• A recognized technology leader known for crafting the requisite strategic vision to achieve business goals, Mr. Shikari offers a unique blend of executive acumen, global team-building, and information technology IT solutions development expertise and practical experience to any project he leads. As Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of ACS Health Enterprise product, Mr. Shikari has built a responsive IT organization that consistently delivers results by aligning technology initiatives with corporate business goals and proving substantial improvements to service delivery, standardization, and business and systems performance. Throughout his career, he has led technical teams ranging from 10 to 300 staff in the design, development, and implementation of systems and architecture covering numerous public sector programs and numerous technology solutions.
• Confidential brings senior leadership and vision in technical and management areas of application software development, design, support, IT consulting, programming, and research as well as extensive business/domain experience in large complex public sector projects including Unemployment Insurance, Child Support, Child Welfare, TANF, Food Stamps, and Health Care Medicaid Eligibility and Claims Processing .
• Confidential, in his role as the Chief Technology Officer of the Government Healthcare Solutions group is responsible for creating technology roadmaps and strategic plans that drive innovative solutions.
• Currently Confidential is leading the product vision and the product architecture for the Health Enterprise product which encompasses Eligibility, Claims Processing, Member and Provider enrollment, Benefits planning, TPL and Payment Processing. He is also responsible for the Advance Engineering Group AEG which has developed very innovative solution around COTS product integration mainly Document Management, Document Workflow, secure portal for Document delivery, Structured and Unstructured data search and Mobile applications in the health care domain. He has a couple of patents registered which have provided significant savings in development time and significant improvement in throughput performance .
• Confidential has more than 20 years of system development and architecture experience and in the last 5-7 years in a senior leadership role where he has been responsible for establishing product vision, proposing state of the art system/product design and technical specifications for projects and products. Mr. Shikari is very well acquainted in the newer technologies and is also very practical in selection of the new technologies based on the limitations that exist with current staff training and Organizational readiness for the adoption of these new technologies.
• He has the unique blend of technical and the business domain experience and can communicate the requirements to Business and Technical leaders. This quality enables him to understand the business needs and translate those requirements into the technical enabling solutions needed to meet the business needs.

Key Strengths

• Strategic Technology Initiatives Rapid Prototyping Programming Emerging Technology Market Assessments Team Building Management Systems Integration Administration
• Advanced Technology Research Training Mentoring Cross-Organization Collaboration Client Needs Analysis Simple Creative Solutions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

VP Architecture and Chief Technology Officer/Government Healthcare Solutions

• Serves as Chief Technology Officer CTO responsible for all technical decisions and the strategic and tactical roadmap for Xerox Healthcare Solutions, including the Health Enterprise MMIS product offering
• As CTO, serves as Chief Architect of the Health Enterprise product for the Medicaid market space responsible for the future product technical vision,
• Leads the continuing research and development R D for the Health Enterprise product through the Advance Engineering Group. This group is also responsible to take some of the research activities done at PARC/Grenoble research centers to market productize and monetize some of the research Example built a Predictive Real-time Fraud Waste and Abuse FWA engine for the Insurance and Financial domain.
• Leading an effort to establish an API marketplace for a community of internal Xerox developers and external developers to access our data to create applications to support the Transportation and healthcare industries.
• Leads the Performance Labs division responsible for performance testing and capacity sizing of the ACS Health Enterprise
• Involved in the day-to-day decisions regarding the architecture, design, development of the Health Enterprise product
• Responsible for the migration of Xerox legacy applications from mainframe to midrange/open system platforms
• Responsible for the solution and development of 5010 and ICD10 enhancements for the Health Enterprise product
• Provides thought leadership and expanding awareness of our product in the healthcare management industry through the generation of white papers, speaking engagements at conferences and member of the MITA Technical Architecture Committee TAC

Confidential

Vice President Technology and Architecture

• Led the research and development R D and Product Development of the Child Support Enforcement System CSES application framework and incorporated the framework to other domains within the company's health and human services product offerings, for example, Eligibility Determination solutions
• Led product development of an Education Data Warehouse to meet the No Child Left Behind Act

Confidential

Chief Architect

• Established the architectural vision and enterprise blueprints for all information technology systems, ensuring the architecture conformed to enterprise blueprints and aligned with corporate objectives
• Conducted the overall systems design and management of the business object architecture and application infrastructure architecture
• Developed technological roadmaps while keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies and recommended business directions based on these technologies
• Created a team of architects to support the company's Health and Human Services sector, including identifying and recruiting potential architects and creating training and education for them
• Led the ongoing effort within the company's Health and Human services department to establish and evolve IT best practices, application development standards, service level agreements, and other standards related to tools, processes, and qualifications and training of technical staff
• Assisted in evaluating several solutions and technologies for the company's Health and Human services sector covering Medicaid Eligibility, Payment Processing, Child Support, Income Assistance, and Child Welfare
• Led the company's research and development R D effort for building an enterprise framework and common front-end modules that support Health and Human services programs
• Provided Technical Architect/Solutions Architect services for pre-sales and RFP services for Child Support, Income Assistance, Child Welfare systems and unemployment Insurance Systems
• Worked in developing a web service framework for the Child Support Enforcement program for Locate and Enforcement
• As a Technical Ambassador for Unisys, spent three years establishing the Unisys 3D VE methodology and educating engineers and managers on emerging technologies and facilitating collaboration with their corporate counterparts

Senior System Architect / Technical Project Manager, Confidential

Project

• Served as Consulting Enterprise Architect and assisting the New York Department of Labor NYDOL Chief Architect of Enterprise Planning Architecture Strategies EPAS Unit with establishing the architectural vision and enterprise blueprints for all information technology systems, ensuring that architecture conformed to enterprise blueprints and aligned with NYDOL objectives
• Developed technological roadmaps while keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies and recommended business directions to NYDOL based on these technologies
• Conducted the overall systems design and management of the business object architecture and application infrastructure architecture
• Assisted the NYDOL Chief Architect to create a community of architects within the department, to identify and recruit potential architects, and to create training and education for them
• Lead the ongoing effort to establish and evolve IT best practices, application development standards, service level agreements, and other standards related to tools, processes, and qualification and training of technical staff
• Assisted the EPAS Enterprise Planning Architecture Strategies EPAS Unit in overseeing the various C ram projects and in establishing a standard practice in implementing future C ram projects
• Assisted the NYDOL to establish a road map for creating an Enterprise Data Model that can be shared across all the C ram and Non C ram Applications
• Assisted the NYDOL in creating a roadmap and migration strategy to bring all C ram Applications to a single version of C ram
• Assisted the EPAS unit to set up standards and best practices for a C ram Development methodology
• Architect/Implementation Manager, Massachusetts Department of Revenue - Child Support Confidential
• Served as the Architect for design and conversion issues on the project and as Technical Implementation Manager for the rollout of the Financial Module of the Child Support Enforcement CSE System which supports over 275,000 open cases and 700 users
• Assisted in finalizing a testing strategy for the test team that ensured timely progress against the project plan
• As the Architect was responsible for the design of the real-time data sharing middleware component between the new CSE system and the legacy system, development of the conversion strategy, and assisted in the resolution of various other design and development issues.

Technical Manager, Florida Department of Confidential

• Managed the Integrated Benefit Recovery System, a state-of-the-art, Web-based solution that supported 250 users
• Led a Design / Development team of 20 onsite staff SME and Designers as well as oversaw the offshore development team of 30-40 developers.
• Designed and implemented real-time integration with the existing legacy system using an EAI tool Java Adapter for mainframe from Bea Systems
• Applications Development Manager Confidential
• Served in a leading role in the implementation and the rollout in the pilot counties of Charleston and Calhoun for the Child Support Enforcement system.
• Assisted the Project Manager in developing the design, development, and implementation DDI project schedule
• Led a small team of 20 core developers supporting the changes identified during the pilot implementation.

Software Development Manager/Technical Manager Confidential

• Managed the SACWIS and Juvenile Justice System, a Power Builder solution that supported 200 users
• Led a team of 35 developers and 5 managers to pilot the project Mentored all the developers
• Served as the primary technical interface to the client

Senior Systems Architect Confidential

Managed the development and design of the prototype for the State Automated Child Welfare System SACWIS for the State of Florida, which included merging of the CHILDS Arizona Child Welfare System model with the Florida SACWIS model and using the Intake Management Module for the development of the prototype

Hestair Computer Group, Dallas, TX Confidential

• Oversaw the design and development of the South Carolina Child Support Enforcement System CSES
• Served as Development Manager responsible for the design, development, and testing of the entire CSES application managing approximately75 resources
• Designed the CSES financial management module, which consists of order processing, aging and billing, allocation distribution, disbursement, and bank reconciliation
• Led the joint application development JAD sessions and wrote the general system design GSD document and the detailed systems design DSD document for the application
• Serving as lead System Architect, assisted in the design of the replication and batch processing modules
• Assisted in the set up of the build process and application distribution process, leading a team of up to 8 developers