OVERVIEW

• Confidential is a results oriented professional with many years of experience in all aspects of computer technology and software engineering and Enterprise architecture and design, database management and tuning, with expertise in IBM Sterling B2B suite of products like IBM B2B Integrator formerly Sterling B2B Integrator/ Gentran Integration suite , Sterling Secure Proxy, Sterling File Gateway, Sterling External Authentication Server and Sterling Control Center
• As an Enterprise and Solution Architect, he facilitates in designing integration architecture at the enterprise level using IBM's Sterling Integrator and other integration tools and services. This includes design session workshops with the clients.
• As a performance engineer, he designs, characterizes, analyzes and optimizes the performance of large complex JEE based applications running on IBM Sterling B2B Integrator/GIS Gentran Integration Suite application servers, UNIX HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Linux and Windows platforms, and Oracle, SQL Server or DB2 environments at various clients sites.

EXPERIENCE

Senior Managing Consultant

Confidential

• Solution Architect assist the architects and team on SSP and SI/SFG architecture and provide low level information on how these applications work within and with each other.
• Reviewed their current architecture on 2 separate projects involving SSP, SEAS and SI/SFG.
• Provided architecture for 2 node SI cluster and 2 SSP engines to replace their proposed architecture. This will assist the architects in both projects to design an efficient system using SSP, SEAS and SI/SFG in clustered environment on both the projects.

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• This is a global financial group with a diversified business providing financial services in over 30 countries and to 53 million customers. It has a strong position in Spain, it is the top financial institution in Mexico, it has leading franchises in South America and in the Sunbelt region in the United States, where it is one of the 15 largest banks, and has a significant presence in China and Turkey through partnerships with CITIC Group and Garanti Bank, respectively. It is one of the top banks in the eurozone in terms of ROE and efficiency.
• Performance Engineer assist their performance to meet peak volume processing requirements. They had been seeing slowdown of processing wire transactions and were working with IBM support prior to this engagement. After analysis the cause for the slowdown in processing was identified and corrected and tests were conducted for multiple transactions beyond their peak volumes and all test runs were run to the client's satisfaction.
• Solution Architect made suggestions to improve their architecture and provided schematics to re-architecture their SSP-SI cluster configuration and deployment.
• Provided support for fixing some issues encountered while onsite for the week.

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• One of the world's 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Europe, it operates globally with 140 affiliates and more than 46,000 employees. Since it was founded in 1885, the family-owned company has been committed to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing novel medications of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine.
• Performance Engineer assist in health check and trouble shoot issues under review with IBM support.
• Assisted in finding and fixing the load balance issue related to how inbound connections were hitting their servers.
• Assisted in BP queue tuning for their processes to provide more efficient throughput for processing peak volumes.
• Reviewed their top performing business processes and recommended some changes to improve performance and efficiency.

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• premier pharmacy company required staff augmentation for a SME in SIQSS, SFG, SEAS and SSP applications.
• Lead Consultant validate their existing production system architecture. Analyzed and recommended enhancement to this architecture to scale for additional volumes.
• Performance Engineer assist their performance QA team in testing for volumes and load.
• Solution Architect design the HA/DR architecture and provide documented DR plan for Sterling components. Work with their network, load balance, storage and database teams to coordinate disk and database replication from primary active site to the standby DR site and test individual components.
• Assist their development team to troubleshoot issues in the production environment.
• Install and configure the QA SI cluster and SSP engines cluster. This included installation and configuration of all perimeter servers for SSP and SI.

Senior Architect/Owner

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• A FORTUNE 500 Company which is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. The company's products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, it is changing the world by Connecting everything .
• Solution Architect responsible for the risk assessment and upgrade of existing managed file transfer system from single node instances of Sterling Integrator 5.0.3 to clustered instances of IBM B2B Integrator 5.2.4.1.
• Responsible for risk analysis and upgrade architecture for the Managed File Transfer system using IBM B2B Sterling Integrator.
• Install Sterling File Gateway and configure routing channel templates
• Install Sterling Control Center and help configure rules, actions, schedules and service level criteria
• Provide training on Sterling Integrator Administration, Performance Tuning.
• Provide training on Sterling Secure Proxy
• Responsible for gathering requirements, modeling, designing and helping in development of the system.
• Design stress testing methodology for the cluster since the client is moving from single node installations in their QA and PROD environment to clustered and secure environment.
• Recommend performance tuning guidelines for the deployment.
• Recommend and implement HA/DR and failover solution for the cluster deployment
• Recommend and work with Network, Security, Firewall and Load balancer teams to deploy solution
• Database used MSSQL Server 2008 R2

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• The company is a global asset management firm which provides multi-asset investment solutions to individuals and institutions in 47 countries. By bringing together capital markets insights, manager research, strategic asset allocation, portfolio implementation and indexing, this company is able to deliver the full spectrum of investment strategies and asset classes to help investors achieve outcomes. The company operates principal offices in Seattle, New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo and Toronto. Its institutional clients include retirement plans, endowments, foundations and investment plans of all types. Individual investors have access to their services through a network that includes many of the world's top banks, brokers, insurance companies and independent investment advisors. The company has more than 2,000 associates in more than 20 offices around the world and is the creator of Index used by many investment and exchanges
• Solution Architect responsible for the risk assessment and upgrade of existing managed file transfer system from Sterling Integrator 5.0 to 5.2.4.
• Responsible for re-architecture of the Managed File Transfer system using IBM B2B Sterling Integrator and Sterling File Gateway. This will streamline the entire process and reduce the faults handled by the current system by approximately 80 .
• Responsible for gathering requirements, modeling, designing and helping in development of the system.
• Design testing methodology.
• Recommend performance tuning guidelines for the deployment.
• Recommend and implement HA/DR solution for the cluster deployment
• Recommend and work with Network, Security, Firewall and Load balancer teams to deploy solution
• Database used MS SQL Server 2008 R2

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• This multinational conglomerate corporation is based in mid-west in United States. With over 84,000 employees, they produce more than 55,000 products, including: adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, dental products, electronic materials, medical products, car care products such as sun films, polish, wax, car shampoo, treatment for the exterior, interior and the under chassis rust protection , electronic circuits and optical films. It has operations in more than 60 countries 29 international companies with manufacturing operations and 35 companies with laboratories. Their products are available for purchase through distributors and retailers in more than 200 countries, and many are available online directly from the company
• Solution Architect responsible for the architecture of the Managed File Transfer system using Sterling Secure Proxy, Sterling External Authentication Service with Sterling Integrator and Sterling File Gateway.
• Responsible for architecture and design of monitoring their managed file transfer system in the test and production environment using Sterling Control Center ranging from simple server nodes monitoring to complex rules for monitoring the presence and/or absence of events meeting service level criteria.
• Responsible for integration of the Sterling Control Center with their enterprise ticketing system to generate trouble tickets automatically when certain events are monitored. This included customized SNMP traps sent from SCC to the ticketing system.
• Designed testing methodology.
• Database used Oracle

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• This is the automobile manufacturing division of a well-known Japanese transportation conglomerate. It is internationally known for their use of the boxer engine layout in most of their vehicles above 1500 cc as well as their use of the all-wheel drive drive-train layout since 1972, with it becoming standard equipment for mid-size and smaller cars in most international markets as of 1996, and now standard in all of their North American market vehicles.
• Solution Architect responsible for upgrade of Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway from 5.0 to 5.2.3.
• Helped train team in use of Sterling File Gateway routing channels and setup templates for various pilot scenarios which included compression/decompression, encryption/decryption of files sent and received from external partners.
• Designed testing methodology.
• Recommended performance tuning guidelines for the deployment.
• Recommended and implemented failover solution for the cluster deployment. Helped in testing this deployment
• Database used Oracle

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This is the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan and Asia and a top 15 pharmaceutical company. The company has over 19,000 employees worldwide. The company is focused on metabolic disorders, gastroenterology, neurology, inflammation, as well as oncology through its independent subsidiary. In January 2012, the Fortune Magazine ranked the company as one the 100 best companies to work for in the United States.

Solution Architect analysis of prototype and estimates for web services to be deployed with the IBM B2B Sterling Integrator solution.

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This company designs, manufactures, and markets engineered hydraulic and electronic systems and components for use primarily in applications of mobile equipment. The product range serves markets such as agriculture, construction, road building, material handling, municipal, forestry, turf care, and many others. The company has sales, manufacturing, and engineering capabilities in Europe, the Americas, and the Asia-Pacific region

Solution Architect analysis of the existing environment and provide risk assessment as well as guidelines for the proposed upgrade of their current managed file transfer system.

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This Insurance Company of North America provides annuities and life insurance products in the United States in all states it also offers various products, including fixed and variable annuities and life insurance. These products are offered through a network of more than 100,000 agents nationwide. The company is a principal subsidiary of a global financial services group that is the 20th largest corporation in the world based on revenue. It employs nearly 155,000 people worldwide

Solution Architect advisory role in assessment of network storage for their IBM B2B Integrator cluster.

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• Solution Architect responsible for the architecture of the Managed File Transfer system using Sterling Secure Proxy, Sterling External Authentication Service with Sterling Integrator and Sterling File Gateway.
• Designed automation process for trading partner onboarding using XAPI framework. This automation process is not provided in the product and requires expert knowledge of the product and its underlying architecture.
• Discover existing systems and their architecture and designing the architecture for the integration of existing application systems with templates for future application systems.
• Performance Engineer Completed detailed analysis of current Sterling Integrator platform, including the OS, environment, database, network, etc. to investigate performance degradation in the system throughput. This included analyzing network statistics, CPU utilization on the application servers and database servers, Disk IO subsystem, AWR reports from Oracle, etc., to get an overall picture of the system from end-to-end before making recommendations for performance tuning.
• Responsible for gathering requirements, modeling, designing and helping in development of the system.
• Design testing methodology.
• Recommend performance tuning guidelines for the deployment.
• Recommend and implement HA/DR solution for the cluster deployment
• Database used Oracle

Senior/Technical Architect

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• Clients: Leading Chip manufacturing company, leading banks, leading transportation firms, major health care companies, money transfer and financial firms, home maintenance goods company, Leading telecom company, many leading retailers, the top logistics companies, etc.
• Clients are customers of the IBM supply-chain and Integration Broker applications
• Engaged in different roles Technical Architect, Performance Engineer, DBA Oracle and DB2 and Solution Architect
• Responsibilities
• Analysis of product performance issues on customer's configurations and other related performance situations on behalf of the customer. This included analysis of operating system environments, application configuration using J2EE architecture and database DB2 and Oracle .
• Define solution design for building highly available systems and integrate existing systems with GIS/SI. This also includes providing the blue print for the architecture and deployment including network configuration, security architecture, and cluster for HA/DR.
• Define secure solutions for SOX and PCI compliant enterprise systems. This includes working with network and security teams at each customer site to design a secure end-to-end system.
• Hardware sizing and capacity planning for peak volumes for all clients. This included recommending HA/DR architecture for deployment.
• Details of assignments and the client list will be provided on request.

Senior Architect/Owner

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• This agency provides drinking water, sewage collection and sewage treatment in Washington, D.C., USA. It also provides wholesale wastewater treatment services to several adjoining municipalities in Maryland and Virginia. In addition, it provides maintenance and repair of more than 9,000 public fire hydrants on behalf of the District of Columbia. It provides more than 600,000 residents, 16.6 million annual visitors and 700,000 people who are employed in the District of Columbia with water, sewage and wastewater treatment. It also provides wholesale wastewater treatment for 1.6 million people in Montgomery and Prince George's counties in Maryland, and Fairfax and Loudoun counties in Virginia.
• Chief Architect responsible for the architecture of the integration and building of the asset management system for DC Water and Sewer Authority at Washington DC.
• Discover existing systems and their architecture and designing the architecture for the integration of existing and proposed application systems.
• Evaluate and recommend GIS software for installation at client site. Also take this into consideration for the integration project.
• Responsible for gathering requirements, modeling, designing and helping in development of the system using UML, J2EE technologies with WebLogic. This project is still in progress.
• Software and Tools used webMethods, WebLogic, Together Control Center, J2EE technologies including EJB 2.0, XML, UML, GIS ESRI , and MAXIMO CMMS .
• Database used Oracle, SQL Server.

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• This is an American multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in North Carolina. It is the second-largest bank holding company in the United States by assets. It serves clients through 5,600 branches and 16,200 ATMs in more than 150 countries and has a relationship with 99 of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and 83 of the Fortune Global 500. As of 2010, it is the fifth-largest company in the United States by total revenue, as well as the third-largest non-oil company in the U.S. after Walmart and General Electric .
• Senior architect/consultant Review the bank's architecture and provide recommendations.
• Design and build the distributed system for the bank's Back Office Subsystem and Stop payment application.
• Tools Used Java, J2EE Technologies, C , CORBA, MQSeries, XML, Visual Age for Java, ClearCase.
• Database DB2
• Rational Rose 2001 Enterprise used for the analysis, Use Case and design model. Methodology used - Rational Unified Process.
• Responsible for building the CORBA infrastructure in building the middleware.
• Provide mentoring in Java CORBA to the team of developers.
• Served as the architect for the Wire Payment system which was a web based application. This allows the corporate customers to place high value transactions in magnitude of millions of dollars over the internet for making wire payments. This system was designed by me and used the framework built earlier in another project. This application provides high security and fault tolerance for the transactions entered online.

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• Senior architect/consultant design and build the object oriented B2B system for the dot com.
• Select Enterprise used for the analysis, Use Case and design model using Select Perspective methodology.
• Responsible for the modeling, analysis and design of the application, which is built using J2EE technologies like EJB, JSP, Web Services, etc.
• Lead and mentor team of developers to build this application.

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• Chief architect/consultant design and build the distributed system for Saxon Mortgage, which will track the loans from funding till perpetuity.
• Initial development in Windows NT to be later built in UNIX.
• Rational Rose 2000 / Rational Unified Process used for the analysis and design model.
• Responsible for the modeling, analysis, design and development of the service which allows the system to interact with the enterprise host systems and database.
• Responsible for mentoring other developers in java and rational rose develop use cases, sequence diagrams, modeling, code generation and documentation, etc .
• Member of the architecture and design committee to help steer Saxon Mortgage's strategy to build such distributed systems for the future.
• Tools used Rational Rose 2000, VisiBroker 3.4/4.0, CodeWarrior, ClearCase and Java 2.

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• Server-side development of service using the middleware CORBA IONA'S Orbix and IBM's MQSeries. This was developed for the Collections package for Capital One, one of the leading credit card issuers in the country. This was developed in C on UNIX Sun Solaris .
• The modeling was done in Rational Rose98 using UML and the methodology used was rational unified process.
• XML for data. I had to build an XML creator to transform the enterprise data into XML strings
• Responsible for the modeling, analysis, design and development of the External Gateway service which allows the system to interact with the enterprise host systems.
• Tools used ClearCase, Sniff, Rational Rose98

Senior Architect Confidential

• Senior Architect design and build web based prior authorization system for a major health care provider. This includes gathering requirements, modeling, designing and helping in development of the system using UML, J2EE technologies with WebLogic.
• Senior Architect design and build web based registration and user authorization application to allow users to self-register to the client and be added to the LDAP eDirectory server. This uses WebLogic 8.1, EJB, LDAP, and WebLogic PageFlow for web services and other J2EE technologies.
• Software and Tools used WebSphere, WebLogic, WebLogic Workshop, WSAD, and Together Control Center, J2EE technologies including EJB 2.0, XML, jCOM, RUP/UML, Ant, Visual Basic, Visual C , COM, and LDAP.
• Database used SQLServer, Oracle and DB2 and LDAP Directory services.
• Confidential Senior architect/consultant design and build the Contact Management System as a reference application for showcasing the company's methodology.
• The system uses various J2EE design patterns and technologies and provides a model J2EE distributed system using open source
• The system was designed on Together Control Center. It was developed on WSAD and deployed on WebLogic A.S. The client was developed using Struts framework. The deployment was done using Ant build scripts and the version control was done with CVS.

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• Senior architect/consultant design and rebuild the online enrollment system for this major health care provider.
• Review and recommend short term and long term gap analysis for improving the product.
• Tools used WebSphere 4.0.3/5.0 , WSAD 4.0/5.0 , Together Control Center, Ant, J2EE, CVS, Log4J
• Database used DB2, SQLServer and MySQL.

Senior Architect

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• Client development for a Digital Video On demand technology. This was developed in pure java for multiple platforms. It was developed on Sun Sparc workstations using Java, Rational Rose 98 and UML. It was developed on UNIX and deployed in NT workstations.
• Designed the Object Model for the Customer Service Application System.
• Helped design the Presentation layer for the Customer Service Application
• Responsible for the design and development of the Business Object Model for this system using Rational Rose 98 for java and Unified process.

Senior Systems Analyst

• Windows development in Visual C of client application Odyssey , for the Credit Card System. Capital One issues Visa and MasterCard. Originally developed in 16-bit and re-architecture for 32-bit. This was developed in C using tools like BoundsChecker, RogueWave, MFC, SelectOMT, etc.
• The analysis and design of the model was done using Rational Rose 4.0.
• Worked with team to design and develop the Business Objects Library in ANSI C for use by Odyssey and other systems companywide. This uses Standard C and STL.
• Responsible for the design and development of a DDE library used by Odyssey and other systems.
• Briefly involved in Analysis and Design of an OO Server System to rehost the Customer Information System for enterprise-wide implementation. I was also the technical lead for the client in this system.
• DBA / Lead Programmer Analyst Confidential
• DBA for the Mutual funds Transfer Agency System, which was the main system to manage the Colonial Funds.
• Sole Technical Support for various tools used for the configuration management, version control of the systems development and Quality Control.
• Drew up the Development and Programming Standards documents.
• Senior Analyst Confidential
• Worked on the Employment Services Automated System for the State's Bureau of Employment Services, State of Ohio.

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• Worked on the Inmate Progression System , a system to be used in all the 23 Correctional Institutions in the state. Designed and Implemented the Sentence Calculation module which is the nucleus of the whole system
• Involved meeting with legal counsel and wardens of 23 institutions and modeling the module for testing exhaustively before coding the module.

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• Involved with the development of the totally integrated insurance system for the Minnesota Mutual Fire Casualty Co.
• Responsible for design, enhancements and implementation of the policy processing and the statement modules.

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• Involved in the enhancement and modification of the Property Management System TAXSYS which tracks the various transactions which affect parcels of properties such as ownership, legal description, appraisal characteristics and taxing information.
• Redesigned and implemented some of the on-line table driven taxes calculation modules.

Officer / Programmer Analyst

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• Credit Card System CANCARD - responsible for the system design, development and implementation, documentation and testing of the Bank's Credit Card System
• Involved in the Personal Inventory System, Payroll System and the Inter-Branch Reconciliation System.
• Design of the Standards for the Banking Software package to be implemented by all the major nationalized banks in India.
• Worked independently and in teams doing systems audit for the Bank's administrative and operations offices and branches
• Worked in the administrative and operation branches as a senior officer of the bank.

APPLICATION SYSTEMS

Semiconductor manufacturer, Financial Investment Companies, Telecom Companies, Retail Banks, Retail Industries, Water/Wastewater Utilities, HealthCare Systems, Contact Management Systems, Bank Software, Internet B2B, Mortgage systems, Collections credit card , Digital Video on Demand System, Credit Card Call Center Systems, Mutual Funds, Personal / Property Tax Management, Fire Casualty Insurance, Banking Software, Foreign Exchange Dealings, Inmate Progression Systems Prisons , Quality Assurance Software Development , Payroll, Personal Inventory, Employment Services Retail Banking

TECHNOLOGIES

• Hardware OS:
• Solaris, HP-UX UNIX, AIX, LINUX Red Hat, SUSE, etc. , Windows Server/95/98/NT/2000/2003/2008/XP, IBM PC, Unisys A Series 1100/2200
• Software:
• Technology and Applications BPMN, BPML, JSE, JEE JSP, JavaScript, EJB 2.0, JMS, XML, HTML etc. , CORBA, Web Services and GIS Geographical Information System using ArcGIS/ESRI products.
• Programming BPML, Java, C , Visual C , XML/XSLT, Shell Script, Pascal, Object PASCAL, ALGOL, COBOL, Visual Basic
• Open Source Eclipse, Ant, Struts, Eclipse, JUnit, Log4J, CVS, MySQL
• Database Oracle, DB2, MySQL, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 and LDAP directory services.
• Middleware IBM B2B Integrator formerly Sterling Integrator/Gentran Integration Suite versions 4.3 till the current 5.2.4.1, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy versions 2.0 thru 3.4 , IBM Sterling File Gateway thru version 2.4 , IBM Sterling Control Center thru version 5.3 , WebLogic, WebSphere, WSAD 4.0.3/5.0 , CORBA Orbix for C VisiBroker for C and Java , WebSphere MQ, COM
• Tools: TOAD DB2/Oracle/SQLServer, MySQL , Spotlight Oracle/DB2/SQLServer , WSAD 4.0.3 5.0 , WebLogic Workshop 8.1 , jCOM EJB-COM bridge , Together Control Center, Rational Rose 2000, Select Enterprise, VisualAge For Java, Visual C , OptimizeIt, Paradigm Plus, Select Enterprise, RogueWave, PVCS, ClearCase, HeapAgent, BoundsChecker, Sniff , codewright, Visual SlickEdit, JFC, MFC