board to review the architectures of different projects within Softcard to ensure they are in-line with the overall technical roadmap and are adhering to standards and guidelines.
• Lay out the logical, physical, security, application architectures for systems through well-defined System architecture documents (SAD).
• Establish capabilities and constraints across Payment and Commerce platforms.
• Work with Issuers, Merchants and Partners to provide secure and reliable channels of communication.
• Work with teams across Mobile Network Operators, Secure Element, Handset OEMs, Merchants, Issuers, TSM, Mobile Apps, Middleware, Security, Infrastructure, Network, Operations and Support to combine the overall perspectives and translate it into a unified holistic view of the enterprise.
• Understand and work with different standards and specifications such as ISO 7816, ISO 14443, Global Platform, etc.
• Improved end to end system availability by 5%.
• Worked with product leadership to decrease latency of customer acquisition by 50%.
• Improved Issuer onboarding process with no impact to customer by providing an end to end scalable architecture.
• Increased commerce revenue by enhancing the commerce platform to provide Sales and marketing more product offerings which led to a revenue increase of 20%.
• Increased B2B portfolio by 25% by working with product teams to build an extended platform to provide multiple onboarding options for issuers and merchants.

Confidential

Principal Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided innovation, technology- and architecture-related thought leadership, strategic direction, and long-term vision.
• Areas of concentration included Enterprise Architecture and Transformative IT technologies, including cloud computing, mobile and big data.
• Utilized TOGAF 9.1 Enterprise Architecture as a guiding tool in creating Business, Data, Application and Technology architectures.
• Created an Architecture repository of Architecture building blocks using an EA tool called Troux.
• Defined the business capabilities, functions and scenarios and mapped them to application functions, service modules, application components deployed and technology components.
• Established and member of the Architecture Board ensuring compliance and driving Architecture Governance for various projects across the enterprise.
• Worked towards establishing an EA CMMI maturity of 3.
• Provided leadership in increasing EA maturity within the organization.
• Be part of the Architecture board to oversee the Architecture governance.
• Created Architectural artifacts to create viewpoints, which would communicate with different stakeholders of a project.
• Created Business, Application, Data and Technology architectures.
• Worked in conjunction with Confidential web operations to provide Technology and IT leadership on business continuity and monitoring of different customer facing applications.
• Provided technical leadership in harvesting customer analytic data across the company and creating business value proposition with real time services and analytics from it.
• Provided strategic direction and vision for customer experience using cutting edge technologies of Real time decision systems.
• Architected capturing of analytical data into a big data cluster using Hadoop and used Datameer for Business Intelligence.
• Created innovative real time service as a proof of concept which leverages big data analytics using Kafka and Storm.
• Architected security controls across different layers including Application access (SSO), Service controls (SAML), Infrastructure controls (Firewalls / ACLs / IPsec / L2TP - VPN), Web application controls (prevention of XSS, etc attacks, Prevention of DoS)
• Assess different tools and vendor software and drive POC’s if needed to ensure its compatibility to stakeholder’s requirements.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Be a part of the EA maturity assessment team.
• Follow the TOGAF Business Capability assessment to drive the creation of the EA practice within AA.
• Identified stakeholders and crated an Architecture Board for Governance.
• Crated business capability hierarchy for the enterprise by working together with other cross-domain Architects within the company.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided architectural solution to create a Web Analytics Framework to report web analytics.
• Architected a solution to meet Business Continuity by enabling High Available and Fault tolerant systems.
• Designed and developed enterprise marketing system, which will be used by a marketing team to post promotions to any Mobile Platform.
• Increased the performance of Mobile Services by 125% through analysis of code through various tools such as DynaTrace.
• Architected 2-way SMS service on top of Mobile Services, which provides services enabling the customer to interact with Confidential enterprise services.
• Architected Short-URL service, which is similar to Bitly, which enables Confidential to provision short URL’s for end customers specifically for native text and social communications.
• Created a pattern for versioning of REST services using custom headers.
• Worked to study different vendor tools for checking the feasibility of Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Context Aware Computing.
• Assessed different technical solutions from vendors such as Parasoft, IBM, Progess Software, Gigaspace and TIBCO.
• Created an enterprise high volume notification event driven system to notify any customer either internal or external through the channels of Email, Voice or Text.
• Created a new framework, which involves Delegate, Adapter and Connector design pattern to access enterprise information systems.
• Established good SOA principles in designing services.
• Provided Security solutions to protect data at rest and in-motion.
• Created framework for MWS for backward compatibility to all apps across different platforms.
• Provided technical solutions to implement caching for enabling peak application performance.
• Developed architectural artifacts using Microsoft Visio.
• Created a continuous development environment.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work with Business stakeholders and identify and create an Architecture vision and populate Requirements.
• Provided architectural input in driving IT Strategy for Merchandising for Confidential .
• Integrated vendor tools with American framework to help support continuous integration.
• Proposed Security solutions to safeguard customer data in transit and at rest.
• Introduced Spring framework as a technical solution to create a clear separation of layers within the application layer.
• Created a modular architecture, which will scale upon demand in a cloud environment.
• Architected a Web SSO framework with the use of SAML and oAuth technologies to create a seamless customer experience across platforms.
• Created standards across JBA partners for data exchange.
• Architected the technical solution for automatic data exchange between airlines.
• Organized informational sessions with different teams to educate the tool.
• Created and maintained rule sets, which defined the code quality of the code base.

Confidential - Dallas, TX

Senior J2EE Developer

Responsibilities:

• Created design documents using Magic Draw UML 10.5 / 11.0.
• Designed application using Struts 1.2 with Data Access Objects, Session Facade, Value Object, Singleton etc.
• Used JSTL, JSP, JavaScript and HTML for web-tier development.
• Development environment utilized was WebSphere 5.1 and later migrated to MyEclipse.
• Migrated Code from WebSphere/ WSAD to MyEclipse / JBOSS 4.0.
• Active participant in the design committee of CMS project.
• Used different design patterns such as Filters, DAO, Session Façade and Value Objects.
• Used technologies such as Hibernate, DisplayTag, Spring (used this in another small project called CSI), Log4J, Castor Maven, XDoclet.
• Generated dynamic emailing content using Velocity 1.4.
• Version control was done with the help of PVCS Sarena.
• Developed test cases using JUnit.

Confidential - Grapevine, TX

Senior J2EE Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed the application using MVC, Factory, Data Access Object, and Session Façade Design Patterns.
• Designed and developed team event and software release management modules using HTML, JavaScript, JSP and Java that can be used by any team member within the Confidential network.
• Created the Session and Entity Beans.
• Created the ER Diagram and Schema for Oracle Database.
• Designed, developed and deployed necessary triggers in Oracle; utilized Hibernate for persistence.
• Developed the ANT scripts for compiling, preparing and deployment of EAR and WAR files.
• Configured the JDBC connection pools and DataSources via Weblogic Console.
• Developed Common Controls for handling business logic, sending the mails, for uploading and downloading the files.
• Developed test cases using JUnit.
• Deployed application on Sun Solaris.
• Built, deployed and solved issues in SSP, FTTP, Voice Portal and BAU systems.
• Provided active support for Production, PLE, SIT environments.
• Tested the application on Load Runner.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Trained individuals in C/C++ and Visual Basic; there were 75 people under tutelage.
• Application development using Visual Basic 5.0
• Wrote test cases and tested the application.
• Conducted code review.
• Helping trainees to develop their communication skills.