SUMMARY:

• Lead Enterprise Architect (Cloud Native Platform - IaaS/PaaS/iPaaS/SaaS, DevOps, Containers, Automation (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment), and Microservice Architecture
• Over 15 years of involvement in all facets of software engineering includes requirement gathering, design,development, deployment, validation, application architect, technical architectfor enterprise (cloud) applications and Global consulting for onsite/offshore
• 8+ years of Enterprise Architecture (EA) and EA governance experience. Thought leadership in IT strategy, Business/IT alignment and Architecture best-practices and Patterns
• Lately, my focus has been on helping larger Enterprises to build and deploy cloud native applications in the most effective manner. I bring to the table my expertise in cloud migration and dependency management practices
• Specializing in: Modernization, Standardization and Enterprise System Integration of legacy Systems and Platforms using Event-Driven/Domain-Driven Micro Services Architecture and related patterns
• Responsible for Advisory, Go-To-Market Strategy and end-to-end ITaaS (IT-as-a-Service) and Digital Transformation & Innovation Confidential
• Responsible for providing the business with a plan and alternatives for enabling IT to deliver business outcomes in support of business strategy and goals - perform Buy vs. Build analysis.
• Conduct workshops for the customers to identify potential areas for Proof of Concept (PoC) development and design/architect, drive PoC and Proof of Technology (PoT) evaluation on Cloud Platform.
• Provide the thought leadership and strategic assessment to the Client’s CTO organization for selecting and evaluating industry’s best Cloud Service Provider for PaaS (Platform as a Service), iPaaS (integration- Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) to migrate enterprise On-premise’s B2B and B2C production applications and other data center workloads.
• Extensive experienced with TOGAF 8 and 9 -The Open Group Architecture Framework.
• B2B and B2C (Online Consumer facing) exposure in the following, but not limited to: banking, finance, insurance, telecommunications, mfg.& high tech, healthcare &life Science, retail & consumer Goods (RCG), public sector & government, pharmaceutical and the mortgage domain.
• Assisting delivery Team/field teams/Pre-sales team when pursuing new business or additional business at existing clients through RFP response, proposal or SOW generation
• Prior to joining Dimension Data Confidential, Hiten Desai served and performed different roles like Lead Enterprise Architect, Principal Cloud Platform Architect, Principal ITaaS Architect, Sr. Technical Architect; as he worked for leading consulting firms and served their Confidential 500/1000 clients located in North and South America.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Digital Business/Technology: Digital Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud,Workspace for tomorrow, Customer Experience, SMCAIT (Social Media, Mobile, Community Cloud, Analytics and IoT), and Cross Functional Collaboration

EA Framework and Tools: TOGAF, Zachman, TROUX, IBM RSA, Mega International and ArchiMateModelling tool

ServiceFramework: ITIL(ITSM) - Best Practices for managing services

Cloud (Technologies) IaaS: IBM SoftLayer, Amazon (AWS), Microsoft Windows Azure and Azure Stack (Hybrid Cloud Platform), OpenStack, Google Cloud Platform, Google Container Engine(GKE) and Oracle Cloud Platform

Cloud Native Platform(PaaS): Pivotal s Cloud Foundry, Redhat sOpenShift, IBM Bluemix, Oracle PaaS, Google App Engine, SFDC Heroku, and AWS s Elastic Beanstalk

Cloud Integration (iPaaS): IBM Cast Iron, Dell BoomiAtomSphere, Oracle ICS, SAP HCI, Microsoft BizTalk and MuleSoft

Cloud SaaS Integration: Salesforce s UI, Business logic and Data integration. Salesforce-SAP Integration &Salesforce-iPaaS

Container/Orchestration/: Docker, Docker Swarm, Cloud Foundry s Diego, Apache s Mesos, Scheduler Google s Kubernetes, Amazon ECS and Azure ACS

Cloud DevOps Tools: SCM - Git, GitHub, GitLab, CI- Jenkins (aka Hudson), Bamboo and CM -Puppet, Chef and Ansible

Big Data and Analytics Platforms: No-SQL (e.g. MongoDB, Apache s Cassandra), Apache s Spark and Hadoop Framework (HDFS and MapReduce), Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR

ECMS/CMS: Adobe AEM/Adobe WEM-CQ5 (formerly Day WCMS), HP Autonomy (formerly Team Site Interwoven), Vignette (part of Open text now), Microsoft SharePoint 2013, Oracle UCM (formerly Stellent)

SDLC Methodologies: SAFE(Scaled Agile Framework), Scrum/Agile, Kanban, Iterative (RUP) and Waterfall

Scripting Language: Python, JavaScript, Unix Shell Script(bash)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Helps Confidential 's Confidential 500/1000 customers achieve business outcomes by enabling IT & delivering IT solutions across the enterprise architecture in any consumption and delivery model.
• Enterprise Business Architect Solutions includes IT Digital Transformation Confidential and Strategic Assessment and Road-map
• Application Placement and Cloud Readiness; Next Generation Data Center Model, Digital Transformation Maturity; and From Containers to Microservices
• Legacy Modernization with Cloud Computing, Application Portfolio Rationalization, Microservice Architecture, Cloud Migration Strategy for migrating workloads into PaaS and IaaS using Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud deployment.
• Defining DevOps Strategy, CI/CD Pipeline for their lower and higher environments.

Confidential

Chief Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Migrating a Digital Mobile Platform to Google Cloud Infrastructure
• Migration Architecture based on Google’s Kubernetes as orchestration and Micro services
• DevOps strategy / CI/CD pipeline for lower and higher environments
• Google Container Engine (GKE) implementation Roadmap
• Develop and Publish Google Cloud design for POC and PROD environment.

Confidential

Chief Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of 40+ Web sites to understand the tools and technology used by those departmental websites to be migrated on Red Hat's OpenShiftPaaS Platform
• Application Placement & Cloud Readiness (APCR) Assessment along with Application Portfolio Rationalization ( Confidential )
• Lead to Develop and establish different templates required to migrate those applications on Paas/IaaS
• Lead to develop the complete automation workflow for on boarding those applications on OpenShiftPaaS Platform with IaaS
• Define Architecture considerations for non-functional requirements including Scalability, Availability, Security and Performance
• Lead to develop and publish the complete Onboarding documentation includes automation process flow and OSE PaaS platform supported tools and technologies
• Create and communicate OSE PaaS Platform Architecture artifacts, Standards and Best practices for Onboarding those departmental web sites
• Create and communicate end-to-end DevOps activities includes DevOps Toolchain and its Maturity
• Define the roles and responsibilities for both IT DEV team and IT Operation/Release team
• Create and communicate current state and future state documentation for the IaaS/PaaS
• Build distributed systems or running infrastructure at scale
• Deliver Presentations to upper management and end-users regarding On boarding automation work flow, DevOps Strategy and CI/CD pipeline to be established

Principal ITaaS Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led Cloud Computing and Big Data Practice and responsible for advisory, go-to-market strategy and end-to-end ITaaS (IT-as-a-Service) for Digital Transformation & Innovation Confidential . Also responsible for Next Generation Data Center ( Confidential ) Strategy includes Data Center Development Model (DCDM), Hybrid Cloud and Data Center Strategy, SI Services Strategy, Big Data Analytics Service (AaaS) and Business Cloud Advisory with Application Placement and Cloud Readiness (APCR) Assessment
• Helped Dimension Data’s clients to achieve business outcomes by enabling and delivering IT solutions across the enterprise architecture in any consumption & delivery model

Chief Enterprise Architect, BAS Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led Enterprise Architecture Practice and contributed to the Client’s CTO organization for their Enterprise IT Strategy initiatives and its roadmap, digital strategy, middleware implementations blueprint, application architecture and design, and leveraging overall technical architecture solution across multiple line of business
• Led in Transformational Consulting to assist the Confidential 500 clients in assessing their legacy application landscape, defining the target state application and technology landscape (architecture), and producing the business case and roadmap to optimize and modernize the architectures after performing Confidential (application portfolio rationalization). As a Chief Architect, managing and providing overall technical architecture solution; especially B2B and B2C exposure (Online Web based) consumer facing Confidential ’s key delivery accounts
• Led DevOps(Cloud) Automation Strategy

Sr. Director / Chief Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Being a seasoned Enterprise Architect, led the cloud consulting practice had defined their various IT Confidential including EA Consulting, Legacy Modernization, Application Portfolio Rationalization, SOA Architecture, Portal Architecture, Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) and IT Operation automation -CI and CD.

Chief Enterprise Portal Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led portal practice and defined various portal technology related deign patterns and industry best guide lines to solve the portal integration, Inter-Portlet Communications, portal security, CMS and other federated portal related issues
• Developed and published portal reference architecture and Portal Governance model for their Confidential 100/500 clients
• Implemented Prototypes/Proof-of-Concepts and validated end-to-end testing of all portal feature functionality

Client Architect | Product Specialist, Sr. Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Oracle/BEA Portal Architect/Consultant onsite and help Oracle’s clients for defining, designing, developing and deploying IT projects using Portal and SOA solution
• Extensive experience on implementing various Oracle (BEA) Portal right from BEA Portal platform 4.0 through Oracle Portal platform 9 and 10 and Oracle SOA Suite 10gR3/11g
• Developed and published portal reference architecture and Portal Governance model for their Confidential 100/500 clients
• Implemented Prototypes/Proof-of-Concepts and validated end-to-end testing of feature functionality

Principal Software Engineer, Technology Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the IT projects and developed and delivered the B2B and B2C IT solutions for their global 2000 customers
• Being an application architect, developed and published industry best coding standards, guide lines and best practices for developing world class consumer facing B2B and B2C applications