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TOGAF, SOA, BPMN, ITIL, Cloud Certified Lead Enterprise Architect with more than 20 years of proven diverse experience at various levels of Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Application development, Planning, Scoping Integration incorporating Intranet, Web 2.0, SOA, ROA, Mobile, Big Data, Cloud, Distributed, Multi-threaded and Multi-Tier web based, client-server technology and legacy based distributed application software. Expertise in leading Project and Process Improvement resulting in more than 250,000,000 in cost saving over the years for multiple domains including Banking, Financial Services, Auto, Healthcare, Insurance, Investment Banking, Captive Finance, Manufacturing, Energy, Oil Gas, Pipeline, Shipping Utilities companies.

professional EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Responsible

• for setup/maintenance of Enterprise Architecture practice leveraging best of breed architecture process and frameworks including TOGAF, Zachman. Creation of framework for Architecture Governance and Enterprise Architecture standard work, as member of a team to advance EA practice maturity.
• Evangelize the benefits of Enterprise Architecture to business and IT stakeholders.
• Establishment of Business Strategy, Technology strategy leveraging tailored TOGAF ADM steps.
• Strategic Planning, Governance Strategy, Architectural Guidance, Process Improvement and oversight related to Development, Designing, Enhancement, Integration and Migration of IT Applications.
• Lead design, estimation, planning and implementation of IT system related business solutions including COTS products, SAP, SAP- PI, ERP System, CRM, Java/J2EE/.NET/MQ, Mobile, PASS, ERP, ROA, SOA, MDM Products Analytical, Transactional, Business Object , Websphere Process Server, Hadoop, Reusable Web services/ interfaces.
• Performed domain assessment/gap analysis between current and future states for system conversion, recommended solutions and best practices for transition to strategic target state architecture, including adaption of Cloud/SOA Mobile Master Data Big Data based strategy. Ensured the proposed recommendation adheres to vision including increase organization agility, simplification of IT environment resulting in multi millions in cost saving from increased efficiency, reduced TCO and increase ROI.
• Responsible for development of strategic target state roadmap and overall architecture of strategic, tactical projects ensuring alignment enterprise strategy compliance, as a member of the Architecture Review Board.
• Working with senior IT leadership C-Level Executive, Business Lead/Solution Architect, Process Leads, PMO on enterprise strategic planning, Business-IT alignment, Business Process transformations, IT governance IT risk management.
• Issue and Review RFI/RFP's, evaluate responses from COTS product vendors.

Confidential

Lead Enterprise Architect

Responsible

• for setup/maintenance of Enterprise Architecture practice leveraging best of breed architecture process and frameworks including TOGAF, Zachman and being an Active member of the Architecture Review Board Council .
• Overall architecture of 35 strategic and tactical projects ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and direction, which included interfacing with the C-Level Executive, Business Lead/Architect, Process Leads, Information Architect, Infrastructure, PMO, CSR and Application Development teams and oversight to ensure conformance to standards.
• Development of strategic target state roadmap and help with setting up, enforcing the Governance standard/policies, ensuring that solution/technical and service designs adhere to standards, principles and governance processes.
• Aided PMO/Investment Review Board in scoping project/investment and release by providing designs deliverables, which can be leveraged by Business leads, estimated by the appropriate execution teams and ensures designs and patterns, are adhered to the enterprise architecture standards.
• Performed domain assessment/gap analysis between current and future states for system conversion, recommended solutions and best practices for transition to Mortgage banking strategic target state architecture, including adaption of Cloud/SOA based strategy. Ensured the proposed recommendation adheres to vision including increase organization agility, simplification of IT environment resulting in multi millions in cost saving from increased efficiency, reduced TCO and increase ROI.
• Integration of COTS products and customized vendor products LPS MSP/embTRUST etc. , systems and application within the Enterprise, which included approx. 300 Applications Java/J2EE/.NET/MQ etc , Mobile Applications, PASS, ERP Systems, MDM Products Analytical, Transactional, Business Object , Hadoop, Process Workflow, Reusable Web services/ interfaces.
• Responsible for definition of Service Strategy Governance of Service Portfolio that aided in Integration of Applications, and orchestration of workflow using SOA/Cloud/BPM/ESB/ROA based middleware product including PEGA, IBMCaseManager, VMWare in house Framework etc.
• Rationalization of IT Portfolio and Provide Technical Architecture consultancy to multiple concurrent projects, which includes enterprise wide project to house Telephone Consent, Dodge-Frank, FHA-VA Recon, DOJ and numerous regulatory projects.
• Review RFI/RFP's, evaluate responses/ COTS product vendors.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant/Architect

• Development of strategic target state roadmap and help with setting up, enforcing the Governance standard/policies, ensuring that solution/technical and service designs adhere to standards, principles and governance processes. Active member of Architecture Board with authority to provide the Build permits.
• Establish, build and enhance partnerships with internal and external leadership, PMO, Helpdesk and other stakeholders to understand business needs, obtain buy-in on approach, and build consensus.
• Defined SOA Service/Governance Strategy to ensure conformance to SOA governance standards while creating SOA/BPM/Cloud/ROA based architecture for Online Banking OLB Online Acquisition OLA Platform, driving the merger of authentication mechanism for the 2 separate environments, entry into Boston market etc.
• Provided Architecture consultancy to multiple concurrent projects, which includes addition of chat functionality in Texas Region, Entry into Boston Market, Merge of Authentication Systems used with enterprise, migration of Bank Alerts systems towards enterprise strategic path. Direct, facilitate, and manage work of geographically distributed project teams through conference calls, meetings, and mentoring on Project.
• Performed domain assessment/gap analysis between current and future states for system conversion, recommended solutions and best practices for transition. Perform peer reviews of designs and solution proposals to ensure conformance to current practice and quality of work being generated.
• Review RFI/RFP's evaluate responses from COTS product vendors.

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Sr. Consultant

• Spearheaded, architected and delivered solution to support the File Workflow at the enterprise level, including overall Solution Design, end-to-end Process Flow, Web Services definitions/message formats /security credentials/SLAs /Constraints /system alerts and standard reusable integration interfaces for Authentication and Authorization, Auditing etc. in a environment leveraging ITSM/ITIL/Waterfall process.
• Created reusable shared services infrastructure through web services creation to act like an adapter to integrated systems. Using Tibco tools. Redesigned solution to utilize the standard TIBCO Activematrix Adapters for Database connectivity and FTP, that can be reused for Enterprise integration
• Review RFP's, evaluate responses/product vendors and recommend solutions, Created overall Architecture, System Spec, Governance and Design Doc.
• Was responsible for Costs Benefit Analysis and Risk Assessment of various COTS/ Open-source products.
• Provide Technical Architecture consultancy to multiple concurrent projects and helped ensure that we are moving towards the strategic direction while meeting tactical needs.
• Performed domain assessment/gap analysis between current and future states for system conversion, recommended solutions and best practices for transition resulting in increased production efficiency of 26.
• Establish, build and enhance partnerships with internal and external leadership, PMO, Helpdesk and other stakeholders to understand business needs, obtain buy-in on approach, and build consensus.
• Aided management in scoping projects/investments/releases/governance and keeping them apprised of potential risks and possible ways to mitigate them. Gave technical guidance to the team and helped with setting up the standards.

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Sr. Software Engineer

• Managed/Provided support for various Infrastructure components used by 3000 HA applications with 100 uptime of USAA.com deployed on 180 jvms on WebSphere Application Server V5X/6.0/6.1 Farms with approx 30 million hits per day.
• Performed domain assessment/gap analysis between current and future states for system conversion, recommended solutions and best practices for transition.
• Conducted workshops with DBA to design/model/remodel the existing/new entity services used for CURD operations by various applications. Helped with the migration from WAS 5x to 6x.
• Helped in developing and implementing/governance strategy, solutions and process to migrate the WebSphere based solution to JBOSS based SOA architecture resulting in 30,000,000 plus in cost saving over the years.
• Aided management in scoping projects/investments/releases and keeping them apprised of potential risks and possible ways to mitigate them. Gave technical guidance to the team and helped with setting up development standards.

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Sr. Consultant /Solution Architect

• Work as a Sr. Consultant for Commodity Trading Team of Fortis Merchant Banking which involves providing technical solutions for commodity trading applications including trade capture, generation of forward volatility curves/risk management, etc.
• Come up with SOA based technical solutions including application architecture and designing Java, J2EE, JMS, TIBCO, and WebServices solutions based on the assessment of application needs. Made the required enhancement to current energy trading large scale multithreaded application running on 30 servers

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Sr. Consultant

• Provided Solutions to Market Risk Technology Team for various analytical needs including calculations/models to determine value at risk VaR , analytical reports for risk management including interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk, equity price risk and commodity price risk
• Overall Solution Design that includes end-to-end Process Flow, Web Services definitions/message formats/security credentials/ SLAs/ Constraints/ system alerts, integration interfaces using diversified technologies including Fuego, Java, J2EE based webservices.
• Designed complex/multi-threaded application including reusable UI/Application framework, Handling various XML and data feed files coming from different internal and external vendors including Bloomberg and Reuters, integration of JPMorgan proprietary tools/applications including VAR calculators, diagnostics jobs and single sign on apps like JADE/IBM East and Site Minder in-turn providing guidance on utilization of tools/technology to support the needs.

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Architect/ Sr. Consultant

• Architected/Developed Systems for one of the top Gas Pipeline Power company, providing natural gas customer and Commodity Traders with valuable pipeline information as well as automation of the gas transmission process including nomination, capacity release, confirmation, invoicing, contracts, and deals.
• Assisted in successful migration of legacy IBM-Mainframe system by Leading/mentoring team of developer for implementing solutions using Java/J2EE/Sonic MQ/JMS/XML/Castor/EJB based technologies. Designed/modeled the operational data stores to support the invoicing activities on DB2 platform.

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Lead Software Engineer

• Leaded the product development effort for the insurance industry allowing agents to get real time quotes over the Internet for customers, thus streamlining the process of obtaining the insurance quotes home, jewelry, fine arts, furs, silverware, cameras, wine and other valuable properties. Functionality was implemented using Enterprise JavaBeans, Java Servlets, JDBC, JSP, Swing and HTML
• Century Yarn/Denim Senior Software Developer/Team Leader/Project Leader 08/1997 02/2000
• Designed, Developed and leaded efforts to automate multiple systems within Century Yarn and Denim including inquiry system to support the request of details about denim. Material Management System to fully automate the store's purchase department of Century Yarn and Denim plant. Leaded and successfully implemented the effort to automate the Human Resource Department of Century Yarn and Denim. The system where developed using Java, J2EE, Sybase, COT Products etc.

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Software Engineer/Developer/Analyst

• Managed Programing Team and Leaded the coding effort to develop Products leveraging Unix,, C, C , Oracle technologies to handle the Material Management of any Manufacturing Plant, Hospital Management System to aid in efficiently manage hospital resources. University System to handle student fees due, fees receipt, and supporting examination information roll number and section wise