SUMMARY:

• Senior Enterprise Data Strategy and Management professional with over 18 years of progressive experience in Information Technology with techno - managerial experience in project delivery and personnel management. Experience includes 7+ years in application programming, design and management and 10+ years in database design, data warehouse design and more recently Big data technologies, Cloud and Artificial Intelligence.
• Ability to define and develop technology strategy and roadmaps, architecture standards and service guidelines, service delivery assurance standards where none exists, based on business requirements and standard reference architectures. Track record of having successfully implemented such standards in fortune 100 companies including Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and Confidential leading large program implementations involving budgets of tens of millions with remarkable success.
• Expertise in all disciplines that constitute enterprise architecture, including data, application, infrastructure and business architecture. Expertise with architecture development methodologies including Togaf, Zachman and Esdm frameworks, enterprise data governance and security standards.
• Enthusiast for open source technologies leveraging active development and testing communities and lower total ownership costs. Experience includes Linux, MySQL, Cassandra, NoSQL, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Kafka, BIRT, R, Pentaho, Java, Nodejs. Expertise with tool selection, managing vendor relationships and licensing and negotiating the responsibilities and interfaces when multiple parties are involved in a project.
• Full stack experience in all aspects of technology ranging from VB, Java application development, SOA and middleware technologies, Master data management, Database administration, Data modeling, BI applications, ETL development, Big data technologies and analytics to infrastructure management and cloud technologies including AWS.
• Track record of multiple successful full project lifecycles executing big data, data warehouse and MDM implementations. Expert at Dimensional modeling and 3NF modeling.
• Multiple industry domain experience including Financial and Insurance products, Telecom expertise and Health care.
• Notable experience on Agile methodologies as practiced at multiple sites. Also experienced with budgeting, forecasting, scheduling, cost/benefit analysis and efficient operation of projects and service delivery including ITIL standards.
• Excellent motivator that inspires team loyalty through mentoring and coaching and excel at bringing people together for common project goals.
• Possess excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, facilitation ability, negotiation and project management skills all acquired while working with Fortune 100 companies. Ability to exercise good judgment in interviewing and hiring the right candidates.
• As a senior Manager and technology architect with over 18 years of information technology management experience, directed many business entities through multiple technological transformations. Possess broad expertise of data center operations/consolidations, IT infrastructure design and delivery, due diligence, IT governance, IT risk management, cost reduction and budget management. Proven ability to build and lead self-actualized technical teams and deliver solutions on time and within budget.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Management Tools: JIRA, Rally, MS Project, Clarity, Open Workbench, MS powerpoint, Excel

Databases: Oracle 7-12c, SQL server 00-14, Teradata v2r4-15, MySQL, Vertica, SQLite

NoSQL: Mongo DB, Cassandra

Big Data: Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Spark, map reduce, SPSS analytics.

Data Modeling: Erwin, Power Designer, Infosphere Data Architect, Oracle Designer.

Database tools: Informatica MDM, IDQ, TOAD, SQL Navigator, TD SQL assistantLanguages: Java, Python, R, SQL, PL/SQL, C, C++, Pro*C, SQR, HTML, UML, XML, VB.

Web Tools: JavaScript, Nodejs, Tomcat, Servlets, J2EE, Websphere, ASP.

BI Tools: Tableau, Business Objects, OBIEE and Hyperion Essbase

ETL Tools: Informatica, Pentaho, shell scripting

Config Management: Github, SVN, ClearCase

Security: LDAP, Kerberos, SSO, Oauth, SAML 2.0, OWASP.

Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, WINDOWS.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Big Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work includes POC on evaluation of multiple AI bot frameworks with the goal of adopting the most suitable framework compatible with AT&T architecture and standards.
• Created standardized process template for the chat logs to chat bot initiative.
• Participated in some larger big data initiatives including Kafka integration and Block chain POC.
• Established Spark SQL based data processing routine for the bot chat log processing.

Technologies: AWS, Nodejs, API.ai, Wit.ai, Luis, Watson, NLP models, Hive, Hadoop, Cassandra, MySQL, R, Python, Java, Spark, Kafka, Restful Services.

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Completed strategy and product roadmaps, project roadmaps choosing mostly open source software and implemented some projects successfully under budget with limited resources.
• Implementation of call center analytics, including text analytics and sentiment analytics using BIRT, Tableau and d3 based web pages.
• Master Data Management (MDM) system implementation for customer and vendor master.
• Re-purposing of products as SAAS offerings on Amazon AWS infrastructure. Overseeing work of 3 teams of up to 25 resources delivering exciting new product offerings.

Technology: Amazon AWS, MySQL, SaaS, PaaS, MongoDB, Oracle Multitenant, Confidential Idol, JavaScript, GitHub.

Data Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Delivered a high visibility big data effort which helped the business get a framework of predictive models to categorize and predict customer behavior.
• Creating and implementing architecture roadmaps for the Big Data platform execution of which involved creation of a recommendation engine for ATT.com involving sourcing of data through Hadoop, Hbase onto Vertica, then onto IBM streams and SPSS Analytics modeler scripts for scoring.
• Responsible for all aspects of data movement using Scoop, Flume, Pig scripting, from the ingestion into the data lake to the upload and retrieval of data from hive to movement to the Streams NoSQL in-memory engine. This also included aspects of data access and Kerberos security architecture.
• Delivered 4 big data use case models, customer churn reduction, product recommendation and upsell, call volume reduction and Uverse recommendation engine.

Technology: Hadoop ecosystem, Hive, Pig, Cassandra, Vertica, Java Map reduce, IBM streams, SPSS, Erwin, Unix, Teradata Bteq, Golden gate, SQL, MS Excel, MS project, MS Visio, MS PPT

Enterprise architect

Responsibilities:

• Conducted JAD sessions with business and process owners.
• Produced architecture work products that laid out architectural decisions conforming to IBM standard insurance reference architecture.
• Delivered multiple web services, both client and provider applications using Informatica web service hub for shared use by the multiple application interfaces involved.
• Created work estimates for personnel and skills requirements.
• Participation in agile methodology used for development of application, including iteration planning, hiring the team, story tasking etc.

Technology: Informatica, SQL, Oracle, Unix, Infosphere DA, SOA, Web Services.

Data Warehouse Architect

Responsibilities:

• Created a centralized data warehouse platform called IDW which housed all infrastructure and application data sourced from Service delivery assurance applications including peregrine and home grown apps. Also sourced information from configuration management databases.
• Worked through an application rationalization effort for multiple teams in the GTI tower including creation of an application catalog and consolidation based on TOGAF and Zachman architecture principles
• Application rating application called Onesource was enhanced. This application rates other applications based on the recommendations of the Architecture review board based on the technologies, architecture, scalability, vendors etc. This application drives technology investment decisions.
• Contributed to the development of the data quality initiative for infrastructure asset management data. This helped improve reporting accuracy and decision making based on asset management reports.
• Worked on virtualization initiatives to move multiple applications to virtualized servers. This helped with the commoditization of computing power and helped improve the time taken to get an application installed in the data center.
• Negotiate vendor licenses and contracts for multiple tools used in the data warehouse environment.

Technology: Oracle RAC, SQL Server, TOAD, Unix, Peregrine, Remedy, MS Office suite, Internal apps.

Sr Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) regulation compliant procedures to secure enterprise data. Worked with SOX consultant to develop audit trail of database access and database changes.
• Worked on security strategy for the database technology department and came up with a plan to implement suggested changes including DBA SOP’s and audit reports.
• Mentor team of 12 Dba’s on maintaining SOX compliant procedures and adherence to guidelines.

Technology Manager IT Applications

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a huge 120 million dollar effort to replace legacy mainframe systems with oracle - java based client server application. We used the RUP process documenting and developing the complex financial products platform in iterative steps.
• Worked on creating a new data model to optimize the Object relational mapping. Used the IBM insurance Architecture and model templates.
• Established mappings for conversion of data from current to new application data model new using Informatica. This involved hiring a new team to facilitate rapid development.
• Business knowledge of financial products including handling of funds, exchanges, restrictions, building of applications using OO methodologies and business process flows involved.
• Designed and executed a new dimensional data mart to house transaction history information using star schemas with conformed dimensions.
• Designed and developed the reporting environment using Siebel analytics for the Siebel CRM application data and Business Objects for others.

Tools: Informatica, Rational Data modeler, Erwin Data modeler, Toad, SQL navigator, Leccotech Query Tuner, DB flash, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Siebel Analytics (OBIEE), Exceed, vi editor, Unix Shell scripts, Harvest, Visio, Oracle Forms, Reports, Eclipse, Websphere, Teradata.

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Development of complex object model with relationships back to the database relational model. Standard party, person, accounts reference data models were adopted.
• Helped develop and deliver multiple corba services used in the application. Coded the data access layer modules referenced by the corba services.

Environment: Oracle 7/ 8i, Java1-4, Corba1.3, Jbuilder, Visual café, Toad, Unix, shell scripts, xml, html, JavaScript, sql, pl/sql.