SUMMARY:

• Confidential has over 18 years of progressive experience in business technology management consulting and solutions engineering in the Healthcare, Banking, Financial Services, and Global Trade domains. He has an excellent track record of product, and projects delivery management, which valued over a million dollars on behalf of global clients spanning across the North America, Asia, Middle East and Africa.
• He has an extensive experience in business proposals evaluation, business cases development, pre - sales, RFPs, RFIs, POC demonstration, cross-cultural team building, partners and alliances management.
• He has been a strong business acumen and risk taking, possesses a good communication, presentation, interpersonal, problem solving, analytical, leadership and management skills. Influence on best practices, standards and frameworks such as TOGAF, FEAF, MITA, SABSA, CoBIT, ITIL, COSO, BASEL, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST, SAFe, and PMBoK.
• He is familiar in using strategy planning and enterprise architecture tools like Alfabet/ARIS, IBM RSA, MEGA, Troux, Sparx EA and MS-Visio.
• TOGAF 9.1 Certified (2013) practicing Enterprise Architect, he has over 7 years of experience in defining digital transformation strategies and roadmaps, and IT alignment with business strategy/objectives, key contributions to architecture reviews and stakeholders management, articulation of organization structures, change management, communication plans, governance processes, and architecture landscape.
• Designed highly available, and secure large-scale data intensive enterprise applications on Micro Services, DevOps/CICD, AWS Cloud and Big data platform.
• 12+ years of profound hands-on solutions architecture experience including industry leading products OFSAA,
• Trade Compliance (Amber Road) using Java, JEE, SOA, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Open source technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Date Center / Cloud Environment: AWS Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Cisco, EMC, VMware, Citrix and NetApp

DevOps / CICD Stack: Docker, Jenkins, Bamboo, Chef, Ansible, JFrog, Kubernates, Mesos, Confluence, Jira, Slack, Git, CVS, TFS, Maven, JUnit, MUnit, Selenium, Cucumber, SonarQube, Logstash, ElasticSearch, Splunk, Kibana, Runscope, and Datadog

Bigdata Environment: Hadoop Ecosystem (HDFS, HBase, YARN, MR, Hive, Flume, Sqoop, ZooKeeper, Hue, Solr, Oozie), Spark, Kafka, Beam, Dataflow, Kinesis, Ambari, Atlas and Cloudera

SQL and NoSQL Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB and Orient DB

Application Platform / Frameworks: Java, JEE, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, WebSockets, and Play framework

SOA and Microservices / APIs: MuleSoft, IBM, Tibco, Oracle, AWS API Gateway, and GCP Apigee

Security: Apache Sentry, Ranger, CheckPoint, OpenAM, Ping, Layer 7, Kerberos, TLS, AES, OAuth, SAML/JWT, TDE, HSM, IAM, Directory Services and KMS

Program Portfolio Management: Planview, Alfabet, CA Clarity, and MS Project

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Enterprise Cloud Architect

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• As an Enterprise Architect - AWS Cloud Architecture and Migration planning, responsible for;
• Collaborated with line of business level stakeholders, identified business drivers, and business capabilities.
• Conducted business impact assessments and IT portfolio assessments includes applications, data and infrastructure rationalization, transformation risk assessment, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery (DR).
• Defined target architecture definition document and technical roadmaps to implement digital transformation strategy includes Micro Services, DevOps and Bigdata.
• Articulated datacenter migration planning includes lift-and-shift, refactoring and re-platform of enterprise applications.
• Defined cloud implementation strategy to confirm with security, reliability, performance, and operational perspectives.
• Performed cost optimization and business value proposition ($XXX millions) includes identification of right services IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, sizing resources based on computation, storage, networking and data transfer requirements.
• Designed highly available, multi-zone, highly secure, and scalable cloud solutions architecture using Java/JEE stack, REST/SOAP interfaces, Hadoop Ecosystem, and key AWS Services includes EC2, VPC, ECS, Route53, ELB, Auto Scaling, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, S3, EBS, Glacier, RDS, Dynamo DB, ElastiCache, RedShift, Elastic Search, EMR, Kinesis, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, SWF, SES, IAM, KMS, Directory Services, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Config, Trusted Advisor, Storage Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect, OpsWorks, server and database migration services.
• Performed agile project management activities including planning, scheduling, reporting and directing teams.

Senior Enterprise Architect

Confidential, MT

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Enterprise Architect of the State Medicaid Enterprise Transformation program, responsible for;
• Detailed study of the organizational mission, drivers, objectives and goals, negotiated with C-level executives and business stakeholders to buy-in support to synthesize digital capabilities required to address the Medicaid business transformation needs.
• Medicaid enterprise systems infrastructure modernization including cloud strategy formulation, collaborated with technology architects drafted blue prints for hybrid cloud reference architecture, automation, operations management including Server Infrastructure, Network Communication, Messaging and business continuity planning.
• Authored ITSM policies, and guidelines to make best decision-making on SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services acquisition.
• POCs demonstration on leading public cloud platforms AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure.
• Defined Disaster Recovery (DR) and data backup services model using AWS Direct Connect, VPN, Snowball, Storage Gateway and EC2 instances to mirror production environment.
• Translated business requirements into ICT strategy and aligned with business strategic objectives/goals.
• Established Enterprise Architecture (EA) program, articulated EA principles, roadmap, EA governance process, communication plan, architecture repository, landscape, standards information base and reference models.
• Tailored EA framework and architecture development method based on TOGAF, MITA, FEAF, NIST and SABSA reference models, used Sparx EA, MS-Visio and MS-Office 2016 tools for artifacts development.
• Collaborated with business and technical leaders to transform Medicaid business operating model and defined business strategy, capabilities, and maturity models in compliance with CMS MITA and MECT.
• Assisted PMO in portfolio and program planning to achieve business goals and objectives in future CAPEX and OPEX reduction in IT investments estimated at $XX millions per annum.
• Assessed department’s architecture landscape, IT portfolio rationalization and coordinated domain architects to draft current and target state business, information, application, infrastructure/technology, and security architecture artifacts.
• Collaborated with technology services leaders and drafted a five year IT strategic roadmap to automate and transform healthcare involving standardization, systems integration, and modernization using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Micro Services Architecture (MSA), Cloud, Bigdata, DevOps / CICD and SAFe/Agile methodologies.
• Mentored business architects to articulate target business architecture artifacts such as organization model, business processes, functions and services using Archimate and BMPN modeling techniques.
• Coordinated technology architects to define target information systems and technology architecture definition artifacts, architecture and solution building blocks for the Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS), Electronic Data Exchange (EDX), Data Center and Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW).
• Defined Solution Building Blocks (SBBs) to transform monolithic enterprise systems into high available, scalable, and secured enterprise services using key development technologies include LAMP stack, Java, JEE, MuleSoft ESB, MuleSoft API platform, SOAP, WSDL, REST, ActiveMQ, JBoss, Tomcat, Spring, Hibernate, JSON, XML, Redis, MUnit, SonarQube, JFrog, Docker, Jenkins, Chef, OpenShift, OpenAM, SAML, OAuth, Splunk, WSS, Runsope, JIRA, SAS, Hadoop Ecosystem (YARN, MR, Zookeeper, Kafka, Spark, Hive, Flume, Sqoop), NoSQL datastores (HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB), and Oracle RDBMS.
• Collaborated with security staff to draft security management policies, guidelines, and procedures to ensure confidentiality, integrity and availability and defined enterprise security including GRC, and security operations.
• Performed gap analysis, authored multi-year systems implementation and migration plan to procure and implement MMIS solutions, 48+ legacy systems migration and interoperability with 180+ business applications.
• Defined technical, security and privacy standards information base in compliance with HIPAA, NIST/FIPS, PII, HL7, NIEM, WSS, W3C, OWASP, OASIS, UML, BPMN, and Archimate.
• Reviewed MMIS RFP and made architectural, data protection and security recommendations to be compliant with EA standards, CMS MITA 7SC, and MECT criteria.
• Coordinated project meetings, authored status reports and project schedules, and plans using MS-Project 2016.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• As an Enterprise Architect consultant at office of the Operations and Technology, responsible for;
• Provided thought leadership, advocacy, articulation, and assurance of the Enterprise Governance program.
• Conducted IT portfolio assessment, risk and compliance systems architecture reviews, integration with other systems and external interfaces to ensure systems are compatible and in compliance with organization’s IT standards and made recommendations to architecture models to meet evolving regulatory and security requirements.
• Assisted project managers in various risk and compliance projects by defining project wise approach including resource requirements, methodology, tools and training requirements, deliverables, KPIs, SLAs, current and future standards, policies, regulations to be adhered to and impacts to the initiative.
• Identified business problems/opportunities by working with SMEs, conducted stakeholder analysis, communication planning, requirements management, applied business modeling techniques and value proposition.
• By working with global compliance teams, drafted real-time fraud detection analysis using big data and visualization platform architecture artifacts.
• Defined data governance strategy to prevent, detect and report on financial crimes, and security risks across the enterprise systems and services, and articulated meta-data management, data classification, data mapping, data ingestion, API services access, data quality, and performance standards.
• By working with security team, developed enterprise security standards, policies, guidelines, business continuity planning and reference architecture for data protection/security (at rest and in motion) and resiliency in new enterprise and mobile applications using REST service models, big data and cloud environment.
• Analyzed complex enterprise structure, articulated artifacts using TOGAF 9.1 ADM, Troux, ERWin, MS Visio, and MS Office productivity tools for presentation and planning.
• Key technologies used includes Hadoop Ecosystem (HDFS, Spark Streaming, Kafka), Cloudera, WebServices, OFSAA data, Actimize data, Java, JEE, Linux, Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Bootsrap, WebSokets, Swagger, SoapUI, Layer7, F5, Jenkins, Chef, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Ab Initio, IBM middleware stack (Websphere MQ, IIB, API Connect, and data power), Splunk, NoSQL datastores (HBase, and Cassandra ) and Oracle database.

Managing Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As an Enterprise Architect - Governance and Transformation program at a leading bank in SAME region
• Responsible for the project delivery and relationship management activities. Identification of organizational mandates, clarifying mission and values, assessed organizational external and internal environments.
• Managed stakeholders, negotiated with C-Level (CIO, COO, CRO & EDs) executives on project related matters, existing capabilities and IT strategy planning for Enterprise risk management (ERM), Business continuity, and Security.
• Enterprise analysis by creating the current state of business architecture, conducted feasibility studies, determined project scope, business case development, conducted initial risk assessment and prepared the decision package.
• Implemented guidelines and industry best practices of COBIT, ITIL, TOGAF 9.1 and COSO ERM frameworks.
• Translated business requirements into ICT strategy including application rationalization and IT landscaping with clear business benefits in terms of ROI (610% in 5 years), TCO (65% lesser) and 82% less down time.
• Defined target business architecture, produced artifacts like organizational model, people, processes, systems, data, products/services, capabilities, value chains/networks, and business partners using BPMN, Archimate, EPC and ARIS
• Prepared current and target state information systems architecture artifacts such as, but not limited to application reference models, system connection diagrams, data dictionaries, enterprise applications integration, interface descriptions and staging plans using the enterprise architecture repository capabilities.
• IT modernization plan by producing multi-year roadmaps to consolidate, replace, and migration of legacy enterprise systems into private cloud infrastructure built on using VMware, Cisco, EMC, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Remedy, etc.,
• Defined a capability driven solution building blocks, developed road maps, transition plans for transforming business applications from “as-is” to “to-be” emerging modern architectures involving mobile, analytics and cloud deployment.
• Created a roadmap for ERM, and FCCM solutions implementation and data migration from legacy systems.
• Determined the best patterns to use for each integration scenario to gain the best performance, reusability and maintainability, formalized SOA and Micro services solution methodologies using SOAP, WSDL, REST, API Management, Docker, DevOps using Jenkins, Chef, and Mesos, Messaging patterns, and ESB
• Evaluated tools and technologies for data acquisition, streaming, visualization and regulatory reporting.
• Articulated architecture artifacts using MS Visio, Alfabet/ARIS, ERWin, and presentation and planning using MS Office productivity tools.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential, NY

Responsibilities:

• As an Enterprise Architect, Healthcare Financial Transformation project, responsible for:
• Management and coordination of multi-divisional, multi-vendor consulting teams on behalf of NYS DOH.
• Collaborated with NYS DOH Medicaid Data Warehouse (MDW) directors and MMIS PMO (CSC) on project management activities, risk assessment, metrics development, quality assurance, and data governance.
• Defined healthcare IT strategy, articulated target enterprise architecture definition document, and performed gap analysis and made recommendations, modernized rate setting process and healthcare analytics.
• Articulated “As-Is”, “To-Be” business architecture artifacts and process models using Oracle BPA / ARIS platform.
• Drafted architecture artifacts for healthcare finance analytics framework using big data platform and data ingestions from providers, payers, members, ICRs, SPARCS, eMedNY (MMIS), DMH and external sources like Firstdata, etc.,
• Identified critical data elements and ensured data quality by source data cleansing, transforming and formatting for Medicaid and Medicare inpatient/outpatient rate setting models and analytics development.
• Articulated information systems and infrastructure artifacts for R-MMIS, new MDW datacenter and drafted business continuity, and data migration procedures and guidelines to ensure smooth and efficient transition.
• Transformation, envisioned organization savings of US $XXX millions per year in inpatient and outpatient claims payments, and downsized significant number of fraudulent claims.

Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Consultant - Risk and Compliance /IT Architecture practice at Oracle Financial Services Consulting, India
• Collaborated with engineering, sales, marketing, operations, IT professionals and C-Level executives for requirements discovery, schedule, and resources management.
• Demonstrated Oracle FLEXCUBE, and OFSAA solution POC’s, and responded to OFSAA RFPs/RFIs.
• Led and mentored 15+ members technical team for product engineering and onsite/offshore support to pre-sales and implementation teams.
• Articulated IRM framework for banks architecture artifacts using Oracle BPA / ARIS design platform.
• Contributed to OFSAA ERM solution architecture, Operational Risk and Economic Capital modules development.
• Coordinated OFSAA engineering using Oracle fusion middleware, Java, J2EE, XML, BPM/BPEL, ESB, OBIEE and Oracle SOA/Web Services. Developed logical, unified metadata models and database design using ERWin.

Risk Specialist/Architect/Consultant

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managed roll out of RCSA application across the organization’s business sectors and regions to monitor operational risks and controls. Articulated information architecture, and transformation artifacts.
• Developed Information policy and specification for data management, migration, verification and validation to ensure smooth and efficient transition from over 30+legacy systems from 100+ countries into new platform.

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated OFSAA onsite implementation, techno-functional product training and multi-vendor management.
• Conducted JAD sessions to capture evolving operational risk management functional requirements.
• Articulated architectural artifacts for loss data, RCSA, KRI, Action Planning, Capital Calculations and Reporting
• Led the techno functional team to customize OFSAA ERM/GRC modules to meet the customer requirements.
• Established continuous delivery and testing services to optimize the product quality and performance.

Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities including, but not limited to:
• Collaborated with business and technical teams performed architectural analysis, articulated high level design and specification documents for the Trade Compliance (TC) suite product platform.
• Led offshore product and support teams to coordinate on-site implementation at TNT, DigitalRiver, GE, etc,
• Product engineering using Java, EJB, JSP, Servlets, FTP, SFTP, XML, Oracle WebSphere, and WebLogic.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities including, but not limited;
• MCare product development using Java, J2EE, Weblogic and Oracle Database platform
• Local Integration and Planning System (LIPS) project development on Java, J2EE, weblogic, and oracle database platform for a leading truck manufacturer.