Summary

• More than 14 years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals.
• Strong skills in J2EE Technologies, Web Services, OOAD, UML, Design Patterns, XML Technologies, MQ Series, WebSphere, Rational Rose, etc.
• Served well known international clients like Bank of Montreal, Prudential Insurance, New York Life Insurance, Ohio Casualty Group, Liberty Mutual, Sweden Bank, Westfield Insurance, Scotia Bank, Anthem Inc.
• Experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, SOA, Application Architecture, Design and Development in various domains like Healthcare, Insurance, Banking, etc.
• Extensive exposure and expertise with IBM's Insurance Application Architecture IAA
• Led and participated in J2EE based architecture and design as per the EA guideline and principles.
• Excellent fundamentals and analytical skills in understanding the key business process in various industries and strong ability to translate from business to sound technology solutions.

Skill Set

Professional Experience

Confidential

Sr. Solution Architect

• Projects: Multiple projects SPIDER, EPDG/Merrill Migration, EHP, SalesTool and Enrollment Accuracy .
• Scope of these projects is to create strategic platform for product definition and integration with other heterogeneous downstream systems membership, claims, etc. and reporting and analytical data warehouses. Discuss and standardize product models and architect systems to allow building products leveraging product machine. Solution support for strategic product documents system. Assist in solution ing and migration planning of products from legacy systems onto strategic system.

Responsibilities:

• Provide parallel architectural support to multiple enterprise projects product domain .
• Participate in meetings with business stakeholders to determine and understand requirements.
• Conceptualize high level technology solutions that are aligned to architectural guidelines and principles.
• Elaborate high level solutions as discovery architecture and incorporates feedback from enterprise architects.
• Present the solution to business owners and other stakeholders
• Create high quality software architecture artifacts and incorporate feedback from enterprise architects.
• Guides technology team in creating low level system design and perform technical design reviews.
• Analyzes and evaluated technology alternatives as part of architectural assessments and decisions.

Confidential

Architect/SOA Architect

• Project: Multiple projects Predictive Underwriting, WC Workers Compensation
• Description: This project provides underwriting guidance to the insurance administration systems and thus helping to better understand the insured party risk characteristics. Along with the new development for WC, this project is a re architectural implementation to build enterprise level SOA Service Oriented Architecture services. SOA services identification was derived from IBM IDM Interface Design Method which is part of IBM IAA Insurance Application Architecture . The SOA implementation is part of the Westfield CoE Centre of Excellence division.

Responsibilities:

• Define SOA based application architecture and create service choreography artefacts.
• Define SOA services using IDM Components part of IBM IAA which are part of company business architecture.
• Participate in business meetings to understand requirements and propose solutions.
• Create and contribute to Software Architecture Document to capture solution leveraging SOA services.
• Work with legacy teams to ensure service definitions are appropriate considering volume, performance and complexibility factors.
• Attend and contribute to Architectural Assessments and Architectural decisions.
• Created model design/implementation for EJB SOA service. The SOAP services were JMS transport based so as to support heterogeneous IMS systems using ESB/MQ Broker.
• Created sophisticated harness tools for all the new services, so as to simplify utilization, availability, referencing and testing of these services.
• Created proof of concept and Applied WebSphere work manager solution, to run the independent service calls in parallel leveraging WebSphere threads these commands were taking between 2 8 seconds and were running in series, this saved processing time by approx. 70 .
• Other proofs to showcase Apache JCS to cache D B service response

Confidential

Architect

Description: Project's scope is to implement web based J2EE Loan Application. Loan application will be used by loan officers to work on various life cycles of the loan approval. The system needs to talk to various internal and external systems to obtain required information for the customer loan approval. The system also needs to implement a case engine that takes care of preparatory phases and notifies the responsible parties.

Responsibilities:

• Study, analyze business use cases and clarify the questions with business users.
• Create Use Case Realization UCR diagrams and reports.
• Update architecture document with new/updated components.
• Create high level and low level design rose models and respective documents.
• Create class diagrams, sequence diagrams for the important business/flows.
• Create low level component/application specification documents to guide development.
• Reviewed code from the architecture perspective.
• Update existing design documents.
• Help/guide team in solving technical problems.
• Review the design and code and create review records with suggestions.
• Discussion with project manager and provide inputs towards project planning, identification of major and minor tasks.
• Mentoring the new team members, provide a high level overview of the system architecture.
• Estimate development/design effort and timeline of tasks and help assignment to developers.
• Provide inputs to prioritize/re prioritize design and development tasks to meet the SLA
• Provide trainings, project overview and high level architecture to new team members.

Confidential

Lead Developer

Project: BOP Predictive Underwriting

Description: This project provides underwriting guidance to the client insurance administration systems WesCom, 5.3 . This enables insurance applications to better understand the risks associated with an insured party and correspondingly adjust the premium.

Responsibilities:

• Created IAA XML framework that translates IAA XML to Java based IAA Command Message graph. Applications can use this framework to provide interoperability between Java Command Message objects IAA and IAA XML. This is currently implemented using XStream, through an abstraction layer, to support future JAXB plug ability.
• Created Command Message Framework utilizing JMS/MDB, to support SOA services enabling command implementers to register them so that the framework could delegate respective IAA XML command to them.
• JAXB/JAXP: Replaced XStream that was converting DnB service response to Java objects with J2EE standard JAXB coupled with JAXP.
• Refactored existing code using hibernate so that complete object graph for the policy gets saved and retrieved.
• Implemented BOP guidance/scoring modules that uses Deloitte engine.
• Added DAO layers in front of the hibernate implementations for DB2 interactions.
• Database Viewer This utility is mostly like a faster version of DBVisualizer. It provides, a subset of functions provided by DBVisualizer, an user interface where user can enter a table name to view this utility then displays all the columns of the entered table and DB2 operators e.g. ,, LIKE, NULL etc that can be used to easily create a condition. The utility then displays DB2 query and fetches record from the table using the query. This is a fast and easy way to enable a user to query a table at least for those not having DBVisualizer on their systems.
• Fixed defects related to scoring, guidance and commands.

Confidential

Team Lead/Lead Developer

Description: Personal PARIS Policy Administration and Rating Issuance System is a web based insurance application of OCG. It is used by agents and underwriters to create and manage auto, umbrella and property policies. The scope of this project is to develop Auto, Umbrella and Property policy administration systems from scratch into a WebSphere browser based Java application. This project uses IAA Insurance Application Architecture developed by IBM The IAA implementation has already been developed and is being used to model insurance business. User Interface layer has been built using Struts, JSPs, Tiles, Standard /Custom Tag libraries. Web Server talks to Application server using RMI. Application Server talks to lot of systems using various technologies. Rating is done by InsBridge module which is invoked by a web service call. Communication to Third Party Systems has been designed using SOA. Business model runs on different server, data is exchanged using RMI calls.

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Third Party call modules to talk to SOA based components e.g. Choice Point, MVR and Clue Choice Point is used to get driver insurance score and MVR/Clue for driver history .
• Implemented and re factored IAA components and fixed the defects related to IAA specification implementation.
• Implemented rating sub subsystem which uses web service call for policy rating.
• Worked on transforming the policy XML using JAXP and provided rating expected xml.
• Coded SOAP based web service call to external Expert system, which uses blaze engine to run underwriting rules.
• Analyzed and designed print sub module which is used for policy printing.
• Coded MQ Series calls to talk to legacy, which is used to read legacy policies.
• Created User Interface pages using JSP/Struts/Tag Libraries and Tiles.
• Coded Struts Action classes which talks to Application Server over RMI.
• Implemented business validation and process flow in the application layer.
• Used Java implementation of IAA components to build policy agreements with updated information.
• Coded STAT sub system which sends premium information to external PETA system using MQ.
• Enhanced Policy Saving procedure to Blob.
• Implemented policy publishing of Pub/Sub to notify issuance of policy.
• Fixed defects pertaining to business/UI/backend layers.
• Meeting with the team weekly to review the work status and assign new work items.
• Regular call with the offshore team to determine the work status and address questions.
• Mentoring new team members and bringing them on board.
• Meeting with client to update project status.
• Note: Bravo Award for excellent contribution to project Ohio Casualty Group

Confidential

Lead Developer/Onsite Coordinator

Project: Bankpro Migration

Description: Scotia Bank is using Bankpro which was developed in the 1980's as the Bank's original desktop technology platform, to support the branch desktop interface with the Bank's mainframe applications for non dollar transactions. The system currently accounts for approximately 10 of Branch sales activity, however, it is DOS based and as such, considered a fat client and uses significant PC resources. In 2002, the Bank made a strategic decision to transform its desktop environment to thin client web based technology in order to improve PC performance and better integrate user applications. As part of this decision and in support of the thin client strategy, Bank has decided to move BankPro functionalities to their java based platform called IntraLink .

Responsibilities:

• Identified the business requirements after discussions with client.
• UseCase documentation for all features of the product.
• Designed the Bankpro sub modules using Rational Rose.
• Used Model View Controller MVC pattern using Servlet controller and JSPs.
• Created sequence diagrams for the important flows.
• Reviewed the code written by team and suggested enhancements.
• Prepared Coding Guidelines for Java code and JSP to be followed by team.
• Implemented the Safety Deposit Box UI interface using JSP.
• Coded Application logic for Safety Deposit Box which talks to underlying Intralink platform.
• Ran JTest to ensure that all the static coding guidelines rules are met.
• Created JUnit test cases and ran them to ensure the system behaviour.
• Worked on fixing the defects reported by customers.
• Participated in defect review meetings with client to discuss defect status.
• Involved in resolving production defects and other production issues.
• Created Thread runners using java Thread APIs which were used to send client requests to existing BISB framework.

Confidential

Developer

Project: Scotia 4702 Elimination

• Description: The scope of the 4702 Elimination project of Scotia bank is to eliminate the time worn 4702 Financial Controllers and to replace its services through a S/W Emulator. 4702 Financial Controller is used for Banking as a server to do financial transactions. It is supported by workstations 4704 PC's and printers 9068 . Applications in 4702 are coded using the language called FCL Financial Control Language . This machine acts as a gateway between S/390 and Branch Applications
• . There are four branch applications namely BankPro, Teller Keying Sequence TKS , Forms Free Teller FFT and Term Deposit/Guaranteed Investments TD/GUI . The software emulator should provide interface to all these branch application. The communication between branch application and software emulator happens over Java sockets, and uses existing BISB Business Information Service Broker framework developed by Scotia bank.

Responsibilities:

• Developed Teller Keying Sequence TKS emulator window using AWT which provides UI for users.
• Designed TKS parser sub system that is used to validate the entered tks and with adaptability to plug new parser sub systems at any time. I was awarded the Bravo Award for suggesting efficient design. ICM Intellectual Capital Submission for Pattern Matcher utility, developed in Scotia 4702 Elimination project
• Implemented TKS parser sub system by tokenizing the entered tks and validating each token for its location and usage conditions.
• Coded the module which is used to send validated tks to Server using BISB framework.
• Implemented Formatter classes which are capable of formatting certain type of responses Depending on certain bytes in response, It identifies which formatter it should bind to .
• Developed virtual host which was used to test system offline Server emulator maintained important request/response mappings because host connectivity was not available. This virtual host was used for 90 of the unconnected testing.
• Customized lotus notes based database to better track the defects.
• Unit tested all the components using JUnit.
• Integration tested the system using the developed virtual host.

Confidential

Developer

Description: Prudential SCT is re architecture project for Prudential Retirement Services. The secondary aim of the project is to make it more user friendly and to increase its performance. SCT re architecture Project uses some of the common components including Content Management, Exception Handling, and Logging.

Responsibilities:

• Review and validate the Technical Specification provided by client.
• Implemented complete UseCase Investor Personality Quiz referred to as IPQ.
• Coded JSP screens, which creates UI for Investor personality Quiz module.
• Used IBM JADE framework which is based on MVC pattern.
• Review the UseCases and discuss any of the shortcomings.
• Created Action classes which talks to Business layer of the application.
• Coded Entity/Session beans to provide various services to the customer.
• Setting the Transaction Attributes for container managed beans.
• Did code review for other team members and suggested possible improvements.
• Measured system performance pieces using tools JProbe and Java Profiler.
• Unit tested each class so as to make sure that it meets the expected behaviour.
• String tested the complete use case and integration testing of all use cases across the build.

Confidential

Developer

Project: Bank of Montreal

Description: The project ported the Application software from OS/2 platform to Windows 2000 operating system. Bank of Montreal has a set of applications developed on OS/2 platform, which caters to Product Presentation, Product Launch, Opening of accounts under selected products, and Safe Deposit Box functions of the bank. These applications were developed in 90s and are being used in over 6000 terminals in branches all over Canada. The applications were developed in C and Visual Age C and access data from btrieve files and DB2 tables on OS/2 server as well as CICS transactions on customer mainframe systems.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a migration design to port system API calls to deliver functionality similar to that of OS/2 within the framework of facilities provided under Windows 2000
• Coding wrapper methods for the calls where direct mapping is unavailable.
• Finding OS/2 equivalent message in Windows.
• Replacing OS/2 calls with windows messages.
• Migrated Product Presentation, Product Open and Safety Deposit Box products.
• Coding sqc files for creating and managing the new database through DB2.
• Used WinEdit as the IDE in porting these soft wares.
• Coded screen resolution change from 640x480 to 1024x768 pixel resolution.
• Creating test cases based on already running application on OS/2 platform
• Unit testing product screens in windows 2000.
• Worked on fixing the identified defects.
• Note: Received Bravo Award for excellent performance in the project.