EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Successful leader, planner, and developer of IT services for various business sectors. Executive leader of financial projects focused on the insurance industry. Proven success with managing P&L for consulting and outsourcing IT engagements. Solid experience performing CIO advisory roles with the ability to transform U.S. and global IT organizations into Confidential 500 and E - Commerce companies. Adept for developing and executing business and growth strategies for a range of companies. Talented Global Enterprise Architect with proven results for helping companies to independently validate and verify strategic projects of 100 MM+. Proficient presenter, negotiator, and business professional able to forge solid relationships with strategic partners and build consensus across multiple organizational levels. Effective and progressive leader of several major transformation and strategic operations engagements, outsourcing of technology, cost optimization, and IT process improvement initiatives across various industries

EXPERTISE:

• Business Aligned IT Strategy
• IT Portfolio Management & Governance
• Enterprise Architecture & Strategic Solutioning
• Strategic Sourcing & Contracting
• Full Life Cycle Project Management
• Budgeting and Planning
• Strategic planning, Gap analysis, Technology Research, Emerging Technology R&D and evaluation, and Road-mapping
• Distributed architectures, Application architecture, .Net and J2EE background
• Business-driven Technology Organizations
• Multimillion-dollar P&L Accountability
• Management Development Programs
• Business Process Transformation
• Regulatory Compliance
• Extensive International/Multi-Cultural Experience
• Large scale Systems Integration, Extensive SOA, BPM, Mobile, Cloud, and Identity
• RUP, CMMI, Agile, XP, Scrum, and occasional Waterfall

AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE:

Industries: Health Insurance, Life & Annuity Insurance, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Transit, e-business

Process Frameworks and Methodologies: RUP, MSF, Agile (Scrum, XP, TDD), SDLC, Lean ADM, ITIL, PMBOK

EA Frameworks: TOGAF, TOG SOA Governance, Zachman

Architectural Styles: SOA, SaaS, REST, EAI, EII

Integration Tools: BizTalk 2004/2006/2010 , Progressive data integrator, MSMQ, SQL Server, SSIS

Project Management Tools: Microsoft Project, Eclips

Languages: C#, Visual Basic.Net, ASP.net, ASP, Visual Basic 5.0 / 6.0, HTML

Development Tools: Visual Studio.net 2005, Visual Studio.net 2003, Visual Studio 6, IISScripts vb script, java script

Databases: MS SQL Server, Oracle

Configuration Tools: TFS, VSS, star team, GitHub

DevOps Tools: SpecFlow, Cucumber, Slenium, Jenkins, Fortify, SonarCube

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hartford, Connecticut

Technical Delivery Lead

Responsibilities:

• Develops overall strategy and directs execution of departmental activities.
• Lead innovative approaches on Test-Driven Development, Acceptance-Test-Driven Development, and Agile best-practices, processes, and tools in support of DevOps processes.
• Proactively seek opportunities to implement improvements in the development process and deployment pipeline.
• Coaches and mentors more junior team members.
• Drive and champion Continuous Delivery and automation wherever feasible.
• Understand where automation can be applied to various aspects of the development process and lead projects to implement these solutions to gain organizational savings.
• Responsible for understanding third party application automation products and applying them to development tasks in a reliable manner.
• Lead all activities for DevOps assessment of process followed existing projects.
• Understand the existing process followed by the project team.
• Perform gap analysis to find opportunities for automation for DevOps Transformation
• Comparisons on various open source and Third party tools available to achieve ATDD for .net web application.
• Create POC to automate Acceptance test driven development for .net web application.
• Develops C# script using Spec flow and Selenium web driver for automated acceptance testing for .net API testing and MVC UI testing.
• Present usages of the tool and comparison to Business stake Holders, to help business to make decisions.

Confidential, Farmington, CT

Solution Developer

Responsibilities:

• Prioritization and rationalization of conflicting business, information, and technology requirements
• Lead design discussions and actively participated in system evaluations, and process design, development, and implementations.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance a resource plan which provides for adequate levels of production support of existing application portfolio as well as the necessary Business Analysis and Development resources to support approved project work within the approved Capital Budget.
• Partners with all IT and business areas to identify opportunities to improve operational and service-related processes through improving the existing application portfolio functionality.
• Remains abreast of information technology trends and their applicability to corporate systems.
• Ensures review of key industry system architecture direction and plans for migration
• Works with the System Architect to identify key areas of change in architecture
• Ensures development of migration plan to new architectures
• Consults with the business owner of assigned issues and opportunities, offering technical advice and analysis.
• Investigated conversion to and from structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data using XML, EDI, and various data exchange formats used in the healthcare payer industry
• Presented technology assessments, overviews, and training to a range of groups and audiences
• Involved in design and development of provider and member portals with ASP.net MVC, C# 4.0, site core as content management tool and unit testing, system testing and release management.
• Changed the enterprise integration approach from point-to-point to SOA using BizTalk server 2013 and WCF and Web services in .Net 4.0 Technologies.
• Designed and managed the delivery of several improvements in enterprise information integration with heterogeneous data sources (XML, flat files, SQL Server, Oracle, and many others).
• Built best practices around Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) projects, Microsoft SQL Server, MOSS, BizTalk, and .NET as well as integration patterns using SOA.

Confidential, Montpelier, VT

Enterprise Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of the enterprise architecture development lifecycle.
• Responsible for leading several architecture development assignments across the organization. Working closely with the business and technical staff and often alongside staff from other suppliers fully competent in own area and act as a key contributor in a complex and critical environment.
• Coordinate the activities of others (internal staff, client staff, subcontractors, associates and staff from collaborating and/or competing suppliers) and manage stakeholder expectations and requirements.
• Ensuring that the application/systems, data and technology aspects of the enterprise architecture are driven by the business imperatives of the organization and that the requirements driving the overall architecture are managed consistently and effectively.
• Understanding and presenting the immediate/tactical and strategic benefits of adopting a consistent architectural approach within the context of the client’s business to help the client justify his investments.
• Assessing the requirements and presenting architectural recommendations that are in line with the strategic vision for the enterprise and wider best practice.
• Providing leadership to the wider architecture and technical community and maintain constructive relationships with suppliers to allow effective and productive evaluation of vendor offerings against business requirements, constraints and priorities.
• Ensuring that the various views comprising enterprise architecture are consistent and coherent, at an appropriate level of detail and that changes are controlled so as to maintain consistency.
• Advise on and participate in the governance arrangements set up to ensure that the enterprise architecture delivers the desired benefits to an organization.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for architectural frameworks, methods and tools.
• Act as coach to advise and assist consultants, analysts, technical specialists and architects in any architecture disciplines.
• Collaborate with the entire range of technical resources within Tech/Dev. to establish and maintain technology road maps and standards and to evaluate new technologies that enable NLG to achieve its business goals in the most economical, scalable and supportable way.
• Key contributor to technical project design, review, and research.
• Involved in enhancing the application for clients requirement based on the market demand.
• Involved in gathering the client requirement and to design the requirement for development team and plan for different releases.
• Involved in developing the requirement with C#, ASP.NET, WCF and Web services in .Net Technologies, unit testing, and system testing and release management.
• Involved in developing the SSIS package and troubleshooting and resolving the production defects
• Involved in developing the WCF, Web services and integrating with different applications.
• Involved, working on database scripts, Store Procedures, View, Indexes and Functions in SQL server 2005/2000.
• Utilize and worked on Source/Version control Tools using with the TFS and SVN, validate the change sets /code changes, apply the Labeling, Check-in/Out and etc.,
• Responsible for generating the monthly reports for applications and distribute among the management.
• Involved in application release and responsible for defect free migration in different environments.

Confidential, IA

Technical Delivery manager

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical leadership for the B2B and EAI solutions based on the enterprise technology stacks.
• Ensure that the solution fits within the enterprise context
• Translates nonfunctional and functional requirements into design, within enterprise context
• Enterprise strategy and goals vs. solution tactical and delivery requirements
• Solutions architectures and designs
• Solutions owners, EA, development team, technology
• Credibility with solutions teams and owners
• Conceptualization, patterns, modeling, design, communications
• Assigned to and functions as part of solution team
• Report to solution owner or line of business, development
• As an Integration Architect have completely changed the organization's integration approach from point-to-point to SOA.
• Architected and managed the development of data exchange interfaces with external systems.
• Designed and managed the delivery of several improvements in enterprise information integration with heterogeneous data sources (XML, flat files, SQL Server, DB2/IMS, Oracle, and many others).
• Built best practices around Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) projects, Microsoft SQL Server, MOSS, BizTalk, and .NET as well as integration patterns using SOA.
• Designed an innovative approach to integrating data from manufacturing lines from a number of different MLSs, for a variety of data sources, including ones based on the EDI standard.
• Responsible for identifying the repetitive problems in application and come up with the solutions to fix them.
• Responsible for offshore resource deliveries and there reviews and deployments
• Responsible for production support and maintenance of the various releases.
• Responsible for handling and Coordination with Offshore team and resource management based on the client requirements.
• Responsible and performing up to the client expectation in all aspect of project development.

Confidential, NC

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with project team to deliver superior solutions for our customers
• Lead architecture & design sessions
• Perform highly visible, complex proof of concept engagements
• Work with project team to gather appropriate requirements
• Model and document complex business processes
• Architect complex data and object models
• Design and document human based workflow processes
• Evangelize company solutions around BPM and SOA
• Mentor team members and perform code reviews on a regular basis
• Assist in all aspects of solution testing and testing documentation
• Overall responsible for project
• Gathering the Business Requirement of the system.
• Responsible for documenting the application requirement and explaining to offshore team.
• Responsible for developing the application as per requirement.
• Responsible for performing the unit testing, system testing.
• Responsible for code review and integration testing.
• Responsible for deploying the application on web servers/
• Communicate with Offshore and responsible to meet the client expectation
• Handling the technical challenge
• Development of the project

Confidential, PA

Solution Architect / Manager

Responsibilities:

• Leading, planning, directing, and coordinating one or more projects from inception through implementation in various methodologies system development life cycle.
• Leads a core delivery and cross-functional project team collaborating with business partners, business analysts and developers to determine and translate business requirements into technology solutions.
• Responsible for managing project costs, resources, change requests, risk, and issues to ensure that high-quality deliverables are produced and that maximum business benefit is attained.
• Responsible for all kinds of technical delivery from Keane.
• Coordinates project phases from planning through field work, reporting and follow-up. Discuss and convey requirements with business management/user representatives and/or customer.
• Helps to maintain proper levels of standardization, in line with global guidelines.
• Coordinates development activities with offshore team, and handles software quality processes and management.
• POC for purposed solution and presenting them to project sponsor.
• Supports Development Application architecture, road map and security.

Confidential, UT

Solution Architect / Manager

Responsibilities:

• Integration Architect working on a multi-million dollar, 150+ interface integration project with over 10 additional BizTalk Developers.
• Lead Inbound and Outbound message processing including real-time, batching, debatching, and large message strategies.
• Conducted two custom designed training classes, improving team performance and skills
• Led debugging efforts on BizTalk code, ensuring code meets the functional requirements and project standards
• Provide one-on-one team mentoring and transition, ensuring knowledge transfer
• Drive a standardized approach to application development and ensures all aspects of technical design are considered in the solution design including application scalability, reliability, availability, maintainability, and security. Develop and institute programming, development and documentation standards and procedures as well as shared program libraries for code reuse.
• Collaborate with team in conceptualizing, designing and developing new software applications and enhancements based on industry best practices and long-term IT organization strategy. Work with functional teams to define and implement migration strategies from legacy systems to new architecture and technologies.
• Research, recommend, define, and implement strategies for integrating third party systems into the business and technical architectures.
• Evaluate business needs compared to technical constraints and determine feature sets in conjunction with the rest of the team.
• Serve as an expert resource for all related technologies implemented as part of the overall company technology platform.
• Mentor and inspire other developers and perform regular reviews of code, technical design and documentation to ensure compliance to established standards and procedures.
• Maintain a current awareness of technological progresses, trends and development techniques related to application architecture, databases and tools and share knowledge with all application development teams.
• Develop a cross-functional understanding of assigned business applications and databases and how they interact with other business applications. Maintain the inventory of applications and their relationships with other applications, processes and databases.
• Scaled BizTalk 2006 to process nearly 1,400 messages per second for one hour, proving the messaging required for the POC can be met using BizTalk.
• Successfully migrated 200 customer system from BizTalk .

Confidential, TN

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Business to determine requirements
• Provide technical expertise in identifying, evaluating, and developing effective procedures and systems requirements that meet business requirements.
• Develop Technical Architecture and designs for scalable enterprise applications
• Actively participate in development and implementation of solutions
• Mentor junior-level developers in Web technologies, including web service development best practices
• Conduct performance and scalability testing, and capacity analysis/planning
• Designing web specific hardware and software architecture;
• Database design and development
• Define and Implement taxonomies
• Architect complex business process management solutions using asp.net web service.
• Designing user interfaces in asp.net.
• Database design
• Actively engage with internal and external contributors on architecture, design, code, and testing to ensure high quality deliverables.
• Created interfaces for the Supply Chain, Finance, and Human Capital group involving EDI Advanced Ship Notice (856), and other proprietary data formats
• Analyzing current messages workflow systems in the context of data movement, transformation and integrity.
• Designing XSD schemas for XML messages,
• Design data access layer using enterprise library.

Confidential, NJ

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Develop reference architecture and standard solution architecture components to satisfy the needs of current global projects.
• Analyzing current messages workflow systems in the context of data movement, transformation and integrity.
• Work with clients to determine requirements and constraints for each project
• Design appropriate technical solutions to meet client business requirements
• Lead the development team in constructing the solution
• Ensure the technical quality of project deliverables
• Facilitate transition of the solution to the client team or hosting environment
• Reference architecture
• Standard solution architecture components
• Technical reference model (taxonomy)
• Decision models, etc.
• Design and implement SOA based architecture
• Designing XSD schemas for XML messages
• Create BizTalk data transformation maps and orchestration scenarios.

Confidential, MN

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work with customers to establish, develop and maintain an enterprise view of their integration architecture.
• Analyze and assess impact of architectural decisions as they relate to integration.
• Apply industry EAI / SOA / ESB best-practices to solve real-world Enterprise, B2B, and B2C integration scenarios.
• Architect complex business process management solutions using Microsoft BizTalk Server and related Microsoft technologies.
• Actively engage with internal and external contributors on architecture, design, code, and testing to ensure high quality deliverables.
• Analyzing current messages workflow systems in the context of data movement, transformation and integrity.
• Designing XSD schemas for XML messages, BizTalk data transformation maps and orchestration scenarios.
• Implementing custom components for BizTalk applications (functoids, pipeline blocks, assemblers / disassembles etc.).
• Implementing the complex custom BizTalk adapters and specific synchronization of messages sending / receiving in multithreading environment.
• Creating service as wrapper for custom utility and components (COM / .NET assembly) which allow communicating with service through .NET Remoting.
• Developed high level BI Dashboard using BAM tools.
• Implementing setup and configuration packages.