SUMMARY:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate.
• Experinced in building CI/CD pipeline for both Distrubited Web and legacy mainframe applications.
• Experienced working with Agile, Scrum, Kanban and waterfall methdologies.
• Experience includes working and collaborating with Business, Executive and Technical personnel to understand business strategy, vision, functional and technical requirements.
• Involved in migration strategies, technical governance, and solution design.
• Experience includes conducting workshops to capture business and technical requirements, high level strategy and solution architecture.
• Functional experience includes the verticals in Banking, Financial, Credit Cards, Health Care, Health Insurance, Prescription Services, Insurance (Auto and Life), telecom and Manufacturing industries.
• Extensive experience in understanding business needs and help the business to come up with meaningful business requirements which can be transformed into technical solutions.
• Extensive IT experience As Architect,Tech Lead and Design, Development, Implementation of mid to large scale applicatuons.
• Well versed in defining technology roadmaps for Architecture and Development.
• Created cost benefit analysis to understand the need for new requirements including the detailed analysis independent of project constraints (budget and time).
• Developed tactical and strategic solutions for short term and long term goals.
• Provided Solution Architecture, Design, Development, Implementation, mentoring on best practices, guidelines and enterprise framework services for scalable enterprise model.
• Extensively involved in analyzing multiple data entry points to ingest data into Big Data Eco system.
• Created prototypes to analyze/ingest large volume datasets into Hadoop using ecosystem modules.
• Researched, evaluated and recommended software tools and products specific to organizational needs.
• Experienced in designing solutions using AWS,Microservices, SOA, J2EE, Mainframe, ERP.
• Experience includes architecting and implementing solutions for large user volume applications.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Unix,Linux,Ubuntu,Centos,Windows,MVS and z/OS

Programming Languages: COBOL, SAS, Visual Basic, ASP, ABAP/4, C, C++, Java, J2EE, Scala,HTML, .Net, C#, Java script,AngularJS,MicroServices and SOA Scripting Powershell, Python, Perl,Ruby

Database: DB2, ORACLE, SQL server, Teradata, MySQL,NoSQL,MongoDB,Cassandra Middleware MQ, JMS,SQS,SNS, JBPM

Open Source Frame Works: Structs, Spring, Spring Boot,Hibernate

Hardware: Web sphere, Weblogic, Tomcat, JBOSS,SAP R/3 and Mainframe

Big Data/Hadoop: Ambari,Flume,Sqoop,Pig, Hive,Hbase,HDFS, MapReduce/YARN, Spark,Flink Cloud AWS(EC2, S3, RDS,IAM, Kinesis, Redshift, CFT,DynamoDB), Spring Cloud Containers Docker,Kubernetes,Mesos Configuration Management Chef, Ansible,Terraform

Build Tools: Maven,Ant,Gradle

Version Control: Git, GitHub,GitLab,Subversion,TFS,Source Tree

CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Spinnaker,Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rolling Meadows, IL

AWS Solutions Architect/ DevOps Architect/Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Architectured AWS environment setup and Migrated Leagcy web applications to AWS.
• Designed and created automated configuration scripts using Chef and AWS CFT.
• Designed and Implemented declarative CI/CD pipeline for distributed web and legacy applications.
• Created architectural design, development, deployment of large enterprise solutions using multiple technologies.
• Documented current and future transition state of the systems.
• Developed tactical and strategic solutions for short term and long term goals.
• Identified the high level needs of the business and developed multiple technical solutions.
• Created cost benefit analysis to understand the need for new requirements including the detailed analysis independent of project constraints (budget and time).
• Strong knowledge and experience with designing SOAP and Restful based web services.
• Worked as IT lead while managing team of developers for new merchant launch effort on originations platforms.
• Involved in designing products for commercial and private label credit card campaigns.
• Created Datalakes for 360 degree analysis of customer data using Hadoop eco system.
• Analyzed multiple data entry points to ingest data into Hadoop Eco system using Flune,Sqoop
• Created data flow scripts using pig latin to store date into Hive, Hbase, HDFS
• Designed and created Scan id to prepoulate application fields for quick fill of application form.

Environment: Web sphere, Java/J2EE, JBPM, Spring, Hibernate, Legacy Mainframe, MQ Series, Hadoop(Flume,Sqoop,Pig, Hive,Hbase,HDFS, MapReduce/YARN,Spark), AWS(EC2, S3, RDS, KMS, Serverless, IAM ), DevOps(Jenkins, Spinnaker, Docker,Chef, Git, GitHub).

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Enterprise Architect/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Developed and integrated reliable, scalable, quality services, solutions for various high profile projects like Boeing, ACA Medicaid health reform, Separate test from Prod, UFICS and DB1 - DB2 migration.
• Experience with multi-tier, highly available, scalable, performance-oriented geographically distributed environments.
• Expert ability to apply analytical and problem-solving skills to solve complex design and technical problems.
• Documented current and future state of the system.
• Proficient in the use of utilities, batch processing, online processing, and n-tier processing.
• Identified the high level needs of the business and developed multiple technical solutions.
• Created cost benefit analysis to understand the need for new requirements including the detailed analysis independent of project constraints (budget and time).
• Identified problems in the system and business processes and suggested solutions that would benefit the business in long term.
• Coordinated with technical analysts, business analysts, project managers to collect requirement specifications, analyze business solutions
• Created business process flow diagrams by application specific and requirement specific on MS Visio
• Facilitated JAD sessions and developed use-case diagrams, followed by activity and sequence diagrams in UML, by analyzing the business process

Environment: Web sphere, Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, SOA, Mainframe, Data stage, MySQL, HP Mercury Suite of Products (Quality Center, QTP), Rational Tools(Clear Case & Clear quest), PVCS Tracker, Perl, VB Script, AIX, UNIX, Linux, MQ Series, CA7/UC4 and Oracle Toad 9x.

Confidential, Bannockburn, IL

Applications Architect

Responsibilities:

• Identified technical solutions for business problems. Identified the benefits and risks of the solutions, provided recommendations.
• Translated business needs into solution architecture requirements.
• Utilized business and technical tools to develop business, financial, and system requirements analyses with supporting variance reports, current and target business process flows, traceability matrices, and front-end prototypes, and UI screens.
• Developed, documented and maintained standards, policies and processes with respect to risk, cost, control, IT governance and compliance.
• Assisted with the design of large, highly complex solutions by working closely with Business Relationship Managers and clients
• Identified, documented and prioritized risks to minimize the probability of impact.
• Participated in the daily status meetings to discuss defects with developers, users and the product managers
• Actively involved in reporting project updates, managing project resources, conflict resolution and maintaining project deadline.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Websphere, Mainframe (COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL), CA7/UC4, Datastage 7.5.1, Parallel Extender, HP Mercury Suite of Products (Quality Center, Load runner, QTP), AIX, UNIX, VB Script and MQ Series.

Confidential,

Bloomington, IL

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for gathering requirements by interviewing stakeholders, business partners, end users and documented the business specification artifacts and functional specification artifacts.
• Involved in project planning and developed expected deliverables.
• Analyzed, collected and prepared user requirements, definitions, scope and expectations for deliverable plans. Delivered system documents, processes, diagrams and test cases.
• Involved in researching the domain, business process and business rules to help the team understand the requirements more clearly.
• Designed, developed and tested of Agency Systems ECRM - Client NECHO Solutions Project, which is primary route for an agent to enter data into the Stat farm data base using COBOL, IMS and MQ Series.
• Worked closely with teams of BAs, developers and testers throughout the software development life cycle to elicit and manage requirements, create, execute, track and report on functional and integration test cases, generation and execution of assigned modules
• Prepared requirement specification, functional traceability matrix, quality assurance plan and designed test cases. Communicated with business, technology leadership for overall project milestones.
• Gathered requirements from Business Users by facilitating JAD Sessions and interviews with users as well as the technical team.
• Developed strategic information risk management initiatives that reduced risks in business processes, enhanced information protection, and complied with privacy regulations and security standards.

Environment: Mainframe(Cobol, DB2,CICS,JCL), J2EE, Java, JSP, Servelets, EJB, XML, JavaScript, CVS, HTML, DHTML, Oracle, DB2, SQL, Win2000

Confidential, KS

Sr.Software Engineer/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created functional flow diagrams, context diagrams and other high level diagrams for documenting the functionality of separate modules using MS-Visio and UML.
• Documented requirements, analyzing and designing the system needs.
• Used SQL queries to do Data Mining of commercial finance customers.
• Validated system set-up for transactions and user access during the UAT.
• Trained end users and satisfied end user queries on the various test case scenarios during UAT. Got signoff for the go-live readiness.

Environment: Java, J2EE, Web sphere, Mainframe(Cobol, DB2,CICS,JCL) and Unix