SUMMARY:

• A passionate, motivated and process oriented Global Business and Technology leader with over 20 years of expertise in Business Enterprise & solutions Architecture, Presales, Legacy Modernization, Digital transformation, Cloud Enablement, Technical Management & Governance, Channel & Mobile Strategy, IT Advisory, Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance, IV&V, IT Audit, Agile delivery, and Presales for Public sector(State & local), IT Consulting, Investment Banking, Financial Services and Healthcare organizations.
• A seasoned Enterprise Architect, Technology Strategist and Data Scientist with proven methodologies and SOA Governance techniques helping fortune 500 clients with Digital transformation for increased business agility by reducing redundancy, Lowering Total Cost of Ownership and creating high level of innovation.
• Proven methodology with ROI breakeven for 3 years for companies retiring legacy systems and moving towards Micro services and cloud native approach.
• Expert BigData analytics, AI & IOT advisor with proven experience in Microservices, SOA / SCA Architecture,IT Strategy and technical alignment and Governance.
• Helped the Public and Private Sector clients with Architecting state of the art SOA & MSA Webservices implementations including integration with Mainframe and batch processing systems with Spring Batch, Kafka, Flume and Spark to increase efficiency and drive down long term maintenance costs..
• As a Chief Business architect defined IT Strategy and Roadmaps and worked as a Chief Architect and Chief of Staff at various CIO offices and helped the CEOs, CIOs and Sr. business executives to devise strategies for growth, innovation and attaining competence through existing and new IT assets. Successfully overseen Big Integration and Reengineering projects including Legacy & Digital Transformation.
• Lead Global solutions departments,
• Created & managed budgets and formulated the Application Outsourcing strategy of IT Solutions on projects .
• Expertise in presales cycle including preparing RFQ Business proposals, SOWs, estimations & development plans .
• Lead the IT Advisory and Architecture teams for Public Sector Strategic IT Projects, Healthcare IT Strategy & Frameworks, Equities & Fixed income Trading Systems(Latent zero, Charles River & proprietary), Options, Derivatives, Investment Management Defined Contributions, Brokerage and Annuities),, Retail Management(RFID, Ecommerce Order Management Systems) and Services(PLM/PDM systems, E - learning software) which helped in generating new cost savings as well as efficiency for clients .
• Expertise in Agile methodology as Certified Scrum Master and SAFe Certified 4.0 - SAFe Agilist(SA) Coach for managing complex strategic projects.
• Proven experience and implementation of entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and methodologies like Rational Unified Process (RUP) and PMI .
• Architected strategic applications for Public sector Healthcare in compliance with regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPPA NMS,MiFID etc and have thorogh knowledge of various Acts like Sunshine, FDA and BASELII .Designed the regulatory framework and architecture with multiple Rules Engines like OPA for creating rules around the regulations .
• Working knowledge of HL7, NCPDP, CCDA, IHE, FHIR and other healthcare standards.
• Solid entrepreneurial instincts and experience, founded, managed & Sold Web 2.0 and IOT companies, .
• Have been associated with various startups to mentor, sustain and grow and attains venture capital for their growth needs.
• Excellent team player with good communication and interpersonal skills.

SKILL:

Architecture: Togaf 9.1, AI, IOT, microservices, DevOps, API Management, Watson, Gartner framework, Agile Architecture, SOA, SCA(Service component Architecture),BPMN,Event processing model.

SOA: Oracle SOA Suite, Tibco Active Matric, Web sphere Aqua logic Suite,OPA,Informatica

Project Management: Scaled Agile, Agile Scrum,, KanBan Microsoft Project, Office.

E.R.P: SAP ESS, TRM,CRM PP,Matrixone eMatrix, PDM, EDI, BAPI, PLM, QM.

Technology: NodeJs,IIFTT, Blockchain, Python Hadoop SalesForce.com Java, .NET, SQL,ABAP/4, C, C++, PL/SQL, Pascal, EJB, Servlets, JSP, Struts, SOA, JDO, Beans, HTML, XML,XPATH, JHTML, WAP, CORBA, Webservices, SOAP,WSDL and Castor.

Financial Systems: Latentzero Minerva, Sentinel, Charles River Trading, ITG McGregor,Bloomberg market access, Kondor, Reuters 3000Xtra, Reuters Market data,FIX 4.2 XML, transact tools TTConnect,PACE,Vision, TTCert.

Middleware: Aqualogic Websphere, Weblogic,Tomcat,Django, Java Web Server, JRUN.

Operating System: Linux,HP-UNIX10.x, Windows XP,Windows NT, MS-DOS.

RDBMS: Oracle 10g, Oracle 9i/8i,DB2,SQL Server, Ingress,Filemaker.

GUI: JAVA SWING,SWT, AWT,Oracle Forms4.5, and Reports.

Others: FILENET, Rational Rose Suite, MS Project, Rational Unified Process (RUP), UML, Teamtrack, TIBCO(TibRv), ActiveMatrix, Business Works, ClearCase, ClearQuest Eclipse,WSAD,Visual Age, CVS, ClearQuest, Pivotal, Gentran Server, SIMULA, ACAD-12, MS-Office, Alias, InstallShield Autosys.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Chief Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Leading as a Confidential ’s Chief Architect, from solutions perspective, Helping in Strategizing and solutioning their Digital transformation and mainframe and application modernization effort from green screens to smart UI and microservices using Microfocus .
• The setup of ARB Governance and solutions and work with Sr. VP and CIO of Confidential on their Front to Back integration Strategy and solutioning the new custodian system.
• Lead as a Chief Enterprise Architect with Confidential and CRD focus on Azure Cloud, snowflake, Microservices, Pivotal Integration and DevOps CI/CD technologies like gitlab and Jenkins helping Confidential define their IT Strategy and achieve their Digital Transformation goals. Created the landing zone for Azure while setting up a hybrid cloud environment and containerizing the applications on dockers using Kubernetes and application migration from Rackspace to Azure..
• Created the AED Consulting practice for the Confidential in a strategic move from a system Integrator to a Digital Transformation services company with assets in API management using Apigee, microservices and IOT.
• Created predictive analytics for Confidential customer portal using Machine learning and AI and helped them match with correct product.
• Leading the Transformation of a services company into Digital & IT Strategy Consulting organization and provided governance and advisory services for healthcare, insurance and financial services clients.
• Created Modernization strategy and architecture including Data unification, Cloud native, Kubernetes Containerization and pubic private hybrid cloud adoption.
• Leading innovation on Hybrid Cloud, Kubernetes, dockers, Blockchain, API & Microservices Management and IOT Cumulocity software solutions.

Chief Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Digital transformation efforts leveraging cloud native strategies and solutions for clients involving SaaS, PaaS & Continuous Integration, including IT assessments and Future Roadmaps for retail and healthcare clients including transition to Micro services Architecture (MSA) from legacy monolithic systems and creating an Agile framework for delivering multiple streams of value consistently Also helped in creating the web based Customer 360 view using Salesforce and various BI MDM tools like Informatica and micro strategy .
• Lead as a Chief Enterprise Architect with focus on Integration and DevOps technologies helping various fortune 100 clients like Travelers Insurance, TJ Maxx and Confidential define their IT Strategy and achieve their Digital Transformation goals and Modernization strategy including Data unification, Containerization and private hybrid cloud adoption. Leading innovation on Hybrid (AWS/Azure)Clouds, Blockchain, API &Microservices Management and IOT software solutions.
• Lead the Technology Delivery and Architecture team and provided Technical leadership to Solutions team. Incubated Ideas and created POCs for IOT connected devices with web-based interface, Artificial intelligence Chat Bot and machine learning, predictive analytics products using Watson, IBM Blue Mix and Block Chain Ether network with solidity. Architected micro services SPA systems with REST based microservices, NoSql databases like MongoDB and Couch base for analytics and Horton works /Hadoop for Bigdata processing.
• Incubated and led the development of Healthcare technology products like EDI helper and Campaign manager on virtual private cloud and accelerated Fintech ideas and IOT tools internally and defined the Go to Market Strategy to commercialize these products. Used multi-cloud hybrid AWS/Azure model for hosting it in SAAS based architecture.
• Built prototypes with IOT interfaces, IIFTT, Validic, Node Js and Java. Also used HTML5 & Xamarin framework for mobile and web design and development for Health Dialogs.
• Created the Digital Business platform for Health Dialog and integrated the IOT platform with existing systems which enabled HD to develop an Integrated wellness Solution.
• Lead the team on architecture and implementation of the Population health project and evaluating Key Strategies like Enterprise Architecture, Digital Strategy for healthcare, Scaled Agile method and creating a cost effective Population health system.
• Did architecture assessments for various Retail and E-Commerce companies like Staples, TJMAXX & BJs on Digital and retail transformations.
• Created Data Lake in Tableau for Predictive Analytics and used deep learning for creating solutions for Healthcare providers using Big Data and Event based architectures. Worked on containerization with Kubernetes Dockers, pivotal cloud foundry and Splunk for the cloud native transformation, cloud enablement and security.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Transformation for HIway Technology Team which is the Health exchange for MA .Created the Transformation Roadmap from old XDR(Direct protocol ) messaging to FHIR based real-time synchronous system.
• Created Business case for transformation effort and Governance framework to evaluate the Architecture and transformation efforts within the EHS while working with various provider networks and state agencies
• Evangelized and created architecture based on TEFCA and Argonaut frameworks and used FHIR resources over RESTful API for synchronous RLS based communication.
• Mentored the team on latest Standards and best practices like FHIR, MITA 3.0, CDS and SMART framework for architecture and created dashboards and monitoring systems for millions of messages flowing through the HISP.

Enterprise Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Used Alfresco for information Governance.
• Created Single Page Architecture (SPA),data models and canonicals for Enrollment and Provider Systems and used Informatica MDM and Hortonworks Hadoop Big Data frameworks for creating analytics and reports.
• Mentored the team on ISO and IEEE Standards and best practices like FHIR, MITA 3.0, TOGAF 9.1, HL7 and OASIS framework for architecture and implementation of the project and evaluating Key deliverables like Enterprise Architecture, SOA Strategy, Interfaces Plans, Project Life Cycle and other Technical and Functional Artifacts.
• Architected Solutions leveraging SOA and SCM model to provide Enrollment and Inquiry over Health Benefits Exchange network using Web services and Event based Systems.
• Created web interface for data from various IoT devices like Fitbits, Heart rate scanner as well as other medical devices for insurance player in wellness domain funded by State using IFTTT and dacadoo platform.
• Coached and Mentored the team on SAfe Agile principles and helped in timely delivery. Lead the team in architecture and Standards and created frameworks and templates for the team to use while validating the System. Used Confluence for team collaboration in agile mode

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed the role of Chief Strategy Advisor and SOA Architect and lead a team of Enterprise Architects, Infrastructure and Cloud Solution Architects from commonwealth and the vendor to evaluate the Plans and Architecture and Provide Strategic IT advice to the Project PMO and State, improving efficiency by 25% and providing cost benefits to State of over 20MM.The Architecture was Micro services based on REST API & the Platform was IBM BPM and IIB and also used SAAS products like Sales force CRM and Service Now over Service cloud.
• Strategized the cloud enablement strategy and digital transformation for state and operationalized it using Pivotal cloud foundry. Envisioned the AWS S3 storage architecture and mentored the vendor with Hadoop(HDFS) based design and provided Infrastructure Architecture planning including Exadata setup for private cloud. Used Oracle Enterprise manager (OEM) to manage and optimize the Oracle stack in the cloud. Also used Spark and Kafka to manipulate the streaming and batch data on Hortonworks Hadoop instance.
• Architected the Bridge between mainframe and Oracle middleware including the ETL and java batch processing using JSR 352 to load data and other onetime data into Informatica MDM system.
• Devised a Hybrid Mobile Strategy for device agnostic and rich experience for citizen customers for availing RMV services. Compared native, hybrid and responsive designs for achieving best quality and experience.
• Advised State leadership on compliance management, risk and governance, and overall business performance and CRM Solutions including Salesforce Architecture and Design and cross platform bridge strategy between Mainframe and Java Oracle SOA System. Worked with CIO office and provided Consulting and Strategic advice to Operational Steering Committee, Architecture Review Board and SOA Governance board on various Governance and Architectural issues.
• Evaluated and reviewed the Architectural artifacts and BPMN context diagrams and helped in SOA Maturity model assessments .Promoted Continuous Integration to have daily builds using puppet & Jenkins and setup the DevOps processes for the MIS private cloud.
• Lead the team of Architects and Project Managers with DOR and DOT and the vendors in identifying and mitigating risks related to integration of SAP TRM module and Web services and the designed cloud Architecture for Salesforce, Force.com and FileNet Integration.
• Used IRS publication 1075, NIST.SP.800.53 and ETRM5.1 standards to evaluate the Security architecture. Also created Security Control framework as well as Guidelines for Access and identity Management.
• Managed 23 resources including Technical Leads and Sr. Architects for implementation of various projects for Confidential and State of Rhode Island for various Cloud based Solutions involving COTS including Salesforce, FileNet, Informatica, FAST and custom Build SOA Architecture.
• Created Architectural Design on in memory caching of Big data using SAP Hana over their TRM module.
• Worked with Confidential Sales to write response for RFQ’s and provide pre-sales support and helped to grow the account from 5 people to 25 people across Confidential in one year.
• Lead the evaluations of model assumptions and data integrity, testing of model numerical, statistical, and computational accuracy, performed outcomes analysis and reviewed model governance and control process for various tax related regulations.
• Scaled up the IV&V practice from ground up and helped the Group reach 15 MM mark in 2 years. Also currently engaged in doing RFE and presales support for IV&V and Strategic Solutions Architecture group for Confidential .

Confidential

Chief Enterprise Architect-Integration

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Architecture Group and the teams as Chief Architect to implement cutting edge EDI Claims routing and Enrollment systems at Confidential utilizing the Service oriented architecture, ebservices and COTS products. Managing a team of 15 Architects to overseeLegacy transformation and Strategic Projects withing Confidential .
• Strategized and Created Cross Platform Bridge Strategy for Amysis transformation into SOA /SCA based open source system using web services and Oracle SOA Suite.
• Helped the CTO office to define the high level strategic plan and architecture and to select the technology stack and vendors to ensure successful development and implementation of 100MM IT strategy effort at Confidential with effective ROI .
• Member of the Corporate architecture board and COE for SOA Governance where I oversaw the standards, designs and implementation practices for all strategic projects within Confidential to ensure successful service delivery and to identify issues that may become economies of scale.
• Created BPMN and Camel Context architectural diagrams and Use Case for web designs across stragetic projects at Harvard Pilgrim and provided Management and Advisory consulting to Sr Executives at Confidential .
• Created business and technical agility by introducing Agile methodology which is now the standard project management technique in Confidential .
• Worked as Scrum master for Architectural Scrum and mentored other architects and project leads in Agile methodology.
• Lead the coordination and collaboration efforts within various architects to create in the standards based architecture and programs for multiple applications and secured funding for implementation of these programs.
• Created the architecture and design for successful implementation of Transaction Management and EDI projects to manage HIPPA transactions for Claims, Enrollment and Payment with Webservices and Java Spring framework including the batch processing.
• Enforced Security standards and SAS70 Audit standards,FHIR within the IT organisation ensuring privacy and regulatory standards as well as HIPPA compliance .
• Used SOA/SCA(Service componant architecture models to improve delivery of business and web services and cost effective way to implement Enterprise services across the organisationcases to define complex processes from High to lower level details and mentored solution architects and tech leads to use standards to develop and manage the software delivery within teams.
• Architected and developed multi-tier enterprise portals using J2EE technologies like Servlets, JSP, Struts 2.0, Hibernate 3.0, Spring 3.0/Boot, JSF 2.0, EJB and XML. Helped Confidential to create a Enterprise Services Hub using Tibco Active Matrix and Java based Web services, Camel Routing and Edifices Suite for managing EDI transactions.
• Defined the systems architecure for the Claims and Enrollment team to process HIPPA 4010, 5010 and properitery transactions from Partners and create a tracking visibility for all claims and policy units within Confidential .

Confidential

Sr. Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Assembled and managed a team consisting of Sr. Architects, Domain experts and management consultant and lead the team by example by creating templates and Questionnaires for business leaders and technology leaders representing different groups and companies to be merged and transformed.
• Created IT Transformation Strategy to replace underlying technology and provided value proposition to Reengineer Business process around Advantage, A&H, IAF, Corp Edit and One Stop Systems.
• Worked as Client relationship and Engagement Manager with Confidential and helped them outsource their business process and IT Units to Keane .
• Provided Business advisory and IT Strategy support to Confidential for transformation of Legacy system to Guidewire Suite and Open source Systems .

Confidential

Sr. Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of Latentzero Minerva Trading system from Fidessa and its integration with Middle and Back Office securities operation with significant ROI with increased competitive edge for Putnam.
• Created Data Models to manage credit risk and market risk and other types including Foreign exchange, Shape, Volatility, Sector, Liquidity and Inflation risks. Manage strategies for modeling (design, development, validation, implementation, monitoring and reporting), in collaboration with Finance Leaders
• Architected the enterprise wide solution and standards for Event based Tibco adapters and java based listeners for integrating portfolio, securities, issuer and other data and market data systems with Equity trading system .Configured and Integrated and certified the FIX Engine (ttcert) using FIX, FIXML to connect to external brokers (sell side) and helped in testing of the counterparties. Setup of multi level of Order routing one for the trading desks as well as smart order routing for external markets. Integrated with Omgeo, Sentinal, settlement, Bloomberg and Reuters systems and other back office trade repositories
• Devised an end to end implementation strategy and customization of Minerva Services for Putnam, including configuration, integration, troubleshooting and fine tuning of all 28 Minerva Services based on SOA model. Also created batch framework using java to create one time and daily jobs to populate the Instruments, currency and other data with autosys.
• Created Product & architectural specifications for new features in Minerva and worked with LatentZero in getting the Putnam specific requirements as bundled products. Conceptualized and Created specs for Supplementary applications (Putnam developed) like contrary competing screen and packaged them as a product offering to third party.
• Implemented the Algorithmic trading capability for Minerva with existing counterparties, used channels, liquid net and trade internalization for trading efficiencies.
• Strategic Outsourcing Management by propositioning of different operational models (onsite/offsite) to Putnam stake holders that can help increase their productivity and profitability. I was responsible for maintaining and executing high levels of off shoring. Trained 1st and 2nd level support groups to troubleshoot and support the latent zero system in Production. This transition helped Putnam become more efficient and saved over $8.0 million over 3 year period.
• Acted as a change catalyst and helped Putnam Senior management to phase out existing Trading system gradually and with minimal impact using a bridge approach to the new Minerva trading system.
• Liasoned between Equity traders including domestic and international and Putnam core IT team for requirements and transition of new system.

Confidential

Architect

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for estimation and resource allocation for a new enhancement along with the Business analysis, architecture on MRK Participant Enhancement project
• Conducted presentations on Streamlining offshoring procedures and implementation strategies. Proposed and defined new processes and systems within the group and FeB as whole to enhance quality and reduce the downtime for fixing bugs and adding enhancements, which helped the group to be more efficient and to reduce cost to an extent of $ 2million for the group.
• Assist management from FeB( Confidential EBusiness) with strategy roadmap including but not limited to (service delivery strategy, pricing & change management)
• Architected the Net benefits application small & medium enhancements for contributions and exchanges pages and removed redundant pages and processes to streamline the system and maintenance. Created and architecture using Struts and tiles to create Net benefits Balances, contributions and exchanges applications which can be configured based on the various browsers and clients. Used web services and SOAP based API to integrate the data with legacy mainframe systems.
• Develop industry-specific insights on best practices for Keane Project Management Practice.
• Technologies used were J2EE, JavaScript, Rational Suite, MS Project, Clear case, WSAD, Web sphere 4.0.Struts framework, C++, JDO, DB2.

Confidential

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project initiation and planning, and for overseeing development, testing, implementation, and closeout. This included initial project planning efforts such as developing the project scope, defining project guidelines, obtaining business and IT sponsor approvals, and coordinating the resources necessary to successfully complete the project.
• Architected the system based on using delegate and façade pattern so as to use same underlying business objects to interact with different view objects to customize the site based on countries. The Ecommerce site utilized service oriented Architecture (SOA) and ran on a single database.
• Designed the system on Struts framework & MVC pattern using JSP, business objects and Data Objects. Used Java Data Objects (JDO) to persist the Data with helper classes and JDOQL (Query language).

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Customized & enhanced the Matrix one framework to create a Single source of Program Interface (SSPI) using Matrix one UI Level 3 and Engineering Central.
• Leading the Product Development Management by amalgamating JCI iPLUS process with RUP. Worked in Six-Sigma Technology Stack and helped the group to achieve the Six-Sigma objectives in development.
• Used J2EE, Rational Suite, Rational Unified Process, Test Director, MKS, WSAD, Web sphere 4.2, Matrix one eMatrix framework, MQ Series,Oracle9i &, Progress.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed a turnaround program for State Health Care operations focusing on enhanced Prisoner verification match system & SSA interfaces with DHS using J2EE, MQ series and Websphere. Performed requirement analysis and gathered information from DHS employees & prepared agency questionnaires documented and created analysis plans using Rational Requisite Pro.
• Prepared Use-Cases, Class diagrams & Sequence diagrams in Rational rose for different processes for batch processing the data. Written Functional & Method Specifications with knowledge base from requirement analysis to convert the requirements into a pseudo code.