Profile

Results - driven substantive strategic business oriented and financially astute Information Technology IT leader with over 21 years of experience in the scientific financial insurance and IT industries. Has extensive expertise in enterprise architecture business architecture and IT investment management and modernization in highly regulated/federated environments. Has business technical and full life cycle leadership experience in establishing business processes architectural and project plans and system architecture to direct the seamless execution of multiple business critical initiatives and IT projects. Has proven business and people skills including strong leadership managing and mentoring abilities and the ability to champion ideas and build consensus and support. Constantly stays current with the latest emerging technologies standards and methodologies. Is culturally sensitive and internationally traveled leader who holds a Ph.D. degree in Computational Physics. Has presented and published several papers in major national and international conferences and journals.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Strategy Planning

• Business Architecture strategy roadmap and process model Enterprise Architecture TOGAF FEAF and DoDAF
• IT Strategy roadmap reference architecture and design
• Information Management ECM BI and Advanced Analytics Cross-functional Leadership and Talent Development
• Application Portfolio Management APM and Cloud

Professional Experience

Operations Support

• Process improvement ITIL execution and governance Emerging technology analysis including gaps
• SOA RUP Hadoop IT Security and Data Integration BPM JAVA/J2EE Web services and Interoperability Resource planning optimization and alignment
• Agile Software Development Methodology e.g. SCRUM

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Assigned to the office of the CIO was primarily responsible for effectively representing the office of the FRS CTO and overseeing alignment of FRS information management architecture standards and protocols with FRS requirements and IT best practices. The position was responsible for providing advice and assistance to the FRS s 34 business lines CIOs and

CTOs to ensure that information technology and resources are acquired and managed in a manner that implements priorities established by FRS strategies and standards. Duties also included acting as a principal advisor to the FRS business lines leaders in the development implementation and as necessary revision of the business and technical architecture evaluation of technology support and timely application of information resources to achieve the strategic business missions in accord with FRS standards and guidelines as applicable.

Provided advisory services and business management consulting on the design and development of the FRS IT policies enterprise architecture standards processes and transitional strategy to align/integrate/retire/unify technologies and processes for rapidly changing business environments. Leveraged business and technical backgrounds and program management skills to improve operational efficiencies including resource silos Return on Investment ROI and security.

Provided leadership and delivered business strategy and architectural artifacts for the FRS s ECM initiatives. Advanced business process maps IT taxonomies and conceptual data models/architecture to align key information to the business functions. The project resulted in a centralized document management repository which has helped in improving record management archival integration complexity security eDiscovery and ROI.

Provided leadership and expertise in application andmiddleware architectures in implementing the FRS s enterprise IT

Security NIST 800 compliance Service Oriented Architecture SOA and the Enterprise Service Bus ESB strategies. The strategy resulted in the reduction of integration complexity while improving security and operational efficiency.

Defined developed and executed a business aligned enterprise Portfolio Management strategy and remediation plan including the development of a custom methodology and architectural metrics dashboard based on IT management processes such as COBIT 5 and ITIL to capture business value metrics process index quality index and technology index of IT investment. The dashboard facilitates ongoing project management investment architecture and compliance. It helps in cost and resource optimization application portfolio rationalization identify and resolve silos and consolidation by identifying low hanging fruits for immediate value demonstration. Moreover it has helped reduce application footprints by 40 . The software used were Clarity Troux MS tools and Hyperion.

Defined developed and executed Availability Advanced Analytics Cloud and Technology Adoption Frameworks to expedite adoption of new technologies and services within the FRS while meeting ROI and risk reduction objectives. The work also included creating budget in a federated environment requirement analysis Security risk/reward analysis including FEDRAMP system solution and traceability matrix from business and IT strategies to suggested technologies.

Defined and executed strategies and architected Business Intelligence BI and advanced analytics solutions Hadoop frame that collect transform analyze and report internal and external data to generate knowledge and business value.

Defined developed and executed several key business technology strategies governable roadmaps reference architectures and design in collaboration with IT to meet business demands IT modernization and secure integration with internal and external Business-to-Business services that resulted in improved ROI and customer satisfactions.

Led architected and managed the delivery of several highly critical and complex solutions for multi-million dollar programs and projects that have received visibility/governance at the Executive Committee Level. Artifacts produced were business and technical architecture models and high-level designs based on functional and non-functional requirements.

Led the design and execution of Proofs-of-Concept POC for several critical enterprise capabilities including building business case with costs risk benefits and efficiency measures.

Identified and communicated opportunities to maximize the value of IT to business partners and government agencies such as the U.S. Treasury and the FDIC. Developed detailed current and future state business and IT architecture to capture the business functions processes and activities performed by the agencies using TOGAF artifacts.

Communicated plan technical and business architecture and strategic road maps to senior FRS business leaders and IT stakeholders. Consulted on several RFIs and RFPs to evaluate and select vendors hardware and software products.

Provided leadership and facilitated several working and brainstorming sessions with senior business and IT leadership to ensure appropriate business solutions are available for meeting future business demands.

Provided leadership in identifying disruptive trends/technologies and business drivers by conducting market analyses and architectural assessments of existing IT solutions within a de-centralized enterprise environment. The findings led to major cost savings and created a proactive environment within the FRS.

Provided innovative and thought leadership by publishing and presenting papers to the FRS senior officers and staff leaders. Chaired various architectural and strategic planning committees within the FRS.

Performed critical business and architectural gap analyses and performance index of the IT environment and subsequently recommended solutions for improvement across major business lines.

Advised business application and system developers to ensure compliance with enterprise architecture strategies and standards and recommended modifications for compliance as appropriate.

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Designated as Technical Advisor to WellPoint senior leadership provided architectural leadership in introducing new technologies and ideas for e-business applications throughout the enterprise. Responsibilities included monitoring and evaluating new technologies and assessing their potential to become new products or services consistent with applicable guidelines while ensuring that they had the potential to add business value. Duties also included providing architectural and strategic leadership in assessments of IT assets during mergers and acquisitions.

Provided architectural and strategic leadership for the technical implementation of large-scale multi-million dollar e-business business systems. The work involved Researching analyzing and successfully coordinated the resolution of complex technology issues and problems impacting the functionality of IT systems determining data needed for a solution reviewing information from multiple sources identifying alternative approaches and recommending solutions. Additionally created corporate initiatives for information reuse across multiple projects which led to significant improvements in operational efficiencies security and cost.

Partnered with business and internal IT leadership to develop and execute a proactive strategy and appropriate quality standards for growth and enhancements that helped maintain a very happy client base.

Directed and managed a team of developers and system architects in the implementation of a secure ESB SOA roadmap and a software reuse strategy to minimize TCO. Furthermore led the team in troubleshooting and designing solutions and monitored their work to ensure progress and compliance with customers expectations.

Defined developed and executed strategy reference architectures and designed various systems solutions for different WellPoint s e-business regions and its third party health providers.

Directed and managed several WellPoint Model Office Projects that resulted in a secure digital certificate-based scalable business-to-business tunnel from provider systems to WellPoint s existing business applications.

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Was hired to take Anthem to the e-business world. Acted as the principal advisor to Anthem s e-business officers and business lines in the architecture middleware development and secure implementation of e-business solutions. Duties also included

architectural support and the development of plans and programs to facilitate cost-effective efficient and timely application of information resources to achieve the strategic business missions.

Helped nurture and grow two competencies one in IT strategy and another in mission-critical applications. These competencies transcended all vertical sector practices and grew to over 200 million in revenues.

Provided consultancy to senior leadership in e-commerce initiatives full life cycle management of the entire IT projects product selection and technologies direction.

Provided expert knowledge in the area of messaging and information security in development of various strategies and architecture templates for the integration of secure Web-based solutions.

Led a group of architects in the design development and deployment of several Web-based applications merger and acquisitions solutions data access and secure communication templates for Health Care Systems using design patterns business and software reuse strategy and modern reference architecture methodologies.

Directed and managed a team that developed a J2EE-compliant provider portal using secure messaging technology to serve the members providers and hospitals. The solution required a high level of data security for human data supported secure Internet transactions and handled an average of 100 000 transactions per day.

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Designated as Quantitative Programmer Analyst was responsible for the research assess and infuse new technology into

Dynex s business operations as appropriate with the specific objective of developing web based deployment of an open system architecture that incorporated financial data images and graphical representations.

Architected modeled and coded an Internet-based financial engine which converted the loan to security. The Option Adjusted Spread OAS and Prepayment models were included.

Designed developed and implemented exotic and compound option models pricing and hedging spreadsheets Swap and Stochastic derivative models for derivative products and a secure Internet based proprietary risk management system with an emphasis on fixed and adjustable rate Collateralized Mortgage Obligations CMO .

Developed yield curve models using bootstrapping and splining techniques for various interest rate swaps.

Defined Swap models carried out numerical simulations for complex financial systems created term structure of interest rate models using finite differential and simulation technique.

Created time discrete and time continuous Black-Scholes model for interest rate and currency Swaps. Analyzed static and dynamic investments that were under both arbitrage and arbitrage-free conditions.

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Led a team of system architects in the development of a financial billing system. The role also required the expert knowledge in the Object-Oriented OO modeling and business architecture. The business intent of the system allowed customer and providers to manage the bill payment of the Medicaid for the state of Vermont. Heavy emphasis was placed on abstracting services and element managers to allow rapid changes to systems. The system design was an n-tier Client/Server architecture with distributed business objects. The services developed were based on Common Object Request Broker Architecture.

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As Research Scientist participated in NASA Grant No NCCI-42 entitled A study of physical processes for space radiation protection sponsored by NASA Langley Research Center. While assigned to the NASA s Material Division had a major role in defining and implementing various layers of architecture and frameworks for a radiation physics application using advanced simulation techniques. Duties also included serving as a review and editing committee member for national and international journals that focused on technical publications.

Was involved in the development of the overall formulation programming and logical modeling for a space radiation protection system using advanced Monte Carlo simulation techniques to solve complex problems including DNA modeling using time dependent/independent perturbation in radiation physics.

Worked with senior scientists to analyze satellite data for radioactive doses using numerical differentiation and integration techniques and advanced statistical modeling skills to model and determine which factors influenced the nuclear data. Designed and modeled several projects for boundary value problems in radiation physics.

Wrote a Ph.D. thesis entitled Heavy-Ion Interaction Models for Radiation Transport which addressed shielding materials for space travelers. This was part of an ongoing cancer research effort.

Published and presented several papers in national and international journals and conferences.

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Taught and developed several undergraduate Physics and Calculus courses.

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Taught and developed several Physics and Calculus courses.

Training Courses Certifications

Architecting and Designing J2EE Applications

IT Infrastructure Library ITIL V3 Certified

The Open Group Architecture Framework TOGAF

Hadoop Framework

Computational Expertise

Languages

Java/J2EE FORTRAN HTML DHTML XML .Net ASP JSP and JScript

Architectural Models Methodologies and Process

The Open Group Architecture Framework TOGAF Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework FEAF DoD Architectural Framework DoDAF Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program FedRAMP COBIT 5 information architecture Client/Server n-tier distributed multi-tier .Net Framework IBM Design Patterns RUP Agile Software Development Methodology including ability to decompose requirements/functionality into segments with defined durations Model-View-Controller MVC Spring 2.0 Ajax risk/mitigation analysis ECM ITIL 3.0 UML and familiarity with many other structured evolutionary and iterative software development processes including Scrum.

Development/ Case Tools

Troux Eclipse RAD 6.0 Visio VB Studio Clarity Weblogic and multiple BPM tools

Application Servers Containers Database Platforms Middleware and Protocols

WebSphere SharePoint 2010-13 Oracle SQL MQ Series BI BPM and ECM tools and Hadoop Framework

Professional Honors and Affiliations

First Student Prize in Science University of Bombay India

Member Sigma Pi Sigma Honorary Society and American Physical Society

Member Astronomy Mathematics and Physics Section Virginia Academy of Science Reviewer NASA Langley technical papers

Publications

National and International Journals

Conference Presentations National and International