creative and result oriented professional with in depth experience in business process improvement, architecture design, program management product design to support your business goals by delivering 1 ROI by improving business processes 2 roadmap for cost effective, reliable and scalable enterprise architecture 3 reduction in Total Cost of Ownership and 4 groundbreaking software products and solutions

• Successful track record and extensive experience in technology roadmap creation, standards definition, software reuse and infrastructure simplification in complex technical environments.
• Expertise in translating complex business requirements to sound enterprise architecture and user friendly applications while maintaining focus on designing highly efficient, scalable and stable architecture. Experience in creation of code libraries and leveraging open source technologies.
• Led several initiatives involving comprehensive end to end business process analysis, application of lean sigma and six sigma principles, process redesign and business improvement plan. Expertise in conducting cost benefit analysis for process and derived system improvements and preparing investment plan. Actively sought successful management endorsements of investment and execution plans.
• Experience in practical enterprise architecture process following TOGAF guidelines. Led multiple enterprise architecture redesign initiatives to successful completion.
• 15 years of experience in design software solutions and product using diverse technology - Mobile, data warehouse, Integrations, ERP Systems, BI, BPM, Web, Infrastructure and large scale distributed systems.
• Technology agnostic having architected, designed and developed best in class solutions and products utilizing multiple technology stacks for
• Front end ASP.NET MVC, J2EE Cloud Azure, Force.com Mobile iOS, Android Web AngularJS, Sencha Middleware REST and SOAP based web services, webMethods, SSIS Reporting and visualization SSRS, TIBCO Spotfire, Tableau online Optimization IBM CIPLEX Machine learning R, Azure ML, SAS Backend MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle
• Led discovery, identification, business case development and process improvement plan for product blending function in downstream Oil and Gas Organization leading to 30 MM in margin improvement during first year. The execution of plan is estimated to fetch 100 million margin improvement across 7 refineries and Joint Ventures.
• Led discovery, identification, business case development and execution for improvement of commercial division in a financial services company to improve customer engagement process and consolidate 7 diverse technology platforms. Projected benefit of 15 million.
• Provided significant benefits 5 million to a contract management business by driving process and improvements and implementation of ERP system for the organization.
• Led IT programs with large budgets. Administered cost/benefits, budgets, finances, technology roadmap, resources, infrastructure and standards. Managed large and complex projects using SDLC from planning through execution in schedule and budget. Experience working with multiple Fortune 500 companies in global and distributed setting. Working understanding of outsourcing model. Working knowledge of SOX compliance, disaster recovery, IT governance, risk management and IT security.
• Experience leading global, matrix, cross functional and multi tier teams with team sizes 3-50.

Work Experience

Confidential

Lead several strategic initiatives for downstream and midstream business process and systems - refinery scheduling, refinery blending, demand forecasting, price forecasting, supply chain, inventory management etc. Define business capability models, conduct As Is assessment and develop target architecture across various supply chain functions

Key Achievements

• Designed and developed algorithms in CIPLEX to demonstrate optimization opportunities
• Designed system to aggregate fundamental data provided by over 15 third party providers for long term strategic planning
• Conducted Proof Of Concepts using SAS, iOS, Azure, ASP.NET MVC, REST, TIBCO Spotfire and JavaScript frameworks for various business use cases in the supply chain function for downstream business
• Lead architect on implementation of Aspentech Petroleum Scheduler APS in Richmond refinery and upgrade of Aspentech Multi Blend Optimizer MBO
• Business capability modelling, As Is state assessment and target architecture design for refinery blending, inventory management, long term refinery optimization and demand forecasting functions
• Conceptualized and prepared business case for a Unified Blending Portal to consolidate refinery blending systems across 7 refineries to significantly reduce Total Cost of Ownership.
• Conceptualized and sought endorsement of management to implement next gen blending processes and systems to facilitate integration between trading and refinery systems, predictive boost modelling, real time process sensing, back casting/visualizations and data quality improvements
• Led discovery, identification of process improvement focus areas business case development for product blending function in downstream Oil and Gas Organization leading to 30 MM in margin improvement at just one refinery during first year. The full execution of plan is estimated to fetch 100 million margin capture across 7 refineries and JVs.

Confidential

• Tech Azure, Force.com, .NET, Java, TOGAF, BizTalk, e-Commerce
• Enterprise architect for a 1.2 billion company. Responsibilities include.
• Alignment of IT strategy with company's business goals using TOGAF principles
• Optimization of information management approaches through an understanding of evolving business needs and technology capabilities.
• Long-term strategic responsibility for the company's IT systems
• Provide direction to project management and development team on system design and software development

Key Achievements

• Designed enterprise application on Force.com which uses MVC framework. Evaluated Microsoft XRM framework.
• Defined technology roadmap for diverse business function areas like e-commerce, web, print, Finance etc.
• Mentored infrastructure team on deployment of scalable, extensible and high availability environments
• Developed enterprise architecture strategy outlining standardization of technology, processes and tools
• Designed Enterprise Service Bus that can be leveraged globally by over 70 operating companies. Middleware platform is BizTalk/WCF.
• Architected Windows Azure based cloud platform for company's healthcare customers
• Developed Enterprise Architecture Strategy for the company with 70 operating units. Conducted in depth analysis of companywide business architecture, information system architecture and data architecture. Derived the architecture vision for the company to lower cost and improve efficiency. Discussed migration strategy based on TOGAF principles.

Confidential

Tech C , Mobile Banking, ASP.NET, Web Methods, Fidelity Hogan Mainframe, Corillian Voyager

• Technology lead for Online Banking Solutions, which supports web mobile based consumer banking operations at Capital One. Review architecture, technical design and code in support of core banking operations like account history, transfers, statements, bill pay etc. Architecture comprised of ASP.NET on presentation layer, C Web Services for business layer, Web Methods on integration layer and SQL server and mainframe on data layer. Key projects
• Mobile banking
• Application enhancements related to online banking operations
• Migration and development of entire web methods middleware

Key Achievements

As a tech lead delivered multiple agile releases with minimum issues

Confidential

Tech .NET, ETL, Web Methods, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, Data warehouse, AJAX, Hibernate, RPG, BPM, J2EE, TOGAF

• Redesigned architecture framework and platform to enable faster data processing, reduce implementation cycle time and minimize Total Cost of ownership to support high volume data processing, SOA and EDM . Conducted complete analysis of organizational business processes and produced execution plan for process improvement based on TOGAF. Developed technology roadmap to achieve architectural goals. Led multiple projects to accomplish target architecture. Key responsibilities include
• Evaluate and recommend technology stack for data integration ETL , app development, performance monitoring, logging, version control etc.
• Design and develop Proof of Concept POCs conforming to the new architecture using chosen technology platforms. Utilized ASP.NET with C on front end, Web Methods Integration Server as middleware and Hibernate/SQL Server as backend. System utilized SSIS and SSRS for legacy system integration and data warehouse reports respectively. The process was implemented using Web Methods BPM process designer with business rules implemented in Blaze Advisor.
• Development of web Services and integration projects. Web Services written using WCF.
• Manage projects for high value clients in print and card services division.

Key Achievements

• Designed enterprise technology SOA framework which effectively brings together business services, data services, B2B services, business rules management and composition services. Architecture was designed for high performance distributed computing by leveraging virtualized infrastructure. The architecture was presented in corporate architecture meetings and much appreciated.
• Coordinated and delivered first Agile iteration of the SOA based enterprise framework. The iteration utilized WebMethods as the service bus. Prepared technical design based on user stories and directed the offshore team for development.
• New architecture roadmap and process improvement plan is expected to reduce Total Cost of Ownership by 40 . Recommendations were presented and commended in executive meeting of the business. Execution plan is being acted upon.
• Re-architect critical applications for auto leasing clients and cut processing time by 70 .

Confidential

Tech Java, Oracle eBusiness AP, AR, OM, GL, Inventory Pega, Siebel J2EE, Mainframe, RPG, Data warehouse

• Deployed solutions for 150 million large power rentals business. Administered technology roadmap for the business. Prepared Multi Generation System Plan MGSP of application portfolio comprising of ERP, CRM, project management and remote monitoring applications. Key projects include
• Conceptualize and developed a web based Order To Remittance OTR solution to standardize and improve execution of client facing business projects. System allowed for flexible configuration of business rules using Pega Rules. Solution had J2EE on front end and Oracle at Backend. PegaRules BPM was integrated as part of solution to implement business rules and workflow management.
• Developed inventory management solution for over 20 depots located worldwide. Integrated wireless handset modules into the inventory management system.
• Implemented CRM process in Siebel for management of opportunity, accounts, quotes, proposals, job costing, bill of material etc.
• Managed IT Integration of Rentals Large Power business unit into GE Aero business. Defined and migrated end to end business process for over 10 functional areas. Managed transition of business users, data and applications. The project includes migration of configuration and app logic of Oracle AP, AR, OM, GL, Inventory modules.

Key Achievements

• Delivered over 3 million of annual benefits due to margin enhancement with IT programs. Awarded GE Energy services 'IM LEAN Award' in recognition.
• A robust architecture of systems minimized number of post production issues leading to high customer satisfaction. Intuitive UI designs led to rapid adoption of the tools by business users.

Confidential

• Tech Oracle eBusiness PA, AP, AR, OM, G Siebel LDAP, Siteminder, SSO
• Directed GE Energy Single Sign On SSO Infrastructure team with annual budget of 1 million to improve performance, SLA compliance and cost efficiency. Developed and executed technology roadmap for stabilization of business critical SSO infrastructure. Defined, communicated and enforced architectural standards.
• Also served in role of Program Manager for GE Contractual Service Finance ERP European rollout using Oracle Financials. Executed project to support multiple 'Set of Books', multi currency requirements, supplier master file and purchasing for European countries. Coordinated with global cross functional teams across Asia, North America and Europe.

Key Achievements

• Improved availability of the SSO infrastructure environment to 99.999 , distributed usage by 60 , capacity by 40 and SLA compliance by 100 .
• Identified and led cost cutting initiatives of 1 million by infrastructure consolidation.
• Received 'Outstanding Performance' award for delivering full lifecycle of an ERP implementation under aggressive timeline. Led team size of 40 with overall budget of 1 million.
• Led design and development of a complex ERP project with multiple data integrations, dependencies, technology platforms Oracle Financials, PEGA Rules and business processes.

Confidential

• Tech Informatica, Data Warehouse, COGNOS, Oracle, Web Methods, VB
• Led multiple technical projects from inception to delivery following SDLC approach. Responsibilities included business process analysis, six sigma, cost benefit analysis, team building, architecture design, technical review and delivery. Key projects include the following
• Led development of data warehouse for the sales and commercial operations team.
• Conceptualized and developed a prototype of enterprise meta-data repository that would maintain data dictionary and mappings by extracting data definitions from disparate technology platforms like BPM, RDBMS, ETLs, custom programs etc.
• Managed multiple data integration projects. Deployed enterprise performance monitoring solution for over 500 web Methods data integrations for entire company.
• Led development of Process Control Forms for 5 shops in steam turbines manufacturing plant to capture critical manufacturing data

Key Achievements

• Cut the development cycle time of process control forms by 50 LEAN leading to significant cost savings
• Key participant in formulating enterprise wide data integration strategy

Confidential

Tech Java, C, C , OpenGL, XML, XQuery, XPath

Designed and developed an open source native XML database called Db4XML. DB4XML is a main memory database that stores XML data in native format. It supports a subset of XQL, path and value indexing, query evaluation and optimization, concurrency control and database recovery. The DBMS is written in Java with help of over 7 developers with over 30k lines of code. In addition to research on XML databases, conducted research on simulation techniques for medical applications.

Publications

• 'Designing a High Performance Database Engine for the Db4XML Native XML Database System', Sudhanshu Sipani, John A. Miller, Kunal Verma and Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Journal of Systems and Software, Vol 69 , No. 1 January 2004
• 'Designing an XML Database Engine: API and Performance', Proceedings of the 40th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina April 2002 pp. 239-245. Won third place in the Student Paper Competition
• 'Alternative techniques in real time simulation', Conference on imaging science, systems and technology CISST , Las Vegas, Sudhanshu Sipani and Dr. Benjamin Bishop June 2001

Confidential

Key Achievements

• Corporate initiative to improve customer satisfaction of top tier customers. ABC classification of customer and creation of customer master file.
• Identified the key improvement areas among various functions/systems within the company like CRM, operations, inventory reorganization etc.
• Management of the company recognized and agreed to implement the changes recommended in suggested areas
• Promoted to be the director of excavator division of the company

Confidential

• Custom software development for mid-size companies
• Technology Background
• Languages - C , Java, - C, C , Silverlight, COBOL, VB.NET
• Cloud Windows Azure, Force.com
• Mobile Platforms Android SDK, iPhone SDK, Windows Phone 8
• Scripts - ASP.NET, MVC, WPF, WCF, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AJAX, JSON
• Databases MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Oracle, MS Access, RDBMS, ERD, XQL, SQL
• Library / Tools AngularJS, jQuery, d3.js, Google visualization API, Carillion Voyager, OpenGL
• Data Integration Software - Web Methods 8.0, Informatica, PL/SQL, SSIS, ETI
• Distributed systems - SOA, Web Services, REST
• Business Intelligence Tableau, TIBCO Spotfire, Data warehouse, Pega Rule BPM, COGNOS, Blaze Advisor
• ERP Systems Oracle ERP eBiz suite PA, AP, AR, GL, OM, Inventory etc., Oracle Siebel 8.0
• Statistical IBM Ciplex, R, Azure Machine Learning Studio
• Mainframe Fidelity Hogan Core Banking, Rental Man