Professional Summary

• Confidential has over 18 years of Business Intelligence and Information Architecture. A seasoned IT professional who consistently demonstrates the ability to identify opportunities, and to define and implement innovative business solutions that achieve both financial and strategic success.
• Experience in BI/DW Design Architecture and Implementation. MDM, ETL, CDC, Matadata Management and Strategy, Data Governance, BigData, OLAP, OLTP. Experienced in calculating project total cost of ownership, ROI and other financial models. Client-service delivery, Engagement Management, Solution Architecture and Enterprise Architecture, strategic planning and product development. Additionally Ravi is also experienced in Solution Selling, Profitability Analysis and Pre Sales.
• Strong communication and interaction skills to collaborate and facilitate with multiple organizations. Ability to drive decisions and execute in a consensus driven environment. Gained strong interpersonal skills by managing geographically distributed technical teams.

Technical Summary

Professional Experience

Confidential

Lead Architect

• Collaborate with business, application, solution, and technical architects to understand the implications of respective architectures on data architecture and to maximize the value of information across the organization.
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships with senior and C-level executives working to improve and transform data management practices based on insights into the client's business model and pain points
• Translate and deliver actionable, high-impact plans that improve data integration, data quality and data delivery in support of business initiatives and roadmaps to achieve results
• Leading data-centric projects mentoring other architects/IT consultants within the BAO group and across business units
• Define key components within the Data Strategy, including Master Data Management MDM and Metadata management.
• Overseeing design of information solutions, ensuring that they align with business and IT strategies, maximize reuse and integrate well with existing solutions
• Drive approaches to ensure successful implementation of data management solutions.
• Requirements gathering techniques for data-centric or business intelligence solutions
• Communicate effectively with business partners and stakeholders to assess support needs, assist in the identification of data information needs
• Supporting business development and ensuring high-levels of client satisfaction of deliverables during engagements Contributing thought-capital through the creation of executive presentations, architecture documents, repeatable processes and Data Architecture position papers

Enironment: BI, OLTP, OLAP, ETL, solutions - Multiple DB technologies Relational, BigData, NoSQL . IBM InfoSpehere Suite of products, Oracle, DB2, OBIEE, Informatica, Cognos, DataStage, MDM IBM/Informatica

Confidential

Architecture Team Lead

• Provide over all program leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good customer working relationships.
• Expertise in developing and managing data technologies, technical operations, reusable data strategies with Big Data related tools and technologies,
• Working knowledge of and experience with other enterprise domains Data Governance frameworks, concepts, methodologies and modeling techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to adequately plan and meet delivery objectives and maintain adequate service levels in a highly dynamic, complex environment.
• Provided solutions based on the market trends and come up with new solutions for the industry in coordination with global industry SME team.
• Proactively engage with clients, S D and HVDB teams in identifying new business opportunities through conducting due diligence and recommend technically and commercially superior solution.
• Worked with global leaders in managing business development and sales/presales activities.
• Managed multiple P L and its associated budgeting, planning, reporting on assignments/projects/products along with internal and external staff to achieve product development tasks.

Enironment: BI, OLTP, OLAP, ETL, solutions - Multiple DB platforms. IBM InfoSpehere Suite of products, Oracle, DB2, OBIEE, Informatica, Cognos, DataStage, MDM IBM/Informatica

Confidential

Solution Architect - Business Intelligence and CRM

• Engaging in complete bid life cycle, technical solution, commercial modeling and identification of alliances required for bids customer presentations
• Application of new and innovative ideas on integrating IBM software stack with System Integrators SIs , Partners and ISVs.
• Managing cross-functional execution of the project from requirements to delivery and ensuring the project delivery in accordance with established technical and business objectives.
• Involved in driving cross functional teams in creating a structured project plan. Instrumental in driving cross-functional project plans into a single optimized schedule and plan for the program. Identification of critical paths and risks in the program and effectively negotiating decisions and trade-off's.
• Proactively engage with clients in identifying new business opportunities through conducting due diligence and recommend technically and commercially superior solution.
• Developing alliances with Individual Software Vendors ISVs and business partners
• Working with the various marketing channel teams in generating new business and developing solutions in the eGovernence spectrum.

Significant projects: Government of India Passport Issuance System, New Delhi Online, MP Health Analytics, MP Prison Modernization and security Analytics using IBM entity analytics and Digital Video Surveillance assets

Confidential

Information and Solution Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Business Solution Architecture
• Support Business Portfolio Management by providing architectural and strategic consulting in the areas of IT Strategy, architecture principles, technology lifecycles, best practices, etc.
• Support solution development by consulting on how to best leverage standards, best practices, assets and frameworks
• Work with the cross functional architects to ensure solutions fit within client's architecture
• Solicit feedback and requirements from cross-functional architects and incorporate them into over-all project roadmaps, ensuring the required components and services are in place to support solutions
• Architectural Leadership
• Participate as a Solution Architect for high priority, strategic IT projects
• Define and develop BI services, components, standards, assets and frameworks required to support client's business BI and Data governance, strategy and needs e.g. design patterns, reusable components .
• Serve as point of escalation, review and approval for key issues, significant projects and decisions
• Lead the development of technology plans/roadmaps that address current state challenges and how to achieve a target future state