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Independent Consulting Architect Resume

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VA

SUMMARY:

  • Over 20 years of broad industry experience across multiple industry verticals - Mortgage, Financial Services, Telecom, Professional Services & Manufacturing
  • IT professional with experience in aligning business & architecture strategy with enterprise operating model; proven expertise in transforming and automating manual processes
  • Experience includes enterprise transformations, business process re-engineering, cloud & virtualization enablement, solutions architecture and managed services delivery
  • Experienced in managing and delivering engagements on-time & in budget

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

  • Technology Needs Assessment, Requirements Analysis, Map & Gap Analysis
  • Practice & Program Management
  • Budget and Financial Management
  • Employee Training, Mentoring, Team Building & Performance Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Technologies: VM Ware, Oracle Virtualization

Converged Infrastructure: Oracle Exadata, Exalogic, Flexpod, VBlock

Big Data Tools: Hadoop, Horton Works, MapReduce, Pig, Yarn, HBase, Hive, Oozie, Spark

Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Docker, Nexus, Sonar, Tomcat, Python

ERP: Oracle E-Business Suite 11i & 12 (Manufacturing & DistributionProcurement, Supply Chain Management, Financials, CRM): Programming Languages

C, C++, Java (J2EE), SQL, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting, JavaScript: Operating Systems

Linux, Unix, Windows: Oracle Tools & Technologies

Database (10g, 11i, 12c), Enterprise Manager 12c, SQL Developer, SOA: Suite, BPEL, Web Center, IAM

Methodologies: Agile, SDLC, RUP, Oracle AIM

Business Process Modeling: Mega/HOPEX

Web Servers: WebLogic, Apache Tomcat

Architecture & Process Frameworks: DODAF, TOGAF, COBIT, ITIL, BPMN, UML

Other Tools: MS Office, Visio, Project

EXPERIENCE:

Independent Consulting Architect

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the Dynamic Credit Risk Management (DCRM) application portfolio.
  • Dynamic Credit Risk Management is a strategic Confidential program intended to reduce the taxpayer's credit risk exposure by increasing the role of private capital in the mortgage market via various Credit Enhancement (CE) agreement structures & products.
  • The DCRM & CE products and market are continuously evolving. Currently known agreement structures/products include Connecticut Avenue Securities ( Confidential ), Madison Avenue Securities (MAS), Investor Paid Mortgage Insurance (IPMI), Lender Recourses etc.
  • Enabled successful adoption of the 'Data First' enterprise vision into the DCRM business o Analyzed DCRM program objectives, timelines and available options to determine the optimal integration architecture for sourcing and vending data (including Master Data) for the business
  • Rationalized DCRM business' data needs and successfully advocated a target state aligned approach for supporting CE business processes and disclosures via the enterprise data warehouse
  • Collaborated with DCRM business to achieve significant process improvements by transforming and automating manual business processes while achieving data integration
  • Evaluate Big data technologies (Horton Works) for business use cases (Data Streaming, Identity and Document Management, Exceptions etc.) and determine appropriate architecture patterns o Championed the integration of Credit Enhancement application architecture and associated agreement structures with enterprise data infrastructure
  • Developed current and target state DCRM data architecture and successfully obtained executive leadership approvals and buy in o Provided guidance and direction to technical teams on application data model design to align with the enterprise logical model

Portfolio Enterprise Architect

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

  • Under Confidential 's Early Funding program, a lender can receive funding on an entire pool much earlier than the SIFMA settlement date.
  • Early funding improves the cash flow and liquidity for lenders by making the funds available much earlier in the origination cycle. As Enterprise Architect, Responsible for the Early Funding Program.
  • Developing Architecture Blueprint (Application, Data, Infrastructure, Integration & Security) o Performed Analysis of Alternative (AoA) to evaluate solution options for the business capability to determine 'Build' Vs 'Buy'

DevOps Architect

Confidential, Maryland

Responsibilities:

  • Developed 'To Be' processes to enable DevOps and Continuous Integration based on open source technologies and tools for the United States Confidential

Chief Architect/CTO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

  • Responsible the architecture and delivery of managed services for the IT portfolio of 7 outsourced General Dynamics (GD) business units generating an annual revenue of ~$300m.
  • Portfolio includes multiple ERP applications (Oracle EBS (11i & R12), SAP, Seimens TeamCenter, PeopleSoft etc) and Legacy (Mainframe, PowerBuilder, C, C++ etc) Applications running across multiple operating systems
  • Reviewed the Oracle EBS application footprint across all the business units to develop a roadmap for upgrading from 11i to R12 at a cost of ~$30m. Project included extensive end user interaction and hands on business process re-engineering, Further reduced future exposure by identifying COTS product features to retire customizations and designed residual custom components as reusable capabilities using Oracle's Fusion Middleware and SOA Suite
  • Architect to design and deploy an RFID based pilot logistics solution to improve material visibility and to integrate with existing logistics processes to improve material tracking and reduce wastage in the yard
  • Business Strategy and IT Strategy Alignment - To provide annual IT cost savings, financial and technological agility, reviewed the current state of IT portfolio (Applications, Technology,
  • Infrastructure, and End User Environment) relative to business imperatives and developed a transformation roadmap identifying the business process improvement opportunities, application consolidation/optimization opportunities, required investments and financial benefit (ROI).
  • Successfully identified cost saving opportunities to save ~$2-$5m annually.
  • Enterprise Cloud Strategy & Enablement - Collaborated with account leadership and product teams to develop an enterprise cloud strategy, approach and roadmap based on VM Ware technologies and products to provide a community cloud for all the business units. Projected a combined annual IT budget savings of ~30%
  • Enterprise Business Continuity Strategy- Architected an enterprise wide business continuity strategy to provide timely recovery for mission critical business applications
  • Acquisition Integration - Developed the strategy and roadmap to integrate the diverse estate of an acquired business into existing portfolio and defined the transformation plan and roadmap for integrating individual components into the estate along with employees. Integrate with Oracle EBS processes and trained the employees with managed services process framework for support etc
  • Data Center Consolidation - Consolidate End Of Life (EOL) infrastructure to improve managed services operating income, margin and profitability. Preservation of capital while maintaining the contractually required hardware refresh cycles was a key constraint.

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