SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Seasoned Enterprise Architect (TOGAF 9 and ITIL certified), leading Architecture teams, well versed in all aspects of Enterprise, Business, Application, Technology, Solution and Data Architectures
• Enterprise Architect establishing end - to-end Architecture using Minimum Viable Product Approach (MVP) for launching industry new Real Time Payments product in North America
• Enterprise Architect establishing architecture governance, assessing risks, creating enterprise architecture artifacts, operational readiness and risk assessment documents necessary for establishing the practice
• Enterprise Architect responsible for establishing a Lean Enterprise Architecture Practice (LEAP) for a small enterprise, a short term lending services provider; created a blueprint for setting up the practice and evolving the practice from CMM Level 1 to 5 along with necessary artifacts and templates
• Solutions Architect responsible for Wealth & Asset Management and Capital Markets in the Commercial Bank of a large financial corporation, identifying all interfaces and recommending integration patterns for internal systems in COTS implementations
• Solutions Architect for some of the Commercial Banking Treasury Management functions like Payables (ACH, Domestic Wires & Integrated Payments), Account Analysis & File Delivery Functions
• Designed a Toolkit & a Template to standardize documentation of Technology Solution Enterprise wide for a large commercial bank
• Finance architect responsible for all technical aspects of Globalizing Travel Industry Financial Systems; SME of Payment Processing Systems addressing SOX and PCI requirement solutions for Credit Card processing
• Chief architect of Object Persistence for a Distributed Object Framework managing a team of Infrastructure developers in the Insurance Industry
• Object architect of Decision Support Systems Framework in a Distributed System for Financial Applications of a large commercial bank leading the Architecture team
• Architect, Lead Developer responsible for generating Java classes for marshalling and unmarshalling XML schema based Information Model for eMortgage Factory, evaluated & created Business Process Models
• Key player in Run Time Improvement efforts improving response time by 80% and also performed Capacity Planning activities designed & developed User Interfaces in the development of Electronic Medical Records.
• Broad experience in all aspects of object oriented, distributed, web based and client/server systems development
• Well versed in RUP methodology and creation of various RUP artifacts like Use Case Model, Domain Object Model, Analysis, Design, Deployment and Test Models (class diagrams), Sequence and State Diagrams in UML and Architecture Documents. Also conversant with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall developmental methodologies and many other SDLCs, ER and Data Modeling
• Broad industry experience including Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, Capital Markets, Finance, Travel, Insurance, Healthcare, Cosmetics, Telecom, Manufacturing, and Engineering Automation
• Over 15 years of combined Banking, Insurance and Financial Systems and10 years of Healthcare experience

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Architecture: TOGAF, Zachman, FEA, ITIL, Visio

Distributed Technology: WebSphere MQ, WBI, MQSI, ICS, Web Services, J2EE, CORBA, Orbix, M3, Tuxedo

Java/Web Technology: Java, EJB, J2EE, JSP, JNDI, JMS, JTA, JTS, JDBC, Swing, XML, XSD, XMLBeans, XMLBooster, JAXB, LDAP, WSDL, SOAP, Sitecore, Layer7, Redis, Elasticsearch, SOLR, RabbitMQ, MongoDB

Methodology: Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, SAFe, TDD, RUP, UML, OMT, Fusion, Use Cases, Design Patterns, 4+1 View, SDLC, Structured Analysis & Design

Object Technology: Rational Rose, Select OMT, Webgain Studio, ORBstreams.h, Threads.h, Tools.h, DBTools, STL, MFC, Neuron Data (Blaze Software)

OO Modeling & RUP Artifacts: Use Cases, Scenarios, Domain Object Model (Persistence), Collaborations (Interactions and Sequence Diagrams), Activity and State Machine Diagrams, Class Diagrams and Design Patterns.

Languages: UML, C++, Visual C++, XML, Java, C, Pascal, Basic, COBOL, and Assembly.

Development tools: XMLSpy, WebSphere WBI suite, WorkBench, WSAD, Eclipse, VisualStudio, VisualCafe, TogetherSoft, SNiFF++, Persistence, Visual C++, ANT, Make, NMake, SUN Workshop, PVCS, ClearCase, Purify, Perl, Bourne, C and Korn shells

Operating Systems: Windows NT, 2000, XP; VMWare, Linux, Solaris, HPUX, OSF1, AIX, UNIX, RHEL

Database Systems & Tools: Oracle, Sybase, Teradata, DB2, SQL, PL/SQL, SQR, JDBC, ODBC, Ingress, Progress and DMS II, Erwin Data Modeler, Teradata SQL Assistant, Toad, Tora

Communications: MPLS, TCP/IP, Sockets, SOCKS, REST, HTTP/S, APIs

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS:

Architect

Confidential, Auburn Hills, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architect establishing end-to-end architecture using a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) approach for launch of industry new Real Time Payments.
• Perform Current State analysis; establish Transition (MVP) and Target State Architectures. Performed Use Case, Capability, Process & Application Impact Analysis, captured technical requirements, cost/effort involved from the SMEs along with On-Prem vs Hosted vs Cloud cost comparison for the Business Case.
• For each impacted application documented relevant Use Cases, Capabilities needed, Processes affected, Interface changes and cost involved by each MVP phase.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential, Addison, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architect establishing architecture governance and creating various architecture artifacts; Architecture Risk Assessment, Capability Catalogue, Current & Target state architectures, Architecture Overview, Decisions & vocabulary docs.
• Conduct and run architecture governance reviews, evaluate SaaS Solutions, ensure operational readiness and document architecture risks, deployment status.
• Front Office & eCommerce platforms used Sitecore, Layer7, Redis, Elasticsearch, SOLR, RabbitMQ, MongoDB technologies.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential, Addison, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architect responsible for establishing a Lean Enterprise Architecture Practice for a small enterprise providing short term lending solutions and services.
• Created a blueprint for setting up the practice and evolving it from CMM Level 1 to 5 using architecture governance and strategy boards, their operating and engagement model with relevant artifacts and templates, created (conceptual, logical, high level and detailed architectures) for each of the architecture domain (Business, Data, Security, Application & Technology).

Solutions Architect

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Solutions Architect responsible for all architectural aspects of Wealth Management and Capital Markets lines of businesses in a Commercial Banking division of a large financial corporation. Set architecture direction and provide guidance in the design, development and implementation of software systems and implementation of COTS products and RFPs. Ensure Enterprise Standards alignment, resolve technical issues, document solution architectures, create platform roadmap, conduct Current State Assessment of the platform and identify issues, recommend remediation plans and guide their implementation. Maintain Business Architecture, Refresh Capability Targets; validate current targets and establish new targets as necessary.
• Wealth Management platform used FIS TrustDesk for Trust management and VestmarkOne Overlay Management system for Asset Management. Identified and documented all internal and external interfaces, designed enterprise approved integration pattern for each (SSO integration using SAML 2.0 for authentication, Restful API/Web Services for online interfaces, SFTP for batch integration).
• Capital Markets platform used Murex for Back Office while using FXall for Front Office Order Management; Commodity Derivatives platform used TriplePoint’s Commodity XL (CXL) for hedging Oil and Gas reserves using derivative contracts. Implementation of CXL included integration with internal Payment Systems (Web Services), Accounting and Data Warehouse Systems (Daily Batch). Reports generated using Business Objects.
• Designed a Toolkit and a Template for documenting Technology Solution for the LOB platforms encompassing Business Architecture (Capabilities Analysis, Target Systems & Roadmap), Application Architecture (Various architectural views of the platform, Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), Integration Touch points, Technology Alignment, Enterprise Services Alignment) and Data Architecture (Entity Model, Source Data Capture and Interfaces, Usage, Downstream System Distribution, Metadata Capture and Data Governance).
• Solutions Architect for various Commercial Banking Treasury Management functions like Integrated Payments (Wires, ACH, Account Transfers, Check Print), Account Analysis (FIS XAA), Receivables and Liquidity Management, File Delivery functions providing architecture guidance, product evaluations, solution recommendations and various solution implementations.
• Evaluated Commercial Banking platforms for security risks across various security domains, performed root cause analysis and recommended solutions. Architected and guided thru implementation of SOCKS Proxy (SOCK5) solution for mitigating network risks over the Internet for non-HTTP/S traffic for enterprise-wide deployment.

Data Architect

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Data Architect of Confidential’s Business Intelligence Data Warehouse (BIDW) Quality Data Management (QDM) program establishing various data quality and data governance measures necessary for ensuring the quality of data coming into the enterprise data warehouse.
• QDM Program representative in the Design Review Board validating integration strategy and data architecture for the enterprise’s consolidated data warehouse (eCDW).

Confidential

Team Lead, Southlake, Texas

Responsibilities:

• SME for all aspects of Financial Systems in the Travel domain; Responsible for overall architecture and end-to-end solution of Travelocity Global Financial Systems, its implementation and support in North America. Ensure all Travelocity projects meet Global Financial requirements; CIO, CTO and CFO strategic direction. Factor in security, PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Regulatory Requirements. Follow database, performance, hardware & OS standards. Design Solution; Define compliant interfaces, identify systems for integration using standard patterns, estimate project scope, break down solution into Epics, Stories & Tasks, educate & mentor teams.
• Created Data Strategy Reference Model, a blue print for Global Convergence of Travelocity Systems in collaboration with other architects, encapsulating the database with data services using SOA strategy; suitable for any Retail domain for Systems Integration & Convergence. Globalized Supplier Payment Processing across the Travelocity enterprise paying $1 Billion annually in the form of VPayment and Invoicing. Architected the VPayment and Invoice (electronic & paper) Reconciliation process; Integrated GetPaid Collections System recovered about $2 Million supplier overages in the first 8 months.
• Architected Payment Gateway Service for processing customer credit card transactions that led to the creation of Mid-Tier in Travelocity and paved the way for SOA adoption enterprise wide. Added Payer Authentication & VPayments to Travelocity SOA layer. Integrated Payment Gateway with external Payment Services provider (both online and batch interfaces) with automatic failover capabilities. Sunset redundant hardware & unused software and saved 100K annually.

Chief Architect

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Chief Architect of Confidential, providing software development and maintenance services for Automated Fulfillment Equipment System (AFES) to Confidential in Kansas City, MO.
• Provided consulting services to various banks and Confidential companies.

Architect/Lead Developer

Confidential, Des Moines, Iowa

Responsibilities:

• Architect and Lead Developer of Framework Team responsible for generating all eMortgage Factory Service related Java classes for marshalling and unmarshalling XML based message objects using XMLBooster.
• The eMortgage domain was exposed to the clients through the Information Model consisting of XML Schema Definitions (XSDs), custom static parsers generated were several orders of magnitude (20-30 times) faster than generic DOM/SAX parsers.
• The business services consisted of Home Loan Workbench, Pricing, Obtain Credit Product, Obtain Loan Decision, Record Loan and other services.
• Architected Versioning, Release Management and deployment strategy for eMortgage Factory Middleware group. Created Business Process Models using WBI suite.

Systems Architect

Confidential, Irving, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Systems Architect for eBusiness Management Operations (eBMO & Hosting) of Confidential responsible for making specific hardware and 3rd party software sizing recommendations. Recommend systems integration & interface strategies (architecture) for internal & external system solutions.
• Perform benchmark, performance tuning, code reviews of Java, C++ apps, recommend strategies, metrics to be collected & analyzed, Determined High Availability (HA) and Non-HA requirements using both hardware and software (clustering) configurations.
• Systems Architect for Applied Materials CRM implementation with Dual Data Center Initiative.

Object Architect

Confidential, Des Moines, Iowa

Responsibilities:

• Led the Architecture team in Design, Development and Implementation of a Decision Support Requirements (DSR) Framework for all non-OLTP (background Queries, Reports and Batch Processing) transactions using BEA’s M3 (Weblogic Server), Persistence, STL based Tools.h++, Oracle8 and C++ in a Windows NT/UNIX server environment for Distributed Confidential managed by Confidential .
• The Visual Basic/Visual C++ Front End communicated with the M3 servers using COM/CORBA Bridge.
• Tuxedo was the underlying middleware backbone for M3 server deployment of CORBA based system.
• Neuron Data (now Blaze software) was used for defining user configurable business rules and SQR was used for generating batch reports from database.

Object Architect

Confidential, Arlington, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Object Architect for Design, Development and Implementation of distributed Order Management System developed by Confidential for United States Postal Service Automated Fulfillment Equipment System.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Chief architect of persistence strategy in a distributed object framework development.
• Designed and developed a framework for objects to have their persistence in a relational database system for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.
• The OO analysis and design utilized Use Cases and OMT modeling using Select Enterprise Modeler from SELECT.
• The framework used RogueWave’s Tools.h and DBTools classes for developing infrastructure and persistence classes.
• The distributed objects were implemented using CORBA based Orbix from IONA Technologies.
• The infrastructure has about 100 base classes and several hundred generated/derived classes.
• The development environment utilized SNiFF+ on HPUX and AIX platforms. Managed a team of Infrastructure developers implementing the framework.
• Technical lead and chief architect of open server port from VMS to POSIX compliant UNIX (OSF1, AIX) environment. Created the POSIX layer portable across many flavors of UNIX that insulated the application architecture from underlying UNIX system calls. Ported ACMS TP monitor functions to Tuxedo TP monitor using the data dependent routing features of Tuxedo on both OSF and AIX. The key feature of porting included deployment on both 32 bit (AIX) and 64 bit (OSF) platforms from a single source for maintainability.