SUMMARY

• He is a result - driven IT professional with 18+ years of experience in digital transformation, business & technology consulting, strategy development, competency management, platform & concept eva ngelization, pre-sales, software landscape analysis, design, development, testing, deployment & implementation of enterprise application Software and web applications.
• He has more than 13 years of experience in providing architect solutions to complex enterprise systems that includes Data Science, Master Data Management, Product Information Management, Material Data Management, Reference Data Management, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Cloud Computing, Product Lifecycle Management, Customer Data Integration, Data Governance, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Data Quality, Information Rationalization, DB administration, DB designing, DB modeling and software project management.
• He is a proactive leader with track record of successfully delivering profit driven, value added and peak performing technology solutions for cross-functional business objectives.
• He is a Rational Unified Process Certified Process Engineer, PMP certified Project Manager and Certified Professional Scrum Master.
• He has extensively worked on advanced technologies such as InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server for PIM (formerly WebSphere Product Center), InfoSphere MDM Server (formerly WebSphere Customer Center), Hybris, Oracle MDM, Oracle PIM, Informatica MDM, Stibo STEP, Informatica PIM (Heiler), Riversand, Hadoop, Cassandra, ATG Dynamo, SAP MDG, SAP NW- MDM, SAP PLM, Weblogic, J2EE, JSP, Servlets, EJB, JMS, JNDI, DB2, Oracle, UDB, Object Oriented Design using UML. He has trained and mentored more than 300 associates on PIM/MDM/PLM/PCM/DG/DQ till date globally.
• He has successfully architected and delivered technology solutions such as Service Oriented Architecture, Global Data Synchronization, MDM, PIM, Current Inventory Stock, Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR), Promotional Planning System and Vendor Partner Management for Retail business, E-Business Applications, Insurance, Sales Order Tracking and Service Automation System for Consumer Services businesses
• His areas of expertise include Technical and Application Architecture - MDM Sever for PIM Admin, DBA, J2EE, Cost savings and efficiency improvements solutions, creative technology solutions and developing methodology framework, Leading and mentoring project teams, Risk Assessment, Project/Sprint Managing, Project/Sprint planning, scheduling, estimating and tracking.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• MDM/PIM/DQ
• Rails, Java Script, HTML, JHTML, JSP, XML, XSLT, SQL, RPG/400, ILE-RPG, CL/400 Infosphere MDM Server for PIM 10/9.0/6.X/5.x/4.X, Infosphere MDM Server 8.X/7.X, Informatica MDM 9.X, Siperian 4.X, Oracle PIM/MDM, Informatica PIM (Heiler) V-7/8, Stibo STEP V-7.x/V-8.x, Hybris PCM, Riversand, Trillium, IDQ (Informatica Data Quality).
• Hybris multi-channel suite 4.1.2, Hybris Platform, ATG Dynamo 6.X/5.X / 6.X, WebSphere 6.X/5.X/4.X, Weblogic 7.0/8.0, WebSphere portal Server 6.0/5.0.X, J2EE 1.3, JMS 1.1, JDBC, LDAP, DOM /SAX Parsers, JAXB, JSON
• IBM MQ Series, Oracle AQ, EJB, WebServices (SOAP, REST), Spring MVC.
• Oracle 9i/10i/11.X/12.X, SQL Server 8.0, DB2 UDB 7.x/8.x, DB2/400
• Ha doop, Cass a ndra, Mongo DB
• Python, R, Machine Learning, Data Science
• Microsoft Azure, Oracle Bare metal, Google cloud, Amazon AWS
• Windows NT/2000/XP, OS/400(V4R4), UNIX, Linux, IBM AIX.
• Adobe InDesign, UML, Rational Rose, Eclipse, VisualAge for Java, JBuilder, XML Spy, BODI, Visual Interdev, Dreamweaver, ERWin Data Model, Toad, Visio, WSAD 5.1, Enterprise Architect, Informatica Data Quality (IDQ V 9/10), Trillium, Rally, Jira.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Director/Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed 1WorldSync (Formerly UCCnet) and Agentrix (Formerly WWRE) XML specification developed by EAN.UCC for retail and supply chain Industry to exchange item information between supply side and demand side business partners. Developed modules to parse incoming XML to setup product data and augment the product master. Those modules are used in corporate systems such as colla borative forecast and item setup for faster and accurate item approval/rejection process.
• Handled the complete GDS business of Carrefour, world's second largest retailer with end -to-end syncing of product data through more than 500 worldwide suppliers and more than 6 million of categories items.
• Architected PIM & integrated with Big Data (Cassandra) to render a highly scalable, stable and high performing platform in Walmart.com for US and Canada that helped them achieve the record sale (450M plus only in Cyber Monday) and margin during the holiday period of 2013 surpassing the sale of Amazon and other competitors.

Associate Director/Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded STEP PIM to the newer version (8.1) to leverage the updated features of the product to meet Halyard's business need with no impact to the current business
• Created the architectural blue print and the solution design for STEP PIM implementation in terms of hierarchies, data models, attributes, workflow, Assets and integration with inbound and outbound chan nels.
• Designed and developed the customer and user portals
• Liaise with Stibo and Halyard to effectively drive the implementation to ensure esteemed client satisfaction
• Managed the support and enhancement stream seamlessly with members from onsite and offsh ore
• Coordinated with other teams to streamline the integration processes and framework
• Managed the customer expectation and escalation, responsible for customer satisfaction and periodic communication with upper management.

Associate Director/Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Drove the taxonomy assessment and feasibility analysis, provided guidance on customer facing taxonomies, facet, ordering attributes, product specific messaged and assets
• Outlines the integration architecture of data quality through IDQ and invoking division and class specific rules from PIM via maplets.
• Designed the data mapping, matching and de-duplication rules, product grouping framework and inbound feed from ERP (JDE) to PIM and outbound feed from PIM to various E-Commerce channels.
• Orchestrated the workflow for product data onboarding and various maintenance business processes from PIM with IBPM
• Designed the integration architecture with SAP MDG (Supplier)
• Responsible for customer satisfaction, managed the offshore and onsite delivery model.

Associate Director/Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated discovery and analyze workshops with different business units in McCormick. Understood, analyzed and brainstormed the process issues, architecture issues in coordination with the corresponding business analysts, SMEs etc.
• Architected the to be technical phase wise landscape for each master data rollouts, along with the interfacing the social media and Big Data (Cassandra) with MDM being the epicenter of all interactions
• Modeled the TO BE business processes, workflows and over all data flow schematic for McCormick internally and externally.
• Provided the most cost effective resource modeling, rollout plans, business cases in accordance to justify the MDM engagement and value realization and ROI assessment framework.
• Facilitated and driven the steering committee meeting with higher management of McCormick consisting of CIO, IT VP, IT Sr. Director of McCormick
• Driven the vendor selection requirement, parameters and strategy for short listing the right most tools for all the master data domains.
• Coordinated the Expectation Management with McCormick to drive the feasibility engagement to a grand success

Associate Director/Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Elicitation of business cases and assessment of PIM to address the issues pertaining to time to market, governance, consistency and governance or master data of material, product, customer and vendor domains
• Created the blue print of integration framework and data flow across PLM, MDG, ECC and PIM and Big Data Platform
• Designed the unified UI using SSO (Single Sign on) across SAP and non-SAP (PIM) system stack
• Orchestrated the integrated workflow across MDG, PLM and PIM
• Architected the customer and consumer facing data syndication framework from PIM to external app lications (GS1 and Customers)
• Defining the end to end service architecture across systems and orchestrated the service deployment framework
• Integrated current and old systems with SAP Information Steward and Data Services to manage and coordinate profiling and cleansing
• Leading and mentoring 4 member's onsite and 5 member's offshore team.
• Responsible for managing customer expectation, escalation management, satisfaction and periodic communication with upper management.
• Coordinated the Expectation Management with Clorox, SAP and Stibo to drive the project to success

Associate Director/Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Delineated roadmap, strategies and multi release roll out plans for Enterprise PIM for US and Canada and integration with big data
• Outlined & planned the version upgrade (software and application) for PIM (IBM PIM CS V 5.3.2- V-10/11 US & Stibo STEP V5.2-6.0 for Canada) methodology, assessment, impact analysis and eventually implementation
• Designed the Enterprise Data Lake (EDL) to integrate PIM with Big Fast Data (BFD) platform to publish fast-tracked items for newly boarded suppliers/partners to the global ecommerce, print catalog, facilities and other logistical channels.
• Managed the multimillion dollar engagement with the team in disparate geographies by collaborating their work to create the foundation of a global platform for Omni channel retailing by integrating Big Data (Cassandra) with customer hub based out of SAP MDG with multi-channel product master based out of IBM MDM CS.
• Established the framework for multi-dimensional compliances (Hazmat, Shipping & Logistics etc.) for items of all channels
• Worked as a Scrum master to co-coordinate daily scrums, sprint planning, story sizing and prioritization, spike analysis and managing the business stakeholders
• Responsible for managing 3 onsite and 6 offshore members (BA, developers, testers) and to deal with customer expectation management & satisfaction.