SUMMARY:

• Technology Executive/Senior Technologist/Solutions Architect/Data Scientist/Advanced Analytics Professional with extensive experience in corporate and entrepreneurial environments from Financial Services( Confidential 8 years), Media/Ad industry, Pharma, Telecom, Publishing etc. industries.
• Strong experience in hands - on technology management, business cases, budget/ proposals, recruiting/team building/leading/coaching/mentoring, release planning, vendor management, problem solving and decision making.
• Highly skilled in proof-of-concept/prototype & product development, demo & presentation, open source evaluation, full stack development, ROI justification, pre/post-sales & RFP response.
• Expertise in requirement & gap analysis, technology selection, architecture, design, development, production support, offshoring/outsourcing, data warehousing & mining.
• Certified Developer in Apache Spark, Cloudera Certified Developer for Hadoop,  Certified Java Spring Framework Professional, Certified Cloud Master.
• Pursuing Data Scientist Certification (Passed:Cloudera Data Science DS-200 Exam).
• Exceptional qualitative and quantitative analysis abilities.

EXPERTISE AREA:Advanced Analytics/Machine Learning/ Data Science: NLP, entity extraction, Deep Learning, Sentiment analysis, Lucene based Attivio Enterprise Search, Weka, semantic web, Non Linear Regression, Transition Matrix etc. based scoring, Statistical Machine Learning (Enhanced JaroWinkler similarity metric), Logistic Regression. Regression, Random Forest, Naïve Bays, K-Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machine (SVM) & Decision Tree, TensorFlow, GPU, Time Series ARIMA models, Spark MLlib, Social Media, News and Web Analytics, Privacy, Security (Data Masking, Anonymization, Encryption,Data preparation), Grid computing, Rules engine.

BIG DATA: Spark, Hadoop, Azure Datawarehouse(MPP), Azure Data Factory, Google Big Query, AWS Elastic Map Reduce(EMR), DynamoDB NOSQL, Pentaho, Lucene based Attivio Enterprise Search, Weka Statistical Machine Learning, Cloudera, Hive, HBase, Mahout, Tableau, PowerBI, d3, Solr; Exposed to Nifi, Talend, Cassandra, MongoDB, Spark, H2O, Storm, Avro, Kinesis and Kafka

CLOUD: Microsoft Azure, Google cloud platform, Amazon AWS Data Pipeline,DynamoDB NoSQL. Elastic BeanStalk; Vagrant, Chef, Docker, Microservices

LANGUAGES etc.: Core Java, JEE/J2EE, R (Revolution R), SAS, Scala, Python, Websphere, WASCE, Websphere Portal, JDBC, XML Schema/DTD, SAX, XSL, Swing, JSP, Struts, Spring Framework, Hibernate, JPA, Flex, GWT, HTML5, CSS, C++, C#, .NET, PERL, TIBCO, BPM (Activiti, jBPM, Bonitasoft), Exposed to JQuery, Ruby on Rails, Facebook SDK, Node.js, Express

OS & HARDWARE: UNIX (Linux, AIX, Solaris, HPUX), Windows, Android

METHODOLOGIES: Agile, ALM, IBM RTC, Microsoft TFS/ VSTS, Collabnet CTF, Scrum, CI

ARCHITECTURE: EAI, SOA, EDA, Web Services SOAP & RESTful

COMMUNICATIONS: JMS, IBM MQ, Sockets, SNMP, HP Openview, CORBA

DBMS: Cloud databases, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Teradata, ERWIN, Exposure to GraphDB Neo4j and Postgres

TOOLS: MS Project, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, JRules, Drools, Blaze, Eclipse (Plug-in & SWT), JProbe, Documentum, CVS, SVN, PVCS, CM Synergy, Autosys, IBM Appscan Source, Fortify, OpenGL, Jenkins, Hudson, Maven

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Director

Responsibilities:

• me lead Data Science, Engineering, Platforms and Operations in teh Americas for dis top 3 public global media and advertising agency.
• Built a team of data scientists/engineers/BAs/project managers on-shore and off-shore. Mentored, trained empoyees including performance evaluations.
• Agency does advertisement campaign planning and management for companies such as Microsoft, Macy’s, Home Depot, P&G on print, TV, online, social media and mobile .
• dis includes
• Our advanced Consumer Data & Analytics stacks dat enable unique consumer identification, attribution models.
• Teh Business Intelligence dashboards and reports within complex brand commerce ecosystems, Machine Learning and ROI Analytics.
• Teh Enterprise Applications and Business Platforms dat underpin our Media and Advertising Operations dat power our collaborative digital first environment.
• Hands-on architected and contributed to POCs, pilots and production code using Apache Spark, Hadoop, Azure SQL database, Azure SQL Datawarehouse(MPP), Azure Data Factory, PowerBI, Tableau, Python, R and Google Cloud Platform, Big Query etc.
• Managing a team maintaining HR, Finance and Media applications utilizing Microsoft SQL server.
• Managing a team developing AWS, Java, Knime, Actian/Redshift based global data platform applications.
• Managed SAS server and desktop installations.

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Senior Manager, Data Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Anonymized data using privacy analytics/algorithms implemented in ARX for structured data and MIST(MITRE Identification Scrubber Toolkit ) NLP based open source software for unstructured data.
• Researched scholarly papers for algorithms such as k-anonymity, t-closeness, differential privacy etc.
• Debugged Java and Python open source software to explore teh utility(information) loss and reidentification risk implementation details.
• Came up with ideas to improve/extend statistical disclosure control (matrix multiplication) algorithms to include multi valued cells as in teh case of No-SQL databases.
• Implemented Amazon AWS/Hadoop Security using Kerberos, TLS/SSL.
• Diagnosed denial of service attacks and improved security using AWS security groups and network ACLs.
• Developed architecture for security/privacy tools in Hadoop/AWS environment involving Apache Sentry, Knox etc.
• Supported streaming technologies using AWS Kinesis and Kafka for worlds first digital medicine with ingestible sensor.

Confidential , Jersey City NJ 

Big Data Advanced Analytics Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Led teh development of regulatory CCAR analytics model environment utilizing various technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, Java, Revolution R, SAS, Python, IPyton/Jupyter Notebook, GGPLOT, Matplotlib, Pandas, Scala, Grid computing, H2O, IBM Cloud etc.
• Statistical and machine learning models include Non Linear Regression, Logistic Regression and Scoring using distributed transition matrix multiplication.
• Exposure to ORACLE FINANCIAL SERVICES ADVANCED ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE
• IPython/Jupyter Notebook integration with Spark and Java.
• Explored Hadoop environment data security and privacy issues.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Big Data & Cloud Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided cloud architecture review, backup, restore, replication and migration plans.
• Hands on development of Cloudbridge application and migration of risk models & public info apps to cloud & big data involving Amazon AWS (Dynamo DB, S3, Data Pipeline, Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), VPC, Config, EC2, s3distcp, Backup Restore and Replication), Cloudera Hadoop, Java, Spring, Websphere Application Server, Ruby & Node.js. Explored Redshift. Provided Data Encryption, Masking and De-Identification.

Confidential, Hoboken, NJ

Innovation Lead & Data Scientist Consultant/Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Hands on tech management of a team which developed six innovative prototypes leading to productization on an offshoring basis involving various descriptive and predictive analytics models(social media, news, text, web) utilizing statistical machine learning, enterprise search, NLP, entity extraction, sentiment analysis, Lucene based Attivio Enterprise Search, Weka, BPM, semantic web, AJAX, Java. Spring, Hibernate, Hadoop, Map Reduce, Hive, Mahout, Tableau, d3, JQuery, HTML5, Ruby on Rails, Python, OAUTH 2, Solr and SPARQL. Provided PCI compliance.
• Developed Models based on Deep Neural Network, Random Forest, Naïve Bays, K-Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machine (SVM) & Decision Tree from training data, validated using test data and utilized teh model for new data for classification and unique ID assignment. Enhanced Jaro-Winkler similarity metric to achieve high precision.
• Provided key differentiating ideas regarding social networking, big data analytics, recommender systems to be included in RFP response

Confidential, Warren NJ

Engineer Sr. Analyst/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Project managed, team lead, architected, developed and supported a secure multi-threaded client/server application-store like platform: CDDT/Hermes including analytics visualization dashboard. dis platform hosts multiple versions of equities, fixed income derivatives and other trading & quantitative applications & models. Over 40 mission critical applications with over 4000 users globally utilize dis system to reduce their deployment time with trading application business users. Developed data architecture inclusive of unstructured data. Designed database schema, data governance & compliance. Developed scripts for data migration and performed data management on replicated application data across global regions. Migrated teh servers distributed globally to linux VMs in stages. Packaged TIBCO. Developed eclipse plug-ins. Technology: Core Java, JEE/J2EE, Java Webstart, Swing, JSF,JNA, JNI, VB, Weblogic/ Websphere, Sybase/Oracle.
• Migrated applications to IBM SmartCloud.
• Evaluated and Integrated “Information Security and Best Practices” source code analysis tools such as Fortify and Findbugs. Developed Technology Stack Road Map. Researched, wrote white papers and performed presentations on security tools, build forge (centralized build platform), Jazz.net Application Lifecycle Mgmt(ALM).
• Architected, designed and developed Secure SDLC compliance system interfacing with RTC, TFS, Jenkins/Hudson with IBM Appscan Source security scanning and Archer/QC downstream systems. Parsed XML result files. Developed & presented Use Cases.
• Developed a prototype to re-architect Enterprise Build & Deployment process - BPM (jBPM, Bonitasoft), Rules Engine(Drools, JRules), Spring/Hibernate and Hudson/Jenkins.

Confidential

TEMPPrincipal Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed prototypes for Novartis/Gerber: Sales KPI Portal -
• Weblogic Portal, Interwoven Content Management System, SAP connectivity & Digital Dashboard 
• MySQL, Oracle, Web Services/WSDL, C#, ChartFX, WebCharts. Addressed data governance & security, HIPAA compliance.

Confidential

Technical Manager/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 16 developers & business analysts in an onshore/offshore vendor setup for Genetic & Sample Data Banking projects.
• Analyzed teh intricacies of genetic data, provided data masking, de-identification and HIPPA compliance.