SUMMARY:

Proven technology manager of managers, with over 21 years of delivering technology solutions, that enable business growth and profitability for Fortune 500 corporations. Highly motivated, persuasive and articulate leader, with passion to achieve optimum results for the company and it’s customers.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Software Product Engineering and Delivery, Security and Technology Risk Management, Cloud Computing, Resource Management, Secured Big Data Movement and Analytical functions, Shared Services, Disaster Recovery, Process Streamlining and Automation, SDLCs - conversant in Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin, TX

Director, Engineering

Responsibilities:

• As part of Anlytical Ecosystem (AE) team, led the product development teams using microservices architecture for the Unified Data Movement suite of products - Listener (for IIoT/ sensor data/ social media streams) and Data Mover (cloud bursting, Hybrid cloud disaster recovery solution).
• Worked with the Product Managers & using Aha (Product mgmt tool, for road mapping, etc), Confluence (for collaboration and documentation) planned and released features in an Agile model, thereby reducing the technical debt (backlog reduction to 40 % within 9 months time frame).
• Worked with the Chief Architect and CTO to contribute towards the shared services offering, by creating Kubernetes (K8s) - as - a-service, using single and mutli node deployment methods on AWS, Azure (public cloud) and ESXi/VMWare (private cloud) platforms.
• Worked with engineering teams to fine tune data ingestion throughput, optimizing partition settings for Kafka on AWS, vSphere and Teradata Multipurpose Servers (TMS).
• Leveraged and fine tuned the CI/CD pipeline using Jira (Agile work execution, reporting), Github & Bitbucket (code repository), Jenkins, TestClient (in house written in GoLang), deploying K8s using Helm-Tiller, creating binaries as Docker images and storing them in Artifactory from where the product images can be downloaded.
• Partnered with external clients like CISCO for their Cisco Data Platform (CDP) to offer data collectors for their IoT, sensor data and smart cities.
• Partnered with Confidential Aviation to use Listener for the Confidential Predix platform. Predix as a cloud-based PaaS (platform as a service) is claimed to enable industrial-scale analytics for asset performance management (APM) and operations optimization by providing a standard way to connect machines, data, and people.
• Directed a multi-site team located in El Segundo, CA, San Diego, CA, Austin, TX and Hyderabad India, through team managers in their respective sites.
• Conversant in talent management, goal setting, performance planing and reviews.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Agile coach

Responsibilities:

• Coached the Agile transformation initiative for the greenfield implementation of Confidential ’s Don’t Fight the Web ( Confidential ) project.
• Using SAFe framework, proposed 3 Agile Release Train model with a total of 60 scrum teams of 6-8 resources individually, for their quarterly product releases.
• Mentored scrum masters and moderated their agile ceremonies to improvize and address common issues related to story sizing, backlog grooming, sprint / PI planning, etc

Confidential, Agoura Hills, CA

VP, Sr. Manager

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated and implemented various 3rd party tools like SAP Business Objects for geo- coding, EDI Trusted Link (X12 format) for data transformation, Biz Manager suite of products for B2B, IBM Websphere MQ/SI, Connect: Direct, ZMODFTP, DTS, SSIS, SSRS, etc. for data transmissions, reporting and reconciliations; Datical and DB Maestro for automated DB deployments - as part of CI/CD strategy.
• Led the Agile transformation initiative of the Information Technology and Shared Services organization’s 50 + applications, by identifing Value Streams and their Business Value proposition and introducing Test first approach.
• Transformation efforts brought in cost savings of approx $7 MM / year, associated with software development and maintenance efforts.
• Managed annual CAPEX and OPEX budgets and chargebacks, to the tune of $5 MM by working with various LoBs and BTGs, to gather various business and operational requirements respectively.
• Worked with Supply Chain Mgmt to coordinate and negotiate the license renewals for s/w product contracts with 3rd s/w and resource vendors to negotiate the billing rates of all levels of resources - offshore, onsite and contractors.
• Managed Technology Risks by identifying issues at the preliminary stages through Self- Identified Audit Issues (SIAIs), and also for Matters Needing Immediate attention (MNIAs) and providing remediation strategies.
• Implemented a Private Cloud environment using VMWare and Sunrise Rapid DB platforms.
• Achieved economies of scale, reduced infrastructure foot print and saved annual software licensing and hardware hosting costs to the tune of $4MM.
• Redesigned a major online banking application from J2EE to J2SE using STS development environment and reduced the hosting costs associated with it by 40 % by simplifying the technology stack.
• Automated external vendor data transmission process, by replacing manual and labor intensive workflow process associated with 52 business units’ data transfers, and implementing Autosys to automate the ETL processes using SSIS and DTS packages, thereby realizing cost savings of $3MM/ yr and increased performance and throughput by more than 50 %.
• Contributed to the implementation of CI/CD process for the entire Consumer and Small Business Banking’s technology division’s DevOps team.
• Redesigned the code build and deployment (DevOps) process by implementing an end to end in-house solution “iDeploy”, integrating it with source control tools (TFS and SVN) and Agile tools like Rally to support the CI / CD process. iDeploy supports deployment of code, scripts, DB objects, SSIS packages, etc., for .Net & J2SE/EE applications and also 3rd party tools such at Data stage, Composite (data vitualization)
• Served as the Technology Integration lead from Shared Services department with budget of $5MM over the period of 2 years during the acquisition of Countrywide by Confidential .
• Worked with external and internal auditors from Moody's, Fitch, PwC and E&Y to provide extensive technical documentation surrounding the M&A and divestiture activities of the aforementioned companies.
• Managed a balanced resource model, comprising of onsite and offshore FTEs and contractors.
• Overall resource responsibility of team of 35 resources (FTEs and contractors)
• Performed goal setting and performance evaluations, staffing, talent upgrade exercises, recruiting and retaining top talent within the team.
• Mentored Tech leads and managers to deliver superior deliverables while maintaining team dynamics and a productive environment.
• Established round the clock, follow-the-Sun model for development and operations support, with the help of onsite-offshore resource pool and resilient systems.
• Planned and executed the annual Disaster Recovery exercise for 100+ applications based on their tier ratings and recovery time objectives (RTO).
• Created and maintained SLAs with internal Business Technology Groups (BTGs) and OLAs with centralized CTO group.

Confidential, Simi Valley, CA

VP, Application Development

Responsibilities:

• Implemented OpenText (Inovis) Biz Manager (B2B data exchange) suite of products to consolidate data transmission needs, eliminating the use of 2 additional products and realizing cost efficiencies to the tune of $1.5Mn /year.
• Data Integration included integration data feeds to salesforce.com, major federal business par tners like the Federal Reserve, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
• This implementation also achieved the following cost benefit for the department:
• Significantly reduced the monthly avg. cost per MB transmitted from $45 in 2006 to $2.5 in 2008.
• Significantly reduced the monthly avg. VAN charges, by establishing direct connectivity with external business partners, from $16,000 in 0 in 2008.
• Significantly reduced the annual maintence cost by reviewing and performing contract renewals and negotiations with product and consulting vendors.
• Reduced the testing time and cycles by using automated test scripting, for regression and performance testing.
• Reduced number of production incidents by engaging the QC team earlier in the application development process.
• Managed execution of Shared Services’ Integration team, with blended onsite - offshore resource model.
• Architected and deployed Enterprise Service Bus ( Confidential ) using Ipswitch’ WSFTP Pro, IBM Websphere MQ on iSeries and MQSI, DTS, SSIS on Windows platforms to facilitate seamless enterprise-wide data integration.
• Contributed to establishing an in-house Enterprise Content Imaging (ECI) Centre of Excellence to cater to Mortgage Servicing department’s ECI needs.