SUMMARY:

• BPM Pega Solution Architect and Senior Technical Project Manager handling delivery and governance portfolios; BPM PegPractice building for organizations along with Center of Excellence ( Confidential ) setup.
• Close to 14 years of proven track record of Pega - BPM project implementations
• Multi-million dollar end-to-end Pega project deliveries
• In depth experience in Development, Maintenance, Platform Upgrade and Platform Migration projects
• Hands on Design and Development experience in Pega Smart BPM suites
• Extensive exposure in client partnership management
• Substantial experience in BPM Pega practice and Center of Excellence setup for organizations
• New business development, proposal, estimation, resource loading, budgeting, solution outlining, foundation architecture

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Excellent leadership and consultation skills
• Extensive hands on expertise in end-to-end project planning, execution and delivery management
• Solution architecture and design in Lead System Architect role
• Project methodologies - waterfall, Agile SCRUM and Pega Build for Change
• In depth techno functional knowledge in PegaRULES Process Commander and BPM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Solution Architect / Engagement Leader

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Responsibilities

• Managing the technical deliveries for a multi-vendor project team deployed both at onsite and offshore
• Sprint planning and execution
• Resource loading, budgeting
• Architectural design of the Pega Application, including class structure design
• Data Architecture and modelling; Data flow standardization
• Fitment assessment of the Smart Dispute out of box offerings against client’s requirements
• Streamlining business requirements as business architect
• Reporting solutions implementations - Enterprise data warehouse and Dashboards
• Design and Code review
• Solution outlining for complex requirements

BPM (Pega) Solution Architect

Confidential, McLean, VA

Responsibilities

• Fitment assessment of the Smart Dispute framework in the business requirement context and identification of the custom development requirements
• Blueprint of the entire engagement; end-to-end delivery planning
• Financial forecasting for the project
• Task distribution and resource loading
• Multiple proof-of-concepts to adapt to the technology directives like REST, ATDD
• Streamlining business requirements with business SMEs
• Design and Coding guidelines for this engagement
• Identification of the reusable components

Lead System Architect / Senior Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Addison, TX

Responsibilities:

• Setting up a robust foundation for application platform migration to Pega BPM.
• Led the core Application Development team conceptualizing the solution architecture of the application and the technical design using Agile SCRUM methodology
• Performance evaluation and fine tuning
• Played the role of subject matter expert in defect triage
• Hands-on development for complex workflows, UI, Correspondence and Connect SOAP integration
• Setting up a BRE for all payment posting business rules
• Pega enablement for business and technology - trained a large team of business and technology resources in Pega workflow capabilities and development techniques
• Code deployment activities
• Provide governance to application development teams
• Design and code review on behalf of BPM Confidential for other Pega projects
• Application version upgrade strategy and assessment
• Data Archiving and Purging strategy building
• Seminars on Pega capability demonstration for new line of business
• Staff onboarding for various available positions
• Supervise of Cognizant Technology Solutions team deployed at client site
• New business initiatives, proposals, estimations and resource loading
• Delivery quality check and issue resolution
• Client relationship maintenance and account growth

Lead System Architect / Senior Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Mount Laurel, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Owner of the overall architecture of the Pega Workflow application
• Led the core BA team in DCO sessions to streamline requirements
• Led the core Application Development team conceptualizing the solution architecture of the application and the technical design
• Performance evaluation and fine tuning of the application
• In limited capacity, played the role of a data architect for the project
• Pega version upgrade strategies and implementation
• Complex data migration strategies and implementation
• Played the role of subject matter expert in defect triage
• Hands-on development
• Reusable asset creation and contributor to the BPM Confidential
• Jointly responsible with BPM Confidential for creation and distribution of the Enterprise Shared Layer of the class structure
• Design and code review on behalf of BPM Confidential for other Pega projects
• Day to day technical delivery management, deployment management of different releases
• Consultation for complex technical implementations
• Client relationship handling and timely delivery
• Coordination with other business partners
• Estimation and resource planning
• Technical competency building in the team
• Supervise other Cognizant employees working in the project both at onsite and offshore

Lead System Architect / Technical Project Manager

Confidential, New York City, NY

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualizing and documenting the overall architecture of the application
• Had driven the end-to-end design of the application with the core development team
• He had been responsible for design review, code review
• Performance evaluation and fine tuning of the application
• In-place Pega version upgrade from V5.4 to 5.5 strategies and implementation
• Defect triage
• Technical delivery management, deployment management of different releases
• Consultation for complex technical implementations and hands-on development
• Coordination with other business partners
• Estimation and resource planning using standard and Cognizant in-house techniques
• Technical competency building in the team
• Supervise other Cognizant employees working in the project at offshore.
• Point of contact from Application Development Team for Cognizant BPM Confidential audits
• Owner of the reusable asset creation and contributor to the BPM Confidential
• Design and code review on behalf of BPM Confidential for other Pega projects
• He was a key player for implementation of Operation Clarity, a Confidential initiative to increase productivity