SUMMARY:

• Offers over 20 years of experience with all levels of management and a high level of proficiency in business management, information systems and information technology.
• Expertise in assessing and defining client requirements, developing necessary strategies and delivering quality solutions in alignment with business objectives.
• Provides exceptional leadership throughout the full life cycle of any endeavour, including program and project management, enterprise architecture business design, risk and mitigation planning, change management, business analysis, quality assurance and resource management.
• Very successful in guiding project teams to a greater understanding of business concepts and strategies that maximize efforts.
• Strong experience in a variety of industries, e.g. the public sector, consulting, manufacturing, banking/finance, telecommunications, and shipping.
• Visionary, thoughtful leader and strategic enterprise architect and project and program manager with over 20 years of IT consulting and value based technology solutions life cycle management experience, who consistently crafts and leads innovation (in revenue generation) to revenue from vision and strategy to stellar execution.
• Extensive experience in understanding, advocating and supporting the enterprise's IT strategies, as well as analyzing its IT environment to detect deficiencies and recommend improvements.
• Strong understanding of enterprise business initiatives and objectives, risk and change management, the various line portfolios, and current trends and developments in the technology field.
• More than three years of experience with Hadoop ecosystem deployment architectures (with features such as high availability, scalability, process isolation, load - balancing, workload scheduling).
• Experience using/installing/troubleshooting/supporting/tuning Big Data/Hadoop components such as HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, HBase, Cassendra, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Splunk, Nosql databases such as Mongos, Statistical analysis using R.
• Knowledgable and experienced in securing Hadoop clusters using Kerberos, encryption, data security, access control and security event and audit logging in cluster.
• 5 yrs. experience, expertise and knowledgeable with various PMO Structures such as Community of Practice, Project Support Office (PSO), Program / Project Management Office (PMO), Portfolio Office, Federated PMO (National and International) and governance
• Very adapt in managing bottom up programs and also top down (LOB or Functional and Enterprise) Programs.
• Extensive experience in reviewing project proposals to determine goals, timeframe, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, scheduling, risks, contingency plans, staffing requirements and allotment of resources with management.
• Strong experience in managing to budget up to $25 million, budget tracking and managing burn rates.
• Extensive experience in developing and managing the relationship between IT and other stakeholders with the goal of defining, planning, building and assessing the IT (Infrastructure and Application) portfolio.
• Extensive experience in architecture design, defining the strategy for integration of all technical components, coordinating development efforts, clearly outlining the technical implementation strategy, and providing clear direction for the technical team
• Strong experience in implementing applications such as eCommerce (B2B and B2C), EDI, Web, Portals, and COTS products integrating with various ERP/CRM solutions such as Oracle Financials, SAP, JDE and Siebel
• 8 yrs. experience in planning enterprise architecture including current and future state analysis and its alignment with IT Strategy.
• Highly experienced in managing large transformation programs such as replacing a global legacy mainframe system with a COTS solution on distributed (Unix / Linux) platform in a regional phased manner involving onsite and offshore development including full time and contract staff.
• Extensive experience in developing, prioritizing, coordinating and communicate the goals and processes necessary for implementing the portfolio, as well as evaluating and assessing risk as part of the life cycle analysis of portfolio components
• Demonstrated ability to manage various types of Managers and diverse groups of technical professionals that have expertise in different domains, both onshore and offshore.
• Extensive experience as change management agent in multi stakeholder management and communication in global IT environment
• Extensive experience in ITIL v2 and v3 environments. Knowledgable with single page web applications using AngularJS.

TECHNICAL AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Auditing Enterprise Infrastructure including Information Security (End to End) for highly demanding (QoS) Quality of Service requirements (Security, Scalability, Reliability, Availability, BCP, DR etc) and its alignment with IT Strategy. Identification of gaps to support IT strategies and recommendation of products and technologies to fill those gaps. Understanding technology selection issues. Architect Solutions keeping long term Strategic objectives in mind and addressing the tactical requirements of ongoing projects.
• Architecting solutions using Unix, Networking (Firewalls, VPN’s, Routers), Clustering (Web server, WebSphere / WebLogic / JBoss Application Server, Oracle / DB2 / Sybase Database, WebSphere MQ, TIBCO RV, ValiCert, Connect Direct products / technologies.
• Using Websphere underpinning a fully integrated and flexible end-to-end Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA and Web Services Centre of Excellence and its mission, objective, scope and reference architecture and vendor landscape. SOA and Web Services engagements using structured engagement approach including assessment, strategy and planning including Infrastructure readiness assessment and strategy. Architect SOA solutions and applying project, technical and operational governance.
• Performance analysis, tuning, capacity planning especially in highly demanding Financial / Securities Real Time / Near Real Time BI / J2EE Applications.
• Architect / design / develop various types of application integration solutions, such as Data Level (information) Integration, Application Logic (API) Integration and Process Integration, using different EAI architectures such as Brokers or Point-to-Point Integration, using Messaging (JMS / MQ), Connector Architecture (JCA), Web Services, Enterprise Service Bus ESB, ETL, EAI, Work Flow, BPM, BPA and BAM technologies.
• Code reviews (specialization in Info security for things like XSS, structural analysis of Java code, pattern analysis GoF, Java, J2EE, Messaging, Industry recommended best practices) as external / internal Auditor. Generating high quality detailed (Gap and Impact Analysis) report and implementing the recommendations outlined in report.
• Enterprise (information / data) integration using technologies based on replication and / or messaging Such as Oracle Streams, Sybase RepConnector and adaptors, Informatica Power Centre RT, Ascential Data Stage (Including its integration with SOA), Attunity CDC and Connect and EAI integration technologies.
• Enterprise Data Architecture architect, design ETL process (batch and real time), Meta-Data, Data Integrity, Data Quality Data Cleansing, De-Duplicate, Data Analysis (Only Analysis prior to Cleansing), DQ Firewall, Data Stewardship, Strategies for improving DQ, data safety and security based on SLA across multiple heterogeneous data stores. Dealing with issues/challenges to improve downstream DQ.
• Data Integration Technologies such as ETL, Replication, Integration Broker, FTP/Batch File Transfer. Choosing right technology for the job considering Data Transformation Support, Data Latency, Scalability and Performance, Security, Metadata Support and Interfaces / Programming Model.
• Consolidation/virtualization using HP, Sun/Fujitsu Containers Zones and LDoms and VMWare ESX technologies for Windows.
• Reviewing current backup solution and propose future solution and create implementation roadmap especially including NetBackup and SAN Backup technologies.
• Managing 24X7 mission critical Central/Federated Data Centre environments hosting systems/applications used by users across the globe.
• Big Data / Hadoop HDFS, Hbase, Cassendra, Hive, Pig, Flume, Sqoop, Map Reduce, Storm, Spark, Kafka, NoSQL (Mongos), Redis, Splunk
• Design and ability to produce infrastructure technology solutions both independently and collaboratively in a large and complex enterprise environment including costing and ongoing operational support costing.
• In-depth understanding of infrastructure engineering life cycle processes, tools, utilities and methodologies and an understanding of software vendors and platforms in one or more domains.
• Familiar with Blue-Green deployments, A/B testing and Canary releases.

TECHNICAL PROFILE:

Framework: Struts 1.0 and 1.1 including Tiles and Validator Framework, Log4J, JUnit, Ant, Castor, XML Beans, Hibernate, Spring 2.0

LDAP Servers: Netscape Directory Server, Novell Directory Server

Messaging: IBM MQ Series / WebSphere MQ (5.1,5.2,5.3 and 6.0), JMS, TIBCO Rendezvous

Application Servers: IBM Websphere (3,3.5,4,501,502,51, 6.0,6.0.1), BEA WebLogic (61,70,81,10), JBoss (3x, 4)

Design Tools: Rational Rose, Rational Unified Process, Oracle Designer, Erwin, UML, Power Designer

Database: Oracle (7x, 8x, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g), IBM DB2 (6X, 7X, 8X), Sybase ASE (11,12X), GemStone 6.1

Development Tools: Rational Application Developer (6), IBM WSAD / WSED (4X, 5X), IBM Visual Age, JBuilder (8X, 10X), BEA Workshop 81, Eclipse with WebLogic Plugin

Workflow: IBM Workflow 3.4, Workbench (Holosofx), BEA WebLogic Integration (7X, 8X) and Seebeyond from SUN

SSO User Provisioning and Identity Management: Oblix, Netegrity SiteMinder, GetAccess and Waveset LightHouse

Business Intelligence and Data Integration: Sunopsis, Ascential Data Stage, Informatica, Oracle DW Builder, BEA Liquid Data (Data Aggregation), Power Center RT, Power Connect For MQ / JMS / TIBCO, Oracle Streams, Sybase Adaptor and Rep Connector, Sybase IQ, Cognose Enterprise Suite, Trillium (Data Cleaning Tool), Attunity CDC and Connect (BEA Certified JCA Connectors)

Profiling / Diagnostic Tools: JProbe, OptimizeIT, Wiley Suite, WebSphere (Log Analyzer, Thread Analyzer), System Core Dump Analysis (dbx, gdb GNU debugger), SQL Profiler (Log4j, P6SPY Snoop on SQL Statements ), JAMon, Site Assure from Platform, BMC Patrol Suite (KM for WAS and MQ)

Functional / Non Functional Testing Tools: JMeter, Grinder, OpenSTA, Mercury Suite Win Runner, Load Runner, Test Director

ERP: SAP, JDE and Oracle Financials

CRM: Siebel

Enterprise Content Management: Filenet and Documentum

Operating Systems: UNIX (HP, SUN and AIX), VAX VMS and Windows

Enterprise Architecture Framework: Gartner Enterprise Architecture Framework, TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) and Zachman Framework

Governance Frameworks: ISO 17799, ITIL v2 and v3 (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and Microsoft Operations Framework.

Portfolio and Program Management Methodology: Gartner

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Directed the team of automation of installation and provisioning of middle tier software Tomcat 7 and WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 on RHEL 6.X platform using puppet and thunder software tools on cloud (agility on service mesh), and Confidential CSffA infrastructure.
• Architect the solutions using Exadata and ODA appliances to consolidate databases, overseeing migration, tuning the databases to take advantage of Exadata features such as offloading and smart Query index etc in local and global regions.
• Directed the team of automation (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) of Mavenized JEE applications in Subversion and Artifactory repository for deployment using Jenkins to various environments.
• Architect/design/Install/validate/test Hadoop HDFS cluster for scalability, load balancing, high availability, process isolation etc.
• Created support documents for operations team, best practices documentation and enforcement.
• Provided leadership to team in matrix environment during all phases of SDLC including troubleshooting and maintenance functions.
• Re-platform the data on traditional mainframe and RDBMS systems using ETL, Sqoop and Hive.
• Provide design recommendations to project teams when analyzing an RDBMS data model for migration to Hadoop.
• Created POC using Splunk for log files data capture and analysis.
• Created POC for Statistical analysis and analytics using R.
• Assist in the engineering and certification of the analytic products once new vendor versions become available (install, configuration, packing, documentation, testing, etc.).
• Provide SME support to gather requirements and scope projects for on-boarding into the Big Data Platform.
• Coordinated with vendor support team and internal engineering and operational teams to drive issues to closure.
• Design review of customer business requirements and technical design documents for adherence to platform standards and Hadoop industry best practices.
• Created the solution strategy for mission critical applications to exit Stamford data centre and over saw the migration.
• Worked with multiple stakeholders from different regions on infrastructure initiatives in global IT environment
• Communication with various stakeholders including executives in global IT environment

Confidential

Senior Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the solution design of COTS solution FICO OM4 using IBM WPS product and IBM MDM applications, integration with Confidential system and Offer Management custom built application.
• Worked with vendor SME to create the solution blueprint aligned it with Confidential Infrastructure Design Patterns and technology reference architecture based on DR and availability ratings, obtained sign off from various governance boards for use of approved and contained technologies and handled exceptions.
• Worked with peers to integrate the applications with internal and external applications and PCI compliance.
• Worked with on site and offshore development resources to ensure that the overall solution is understood and developed accordingly. Worked with vendor, partner and internal resources to ensure that the environments are built as agreed.
• Worked on integration with Confidential system using MQ, Web Services and other integration technologies.
• Worked with performance testing teams to ensure that the solution scales as expected to meet nonfunctional requirements.
• Worked on FATCA programs to develop infrastructure solution for Pega application and TDCT and DC LOB.
• Working with all LOB applications to design infrastructure solutions using shared Pega, Kofax and Filenet technologies.

Confidential, NYC

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to Director, Enterprise Application Architecture
• Lead the review of existing Tririga infrastructure to identify the deficiencies and prepared the report recommending solutions for identified deficiencies.
• Created the fully redundant and highly scalable Tririga infrastructure architecture including DR site.
• Worked with vendors to prepare the cost estimates and presented it to stakeholders for approval.
• Prepared the documentation templates, such as business process architecture, for the engagement.
• Worked with client stakeholders to define and document the client specific business needs and application requirements for IPIS system. Developed process diagrams, use cases, gap analysis and functional design documents. Worked with application developers and other team members and interacted with client to ensure accurate and comprehensive data and reporting requirements.
• Created the logical design of data integration with agencies using Data Connect and ETL tool.
• Oversaw the development of solution through phases and worked with QA team to ensure that high quality of end product.
• Escalated risks and issues to the management to ensure timely resolution.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed the implementation of release of CART and IDL Pega applications.
• Managed onsite and offshore (India) teams for development and QA.
• Developed the PMF artifacts such as ITPMA, Project Charter and obtained certification from various groups.
• Managed the development of SDLC documents.
• Managed the financials of project such as MIS, Professional fee tracker and PWA and approval of SOWs and timesheets.
• Worked with offshore team to finalize the SOWs.
• Worked with Business teams to time box (scope and schedule) and calculate the release.
• Effectively communicated project status, risks, issues, deliverables progress and forecasts.
• Prepared project plans which break down the project deliverables into manageable tasks using EPM templates to ensure successful delivery.
• Monitored and tracked the budget burn rates.
• Proactively detected, evaluated and communicated the project risks and issues.
• Facilitated meetings with various groups and disseminate meeting minutes, action items and other documents.
• Ensured that the release is developed using best practices and RBC standards.

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed planning, costing and implementation of Datacenter Network Architecture(DCNA) version 2.
• Managed the solution architecture, IP design, stakeholder approvals including project documentation.
• Managed the planning, costing and implementation of Web Hosting environment including leveraged and dedicated environment using F5 load balancers, IDS, Check Point Virtual Firewalls with D8 equipment, routers and switches.
• Managed LAN/WAN (MPLS) networks including configuration and testing of devices.
• Planning, Costing and implementation of network monitoring and SAN data replication FCIP networks.
• Managed the creation of BOM and procurement and hardware tracking including facilities planning.
• Managing the migration of multiple clients using internal and vendor resources through integrated project / program plan.
• Managed the data center performance analysis to create the baseline to ensure post migration performance is within agreed SLAs with clients using external vendor (Riverbed).
• Managed the risks, issues, actions and decisions (RAID log) associated with program / projects.
• Vendor management with telecom partner (mtsAllStream), hardware providers (HP, Checkpoint, F5) and professional services organizations.
• Managed a team of 10 fulltime and contract Network Engineers and hardware vendor resources.
• Mutilple stakeholder (internal and external) management and communication

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Consultant and reported to Director EA to setup Enterprise Architecture Office and align it with PMO / Portfolio Management and Program Coordination Office.
• Created the charter for the setup of EA office. Selection of EA framework.
• Created the organization structure, processes and defined roles and responsibilities considering organization political structure and size.
• Created a Business Case template and worked with PM during the development of business case for one of the large transformation initiative.
• Reviewed the list of documents produced during the SDLC and aligned them with OPS Framework.
• Current State and Future State Analysis of enterprise landscape and published the blueprint of Future State in line with SOA.
• Reviewed the infrastructure upgrade proposal from Filenet (Enterprise Content Management) 3.X to 4.X Created the initial draft of J2EE Reference Architecture.

Confidential, NJ

Managing Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided project leadership as well as high-level professional, analytical and technical expertise to projects within the program.
• Liaised with program and project management and other functional teams and stakeholders to assure requirements are understood.
• Provided delivery teams’ leadership management and guidance for all phases of the program from pre- business case onwards factoring in constraints and assumptions.
• Advised stakeholders including business, IT, users, and program management on optimum way forwards. Status and progress reporting.
• Liaised with business and functional users to identify and agree optimum business requirements. Translated into requirements from a functional and technical perspective. Oversee and participate in solution scenario map.
• Multiple stakeholder management in federated PMO setup and executive communication in global IT environment.
• Oversee and participate in system architecture design, delivery, SCM and Release Planning. Engaged the Architects to ensure that the development efforts occur in a manner consistent with the overall technical strategy of program.
• Oversee / managed multiple projects of significant technical complexity simultaneously. Managed to a budget of $25 million.
• Assessed and managed risk on an ongoing basis ensuring existence and implementation of mitigation plans.
• Engaged and managed Infrastructure teams to provide permanent and temporary environments using Virtualization to keep the hardware and software cost under control.
• Managed off Shore and On Site full time and Contract Staff. Engaged and managed Professional Services from various vendors for fixed price short term assignments to keep program on track, defined scope of engagement, wrote SOW, negotiated cost and duration, additional planning to ensure timely completion.
• Managed the integration of OSCAR with SAP, JDE, Oracle Financials and various other legacy systems.
• Analyzed the existing architecture of Pegasus application including tools and technologies (Weblogic 10, Oblix, MQ and Oracle 10g) used. Identified the dependency matrix of components including supported versions involved and proposed the initial draft of roadmap for upgrade.
• Collaborated with DBA and Infrastructure teams to perform a POC of Oracle 10g RAC running on Fujitsu blade servers running Linux.
• WebLogic Infrastructure Planning for all environments and physical and logical architecture documentation.
• Participated in troubleshooting issues during Oblix upgrade and upgrade to Weblogic 10.
• Reviewed the architecture, design and code of off shore developed IOCM applications using JBoss, Sybase, Struts, Castor, Hibernate and OpenSymphony Quartz Scheduler. Identified the critical performance bottlenecks which put the program on critical path.
• Identified, brainstormed and build consensus with teams on options to re-factor the application and lead the implementation. Re-factoring involved stored procedure tuning, design change to avoid excessive long running DB locks, SQL tuning, locking level change for quartz db etc.
• Chaired the day to day program governance meeting called "System Health". This involved analysis of significant incidents and problems and action items were created and assigned. Managers provided status on assigned action items.
• Worked as consultant in OSCAR architecture group to perform program level architecture functions such as logical and physical architecture of OSCAR (COTS Dossier), Cost analysis report such as Cognos cost analysis report, reverse engineered the global MQ infrastructure diagrams, standards such as password standards for various tools and technologies involved, best practices, re-organization of team, defining roles and responsibilities, detailed security incident reports etc.
• Started Infrastructure Project Portfolio to organize infrastructure level planning, prioritization and implementation of projects and to improve visibility into these initiatives. Used Gartner PPM Framework as reference to establish Infrastructure PPM considering organization culture.
• Reviewed BPM application implemented using B2B Gateway product named Gentran Integration Suite.
• Identified and resolved various performance issues from infrastructure as well application side.
• Mentored application team to re-factor issues related to long running transactions, Compensation transaction, error handling etc.
• Simplified the FTP Integration Architecture using NAS appliance.
• Simplified the Service level monitoring implementation to improve manageability. Proposed and architected Service level logging to improve message consolidation and troubleshooting.
• Various message formats such as XML, UIF were used for integration. Standardized XML as standard message format for new applications considering interoperability and off the shelf utilities to minimize custom code such as Castor or zero coding such as Sunopsis ETL.
• Published XML Schema Modeling Best Practices and Guidelines.
• Negotiated integration contracts (messages) among development teams including design decisions.
• Explored and Evaluated ESB patterns such as ESB Gateway, One ESB vs Multiple ESB considering governing bodies, funding models, Geography and Multiple ESB products.
• Explored ways to organize multiple ESBs within organization considering multiple governing zones. Evaluated WebSphere ESB, Advanced (Message Broker) ESB. Developed Non-Functional Requirements and SLAs.
• Logical and Physical SOA Management Architecture and Operational Model.
• Explored the feasibility of application of appliances.
• Defined the scope and requirements (XML Accelerator, Security Gateway and Integration appliance for building XML Firewall, offload XML processing, EDI transformations, Policy management etc) for evaluation exercise.
• Studied the industry technology and product landscape.
• Short-listed appliances for evaluation such as IBM/Data Power, Layer 7 and Covast BBot and Extol EDI Appliance.
• Capacity planning of the OSCAR System (COTS) which was deployed globally.
• Used the reference physical architecture provided by the vendor for planning.
• Worked with Performance Tuning team to ensure that infrastructure and applications are performing within SLA.
• Worked with the Business team to set and manage expectations of global and regional users.
• Worked with Operations team to help train manage incidents and problems until the production support was transitioned to the operations team.
• Worked with management team to identify documentation and training needs of the operational staff to support system effectively and efficiently.
• Wrote position paper and DR Strategy document. Identified and short listed technologies to create technical proposals. Proposed 2 Data Centre and 3 Data Centre (Campus 10KM, Metropolitan 100 - 150 KM, Continental Over 150 KM ) Solutions with SAN Synchronous Vs Asynchronous Data Replication or Fabric FC-IP Solutions and 3DNS Solution.
• Short-listed WAN Acceleration / Optimization appliances to improve BW utilization.
• Reviewed and documented the applications to server matrix, high level application design, deployment architecture to assess the complexities involved. Delivered Technical Architecture Design and Technical Specification documents.
• Created and tested DR Scripts / Procedures and other relevant documentation including knowledge transfer to support teams. Prepared the roadmap of implementation (DR Plan) using the internal site as hot standby site and oversaw practice drills.
• Analyzed the consolidation, standardization of vendors, OS and servers using vertical / horizontal scaling, partitions and virtualization.
• Explored the application of blade servers in data center to lower TCO and more computing power in same rack space, efficient power utilization and cooling. Evaluated Blade Vendors strategically such as Confidential and Fujitsu with focused POC such as Oracle 10g RAC on Linux and migration of GIS servers from Confidential PA RISC processor to Fujitsu blades.
• Identified application/candidate for migration to blades such as web server Farm, EDI, LDAP and Database Oracle RAC Servers. Migrated VERITAS File System to Solaris ZFS to lower TCO.
• Reviewed the web of existing shared file systems (NFS) running on heterogeneous OS and file servers.
• Architected the solution to migrate the NFS from Sunfire H/W --> Hitachi NAS --> NetApp device.
• Reviewed the existing composite backup solution to identify gaps and proposed solution to fill the identified gaps.
• Proposed the consolidation of DB instances and MQ QM to few servers. Proposed EDI technologies consolidation (GIS and AI). Proposed migration of Oracle to RAC to remove VERITAS HA solution.
• Reviewed the existing authentication, authorization, administration and audit schemes for existing systems in scope from JOSX perspective.
• Identified gaps from existing standards such as password standards.
• Architected the solution to consolidate the data stores to LDAP and identified the re-factoring needed to be in compliance with published standards.
• Oversaw the design and implementation of controls needed from regulatory compliance perspective. The systems passed the internal and external audits considering very strict deadlines.
• Directed the teams during infrastructure audits and data centre operations for JOSX
• Identified gaps in existing Service Management Functions such as release management, change management and recommended solutions to fill gaps.
• Reviewed the deployment schemes for existing applications and proposed automation of deployments to reduce human error and implementation times.

Confidential, NJ

BPMS SME

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed the existing Business Processes.
• Recommended methodology to select the Vendor.
• Identified the Functional and Non-Functional requirements.
• Prepared RFI document. Identified and Short listed Candidates to receive RFI.
• Prepared the draft of RFP document. The client decided to implement COTS solution.

Confidential

Senior Integration Engineer / WebSphere SME

Responsibilities:

• Planned and built WebSphere 5.X and 6.X Infrastructure considering Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) requirements.
• Multiple clustered instances on same server to ensure high server utilization.
• Performed Single Point of Failure (SPoF) Analysis of TWAI GWA Infrastructure for J2EE applications.
• Project Management activities of applications / migrations. Create and publish build/project plans and ensure that the build/project plans are in line with overall project plan and have continual visibility for project milestones vs. planned delivery schedule.
• Identified technical risks in the technical architecture / design lead the development team in developing prototypes to actively attack the risk.
• Built GWA DR site.
• Participated in development of contingency scripts with help of technical and business (Geographically Dispersed) representatives of applications.
• Worked with business owners and development teams to define the scope of the performance testing / tuning exercise, exit criteria, designing test scenarios etc to ensure compliance with negotiated SLAs.
• Identified Performance Bottlenecks, reviewed design and code, proposed tuning alternatives and ultimately tuned the applications.
• Worked as Consultant with FMS and FRB development teams to create solution architecture and to ensure timely delivery of highly visible GWA applications such as Cafe and Partial 224.
• Recommended multiple HA options for MQ Series and lead the implementation of the selected option including code changes. Evaluated Adobe Forms Server and Actuate for various reporting formats such as rtf, Excel and PDF and QoS requirements.
• Worked with technical leads and application architects to identify and implement monitoring requirements using scripts and BMC KM.
• Developed and regularly updated logical and physical architecture documents.
• Multiple stakeholder management in federated multi agency PMO setup and executive communication

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Reviewed Weblogic 8x FX Trading Infrastructure existing hardware, network topology and software components including their role and configuration.
• Reviewed configuration and tuning settings of Weblogic application server including capability to meet demanding QoS requirements. Reviewed application deployment practices, level of performance instrumentation etc. Performed the code review of applications considering structure analysis, GoF/Java/J2EE pattern usage and level of Information security instrumentation and monitoring.
• Created logical and physical architecture documents.
• Lead the Information Security group as Enterprise Security Architect. Participated as a member of Vendor Evaluation / Selection Committee at RBC for their Global Application Security initiative.
• Architected Near Real Time and Historical Data Warehouse initiative named “Data Space”. Wrote Position Paper, Technology / Tool Selection Paper and came up the Roadmap of implementation. Architect the whole solution by using the best of Inmon and Kimball theories.
• Proposed Solutions using Pure J2EE, ETL, EAI + BAM and ESB technologies. Strategic Vs Tactical (EAI Vs ETL, Integration Suites Vs ESB, Impact on Project) issues.
• Identified Products to Push Real Time Market Data to Browser based clients for securities applications (To retire in-house developed swing client, Pushlet Servlets to DHTML client).
• Reviewed the design of a critical components / batch process. Identified the limitations of the existing design. Recommended short-term fixes and an alternative design with minimal impact on current implementation as a long-term solution. Identified infrastructure for reuse to implement long-term solution.
• Communicate risk assessment to IT Steering Committee to make an informed decision.
• Multiple stakeholder management and executive communication in global IT environment