SUMMARY:

• I am a seasoned Technology Leader with more than 20 years’ experience across multiple domains.
• I have led organizations in Strategic roadmap, Technology transformation and Business and IT alignment. I have led large strategic technology transformations revamping entire It landscape and technology footprint.
• I have been instrumental in evangelizing and adoption of emerging technologies, platform solutions, distressed project recoveries, portfolio strategy and outsourcing engagements.
• My breadth and depth of experience spans multiple industries, including Finance, Hospitality, Logistics, Media and Entertainment, and Retail with focus on Enterprise Architecture and transformative Cloud Solutions. I have consistently worked at the defining edge of IT Architecture and have extensive experience in Integration and Business Process Patterns.
• I have expertise in technology assessment & specification and full life cycle delivery.
• I have led enablement of the private Cloud for banking and hospitality domains.
• I have defined strategy, architecture and the delivery of services on a Smarter Computing Cloud offering state - of-the-art edge analytics, precision credit decision, campaign management, loyalty management, event driven in-house and third party fraud detection.
• I have led proof of concepts created prescriptive and reference architecture for SOA and big data. I have strong expertise in merger, refining/reengineering business process and defining/realigning IT strategy.
• I have delivered enterprise applications in the context of structured architectures (TOGAF and Component Business Model).
• Enterprise Architecture, Technology Right-Sizing
• IT Strategy and Portfolio Realignment
• Architecture Governance and Management
• Big Data and Cloud
• Merger and Technology Roadmap
• SOA Architecture, IFW and IDM
• Prescriptive and Reference Architecture
• TOGAF

EXPERIENCE:

Technical Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I am part of the Enterprise Guild to transform the company from a Credit Rating Agency to a Technology Company.
• It includes changing Architecture delivery, Team structure and Assets structure. I am focused on Enterprise Roadmap using Spotify model.
• It includes structuring Alliances and tribes. I am also involved in defining the roadmap for creating Technology Units complimenting Business units.
• I am leading the effort for Application Services and contributing in Operations TU, Infra TU and Info TUs.
• I am involved in ARBs and reviewing prescriptive architecture and identifying teams to do POCs and Pilot. It also includes identifying and evangelizing security patterns.
• I am involved in establishing Cloud first strategy and establishing framework for Assessment.
• It includes identifying and analyzing the best - suited Cloud provider and defining the roadmap for transition.
• Define Digital Transformation objectives, roadmap and Key drivers working closely with Business aligning with Business and Market Strategy.
• I mentor about 350 technology consultants onsite, near shore and offshore.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Selecting tools, technologies and implementing processes to standardize delivery practice with relevant devOps.
• Also setting pilot roadmap and transition roadmap from existing delivery structure to devOps.
• Setting transition plan to ensure smooth transition between legacy and new services/processes for minimum disruption to serving customers.
• It includes parallel processing, piloting and auto comparing old and new system states.
• Setting Architecture review board to evangelize importance of Architecture patterns, Integration Architecture, reusability and standard component development.
• Leading the roll out of warehouse Management system, identifying transition roadmap and enabling new opportunities.
• Working on identifying areas of improving TCO by consolidation of data centers, removing redundancies and reducing technology components and licensing costs.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Established a practice for EA assets and deliverables. Created taxonomy, blueprints, Business Architecture, Application Architecture, Information Architecture and Technology Architecture assets for the current state Architecture. Created multi speed future state architectures for Architecture assets and future state Architectures.
• Establish a process for creating EA aligned to the business strategy. Established process and governance to align multi year Enterprise Architecture to the business strategy.
• Established a practice for thinking out of the box and working on fail fast approach to run feasibility analysis on new ideas for company growth, customer acquisition and retention.
• Established processes around what is the level of details manageable in an organization to clearly communicate to the delivery teams the EA guidelines, frameworks and recommendations without creating unmanageable assets.
• I worked with the organization to create culture of feedback, recommendation and individual growth.
• I established tools and opportunities to create an environment of recognition, feedback and individual growth by gamification, brown bags etc.

Principal Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I have created a Macro and Micro strategy to evaluate more than 500 applications to migrate to public cloud.
• Macro strategy involves creating patterns to leverage cloud stack, identifying viability, priorities, and dependencies.
• Micro strategy involves evaluating each application to ensure migration is optimized.
• Highroads wants to develop next version of their offerings. The offerings need to be developed in Cloud and deployed in Cloud and have a wider range of features offerings.
• The proposed Strategy is to use open source products to reduce licensing cost, move all infrastructure to cloud and use the savings in developing next gen platform.
• The proposed Architecture includes Open-Source Content Management, Workflow, Big Data, Messaging Queue and deployment tools like Salt, Consul etc.

Enterprise Solutions Architect

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to Strategic roadmap for merger of applications of BoA, Countrywide, and Merrill Lynch.
• Contribute to cloud strategy, Paas, SaaS models and patterns
• Evaluate products and make recommendations on usage and governance to enhance and mature Enterprise Integration and cloud architecture.
• Define Integration Architecture patterns based on Web Services, ESB and other SOA components considering SLA, security, data size, latency etc.
• Evaluate project constraints, approving exceptions to non - conformance and defining a roadmap for compliance.
• Architect and Evangelize Open Source Architecture and Practice in the organization

Technologies: TOGAF, IBM IFW and CBM, WebSphere Process Server, IBM Datapower xi50, Apache Camel, WebSphere Services Registry and Repository and webMethods Integration Server.

Solution Architect

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Responsibilities:

• Part of Architecture Board - Part of team to define Enterprise Integration Architecture including Technology, Virtualization, SOA roadmap For Next Generation Enterprise, NGE
• Define Solution Architecture for the NGE program
• Define Solution Architecture for RTI program
• Define Integration Patterns for integration NGE applications with existing applications not on NGE platform
• Define components and patterns for Application Architecture for Right Time Information Module Middleware Integration module
• Define the Solution Architecture and requirements and provide technical feasibility and technical solution based on enterprise Strategy and Solution Architecture
• Provide the architecture for crosscutting components and frameworks.

Technologies: TOGAF, SOA, EDA, Bus Architecture, Cloud, Virtualization, Progress Sonic, Progress Apama, Progress MQ, Hadoop, Cassandra, OAuth, Apache Camel, Spring Frameworks, Zeus, Marklogic, Agile Methodology