Summary

A highly motivated and seasoned lead IT professional with comprehensive IT and life sciences industry experience ranging from solution design and implementation, enterprise architecture, IT strategy, integration, IT project management, IT systems validation. Strong leader with proven ability to influence and work effectively with individuals at all levels within cross functional teams.

Core Qualifications

• Strong leadership presence and ability to lead diverse teams to achieve desired results.
• 14 years of wide ranging progressive experience in SDLC and integration including Service Oriented Architecture SOA , EAI, ETL and related messaging technologies such as SOAP/Restful web services.
• Breadth of experience in end to end delivery of solution from analysis design, implementation, testing and to rollout of complex enterprise applications.
• Excellent communication skills and business acumen to communicate effectively at all levels in the organization.
• Solid experience in managing systems in a regulated environments ensuring compliance with standards such as CFR 21 part11 and Sarbox.
• Extensive experience in system strategy, application risks, roadmap and SLA management and vendor management.
• Superior understanding of various business processes in Life Sciences industry including direct and indirect sales, chargebacks, contracts and rebates processes.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Lead Application Architect

• As an IT lead on supply chain Serialization and DQSA Drug Quality and Safety Act Lot Traceability projects, lead solution selection, end-to-end design, implementation and validation testing of the solution in scope by leading effort with implementation partner and key stakeholders from business teams globally to ensure that solution meets NNI standards and business needs. Designed and lead solution implementation integrating Warehouse management system Red Prairie , SAP and SaaS based Track and Trace system to meet DQSA requirements using EDI ASN 856 standards.

• Lead NNI IT's Enterprise Architecture initiative requiring high degree of OCM and lay the foundation of EA framework to efficiently manage IT systems and to better understand IT systems landscape to unlock insight into system portfolio management. Aligned with EA Steering Committee to define EA goals and objectives, lead the System Architect training effort to ensure users are well acquainted with the EA tool. Implemented EA repository using Rational System Architect lead and chaired EA working group team consisting of system managers, system/business analysts to share EA best practices, defined standards and to populate EA repository.

• Partnered with headquarter team in Denmark and provided guidance on Enterprise SOA roadmap and shared best practices for integration methodologies. Created Global Integration Strategy and integration roadmap for Novo Nordisk in collaboration with IT Architecture group in Denmark. As a member of the technology solution review committee, provide technical guidance and evaluate project solution approach to ensure solution meets business needs.

• Responsible for managing WebSphere based validated GxP EAI platform for Order to Cash OTC system to meet defined SLA with business. OTC system provides integration with various business partners through EDI, warehouse partner and internal SAP for end-to-end order management. Responsible for managing complex deployments, systems SLA and high availability of EAI environment.

• Achieved continuous uptime of 100 for past 3 years for EAI platform. Also responsible for maintaining EAI system in a validated state which adheres to CFR 21 part 11 requirements and in compliance with Sarbox controls.

• Responsible for managing IBM software portfolio and portfolio relationship at NNI. Collaborated extensively with sourcing team in Denmark on a routine basis to manage software license portfolio renewal find opportunities to reduce cost by frequently evaluating license needs and to ensure compliance with vendor license terms

• Successfully lead the project to upgraded EAI platform to ensure that solution is scalable for future growth. Lead end-to-end delivery of the project using Novo Nordisk's IT Project Management Methodologies including design, implementation, validation testing, and vendor management worked closely with various functional teams and IT teams ensuring high degree of collaboration which led project to be delivered on time within the budget.

• As a team member on Aggregate Spend project, work extensively with cross functional business and IT teams and architected ETL integration solution to capture spend data from various disparate sources and integrate it using ETL DataStage and make it available to Cegedim 360 system. Provided guidance to ETL development team on integration and development of the solution.

• Collaborated with key stakeholders from different business units on Performance Metrics project for Clinical Trial Operations group and architected a solution to create a Balanced Scorecard using SAS SPM. Managed end-to-end solution architecture and documented functional requirements, technical design specifications and ER model etc. detailing solution scope.

• Partnered with systems operations team and architected an innovative and cutting edge Disaster Recovery solution for Order to Cash and Revenue Management systems running on WebSphere by utilizing the Asynchronous Replication of WebSphere methodology. Developed detail DR procedures for WebSphere recovery and performed DR testing to validate DR environment availability.

• Strong understanding of various integration patterns, SDLC and SOA methodologies. Responsible for system capacity planning, enterprise software selection and roadmap creation, best practices guidelines, setting enterprise SOA strategy and governance model.

• Provides guidance to application development groups in SOA, BPM implementation and web services development methodologies.

• Successfully managed IBM Information Server DataStage upgrade project to upgrade DataStage v7.5 to DataStage Enterprise v8.7 on a Linux platform.

• Successfully lead project to implement Enterprise Scheduler system to consolidate enterprise wide job scheduling on a single platform using Tidal Enterprise Scheduler. Performed vendor analysis based on Gartner's magic quadrant and selected top four vendors in and weighted each scheduler product based on key strengths which meets organization's requirements for the scheduler.

• Expert in configuring WebSphere Application Server and Process Server in a clustered environment on UNIX and Windows platform. Provides performance tuning guidance to operations team for diverse middleware products running on WebSphere platform.

• Successfully managed a project to analyze Historical Sales, chargeback and customer data stored in various systems such as iSeries, SAP and operational data store. Performed detail analysis of sales data to identify data discrepancies between systems and establish system of record for each subject area.

Confidential

Senior I/T Specialist and Technical Team Lead

Various projects

• Responsible for middleware infrastructure and architecture design, implementing SOA strategies for the department, capacity planning and growth forecasting for eServices group.

• As a development and deployment team lead, responsible for developing applications, configuring and tuning various WebSphere products including WebSphere Application Server, Portal Server in complex clustered environments.

• Over four years of middleware integration experience in installing and configuring WebSphere Portal and WAS versions 4.x, 5.x and 6.x in a cluster environment. Experience using command line Portal XML configuration interface to carry out various portal administrative tasks such as importing and exporting portlet applications, resources, vault configurations etc.

• Expert in various WebSpehre Portal configuration tasks such as enable LDAP security, WPS session database repository configuration, WPS cluster setup, WPS security features and portal tuning

• Managed entire development and test environment servers for the portfolio and provided technical guidance to support team for resolving middleware configuration related technical issues.

• Managed offshore development team and provided technical guidance in area of application development.

• Worked as a DB2 DBA and was responsible for data modeling, schema design and refinement and performance tuning on a distributed platforms.

• Worked as a MQ administrator and Level 2 support team member for manufacturing execution system. Performed detail problem analysis and problem determination. Also performed a variety of MQ administration tasks and designed MQ infrastructure.

• Designed and implemented large scale Data warehouse using ETL DataStage v7.5 and ETL methodologies.

Confidential

Database Developer

• Worked as a developer for a consulting firm providing business intelligence solutions for its clients.

• Designed and implemented web based analytical reporting system using relational and multidimensional database tools.

• Performed database performance tests and tune the databases.

• Implemented portal based solution for CPG firm using proprietary portal product.

Technologies

WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, WebSphere ESB, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Business Integration Adapters, SOA, portlet and servlet development, Java, J2EE, Visual Basic, C , DB2, Oracle , DataStage ETL development, SQL, EDI, shell scripting, Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Integration Developer, Big Data analytics Hadoop, Rational ClearCase, SAS Performance Management, Rational System Architect, web services