SUMMARY:

• Visionary and innovative architect seeking a position to make the most of my technical background, customer focus, creativity, passion and management and leadership skills.
• An end to end architect with over 17 years of experience and an expert from every aspect of project right from high level discussions with executives and business, translating business requirements to technical requirements, creating reference and solution architecture to provisioning and setting up DEV to PROD environments. A hard - working and visionary architect who has consistently helped customers that require extensive collaboration and communication with client and internal teams, build their technical practice and restructure their teams to deliver results and currently I help customers move to the next generation architecture by leveraging state of the art technologies using Cloud, integration, mobile and security. I excel at establishing business requirements and translating them into technical specifications. My record of achievement in my current position speaks to my ability to step in when clients are dissatisfied, analyze the source of their problems, and spearhead team efforts to architect scalable solutions.
• My colleagues know me as an active and enthusiastic architect, one who creates a dynamic and productive environment in which innovation thrives. As a result, my team has been able to resolve issues and strengthen client relationships time and time again.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Principal Cloud/Integration Architect

• Create Reference Architecture and Solution Architecture artifacts.
• Conduct cloud solution architecture reviews. Recommend automation and migration tools being utilized and considered in support of the operating model.
• Make appropriate technology recommendations in support of the operating model technology work stream providing sound solution options for senior management review and approval.
• Assist in the coordination of project activities, as they relate to cloud architecture and technology, between application teams and program resources to ensure timely migration of applications.
• Deep involvement in the planning and execution of the migration plans to migrate and/or decommission application instances and servers in scope without disruption to business groups.
• Development in Java, Shell Scripting, SOAP, REST APIs, XML, Middleware and DB.
• Helped Affinion migrate their on-premise Nordic Online web application to AWS in just a month and ensured that the SLAs, OLAs and KPIs are not impacted.
• Helping Affinion re-architect their on-premise Helix application to AWS and leverage cloud native services to build a scalable application thus reducing cost and ongoing maintenance.
• Helped UNUM conduct a cloud assessment workshop to understand the processes and steps an organization needs to take to be cloud enabled. And based on my recommendations working with UNUM to setup Cloud Center of Excellence and help conduct application assessment.
• Working with Gerber Technologies to create a SaaS based product for retail customers and created a recommendation on the requirements and architecture void to fill to help make a true SaaS product and licensing model.
• Created solution architectures for Cardinal Health and HealthFirst on how they can be Cloud Ready and how Confidential can help migrate their on-premise applications to cloud.

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Senior Cloud/Integration Architect

• Setup Integration Center of Excellence for JetBlue Airways and worked with Senior Management to set product visions and Enterprise Architecture patterns. Managed a team of 20 team members to deliver state of the art solutions using cloud and integration patterns. Led the team to migrate TIBCO applications hosted in Verizon’s eCloud to Azure.
• Helped Nordstrom, L’Oréal and AllState architect and deploy their applications on AWS and helped architect solutions such as Notification Manager that leveraged AWS services such as SQS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, and SES to send notifications on deals to retail customers. Helped AllState to architect their AWS DEV to PROD environments and eventually their solutions and partner integration.
• Responsible for retaining GE Treasury as a customer after a vendor failure. Worked with GE Directors to analyze product technical issues, developed a 3-month project plan, and spearheaded a 14 member team to increase performance and re-architect a poorly performing application architected by GE’s business partner.
• Set up SOA Center of Excellence for Bank of Montreal, Desjardins, Urban Outfitters and GE. The COE involved creating the team reporting structure, educating the customer on the enterprise architecture approach using TOGAF principles.
• Worked with the CIO of Intrexon to understand Intrexon’s enterprise vision and helped gather the requirements, gather project requirements, create the project plan and architected the products, all within a strict deadline, to realize the CIO’s vision.
• Presales Architect for Cablevision, Urban Outfitters where was involved in discussions with the Vice President, demo the product and eventually the POC that helped TIBCO to close the deal and was retained as post sales Enterprise Architect.

Confidential

Technical Lead

• Set up the EAI processes and guidelines for Merck’s Architecture division.
• Technical Lead for UTi where was involved in gathering business requirements, design and development of custom adapters and error handling framework.
• SOA technical lead for Ocwen where was responsible for solution architecture, lead a team of 4 developers and ensure timely deliverables.

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Application Programmer

• Designing, coding and deployment of the application on WebSphere server.
• Daily and weekly status update to the client on the development of the module.
• Write build scripts, which lead to ease of deployment, for entire modules.