SUMMARY:

• Solutions Architect with a stellar track record of architecting and delivering multi - million-dollar programs
• Professionally accredited AWS Certified Solutions Architect experienced in cloud transformation initiatives to enable IT transformation to public, private and hybrid cloud architecture
• Expertise in envisioning technology solutions for ambiguous, non-business-as-usual (BAU) projects working with IT Leadership, client engagement managers and Business stakeholders
• Architected high-volume delivery systems to build and enhance transactional and event-driven applications
• Excellent facilitator for IT and trusted advisor for business with skill to ‘bridge the gap’ between technical and functional
• Seasoned Development Manager successful in executing complex projects mentoring cross functional teams in Agile & Scrum methodology from prototype to release
• Certified Scrum Master & Certified Six Sigma Green Belt practitioner with career track record of accomplishing business process improvement and process transformation
• Guided teams in adoption of Agile using Scrum and Scaled Agile (SAFe) development practices (writing user stories, release schedules and integration planning, scrum meetings, velocity and capacity planning)
• Expert in Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe) practices having led peak team sizes of 40 associates

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Architecture Frameworks: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Pivotal Cloud Foundry, TOGAF

Architecture Practices: Digital & Mobile Strategy, Cloud Architecture, MicroServices and API Development, Decision Confidential Systems, Technology Strategizing and Planning, Virtualization Techniques, Responsive Web Development (RWD), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Design Patterns, Web Services

Development Technologies: Spring Cloud, SpringBoot, Gemfire, Netflix Stack (Eureka, Ribbon, Zuul, Hysterix), AppDynamics, Docker, Chef, Jenkins, Puppet, J2EE, WebServices, HTML 5

Project Confidential: Agile, Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Six Sigma, Lean Sigma

Business Development: Process Improvement, Client Handling, Stakeholder Interactions and Proposals

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise Architect & Technology Evangelist

Responsibilities:

• Identified strategy for co-existence of microservices involving AWS, PCF and Legacy applications
• Gemfire expert; established gold settings for Gemfire IMDG computing capabilities for Confidential by simulating enterprise level load on Gemfire from legacy and Next Gen applications. Conducted workshops to propagate Gemfire governance, best practices, quality gates and usage patterns across different Lines of Business.
• Created and developed framework for generic Tokenization implementation with response times of less than 50 milliseconds in compliance with PCI implementation
• Identified and led the implementation of automated DevOps deployment pipeline using Orchestrator to spin up instances in AWS cloud on-demand
• Worked on decommissioning of monolith legacy application including feature and functionality mappings to potentially save 42% operating costs
• Headed Digital Strategies team responsible for Confidential ’s Consumer Lending business, successfully rolling out multiple key initiatives such as Auto Lending Product, Digital Signatures, Dodd-Frank Compliance
• Rolled out Auto lending product across branches by identifying minimum viable product features and incremental roll-out strategy. This helped generate additional 8 million revenue in first 3 months
• Developed digitization strategy by leveraging digital signatures and electronic document Confidential to bring down running costs by 48% and move towards paperless branches. Collaborated with business and vendors to evaluate products and finalize contracts to procure services, infrastructure and software for the project
• Consolidated individual work streams of Fraud risk minimum standards (FRMS) & Office of foreign asset control (OFAC) screening into a unified business process saving 40% project cost
• Assessing current architecture and leading migration using “API First” microservices approach to identify, plan and prioritize activities
• Created and socialized current, future and end state architecture diagrams as part of organization realignment and system consolidation efforts to reduce operational costs
• Envisioned technology solutions for non-BAU, third-party vendor and COTS integration projects such as Electronic Document Confidential (EDM), Pinless Debit Card Processing and Pre-Screen projects
• Conceptualized solution for securitization of portfolios to complement business strategy

Confidential

Manager Technology

Responsibilities:

• Integrated AWS CloudFront, S3, RDS, Web Analytics, Akamai, Interwoven CMS and HTML5 to efficiently deliver bandwidth-optimized solution to stream video content
• Led a cross-geography team of 35 people to implement consumer-facing website using Responsive Web Development (RWD) within 3 months
• Delivered cloud-based eCommerce site using Microsoft Azure and Demandware for a major cosmetics house. The site was rolled out in just 10 weeks to enable global expansion plans and reduce in-house infrastructure costs
• Achieved 93% customer satisfaction by implementing enhancements methodologies such as enhanced pair-programming with no impact to overall development timelines
• Created RFPs, Proof of Concept, estimation and rollout plan for educational website aimed to educate mutual fund investors and advisors
• Managed account relationship for leading mutual fund company overseeing all PM & quality processes

CitiFinancial

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led design, development and support of state-of-art, centralized, web-based, customer-centric CRM loan origination and processing system rolled out in phases across 1200 CitiFinancial branches. The new system replaced existing Maestro distributed systems developed in AS400, brought multiple legacy systems to a common delivery framework and enhanced operational productivity for Branch users
• Authored “Document Generation” framework to automate document printing across 1800 network branches reducing document maintenance and printing costs by 35%
• Engineered real-time, completely automated SOA solution for multifaceted module of ‘Product Advisor’ to determine offer terms for Loan and Insurance Products in compliance with state lending laws and policies
• Managed 20 team members in agile programming methods to deliver project within timelines and budget
• Accomplished 10% faster response times by system scalability and performance enhancements than required in program statement of work (SoW)
• Led business and IT professionals, including subject matter experts (SME) from various disciplines, to define scope and strategies related to loan origination, solicitation and servicing
• Scrum master for 2 different 8-member development teams

Confidential

Framework Architect

• Formulated real-time integration framework with 3 Credit Bureaus achieving 99.99% availability and 100% reliability. Framework assessed credit history of applicants
• Integrated Decision Confidential framework for business rules and hot deployments in production
• Automated loan underwriting module to evaluate loan applications and assess risk of lending by performing complex business rules such as pricing, debt calculation and product tier
• Slashed team costs 20% by replacing Chordiant SME’s and bringing knowledge in-house
• Reached 90% offshore leverage greater than 80% required for TCS- Confidential Relationship

Confidential

Sr. Designer, Developer

• Designed web tool for quick statement access and download from FileNet document Confidential system
• Built offline tool to simplify data capture and enable agents to submit e-signed application

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer

• Identified test cases and performed smoke and regression testing for Privacy Screen apps