SUMMARY:

• 20 years of total experience as Executive, Manager, lead, solutions architect, DevOps Architect, developer
• Managed and lead teams of up to 50 people to successfully deliver large projects under time/under budget
• Most valuable and unique skill is my ability to simplify requirements and technology to cut project schedules, reduce costs and increase ROI using innovative solutions (see highlights). I invariably gain reputation of “go to” person for hard problems and projects at almost every company.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical expertise includes: DevOps (Docker, Jenkins), Enterprise (Java, JEE, Jboss, Weblogic, WebSphere, CRM, Salesforce, Pega, Rules, RTD, Agile), Mobile (hybrid apps, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery), Cloud (AWS, IaaS, PaaS, Ajax), SQL (Oracle, MongoDB), Web Services (JSON, JavaScript), Game Development (phaser).

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Currently evangelizing dockers in the company to drive “zero touch” build and deployment automation.
• Currently doing ground work for company’s biggest project for 2017.
• Architected and delivered biggest and highest visibility project of 2015 - 2016 to automate marketing, sales and implementation using Salesforce and Pega BPM. A sub project turned out to be too large
• I was asked to take it over. I turned 32 man month effort to 1 man month preventing years of delay in project.
• Despite limited budget, resources and timeline (compared to peer companies), it has been a resounding success.

Founder/Co-Founder

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Continuously work on variety of side projects to keep learning and stay up to date e.g. developing games, creating a lead generation platform (which became profitable very quickly), developed a salesforce app.
• Currently developing a series of funny light casual mobile games with new game mechanisms.
• As I founded this mobile payments company, I wore a variety of hats and participated in all aspects of business like marketing, sales, HR, financials, recruiting, funding. In 4 months, I singlehandedly architected and developed end to end solution, which includes an iPhone app, Android app, backend server technology, patent pending hacker proof financial data security and sub second response times.

Lead Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I guided 8 person Nokia team to architect and implement Oracle RTD implementation for Confidential . The project helps maximize web revenue by dynamically profiling web user and offering up-sell/cross-sell products. The platform self learns to adjust sales strategies for maximizing revenues
• Key idea was to dynamically rank and recommend hotels to their visitors based on factors such as location, time etc. I architected and Implemented Oracle RTD based solution to drive the backend.

Lead Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I lead I implemented working POC in 15 days eliminating technology risk.
• I simplified architecture to reduce development effort by 50%
• I lead effort to reduce deployment time from 1 week to 1 day resulting in faster development iterations; which helped significantly to improve the stability and flexibility of the application.
• Due to increased adaptability, our team was able to absorb delays caused by other teams.
• Lead effort to squeeze 3x more performance from production hardware than expected
• Project generated revenue at 3x than expected rate, recovered cost in 1 year instead of 3 years

Senior Technical Advisor

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 50 designers/developers to build next generation call center solution for member enrollment and claims
• Architected a clever rule based authorization solution to customize the application for different business units. This solution saved 2 man years of development effort, drastically reduced complexity and completely eliminated maintenance efforts
• Improved scalability by 13x resulting in multi million dollars in hardware cost saving

Enterprise Architect

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Confidential needed an architect to lead the onsite team at Confidential to handle most complex parts of $200 million project. Due to my prior achievements and reputation, I was selected to lead the team.
• Upon arrival, I found the team had been in waiting mode for over 1 month since another architect could not deliver a workspace to start development, I took over and created the workspace in 2 days.
• Hired, mentored and lead a 10 person team to deliver a 6000 man hour project in 3000 hours by simplifying architecture and increasing team productivity, navigating political headwind and overcoming severe resource constraints.
• Re-architected a project to reduce 2000 hour effort to 500 hours, eliminated ongoing maintenance effort and reduced change turnaround time from 1 month to 24 hours to drastically increase business agility.
• After 3 teams failed to solve a deep technical issue in 2 months, I was able to turn it around in 2 days
• Worked on a Dell translation automation project, completed two phases of project within time/budget of one phase.
• Helped an Indian call center startup with strategic planning and execution
• Acted as Chief Sales Officer for an Indian software startup and led it to profitability in 2 months

Technical Architect

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities:

• Participated in presales efforts of new J2EE product, successfully acquired USAA as customer
• Lead effort to work on platform performance, resulted in performance gains of 450%
• While working on client site, I architected ‘ Confidential GUI generator’. It reduced GUI development effort by 80% and was widely adopted by pre-sales and professional services organizations
• Conceptualized and architected JXE, a Confidential and JMS integration product. It was quickly adopted by many clients and eventually was incorporated as integral part of the product
• Identified issues in product development strategy and pursued management to focus on customer needs. It led to happier customers, avoided 3 man years of engineering efforts and opportunity costs.
• Received several recognition letters from company and clients; including a Confidential CEO award