SUMMARY:

• Enterprise and IT Architect with over 15 years of leadership experience in designing innovative business solutions for Financial and Insurance sector clients. Skilled in Legacy Modernization, Digital Transformation, information management, application development, and virtualization. Demonstrated mastery in evaluating requirements for business application integration and service activation. Proven mentor and training with expertise in communicating across organizational levels and with cross - functional teams to drive shared vision and foster culture of excellence.
• Service Oriented Architecture and TOGAF- Expertise in the total application lifecycle management (ALM) perspective including technical understanding of relationships, dependences and requirements of hardware and software components, best practices, standards, and governance for complex integrated applications.
• Project Management - Certified project manager with the proven ability to lead project teams to deliver multiple, simultaneous projects that span across several business or technology areas. Effectively manages resources, schedule and quality of deliverables through the full project life cycle (discovery, analysis, design, construction, test and implementation).
• Development - A technically proficient proven team player/builder with an extensive technical skill set. Diverse experience developing collaborative solutions with internal teams, vendors, and outsourcers -- building enterprise-level solutions for Fortune 100, global Financial and Insurance clients. Recent successes include the use of Agile/SCRUM methodologies in a dispersed development environment, implementation of application lifecycle management (ALM) processes and the deployment of automated build solutions/processes in a global team development environment.
• Data Scientist / Business Intelligence - Skilled in enterprise information management including data architecture, master data management (MDM) and data quality. Experienced in developing data strategy with respect to life cycle management, governance, stewardship, enterprise metadata and security. Abilities include the analysis and development of business, logical and technical data architectures, including data models, data quality plans, functional data, and data warehousing and Big Data architectures
• Strategy - Utilizes business skills to enable the accurate planning and management of a multi-year implementation strategy, including project scope, estimating, staffing, sequence, benefits realization and staff continuity. Experienced in researching and collaborating with client enterprise architecture teams on IT strategy, technology, cost effectiveness (ROI), roadmap generation and guiding integration principles. Possesses the business and technical abilities needed to capture key customer insights and integrate into recommendations for internal stakeholders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: VS COBOL II, MF-COBOL, JCL,Rexx, Easytrive,PL/1

Database: DB2,IMS DB/DC,SQL,Stored Procedures, IDMS,SQL, Datacom

Tools: Endeavor, Change man, IBM Debugger, Intertest, Mercury Test Director, Expeditor, QMF, Panvalet, Abend-Aid, Fault Analyzer, GTB, File-Manager, Strobe, NDM, FTP, Query man,CA-7, SAS,Control-M,Platinum,Dump Master,RACF AppMaster Builder 5.0,MFEEE, MQS, File-aid, Panvalet, Lotus, TRAC, Test Link, Quality Center.

Operating Systems: Windows98/NT, OS/2, MVS,Z/OS

DC Control Systems: CICS

File System: VSAM

Utilities: TSO/ISPF, SPUFI

. Net Technologies: ASP.NET 1.1/2.0, ADO.NET 1.1/2.0., HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, SSIS, XML, XSD, XSL, SOAP, AJAX, Crystal Reports

Hadoop Technologies: HDFS, PIG, HIVE, HBASE, Zookeeper, Sqoop, Flume, NOSQL databases.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and define clients’ business strategy and determine system architecture requirements to achieve business goals.
• Heavily working on the integration of Majesco and Guide wire policy center withthe Legacy Payment and Billing systems modernization.
• Coordinated with management to develop architecture roadmap strategies for mainframe applications.
• Migration of Credit card systems to Tokenization to adhere security measures.
• Facilitated building and modernization strategies and developed best architect principles and practices.
• Developed modernization plans working with architectural teams for fulfilling demands of various projects
• Developed data models for longer use and handled team of developers and designers for further development.
• Developed and enforced architecture governance procedures.
• Controlled all sizes of developmental teams ranging from small to large for different financial vertical.
• Attained knowledge in SOA designing patterns for building these services and work in teams to achieve high performance.
• Resolved architect issues and came up with solutions based on several factors that make up to total cost.
• Ensure the rules from Confidential and Federal Reserve for Confidential processing.
• Ensured to complete proposed work within allotted budget and timelines.
• Encouraged training sessions and mentored app development team for integrating best designing patterns using all technical components.
• Profound knowledge of best practices for mainframe architecture
• Assisted in development of system specifications and cost estimates for proposed work.
• Identified and mitigated technical risks.
• Provided technical support during application migration to new platform.
• Ability to design and support high-volume critical systems

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2,PL/1, Expeditor, File-Aid, Sync sort, SPUFI, QMF, CA DB2, CLIST,MQ Series, XML, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, HDFS, PIG, HIVE, HBASE, Zookeeper, Sqoop, Flume, NOSQL databases, Mule, Data Power, J2EE and other API and AWS services.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead team to plan, design, and implement applications and software migration using the Duck creek.
• Collaborated with business analysts, developers, and technical support teams to define project requirements and specifications.
• Designed, developed, and managed Mainframe applications, databases and programs.
• Launched complex recovery solutions to safeguard mission critical data.

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL II, JCL, VSAM, CICS DB2, Expeditor, File-Aid, Sync sort, SPUFI, QMF, CA DB2, MQ Series, SSIS, XML,Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and define clients’ business strategy and determine system architecture requirements to achieve business goals.
• Formulate strategic plans for component development to sustain future project objectives.
• Gather detailed business requirements and use cases, and translate technical specifications into product requirements.
• Develop data architecture design to facilitate targeted customer analysis.
• Suggest architectural improvements, design and integration solutions, and formulate methodologies to optimize object-oriented software and database development.

Environment: Z/OS, COBOL II, JCL, VSAM,CICS DB2,Datacomm,STORED PROCDURES, IBM Debugger, XML,NDM, FTP, Table Base, File-Aid, Sync sort, SPUFI,Changeman,QMF,CA DB2, MQ Series, SSIS,SQL Server, CA-7,MS Visio, C#, VB.NET, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Translated technical specifications into project scopes of work and product requirements while spearheading design and development of databases and enterprise solutions.
• Implemented application developments, resolved performance issues, and provided end-user training on hardware and software.

Environment: VS-Cobol-II, JCL, VSAM, DB2, CICS, REXX, SPUFI, Endeavor, Intertest, Assembler, Strobe, QMF,Control-M,RACF, File Manger, MS Visio, WSS 3.0, IIS, Win 2003 server, C#, VB.NET, XML, SQL Server 2005, and SQL Analysis Service 2005, Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel.