PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Seasoned Professional with 30+ years of demonstrated abilities and extensive background in applying Full Life Cycle Information Technology solutions to complex business problems, Development & Integration, Package Configuration, information technology Infrastructure, IT Project Management and Service Management.
• Specializes in the adoption of Decision management and Business Rules Management Systems to automate and improve decisions
• Experienced in helping organization to leverage technology to improve business processes and manage organizational knowledge and learning.
• Self - motivated, results-oriented Information Systems Management Professional who has demonstrated success in leading organizational development and Change Management initiatives; guiding process improvement efforts; managing medium to large-scale projects; integrating systems across multiple technology platforms; managing client relationships; IT solutions design & Delivery; Project management; Project team development.
• Possesses effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Managed Software development with hands-on for private Banking, Trading and Securities management Applications.
• 20+years of Programming experience in various Languages.
• Expertise in Parallel Processing, AI techniques and Expert systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IBM/RS6000, HP 9000, SUN Workstation, DEC Alpha, VAX, Multi Processor Systems, AIX, UNIX, Sun Solaris, Sun Studio one (EE), Open VMS, Windows NT, Windows 98Oracle, SQL Plus, PL/SQL, Pro C, Sybase, ISQL, TSQL, SQL Anywhere, MS SQL, Excel, Global Plus (Asset management package By Confidential ), PORTIA, BRASS, Crystal reports, PASSPORT, ERWIN, UML, CORBA, iPlanet, Forte, JRUN, Eclipse, J2EE, Java, SOA,Hibernate,Perl5, Korn Shell, JavaScript, HTML, XML, SOAP, JSP, C/C++, Visual C++, SPSS (Statistical Package), Fortran, Pascal, COBOL, VAX Basic, VPL (VISION Programming Language), RMS, TMX, DEC Forms, DEC Message Q, Reflections, ART*E, ART - IM, ILOG- JRules (3.x to 8.x), Blaze Advisor (6.5), Drools, Pega, BPM, KES, RULE Master, LISP, PROLOG, DCL, CMS, MMS, SCCS, VMS internals, Unix internals.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago; IL

Responsibilities:

• Establishing Competency enter for BPM and ODM
• Enabling usage of Standards and Best Practices At Enterprise level
• Guiding in creating Enterprise Domain Model for Pharmacy and Reference Architecture
• Conducting Steering Group Workshops for BPM and ODM
• Creating Road Map for Process Centric Approach and Agile Methodology, BPM Methodology and Implementation of Agile Business Rule Development Methodology (ABRD)
• Creating Handbook for BPM and ODM Practice
• Working with Stakeholders for Enterprise Level Decision Modeling, and Business Rules capturing, Specification, Analysis & Management

Confidential, San Diego; CA

Enterprise Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Conducting Proof of Technology, Proof of Concept with tools such as IBM ILOG JRules (7.x, 8.x), ODM, FICO- Blaze Advisor, Drools
• Assessment of Operations Decision Management Requirements
• Enterprise level Decision Modeling, Guiding Architecture, and Designing Enterprise Decision services
• Creation of Roadmap, Governance process for BRMS, Establishing Maturity Model and Center Of Excellence for ODM
• Working with Stakeholders for Enterprise Level Decision Modeling, and Business Rules capturing, Specification, Analysis & Management
• Engage business stakeholders, find gaps in decisions and rules before development
• Identifying Decision Points, Analysis and Creation of Rule Book and Fact Models
• Training and mentoring for fine-tuning the performance

Confidential, NY

Enterprise Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of Operations Decision Management Requirements
• Decision Points analysis and Creation of Rule Book and Fact Models
• Architecture and designing Enterprise Decision services
• Creation of Roadmap, Governance process for BRMS, Establishing Maturity Model and Center Of Excellence
• Engage business stakeholders, harvest rules from people’s heads, find gaps before development
• Integration of HIX, NMS and ME along with CDM
• Conducting Proof of Technology, Proof of Concept with tools such as IBM ILOG JRules (7.x, 8.x), ODM, FICO- Blaze Advisor, Drools
• Enterprise level Decision Services Creation, Components and Application Architecture, BRMS maturity Models, Establishing Center Of excellence for Business Rules and created component Integration Roadmap

Confidential, West Palm Beach; FL

Sr. Enterprise Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of Operations Decision Support System(ODSS) Requirements, Components, application architecture, BRMS needs and create component Integration Roadmap
• Providing technical expertise related to BPM and Business Rules Management System; BRMS components, Standards and Best practices
• Leading and conducting ODSS-BRMS research and assessment activities
• Leading and supporting Prototype Activities and POC including creation of SOWs, installation and Evaluation of BRMS products such as “ILOG-JRules”, “Blaze Advisor”, Drools and other Expert Systems shells and Knowledge based systems with Hands-on
• Support the creation of the ODSS Component Integration Roadmap by providing BRMS functional and technical expertise
• Leading Architecture review, Providing Strategic Technology directions, mentoring team members and work with Business, IT, SME Groups and conducting brain storm sessions for the possible strategic solutions and scopes
• Leading, Owning and be the Senior Technology Resource for all phases of ODSS-BRMS applications

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Specialist Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creating Business rules framework which includes standards, guidance and processes for business rules in large projects with high volume data processing and critical SLA requirements.
• Collaborating with other architects to understand cross functional requirements to create the big picture.
• Performed the term fact analysis to create Domain Models.
• Analyzed the business knowledge hidden in legacy code (COBOL) and extracting business rules and processing logic
• Translated Business requirements into Rule based technical solutions
• Presented for the group and Business users ILOG JRules Business rule management systems (BRMS), Rule Engine concepts (Working memory, agenda, etc.) such as Working memory, agenda, etc. to justify the use of various JRules specific features (virtual methods, automatic variables, update object state etc.)
• Analyzed various integration options for JRules in RES and be able to identify the most appropriate option for the project.
• Design, Development and Administering JRules products (Rules Studio, RES, RTS, Rule Scenario Manager), and optimized the rule execution for performance improvement
• Implementing best practices for Unit testing of the Rules and to generate html reports for the test results.

Confidential

Sr. Specialist Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Application Architecture for TED Encounter/ Claims Processing System using ILOG JRules 6.73/7.0 and articulating and helping the efforts of Process design.
• Coordinating with FAs and DB Architect for Data model and BOM creation for Tri Care Claims and Encounters (TED) processing application.
• Leading the efforts of Harvesting, Analyzing and identifying Business Rules from Edits of TRICare Manual and using Agile Business Rule Development Methodologies (ABRD) for Jrules life Cycle
• Leading the efforts for Configuring, Designing, Developing and Deploying Ilog Jrules for the High Transaction TED Encounters processing using ABRD for Iterative and Incremental Development. .
• Designing the Jrules Project structure, Rule sets, Packages, Ruleflows for efficient and effective performance and workspace strategies and methodologies for Referential data as well as Global Constants for their continuous refreshing of status .
• Best practices to ensure a successful Efficient and Effective implementation
• Managing the Jrules Development through Off-Shore-On-Site model.

Confidential

Sr.Specialist Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the existing Enterprise level Worker's compensation application in CSST
• Articulating the Application Architecture and Migrating the embedded decision making business logic from legacy applications to Blaze Advisor (6.5) Business Rules Management System (BRMS)
• Creation of Methodologies using Best practices and identifying, designing services as a part of SOA
• Creating Templates for various rule sets and interfaces for associated enterprise level data sources using SOA

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Sr.Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Creation of common service layer for Property and Casualty Insurance specialties Services in Insurance using ILOG JRules (7.x) and Blaze Advisor (6.x)Rule engine which supports Web Services, EJB MQ Messages. Designed using design patterns
• Development using Agile Business Rule Development (ABRD) Methodology. Development of BOM and Implementing Rules and virtual methods using the BOM. Object modeling, Object Relational mapping using Hibernate
• Service creation and analysis of rating process flow and development from Pega component (PRPC 5.x) as a part of SOA . Process modeling using UML
• Creation of WAS development environment for ILOG JRules and setup of RTS, RES, and RSM in Development, Testing, QA and Production.
• Setting up Rule Project and repository for Enterprise level and Application level Rules (Quote, Policy, Rating, and Underwriting) for Customer Interaction Hub Project (Call center & Internet).
• Setting up Decision Services for CIH as a part of SOA in J2EE environment. Organizing Packaging, Rule Sets, RuleApp and Versioning in RES (ILOG) and Blaze Advisor.

Confidential, ST. Louis, MO

Sr. Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Identified features, functionality for ILOG JRules (6.x) Integration, additional implementation requirements, Architecture, Design.
• Evaluated the BOM and created Java objects for the XOM Migration of Underwriting Rules of BRMS in ILOG JRules from v4.6 to 6.5 and also created new rule sets in Blaze Advisor(6.x) for other LOB
• Provided solutions to Underwriting Rule requirements and other Enterprise Services using Business Rule management Systems of ILOG and Blaze Advisor for BPMS using Agile Development Methodology
• Modeled using UML, Analyzed and Modified Rating process under Pega (PRPC 5.x).
• Created a Prototype for evaluation of a specific process in the Enterprise Application using Blaze Advisor(6.x), ILOG JRules and Pega Rule Engine as a part of SOA in J2EE environment using Design patterns

Confidential, Dublin, CA

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided solutions to Franklin Templeton Investments (FTI) requirements for Enterprise Client program (ECP), and Architecture as a part of SOA.
• Identified ILOG JRules features applicable for ECP and review, environment setup and created FA design to use ILOG JRules along with WLI (WebLogic).
• Identified GSC functionality for ILOG JRules Integration and implemented the migration, evaluated the BOM and created Java objects for the XOM.
• ILOG JRules migration from v4.6 to 6.5.
• Identified additional implementation requirements and created JRules using Eclipse3.2 Environment.

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Planned changes and enhancements to the existing Knowledge Based Systems using Rule based (ART*Enterprise, ILOG JRules), OO programming and JAVA (NetBeans, Eclipse), J2EE and SOA for FTTP and FIOS (Video/Data/Voice) networks on Sun Solaris.
• Developed new Processes/programs to support specific needs including new releases, resolving problems with current systems.
• Provided guidance to and review the work of other global team members.
• Improved existing processes and implementing process improvements.
• Developed and implemented Fault Isolation and troubleshot Rules for Broadband Multimedia-Service Router (BMR1200) as a part of Diagnostics of Network Elements using ILOG JRules, Java.

Confidential

Enterprise/Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on systems requirements based on business requirements.
• Re engineered the existing internal and external interfaces to Tax System and developed using C++ on Dec Alpha, SUN Solaris Systems.
• Created Meta data tags in XML as a part of Application Integration.
• Re engineered and implemented enhancements to Investment services products (Stock Guide, Bond Guide, Market Data, Mutual Funds and earnings) and mapping to Data-Mart (Oracle 8i/Oracle 9i).
• Created meta data XML tags. Processed using standard packages and APIs, SAX, DOM, JAXP, JAXM, JDBC, JDBC-ODBC and RMI.
• Preparation of XML Schema for the existing functional databases/tables.
• Provided queries and reports to support products using XML query, XSLT, & DOM.
• Migrated Investment Services Applications from DEC/Alpha to SUN/Solaris (C/C++).
• Maintenance and Support of the Applications using J2EE, Sun One Studio 4 IDE, XML & Sybase.
• Reengineered and created meta data and Enhancements using C/C++, Perl Scripting, Excel.
• Designed a prototype of information sharing System (multi-platforms including Legacy systems), an intra-net web service for a State justice department.
• Data Modeling and created meta data tags.
• Implemented open standards Technologies such as iPlanet, Net Beans, XML, SOAP, WSDL, COM and DCOM.
• Trained the Group/Project people on open standards, Object Oriented Analysis and Designing.
• Adjunct faculty at Middle Sex County College in the Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics.
• Effectively Reengineered LCD IT processes and systems (Trading includes Equities, Fixed Income, Options & Futures).
• Provided Solutions through the use of Structured Methodology, full Life Cycle Development and Change Management and Source code Management Initiatives.
• Successfully implemented Change Management strategies to Design, Deploy and Operate solutions that improved the quality and level of service.
• Co-coordinated different groups to agree and adhere to consistent and standardized processes for delivering services.
• Developed and Implemented Cross Platforms (UNIX, VMS Scheduling through ‘Korn’ and Perl5 scripts and XML Technologies.
• Developed and Implemented New user interfaces (C/C++) and Web-enabled (JAVA, Server side programming) Various trading reports and BRASS.
• Designed, developed and implemented dynamically created database driven (Sybase) Web pages using CGI scripts, JavaScript, HTML (For various trading Reports).

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and support of Global Plus ( Confidential ) and Portia applications and user reports.
• Reengineering and conversion of legacy Interfaces to New Environment.
• Planning and implementation of Global Plus from DEC/Open VMS to RS6000/AIX
• Migration of Global Plus ( Confidential ) Securities Product (Portfolio Management) from Open VMS to IBM/RS6000 (AIX).
• Reengineering and development of interfaces to Portia.
• Reengineering, design, development and implementation of interfaces to new Environment.
• Supported legacy interfaces written in COBOL & FORTRAN by converting into C/C++ for new environment.
• Designed, developed, implemented and tested New Functionality of “Role Based Security” for PBIT and PBS applications of Global Plus Implementation on RS6000/AIX using Korn & Perl.
• Development of new user reports using VPL (Fortran like Programming Language) of Global Plus.
• Developed New programs for reports, Reconciliation System that compares Holdings, Cash and Transaction data of internal systems versus external Custodian Banks using Oracle Database.
• Design and Development of User reports (Global Plus, Portia) for web enabling using Java Servlets.
• Supported the beginning and end of the day processing for Global Plus and Portia.
• Maintained the scheduled process, scheduler, Source Code Management, Configuration management.
• Maintenance and support of trading applications.
• Migration of Applications to VAX/VMS to DEC ALPHA and Oracle 7.1 to 7.3.
• Re-engineering of Processes and Applications, Preparation of Standards and implementation of Source Code Management and Change Management.
• Implemented as a part of Change Management initiatives, Version Control, Source Code Control (CMS, MMS), Scripts for Automatic Application Builds and Production Releases (DCL, Perl5), C/C++ and Scheduling.
• Migration of the existing Core Systems from DEC VAX/VMS to DEC ALPHA/Open VMS and Open VMS 5.5 to 7.1 including Oracle 7.1 to 7.3.
• Re Engineering, planning, designing and implementation of enhancements to the Core Systems consisting International Banking Online Systems (IBOS), derivatives, Global Securities Management (GSM), Money Dealing Support Systems (MDSS), OMR Trading System and Loan System (LSS) including their Interfaces to other Systems (SWIFT).
• Shell Scripting in Perl, day-to-day maintenance and Testing including Regression.