SUMMARY

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,Consulting Practice: March 2009 – present:
Consultant on Autonomy Projects with Autonomy vendor Confidential,
Multiple large scale implementations for Search and Autonomy Litigation Hold Projects.
Clients include Los Angeles County -Search Implementation, McAfee ( Litigation Hold )
and BAE Systems ( Litigation Hold ). eDiscovery products used in implementation
include Autonomy IDOL 7.4.1 content engines, Introspect and ECA/Investigator applications
based on the Autonomy Platform.

eSearch Architect, Confidential,March 2004 – March 2009
Search Architect for Enterprise wide Search Infrastructure and Application Development

Responsibilities include

• Detailed presentations to the GSK Architecture Council comprising of 2 Vice Presidents and 7 Directors of IT for Infrastructure and application proposals to implement GSK Search with the Autonomy Search Engine.
• Lead a team of offshore and on site project development team from outsourcing vendor Wipro for implementation of the eSearch Application on 3 Projects- eSearch Gateways, eSearch Parametric Indexes, S29 and current GSK Search.
• Responsible for evaluation of initial Project cost based on work order estimates from Wipro on the eSearch Gateways project
• Setup Infrastructure specifications for transitioning eSearch from Verity 5.5 to a completely new Autonomy IDOL 7.0 search Engine with DIH\'s, DAH\'s and IDOL Servers.
• Architected scalable solution involving 4 Data Centers around the world with Autonomy infrastructure at RTP, Stevenage, King of Prussia and Brentford Data Centers. Provided System Requirements for implementation of solution. Architected J2EE based Front End Application with the use of Jakarta Struts and Hibernate ORM Mapping Frameworks
• Piloted an implementation of Systinet UDDI Web Services Registry for the GSK middleware Service.
• Panelist at Enterprise search industry wide Conference representing GSK at Autonomy Connections 2006 with representatives from Pfizer, Mercedes Benz USA, SRI and GlaxoSmithKline Inc.

Consultant, Confidential,October 2003 – February 2004
Analyzed customer requirements for a peer-peer Photo Sharing product.
Designed and developed a secure authentication framework for a product based on a
peer–peer photo sharing J2EE application on JBOSS Application Server.
Developed product specifications with the use of standard frameworks in a
Model view Controller architecture. Analyzed existing implementation with a Profiling
Tool OptimizeIT to determine problem areas, scalability and memory requirements.

Consultant, Confidential,May 2003 – October 2003
Responsible for the design and development of a Faculty Research Biography
System for the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). This application provided a central point of lookup for researchers within DCRI. Analyzed business requirements and provided a solution framework for implementation.
The application was developed with the Struts J2EE Framework and deployed on an iPlanet Application Server with an Oracle Database.
Participated in Clinical Health Care related classes on GCP, HIPPA regulations, and SOP’s at DCRI.

Consultant, Confidential,December 2002- April 2003
Provide Architectural and design expertise for a retail pharmacy dispensing application at ATEB Inc. Application currently being developed in J2EE with JBOSS Application server and Oracle back end Database. Performed a study to evaluate whether the existing design, would be scalable to handle pharmacy dispensing for up to 800 stores. J2EE patterns used include Value Objects, Session Façade, MVC and Service Locater.

Lead Consultant, Confidential,October 2001 – December 2002
Responsible for architectural design and development of an Enterprise solution for the US army’s GCSS-A/T project at TRW Inc. Produced initial prototypes for a 3 tier web based J2EE compliant solution utilizing Bea Systems WebLogic application server. Lead a team of Software Engineers for the Supply subsystem of the project through requirements gathering to an enterprise implementation.

• Senior Software Engineer, Confidential,September 2000 – September 2001

Responsible for a web based Subscriber Provisioning System for the LongBoard
Multimedia Application Platform for enabling voice features over a data network using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Wrote a high-level design document and a detailed design document to implement this subsystem using Java Server Pages and Java Servlets. Designed and architected a subsystem for storing subscriber data using Java database connectivity to a PointBase database with Java Server pages.

Senior Engineer, Confidential,March 2000– September 2000
Responsible for software architecture, process and development in a small startup environment utilizing Java servlets for a ticketing application using print at home technology. Lead a team of programmers in developing applications using bar codes for developing redeemable gift certificates. Code development in Java with Servlets and JDBC.

Senior Staff Engineer, Confidential,June 1999 – March 2000
Developed an authentication protocol for an Element Manger using cryptographically secure methods with keyed hashes and SSL. Developed user interfaces with Java Swing classes and AdventNet Java SNMP packages. Used Epilogue( C++) SNMP API to develop SNMP agent, which communicates with the core hardware.

Senior Staff Engineer, Confidential,Oct. 1997 – June 1999
Responsible for design, development and implementation of the Boot protocol to load software for a Cellular Radio Exchange (CRE) through a Mobility Server for a Wireless Office System. Developed Network Management prototypes to manage Network Elements in a Java and Erlang implementation environment.

Responsible for design, development and implementation of the TeLocator Alphanumeric Protocol (TAP) for paging services in a DECT 1900 Cellular phone system. Development in Java using JDK1.1.7A and Java COM API.

Systems Consultant, Confidential,May 1996 - Oct. 1997

• Designed and implemented a Dealer Locator Service application in Java for IBM. Code development in Java with JDK1.1.3 and JDBC. Application computes distances based on Latitudes and Longitudes in the database and identifies the nearest dealers of a particular type of product to a client.

Developed a Remote/Local Network configurator in Java. Designed prototypes for a security model using IBM Java Crypto Framework API. Code development used Servlets and Object Serialization techniques available in Java 1.1 and SUN\'s Servlet Development Kit.

Developed and implemented a Certificate Authority system for IBM, using Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol. Extensive use of Public-Key and Private-Key Technology for encryption, decryption, digital signatures and Certificates. Product implementation in Java, and Object Oriented C++ on AIX and Windows NT.

Software Engineer, Confidential,August 1995-April 1996
Responsible for testing and developing Telecommunication software systems in C/C++ on a Unix platform. Testing and validation of software. Developed a Telephone Call Controller software package system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Expert on Enterprise Search Technologies with Autonomy IDOL 7.3.4 and Verity.
Expertise with the Solr Enterprise Search Server 1.4 stack.
Indexing and Infrastructure for Search Strategy as well as front end UI with J2EE Technologies.
WEB 2.0 frameworks - GWT 1.5. Sun Java WebSpaces Portal.
JSR168/268 Portlet Integration of Search.


Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodologies in Java (10+ yrs),C++,Erlang.
Struts MVC Framework, Hibernate ORM, JSP’s and Tag Libraries, Servlets, EJB 2.0, XML
and UML.
Expertise with Security, Authentication with JAAS framework, Cryptographically strong
authentication protocols.

Portals: Sun Java WebSpaces 10.x , Bea WebLogic Portal( Plumtree )
Operating Systems: Unix(12+ yrs.), Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Windows (10+ yrs.).
RedHat Linux, Ubuntu 9.0, Fedora 10 distributions.
Databases: Oracle 9i, MySql, PointBase, SQL.
Tools: NetBeans 6.5 IDE ,Tomcat 6.1.24, 5.x, WebLogic 6.1,
WebSphere 4.0.3, JBuilder 7, Forte, ClearCase, Together/J,Posiedon UML, Eclipse IDE, JDeveloper IDE, JBOSS 4.0 Application Server, Jetty WebServer, OptimizeIt ,Cygwin

EDUCATION:
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
Bachelor of Science in Physics
Minor: Mathematics