SUMMARY:

• I have over 19 years of experience in Information Technology Industry managing and executing large Business and IT Architecture initiatives for various financial, pharmaceutical, retail and insurance customers.
• I have developed business & IT roadmaps, IT solutions, products, frameworks, IT process improvement guidelines and production support methodologies for various customers
• I have performed roles such as Enterprise Architect, SOA Integration Architect, Technical and Solution Architect, Pre - sales Insurance Product Expert, Account Development Lead and Program Manager.

KEY AREAS OF INVOLVEMENT:

• Account Portfolio Management
• Customer Relationship
• Account Growth
• Pre-Sales
• RFP Management
• CxO Driven Strategic Roadmap
• Business Case Development
• Business Strategy to IT Transformation Roadmap
• Risk Management
• Team Building
• Cost Management
• Solution Architecture
• Integration Architecture
• Team Leading
• Technical PoCs
• Code Review

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• TOGAF
• SOA, REST API, SCAUML, Troux, Visio, Rational Software Architect
• MuleSoft, RabbitMQ, TIBCO BW, TIBCO AMX, TIBCO EMS, IBM MQ, TIBCO BPM iProcess, TIBCO Hawk, TIBCO Business Events, TIBCO SpotFire, ACORD
• Hadoop, AWS EMR, Spark, Spring, AWS, Bamboo, GitHub, Docker, Mainframe, COBOL, Microsoft IIS, ASP, SQL Server, Oracle DB, J2EE, BPEL, C, C++, PASCAL, UML

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Devised a TOGAF driven reference business architecture methodology consisting of operating model, capability model, vision driven strategy catalog, current state capability heat map and future state capability matrix to allow adoption into the organization.
• Worked with Country CxOs and global business user community to develop its first global business capability roadmap.
• Business architecture consisted of business vision, strategy, business capability improvements & opportunity catalog.
• Presented business roadmaps to executive audience to ease / improve yearly planning and business confidence.
• Translated business roadmaps into business cases & solutions to create an IT roadmap.
• Articulated business case to adopt salesForce SaaS solution / cloud migration after considering risks, IT landscape, benefits & effort. Devised an incremental IT roadmap to implement salesForce with a tactical standalone solution followed by a more integrated strategic solution. After initial successful implementation, showcased benefits and future salesForce IT roadmap for other regions.
• Onboarded st rategic IT initiative of adding MuleSoft into the organization.
• Developed REST Web Service Guide , Web Service Standards, Service Patterns, Developer Setup Guide & RabbitMQ guidelines.
• Designed API services to integrate with legacy systems to be developed on MuleSoft platform.
• Created a data integration architecture using MS SSIS and SSRS to develop LIU - LATAM - Peru government compliant reporting capability.
• Documented / reviewed reference implementation for API development, RabbitMQ & CI/CD .
• Developed a PoC to replicate data from on premise database to AWS RDS . This was part of the effort to migrate Surety applications to AWS cloud. Designed a central reference data management solution with an API layer to allow uniform access f or an array of Surety applications. Developed technical alternatives to pick between custom built vs Drools rules engine.
• Developed technical alternatives, integration architecture, technology obsolescence roadmap, develop project architecture review artifacts in alignment with business & technology roadmap.
• Created IT roadmap to eliminate technical debt and technologically obsolescent areas.
• Participated in architecture reviews for various large initiatives across the enterprise.
• Followed non-functional requirements.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• I analyzed their integration practices and developed a reference SOA integration architecture consisting of processes, guidelines, best practices and patterns to move from diverse to a uniform integration approach across Federal Reserve Bank’s twelve districts.

Confidential, Pittsburgh

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for documenting their business operating model, identify key business capabilities and develop a desired future state business vision.
• I developed a reference integration architecture to allow a near real-time integration architecture between their point of sale and back office systems.

Confidential, New Jersey

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• I was involved in a global effort to bring in costs savings (expected ~ 1 billion) by identifying improvements in business capabilities, IT and Infrastructure landscape.
• I was directly involved in developing an organization structure, business capability map, desired future, business
• IT Application portfolio consisting of 3,000+ systems & developed an analytical hierarchical process (AHP) to rationalize application portfolio to realize cost savings.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was involved with various customers to derive business architecture, provide an architecture vision, define solution & integration architecture, manage programs, and establish & manage delivery teams & competencies.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Defined transition integration architecture to migrate Personal Finance legacy applications to SalesForce using TIBCO AMX.
• Implemented SOA Roadmap (reference implementation, processes, and best practices on TIBCO ESB) at Confidential across various Business Units.
• Participated in transition solution architecture definition exercise as part of migrating ‘Policy Servicing’ module to a new platform. Performed technical feasibility analysis, scope definition and determined high level estimates for a multi-year integration development effort.
• Explored opportunities in legal compliance in Policy & Claims Department, documented application & solution architectures to help eliminate data and interest rate calculation deficiencies by providing a one system solution for various subscribing systems across Confidential .
• Showcased integration lifecycle (integration analysis, requirements gathering, architectural options, design approaches, development methodology, estimation techniques, testing approaches and service support methodology) to various Business Units by delivering various projects. Demonstrated these key areas and success stories for their familiarity, awareness and SOA acceptance.
• Transformed shared services into a devops model by coaching teams in development, deployment & test automation, infrastructure build and verification and monitoring.
• Performed code reviews & incident management.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Articulated future state business capability map driven by workshops with industry and subject matter experts.
• Developed business cases to business audience on key quick time to market solutions having maximum impact.
• Provided reference integration (highly available - HA) architecture to enable real-time in-store price & sales updates.
• Defined a roadmap to transition to a SOA based integration platform and setup an Integration Competency Setup ( Confidential ).
• Assessed enterprise maturity, defined Scope, organization model, governance framework, target integration maturity, Confidential team structure, Integration Architecture Vision and created a roadmap to help them their reach target state.
• Assessed current IT landscape, prepared governance standards, policies and processes and helped define their integration strategies (Data/Batch & SOA based) between Oracle Retail and legacy systems using tools such as Oracle MDM, Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB), Oracle Goldengate, Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle SOA Suite .

Confidential

Enterprise Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed an integration solution to process clinical trials data from diverse systems to allow consolidation and reporting .
• Created guidelines for usage of various tools for integration such as Informatica (ETL), TIBCO BW & Master Data Management (TIBCO CIM).
• Helped client to implement its first TIBCO/iProcess BPM initiative and led project development initiatives using 'GmP' guidelines. Introduced BPM to various Business Units, demonstrated BPM capabilities, successfully delivered several BPM projects and created reusable tools and services.
• Involved in developing a 'Center of Excellence" ( CoE ) Team at onsite and offshore for client's multi-company, multi-country SOA integration initiatives comprising of 200+ integrations and 20+ Server environments in a highly available environment (Production & Disaster Recovery DR Environment).
• Developed a JAVA based multithreaded TIBCO infrastructure monitoring framework. Multiple customers adopted this framework.
• Devops: Helped define SOPs, create tools (monitoring, BAM, SDLC accelerators), guidelines, best practices and provided governance for automation around infrastructure build, development, testing, deployment, monitoring & proactive actions.
• Evaluated TIBCO ActiveMatrix Platform and created a transition plan to enable TIBCO Product upgrade to ActiveMatrix Platform.
• Led a 'BEA Weblogic to TIBCO' service migration initiative to reduce licensing costs, demonstrated ROI.
• Demonstrated Integration Practice related assets and achievements at TIBCO's TUCON Conference .

Confidential

Enterprise Solution Architect

Technology: JAVA, J2EE, JSP, Oracle database, Weblogic, MVC:

Responsibilities:

• Worked for Confidential Ltd as Solution and Technology Architect. Led a J2EE (MVC based), Oracle development team to develop a life insurance product covering Prospect Management, Channel Management, Policy Servicing, Claims Management & data migration for AMAL (Malaysia). Managed a team of 50+ spanning over 2 years. Created solution architectures to help introduce this product into customer’s application areas (Prospect Management, Policy Servicing, and Claims Management).
• Designed an JAVA LDAP based application security model for insurance product to comply with Malaysia's government's security standards.
• Architected a health insurance J2EE solution architecture for HSA (UK) that integrated and automated Claims Management consisting of "Automated Envelope Open -> Scan -> Process - Pay" across its three acquired companies in UK.
• Performed business analysis, architected and designed a multi-company commission calculation system for a Pacific Life, USA onMicrosoft .NET platform.

Confidential

Senior Developer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in testing initiative for a credit card processing mainframe system at First Data Resources (FDR), USA.
• Defined testing methodology for 20+ software systems involving 500+ COBOL programs.
• Led a team of 10 to develop a J2EE web-based Health Management System for Confidential in NJ, US.