PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Servant leader and skilled Enterprise Cloud Strategist, Architect, Technical Director with hands - on technology experience in highly-scalable solution design and implementation, IT strategy, governance and enterprise architecture alignment.
• Extensive expertise in communicating technical solutions with business acumen to clients and C-level leadership.
• Rich and deep technical expertise in architecture, solution design, Cloud strategy and DevOps.
• Adept at Iterative/Incremental, Agile, hybrid SDLC methodologies as well as Scrum, SAFe and Kanban frameworks.
• Proven experience in building, leading, motivating, and coaching top-notch customer focused teams.

EXPERTISE:

• Technical Leadership.
• Project & Program Management.
• Product design and development.
• Multi-Site/OffShore Team Management.
• LeanIT & Process Improvement.
• Vendor/Business relationship management.
• Budgeting/Finance Reporting
• Enterprise Architecture & Governance.
• Cloud Transformation and Road-mapping.
• Integration SOA/API/Micro-Services.
• SaaS, Paas & IaaS Cloud services.
• Application Modernization/Reengineering.
• Technology PoC and Evaluations.
• DevOps with CI/CD

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Enterprise Architecture and Management: TOGAF, Zachman, COBIT, ITIL, Agile, PMP, LeanIT, SCRUM, and SAFe

Databases: Oracle, DB2, MySQL, NOSQL, MongoDB, and DynamoDB

Languages, Tools and frameworks: Java, SQL, AngularJS, JQuery, Java Script, JSON, Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, JHipster, NodeJS, Serverless, SOAP/RESTFUL APIGEE API, Jenkins, BitBucket(Git), Junit, SonarQube, Maven, JFrog artifactory, Ansible, RunDeck, Kubernetes, Docker, JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo.

Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Manager

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Built high-performance delivery teams consisting of developers, analysts and QA resources with 9 direct reports and 24 indirect reports.
• Spearheaded transition of legacy monolithic web applications to a resilient and responsive design utilizing AngularJS, JQuery, Java Script and JSON and micro services based architecture backend using Spring Boot, AWS Lambda, JHipster, NodeJS, MongoDB, DynamoDB, and MySQL. SOAP/RESTFUL services were routed through APIGEE API platform.
• Rolled out Annuities DevOps strategy and setup CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, BitBucket(Git), Junit, SonarQube, Maven, JFrog artifactory, Ansible, RunDeck, Docker, JIRA, Confluence and Bamboo.
• Batch processes and reporting applications where lift-shift to AWS Cloud is not ideal were rebuilt as Serverless applications hosted on VPC with pre-built AWS S3 staging buckets, AWS IAM policies, DynamoDB, HTML, JavaScript and Lambda function calls. Significant recurring savings of 2.4 MM were achieved with 12x ROI.
• Reduced operating costs and expenses by an average of ~20% per year.
• Eliminated the backlog for BUA (business -as-usual) enhancement requests and app discrepancy fixes by reducing the cycle times from 6 months to 2 week window. Reduced the cost-per-BAU by ~55% by applying value-stream-mapping and process enhancements. Savings of ~ 700k per year and enhanced customer satisfaction.
• Established long-term relationships and trust with key members of other business units (Life Insurance, Retirement and Wealth Management) and also implemented strong vendor (Cognizant, Salesforce, Foresight, Morningstar, and Confidential ) governance model using COBIT 5 framework.
• Piloted core-flex resource model allowing for significant flexibility for the organizational budget, preserving SME knowledge, and achieving desired savings from fixed-bids with stringent SLAs and KPIs. This model was eventually replicated across BU which provided excellent visibility & flexibility for the business and the IT.
• Challenged, mentored and coached team members to grow their career as well as Prudential's talent pool.

Technical Director

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Responsibilities:

• As a member of Architecture Review Board, provided guidance, Integration governance and influenced solutions to align with business strategy, risk profile and enterprise technology road map.
• Partnered with business architects, customers, business partners and planning and strategy organization to define enterprise technology road map and identified key strategic technologies to invest, and applications to tolerate/migrate.
• Improved resiliency, service quality and risk position for the application portfolio by implementing data centre strategy and migrating applications requiring high-availability RTOs to AWS EC2 IaaS platform.
• Spearheaded the technology selection for API (APIGEE) management and ESB (WSO2) orchestration platforms, prototyping, defining, designing integration patterns for supporting container micro services, SOAP services, data exchange/transformation, event-based messaging and integration with Informatica Intelligent cloud for analytics.
• Architected and designed solution utilizing SalesForce Service Cloud as target SaaS platform for Annuities customer servicing and delivered authenticated end user experience for Financial professionals website using JSON/REST micro services and light weight UI framework.
• Modernized eDelivery capability for confirmations, performance statements, report generations etc by integrating legacy batch applications with ESB and a file management hub. eDelivery program was self-funded with savings generated from each iteration.

Development Manager

Confidential, Shelton, CT

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities include directing the assignment of work, lead the technical design, code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to company software coding standards, mentoring, team motivation, and conducting semi-annual performance reviews. Acted as SME for J2EE applications and WebSphere Portal and Content Management systems.
• Involved in all phases of SDLC from project prioritization to coding, defect resolution and warranty support.
• Managed technology stack for ~15 Java struts based web Applications, infrastructure and production support.
• Eliminated legacy JDBC & point-point service calls and replaced with reusable SOAP JAX-WS web services to pull data from policy administration platforms.
• Redesigned service online portal security framework, managed infrastructure projects and WebSphere portal 6.1, and Oracle upgrade cycles.
• Redesigned and migrated java applications from Struts 1.2 framework to Hibernate, Spring, with AJAX, JQuery based front-ends.
• Actively contributed to the Enterprise Architecture, SDLC Modernization and various Process Improvement programs.

Delivery Manager

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of developers, testers and analysts spread across the globe.
• Provided architectural guidance, time and resource estimation.
• Resolved impediments during sprints.
• Developed a technical infrastructure architecture supporting process orchestration.
• Delivered a complete framework for SOA, integration lifecycle, documentation templates, and best practices.
• Established a software process framework, based on RUP/UML, resulting in improved delivery capabilities of the organization.
• Delivered enterprise content management and customer facing portal applications on time and 15% under budget

Technical Project Manager

Confidential, Nashua, NH

Responsibilities:

• Evolved current project management process to a more agile scrum-like approach and defined scope, estimation and schedules.
• Analyzed existing business processes, product constraints, vendor restrictions and proposed/prototyped a vendor neutral solution architecture that best suites Kana customers and business partners.
• Managed the delivery of agent-facing (authenticated) and self-service portlets that can be deployed on any JSR 168 compliant portal containers. ( Budget: $1.2 Million Resources: 8).
• Instrumental in getting IQ portlets added to Confidential Global Solutions Directory as “ Confidential WebSphere Portal Validated”.

Senior IT Architect

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Designed a SOA with services for claims processing Java application and wrote options papers, led development effort from requirements to deployment and selected design patterns.
• Led a team of 12 developers. Interface to offshore development team in India.
• Managed the successfully delivery of R1 completely integrated with six internal Applications via Web services and a fully documented Software Architecture (Following ANSI/IEEE Std 1471).

Professional Services Manager

Confidential, Olympia, WA

Responsibilities:

• Managed the implementation of J2EE SOA based Web Services applications that can exchange JINDEX data with various organizations. Tech Stack: Unix, Java, SOAP, JavaScript, Web Sphere, Spring, Hibernate, SQL & Oracle.
• Improved the performance of a state judicial information system by more than 50%, by conducting java performance profiling, introducing new vendor tooling and optimizing code base. .
• Implemented scrum, lean agile practices, pair-programming and mentored the state employees.

Solution Architect

Confidential, Rochester, MN

Responsibilities:

• Created a portal solution that included the implementation of Confidential WebSphere Experience Products - WebSphere Portal, Content Manager, Lotus Sametime, QuickPlace and the development of over 25 JSR 168 compliant portlets.
• Designed a HIPAA compliant SOA with java web services infrastructure that would integrate enterprise systems with business partners and allow saving over $ 15 Million in transaction costs. This project impacted Payer/Provider/Consumer domains.