SUMMARY:

• Looking for a challenging opportunity in technology leadership or management, preferably in the Dallas/Fort Worth (TX) region or Bay Area (CA) region. Targeting roles in applications development and delivery, enterprise solutions architecture and technology innovation.
• Extensive background in telecom industry (wireless and cable), primarily in the BSS (Business Support Systems) space.
• Over 7 years of experience in solutions architecture and applications architecture fields. In the process, gained experience in engaging with various IT, Engineering and Business domains like applications (web, integrations, IAM, IVR, ETL, DW, EDH/EDW etc), networks, infrastructure, security, compliance/audits/risks, telephony, marketing, sales etc.
• Over a year of experience in areas like ITSM, CMDB and Service Orchestration/Automation.
• Experience in conducting architecture trade - off analysis, build vs. buys analysis, product value analysis, vendor competency analysis, performance analysis etc.
• Over 7 years of experience in EAI (Enterprise Applications Integration) space.
• Expertise in Web and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).
• Over 8 years of leadership experience from playing various roles like Solutions Architect, Principal Applications Architect and Technical Project Manager.
• Experience integrating applications running on disparate platforms (Java, C++, Cobol, .NET etc.)
• Experience in evaluating and integrating COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) products.
• Experience working with multiple vendors in both outsourcing and staff augmentation models. Contributed to drafting several RFPs and also to evaluate vendor responses, technical proposals and architectures/blueprints. Also experienced in conducting oversight of vendor work.
• Experienced in all phases of SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle)
• Experience working in traditional and agile environments.
• Experienced in a variety of assignments, including
• New enterprise product roll out
• Organization transformation and legacy applications retirement/sunset
• Outsourcing work to vendors in both onshore and off-shore models
• New application design/development and routine system enhancements
• Regulatory/compliance initiatives like Sarbanes Oxley, PCI-DSS, CPNI etc.
• Application performance tuning
• Data center migrations
• Infrastructure/network upgrades
• Experience in advocating and evaluating emerging technologies and trends.
• Good understanding of TOGAF framework.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Weblogic Server 4.5/5.1
• Oracle DB
• EJB
• JDBC
• JNDI
• Jolt
• Java
• Servlets
• JSP
• JavaScript
• HTML
• SQL and PVCS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical architect

Confidential, MANASSAS, VA

• Member of the company’s Enterprise Architecture team.
• Worked on the company’s ITSM (IT Service Management) improvement initiative. Delivered a TFR (Technical Feasibility Report) on CMDB (Configuration Management Data Base). In the process, interacted with various internal stakeholders and application teams to understand the requirements, current state of systems and related process. Also interacted with vendors like ServiceNow to understand their COTS offering and get a hands on feel for the product.
• Delivered a solution architecture for the organization’s Service Orchestration/Automation initiative. It addressed the business vision of automating infrastructure and platforms delivery in order to cut time/costs and achieve consistency in the course of service delivery. The solution leveraged Red Hat Ansible (for configuration management/automation) as well as other tools like Active Directory, VMWare’s vCenter (for virtualization for server platforms), Red Hat Satellite etc. The architecture also addressed critical aspects of the solution like security, availability/redundancy, adaptation to existing operations organization etc. Also conducted an architectural risk assessment for the proposed solution. Most of the architectural models/diagrams were delivered using ABACUS.
• Delivered a solution architecture for software management of RHEL (Redhat Enterprise Linux) platforms using Redhat Satellite. Addressed aspects like security, high availability, disaster recovery etc. Interacted with various operations stakeholders to establish roles and responsibilities for content management using this new tool.
• Drafting a solution architecture for NCM (Network Configuration Management) using InfoBlox NetMRI

PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT

Confidential, HERNDON, VA

• Worked with these team’s respective applications architects and maintained oversight of their work/deliverables.
• Conducted and led periodic architecture reviews and technical review committee meetings with application architects, infrastructure architects and functional managers from various teams to review all architecture changes. The review items included architecture changes induced by new projects as well as internally identified improvements, ex: changes to caching mechanism, changes to audit logging, migrating from RDBMS to NoSQL DBs etc. Documented and communicated the outcome of these meetings to leadership at Sr. Director level.
• Conducted and led periodic technology advocacy meetings with functional managers and business where some newer trends like SPA (Single Page Applications), Websockets, NoSQL DBs etc. were socialized (with demos and recommendations) for potential absorption.
• Worked with enterprise solution architecture group on various projects/initiatives to contribute to solution and to assess impacts to platforms that I was responsible for.
• Drafted platform principles/guidelines around services composition, interfaces, messaging, security, etc. for the integrations bus.
• Conducted “Active-Active” MDC (Multi Data Center) deployment feasibility analysis/research for the Integrations platform and delivered a solution architecture. Collaborated with various application and infrastructure teams as well as researched/evaluated products like Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle GoldenGate etc. in this context
• Worked on some enterprise critical initiatives like proposed TWC acquisition, Managed Enterprise Services (leveraging Confidential CES system), Service Delivery streamlining etc. and contributed to overall solution architecture.
• Drafted future state integrations architecture that addressed several challenges/opportunities around service planning, composition, reusability, technology synergies, etc.
• Led initiative to design and roll out canonical interface models across all services that were currently deployed on the integrations bus. This helped facilitate consistent understanding of interfaces(APIs) across all clients.
• Worked with managed services technical staff from vendors like Cognizant and Accenture in a highly agile environment

APPLICATIONS ARCHITECT

Confidential, DC

• Conducted current state assessment of platform from business and technology perspective. In the process, interviewed business stakeholders and various IT units like applications development, network and infrastructure groups.
• Drafted a High Availability solution architecture for the application and obtained solution buy in.
• Solution leveraged MDC (Multi Data Center) capabilities of existing products in the application stack like eRights IAM/e-commerce and Marklogic.
• Designed for scenarios involving data collisions in 2-way write setup of eRights IAM and e-Commerce system.
• Documented and communicated solution impact (functional, operational and process changes) to various concerned IT and business units.
• Drafted a DR (Disaster Recovery) plan detailing Response, Resumption and Restore operational phases.
• Held technical meetings with vendors (Atypon and Marklogic) to understand how their products work in MDC (Multi Data Center) environments and to evaluate their applicability in APA’s ecosystem.
• APA Writing Center: An experimental portal where researchers can author papers according to APA style guidelines in a collaborative environment. This application had a very large (projected) user base and hence came with stringent performance requirements.
• Evaluated new application technologies/tools like Websockets, NGINX, HTML5, SPDY, NodeJS, Redis.IO etc to fulfill application requirements.
• Collaborated with other teams to draft a “thick client” application architecture where a very small memory footprint is left on the application servers while user (browser) picks up significant load of the processing/logic.
• Used Angular.js for client implementation and Node.js as an application server. Designed stateless services on the application server to cut down memory intensive session management tasks at that layer.
• Used Websocket based data exchange to support multi user collaboration.
• Designed custom IAM adapter for handling Websocket traffic, saving the organization vendor engagement costs.
• Leveraged existing HornetQ JMS for achieving asynchronous messaging between repository server and the style engine (RefExpress). Marklogic database
• Integrated third party/social media provided authentication functionality with support for OpenID authentication and Facebook authentication.
• Evaluated vendors like Gigya in this context and conducted a build vs buy analysis.

solutions ARCHITECT, applications developer

Confidential, Chicago, il

• Held the roles of Applications Developer and Solutions Architect. Designed, developed and supported several B2B and B2C applications.
• Architected solutions for some high visibility and high budget initiatives like UPrepaid, Web portal, e-commerce and self service portal re-platforming etc. The end to end solution in many cases touched components from multiple IT areas like web/application servers (Oracle/Weblogic server, JBOSS), integration servers (like Oracle OSB/ESB - Enterprise Service Bus, Oracle Jolt, MQ JMS Server), content management systems (like Documentum), application security firewalls (like Netcontinuum), IAM/SSO (Single Sign On) devices(like Novel’s Identity and Access Manager), ETL systems (like Informatica), EDW and Reporting tools(like Cognos), and IVR. Also worked extensively with non-IT units in Sales/Marketing, Finance, Legal and Engineering in the process of developing solutions.
• Collaborated with application architects, business analysts, network architects, telephony architects, infrastructure architects and various business units in the process of drafting solution architectures.
• Participated in ARB (Architrecture Review Board) meetings to obtain solution approvals and to maintain allignment with Enterprise Architecture and share best practices.
• Contributed to writing RFPs (Request For Proposals), interviewing vendors, evaluating vendor proposals/solutions and vendor selection. Worked with several industry leading vendors and resellers like Confidential, Accenture, TracFone, OnStar, Brightstar, Incomm, Synchronoss XIUS, Experian, Fiserv, ZED etc.
• Involved in vendor selection and integrations with their systems. Designed integrations using web services (SOAP, REST etc.), EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) and other protocols. Contributed to reviewing Application Outsourcing and Infrastructure Outsourcing SOWs (Statement of Work) with Accenture.
• Conducted JADs and workshops involving various impacted teams across various locations in the process of drafting the solution. Conducted oversight of vendor work (environments, code and integration) delivered from multiple offsite locations (USA and India).
• Lead teams of developers on several development efforts. Prepare team’s project plan and status reports for the PMO (Project Management Office). Represented team at CM (Change Management) and RM (Release Management) meetings. Used various languages, protocols, frameworks, COTS products and tools like Java, JEE, JavaScript, HTTP, XML, XML-RPC, SOAP, REST, NetUI, Struts, Logicalis, SQL, Weblogic/Oracle server, JMS, JOLT, TUXEDO, Oracle DB etc. for applications development.
• Provided production support for applications in production. Conducted in depth root cause analysis on all production issues and contributed to enhancing the existing monitoring and alerting systems.
• Conducted several POC (Proof Of Concept) exercises with vendors/vendor products to evaluate new products before bringing them into the system. Notably, was a member of the technical team that conducted a POC exercise to evaluate BEA Aqualogic (now Oracle ESB, Enterprise Service Bus). Prepared executive summary reports for the senior management detailing the pros and cons of adopting the product. Developed a roadmap for integrations with ESB.
• Interviewed candidates for development positions and mentoring new hires.
• Lead PCI-DSS compliance efforts for the applications that I supported. This work incorporated guidelines from vendors like Sun/Oracle and also from open source projects like OWASP.
• Involved with application performance and availability enhancement initiatives.

Systems Analyst

Confidential, chesterfield, Mo

• Participated in requirement analysis and scoping sessions with clients.
• Provided impact assessments and estimates for the given requirements.
• Designed, coded, integrated and unit tested modules.
• Provided on site support during product delivery. Ensured that all UAT defects were resolved in a timely manner.