SUMMARY

• Over 18 years of SDLC experience
• 8 years of Architecture/technical manager experience
• 6 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture Strategy/planning, blue print and roadmap creation
• Strong background in financial Industry concentrated on Banking
• Extensive experience in Enterprise architecture, Solution Architecture and Integration Architecture.
• Experience with application rationalization, platform upgrades and Consolidation
• Experience Managing large distributed team.

SKILL SET Qualification Highlights

WORK EXPERIENCE

Job Title: Lead Enterprise/Project Manager

Enterprise Architecture/Strategic Solution group for ITG

Responsibilities:

• Create EA Blue Print
• Facilitate Roadmaps session and help stakeholder define final states
• Create Technical Architecture presentation, document and analysis work.
• Create Reference Architectures for platform Integration, data warehousing and Application rationalization
• Collaborated with stakeholders to understand business goals and requirements
• Help facilitate strategy session
• Coordinate sessions and activities to deliver Business Capability Models Technical capability models
• Provided thought leadership and technical direction by managing the design, development, installation, and operation of the technical solution.
• Evaluate and propose new/improve Governance model
• Facilitate Governance/ continuous improvement committee
• Participate in various Governance meeting e.g. Architecture review board, Infrastructure Management Committee
• Ensure that systems analysis, design and execution plans are based on business requirements and IT strategies
• Responsible for solution design and its alignment with all EA initiative
• Worked with stakeholders to highlight opportunities and risks.
• Communicate and champion the business value of Information Architecture.
• Developed and implemented best practices and knowledge sharing opportunities.
• Communicated effectively all financial impacts, risks and complexities to steering groups
• Provided mentorship to other architects to develop skills to grow within the organization

Job Title: Lead Enterprise/Solutions Architect

Enterprise Strategy, capability models, Data Center Consolidation, Application upgrade and rationalization

Responsibilities:

• Create EA Blue Print Roadmaps for strategic initiatives utilizing TOGAF and Zachman Framework
• Responsible for solution design
• Provide Technical guidance for Data Center move and Consolidation
• Provide Technical guidance for Disaster Recovery project
• Lead effort to implement Daily limit project across multiple platform
• Facilitate Roadmaps session and help stakeholder define final states
• Create Reference Architectures for platform Integration and Application rationalization

Job Title: Enterprise Application Architect/ Technical Consultant

Redesign and implementation of the bond trading platform bondlink 2.0

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with internal/external stakeholders to understand business goals and technical direction and translates to architectural solutions.
• Produced IT architecture that accurately reflected the customers IS/ IT landscape, produced component architecture, that captured the high level and low level design
• Lead multi discipline teams to ensure the right strategy was implemented.
• Provided thought leadership and technical direction by managing the design, development, installation, and operation of the technical solution.
• Communicated effectively all financial impacts, risks and complexities of the commercial proposition.
• Identified and implemented solutions that align with corporate offerings and governance. Worked with stakeholders to highlight business opportunities and risks.
• Through consultation influences the future focus and development of the client environment at all levels.
• Developed and implemented best practices and knowledge sharing opportunities.
• Worked with team members and management to streamline processes to meet and exceed customer expectations while reducing costs and eliminating waste.
• Lead Solution Technical Reviews to ensure architectural alignment and compliance to corporate standards and the Client requirements.
• Provided mentorship to other architects to develop skills to grow within the organization

Enterprise Solutions Architect/Technical Manager

LBG and HBOSS Merger -- Application Rationalization Program

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the existing back office and front office applications used at group level and in retail
• Identify areas of improved performance and efficiency and work with business to implement the change until value is realized
• Propose overall solutions
• Research impacts of decommissioning application
• Propose alternate solution approaches
• Create OSD designs document
• Perform impact analysis
• Create and manage work breakdown structure WBS and project plan
• Define and manage the project scope
• Perform GAP analysis on the requirement
• Define end-to-end architecture and infrastructure for internal and external applications, including the front book, back book and payments CHAPS BACs
• Identify risk and purpose risk alleviation plans.
• Define and enforce standards processes
• Buy consent of key stakeholders
• Report progress to SCM board

Enterprise Architect/Project Manager

Operational Dashboard and under writing portal

Responsibilities:

• Identified requirements and functional specifications to meet business's strategic needs.
• Worked directly with underwriting/claims management business team and end clients to define custom integrations needs.
• Created and managed work breakdown structure WBS and project plan.
• Defined and managed the project scope.
• Performed GAP analysis on the requirement.
• Defined end-to-end architecture and infrastructure for internal and external applications, including the claims workflow system, underwriting dashboard and risk modeling applications.
• Designed and built service oriented architecture to support all activities.
• Led a team of over 7 developers, architects and analysts in the development of the enterprise architecture based on, SOA, MQSeries, Webservices, .Net, C , VB.Net, SharePoint, MOSS, K2.NET Spring.net, nHibernate, MVC, COM , DCOM, XML, XSLT, SOAP, ASP, nUnit, Optimize-It, LoadRunner, HTML, LDAP and SQL Server 2005.
• Mentored full-time staff on .NET, Web Services, SOA architecture, C design and development, and MQSeries.
• Created and managed project budget vs. actual expenditures capital and expense .
• Managed the teams day to day activities ensure on budget and on time delivery of all applications.
• Identified risk and purpose risk alleviation plans.
• Defined and enforced standards processes.
• Bought consent of key stakeholders.
• Reported progress to the steering committee.

Solutions Architect/ Project Manager

Enterprise Service Bus, Canonical Key mapping

Responsibilities:

• Worked very closely with the business in identifying the requirements and functional specifications to meet their needs.
• Worked directly with the traders and back office teams to define custom Integration needs.
• Designed the end-to-end architecture and infrastructure for internal and external trading applications, including advanced real-time risk calculations engine and advanced reporting system.
• Architected, Designed and Built a Service Oriented Architecture.
• Led a team of over 25 developers, architects and analysts in the development of the enterprise architecture based on WebServices, MQSeries, .Net, C , VB, Spring.Net, nHibernate, ASP.Net, MVC, XML, XSLT, SOAP, nUnit, Optimize-It, LoadRunner, HTML, LDAP and Oracle 10g.
• Mentored full-time staff.
• Defined a real time messaging system.
• Defined processes development process, Change Management, code review process, build process and release management .
• Prepared Project plan and delivery schedules. Brief steering committee on progress report of projects. Set Development standards and best practices guidelines. Defined and Prepared handover document

Responsibilities:

• Identified business requirements and functional specifications to meet business strategies.
• Worked directly with prime brokerage business team and end clients to define custom integrations.
• Defined end-to-end architecture and infrastructure for internal and external prime brokerage applications, including the pbDirect trade capture system.
• Enhanced reporting real-time risk calculation and reporting system and trade matching system for all fixed income and foreign exchange products.
• Designed and built service oriented architecture to support all prime brokerage activities.
• Led a team of over 25 developers, architects and analysts in the development of the enterprise architecture based on, SOA, MQSeries, Webservices, .Net, C , VB.Net, Spring.net, nHibernate, MVC, COM , DCOM, XML, XSLT, SOAP, ASP, nUnit, Optimize-It, LoadRunner, HTML, LDAP and Oracle 10g.
• Mentored full-time staff on .NET, Web Services, SOA architecture, C design and development, and MQSeries.
• Migrated Deutsche Bank infrastructure from the Traiana TRM trade capture system to the pbDirect trade capture system.
• Led the architecture and integration efforts for interfacing with Traiana TRM, Traiana Harmony, HotSpot and Lava for capturing bank and ECN trades.
• Defined the architecture and led the technical efforts for all client integrations for capture client trades from external and internal clients.
• Defined the architecture and infrastructure for an enterprise-wide trade matching system that supports all prime brokerage applications within the fixed income and foreign exchange technology landscapes.
• Led technical efforts and defined the architecture and infrastructure for risk calculations and reporting, including Greek risk reports on trade and aggregate level data and shocked risk data for what-if scenarios.
• Led GUI design and layout efforts for all internal and external client-facing applications. Applications were built and deployed on Linux, Solaris and Windows platforms.

Lead Solutions Architect / Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the initial feasibility study of the project and created the strategy.
• Partnered with the business to define functional requirement to meet the business need.
• Defined the end to end architecture of the complete product suite.
• Defined and build the complete SOA architecture of the product.
• Designed the smart client application using .net C , web services, win forms, SOAP, XML XSLT and design patterns such as MVC, singleton, Meta data provider and other GoF patterns.
• Led a team of 50 developer and designers distributed between US and India.
• Led the implementation of RUP and Agile methodology.
• Defined the Development standards, coding best practices, development process, change management process, build release management process and code review guidelines.
• Worked with project management team to create/maintain the project plans, task distribution and status reporting.
• Created project briefing for the steering committees.
• Led the architectural governance committee to ensure departmental Architecture standards were followed.
• Assisted junior staff members by mentoring and training to develop their skills in ASP.Net, C and COM.
• Helped develop test data and specifications for use in performance tuning, unit, integration, and user testing to ensure that an application meets design specifications.

Sr. Systems Analyst / Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Participated in strategy planning.
• Designed, coded, tested and modified web-based, Client Server DNA / .NET applications.
• As Team Lead, responsible for a technical team of 7-12 people
• Coordinated requirement gathering and functional design documentation.
• Oversaw the infrastructure and QA activities.

Technical Lead / Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led team of 3 Developers, two QA Testers.
• Designed, coded and tested web based b2b and b2c applications.
• Trained junior Developers,
• Implement Development Methodologies.
• Defined coding standards and set up the required infrastructure.
• Designed, developed and implemented backend databases.
• Designed and coded MTS COM components, Test Plan and UAT.

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, coded and tested web based workflow applications, e-commerce sites and DNA applications
• Worked on multiple assignments for fortune 500 companies such as : eFind, USF, Easy wireless, BAX Global and Paramount Pictures