SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years of information technology, business solutions, architecture, data and system solution experience.
• Solution Architect: At Confidential - Big Data solution from the scratch, at Confidential - lead the Enterprise Architecture Process & Framework, architected innovative solutions at pharmaceuticals, financial and technology industries.
• Strategy, Roadmaps, Processes and Governance.
• In-depth understanding of the core of data technologies:
• Big Data: Architected and implemented solution from greenfield to production. Big Data stack (Hortonworks and Pivotal) - MPP (Greenplum), HDFS, Spark, HAWQ, NiFi(HDF), SpringXD, Gemfire, Solr, Flume, Kafka, Storm
• Traditional: Expertise on data and metadata management technologies .Implemented custom DW/BI solutions for Fortune 100 companies when DW/BI solutions were still evolving.
• Taxonomy, Ontology, OWL, DITA, metadata and categorization and tagging schemes
• Web Identity warehouse, MDM, Reference Data and Business Glossary.
• Worked on generations of relational databases: Oracle 5 through 10, DB2 5 - 8, SQL Server, MySQL, Progress, Essbase, Postgres, Sqlite etc.
• Diverse experience ranging from infrastructure, applications, portal, search, collaboration, and business.
• People, Project and Program Management
• Managed global multi-technology enterprise solutions, projects at large organizations.
• Project management - Agile (Scrum), and conventional waterfall.
• Evaluated options and products, created RFPs, negotiated with vendors. Vendor management.
• Worked with onshore and offshore global service providers, created DOUs and SLAs.
• Managed global consolidation of application, data and infrastructure.
• Having worked as and with the senior level management in the organizations, and with experience in the diverse IT functions including people management, project management, operation management, planning, budgeting and presentation in the global environment, I feel comfortable in navigating through organizational zigzag.
• Regulatory, security and identity frameworks and IT service management
• Have worked in pharmaceutical, DoD and financial regulatory environment.
• Implemented ITIL, Service management, directory and identity management systems.
• Expert in visualizing and optimizing technology for the business needs.
• Extremely ROI oriented. Optimizer -Solutions with high operational efficiency and low maintenance cost.
• Out of Box thinker. Exceptional at visualizing big picture, along with tactical needs.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Auburn Hills, MI

Solution Architect & Program Manager- Big Data Analytics

Responsibilities:

• From scratch implementation of Big Data platform. Hadoop cluster to host HDFS & HAWQ(SQL on HDFS), Spark cluster (Analytics & Streams), MPP Greenplum cluster, NiFi cluster, Kafka, Flume & Storm cluster, along with all supporting tools. Hardware EMC - DCAs, and backup & DR through -EMC Data Domain.
• Based upon the business requirements, created multi-tier solution Architecture, created process, data flow, analytics framework, security, backup, and solution management strategy and selected optimal tools for them.
• Deployed and configured HW, and SW, Network; architected and implemented integration.
• Ambari based installation, Kerberization and integration with Enterprise Active Directory.
• Mentored Data Engineers for ELT implementation (NiFi, Oozie, Sqoop, Pig, Hue, SpringXD), and Data Scientists on advanced analytics environment (Spark, Python, HAWQ, MadLib, MLib, Python, Scala, SPSS, Cognos), visualization Zeppelin, search Solr, Banana, Elastics, Kibana.
• Deeply engaged with vendors for procurement, solution architecture & roadmap, support mechanism, technical & operational issues.
• Planning & Budgeting
• Proactive Sensing: Models using machine learning to predict the possible component recalls.
• Vehicles Maintenance Quality Analytics: SQDF data from connected vehicles, to predict the possible quality and maintenance issues.
• Vehicle Sensor Data Analytics: Real-time and offline data from onboard sensor on pre-production vehicles, to analyze performance, fault and operational conditions co-relations.
• Enterprise Security: Hadoop Platform - NiFi,Kafka,Storm,Elastic,Kibana (Metron Framework) based real-time event monitoring. Spark, Zeppelin security Analytics.
• Assisted Driving technology: Deep Learning (AI) platform to analyze Camera, Lidar, Radar, sensor inputs - Doing POC.
• MOPAR and Manufacturing: Ingesting data for end-to-end quality analytics.

Confidential, New York

Senior Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead programs, architected the solution, provided process and governance, lead onshore and offshore resources for implementing projects.
• Secured funding, DoU, project budgets.
• Worked with the senior management, cross organizational teams, to secure the technical and financial agreements.
• Domain Lead of IBM s Enterprise Digital Data and Content Domain.
• Enterprise Architecture Board Member. Maintained architecture in IBM System Architect Tool.
• Impact analysis, Re - architecting lead during IBM business bifurcations.
• Used IBM Enterprise Architecture Process Framework, used SIPOC and KPI methodologies to improve business process framework.
• Taxonomy System (Multi Lingual, Multi - dimensional taxonomies) - For IBM Marketing group, IBM global Intranet portal, Taxonomies for SAP Solution, Taxonomy for Sales and Support, for ECM, for media, for global applications like Smart Planet, IBM Data Standards, expertise, learning... etc.
• Evaluated and did POC on few off-the-shelf products like syneptica, wordmap etc and custom products for the implementation. Selected IBM Infosphere MDM-RDM.
• Extended product with SOA, REST and ESB and lead the development.
• For IBM Software Group, created architecture of RDM and Taxonomy layer into InfoSphare MDM. Integrated IBM Enterprise Reference Data Taxonomy system with the MDM, and BG.
• Created requirements to drive the development, helped product team to create product architecture, extended the source APIs by designing and developing few custom extensions like ETL and REST services, created deployment architecture (including integration on the service bus) (lead offshore developers)
• Web Identity Management (Marketing Group):
• Integration of multiple Identity applications in enterprise Identity warehouse.
• Used InfoSphre MDM to manage Web Identity Custom domain.
• Including of interests, profiling, Integration with Social networks, CRM and marketing.
• Integrated taxonomy to create smart user profile which included interest and related subjects.

Confidential

Content Library Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected and Implemented - Rich Media(Audio and video) Library.
• Extensively used Metadata-Taxonomy to categorize, organize and provide content.
• Used IBM product NICA, then migrated it to custom solution.
• Used Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) - You Tube, Akamai, and internal Library.
• Intergraded it with many major internal applications, like IBM Smart Planet.
• Worked with SitePen team (Member Dojo Foundation), to create Dojo based portal and embedded solution.
• Info Sphere BigIngsites - Distributed File System (GPFS for Gumshoe), Hadoop MapReduce, Lucene to process the crawler data and create search index.
• Used NLP - sentence analytics, spelling and word similarity.
• Created taxonomy based smart result rendering in collaboration with User Experience team.
• A project for marketing team to integrate IBM Partener offerings in the with the IBM offering portal. This involved creating new portal for the vendors in the IBM space, and integrating that into existing IBM systems.
• Used IBM smart cloud enterprise for hosting integrating platform. IBM Digital Analytics Lifecycle (Coremetrics) to track marketing effectiveness and customer preferences.
• Integrated with intelligent search system and post - sales support system.
• Used enterprise Taxonomy, Web Identity management, and media library (created as separate projects) to create schemes for Faceted browsing (left navigation) and right recommendations.
• Social analytics in the connections.
• Application to support the sales team using third party products.
• Co - Architected with RightNow Technologies (later acquired by Oracle) chat and support service.
• Process Automation, social computing and virtual world projects.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Technical Architect - Automation & Strategy Group, Data Center

Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation of CMDB, Discovery and Asset Management system. Consolidated and analyzed requirements, assessed products from IBM, BMC and other vendors, conducted POC with vendors on the proposed technologies, provided cost analysis and selected the product. Defined architecture of CMDB and its interfaces with IT systems and services tools, and interface the components like topology and application discovery tool. Implemented BMC Atrium CMDB, BMC asset management DB, and BMC discovery tools.
• As ITIL process specialist, worked with IBM (external vendor) to create IT service model and processes, and aligned CMDB with that.
• As integration specialist created strategy and architecture to integrate existing tools with the CMDB. The tools included - Remedy, HP Openview/NNM, Marimba, Tivoli TCM, Aperture, Bigfix, Ariba, Peoplesoft, Formula etc.
• Created Oracle platform with features like data guard and transparent gateway and BMC components like remedy, atrium, and custom data repository.

Confidential, Confidential, CT

Manager/Architect Capacity Planning - Platform Engineering Group

Responsibilities:

• Project Rationalization - Worked with infrastructure and platform engineering group on the architecture of consolidated data center at Confidential .
• Analyzed existing capacity to project new platform.
• These servers, virtual servers, farms would replace the globally scattered data centers.
• Created oracle 10g platforms on the server farms.
• Worked with business IT groups to consolidate Confidential Applications, Databases and Servers, from scattered worldwide locations to two locations (Michigan and Connecticut Data Centers). Analyzed business requirements, existing capacity utilization and performance requirement of the applications and recommended target architecture, mapped it to existing and new farms and grids. Helped Business to create transition project plan, and reused or got new capacity ordered and installed.

Confidential, Fort Washington, PA

Lead Architect/Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Taxonomy based portal to organize structured and non - structured information in the databases, content management system, DW, FDA regulated systems, ERP systems, Analytical and financial systems.
• Re-architecting and migrating of Data systems.
• Consolidation or migration of FDA regulated systems like Adverse Event DB (MedWatch 3500), Production Control DB, NDA system etc.
• Re-architecting of company s technical infrastructure by using technologies like Service Oriented Architecture, Object Relational Database Architecture, use of XML based data methodologies for the intra-company and external client integrations.
• Implemented company s Hyperion based financial reporting application.
• Integration and architectural alignment of third party Forecast Excellence system, with internal systems.
• Interacted with senior management and business groups, created white papers, vision documents, presented buy vs. build options, drove the projects through business approvals, provided project plans, led the project teams.
• Managed transition to newly created infrastructure group. Consolidated systems architecture. Implementation of hardened security paradigm including SOX and FDA processes. Adopted new IT service delivery processes like incident and change management. Created systems architecture roadmap to support projects.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Manager Enterprise Data Systems Group

Responsibilities:

• Managed the global team of developers, DBA and systems administrators, managing applications like Portal, Data Warehouse, Ebiz and CRM.
• Performed management activities like resource planning, mentoring, training, reviews and career progression.
• Capital planning, project proposals and statement of cases.
• Metrics creation, analysis and presentation to higher management. Interaction with business clients to assess and meet their requirements.
• Implemented (Architect, project lead, development lead) starting from requirement document, product and vendor negotiation and selection, through global implementation.
• Lead, Enterprise Data Architecture and Standards.
• Provided short and long term IT strategy and architecture roadmap; including information architecture, applications, capacity, and systems architecture.
• Created IT process framework - Managed outsourcing of Confidential s infrastructure data center, negotiated SLAs, and defined inter-company processes, including tracking and escalation processes, did architectural planning and inventory transition.
• Created and implemented technical processes to improve productivity, implemented non-technical service management procedures like, business impact analysis, disaster recovery, Sarbanes Oxley.
• Managed offshore development teams and infrastructure.