SUMMARY

• Skilled Technical architect with 17 years of experience involved in full software development life cycle in a multi - million dollar, multi-tier enterprise system launches in team-based environments.
• Extremely focused customer-centric, resourceful, good analytical skills and have high degree of Integrity. Ability to solve challenging business problems with innovative enterprise solutions.
• Proven abilities to leverage the hybrid delivery model, comprising a perfect mix of onshore and offshore developers to take the project from start to finish.
• Solid understanding of business drivers, application development, ecommerce applications, web development, application and enterprise architectures, application integration,
• SOA, unstated and implied requirements, agile software delivery fundamentals, architecture modeling, systems consolidation, web services..
• Business Analysis, End to End Solutions, Architecture and Design
• End to end project and program management
• Cross-functional Team Leadership
• Application testing, quality control and user acceptance testing
• Organizational budgeting and resource management
• Excellent skills in Business Modeling, Business Process Analysis and Business Process Re-Engineering
• Excellent People and Program management skills
• Excellent Presentation, Written and Verbal Communication Skills
• Proven Leadership skills - Self Starter, Motivating others, High Work Ethics, Commitment to deliver and Natural Team Player
• Ability to manage client expectations and deliver with the available resources and budget

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows

RDBMS: Oracle, SQL Server

Application & Scripting Languages: C, C++, Java, J2EE, CGI/Perl, UML, SQL, PL/SQL HTML, XML, JavaScript, AJAX

Application Server: Weblogic, Websphere

Compiler Techniques: Flex and Bison

Frameworks: Struts, Spring

Web Servers: Tomcat, Java Web Server, iPlanet, Netscape Enterprise Server

OOAD Techniques: Use Cases, Class Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams

GUI and IDE Tools: Visual Age, Visual Café, JBuilder, Eclipse, DreamWeaver, Visual Interdev, Kawa, JUnit

Database and object modeling tools: Rational suite of applications, ERWIN, TogetherSoft, Toad, SQL Developer

Testing Tools: JUnit

Build Tools: Ant

Software Packaging: Sun Solaris Packaging scripts

Agile Methodologies: Extreme Programming

Configuration Management: IBM Rational Clear Case, Telelogic CMSynergy

Web Content Management: Vignette

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irving, TX

Senior Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected, designed, and implemented new bill format distributed system with SOA architecture that handles 10M transactions and 1.5 M bill invoices per day. In addition, were able to retire seven legacy mainframe applications by consolidating in to this new system with savings of $20M annually.
• Designed and planned the hardware configuration and storage layout along with a team of DBA’s to achieve the desired non-functional requirements of the system like, throughput, scalability, security, availability. Data retention and archival policies were implemented based on the specific needs of the business.
• Invented, designed, and implemented new online transaction system called real time sales dashboard that allowed marketing to react with new promotions and bundles based on company performance and sales growth for each region. Able to launch new bundles and promotions successfully that improved FiOS sales growth by 10% from 2,500 to 3,100 per day
• Designed and rolled out new disaster recovery architecture for retail IT systems to guarantee redundancy, load balancing, 24x7 availability, DR that increased systems uptime from 90% to 99.999%
• Designed and successfully created new generic framework for coupons and promotions. This enabled marketing to react timely manner by enabling and disabling promotions and bundles without code changes using common bookshelf catalog. Successfully generated 5M coupons using this framework and created almost 150 promotions
• Credited with successful large scale software upgrades from Weblogic 8.1 to Weblogic 10, EJB 2.0 to EJB 3.0 and Oracle 9 to Oracle 11g
• Business trip to our offshore center in Chennai, India to developed and implement an onshore-offshore software delivery model to increase the value created for the clients, speed up time to market and reduce project costs

Environment J2EE, Oracle 11g, Weblogic Application Server, Rational Rose, Ant, Log4j, Eclipse, UNIX.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Technical Architect, Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Architected, designed, and implemented the migration of CORBA based distributed application to a 3-tier web based client server architecture.
• Designed and implemented the security framework for user authentication and authorization across the whole extranet application.
• Architected the Customer Care tool on a J2EE platform to support around 20,000 account reps from East and West region to manage customer’s ordering and billing inquiries work requests in a timely manner. System was able to scale well within the given SLA of 1.5 seconds to get the response back to the customer.
• Implemented an asynchronous, secured and a scalable communications framework as a reusable service for more than 80,000 external clients to connect to Verizon systems for message exchanges.
• Business trip to our offshore center in Hyderabad, India to developed and implement an onshore-offshore software delivery model to increase the value created for the clients, speed up time to market and reduce project costs.
• Implemented Single Sign On across Intranet and extranet websites to consolidate web login services and have a seamless user experience.
• Business case planning and analysis for all Verizon wholesale (Local and Access) IT ordering systems.
• Lead the team of up to 12 key resources including employees and contractors onshore and offshore.
• Communication and coordination with business partners for obtaining requirements for various initiatives.
• Coordinate with testing teams for reviewing test strategy / test cases, analyzing trouble tickets and providing timely resolution.

Environment J2EE, Struts, Weblogic Application Server, Oracle, iText, Rational Rose, Ant, Log4j, Eclipse, Web-Agent/ SiteMinder/iPlanet operating under Windows NT/Sun Solaris platform, UNIX.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead a team of developers to create time sensitive reports reflecting the management of the customers work requests by the respective reps.
• Designed an asynchronous notification mechanism to notify the higher level executives about the missed SLA’s on any of the customer requests and the total requests handled per day and per region
• Release and program management including capacity and resource planning
• Executive reporting and presentations up to SVP
• Responsible for leading a team of business analysts to analyze the business requirements, perform initial impact analysis for applications and provide detailed IA report along with rough order of magnitude (ROM) in terms of hours

Environment Visual Basic .NET, ASP.Net, ASP, C#, JavaScript, HTML, XML, IIS, SQL Server

Confidential

Application Architect & Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• System architecture and design for creation and publication of core ordering rules that are used by telecommunications companies to do business with Verizon.
• Designed and Implemented real-time event based reusable modules in Java for generating reports for the business rules in PDF and RTF formats using iText library.
• Designed and implemented a cross-browser & cross-platform DHTML Javascript tree component with Rich API and Drag and Drop capabilities.
• Writing Systems Requirement Specification (SRS), Functional Requirements Design Documents (FRD's) and technical specifications.
• Manage relationships with stakeholders for variety of project initiatives.
• Post production issue analysis and problem resolution.
• Utilized Extreme Programming methodology for development process. Implemented engineering practices like TDD for quality improvement.
• Developed environment independent System V Packaging Scripts for packaging the whole application and installing on all the test, integration and production servers
• Developed complex SQL Queries, Stored Procedures, Triggers and DB Packages in Oracle.
• Performance Analysis - Integrated JProfiler with the application to interpret the usage of system resources and to understand the behavior of the system in terms of Heap Size, Garbage Collection, Memory, CPU Profiling, Threads etc.

Environment Java, JavaScript, Struts Framework, Oracle, Weblogic Application Server, JUnit, Clearcase, Rational Rose, TogetherSoft, iText, Ant 1.5, Log4j, Eclipse, Web-Agent/ SiteMinder/iPlanet operating under Windows NT/Sun Solaris platform.

Confidential

Lead Java Developer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Migrated the business logic implemented in C++ to a web-based open-ended distributed J2EE architecture
• Worked on all phases of software development life cycle like model designing, implementation, testing etc. …
• Development of individual modules required by aircraft provisioning system.
• Designed and implemented the middleware services, responsible for holding the actual business logic.
• Developed a set of reusable data layer java classes for the business layer to communicate with the database.
• Worked with the customer to finish the design specification, implementation, testing, and putting the aircraft provisioning system to pilot and production.
• Migrated the large scale upgrade of Weblogic application server from 5.1 to 6.x.

Environment Java, C++, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, XML, XSL, XSLT, JSP, Oracle, Weblogic Application Server, JUnit, Clearcase, Rational Rose, TogetherSoft, Ant, Log4j operating under Windows NT platform.

Confidential

Technical Lead and Designer, Java/C++ Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Developed the high-level and detailed technical specifications document based on the functional specs given by the business clients.
• Modeled all the business requirements to create a high level design for the application and the database layers.
• Implemented the employee portal in a web-based open-ended distributed J2EE architecture.
• Designed and developed the individual use cases as reusable components, adhering to a component-based architecture.
• Implemented all phases of software development using RUP methodology.

Environment J2EE, C++, SQLAPI++, JavaScript, RMI, EJB, HTML, XML, XSLT, JSP, Oracle 8i, Rational Rose, Weblogic Application Server operating under Windows NT platform.

Confidential

Project Manager, Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed and lead the team of 20 to develop the whole application in a rapid application development environment.
• Developed a generic and uniform interface to the payment gateway for credit card processing.
• Developed the thin web client interface for the application using Struts framework.
• Active participation in all phases of the project, including meetings with stakeholders to understand business requirements, budgeting, product rollout strategy, Quality Assurance, customer communications etc. …
• Mentoring the team through various phases of the project life cycle and offering technical guidance.

Environment XML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, EJB, Servlets, HTML, DHTML, Weblogic, Oracle 8.x operating under Unix platform.

Confidential

Senior Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Architected and designed the application to have a robust, scalable and secured framework and support 600 people distributed across the whole region.
• Developed and configured the intranet website using 2-tier architecture with JSP and Servlets running under Java Web Server.
• Creating software models to visualize the design aspects.
• Assisting quality assurance teams to create positive and negative unit test cases and execute stress regression testing.

Environment Java, JSP, JDBC, Servlets, HTML, XML under Win NT/9x with Java Web Server operating under Linux platform.

Confidential

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Developed an automatic renovation compiler (Analyzers and Parsers) for Micro-Focus Cobol source code in ‘C’ using Lex and Yacc tools.
• Developed a user interface in CGI/Perl to execute the sequential flow of converting the non-compliant code to a renovated one.
• Created building and packaging scripts for compiling and linking all the associated source codes and libraries to create a single aggregated binary executable
• Developed shell scripts for parsing and utility programs in Linux.
• Created test cases for unit, stress and regression testing.

Environment C/C++, CGI/PERL, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets under Win NT/95 with Apache as the Web Server operating under Windows NT and Linux platform.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed the efficiency tool in ‘C’ for planning out subsequent shift operations to achieve maximum output.
• Created detailed technical specifications document to capture all the low level implementation details.
• Developed a persistence framework for abstracting all the database related operations from the client programs.
• Generating reports based on the available data and sending out notifications to the executive management in real-time.
• Created test cases for unit, stress and regression testing.

Environment ‘C’ under Unix