PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Seasoned, astute, and results - oriented professional with 17+ years of rich experience primarily in technology leadership roles in Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Automation, Machine Learning, Enterprise Application Design and Development, Business Process Analysis, Robotics Process Automation, Delivery Management, Solution Consulting, Product Consulting, Program Management, and pre-sales.
• Experienced and hands-on Solution Architecture Lead, proficient in Artificial Intelligence and RPA/IPA technologies including Computer Vision/OCR, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Conversational AI (Chatbot), UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, Pega, Abbyy, NLTK, spaCy, Google Tesseract, and Python libraries (NumPy, OpenCV, pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow). Successfully managed multiple large Intelligent Automation engagements with globally distributed teams dealing with advanced AI tools and technologies.
• 14+ years of experience in leading and managing multiple customer portfolios, multi-million-dollar programs and large teams of geographically distributed Technology Consultants. Leadership responsibilities include Strategic planning of the programs, Ideation and building of Intelligent Automation CoE capabilities, Coordination with business and IT organizations, Financial Planning and budget administration, Program tracking and direction, Team building and CoE setup, Operations Management for Programs and department, Personnel Management, Account Planning and Business Development, Customer expectations management and Stakeholders management.
• Vast experience in spearheading AI and RPA programs with end-to-end ownership of program implementation and management of geographically distributed cross-functional teams. Process Assessment, Tools evaluation, Proof of concept building, RPA platform administration, RPA infrastructure setup, Process map creation, Solution/Architecture Design, Development, post-production maintenance and support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages and Frameworks: UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Python, Java, J2EE, JavaScript, SQL, VB .Net, VBA, Octave, C++, VC++, COBOL, AIX COBOL, Z/OS Assembler, JCL, REXX, SAS, SQL, Unix shell scripting, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Microservices

Artificial Intelligence Technologies: Machine Learning: Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, Reinforcement Learning, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, Python libraries (NumPy, Pandas), Classification, Clustering, Linear Regression, Deep Learning, Gradient Descent, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, etc.

Vision: Optical Character Recognition, Python-OpenCV, ABBYY, Able2Extract, Google Tesseract, Kofax OmniPage, Microsoft OCR, Google OCR, Microsoft Azure Cognitive services

Language: NLTK, spaCy, Stanford NLP, TF-IDF, Extractive and Abstractive Summarization, BERT, GPT-2, Conversational AI/Chatbot, DRUID, Google Dialogflow, Amazon Lex

RPA Products and related Tools: UiPath Studio, UiPath Orchestrator, Automation Anywhere, AA Control Room, IQ Bot, UiPath Process Mining, UiPath Document Understanding, Blue Prism, Pega OpenSpan, Kryon, Microsoft Cognitive services

Roles Performed: Intelligent Automation Director, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Architect, RPA Senior Manager, UiPath / RPA Solution Architect, Lead Business Analyst, Technical Delivery Manager, Lead Product Consultant, Scrum Master, Senior Program Manager

Cloud Technologies: Amazon Web Services, Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Operating Systems: Windows, AIX, Z/OS

Source Control: Microsoft TFS, TortoiseSVN, IBM ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe, Endevor, PANVALET

Payments Products: ACI Money Transfer System, Finastra Global PayPlus, SWIFT Alliance Access

Databases: DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, ENTIA, Vsam

Payments clearing Systems: SWIFT MT and MX, ISO 20022, FED, CHIPS, CHAPS, SEPA CT, SEPA DD, TCH Real Time Payments

WORK EXPERIENCE DETAILS:

Lead Architect

Confidential, Windsor, CT

RPA Tools and AI Technologies: UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Microsoft Technologies, Python, NLP, Optical Character Recognition tools, Machine Learning models and tools

Responsibilities:

• Design automation solution using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and RPA
• Designed and implemented multiple Computer Vision applications using Python and OpenCV and achieved 95% plus accuracy in OCR.
• Designed and implemented NLP and Machine Learning applications to automate trading decision making processes
• Engage with business leads and SMEs to understand business processes, evaluate and recommend automation approach, feasibility analysis, process map creation
• Provide leadership and mentorship to the developers, code review, design review. Determine the right tools and technologies for automation.
• Lead end-to-end implementation effort of 60+ processes
• Administer UiPath orchestrator including new installation, upgrade, configuration, maintenance and integration with third party products like CyberArk and Elastic Stacks.
• RPA Tools Evaluation, Proof of concepts building, ROI calculation
• Identify, manage, develop, coach, and motivate team members
• As Engagement Lead and Program Director, anchor and orchestrate the RPA program for the organization, create metrics and report to C-level executives, manage multiple IPA engagements, Ideation and setting-up RPA CoEs, managing process pipeline, budget and resources as needed.
• Lead pre-sales activities for the practice

Solution Architect / Program Manager

Confidential, Springfield, MA

RPA Tool: UiPath, Automation Anywhere, OCR Tools

Responsibilities:

• Technical Solutions Design, Anchor the program, lead UiPath development team, Create integrated project plan involving all of the internal and external systems
• Provide leadership, technical guidance and mentorship to the developers.
• Lead end-to-end implementation effort
• Provide direction to the delivery and testing teams, coordinate and collaborate with business units, product vendors, external vendors and other teams within the IT organization.
• Get the team aligned on Project Objectives and timelines
• Conducting regular project huddles, coordinate with business users, senior management and other stakeholders
• Set milestones and lead the team to achieve the targets
• Report status to the executives and stakeholders
• Manage customer expectations
• Coordination with internal teams and external vendors based on project requirement and get the issues resolved for the project team to move forward.

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Program Manager, Delivery Manager

Technology: ACI-MTS, Java, J2EE, WebSphere, Spring MVC, VB, Ext JS, JavaScript, AIX, Entia, AIX COBOL, Subjects, C, IDI, GDB, UiPath, Robotic Process Automation, Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and enhance ACI-MTS payments modules - BISI, SWIFT, Web-Ui, SEPA
• Lead a large team of product consultants and developers.
• Design and develop systems to automate payments operations processes.
• Evaluate automation opportunities in Payments and build Proof of Concepts using RPA solutions
• Lead system integration engagements using ACI-MTS, SWIFT and Finastra GPP products.
• Attend defect scheduling meetings and bug-review meetings to discuss on the defects reported by the banks. Then schedule the defects in service packs based on priority and criticality.
• Overall delivery management for the engagements on the product across multiple customer sites
• Program Management, Release Cycle Management, Build Management

Developer, Project Lead

Confidential, Melville, NY

Technology: Mainframe, DB2, IBM S/390 Assembler, InterComm, COBOL, JCL, REXX, VSAM, File-Aid, Infoman, Panvalet, Endevor, SAR, JobTrac and TSO Debugger.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the requirement and the design, Develop the code, Unit Testing and delivery of Mainframe based payments and risk management systems
• Build a team of developers to deliver Z/OS Assembler based payments authorization systems
• Review and Analyze the defects reported by end-customers
• Ensure that Engineering Team delivers the fixes on time
• Lead the team and manage project deliveriesProvide on Assembler to onboard new resources based on project need