SUMMARY:

• Dynamic Software / Business Architect with over 18 years of diverse Information Technology (IT) experience in the fields of Enterprise Architecture, Application
• Development, J2EE, and managing large scale enterprise applications. Offer unique combination of technical and business expertise to successfully lead new product development and process improvement initiatives. Results - oriented, creative, team player with strong managerial, organizational, collaborative, and problem-solving skills. Heavily involved in emerging technologies and eager to face new challenges and contribute to company goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Java, J2EE, Spring Framework, Struts, Hibernate, ELK, (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana)Java Server Pages, Servlets, XML, XSL, EJB, Tiles, Ant, KSH Scripting, VC++, Active Server PagesMFC, ATL, COM/DCOM, ADO, SDK

Application Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, Apache, Tomcat, BPM

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows, Linux

Virtualization: Docker, Vagrant

Messaging: IBM MQSeries, TIBCO, ESB

Protocols/Utilities: Win 16 and 32 APIs (SDK), HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP

Tools: SPARX EA, RAD, WSAD, Eclipse, Visual Age for Java, Erwin, Visio, UML, and OOAD

Design Patterns: REST, Microservice, SOA, Singleton, Data Factory, Bridge, Fa ade Pattern, Memento, Visitor

Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL

Frameworks: TOGAF, Rational Unified process, Agile Methodology XP, SCRUM, Zachman framework

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Madison, WI

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed enterprise system architecture (using SPARX) to automate Healthcare claim payment and advice (835) processing; analyzed and identified revenue leakages in their multiple claim payment system.
• Using a microservice architecture, designed Spring Boot-based services to share information between backend database and retrieve and store document from document management system (DMS).
• Identified, defined, and designed end-to-end business services for Provider Portal to support business process of member/claim eligibility, provider credentialing, and provider onboarding.
• Analyze business and technology challenges, assess costs, and suggest solutions for payment portal as part of enrolment business process. Designed enterprise system architecture (using SPARX) for payment portal to accept payment from various sources (including online) from customers.
• Designed Proof of concept using AWS EC2 and Cloud watch services for CI/CD pipeline management through Jenkins.
• Designed Proof of concept of deploying Kentico (.NET) apps to AWS EC2 and S3.
• Improved internal system to apply payments to member’s account and provided dashboard to allow business to work on fallout with ease.
• Performed design and system analysis, interface and data architectures, lifecycle cost estimation and analysis, and governance to provide unique identifier for each member.
• Led design and development of Restful web services with Spring boot (and ESB) used in applications for customer service.
• Used Agile Scrum Methodology to split an epic into smaller meaningful features to deliver working system to business partners.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Architect- Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in analyzing legacy systems and applications to derive necessary business rules and functions from existing financial and material planning applications.
• Collaborated with key stakeholders and internal teams to define enterprise architecture principles, standards and guidelines, and blueprints for the organizations ecommerce system.
• Outlined current and future vision enterprise architecture, including traceability from business and IT strategies to suggested technologies.
• Implemented an optimized IT governance process leveraging agile/lean to ensure business leader alignment with priorities, resource allocation, and spending.
• Designed a system based on Spring Batch for standardizing most of the company’s batch processing needs.
• Performed evolution of AWS EC2 and Cloud watch services utilizing Amazon cart.
• Facilitated daily scrum meetings and enforcing timeboxes and responding to the impediments. Also facilitated sprint planning and sprint retrospectives.
• Identified vital improvements in existing Electronic documents management.

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented (J2EE) Java web services-based supplier portal to allow vendors to submit online import-export compliance documents resulted in savings of $250K per year.
• Delivered architecture placement of function and solution options; identified risks, alternatives, and implications for numerous business scenarios related to fiskars.com and Gernergear.com.
• Analyzed and researched information to integrate the architecture for operational and system models for ecommerce model for fiskars.com and Gernergear.com.
• Designed and executed proofs-of-concept for critical enterprise capabilities of material requisition, including building business case with costs, benefits, and efficiency measures.
• Worked with end users to define product requirements and project road maps to ensure acceptance and optimize outcomes.
• Used Agile Scrum Methodology to ensure high-quality software delivery in monthly and quarterly release.

Confidential

Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented, and deployed many J2EE, SOA-based web applications resulting in consolidation of development environment under one platform.
• Spearheaded and delivered an enterprise-wide study on Business Complexity of material management, inhibiting revenue and efficiencies.
• Delivered 3 releases of business systems to support business models for New product launch on fiskars.com.
• Assured enterprise application integration by selecting tools (version control), specifying shared data (EDW) and code resources, defining interfaces and data-flows, and monitoring progress.
• Developed policies regarding secure coding and standards, including design, coding, data, and UI patterns.
• Led Master Data Management program and common dictionary allowing business units to leverage common functionality and common business process flow and increase operational efficiencies.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Team Lead and Architect Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed messaging interfaces using IBM MQ series to exchange message between different applications.
• Created and implemented J2EE Tiles architecture-based web utility e-notes to capture policy-based online-free formatted notes.

Confidential, Madison, WI

Lead Developer Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Developed interface, based on various design patterns, to allow movement of item cases between two systems.
• Created Java Server pages, Bean-Managed Persistence (BMP) beans to transfer data between database and application using Façade pattern, Data Access Object (DAO), and Value Object (VO).
• Designed Intransit Application process to facilitate receipt of goods shipped between different Kraft facilities, based on various industry standard frameworks like Struts Model View Control (MVC) framework and development tools like Bean-Managed Persistence (BMP) bean, Session beans, MQ Series, clear case, AutoSys, Oracle, shell scripts, and AIX UNIX (11.0).

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Developer Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in development of company data application using Java, XML, MQSeries and Servlets. Architecture based on Singleton and Data factory design pattern.
• Designed customer parser application to filter and load the account and customer data to database using Session beans, singleton, and factory design patterns. Servlets along with MQSeries and XML were used to store data from investment fund families to their database.
• Automated Long-Term Care termination process to calculate commissions due agents. Construction was based on singleton pattern, Java, Rogue Wave, and MQSeries,
• Developed commission authorization process to allow agents to expedite commission process using Object Oriented concepts and C++, Rogue Wave library, PVCS, MQSeries and UNIX