SUMMARY:

Results orientated technology software data architect with 17 years’ experience in large corporate environments defining business & technology strategy, building world class organizations, and engineering/operating global technology platforms. Extensive experience managing large global teams, developing web based transactional system, data warehousing, infrastructure, operations, and re - engineering & value optimization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Finance
• Healthcare
• Wireless
• Biotechnology
• Pharmaceutical
• Supply Chain Management
• IT applications development and Integration
• Technology Infrastructure and Support
• Technology Roadmap
• Data integration - Informatica 8.x
• Reporting - Microstrategy 9.x
• Data Warehousing
• Solution Architecture
• Referential Architecture
• Business Intelligence
• SDLC / Agile methodology
• Data Modeling
• IT Strategy
• Enterprise Architecture
• Resource Management/Outsourcing
• Data Governance
• Vendor Management
• Technology Re-engineering
• Inter/Intranet platform development
• Private, Public and Hybrid cloud (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS)
• Hadoop (HDFS, MapReduce)
• Service Oriented architecture(SOA)
• VMware 5.x
• Benchmark & PoC's
• Master Data Management( Confidential )
• Oracle 11g
• IBM DB2
• IBM DB2 Mainframe z/OS
• MS SQL Server
• EMC ViPER
• ITIL v2
• TOGAF 9.x
• Hadoop Architecture & Various suites of tools (MapReduce, YARN, HDFS, Hive, Impala and Pig)
• Salesforce CRM
• Facets Workflow
• EMC Federation
• Organization Culture / Development
• Mentoring Team Members
• Relationship Management
• Project Delivery
• Conflicting Management
• Change and Release Management
• Self-Motivated
• Negotiating
• Budget Planning & Tracking
• Project Management
• Strategic Thinker
• Staff Recruitment & Retention
• Scrum Master
• Entrepreneurial
• Due Diligence
• Critical Thinking
• Risk Management
• Onshore / Offshore Business Model
• Collaborate / Individual Decision Making
• People Management
• Relationship Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing optimized solution for hospitals located across west & northwest region, integrating the various modalities linked to both private / public Cerner cloud to store the scanned imaging.
• Worked directly with CIO and business partners to understand the existing challenges partnered to provide optimized design.
• Responsible for manage escalations and conflict management and communicate to technology leadership team for prioritization.
• Appointed to create working and non-working strategy linked up to organization vision and culture.

Confidential

Lead Technical Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Confidential was sued by the cardholder for not sending the regulatory Z letter for Confidential increase and add-on products Confidential paid penalty of 125M as Confidential settlement.
• I was responsible to implement SPLUNK tool to avoid compliance challenges before it reaches customers.
• Architect technical solutions that maximize customer’s value and ROI from Ariba by driving process improvements, increased adoption, and solution expansion.
• Contribute toward building an effective procurement plan for the respective business - opportunity review, business priorities, sourcing and category alignment.
• Manage and implement compliance monitoring, and financial measurement of key vendor agreements.
• Meet with various vendors to discuss performance metrics, performance feedback, and production forecasts or changes.
• Third-Party lifecycle management is designed to provide oversight and governance of third-parties in order to protect our customers and shareholders, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, create transparency of third-party performance, and protect the Confidential Brand leveraging various software / tools like SOA, .NET, SQL sever, JavaScript and WCF.
• Launched the Master Data Management ( Confidential ) initiative after gaining business buy-in, by defining and prioritizing Enterprise Master Data Entities based on industry criteria including their core attributes through the Data Governance Process. Performed Confidential Gap Analysis of existing financial data tools and resource abilities to select Harmonization Confidential Architecture.
• Customization of standard Informatica Meta Model to accommodate Confidential full range of metadata as defined for the collection and storage of enterprise financial Metadata.
• Design and development of customizable interface for consumers of information within the Metadata Repository.
• Support for both Development and Production environment including release/promotion/publish process for all metadata.
• Design and development of Metadata Repository backup/recovery strategy.
• Created the Enterprise Information Group encompassing Business Intelligence Center of Excellence, Data Governance Working Group, Enterprise Data Warehousing and Master Data Management. Provided strategic vision and direction with operational and business leaders for enterprise information initiatives enabling Executives to make information-based decisions
• Development of processes and guidelines for Metadata management - change management, metadata access and sharing. This will include processes and capabilities for versioning all forms of metadata.
• Overall responsibility for the day-to-day operations and oversight of the Metadata Repository.
• Coordination and collaboration with other initiatives as required for Metadata Sharing including generation of required formats for metadata import and export.
• Design, implementation and support of Confidential Data Model repository for storage and display of enterprise system models including versioning and differential reporting for data models.
• Work with business partners to define analysis requirements. Guide them through the BI delivery process and layout the business and application architecture road map. Produce some ‘quick win’ prototypes in Cognos and MicroStrategy.
• Created reporting capabilities that enabled Confidential to strategically determine business opportunities by leading the Enterprise Data Warehouse solution for the Rebate reward data warehouse (RRDW), Small Business Data warehouse (SBDW), SIRIS (Wall Street Report), Basel II portfolios.
• Extensively worked on data extraction, Transformation and loading data from various sources like Oracle, SQL Server, Fixed Width and Delimited Flat Files, DB2, COBOL files & XML Files.
• Had experience in data modeling using Erwin, Star Schema Modeling, and Snowflake modeling, FACT and Dimensions tables, physical and logical modeling.
• Directed the development of Confidential Business Intelligence program for Confidential nationwide commercial bank. Established data governance and stewardship program, metadata registries and standards, ETL, DataStage, ODS, data warehouse, Teradata, data marts, reporting, Microstrategy, and analytics, SAS, resulting in new product offerings and increased sales.
• Defined accountability procedures governing data access, processing, storage, retention, reporting and auditing measuring contract compliance.
• Developed data stewardship program establishing metadata registry responsibilities.
• Led and managed vendors and software development teams across the globe (US, UK, Australia, Canada, India, and Philippines) to support day-to-day operations. Managed project schedules, delivery business Strategy and governance, supported sunset application and server strategy, customer communication plans, rebranding strategy, operating budget, escalations and status reporting in support of transition.
• Drive multiple Big Data infrastructure expansions to grow the cluster capacities 10 times (10X) in 18 months.
• Drive continuous improvement of Big Data platform reliability, availability, serviceability, and performance, including performance engineering, BAR solution, capacity management & planning, metric reporting, high-availability and ITIL-compliant operational processes.
• Drive delivery of robust infrastructure solutions that host AXP’s Big Data production applications.
• Drive the research, architecture, engineering, and implementation of Big Data real-time capability to support critical business capabilities.
• Lead research and proofs-of-concept of new Big Data technical capabilities to enhance and maintain Confidential world class Hadoop platform.
• Evaluated Debt-to-Asset technology road map to identify opportunities to follow best practices to generate Confidential $20M savings on an annual basis out of yearly budget of $160M.
• Analyzed Application Infrastructure Uplift (AIU) road map to identify and prioritize the software suite of products. Identified $11M that could be allocated to reduce risk in 14 portfolios across Confidential .
• Evaluated and re-assigned the criticality of Disaster Recovery applications to ensure compliance with Confidential Disaster Recovery Plan. Aligned the applications to the established standards resulting in Confidential savings of $3M on Confidential annual budget of $14.3M.
• Led Confidential transformation project to standardize and virtualize (private Cloud) applications and infrastructure. Improved time to market for the infrastructure (from months to days) and reduced the cost of infrastructure. Streamlined and increased the breadth of the architecture governance via risk based embedded governance. Achieved significant structural reengineering reductions by standardization, decommissioning and infrastructure refresh.
• Negotiated vendor service level agreements to align the organization's goals for project delivery ( Confidential, IBM, TCS, Informatica, MicroStrategy, Cognos, DMExpress, Infosys and Syntel).
• Developed Enterprise Architect(EA) solution for hosting analytical platform for various business verticals by leveraging IBM stacks. This solution resulted in $5M cost savings and reduced time in request for service (RFS) process and improved server response time through Confidential service catalog.
• Developed the strategy framework for shared infrastructure charge-back business model on the CPU utilization to reduce dedicated Infrastructure cost.
• Partnered with leadership teams to evaluate technology challenges, define new cloud solutions, and build governance model of Enterprise Architecture (EA) for business, data, applications and technology within IT Organization.
• Championed the introduction of VMware, vCloud, Azure, Saleforce CRM technology into internal operations to deliver virtualized services to external clients, achieving Confidential 50% reduction in costs while significantly minimizing environmental footprint and cost.
• Responsible for the creation and execution of Confidential client strategic growth plan.
• Led Confidential team of about 50 people including project managers and PMO’s as direct reports, responsible for $6M budget.
• Conduct Voice-of-Customer (approximately 80 Senior Management/leaders) to understand key pain points / core business need and develop Confidential business aligned IT Strategy.
• Enable the reference architecture and design solutions for several specific data warehouse issues: enterprise key assignment process, data migration and integration, complete ETL audit and catalog process, multi-source (including legacy systems) data acquisition, data archival strategy, and data analysis for business specific applications.
• Designed and managed Confidential High Availability database infrastructure providing scalability and reliability with multi-site replication architecture and Confidential strategy to comply with firm-wide critical application.
• Creating/ Managing the project plan, task allocation, work with stake holders and PMO office for achieving project goals in an agile work environment.
• Responsible for project planning, scope management, resource estimation, metrics definition, change control process, define data quality process and standards, verification and validation.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Converted the merger and acquisition ( Confidential & Confidential ) data acquired from Cingular's $41B acquisition of Confidential & Confidential by designing and executing applications migrations to move Confidential & Confidential customers to Cingular.
• Design the strategy framework for pre and post merger activity for data migration from Confidential & Confidential to Cingular for customers data quality and integrity for various US markets.
• Migrated data from Siebel to Oracle resulting in improved database performance and cost reduction.
• Negotiated contracts with vendors and business partners, and identified new business growth opportunities resulting in cost savings $5M.

Confidential

Lead Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked with global teams in Confidential matrix organization to design and develop architecture solutions for Confidential 's business needs.
• Reduced operating expenses by 10% for 2004 by realigning underwriting staff, architect underwriting process flow and utilization of support staff.
• Architected the Enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Marts solutions resulting in an annual cost savings of 7% .