SUMMARY:

• Senior Enterprise Architect having an extensive background in design and integration of complex cross - functional business solutions using the SOA and other integration technologies. Persistent and goal oriented in solving cross-organizational issues
• Interacted with C-level executives as well as IT staff at various levels from the client organizations providing solutions.
• Followed TOGAF and Zachman Frameworks while defining the enterprise architecture blue print and implementation roadmaps.
• Understands and applied system development life cycle methodologies like Waterfall, Rational Unified Process and Agile. Used process methodology tools like Rational Method composer to document the process.
• Integrated multiple systems and services using IBM ESB products, Websphere Message Broker and Websphere ESB.
• Proven ability in defining enterprise architectural standards for XML, WSDL, BPEL, SOAP, UDDI, J2EE, SOA Governance and Data Governance coordinating with other architects in the enterprise.
• Extensively used UML 2.0 and BPMN in developing business processes in support of SOA on process modeling tools like Websphere Business Modeler, Websphere Integration Developer and Rational Software Architect.
• Identified and guided application development principles, standards, and best practices. Provided best practice recommendations for SOA implementation roadmap.
• ITIL certified and implemented IT service Management processes using ITIL guidelines in products like CCMDB, MRO and TADDM from IBM.
• Extensively practiced SOAD and SOMA to develop service identification strategy for shared enterprise business services.
• Specialized in SOA Governance process implementations using WSRR. Designed and established design time and run time governance topologies, policies and ontology.
• Performance-oriented and proficient in the current technologies and the emerging technologies in the Business Service Management area.
• Excellent in written and oral communication and meeting facilitation skills. Proactive, self-initiating and collaborate closely with customer /internal teams

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology Standards: J2EE, JMS, Web Services, BPEL, BPMN, WS-I, XML, UML2.0

Products: Websphere Process Server, Websphere MQ, Websphere Application Server, Websphere Portal Server, DB2, Oracle 9i, Websphere Message Broker, Tivoli TPM, Tivoli Access Manager, Tivoli Identity Manager, Rational Portfolio Manager, Rational Method Composer, Websphere Business Modeler, Websphere Integration Developer, Websphere Business Monitor, Rational Software Architect

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Erie, PA

Enterprise SOA Solutions Architect

• Closely worked with CIO and Business Development executives in defining the enterprise architecture for the organization and developing a strategic plan for implementation of integration architecture.
• Established standards for XML, WSDL and WS* ( Security, Policy & Addressing) within the organization for Service Realization and Canonical Messaging for service Oriented Integration.
• Worked with Core architecture team to establish SOA Governance at design time and runtime. Collaborated with Data architecture team to establish Data Governance and Data Stewardship.
• Created enterprise architecture blue prints for component architecture and incremental adoption of SOA keeping in consideration of business goals and technology constraints.
• Identified middleware components for implementing the Service Oriented Architecture and Integration
• Defined Canonical Messaging standards to implement the integration architecture using the selected COTS components for Policy Administration System.
• Defined technology framework necessary for implementing customer centric Insurance Policy Administration System while migrating from a Policy centric legacy system.
• Established SOA Governance for Service Development, Service Reuse, Version Control, Quality Assurance and Project Management areas using the Websphere Service Registry and Repository Component.
• Implemented a Master Data Management System as a source of truth for Policy, Party and Billing objects within the enterprise. Established MDM for Operational Data Storage and Logging system in support of Data Warehouse and Data Mining Capabilities.

Confidential, Omaha

Enterprise SOA Solutions Architect

• Defined the technology framework ( Hibernate) for configurable XML based data access patterns.
• Promoted messaging standards for canonical XML messaging architecture using Enterprise Service Bus.
• Closely worked with CIO and other enterprise architects in defining the architecture blue print and migration strategies.
• Defined roadmap for implementing the insurance policy solutions using IBM Insurance Architecture framework and models.
• Initiated solution design while implementing Portal for user interface and identity manager for security framework.
• Developed migration strategy from legacy mainframe policy management solution to an integrated component based policy management solution.
• Collaborated with technical architects and reviewed messaging standards, data governance standards.
• Reviewed and implemented improvement strategies to the development process (SDLC) by creating, reviewing and correcting process templates for data change control and configuration management processes.
• Established policies and standards for analysis, design and development methodologies using agile practices.
• Conducted mentoring sessions to different technical architecture teams in establishing development and change control processes and documenting them.

Development Tools: Websphere Integration Developer, Welogic Studio, Websphere Portal Server, .NET Studio, Tivoli Identity Manager, RAD 6.0.1, Rational Requisite Pro, Documentum, IBM’s Insurance Application Architecture Models.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Identified IBM cross brand products that provide the Governance in a service lifecycle (model, assemble, deploy and manage).
• Developed the Governance process for the customers provided the basic requirements ( Ex: Toyota)
• Defined Rational Portfolio Manager, Rational Method Composer, WebSphere Business Modeler as plan/model stage tools.
• Established WebSphere Integration Developer to assemble the Governance process and the business service package.
• Collaborated and Communicated to various project and product teams within IBM on the capability maturity models and capability process developments in implementing the SOA Governance.
• Enforced governance policies using Websphere Services Registry and Repository .
• Incorporated Websphere Business Monitor and Tivoli’s ITCAM for SOA to manage and monitor service life cycle.
• Approached enterprise Service bus usage using Websphere Message Broker to integrate services available from legacy systems ( Mainframe apps, CICS and Oracle apps)

Environment: Websphere Process Server 6, Websphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB), WSRR, Rational Portfolio Manager, Rational Method Composer, WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, Tivoli TPM, Tivoli CCMDB, ITCAM for SOA, Websphere Business Monitor.

Confidential, Tx

Lead Architect

• Conceived ITIL guidelines and developed IT processes, change management, release management, availability management and storage management solutions using the WebSphere Business integration modeling tool
• Enabled WESB for CEI events. Developed mediations to integrate external services such as Peregrine Asset Center and Remedy Service Desk.
• Coordinated with different organizations in collecting requirements for the product and executed a staged development plan.
• Used the Websphere Message Broker as the connectivity mechanism for several management services.
• Mentored development teams in understanding the technology and architecture.
• Worked with Tivoli Availability Management architects to include ITM in the first release of the CCMDB.
• Created detailed use case scenarios and UML sequence diagrams using Rational Service Architect.
• Interacted and provided necessary requirements to websphere monitor development group for the IT Governance process performance monitoring.

Development Environment: WESB, WPS, Websphere Business Modeler, Websphere Message Broker, WID 6.0, RAD 6.0, J2EE, SOA, Peregrin Service Desk, TPM, TCM and DB2

Confidential

IT Architect

Responsibilities:

• Engage with IBM strategic business partners and help the partners to develop their applications on IBM products. Support defining the application architecture and design components of the application. Do the gap analysis and derive requirements for IBM products in fulfilling the application architecture. Provide necessary technical evaluations at various stages of the development process.
• Help IBM business development teams and business partners in delivering the successful products and presales activities.
• Participated in architectural reviews with Siebel Next Generation CRM application platform using SOA methodologies on J2EE and .NET technologies with a concept of using the same level of Web Services features. Interacted with executives from partner organizations in mapping the vision statement into required IBM products.
• Led the business partnership to generate more than $50 million revenue to IBM.. Mediated between architects from partner organizations and IBM architects to come together and consolidate requirements for all applications running on IBM platforms.
• Worked jointly with Siebel architects in making decisions for the data access patterns between SDOs (Service Data Objects) and ADO.net technologies.
• Negotiated with IBM WebSphere development team to provide early drivers to partners for developing their SOA applications.
• Carried out negotiations with the business partners in using WebSphere Portal technologies.
• Helped the marketing teams in providing pre-sales activities using IBM and Business partner platforms in generating millions of dollars ($) to both parties.
• Managed a teams ranging from 5 - 20 engineers at each engagement with the partners.
• As na security development team lead, implemented credential mapping in a single sign-on environment for CORBA based Component Broker product in an (C++)object oriented distributed computing environment.
• Integrated with Orbix for inter-ORB protocol development.
• Supported many IBM customers in using the component broker for developing CORBA-based distributed object environment.