SUMMARY:

• A senior technology leader with 20+ years of experience in IT Program Delivery, Architecture and Product Engineering.
• Extensive experience leading B ig D ata, Analytical, Datawarehouse programs to establish high volume data processing and distribution platforms for BI and analytical use.
• Strong expertise in developing solutions through all state of i nformation delivery pipeline to transform raw data data to actionable insights.
• Proven track record of leading large cross - functional teams to drive collaboration across Business & IT and enabling teams to create business value.
• Adept at developing enterprise and data strategy, architectures for organizations to become proficient in use of data.
• Evangelized data as a strategic asset to drive transformation & innovation in every part of the business from digitization to optimization of operations , new products and enhanced customer experience.
• Strong product engineering mindset having worked with top S/w Product companies including Oracle, OptumInsight.
• Envisioned, architected and developed successful commercial products in area of Big Data, Health Care Analytics, ERP Financials , CRM, MD M (Master Data Management) .
• Vast knowledge of Banking, Financial Service, Health care domains, deep understanding of industry shifts and creating business value through data/analytical solutions.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Strategy & Architecture: Enterprise Big Data, Data Warehousing Architecture, Business Intelligence Strategy and Architecture, Integration Architecture, Roadmap and Solution development for large programs

Information Management: ETL, Data Modeling, Master Data Management, Data Quality, Data Security, Reference Data, Metadata Management, Business Glossary

Domains: Banking, Financial Services, Health Care Provider and Health Care Payer

Technologies: Big Data (Hadoop, Casandra, Apache Kafka), Open Source stack, Traditional Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata), ETL Tools( Informatica, Data Stage, SSIS), BI Tools (Tableau, SSRS, Oracle BI), Oracle Tools, Java, Html5, AJAX

P roduct Engineering: Product Architecture, upgrades and new releases, product support, re-engineering and conversion to cloud, incubation of new products

Methodology: Agile, Water Fall Methodology, Dev Ops, Continuous Integration/Delivery, Version One

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Leading Data Strategy, Architecture & Program Delivery

Responsibilities:

• Partnered with business segments to understand the business objectives and industry trends and transformed that into a cohesive Data Strategy and vision for the growth of Confidential .
• Within a year, created future state architecture and technology roadmap and established a modern D ata platform. C onsolidate raw data from 20+ Source Systems (internal, external systems) and transform into actionable information to be leveraged for variety of use cases.
• Build centralized Data Management services including rapid data ingestion & integration engine, DQ, Data Security frameworks, Data Dictionary.
• Transformed BI and Analytics across enterprise to leverage Data Platform and in the process, consolidated scores of Access databases, simplified access to data, improved the quality of insights and time to market.
• Developed an Integration/API strategy to use Data platform as the single data provisioning point, instead of point to point integrations between systems.
• Transformed business initiatives by leveraging data assets in more effective & strategic manner. Few examples are - Improving productivity of Financial Advisor through timely & accurate data, Embedding real time analytics in Mobile banking app for better customer experience, implementing Machine Learning to improve quality of leads.
• Partnering with Business & IT stakeholders to incubate data governance including setup of data councils/working groups. Define standards and policies for data sharing, collaboration to drive better insights and value creation.
• Challenged with limited resources/budget for delivering new capabilities and supporting existing systems. Overcame the challenge by implementing Dev Ops & Agile practices for raising teams productivity, and speed of delivery.
• Evolving the Data Architecture to offer Real time data for analytics/operations using Cassandra,Apache Kafka. Using Data Lake/Hadoop to open us access to unstructured data and rolling out tools like PAXATA for data discovery/exploration.

Confidential, Minnetonka, MN

Director Solution Engineering & Pre-Sales

Responsibilities:

• Led Pre-Sales and Solution development efforts to respond to requirements for large, complex ITO deals for healthcare payer and provider organizations.
• Key areas of focus: Design and implementation of enterprise data platforms, Core Claims processing systems, transformation engagements to move to new business model like value based payment, health care reform, conducting client ’ s technology/data assessments, defining future state architecture for next generation capabilities leveraging Cloud, Big Data architecture
• Worked across all aspects of Pre-Sales from Deal qualification to Solution Architecture, estimation, client presentations and contract negotiations. Created winning themes based on understanding customer ’ s context, bringing capabilities across all of Optum ’ s product lines to produce maximum impact.
• Won several deals for large multi -year DWH/BI engagements and build successful revenue generating practice and pipeline.
• Ideated and build new solutions to cater to emerging needs of Healthcare market and comply with changes to regulatory environment including:
• Optum Edge Server to allow Healthcare Payers to offer plans in newly created Health care Exchanges and meet the regulatory requirements of Affordability Care Act
• Provider Analytics solution to cater to Hospital systems with multiple HIS and corporate applications to integrate clinical, financial and operational data packaged with pre-build BI reports.

Confidential, Minnetonka, MN

Director Delivery - Big Data, Data Warehouse Programs

Responsibilities:

• Led multi-disciplinary Product Engineering & Delivery team to build Optum’s Big Data platform on Map R’s Hadoop distribution using Apache Hadoop and open source technologies.
• Architected a highly configurable, self-service data ingestion and management framework to source Petabyte of data across all important source system to create industry’s largest data lake for single cost optimized platform for the enterprise.
• Demonstrating value proposition of Big Data capabilities across broad range of use cases including a) Shifting of workloads running on legacy platform improving execution speed by 100x b) Creating brand new analytical applications to integrate member, patient data in real time combining both structured and unstructured data providing new sights at speeds not possible before.
• Worked with Product Management/Owners to develop roadmaps, backlog and drove execution using Agile Methodology to meet aggressive time line and tight budgets. Spearheaded several Dev Ops initiatives to increase speed of delivery, improve quality using continuous integration, test driven development, test automation.
• Led a strategic initiative to design and build an Unified Data Warehouse (UDW) system on Teradata to hold integrated enrollment, claims, financial and medical data of more than 30M UHC’s members. Defined data standards, established Healthcare Data Model and data quality framework. Managed various work streams to build the technical foundation, established efficient processes for data acquisition and ETL.
• Delivered on multi-year plan to decommission legacy data marts and migrate to EDW including creating data parity between systems and building a semantic layer to map to model of downstream analytical systems thereby accelerating speed of adoption

Confidential

Solution Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led Master Data Management (MDM) program to implement ANZ’s single view of the customer across the Institutional business. Defined the Enterprise strategy and roadmap for MDM (Customer data integration) and evaluated vendors’ products.
• Led multiple projects to implement MDM platform using IBM MDM’s and Infosphere stack. Modeled, integrate data of more than 15 systems across Institutional and retail businesses.
• Created Data Governance rules and Architecture to establish guidelines and quality controls to accomplish consistent solution across the enterprise.
• Managed core team of designers, architects and Delivery team consisting of vendor resources to execute projects. Setup a COE from scratch to implement processes to deliver new MDM initiatives.
• Worked closely with the Business Stakeholders to educate them on benefits, prepare business cases for investments, and designed various processes for data stewardship and business governance.
• Implemented rollout of PeopleSoft HCM System across 10 countries in Asia Pacific
• Delivered several large transformation ERP programs to help bank modernize the portfolio of its corporate applications,
• Created a large professional services transformation program to deploy Talent Management, Portal, Performance, Learning Management and recruitment Systems.

Confidential

Practice Head

Responsibilities:

• Practice leader responsible for operations, strategic management of a large group (150+ consultants) and growth of the Oracle practice.
• Responsible for the management of multiple projects and ensuring delivery as per the agreed SLAs and commitments to clients.

Confidentil, Redwood Shores, CA

Group Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led over 30 + team members within global Engineering and Product Management groups in architecture, development, and release of Customer Data Management suite- MDM/DQ and common customer foundation (a.k.a TCA)
• Ensured requirements from over 30 CRM and ERP modules within E Business Suite were catered within TCA.
• Created capabilities to provide single source of high quality customer data as foundation for enabling data/business integration across E Business Suite.
• Achieved multiple on-time, successful product releases through collaborating with several product teams, educated teams on new features and how-to uptake them in their products.
• Served as the key Subject Matter Expert for critical diligence activities as part of partnering and integrating with 3rd-party vendors on MDM/DQ tools.
• Evolved TCA as an independent product that can work without installing E Business Suite and licensed separately. Developed Master Data Management (MDM) capabilities and an open architecture to allow integration of Customer data from non-Oracle applications within the Enterprise.
• Developed patent winning Data Quality Management technology for customer de-duplication. This is embedded in Oracle E Business suite of products.

Confidential, Redwood Shores, CA

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed new Budgeting Workbench for Oracle Projects to manage the financial performance through project life cycle.
• Built a brand-new User Interface with intuitive flow, new features and integration with Desktop tool.
• Extended Oracle Projects and Oracle Assets to launch Oracle CRL (Capital Resource Logistics) for the Communications industry.
• Used Oracle CRL to address the unique needs of Telco and utilities companies to track assets through its life cycle from creation to retirement.
• Created a unique approach/architecture to allow delivering industry specific functionality through extensions to base product thereby making maintenance and upgrades easier