Professional Profile

Confidential is an IBM /Open Source Master Certified IT Specialist and a PMI certified Project Management Professional. Highly qualified in both technical as well as organizational skills, he has over 14 years of experience in providing technical directions to enterprise, organizations and projects/program as Applications Development Manager, Applications Architect and IT consultant. Experience includes web, mobile and custom solution conceptualizing, SOA IT Strategy, Application development team leadership mentoring, agile project/program management and Information Architect.

Professional Achievements

• Recipient of IBM service Excellence award in year 2009 for technical innovation in providing a multi channel Customer-Dealer support system for a top automaker of USA. The framework of the solution was then re-used for other clients as well.
• Recipient of IBM Service Excellence award in year 2011 for technical leadership role in providing one-stop sellers workplace portal. The portal helped in more efficient performance by sellers and eventually boosting sells figures.
• Conceptualized and architected the integration of social networks and Mobile enablement for IBM Inside Sales products. The strategy was very successful and hence architecture was extended to other organizations within IBM.

Employer History

Confidential

Business Analyst

• This role involves leading application development teams in USA, India, China and Romania through design and development of Inside Sales, IBM solutions. Responsibility includes developing the technical vitality of the global team of 60 developers and growing the organization capabilities, providing thought leadership and technical direction to the organization.
• Leading and Directing the Architecture Review board to make sure that all project implementations are aligned with SOA strategy, best practices and industry standards while considering emerging technology developments
• Technical leadership for key large custom application development projects and complex systems integration projects as an Architect and Technical Lead using agile methodology.
• Work closely with IBM Inside Sales team to understand its IT needs and business problems and conceptualizing IT strategy/solutions in alignment with IBM's strategy.
• New business solution initiatives, POC and Proposal development, pipeline estimations, budgeting and building offshore development teams.

Highlights:

• As an application development team lead and architect, encouraged value addition culture by making sure that enterprise architectures complies with standards and reusable components/assets are identified using SOA.
• Constituted and led Architecture Review Board to review new projects architecture and project plans before the development starts.
• Helped improved the growth rate of organization from 10 to 30 in 2 years by facilitating efficient collaboration of business and IT strategy, resolving bottlenecks and cross-organizational conflicts.
• Evolved organizations Mobile application development and delivery strategy, Cloud initiatives and Data Analytics opportunities to align with IBMs key focus areas for business growth.

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Solutions Architect, Technical Team Lead

• Responsible for providing IT consulting services to IBM clients.
• During 6 years, provided consulting services to IBM clients, performing various roles including starting from Java Developer, Technical Lead, Application Architect and Technical Project manager.
• small large development teams through entire project lifecycle.
• Successfully and repeatedly worked on multiple projects in multiple horizontal industry sectors with
• Used products including Websphere Portal, Websphere Application Server, DB2, and Datastage for analytics, Cognos etc.
• Used various methodologies and strategy including SOA, Agile, Waterflow, Scrum etc. depending on client's needs and requirements.

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Business Analyst

• A startup job early in the career and delivered on leadership responsibility for our client, Motorola.
• Led Project to design develop an n-tier web based J2EE application for the extended enterprise to provide GPS Global Positioning System enabled Motorola mobile device with location based data pertaining to service like gas stations, restaurants, etc.

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Research Assistant / Software Engineer

• Develop automated test packages for simulated environment to test iDEN wireless protocol.

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• Led the team of architect and global team of developers to design and execute the program to enable and enhance digital presence of IBM Inside sales representatives. The program is very successful resulting in efficient and result-oriented performance by sales team. It included:
• IBM Redbooks Mobile app is one of the most used IBM apps for consumers and its analytics development is providing very useful product interest/usage insight to the business. Currently conceptualizing and architecting a global skills eminence program on Redbooks platform.
• Multi-channel dashboard to Educate sales representative by implementing skills eminence program based on results based scoring. It also provides insight to business on sellers KPIs. Smarter use of analytics to guide management in planning for future skills and resources.

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Architected the strategy and platform, to enable existing IBM Inside sales web tools and applications, for mobile usage. The architecture and framework is being used to develop mobile applications, for increasingly mobile IBM sellers' workforce and to provide them with on the go tools and information. IBM's new cloud services platform 'Bluemix' and mobile services were made to work with legacy DB systems and 'Worklight hybrid application or native IOS/Android applications.

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The project was to enhance client's existing technology by providing them applications to facilitate their e-procurement process transformation. Resolved multiple conflicts and disagreements in various stakeholders by presenting a comparative study of solutions based on Websphere Portal, Microsoft Office Share Point taking into account client's existing technology infrastructure for the proposed web content management applications.

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• Item Workflow Management System was developed for Neiman Marcus employees and vendors to create update and order items new catalogs. Existing workflow system was non-integrated system consisting of many manual and duplicate processes.
• Led a team of 25 developers to implement the design solution using Websphere Portlet Factory, Eclipse Portal Server based on Java/J2EE technologies and SOA.

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• NYC department of education is the largest public school system in United States comprising of approximately 1400 schools. The project was to gather student achievement data from the state standardized exams, as well as from periodic assessments administered at school level, into a single, secure, and easy-to-view portal.

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• The project was to develop Interactive Voice Response System for customer assistance and dealer services to maximize the automation of the calls. Lead a team of 6 developers through the project life cycle of developing the Voice Portlets.The team was recipient of IBM Service Excellence Award in year 2006.