Professional Summary

• Over 11 years of software development experience defining architecture and designing complex systems/solutions that are highly available, performing and scalable using Java/JEE technologies.
• Experience working with Fortune 50 companies.
• Excellent experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web-Services, Client-Server, Distributed, Internet and E-Commerce applications
• Over 7 years of experience as Technical Manager/Lead, responsible for managing, executing, and delivering projects using teams across shores (Onsite - Offshore Model).
• Over 7 years of experience in Requirements Analysis and Design.
• Over 5 years of production support experience.
• Proficient with various SDLC methodologies (Agile, RUP, XP and Waterfall)
• Good understanding of various Design Patterns (GOF, J2EE, EIP).
• Possess excellent communication, analytical and Inter personnel skills.
• Passionate and great initiative taker.

Functional Knowledge

• Credit Card Systems (Consumer & Commercial)
• Mortgage Loan Origination
• Point of Sale Systems
• Mortgage Pricing & Underwriting

Education & Certifications
B.E. (Hons.), Electrical & Electronics
SCEA 5/ OCMJEA 5 - Sun Certified Enterprise Architect
TOGAF 9 (The Open Group Architecture Framework) certification

Technical Capabilities
Languages: Java, Swing, JEE/J2EE, SOA, ESB, Messaging/MQ, JPA, JSP, Ajax, Servlets, RMI, EJB, JNDI, JMS, PL/SQL, SQL, XML, REST, SOAP, JAXB, DTD, XSD, Velocity/FreeMarker, UML 1/2 & Web services
Servers: IBM WebSphere 6, WebSphere MQ, Weblogic 10G, JBoss 4 and Tomcat 6
Frameworks: Spring, ORM Tools (Hibernate, Toplink, JPA), Apache (Ant, Axis, Commons, Log4J, Tomcat), Eclipse, JUnit, Maven, Hudson, JIRA, AspectJ, Quartz, XmlBeans, OAGIS, Castor, ehCache & OSCache
Rule Engines: Ilog JRules and Jconfigurator
Methodologies: OOAD, Agile & XP
Databases: Oracle, DB2, MySQL, TeraData, Mainframe & CICS
Others: LDAP, RAD, Eclipse, RSA, InjelliJ IDEA, Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect, SubVersion (SVN), Rational ClearCase

Employment

Confidential, Oct 2011 - Current
Confidential, Rosemont, ILJuly 2006 - Sept 2011
Confidential, Santa Clara, CANov 2005 - June 2006
Confidential, Bangalore, IndiaMar 2002 - Oct 2005
Confidential, Hyderabad, IndiaJuly 2000 - Feb 2002
Confidential, Bangalore, IndiaJuly 1999 - Dec 2000

Professional Experience

Confidential, (Oct 2011 - Current)
JPMorgan Chase is one of the largest banks and financial services in United States and according to Forbes magazine is the world's largest public company.

Confidential, (Oct 2011 - Current)
Platform: Worked on commercial credit card payment application, which is an internet based program administration and reporting application. This application automates administrative tasks traditionally associated with card program and ensures accurate monitoring, reporting, and analysis of program spending.

Achievements

• Solved purge issues in the target platform and on the legacy platforms
• Defined strategy for integration with credit card processors TSYS and HP EDS.
• Defined strategy for Application Lifecycle Management tools to provide traceability across SDLC process.
• Evaluated Oracle ExaData appliance and Oracle 11g R2 for database refresh.

Responsibilities

• Working with business and IT teams, in defining conceptual solutions in response to the business driven projects/programs and help project sizing and estimation process.
• Defining target state architecture to support and sustain emerging and future business and IT strategies.
• Part of architecture review board, responsible for reviewing architecture and certifying system design.
• Participating and leading technology assessments, software tool sections and Build vs. Buy decisions.
• Ensuring entire solution meets the business needs and risk tolerance of enterprise.
• Ensuring development teams adhere to standards and defining standards as necessary.
• Conducting design and code reviews as required.
• Driving technology initiatives throughout SDLC process.

Environment: SOA, Java, J2EE, Ajax, Spring, Hibernate, Web-Services, XML, Weblogic 10g, Oracle 11g R2, TeraData, DataPower, WebMethods, IBM MQSeries 6, SiteMinder, SubVersion and Maven .

Employer: Confidential, Rosemont, IL
Client: Confidential, Riverwoods, IL (Aug 2006 - Sept 2011)
Discover Financial Services is a leading credit card issuer and electronic payment services company with one of the most recognized brands in U.S. financial services.

Technical Architect/Manager (Aug 2006 - Current)
Projects / Platform: Orion is a customer servicing platform that is used for servicing card members from call center, retention and usage channels, and fraud and collection applications.

Achievements

• Successfully implemented many projects and initiatives like Retention & Usage, Enterprise Collections Platform, Balance Retention Offer, Credit CARD Act 2009, Terms Level 21 Quasi Promotions, Lowest Eligible Rate Analysis and Pit-Stop for Cash.
• Conceptualized, & designed the retention recommendation process.
• Implemented a POC application for Call Center, using Web2.0 technologies.
• Suggested and implemented lot of process and performance improvements, which resulted in reduced call handling time and cost savings.
• Designed simulators for software components (CTI/Dialer, Call Recording) that are hard to deploy and configure in development/testing regions.
• Implemented green initiative to be able to view letters without printing, saving costs and environment.
• Became SME in short duration, provided technical leadership, contributed to architectural and design decisions.
• Spearhead Web-sphere 6, Oracle 10g migrations and ensured smooth and bug free migration.
• Implemented a methodology to mentor and train new resources in couple of weeks.

Responsibilities

• Be the technical authority for the platform and provide architecture direction and oversight and designing solutions.
• Leading and Managing team of 30 across shores responsible for project development involving all phases of SDLC.
• Enforcing standards by performing reviews at various stages.
• Creating individual work plans and tracking.
• Maintaining high availability (99.9%) of customer servicing application.
• Identifying ways to improve the application in terms of usability, reducing call handling time, reduced maintenance, higher availability, cost savings etc.

Environment: SOA, Java, Swing, Eclipse RCP/PDE, J2EE, EJB, Ajax, Spring, Hibernate, Struts, Web-Services, XML, Websphere 5.1 & 6, Oracle 10i/9i, DB2, Mainframe and UNIX.

Employer: Confidential, Santa Clara, CA
Client: Confidential, Orange, CA (2002 - 2006)
Ameriquest was one of the United States leading wholesale lenders.

Integration Architect/Technical Lead (Apr 2004 - Jun 2006)
ASAP (Accelerated Sales & Application Processing) is a world class, work flow efficient POS and LOS that was built using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). ASAP system has been designed to enhance retail productivity and integrate life cycle from origination to servicing, enabling each process to leverage information from the other.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments

• Defining technical architecture, analyzing and designing solutions to requirements.
• Managing all SDLC phases of a multi-million software development project.
• Providing technical leadership/oversight on architecture and design.
• Designing interface definitions between SOA components using OAGIS integration standards.
• Ensuring seamless integration of SOA components using industry best practices.
• Environment: SOA, Java, J2EE, EJB, ILog JRules 4.5, Web-Services, Html, Velocity, Struts, BOD, XSD, XML, XmlBeans, Weblogic 8.1, Oracle 9i, Sonic ESB, Ant and Log4J.

Technical Lead (Sept 2003 - Mar 2004)
Tavant's Pricing Engine delivers the best pricing solution, matching borrowers' needs and preferences, yet remains within company profit guidelines and more importantly, complies with all state and federal regulations - without exception.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments

• Defined architecture and designed a new Pricing Engine for Olympus Mortgage Company
• Developed web-services using Apache Axis framework.
• Designed XML interface between pricing engine and clients.
• Designed unit testing mechanism which completely automated testing of all rules.
• Migrated Pricing Engine to ILog JConfigurator 2.0, which supported numbers with decimals.
• Environment: Java, J2EE, Ilog JConfigurator, Html, XML, XSD, Castor, Web-Services, Spring, Hibernate, Weblogic 6.1, Oracle 8i, Ant and Log4J.

Technical Lead / Senior Developer (Mar 2002 - Aug 2003)
SNAP (Sales Navigation & Accelerated Production) is an integrated solution, was built using Tavant's Mortgage Sales solution, however SNAP was tailor made but very flexible. This project was so successful, that it realized ROI within days of the project launch.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments

• Managed SDLC activities of Lead/Prospective Customer Management component.
• Developed screens, business logic, OR mapping according to business requirements.
• Designed techniques to handle 9 Million prospective customers every month.
• Designed and developed a smart, powerful and flexible distribution algorithm for allocation customers' to sales force.
• Environment: Java, JSP, Servlets, JavaScript, EJB, Web-Services, Toplink 3.6, JDBC, Weblogic, Oracle

Confidential, Hyderabad, India (2000 - 2002)
Intelligroup is a global provider of innovative consulting, technology, and outsourcing services.

Software Engineer (July 2000 - Feb 2002)
Designed and developed software as per requirements for projects PlanCentral, PULSE2 and Project Management Tracking tool.

Responsibilities/Accomplishments

• Analyzed and designed solutions for Issue, Defect resolutions and customizable menu modules.
• Developed software according to requirements.
• Developed visual charts, to provide statistics at various management levels.
• Environment: Java, HTML, JavaScript, JDBC, Jrun 3.0, Oracle 8, Windows 2000