SUMMARY:

• CTO, Enterprise Strategy and Architecture
• Over 20 years of experience across
• Finance (IB/PB/AM/WM), Insurance and Big Pharma
• Alignment of Business & IT and Delivering Enterprise level Solutions
• Building COE & EA practices based on Business - driven Enterprise Architecture model
• Applying Financial, Operational and Architecture Strategy and Governance frameworks and methodologies for efficient decision making and management of IT budgets and project Book of Work
• Analysis and compliance & conformance with Regulatory requirements
• Strong communication, partnership & relationship management skills
• Experienced in both Business and Technical Architecture and Management
• Experience in modeling complex Enterprise Solutions
• Evaluating and implementing Architecture Patterns and Best Practices and techniques Coaching/mentoring both business and IT staff
• Fostering an environment that is geared towards sharing, motivating and clear communication
• Exposure to Six Sigma (6σ) process improvement and Agile(Scrum/Kanban) project delivery methodologies

TECHNICAL PROFILE:

TOGAF 9 Troux/Mega/Metastorm/Alfabet

PPM and Risk Management

SOA ITIL COBIT

Big Data Real Time parallel (Hadoop MapReduce) in Cache/memory processing statistical analysis Visualization historical and predictive analytics

Cloud & Platforms Solution/Application (AaaS) Software (SaaS) Infrastructure (IaaS)

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) ESB SOAP Web Services REST

JSON XML XSL XSLT HTML

JEE & J2EE Java Script JDBC EJBs JMS JNDI

Weblogic Application server (WLS) Confidential WebSphere Application server (WAS) Apache Tomcat

MS SQL Oracle DB2 ODBC/JDBC

Eclipse NetBeans WebSphere/Rational Developer and Architect

Windows Linux Unix Mainframe

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY & Miami, FL

CTO, Managing Director

Responsibilities:

• Business modeling, Process improvement, Enterprise Architecture, Managing Complexity, Integration/SOA Architecture and Big Data
• Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private Banking, Wealth Management
• Big Pharma, Healthcare and P&C insurance
• TOGAF, Target states, Road maps, EA Tools (Mega, Troux, OpenText/Metastorm and Alfabet/Software AG)

Technology: Solution Architecture, Cloud, Integration, SOA, Confidential Integration Bus v9 (IIB) / Message Broker (MB), MQSeries/WMQ, DataPower (DPW), BPM: WebSphere Process Server (WPS) & Lambardi, BRE, WebSphere Operational Decision Management (WODM)/ODS, WebSphere Registry and repository (WSRR), WSDL/SOAP, REST, XML/XSD/JSON SDLC, Agile/Scrum

Big Data: Real Time processing: Distributed Cache-ing(Coherence) and Real-Time stream/statistical processing languages (R-language), time series (temporal) data, parallel processing (Hadoop MapReduce), noSQL databases (MongoDB, Couchdb, Cassandra), Data Visualization tools (Tableau)

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Currently in the process of helping company building EA practice based on the Gartner analysis and recommendations, including introduction and pushing for the business-driven enterprise architecture model: defining TOM and BCP first, getting business, and most importantly CFO, involved as stakeholders
• Introducing EA application & information landscape management tool (Mega, Troux, OpenText/Metastorm and Alfabet/Software AG) for the purpose of IT investment decisionning (invest/maintain/decommission) in combination with PPM tools which will be followed by defining Current and Target state Application Architecture based on TOM, which in turn will be followed by Road Maps mapped to the projects BoW
• Introducing annual projects book of work review by EA during the budgeting cycle and throughout the year projects review methodology (PRB) which would be plugged into SDLC to leverage commonalities, explore synergies, avoid duplication and ensure that the direction towards Target is followed.
• Streamlining Claim Adjudication processes, introducing centralized capability for modelling and management of Rates and fee schedules and provider/rates affiliations. Following SOA principles and Best Practices for solution definiti and delivery by engaging integration vendor via fixed-price SOW.
• Introducing the concept of using TOGAF Views for defining project’s Solution Architecture Definition: Business, Application, Information & Data, Integration, Security and Technical Architecture Views.
• Introducing concepts of using Data Model to be used for defining Service/integration interfaces, including messages for SOA based Architecture.

Technologies: Confidential Websphere Application Servers (WAS), IIB v9 (Message broker), WMQ, DataPower (DPW), WSRR, ODM/ODS (decisionning engine), WSDL/SOAP, REST, agile/scrum, SDLC

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Served as a “de facto” Departmental Architect for the Global Foreign Exchange (GFX) area.
• Conducted routine and ad-hoc Architecture Deep Dive reviews with reports communicated up to CIO office for the following large IB IT Initiatives:
• Risk Horizontal and later Strategic Risk Program (SRP) initiatives
• Trade Execution and Trade Management Horizontals and later Single Stack for EQ&FI Trade Execution
• Contracts Lifecycle management (CLM and CDU) project and CVA
• FI Rates group IT Broadway implementation for ecommerce (RFP and SEFs/ETFs) and electronic market makers
• Industrialization/implementation of the Architecture project review Governance process as part of the PRB process
• Coordinated annual IB Book of Work (BoW) Architecture reviews for budget and investment planning to test for architecture feasibility, business alignment and to identify potential overlaps and synergies between projects leading to CTB budget saves
• Defined Target state Service Architecture for the Client Onboarding (COB) project across Client ID area (KYC/AML/etc processes), Ref data, Legal & Compliance department (LCD), Credit, Collateral and CVA areas handling Contracts/Agreement (ISDA MA, CSA, GMRA, etc) and negotiation status updates.
• Review of Rates Trading Architecture for SEFs/ETF markets including IDB/CLOB and RF*/client interactions

Technologies: Mobile technologies; Integration (WBI, MQ); Big data - Hadoop Amp Reuce, NoSQL databases(MongoDB, Cassandra), BI and Visualization (Tableu); cloud - SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

Confidential, Chicago, IL & Woonsocekt, RI

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Technology assessment of the current state, setting up Strategy, Reference Architecture, Road Map
• Work with Confidential Enterprise Architecture team to provide assessment of the current state of the Enterprise SOA and BPM environment within both Confidential (Retail) and Confidential (PBM) and setting direction for the future.

Technologies: TOGAF 9, Confidential SOA/BPMReference Architecture, Confidential ’s Rational (RSA, RAD), WebSphere (MB, WAS, WPS, WID, WBM), Confidential Lombardi Teamworks, FICO Blaze, Progress’s FUSE, SOA Software for Governance

Confidential, Collegeville, PA

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Architect for the Integrated Information Management (IIM) Program; defined Target data and application Architectures for information management across R&D, Legal and Manufacturing/Operations departments; in collaboration with the Business analysis team identified portfolio of 20+ projects which defined an actionable Road Map with execution steps for moving towards the Target state.
• Justified need for and helped establish Integration Center Of Excellence (ICoE) and served as an Enterprise Architect at this CoE
• Provided recommendations and Best Practices for setting up Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) infrastructure for implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), including directions for defining and implementing SOA Governance
• Responsible for creating Enterprise Reference Architecture, analysis of the capabilities of AS-IS technical environment, providing gap analysis between AS-IS and TO-BE, providing recommendations for Strategic direction for Enterprise information systems following SOA and BPM paradigms and principles
• Served as an Architect on multiple SOA & BPM projects assuring adherence to the defined Target Architecture and development and delivery in accordance to defined standards based on SAP, Confidential, Oracle (BEA) technologies in Research, Regulatory and Manufacturing departments

Vice President

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Enterprise Architecture and Development projects for the Global Shared Services Bus
• Global Service Bus (GSB) is the WMQ and WBIMB pub/sub -based implementation of ESB Architecture following SOA principals and providing services to SOA components by means of WMQ and web service interfaces.
• Solution specifically focuses on providing highly-available (hardware level-MSCS and software level-MQSeries clustering), resilient, scalable, disaster recoverable, secure (including SSL), easy to build/deploy (based on Confidential and ANT), easy to manage & monitor (Sitescope) Services to the interfacing applications.
• GSB is geared towards providing Services to both J2EE applications running within Application servers and to stand-alone jms applications through JNDI, one and two phase XA-transactions, implementing automatic error handling and exception handling (based on Process Choreographer).
• Application servers hosting company’s applications are WLS (BEA WebLogic Application Server) and WAS ( Confidential ’s WebSphere Application Server). Applications primarily interface to GSB through jms and MDBs.

Software: WBI MB (Message Broker), WBIA: JText and JDBC adapters, WBI Modeler and Monitor, WBI SF (Process Choreographer), WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and Weblogic application server(WLS), WMQ (MQSeries 5.3), Trillium for data cleansing.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Chief Middleware Architect - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the overall MQSeries Enterprise Architecture implementation, standards, processes and design for the projects.
• Responsibilities included
• Mentoring both TechOps and Development teams on MQSeries Architecture approaches
• Interfacing with Internal and Partners’ and Vendors’ Project managers to implement and migrate multiple Messaging enabled applications.
• Serving as a liaison between BankOne corporate and both internal and external clients and vendors (TSYS, Disney, etc.).
• Reviewing and evaluating existing technical architectures and suggesting new architectures,
• Evaluating the effectiveness of solutions and suggesting improvements to clients,
• Security standards based on native WMQ SSL and security exits using Siteminder.
• WebLogic to MQSeries integration, including jms and MDBs configuration.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Middleware Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing into production Bank’s MQSeries Architecture and infrastructure, including interfacing to different technology and business groups including UNIX support group, Network Engineering team, DR Director, Security Director, Wire room managers, 3-rd party support managers, 3-rd party vendors, external client companies and Confidential Senior management.
• DTC connectivity over MQSeries to MDS system for DO (delivery orders) and PO(payment orders)
• Prime OFAC connectivity for compliance engine
• Intranet MTS MQSeries connectivity for automatic wire transfers (MTS )
• Bridge to BGI (Barclays Global Investors)
• Connection point for SWIFT messages processing
• Interfaces for TOC (Trade Operating Console) application and CAS ( Corporate Actions) application
• Intimately familiar with Securities Industry STP/T+1 initiative.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included analysis, design and architecture of MQSeries/MQSI/XML based middleware layer (IAF) which was used by several systems on the project for intercommunication;
• Designed and developed interfaces in C++. AIX and Sun Solaris. Sun WorkshopPro (Forte) on Solaris.
• Single point of contact for the application development groups for the MQSeries-related issues/questions/concerns.
• Interface/interact with J2EE WebSphere application server developers, educate J2EE developers on different options of interfacing to MQSeries, such as MQSeries Java classes and JMS implementation on top of MQSeries.

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creation of unified MQSeries/XML based communication layer between worldwide located Trading Systems and Risk Management organization. Major objectives included correct mapping/preservation of current system functionality, modification of “ill specified”/“badly thought through” areas to properly reflect current business requirements and introduction/coverage of new/emerged business requirements.
• Client side logic was running on Win NT and Sun Solaris platforms and was implemented in Java, server side logic was running on Sun Solaris and was written and built in C using Sun WorkshopPro (Forte).
• Interacted with J2EE (Apache and JSP) developers.

Technologies included: CORBA/C++/MQSeries/Oracle on Tandem NSK, UNIX, Dec Open VMS (VAX) platforms