PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experience as a Director of Enterprise Architect (Infrastructure Services and Development), to oversee IT Enterprise Architecture and proactively plan and collaborate with other technology and business leaders to ensure the EA and strategic roadmaps are in line.
• Over 25 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Software Development, Deployment, Implementation, Cloud Architecture, Modeling, Practices, Governance, Requirement Analysis, Technical leading in Information Technology using J2EE and Microsoft.NET technologies.
• Experience as an Architect to manage and develop a team that encompasses technology infrastructure services, Cloud infrastructure, data centers, and overall enterprise IT architecture with a focus on process improvement and flow of business value.
• Over 15+ years of experience with infrastructure technologies, enterprise architecture designs.
• Experience in delivering solution with Big data - Hadoop and AWS environment.
• Expertise in AWS architecture - EC2, S3, CloudFront, Snowball, VPC, RDS, IAM, SQS, Lambda and Cloud Watch.
• Attained 25% growth in revenue and customers over the two years by analyzing business needs, collaborating with stakeholders and designing a new data warehouse. Then, successfully lead several data extraction, warehousing and analytics initiatives that reduced operating costs and created customized programming options
• Experience in designing and providing solutions in Big Data analytics platform for RRP program using Java, Hadoop, Hive and Pig; including Integrating Hadoop into traditional ETL; accelerating the extraction, transformation, and loading of massive structured and unstructured data.
• Experience with Government, Commercial - Insurance, Telecommunication, Network Management, Supply Chain Management, and Financial industries
• Experience in defining the EA policy, procedure, and architecture review processes. Integrate the processes related to business and IT planning and governance processes.
• Experience in managing AWS Cloud data platforms using Kafka, kinesis
• Experience in delivering solution with Apache Spark, Ranger
• Experience in overseeing the entire technical infrastructure, to ensure acceptable quality and responsive services through management and delivery of IT infrastructure solutions, preventative maintenance, assessment, and proactive monitoring.
• Experience in providing best practices and proven methodologies to promote continuous information operations and the integration of new value-added technical services and/or solutions.
• Experience in mission critical infrastructure services requiring stability, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Provide leadership for teams and as the primary EA architect and senior technologist.
• Experience in leading, coaching, mentoring, and managing a high performing team of IT professionals with a proven ability to influence in a matrixed environment.
• Experience with various types of forecasting and managing information technology budgets.
• Experience in making administrative/procedural decisions and provide guidance and leadership to professional personnel.
• Experience in working with a range of technical staff to develop joint solutions.
• Experience with network security requirements FISMA and FedRAMP
• Experience in Enterprise Application Administration, performance analysis, Integration Architecture, Implementation, and configuration, middleware products, Business Process Management (BPM), TIBCO, JBOSS, Weblogic, DataPower, MQSERIES, Solaris /Linux administration.
• Expertise in Middleware architecture, J2EE Architecture, development, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), WebServices, E-Commerce (B2B, B2C, Supply Chain, ERP), and SingleSignOn(SSO) Architecture.
• Experience in sizing and detailed estimates for all integration project requests.
• Experience in using Zachman, ITIL, TOGAF architectural Framework.
• Created Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models for large and complex projects throughout the project lifecycle
• Lead, mentorship and support on DataPower, Websphere Enterprise Service Bus, WSRR, MQ, WTX, Confidential SOA suite
• Expertise in migrating applications and applications into Cloud technologies - AWS, Azure
• Expertise in WebServices and XML, XSLT, XPath, REST, and SOAP
• Responsible for designing and developing service oriented solution logic as web services.
• Experience in deploying service enabled logic to Websphere ESB.
• Experience in designing security using DataPower features such as Encryption, Decryption, SSL and Crypto tools.
• Managed and provided DataPower supporting, troubleshooting, debugging DataPower services.
• Experience in developing aggregate web services, mediations to provide real time transactions.
• Experience in designing effective solutions for complex programming and program debugging
• Expertise in hybrid integration standards and patterns
• Experience with design, implementation Firewalls in multi zones and integration with web servers and app servers
• Experience with LDAP, Single sign on, SSL configuration and authentication with web and app servers
• Experience in automating the middleware administrative tasks
• Experience working with multiple database Oracle, DB2, and SQL
• Experience in middleware and vendor application software to build new environments Integration, Implementation, and of Confidential HTTP Server on Solaris/ Windows/Linux /AIX.
• Expertise in Deploy releases, enhancements, and upgrades or new applications into production to stabilize the environment
• Experience in design and development of business Message beans, session beans on multiple projects.
• Expertise in deploying releases, enhancements, and upgrades or new applications into production to stabilize the environment
• Experience in providing technical solutions to automate processes or functions to improve business operations
• Experience in providing scalable performance solutions, high availability, disaster recovery, single point of failures, and cluster management
• Expertise in monitoring and tuning application infrastructure to assure optimal performance, availability and utilization of resources
• Experience in designing and developing scripts to automate manual tasks related to operations and maintenance
• Experience in middleware Architecture, integration of WAS/MQ, implementing Security, configure and maintain SSL s incorporating Clusters, Nodes, and Cells into Framework and modeling J2EE Data sources.
• Experience with SDLC, Software Development practices, CMMI process & lifecycles, ELC (Enterprise Life Cycle), Object-Oriented design, analysis, & Programming.
• Excellent written and oral communication abilities as well as presentation skills, to articulate vision and translate complex issues into comprehensible ideas and concepts across organizational boundaries.
• Strong interpersonal skills to lead and motivate the organization with the ability to work effectively with a diversity of personalities.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and multitasking skills.
• Strong collaboration skills in various work environments including complex, matrixed environments.
• Strong customer service skills and staff management experience.
• Team building skills that provide leadership and structure to a group of high-performing technology professionals.
• Excellent negotiation and vendor management skills.
• Highly motivated energy driven, multi-tasking, and results-oriented individual.

TECHNOLOGY:

• Designing Service Oriented Solutions
• Service Oriented Integration: Standards, Technologies, and Best Practices
• The Foundation for Cloud Computing
• SOA for Architects
• Advanced Process Management Principles - Key to Sustainability
• Analyzing the "As Is" and Creating the "To Be" Process
• Introduction to Business Process Management
• Establishing Business Process Governance and COEs
• Establishing Business Process Governance and Centers of Excellence
• Methodologies and Approaches for BPM
• Organizational Change Management Concepts & Strategies
• Process Change Management Methodologies
• Process Measurement and Metrics
• J2EE & JSP Development
• Advanced XML and XML technologies

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:

Languages: J2EE/JAVA, Python, Angular JS, Javascript, Spring Boot, HTML, CSS, XML, C++, C, PROC*C, SQL, PL/SQL, PERL, Unix KSH/CSH, UNIX SOCKETS, AWK, SMALLTALK, PASCAL, ASSEMBLY, Struts, REST, MFC, C#, VC++, VISUAL BASIC

Middleware: Websphere, Weblogics, Webmethods, JBOSS, Mule ESB TIBCO/RENDEZVOUS, TIBCO /MessageBroker, MQSERIES, TXSERIES CICS, BEA TUXEDO, ORBIX, SAP R/3, mySAP, PEOPLESOFT, TopLink, iPlanet APPSERVER

Operating Sys: LINUX, WIndows, MacOS, iOS, Andriod, z/OS, SOLARIS, AIX, HP-UX, AS/400

DB/DC: CICS, DB2, ORACLE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, INFORMIX, TCP/IP, ODBC, SSL, OSI/ISO, RUP, UML, ERD, YOURDON, BOOCH, OOD

SOA: SOAP, REST, Systinet2, Infravio X-Registry, Actional Soap Station, Process Server, BEA Aqualogic, Amber PointFirewalls CISCO PIX, CHECKPOINT, NETSCREEN

Appliances: Confidential DataPower Xi50, MQ Appliance

Security Tools: Confidential Tivoli Identity Manager (ITIM), Confidential Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), Sun One Directory Server

Infrastructure: AWS Lambda, Gateway, AWS CLI, Serverless Deployment, CLOUDHUB, VMWare, AWS, Azure, SUN E10K, HP 9000, Confidential S/390, Confidential RS/6000, Confidential 370, WINDOWS SERVER

Networks: CISCO SWITCHES, ROUTERS, F5 LOAD BALANCERS, VPN, V-LANS

Content Servers: Confidential WEBSPHERE COMMERCE SERVER v9, PORTAL SERVER 7/6/5, VIGNETTE

Directory/Messaging: Confidential DS, NETEGRITY SITEMINDER, LDAP SERVER, MICROSOFT EXCHANGE

Management Tools: ServiceNow, Jenkins, Gira, Bitbucket, Github Remedy, BMC SMARTS, Tivoli, Veritas

Software: Maven, SVN, GIT, JUnit, Mockito, RATIONAL ROSE, VIGNETTE CM, MSPROJECT, MSOffice, CLEARCASE, CLEARQUEST, ERWIN, MERCURY LOAD RUNNER, TeamQuest, Agile, Waterfall methodologies

Streaming/Bigdata: Apache Sparc, Kubernetes, Kafka, Hadoop, Apache Mesos, kinesis, HBASE,, HDFS, Zookeeper, Hive, Pig, Netflix OSS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. IT Director - Enterprise Architecture/ Software Development

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architect is to develop strategies for IT Architect and provide oversight of structural implementation.
• Lead the creation or evolution of the enterprise architecture function/program.
• As AWS Practice Lead, I was responsible for evolving Amazon Web Services practice to meet our customer's needs, develop best practices that add value to our organization, make the transition to cloud and grow their existing workloads.
• Provided infrastructure consolidation, transformation, and optimization for Amazon Web Services environments.
• Advocate, and support the enterprise's business and IT strategies.
• Promote business benefits and impact of the EA practice.
• Lead and facilitate the creation of governing principles to guide EA decision making.
• Lead the development and execution of a communication and plan for the enterprise architecture.
• Establish priorities to plan and effectively implement ongoing improvements, to include ensuring the integrity of the mission critical data infrastructure.
• Direct the definition and use of standards and specifications, for all data center and IT infrastructure.
• Oversee the maintenance and support of data center operations, server, infrastructure hardware, software, and applications.
• Monitor, assess, and report on server and resource utilization.
• Ensure up-to-date system documentation to include inventory and disaster recovery.
• Ensure integrity and availability of data through continuous assessment of data backup operations.
• Work with IT leadership to define strategic directions for data centers/cloud services and related infrastructure.
• Ensure that the data center procedures meet all applicable federal, state regulatory laws and codes.
• Participate in the design, development, and maintenance of business resumption plans for IT Data Centers and Operations.
• Strategic planning of critical infrastructure resources, identifying and coordinating sites for data center space, development and test labs, etc.
• Design and direct the implementation of strategic organizational and operational changes including cross-functional collaboration for incident response management and escalation, plus systems triage coordination, integration/support to the Service Desk, etc.
• Identify business trends, identify relevant technologies, and implement them.
• Identify risks, establish potential contingencies, and develop appropriate business resumption plans.
• Participate on various groups and committees to review system architecture and implementation of technological enhancements as related to the IT Infrastructure.
• Develop and manage backup strategies, off-site backup storage, storage and disposal of media.
• Develop, maintain and promote standardized enterprise IT solutions to meet complex technical requirements.
• Provide high-level advice and support in response to serious IT incidents and service outages. Act as an expert resource for systems administrators and analysts working on difficult technical issues.
• Design and document large-scale, complex enterprise IT systems and solutions.
• Create technical solutions that adequately anticipate and plan for rapid and large-scale growth in equipment and costs.
• Develop models for understanding and assessing unit and systems costs, as spread over a complex and multi-tiered set of technology layers and components.
• Ensures alignment of business recovery requirements with IT recovery capabilities; identifies gaps and facilitates corrective action to ensure recovery capability is in place to meet the needs of the enterprise.
• Oversees the creation of IT Disaster Recovery Plans and IT Business Continuity Plans.
• Participate in requirements gathering and implementation of new IT applications specific to business continuity initiatives
• Oversees the annual validation and updating of Business Impact Analysis and Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery risk assessments across ITS on an ongoing basis.
• Lead managers in developing technology road-maps, including effectively evaluating buy/build/lease decisions for on premise IT infrastructure and cloud hosted solutions.
• Provide guideline and direction to technology staff, engaged in activities analyzing, installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting data center infrastructure systems, and software, in support of enterprise-wide systems, IT, and operational programs.
• Manage managers and team leaders in the planning and design of high availability 24x7 data centers, and the development of procedures to ensure optimal data center practices.
• Approve, coordinate, and execute upon adjustments and changes that increase performance and availability.
• Provide ongoing review of capacity requirements in order to align with budget planning.
• Conduct regular status reviews with IT management and vendors to ensure successful implementation and timely resolution of service issues.
• Manage all related vendor support contracts for hardware, software, connectivity, etc.
• When necessary, work in concert with software and hardware vendors for problem resolution.
• Provide advance notification of all planned system and set realistic expectations on availability.
• Coordinate and communicate closely with management and IT Help Desk during all planned/unplanned outages.
• Negotiate and monitor contracts and vendors in relationship to services, software, and hardware relevant to the data center and/or cloud services.
• Manage procurement for support of the data system inventory, and ensure effective vendor management.
• Provide budget estimates and forecasts for operational use and for use by management.
• Develop or acquire tools and processes for gathering and compiling growth data. Regularly review and evaluate data to provide growth analysis and planning, set realistic service expectations, and improve performance measuring and reporting.
• Participate in and provide advice for annual budget development process, and major equipment purchase planning.
• Help maintain and advance a robust standards lifecycle for key enterprise technologies.
• Oversee the develop and document system outage procedures for disaster recovery and business continuity purposes
• Oversees the development and implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all business continuity and disaster recovery functions.
• Maintain current knowledge of business continuity and disaster recovery issues and trends through, seminars, and research.
• Facilitates process improvement across the organization for key areas such as change management for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity procedures.
• Lead, organize and positively influence a team of information professionals, which include Assistant Directors, Managers, Technical Professionals and others, to meet the needs of the customer community.
• Make hiring decisions and recommendations for separations, reclassification recommendations, salary adjustment recommendations, handle complaints and grievances as well as generally planning, assigning and approving the work of these positions. Conduct performance evaluations and measuring on a regular basis, and other standard practices, consistent with all IT teams. Recommend reclassifications and salary adjustments. Recruit, hire, train, coach, motivate and manage performance of permanent, temporary, and contract staff. Mentor Assistant Directors, Managers, and other staff and provide functional and technical expertise.
• Establish and enforce technical and functional standards, and ensure compliance with security and confidentiality requirements.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance, middleware, cloud, bigdata, project management, and serve as an escalation resource for all technical needs.
• Provide recommendations to improve the effectiveness of Big Data systems, descriptive analytics systems, and prescriptive analytics systems. Integrated new tools and developed technology frameworks/prototypes to accelerate the data integration process and empower the deployment of predictive analytics using Hive, Pig and Hadoop
• Consult and provide advice to end users, project managers, technical staff, managers and others on large computing infrastructure projects.
• Manage or lead complex technical infrastructure projects and systems implementations, which may involve multiple groups and their respective infrastructure.
• Generate detailed work estimates and plans as required for developing new systems, planning large technical projects, and replacing or adding to existing equipment within the data centers.
• Provide program and project leadership between the business operations, information technology and other areas specific to business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Gather technology cost data, analyze data based on cost models, and identify approximate costs for proposed projects and purchases.
• Mentor development team on integration solution implementation

Confidential

Chief Architect - Infrastructure/Software

Responsibilities:

• Led defining infrastructure architecture efforts for Confidential Transformation
• Provided overall technical leadership across business infrastructure and partner with Business Management, Process Leaders, Product Architects, and Solution Delivery teams to define business and product strategy that fully leverages scalable solutions for short and long term business objectives.
• Provided solutions for enterprise integration, architecture, including design, definition of standards, guidelines and best practices for application integrations.
• Mentored, provided integration of WebSphere/Portal, EAI, SOA solutions
• Provided scalable performance solutions, Integration approaches and HA solutions.
• Provided J2EE Application Architecture and Deployment of backend applications
• Managed workflow management architecture using WPS
• Managed and monitored functionality of Confidential WebSphere DataPower SOA appliances Infrastructure,
• Developed the custom-built script for managing and monitoring DataPower appliances,
• Provided network security, and enabling the creation of Web Services gateways and legacy system inter-op with web applications
• Led defining infrastructure architecture efforts for Confidential Transformation
• Oversee scalable performance solutions, Integration approaches and HA solutions.
• Managed Middleware administration for business process re-engineering and transformation of existing business architecture.
• Datapower, WSRR 7, MQSERIES, Linux/Solaris, J2EE/ JAVA/ SERVLET/ JSP/EJB/XML, SOAP, REST, RATIONALROSE, CLEARCASE, ORACLE/ DB2

Confidential

Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

• Delivered solutions to modernize Nonfiler Identification Process through intelligent business scoring methods; modernize technical infrastructure and service oriented architecture methods to integrate applications.
• Designed, developed and implemented SOA initiative projects to integrate core, main applications and data sources with internal and external partners and customers using middleware technologies like Confidential WebSphere, DataPower, WMQ, WMB. Involved in implementing system architecture for High Availability of Production systems from Application Servers to Database.
• Infrastructure Admin, System Admin, Websphere/MQ Admin, for modernized Nonfiler Identification applications; EAIB Broker application
• Performed and Validated the HA and single point of failure for WebSphere Products
• Analyzed and performed health check for WebSphere ESB and SIB components as well as web services endpoints
• Delivering status reports, projects artifacts and deliverables as per the contract
• Maintained communication with the customer to manage expectations and to proactively identify potential HA issues and risks
• Communicate and collaborate with customers and corporate management team to address schedule, cost, contract and resource related risks and issues

Confidential

Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), WebServices, and middleware infrastructure efforts of for MeF (Modernized Electronic Filing) and Internet Tax Return Filing Application.
• Provide J2EE Application Development, Administration and Deployment of backend and portal applications for MeF, AMS, ExFirs, and Internet Filing Applications.
• Involved in HA, DR solutions; configuration changes; migration of infrastructure and applications; debugging and analysis infrastructure.
• Implement clustering, troubleshooting of infrastructure.
• Provide on-call 24x7 support, and work shift responsibilities
• Lead architect of Messaging Engine and Service BUS (ESB-Enterprise Service Bus) infrastructure.
• Provided SOA management solutions and performance analysis of service contracts
• Provided Best practice guidelines on deployment SOA architecture/ and Webservices for MeF Application.

Confidential

Senior Tech Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for J2EE administration of BuyerXpert, an enterprise e-procurement product which provides automated procurement and service purchases.
• Responsibilities include integration, customization of requisition and order management of direct and indirect goods, ecommerce and supply chain integration, which includes integration of supplier catalogs through XML, OBI, EDI.
• Architected, and integrated with LDAP servers, and customized the daily updates. Designed, and developed search engine capabilities. iPlanet Application Server 6.0, WebMethods, Corporate Express, NES 4.0, iPlanet LDAP 4.2, SOLARIS/NT/2000, J2EE/JAVA/SERVLET/JSP/EJB/XML, ORACLE/DB2
• Redesigned the Vanguard Security Services (VSS) from NAS 2.1 platform to NAS 4.0/6.0 platform.
• Architect and developed security infrastructure for all vanguard internet based applications.
• Designed, developed, and architected the new Vanguard Security Services using J2EE technologies on Netscape AppServer 4.0/6.0, with security plugin’s using NSAPI on Netscape WebServer,
• Mentored the group on IAS 6.0 platform.
• Designed LDAP directory schema, and EJB’s.
• Involved in customization of iPlanet BuyerXpert/SellerXpert with Payment module.
• Architect, design, and implement Payment module for CITI-commerce.
• Architect API interface for Bill pay module using TIBCO MessageBroker.
• Architect the Single Sign On interface for buyers, and sellers using Siteminder.
• Provided the XML data interface, and mapping for EDI interface in XML.
• Architect, Ported, and re-designed the Online Health service application from BEA WebLogics application server to Netscape Application Server.
• Implemented Cluster Services with multiple application servers/enterprise servers, and Load balancing; analyzed, and configured performance tuning.
• Addressed and configured for high availability, and distributed architectures.
• Architect for Online Health Services to provide healthcare information infrastructure.
• Involved in design, architecture of the Application Logging for American express credit card users.
• Addressed and implemented performance monitoring, and tuning of the Billing system to handle large number of transactions during the peak hours in clustered server environment.
• Written customized adopters using NSAPI for logging functionality.

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Sr. Software Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Involved in customization, and deployment of the Enterprise Server, LDAP Server, FTP Server, and Netscape Messaging Server.
• Configured, and automated 30,000 POP3, and IMAP user mailboxes. Customized the authentication to provide inactive flag for the user LDAP record.
• Involved in designing extranet directory service, including definition of a schema; and architecture that can support it.
• Configured the user authentication for MAIL servers, HTTP servers and FTP servers.
• C, LDAP, Oracle, Unix, X-Windows, TCP/IP

Confidential, MD

Sr. Technical Lead/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include design and development Online Rate Quote system for Confidential Direct Vehicle Insurance group.
• Developed application which facilitates the users to get an online insurance quote and administers them to enroll into the selected program.
• JAVA, XML, Kiva App Server(NAS), LDAP, NES, DB2/Oracle, NT/Solaris