SUMMARY:

• 19 years of progressive experience in large - scale program management, developing and implementing enterprise IT strategies and business solutions
• Experienced Leader in providing solutions to business problems to CTO/CIO and business leaders
• Deep and broad technology experience in service-oriented architecture, enterprise application integration, enterprise service bus architecture, legacy/mainframe transformation and workflow management, SMAC & Big Data
• A TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect with technical leadership experience in information technology including, Technology planning, Architecture, Project life cycle management, Business Modeling and Business transformation
• Client service experience includes structuring and leading projects in several functional areas including: managing large scale programs, COE establishment for SOA, M&A integration, operations consolidation, organizational alignment, cost-benefit analysis, supply chain transformation, and finance transformation
• Client service experience in several technical areas including: Architecting SOA, EAI and ESB solutions, define and build Enterprise Architecture, IT Governance, Confidential and cloud computing
• Has in-depth experience in Media & Entertainment, Energy & Utilities, Consumer & Retail industries, health care & Confidential industries, Telecom and Manufacturing industries

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

System Experience List:

Software / Products: SAP, Load Runner, Clear Quest, BMC Patrol, Oracle Work Flow, PERL & Shell Script

Development Tools / Languages: HTML & XML, PL/SQL, Java

Hardware / Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, MVS & Z/OS, Tandem

Middleware / Databases: WMQ5.3 (Expert), WMQI 2.1(Expert), WBI 5.0 (Proj.Exp), MQSI / NEON (Proj Exp), Webmethods v6 (Proj.Exp), Websphere Process Server V6.02 (Proj.Exp) DB2 (Proj.Exp), Oracle 9i, Websphere business modeler.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Skills: Tech Strategy for SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics & Cloud), Enterprise Architecture (Business & Information Systems), Integration Architecture for Data & Applications, Application rationalization

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to provide direction for Architecture and design of foundational components for the Application, Integration and Infrastructure architectures specifically focused on Digital supply chain and Radio / Network Traffic solutions, but scalable across Confidential
• Responsible for developing Tactical and Strategic SMAC solutions for near and long terms objectives in line with EA principles and standards for projects across business units
• Identify, evaluate and recommend new tools and methods in Application, Integration and infrastructure areas that enhances the business processes across systems with better quality, improved performance and increased business value
• Evaluated and recommended Application Integration and Data Integration tools for business integration and process management
• Managed the complete process of solicitation of bidding till awarding the contract and managed bringing up the in-house environment
• Recommended suitable systems and capabilities to meet new business requirements and evaluated new techniques for improved functionality.
• Influence projects, support, and development teams to ensure that they are appropriately balancing the delivery of practical/worthwhile benefits against technological elegance; ensure that architectural components optimally address business requirements and future plans.
• Developed Architectural Strategy and Project Roadmap for Applications, Integration and Infrastructure areas for Digital Supply Chain and Traffic business units and in the process of rolling out the same across the organization
• Established Architecture Governance Board and enabled active participation of all Business units and IT teams to collaborate on IT projects
• Responsible for creating long term strategic goals and roadmap for Architecture Vision and adoption strategy, guidelines and governance for Enterprise Architecture across Confidential business units
• Developed policies, standards and best practices to adopt Enterprise Architecture, Application Architecture, Integration Architecture and Infrastructure
• Worked with the Data and Business Architects in establishing enterprise wide common data structures (ex: canonicals), Master data management and CRM data standardization for Salesforce.com
• Responsible for Data stewardship and data governance for master data
• Designed and developed high level Integration Architecture capability from ground using IBM suite of tools (IIB, MQ, BPM) for application integrations and Informatica suite of tools (Power Center / Exchange, Hub & MDM) for data integrations and developed integrations between applications for multiple projects
• Managed and guided a team of architects and business analysts supporting multiple projects and products implementing Service Oriented Architecture for Data and Application Integrations
• Responsible to facilitate design reviews, gap analysis and assessments as well perform sample validations of the deliverables
• Mentored and guided Confidential Architects and Business Analysts to create and maintain artefacts in approved repository
• Mentor and influence vendors / service providers to adapt Confidential standard processes and methodologies while integrating products

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Lead Enterprise Architect and Program Manager

Skills: Enterprise Architecture & Solution Architecture, SOA for Data & Applications, Big Data Analytics, Program ManagementAs an Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Ensured compliance with the architecture vision and principles/standards through active participation on designated projects and programs and drive towards, the architectural Point of Arrival
• Collaborated with other members of the Architect Team to identify commonalities between requirements and strive to create and recommend common solutions
• Analyze, define, and document requirements for data, workflow, logical processes, hardware and operating system environment, interfaces with other systems, internal and external checks, controls, and outputs.
• Review all program documents - specifically technical design specifications - to ensure that they will result in solutions that are 'fit for purpose' and provide the intended business functionality
• Influence project, support, and development teams to ensure that they are appropriately balancing the delivery of practical/worthwhile benefits against technological elegance; ensure that architectural components optimally address business requirements and future plans.
• Primary point of contact for Enterprise Architecture and Strategy
• Moderated Architecture Review Board on architecture issues and new project approvals
• Collaborated with business including all levels of stakeholders to understand and document specific business requirements and translate them into architectural strategies.
• Evaluates current and emerging technologies and makes recommendations.
• Evaluated and advised Big Data solution and its applicability and adaptability to the current environment
• Executed RFI and RFP from DNB vendors and evaluated the RFP’s received for MaxCV project requirements and provided recommendations
• Developed and published policies, standards and best practices to adopt Enterprise Architecture
• Responsible forprogrammanagement for multiple projects across the full software development life cycle of MaxCV Data Supply Chain program; execution, status reporting and coordination against project plans and delivery commitments
• Proactively managed change within the project and ensure all out of scope items are captured and monetized
• Ensured compliance with overall PMO governance framework and ensure all project teams are using established tools and processes
• Provided oversight and leadership to other leads in project planning, resource planning and project assignment, identify open issues and risks and helped in creating action/mitigation plans

Confidential, Texas

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Primary point of contact for Enterprise Architecture and Strategy
• Developed Architectural Strategy and Project Roadmap for Energy Efficiency Services business unit. Developed short & long term strategies based on business need and industry best practices.
• Collaborated with business including all levels of stakeholders to understand and document specific business requirements and translate them into architectural strategies.
• Supported enterprise planning and budget process
• Maintains/documents models in approved repository. Documents and maintains models of 'as is' and 'to be' architectures.
• Acts as a technical advisor for architectural approaches, data modeling and data flow design and development
• Evaluates current and emerging technologies and makes recommendations.
• Developed policies, standards and best practices to adopt Enterprise Architecture
• As part of the renewable energy objectives, designed and architected Demand Response program working with different vendors and partners to achieve energy efficiency
• Designed an Event Driven Architecture to implement demand response program
• Established implementation standards that are required to be adopted based on industry standards and best practices
• Evaluated vendors and their capabilities and provided recommendations
• Helped analytics and reporting teams to establish baselines

Confidential

Senior Managing Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Primary point of contact for Enterprise Architecture and Strategy
• Defined strategy and approach to establish an Enterprise Architecture team
• Established Architecture Governance Board and enabled active participation of Business and IT teams to collaborate on IT initiatives
• Shared accountability for Business & IT to align business priorities
• Responsible for creating Adoption strategy, guidelines and project plan
• Developed policies, standards and best practices to adopt Enterprise Architecture
• Gathered and analyzed current architecture artifacts including business and technology roadmaps, standards and designs, systems architecture artifacts and governance
• Leveraging existing artifacts, established baseline business and solution architectures
• Led the creation of business processes at multiple levels and validated
• Help build Architecture Reference Models and applicable design patterns
• Led the development of Information Asset Models and System Resource Flow diagrams
• Created best practices to easily identify the impact areas and adopt appropriate design patterns while building complex systems
• Created architecture gap analysis and resolution processes and addressed the gaps through architecture council processing
• Coached and mentored client team members to continue to facilitate Enterprise Architecture in the new project activities
• Experience in working with Orbus iServer and IBM Rational Architect

Confidential

Advisory Consultant, Architecture and Governance

Responsibilities:

• Defined new business - IT engagement models to improve processes and estimation tools for planning and delivery.
• Active IT participation during project initiation phase by creating IT estimates with high level of confidence and little variance.
• Shared accountability for Business & IT on the scope and estimations
• Define governance controls on project approvals.
• Driven alignment of business needs to IT capabilities
• Demonstrated the value of business and IT engagement models by successful execution of a pilot.
• Created estimation models to generate accurate estimations at the early stage of the project.
• Gathered and analyzed current architecture artifacts including business and technology roadmaps, standards and designs, systems architecture artifacts and governance
• Created architecture gap analysis and resolution processes and addressed the gaps through architecture council process.
• Defined and socialized new enterprise architecture processes with minimal impact on current business systems and gained approval
• Experience in working with Confidential Architect

Confidential

Advisory Enterprise Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• As an Advisory solution Architect, led and developed end-to-end technology solution developed for the new digital media distribution business using modern integration technologies
• Conducted technical gap analysis among existing Verizon processes, industry standard approaches, and vendor tool capabilities
• Proposed solution options, articulating tradeoffs, and making recommendations to solve technical challenges
• Facilitated and contributed architecture thought leadership in discussions with client’s architecture team members
• Managed the design and establishment of Enterprise Architecture COE and contributed to develop architecture principles, drivers, high level solution architecture, and its adoption / implementation strategies
• Created architecture gap analysis and resolution process and addressed the gaps through architecture council process
• Modeled business processes using Confidential Architect BPMN notation and created business function models and business capability models
• Modeled and designed repository capability map
• Performed fit gap analysis to provide assessment on leveraging the existing capabilities integrated with the core solution
• Assisted with project management, including prioritizing and focusing the pilot implementation team’s efforts to meet stated objectives
• Assisted in managing the RFP process to select media transcoding tools and large file transfer utilities

Advisory Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated and contributed thought leadership in discussions with client’s senior level executives.
• Assisted with the planning, launching and analysis of results from client’s Confidential pilot initiatives.
• Contributed to developing operational models, governance structure and adoption strategies.
• Assisted with identifying and addressing audit, controls and compliance risks associated with Confidential .
• Managed the project, including prioritizing and focusing the pilot implementation team’s efforts to meet stated objectives.
• Assisted with establishing metrics to measure the pilot’s progress and success.
• Helped apply pilot lessons to development of Confidential strategy recommendations and business case.

Principal Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of the current Confidential assessment with synthesis into an integrated operational and technical impact across the enterprise
• Review of in-flight and planned 5010 projects
• Refinement of governance model for the Confidential /5010 program
• Identification of Confidential value plays
• Creation of a crosswalk analysis and preliminary mapping activities to assess impact, opportunities, and risk
• Development of an integrated, high level remediation roadmap for 5010 and Confidential
• Evaluation of current project portfolioto determine whether Confidential remediationefforts can be incorporated in planned projects
• Managed the execution of build and deployment with teams that were working across the globe including, US, India, Mexico, Argentina and UK
• Developed technology strategies and led implementation efforts to create state of art solutions.
• Developed SOA blueprint, defined strategic road map and implementation framework.
• Worked with functional teams to plan and prioritize development of interfaces.
• Collaborated with infrastructure team to architect, design and build high available middleware infrastructure and orchestrated business processes for various businesses entities.

Technical Environment: Websphere MQ, Message Broker V6.1, Process Server 6.0.2, SAP ECC 5.0, Websphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR), EDI partner Gateway, Java and J2EE.

Confidential

Project Lead and Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design and blueprint for SOA solution
• Requirements gathering.
• Architect and develop end to end integration solution.
• Orchestrate the business processes for various businesses entities.
• Responsible for onsite/offshore coordination
• Design, standardize and develop EDI interactions.
• Manage project plan and development activities for delivery and implementation.
• Architect and build high available middleware infrastructure

Technical Environment: Websphere Process Server 6.0.2, Websphere transaction server, ModelN, SAP ECC 5.0, EDI partner Gateway, Java and J2EE.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• As an Interface Lead, I was responsible for completing the ongoing development, testing and ensuring a successful Go-live.
• Designed and developed new EDI interfaces for external carrier interactions
• Responsible for coordinating the development activities between SAP, Legacy and external vendors.
• Lead the interface knowledge management to bring consistency in the delivery of technical documents to the client.

Technical Environment: WebMethods, EDI Partner Gateway, Clear case, AS400 and Oracle 9i