SUMMARY:

• High - performing hands-on architect with 25 years of IT experience spanning enterprise architecture, application design, s/w development, customer engagement, development management and delivery in medium to large enterprise environments.
• Offer background in technical solution design, thought leadership, defining, aligning technical strategies with business needs and identifying technology match to provide maximum value.
• Created business-critical solutions, reference architectures focused on domain specific business features, cost reduction, scalability, platform/process/system efficiency, and legacy transformation.
• Experienced in creating technical architecture aligned to divisional and corporate enterprise architecture standards.
• Skilled at defining product / technical requirements, communicating with stakeholders, coordinating with technical/non-technical groups, re-engineering and developing processes, training and mentoring technical resources.
• Leverage wide IT background with diverse technologies/tools, including middleware, Java, JEE, .Net, SOA, web services, data warehouse, business intelligence (BI), ETL, distributed computing, BPM, Confidential and methodologies such as Agile and LEAN. Expert in root cause analysis, problem solving, project delivery and system integration.
• Expert in defining IT strategy, guiding project and product teams.
• Designed technical architecture for large complex infrastructure and integration projects in financial and other industries.
• Successfully delivered turnkey projects, SaaS / Cloud solutions, vendor platforms and in-house developed business applications.

IT TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX Flavors; Windows Server flavors

Frameworks & IDES: Java SE, JEE, .NET, Visual Studio, Eclipse, WebSphere Application Developer, XML Spy, Spring, Hibernate, Apache Open Source Tools

Databases & Related: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, ERWin, Excel, ADO, ODBC, JDBC, T-SQL, PL/SQL, SQL Server Studio, Rapid SQL, Vertica, AWS Redshift

Servers: Confidential WebSphere, Weblogic, iPlanet iAS, Netscape Kiwa, Sun One, Netscape Enterprise, Microsoft IIS, Apache Tomcat

BI & Reporting: SAP Business Objects Platform, Crystal Reports, JXL, Excel, Tableau, MicroStrategy

Directory/Single Sing On: Active Directory, Sun/Oracle LDAP Server, Confidential Tivoli Directory Server, Confidential Tivoli Access Manager

Programming/Scripting/Web: C, C++, C#, VB.NET, Java, Unix Shells, Ant, AWK, VBA, VB Script, Perl, PowerShell, MS-DOSHTML, JSP, Servlets

Business Process Management: Confidential Lombardi on WebSphere, BPM, BPM Notation Language

Testing & SCM Tools: JUnit, NUnit, Load Runner, Robot, OpenSTA, JTest, Rational ClearCase, Visual SourceSafe

Distributed Computing: CORBA, Java RMI, DCOM, REST, SOAP, Tibco ESB, ECOM, Hadoop

GUI: Visual Studio (MFC), COM/OLE, X-Windows, Java Swing JFC, Java AWT, Confidential OpenGL Libraries

Enterprise Schedulers: Mainframe ESP, Confidential Control-M Server

Extract Transform Load (ETL): Informatica Power Center, Unix Shell Scripts, PowerShell, Java

Monitoring/Messaging: Confidential Tivoli Monitoring, Network Utilities, Scripts, Spread/ECOM, JMS, MQ-Series, SonicMQ

Trained on Big Data Toolset: Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop, Pig, Mahout, Oozie

Cloud IaaS: Amazon AWS, Rackspace

DevOps: Git, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonar, JIRA

S/W Development: UML, Design Patterns, Best Practices, SDLC Automation, Scaled Agile (SAFe)

Integration Tech: API Gateways (CA Layer 7, Apigee, Akana), Web Services REST/SOAP

CAREER OVERVIEW:

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated the Confidential Platform architecture and database schema and contributed design changes needed to offer Cloud based SaaS based payment processing services targeted for smaller banks and corporates (mid-market).
• Started work on defining & documenting Confidential + Confidential Solution Architecture practices to be able to convert the culture from turn-key project based services to SaaS based services to support growing sales.
• Participated in design sessions with front office business liaisons and IT system owners to re-design business and payment processing workflows for 3 large legacy payment products (check processing, payroll processing, automatic withdrawals; Approx. 2 Billion Transactions per month across 12 million accounts).
• Defined and documented Confidential configuration changes, Confidential product enhancements, customizations and overall solution architecture necessary support Bank’s Enterprise Payment Hub (EPH) Platform.
• Participated in architecture workshops to define modularized components, micro-services and integration mechanisms necessary to create end-to-end API accessible payment services for the EPH Platform.
• Worked with Confidential Enterprise Architects to understand and deliver necessary solutions to meet requirements in the areas of IT Security, Governance, Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management (IT Risks as well as Business Product level risks).

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked with geographically diverse development teams and IT groups to contribute middleware server designs for a new CRM Email Marketing SaaS based Product line to deliver Email Delivery Platform serving 500+ clients across multiple geographies.
• Evaluated three API Gateway products and facilitated selection and design of new API platform for the new SaaS solution.
• Supported design and implementation for a highly available, high throughput messaging layer for intra-process communication using Enterprise SonicMQ solution.
• Designed roadmap and technical solutions for consolidation and integration of various SaaS CRM Products acquired by Zeta Interactive. Helped IT teams in India to improve performance and non-functional features of the Zeta Hub CRM Platform to support large clients in true SaaS Model to be able to handle billions of E-mail delivery per month.
• Defined IT Roadmap and Strategy to create a new product line (Big data based Data Lake SaaS Platform) to offer Big Data Services in CRM Space for existing and new clients. Drove discussions with business and technology stakeholders to finalize product features and necessary architecture to support all use cases to lay the technology foundation.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Big Data & BI Strategy for processing large data sets for internal and external customers (on 25 Tb dataset)
• Includes PivotalHD vs. RedShift vs MongoDB Evaluation
• SAS Data Management Platform vs Information Builders BI Suite Evaluation
• Integration with Integrated Library Systems (ILS) Partners - Search UI, Patron features & inventory management on-demand purchases, library catalog processing
• Authentication and Authorization Solution for Confidential SaaS Products and Employee Applications
• Confidential -One for all Administrative Consoles for Confidential Products
• Single Sign-On for Confidential Employees (3,000+ North America, 1,000 Global)
• Single Sign-On for 50 million external end users at 30,000 partner and customer organizations
• Vendor evaluation & selection for SSO (IdP & SP Solution): PING, Okta, NetIQ, OneLogin
• Multi Media Platform for secure streaming of video, audio and graphics globally
• 30 Tb Video Collections, 2 Tb Audio Books, 5 Tb images
• Video Processing Technology Solution design, Vendor Evaluation & solution definition: Ramp, Ooyala, BrightCove, Limelight Networks, Amazon AWS, NewsLook
• Video Metadata Processing workflow design & 3rd party vendor evaluation
• IT Technology & Product due diligence for four potential acquisitions in on-line video publishing and distribution space
• Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery Technology, Organizational & Process Optimization
• Review and Consolidation of Automated SQA Frameworks and Tools across various development groups
• Analysis of Confidential Single Page Application Framework to define future strategy, adoption and governance
• Learning Platform 2.0 design, vendor selection, high-level solution and roadmap definition for multiple market segments: Healthcare, Corporate, Academic markets

Confidential

Investments Systems / Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Supported PMO in evaluating projects in pipeline for technology, features and effort estimates for successful delivery
• Created and maintained reference architectures, technology solutions to support Front Office and Back Office applications, large systems
• Evaluated and enforced security requirements and standards across all PMO initiatives
• Designed and implemented business workflows using Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles on Confidential Platform with (BPM) Workflow capabilities
• Worked with various business owners to understand and define technology requirements to revise and to upgrade Business Intelligence Platform and created a roadmap for user adoption and rollout
• As an Architecture Review Board member, evaluated all IT and Business initiatives for alignment with customer needs and IT Roadmap and Standards; Worked closely with application teams to reduce variance from reference architecture and standards
• Performed technology change assessments and product evaluations to advise IT Management on business impact
• Created various architectural views, technical documentation and presentation artifacts suited to create appropriate communication based on the target audience (both technical and non-technical)
• Worked with multiple infrastructure & application teams aligned to various data centers to communicate business needs and to create a standards compliant deliverable solutions
• Actively participated and volunteered time on “Make Things Better” team to improve work culture, environment and teamwork
• Reviewed, validated and approved technology & solution proposals through Architecture Review Board
• Devised Business Intelligence strategy and Roadmap to expand user capabilities and reduce data center expenses.
• Crafted Asset Data Virtualization proof-of-concept using Composite Software
• Enhanced Investments Derivatives Platform to allow integration with internal and external systems using Web Services
• Designed technical architecture & optimized platform end-to-end for Investments Derivatives Platform using Windows Virtual Servers to support full SDLC and DR capabilities, resulting in $20K monthly server cost reduction:
• Enabled 60% hardware reduction and cut six hours from critical daily batch process
• Refined SDLC, QA, and application support processes to improve robustness of derivatives platform, identified and addressed workflow gaps, created tool to automatically detect issues and produce detailed reports
• Participated in design of Trade Compliance System by integrating trading platforms with external vendor via ESB and web services
• Optimized core Derivatives platform (Findur) to resolve stability, performance, and memory corruption issues
• Enabled real-time portfolio risk assessment by creating FIX connectivity with four large banks
• Captured $15K savings in monthly storage costs by optimizing database and file-server storage
• Developed development process and approach to leverage Confidential BPM platform to support BPM & SOA strategy
• Introduced real-time risk data calculation and downstream feeds to enable intra-day risk monitoring using Web Services
• Designed and rolled out shared development environments and DR infrastructure for derivatives infrastructure
• Cut $500K in monthly costs by reducing the total number of QA desktops as well as implementing global desktop delivery solution on virtual desktop infrastructure

Senior Systems Designer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and rolled out new Mortgage DataMart for North American operations worth $65B
• Purchased, integrated and deployed a system to support commercial mortgage business for US and Canada, avoiding $900K in development costs associated with building new system.
• Implemented Charles River trading platform with 55 servers to support 24/7 global trading for five divisions and $125B in assets.
• Created integration solution between Confidential Control-M scheduler and SAP Business Objects using Java SDK
• Simplified Investments Systems Global architecture by consolidating eight scheduling systems into Confidential Control-M Enterprise Scheduler

Senior Development Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented, and managed Confidential Shared Services framework, Confidential Framework Suite, Confidential framework, and General Repository Access Shared Service, which is used by multiple divisions to build 60+ applications
• Achieved Technical Excellence Award from corporate technology services for Confidential and Confidential initiatives
• Drove migration of company’s web platform from iPlanet to Confidential WebSphere, resulting in Technical Excellence Award
• Migrated 50+ web/batch applications from Boston to Montreal Confidential data centers

Confidential

Software Consultant / Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Created first Java based spell checker with Inso Corporation/Lernout &Hauspie; Guided creation of industry’s first International Proof Reader Java Class Library and presented it at JavaOne in 1998
• Designed and introduced Java-based shop floor application to provision assembly parts for Confidential ’s Symmetrix product line as well as refactored ASP/IIS-based code base for manufacturing application to reduce maintenance overhead
• Trained and interfaced with a professional services group to implement and configure Confidential (eCommerce) Confidential purchasing portal solution for Netscape/Sun Microsystems/iPlanet
• Contributed to developing system architecture and application design for Confidential negotiation portal on Weblogic App Server for Trade Access; crafted end-to-end proof-of-concept as baseline reference implementation
• Implemented Confidential purchase portal for Confidential as well as conducted testing and instituted performance enhancements
• Designed and implemented GUI screens and multiple controls for chemical processing modeling software of Aspen Technology
• Built system architecture to publish 30 congressional databases to the Internet
• Evaluated J2SE and web technologies to build new architecture for Raptor’s firewall administration suite
• Engineered tool to scan, process, and present source code metadata for large Java projects, providing time savings and increasing developer productivity
• Received award for outstanding technical excellence on client engagements in 1998

Confidential

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created Automated Regression Test Suite for automatically validating 3D Confidential Models to save valuable Confidential Graphics designer and software developer time
• Ported and Optimized Display Module of the core Confidential platform to run on Confidential Hardware using OpenGL
• Developed 3D Model Edge Analysis tools and Static Source Code Analysis tools saving several thousand labor hours and enabling faster debugging, automated running of regression test suite, and efficient search and use of API calls from library with 50,000+ API calls.