SUMMARY:

• Hands on Enterprise/ Big Data /Solution Architect with 17+ years of overall IT experience in US, UK with strong background in Integration technologies (EAI, B2B), Security Architecture, Governance, Information Management, Business Intelligence, Application Development and Emerging Technologies.
• 9+ years’ experience in retail, healthcare organizations and Insurance payers.
• 7+ years’ experience with big data technologies, data science and expert in machine learning, mining social web, and data exploration and building recommendation engines.
• Provide thought leadership in tackling multiple, complex issues to create effective and lasting solutions.
• Experience developing or directly supporting an enterprise architecture program.
• Effectively collaborate with stakeholders to gain collective buy - in on architecture strategies.
• Excellent work ethics and ability to negotiate conflicts and build consensus to support IT Transformation.
• Excellent problem solving skills and providing vendor agnostic solutions and then providing vendor oversight to drive the solution implementation.
• Experience in introducing new technologies such Confidential Big Data, building consensus and setting up Data Architecture, Data Science practice.
• Experience in exploring business use cases for big data and conducting proof of concepts
• Experience in managing large scale SOA projects and developing SOA Governance and Integration standards and processes to enforce project managers to implement loosely coupled systems using the strategic SOA roadmap, ESB and micro services blueprints.
• Specialize in leading business transformation, and building enterprise capability models.
• Instrumental in defining IT strategy, developed IT technology roadmaps / blue prints, reference architecture for Fortune 10 Company.
• Strong experience delivering strategic business solutions to global clients with offshore and onsite models.
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) and technical leadership, mentoring, and direction setting with Business-IT Steering committee members, key business stakeholders and the in-house business process architects, application architects, information architects and IT Infrastructure architects.
• Excellent leadership and project management skills, including adept ability to perceive, develop and implement client objectives.
• Ability to articulate a unifying set of concepts that provide vision and direction for delivery teams. Passion for learning and coaching teams on technology .
• Outstanding interpersonal, written (authored 25+ IEEE papers on applications of machine learning algorithms) and verbal communication skills, team player, quick learner, organized, highly energetic and proactive.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Health care/Pharmacy domain SME:  HIPAA, HL7, NCPDP D.0 MMIS, FFM, PPACA, MED D

Retail:  Category Management Personalization, Digital Marketing, Campaign Management Promotions, Loyalty Programs,, Omni channel, POS Ecommerce, CRM, Supply Chain /ERP

Architectural Frameworks, EA Tools:  TOGAF, ARIS, Archimate Zachman, FEAF, Sparx EA, IBM SA

Big Data / Analytics:  Hadoop, YARN CEP, Spark, Storm, Mahout, MLlib, Weka HBase, Hive, Phoenix, HAWQ, MongoDB, Cassandra Talend, Kafka, Sqoop, Flume, IBM SPSS, numPy, SciPy Tibco Spotfire, Tableau, Alteryx

Integration / ESB Stack / API Gateway:  ETL, iWay, webMethods IIB/WMB, Datapower, API Connect, BizTalk, Layer7/ CA API Oracle Fusion, Apigee, Vordel

Security:  SAML, XACML, OAuth Data Encryption, Masking, TLS, PCI, WS-Security,WS-Trust XML Firewall, Federation, SSO

Governance:  EA Process Governance SOA, Data Governance

Information Management / Architecture:  Data Replication, MDM Data Visualization, Data Virtualization, Data Warehouse, ODS NoSQL, In-Memory Databases

Emerging Technology & Tools:  Mobile Computing, IoT Amazon Cloud, micro services

Cloud Architecture:  OpenStack, PureSystems Google Cloud, Azure, Bluemix, VPC, VPN, SDN, BGP AWS, ECS, EBS, Lambda, S3, SNS, Cloudwatch, X-Ray ALB, ELB, IAM, Athena, Beanstalk

Programming / Design:  Java, C, C++, Matlab .NET, Python, R, Ruby, Scala

Domains / Standards:  Health/ HL7, HIPAA Finance/ SWIFT, Insurance/ ACORD, Retail/ X12 EDI Advertising, Gaming

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Big Data Architect / Cloud Solution Architect

• Designed highly scalable, low latency, loosely coupled solution to optimally book orders in slots for different radio stations or markets. Designed top down driven canonical data model to support plug in play architecture.
• Designed schedule optimization solution to optimize inventory of slots available for booking, proposal optimization solution to provide the best proposal for customers within Salesforce for home grown and legacy booking systems using Gurobi optimization solver. Use Linear Programming (LP) algorithms for optimization.
• Use managed services from Amazon cloud to stream orders from booking systems and feeding to vendor (Revenue Analytics) provided optimization routines.
• Used AWS Kinesis for streaming, Lambda service to trigger web services when files were dropped on S3. Also used SNS, SQS, to load streaming data on Redshift, EMR, AWS Data Pipeline in the solution stack.
• Designed predictive analytics solution using big data to targets ads for listeners.
• Designed architecture to consolidate data from 160 individual SQL Server 2005 instances to single highly available Aurora RDS instance. Use In-Memory Tables for faster performance.
• Used MemSQL Confidential in-memory database hosted on AWS and created idempotent data pipelines.

Confidential

Big Data Architect

• Evaluation of current state Hadoop infrastructure and gaming platforms and analytics for performance of social games, Real Money Games (RMG), land based games and customer behavior analytics.
• Provided recommendation for future state big data platform and solution architecture for generating real time customer insights and sending it to gaming platforms such Confidential Bede.
• Provided migration approach to consolidate scripts written in R, Ruby, Perl, Python into Python Confidential the scripting language and implement best practices.
• Provided guidance on consolidation of SQL on Hadoop query engine since Presto, Hive, HAWQ were being used.
• Deployed Hortonworks on Google cloud. Configured object storage using Google buckets and mounted persistence disk to 18 node cluster. Evaluated bdutil for deployment.
• Provide guidance to DevOps team on automating build for Big Data platform using Ansible.
• Provide recommendation for data visualization and data discovery tools, guidance for when to choose what tool.
• Designed solution architecture using Mu architecture for real time analytics using Kakfa Mirror Make, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and KTables. Used Kafka Connect HDFS Sink to store streaming message to Hive in Avro format.
• Designed solution architecture for batch process using Spark and data ingestion framework comprising of Falcon, Falcon, Oozie and Pig. Used Anaconda to invoke numpy,scipy analytical libraries within Spark.

Confidential

Enterprise Architect / Big Data Architect

• Presented Big Data roadmap and identified uses cases for POC using IBM Big Insights. Some of the uses cases included sentiment analysis, customer segmentation, real-time clickstream analysis, production recommendation engine, and cognitive analytics for building dynamic customer profile, Medication Adherence, data archival platform, ODS, Geospatial analytics using ArcGIS and Hadoop and so on.
• Compare Altyrx with Alpine for data discovery. Setup process to request for data discovery for different domains.
• Designed Big Data solutions using structured and unstructured data stored in NoSQL Cassandra databases, RDBMS, and Data warehouse. Defined Big Data reference architecture and introduced new patterns such Confidential data Confidential service, enterprise data hub and data lake.
• Provided viewpoint for building ODS on Big Data Platform. Evaluated Trafodion, SpliceMachine, Phoenix.
• Built business case to do social analytics and sentiment analysis using NLTK 3.0.
• Introduced In-Memory computation including Apache Spark and in-memory / NewSQL databases such Confidential HazelCast to the organization. Did POC to move data from SAP HANA into Spark using SAP VORA. Socialized use cases and build consensus for adoption of new technologies and open source.
• Rolled out 20 node, 120 TB Hortonworks Hadoop Cluster with Apache Spark. Presented options for deployment topologies such Confidential DAS, Shared Storage using Isilon, Openstack with Sahara and Cloudbreak.
• Implemented Hadoop Security using Knox and Apache Ranger. Integrated LDAP store with Kerberos KDC.
• Provided guidance on how to secure data in transit when using SaaS application. Implemented Cipher Cloud.
• Conducted in house Big Data training and built a “Data Science” team. Consolidated Python libraries, notebooks and other list of tools. Built predictive models using logistic regression.
• Instrumental in laying out Global Data Architecture Practice across Walgreens, USA and Boots, UK and govern high value strategic projects and standardize tools. Also, included governance for Big Data projects. Put process in place to capture metadata, data lineage, build data dictionary. Evaluated Falcon and Atlas.
• Participated in analytics products evaluation from vendors such Confidential IRI, Monetate, Tealium.
• Designed next generation Customer Experience Management solution built on CRM, MDM, customer likes and dislikes, social media interaction and multi-channel interaction.
• Designed Digital Event Platform (DEP) Confidential foundation for Digital Marketing Platform (DMP) for marketing team using Kafka for distributed messaging of streaming messages or JSON events to HBase and Apache Spark for event processing using lambda architecture. Use Scala for Spark Streaming API.
• Evaluated Graph Databases such Confidential Neo4j for personalization use cases and real time recommendation engine. Evaluated IBM Watson and other cognitive analytic solutions.
• Built roadmap for Personalization, Loyalty, Category Management, Location Planning in alignment with UX Strategy
• Authored detailed design for archival of Teradata tables to Hadoop using Sqoop.
• Defined architectural patterns for data ingestion. Used SoftwareAG webmethods Confidential the fabric for data integration.
• Defined Search Strategy and implemented using Elastic Search/ELK and Solr.
• Oversee solution architecture for supplier- consumer analytics project using Tibco Spotfire, Netezza 7, DB2 warehouse. Integrated with Llamasoft Supply Chain Guru, Data Guru with Descartes Route planning for Network and Inventory Optimization. Introduced predictive analytics for inventory management.
• Designed Application Assessment tool using Hunk to process machine data logs. Used Syncsoft to process mainframe data.

Confidential

Sr Enterprise Data Architect / Data Scientist

• Setup charter with a list of deliverables to kick off the data architecture program. My role was to help the Director succeed in building the data architecture practice and be his trusted advisor.
• Presented Analytics Roadmap to VP to give a high level overview of what direction IT was going which included Unified Channel Customer Care including Social Media, Advanced Analytics using Big Data, and highly available Web API services to be deployed in Cloud.
• Conducted training sessions on Apache Spark, Machine Learning algorithms such Confidential SVD, Collaborative Filtering, Kmeans clustering, Predictive Analytics using decision trees such Confidential Random Forests and CHAID, Cluster analysis and ANOVA, Optimization using Genetic Algorithms (GA), and classification using Support Vector Machines (SVM). Provided guidance on when to use what algorithm.
• Defined Information Architecture roadmap including Big Data. Initiated Big Data Center of Excellence including patterns, best practices and reference architecture. Defined Big Data Maturity model.
• Designed product recommendation engine Confidential part of POC using Hadoop, Teradata Aster, Mahout, MongoDB.
• Design web analytics solution using Lambda architecture based on Hadoop to analyze click stream and web logs using Apache Spark, Kafka, Pig. Implemented data pipeline operations using Pig and used Kafka for publishing click streams on HDFS. Used Tableau for visualization.
• Design social web mining solution by subscribing to streaming Facebook and twitter feeds and Natural Language Processing (NLP).Customized NLTK corpus to bias with NDC drug codes to increase efficiency.
• Deployed Hadoop solution on Amazon EMR Confidential POC. Exported data sample to Amazon storage S3 and created HBase tables on Amazon Cloud EC2.
• Imported data from Teradata warehouse on Hadoop platform for data discovery.
• Presented designs for securing data on Hadoop. Proposed HP Voltage security product for encrypting data.
• Used Kmeans for identify clusters within data for pattern analysis. Used Weka and mahout for supervised learning. Used Tableau for data visualization.
• Defined sourcing strategy for data warehouse and proposed hybrid approach of replication and ETL.
• Evaluated Oracle Active Data Guard, GoldenGate, Double Take, Dell Shareplex, EMC Vplex, Attunity and recommended data replication tool. Pushed for open source SymmetricDS Confidential replication tool. Implemented POC to replicate data on Hive using Kafka.
• Evaluated Data Virtualization tools including Denodo, Cisco Composite software (now Information Server).
• Introduced catalogue of ODS patterns and design for building Data Lake.
• Implement strategy for building single view of customer using IBM Infosphere MDM and integrating it with CRM.
• Define and implement Merger & Acquisition Strategy. Oversee acquisition of Novologix and Coram. There were about 20+ IT systems with varying architectures which we migrated to CVS data center using Shift and Lift approach Confidential part of Phase I. Synergy projects were identified Confidential part of the roadmap.

Confidential, South Deerfield MA

Enterprise Integration Architect

• Define strategy and roadmap for Omni channel customer experience including migration of existing EpiCor point of sale (POS) to cloud based Aptos. Identified omni channel activities and business use cases to define what omni channel would mean to customer and differentiated between omni channel and multi-channel activities.
• Defined integration roadmap by identifying System of Records (SoR), System of Engagement, System of Reference and exposing data in SoR using multiple endpoints such Confidential SOAP/REST.
• Architected solution to integrate Aptos POS with backed Oracle EBusiness Suite (EBS) ERP, Oracle ATG, Oracle OBIEE, Informatica PIM, 3PL such Confidential Speed using Oracle Fusion middleware.
• Installed Oracle Data Integrator 12c and implemented POC to extract bulk data using materialized views.
• Coordinate with Lead Onsite App lead to implement integration design using fusion middleware. Designed solution using Oracle SOA Suite to publish sales data to JMS topic and configured multiple recipients of data. Provided guidance for when to use SOA Suite versus ODI. Use OSB for file content streaming.
• Presented use cases for storing transactional data on Azure for omnichannel analytics. Used Azure Express Route to setup connection between Yankee data center and Azure cloud. Integrated selected users with Azure Active Directory. Used Revolution R to analyze data.
• Oversee security and infrastructure architecture. Provided recommendation for using MPLS for franchise stores to securely connect to Yankee private VPN. Also, provided oversight for solution delivery and enforced vendor to implement security of data at rest by encrypting SQL Server 2016 database schema.
• Provided oversight for Campaign Management Solution using Redpoint and removed redundancy in solution stack by eliminating solution blocks/components with overlapping or similar capabilities. Used Aptos CRM built on Customer Master stored within Aptos to provide Single View of Customer.

Confidential

Interim IT Director - Shared Services

• Oversee development, design, and implementation of new applications and changes to existing systems. Ensure on-time, on-budget delivery of product release, and patches.
• Introduced middleware Confidential a strategic capability and kicked of ESB vendor evaluation.
• Directed IT transformation projects such Confidential interoperability with multiple clinical systems. Introduced data architecture practice and included metadata framework and governance.
• Evaluated various EHR/EMR solutions including Oracle HTB, EPIC and Orion EHR. Implemented Proof of Concept with EPIC EMR. Partner with business to build use case for Population Heath Analytics using clinical data.
• Define IT Strategy built on customer centric approach and operation efficiency to balance budgets. Responsible for road mapping activities for Customer Interaction Digital Strategy and Roadmap, Integration Roadmap, and Security roadmap. Defined Infrastructure roadmap including Networking, Telephony, Virtualization, Cloud and Storage to support strategic initiatives.
• Provided guidance for integration with cloud based solutions. Used CastIron for Salesforce CRM integration in cloud. Introduced service virtualization and docker containers.
• Defined mobility reference architecture, integration patterns for API to consume SOAP web services, publishing events on Apple iPhone, iWatch.
• Realized cost savings by building internal talent and reducing dependency on contractors. Pushed for open source adoption and built solutions using Open Stack. Balanced budget and provided estimates for next year budget.
• Drive adoption of use of Enterprise Service Bus and build reusable enterprise wide shared services. Oversee mobile app development built on REST API.
• Closely work with PMO to integrate Shared Services team with Architecture Review Boards (ARB).
• Initiated Reference Architecture Program to build reference architectures for Portal, Mobility, Digital Messaging, Integration, Information, Security, Infrastructure, Telephony, and Application Development.
• Evaluated EA tools and selected IBM System Architect Confidential the tool of choice for TOGAF implementation.
• Review SOA Reference Architecture including Axway Vordel, Apigee, WMB, IBM Sterling, F5 in the stack.
• Derive cost efficiency by building reusable SOA reference models.
• Introduced SOA Governance to the team for managing lifecycle of services. Introduced Layer 7 Confidential API Gateway.
• Organized Vendor Summit for better coordination and communication with external partners and drive adoption of REST API and secure interfaces for data exchange.
• Presented guidance on building cloud based solutions to architects.
• Ensure high quality on deliverables. Aggressively pursue shorter development and quality cycles by promoting and ensuring the use of development frameworks, test driven development, and QA automation Confidential required.
• Reinforce tighter collaboration between team members across product requirements, engineering, and testing teams. Manage team of 25+ FTE staff.
• Identify, organize, manage, and effectively communicating product engineering activities, milestones, deliverables, achievements and release status across the organization.
• Monitor plans, scheduled activities, and deliverables. Communicate product and market expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.

Confidential

Lead Enterprise Architect/Solution Architect

• Presented emerging technologies to VP’s including RFID, Cloud computing and Big Data using Hadoop.
• Served Confidential liaison with business teams and EA team. Work closely with business Confidential a trusted advisor. Design solution to integrate EDI 834, 820 from FFM/FFE into customer master and integrating with Payment Processor. Coordinated with wireframe vendor, shopping portal vendor BSwift and used SSO for member portal.
• Integrated pharmacy drug information with eMAR vendors using HL7 v2.x and v3 canonical format. Also evaluated Blue Button.
• Solution Architect for implementing Blue Rewards Wellness program. Used iWay WEBFOCUS for dashboards.
• Presented Health Insurance Exchange concepts to in house teams and vendors to get them up to speed.
• Served Confidential Interim HIX/FFE Portfolio Manager.
• Contributed to the overall strategy, architecture and process improvements for the Enterprise Service Platform.
• Participated in RFP to shortlist vendors for IT Strategy Projects. Evaluated ESB Vendors and provided recommendation.
• Authored High Level Design (HLD), Integration Interface Specs (IID) and reviewed detailed or low level design (DLD). Presented design to review boards and design authorities.
• Introduced SOA governance, Layer 7 Confidential XML firewall to the organization.
• Conducted iWay SM training for internal app Dev teams and introduced culture of team learning and building.
• Provided vision, leadership and strategy Confidential well Confidential actively participate in the design, implementation and subsequent operations and support of the   enterprise  architecture.  Implemented strategy for defining and building Enterprise Services. Initiated defining strategy for Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) in the organization.
• Provided leadership and expertise in the development of standards, road maps, architectural governance, design patterns and IT practices.
• Build integration patterns and catalogue to align partners/ vendors with the enterprise integration roadmap.
• Maintained an organization-wide view of Confidential IS and TO BE or target IT and business architecture in support of goals and objectives. Identified business requirements that affect the enterprise architecture and provides solutions that integrate into the overall architectural vision and strategy.
• Defined information technology systems architecture in alignment with company’s business strategy.
• Provided architectural advice and recommendations specific to business requirements.
• Evaluated emerging technologies, vendors and products against business and IT strategic needs.
• Updated standards and guidelines Confidential part of maintaining technical and business documentation.
• Liaised with management and support teams to ensure a consistent and accurate understanding of current and future architectural models.
• Developed an EA governance program with appropriate metrics for regular reporting to the senior management. Member of the Architectural Review Board to ensure compliance to the target EA for IT governance. Documented exceptions to architectural standards.
• Align solution architecture with CMS Technical Reference Architectures and integrate with FISS, VMS, MCS, HETS and Hyland Onbase.
• Rebrand Member Portal, Agent and Provider Portal using Liferay 6.1. Implemented SAML 2.0 and single sign on using NetIQ Access Manager. Presented Application security and integration patters.
• Responsible for security architecture in compliance with FISMA and HITECH. Responsible for secure application integration using SAML token and WS-Security. Implemented federated identity solution using SAML 2.0 tokens.
• Implemented SOA using service layer pattern. Designed atomic, intermediate and composite layer of SOAP and REST services using XML and JSON.
• Responsible for secure application integration using SAML token and WS-Security. Implemented Security Token service (STS) and Request for Token Service (RTS). Evaluated vendors for Identify and Access Management products .
• Drive Solution Architectures for high performance and very highly scalable platforms.
• Collaborate with business teams to translate requirements to conceptual architecture and high-level designs that can be re-used across multiple applications and solutions.  
• Evaluated COTS software solutions and analyzed to recommend build vs. buy or rent software.
• Drive member, plan and provider MDM initiatives. Identify the data sources and build system of record. Designed Master Customer and Plan using MDM architectural hub style. Define CRM reference architecture built on foundation of MDM.

Confidential

Senior Integration Manager

• Analyze overall business and establish how software is used across the   enterprise. Plan and implement the technical architecture, including both short and long term strategies for retiring certain legacy systems, integrating existing systems, and new systems implementation recommendations to reduce the complexity and costs associated with diverse and legacy-based application environment.
• Led a $6M dollar business transformation of the supply chain by establishing SOA COE, Architecture Review Board, Governance processes by PMO and bringing in new technologies and frameworks including LifeRay, Magento, IBM Message Broker, Datapower. Transformed siloes and localized point to point solutions into a coherent, standardized, cost-effective, scalable, secure and flexible enterprise  architecture that supports products and services for wholesale and retail line of business.
• Spearheaded the newly formed COE for Integrations by laying out data integration, application integration, cloud integration strategy, architectural blue prints, standards, roadmaps and processes for Governance. Managed the integration projects by coordinating with offshore-onshore resources, building team, hiring new resources and meeting deadlines. Presented Integration Patterns Roadmap to vendors.
• Defined 3-5 year business architecture and technology roadmaps that describe how strategic tools and solutions utilizing the Service Bus, Rule Automation/Workflow, Portals, Security, Data Stores, ETL, BI (Cognos, SAS, BO, Microstrategy, OBIEE), MDM (Informatica) Data Warehouse will evolve from current state to meet the needs of the business along with sun setting roadmaps depicting the migration from legacy systems and technologies.
• Work closely with executives to explain the benefits and justify the investment in SOA by using Cost Benefit Analysis. Lead the evaluation of software vendors targeted for possible integration into the systems or environment, including strategic applications, tools and utilities. Evaluate different ESB and attend demos. Assessed multiple solutions for a business opportunity and recommended an optimal solution that was relevant and applicable for enabling the business to meet its strategic objectives.
• Provide thought leadership and technical direction by managing the design, development, installation, and operation of the technical solution. Collaborate with internal/external stakeholders to understand business goals and translate to architectural solutions. Socializing SOA COE with VP’s.
• Design Security Infrastructure using IBM DataPower. Implemented OAuth 2.0
• Integration of IBM WMB with SAP ERP using iDocs. Setup web service and API governance for design time and run time using IBM WSRR and Vordel.
• Design Identity Management solution using CA Identity Manager and SSO.
• Designed Technical Architecture for SAP Business Suite. Evaluated Business blueprints for MM,FICO, SD, PP, HCM, QM modules. Provided recommendations to infrastructure landscape. Designed solution using Netweaver Enterprise Portal, Application Server, Webdynpro, SAP PI, SAP BO.
• Built reference architecture for integrating vendors/ business partners. Created Blue prints for B2B integrations.
• Defined federated MDM strategy Confidential part of SOA planning initiative. Responsible for identifying, prioritizing, defining enterprise level web services.
• Design solution to replace IBM Sterling and bring processing of EDI transactions 810, 850, 852 and 856 with SAP system in house thereby resulting in savings in excess of $250K every year. Facilitated the unification and harmonization of business process and workflow with the key business stakeholders and SMEs in the procurement, inventory and vendor-facing system using EDI and AS2 Standards for B2B and Business-To-Consumer EDI (ANSI X2) electronic commerce utilizing EDI/EDI, EDI/XML and XML/EDI transactions interfaces.
• Presented emerging technologies to VP’s including RFID, Cloud computing and Big Data using Hadoop.

Confidential

SAP Enterprise Architect

• Responsible for overseeing implementation of SAP solution using ASAP methodology. Solution included Net weaver, App Portal and PI to integrate HR data feeds.
• Provided thought leadership and built roadmap to realize business vision. Included MDM and BO in scope for future releases. Implemented Best Practices using Solution Manager.
• Reviewed Capacity Planning and designed infrastructure. Instrumental in reviewing bids and implementation of high speed single mode Optical Fiber network.
• Designed Security Architecture which included IBM Tivoli
• Reviewed business blue prints and functional requirements for all SAP modules includes HCM, PP, MM, FI,CO, SD and QM. Reviewed Organization structure in SAP to allow for growth and expansion

Confidential

Enterprise/ Solution Consultant

• Served Confidential Interim ICD10 Portfolio Manager
• Provided solution architecture for HIPAA 5010 mandates implementation and remediation strategies. Aligned solution architecture to business strategic plans and IT strategic direction, in addition to project requirements.
• Perform Impact analysis of ICD10 for HIPAA 5010 solution architecture.
• Identified architectural risks and proposed alternatives and solutions. Provided business owners, project managers and management with appropriate technical advice in pre-project and project initiation phases.
• Led collaborative, cross-functional technical efforts encompassing multiple technologies and provide system tech leads/ system architects solution artifacts with adequate degree of detail for them to develop solutions aligned with business and IT project requirements.
• Designed a canonical solution for data transformation integrating 2 backend systems using MQ and FTP to reduce costs and ease maintenance
• Documented “ Confidential -Is” interfaces with inventory of data transformation maps and list of trading partners.
• Perform Gap Analysis and recommended tactical approach based on time, budget and complexity of solution given into consideration consolidation of 2 internal claim processing systems.
• Conceptual, Logical and Physical Design for all 837 I,P,D, 834, 835, 27x, NCPDP transactions.
• Recommended solutions for enhanced Coordination of Benefits (COB) processing with 5010.
• Coordinate with offshore (in India, Philippines) and remove roadblocks during implementation.
• Recommended BAM portal for operational efficiency to reduce Time to Respond (TTR) from 1 day to 4 hours.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure team for capacity planning and infrastructure setup for multiple SOA environments (DEV, INT, QA, PROD). Multi Server distributed clustered installation and configuration of ESB servers (64bit HP Blade) following best practices for high availability. Setup of virtualized environment for developers.
• Work closely with the PM and Director informing them of the risks, challenges and obstacles and solutions.
• Defined the SOA maturity model, governance and overall oversight in the adoption of enterprise integration style, Channel Patterns, Message Construction Pattern, Routing Patterns, Transformation Patterns, Endpoint Patterns, Data/Metadata Consumption Patterns & System Management Patterns) patterns; Software Engineering Patterns (Agile & Scrum Practice); and Software Confidential a Service pattern (SaaS-On Premise and Over the Internet Cloud, SOA-SaaS Integration & Interoperability using Integration Broker & Composite Architecture).
• Defined the organization’s technology vision and developed strategic IT plans in EA harvesting in ARIS platform, Information Management and IS Enabling Functions.

Confidential Nevada, Reno 

WSO2 Integration Architect

• Redesign of Nevada Environmental Sensor network using SOA with WSO2 stack Confidential the back bone.
• Conduct hands-on evaluation of products including WSO2 product suite (ESB Server, Identity Server, Governance Registry, Business Rules Engine, Message Broker, BAM, and Application & Data Services).
• Implemented WSO2 ESB Confidential the middleware tier for exposing sensor data to scientists from different kinds of environmental sensors from several different vendors.
• Provide Technical leadership in Open Source environments
• Implemented Single Sign on and WS-Security for SOAP web service calls.
• Designed highly available systems with persistence of data in hybrid cloud.
• Related Publication: "Towards a Scalable and Interoperable Global Environmental Sensor Network using Service Oriented Architecture," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), December 7-10, 2010

Confidential

Integration Architect

• Served Confidential the Enterprise Software Architect with the primary role of Software Program Management thought and practice leadership that defines and manages the best practices and standards inside TFS for Software Specification Definition, development, code analysis, code coverage, static and dynamic testing while adopting parallel, incremental and Test-driven development .
• Interacted with business to take a problem, requirement, or strategy; research solution and take from concept to implementation for desired outcomes
• Identified business requirements that affect the   enterprise  architecture and provides solutions that integrate into the overall architectural vision and strategy.
• Contributed to the development, review, and maintenance of requirements documents, technical design documents and functional specifications
• Drive the overall practice of Enterprise Architecture in a web-based, service and component-based application design and development; defining conceptual architecture, SOA-based system architecture, .Net solution architecture (MSF for Agile & CMMI, .Net Framework) service component architecture and service component specifications.
• Design interfaces for integration between mainframe applications and ESB. Responsible for reviewing vendor integration functional specs, design of integration with external partners such Confidential DDC, Emdeon, Ingenix, Great West, KBA, Datapath for various line of products including HRA, HSA health policies, Claim reprising and subrogation.
• Integrated with Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) Medco.
• Responsible for design of SOA Reference Architecture for partner integration using TOGAF 9.0.
• Achieved higher provider and member satisfaction scores by redesigning the provider and member portal.
• Provide thought and practice leadership in the adoption, implementation and governance of multi-schema project standards using an XML Schema Design Pattern alongside with W3C XML Standards.
• Collaborated with Marketing and Project Management, Testing, Quality Assurance, Operations, Client Services, and executive management to ensure the integration efforts met release schedules, goals, and objectives.
• Provided leadership and expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns and IT practices.

Confidential Nebraska, DHHS

Enterprise Architect Lead

• Speaker for “Fraud, Abuse Prevention in MMIS using CEP” at MMIS Conference Chicago, 2009 for Emerging Technology Trends.
• Used Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture, BPMN for process modeling and UML for data modeling.
• Responsible for overseeing Business Architecture, Technical Architecture, Information and Policy Architecture.
• Review Business Process Modeling templates and collaborate with Business analysts.
• Reviewed and authored documents for conceptual, logical and physical design.
• Actively participate in Joint Application Development - JAD sessions and provide vision and technical leadership to key business stakeholders, in-house business process analysts, and IT infrastructure architects.
• Translate business and technical requirements into cross-functional application systems. Used SOA Design Patterns for design of Functional services for Provider Enrollment, Trading Partner, Drug Rebate, EPSDT, Client, Managed Care, Benefit Management, TPL, Financial and other business areas.
• Responsible for acting Confidential an advisory resource on multiple project teams for all aspects of project development.
• Multi Server distributed clustered installation and configuration of BizTalk, SharePoint, TFS 2008, following best practices. Setup of virtualized BizTalk and SharePoint environment.
• Implemented SOA Maturity Model using CMMI for Continuous Integration.
• Responsible for selection of SOA patterns and choosing layered approach for services.
• Enforced SOA Governance at design time by setting TFS workflows and proposed run-time governance.
• Design SOA Testing Framework with automated build and deployment to provide Continuous integration (CI).
• Evaluated and recommended Business Rule Management System (BRMS) to meet dynamic decision making requirements by stakeholders.
• Conduct BizTalk training sessions for .NET developers. Used Microsoft Velocity for distributed caching.
• Lead the EDI X12 HIPAA 4010A (270/271, 276/277, 837 I,P,D & 997) and HL7 ver 2.4 communication platform and technical messaging connectivity analysis and development for inbound message queuing (content extraction, mapping-routing-message archiving-administration and customization) using canonical schema with EDI pipelines and HL7 accelerator.
• Responsible for design of Integration Broker to receive and send flat files in batch from mainframe and interpreting copybooks. Exposed State machine workflows Confidential WCF services consumed by BizTalk.
• Designed Entity Data Model (EDM) for business functional areas and exposed it through WCF Restful ADO.NET Data Services. Implemented search using LINQ queries.
• Implemented and consumed WCF services using best practices in BizTalk. Implemented Transport Level security (TLS) using certificates and Message Level Security by encrypted the payload/ SOAP Body.
• Evaluation of different XML standards such Confidential ACORD RLC/PCS, CIDX, MISMO to create MMIS XML standard.
• Design XML schemas in canonical form.
• System monitoring using SCCM, SCOM 2007 and BizTalk Management packs.
• Review Hardware Architecture, DR and BackUp strategies for BizTalk and TFS.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

• Installed and configured an instance of IBM WMB, Stellent applications in a virtual environment. Developed Proof of concept to do integration with WMB and content management systems. Documentum, Stellent and SharePoint were used during POC.
• Used Java Web Services and Websphere to import files without using WebTop.
• Used HTTP Adapter to receive multipart (MIME) messages from brokers.
• Developed custom Pipeline for decoding of MIME attachments.
• Built WCF facade for E4 web services, hosted in IIS. Assign metadata to documents using information obtained from SICS/nt using WCF web services with WsHttp binding.
• Lead Service Component Architecture (SCA) and engineering design for the web services development using web services factory. Designed Exception Handling framework.
• Developed maps to transform ACORD specification schemas.
• Designed WMB solution for High Availability (HA) using Network Load Balancer (NLB) and cluster.
• Developed design documents and WMB coding standards. Created UML test cases.
• Mentored team of 3 (2 onshore and 1 offshore resources) Java developers for implementation of the project.

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Integration Architect

• Designed and developed SOA integration solution using TIBCO
• Integrated Risk Management Metrics, Bloomberg feeds for securities and commodities with live Markit feeds for CDS Pricing and CDX Indices. Used FTP, POP3, HTTP, SOAP, MSMQ, FIX adapters to receive PGP encrypted messages in Excel, XML, CSV formats.
• Developed multi-threaded UI in C# using Infragistics WPF Grid to integrate real time messages from Tibco RV messaging bus in excess of 400 messages/sec. Used Regex expressions in C# for string parsing and insert strongly typed objects created from the messages in MultiMap. Extensively used Collections and Generics in C#.
• Evaluated various server caches and used ScaleOut Server distributed cache to read and write high volume messages. Hosted WCF service Confidential windows service to BulkInsert objects from cache in SQL Server 2005.
• Developed C# applications using Exception and Data Access Block in Enterprise library.
• Performed reconciliation of positions within strategies with Beauchamp Position Manager.
• Translate, validate and pass on FIX trade orders to other components involved with trade clearing.
• Automate reporting to Investment Managers by implementing business process logic, message transformation, exception handling and system integration. Followed Scrum/Agile methods.

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Director of IT

Responsibilities:

• Provide vision and strategic direction to the company for adoption of new technologies to improve product costs, enable next generation products, and launch company into new markets.
• Investigated BizTalk to integrate manufacturing processes with design team. Integrated trading partners using RosettaNet (RNIF) using PIP 6A1 and 6A2
• Computer Vision algorithms were implemented Confidential DirectShow Transform Filters in C++ and C#. Implemented motion tracking algorithm using KLT feature tracking, optical flow, particle swarm optimization (PSO).
• Conduct leading-edge research and development activities related to image processing and machine learning using MATLAB and C++.
• Lead and maintain products throughout SDLC, including business models, forecasts, and prices and positioning.
• Interact with client for sales presentation, education, and training.
• Introduced offshore programming and setup governance for coordination with onsite teams.
• Lowered website development and client engagement expenses 80%, development costs 50%, and maintenance costs 30% by implementing design centric, iterative software, which improved development processes and increased project management effectiveness.
• Guide team members into areas for technical growth and patentable technologies
• Authoring RFPs, patents, IEEE papers and grants.
• Foster a collaborative work ethic within our team, with the business development and product marketing teams to understand product roadmaps, define platform architectures, and explore new product ideas.