SUMMARY

• Innovation leader with 16+ years of hands - on experience in IT architecture, and breadth of experience across product management, portfolio and program management, and IT strategy.
• A blend of technical and leadership experience with MBA in IT/Operations Management and General Business & Masters in Computer Applications.
• Vast experience in business and technical investment evaluation, outsourcing and vendor management.
• Highly effective leader, quick to recognize opportunities for improving processes and to recognize and support talent.
• Expertise in communicating effectively and establishing a partnership with business and executive management. Ability to form partnerships inside and outside the organization.
• Creative, energetic, goal-directed team player with strong managerial, organizational, and problem solving skills.
• Experience in building and leading high performance development and support teams.
• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing cross functional and cross cultural teams across globe.
• Experience working with Big Data and Amazon Web Services technologies.
• Enterprise application support, IT Governance and, Alignment of business & IT.
• Strong domain expertise in Financial, Retail, Travel, and Services industries.
• Hands on experience with full SDLC and large scale customer facing applications.
• Proficient in Cloud, data integration, SOA, ESB, CRM, Web Services (SOAP/REST) and Integrated Systems using layered architecture.
• Strong programming skills in JAVA, J2EE, Servlets, Swing, JSP, JSF, XML, C, C++, HTML, Java Script, CSS, JSON, Spring, JPA, multithreading, and Hibernate.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: Java, J2EE, JSP, SOA, Ajax, UML, JMS, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, XML, XSLT, SOAP, Apache CamelMiddle ware: Web Services, Apache Active MQ, Web Sphere MQ, ESB, EJB and RMI

Application Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, WebSphere Commerce

Operating Systems: UNIX (Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Linux), Windows

Frameworks: Hibernate, Spring, JPA, Apache Camel, MVC, OSGI, JSF, Struts

Methodology: Agile, Water Fall, Rational Unified Process, CMM

RDBMS: ORACLE, DB/2, SQL Server, MySql, PostgreSQL

Source Control: TFS, Subversion, ClearCase, PVCS, CVS

Tools: Enterprise Architect, Eclipse, Jerkins, TOAD, and JBuilder

Others: Tomcat, SharePoint, Lucene Solr, Crucible, Jerkins, Web Analytics, Hudson, Quartz, Akamai, Maven, Ant, and Jetty, SumoLogic, NoSql, Logstash

Management Tools: Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Primavera, SharePoint

Cloud technologies: Amazon Cloud Stack (DynamoDB, EC2, Route 53, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudWatch, and etc,.)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irving, TX

Sr. Manager Development

Responsibilities:

• Lead development (Java & .Net teams) and production support teams globally with direct responsibility to maintain the infrastructure for high availability, and business critical applications.
• Plan and prioritize projects in an agile environment, under dynamic, flexible and changing set of requirements.
• Responsible for architecture of several programs. Ensure team is going on right track in terms of design and implementation by conducting design and code reviews.
• Supported annual budget planning and long term demand planning in partnership with business and client teams.
• Maintain and improve the health of high availability/critical systems and to meet and exceed SLA’s - PCI, and operations support,
• Took a major initiative in integrating Citi ThankYou rewards system with Amazon Cloud so Citi credit card members can use their ThankYou Points to shop for the rewards at Amazon.com, resulted in 35% increase in member point’s consumption.
• Hands on experience in Amazon Cloud stack such as DynamoDB, NoSql, EC2, CloudWatch, Elastic BeanStalk, Elastic Load Balancing, S3, Route 53, and etc.,
• Manage multiple projects and programs simultaneously under tight schedules.
• Evaluated technologies including Amazon cloud, data and analytics, personalization, rules driven flexible platform and SOA. RFP responses through solution design and estimation.
• Integrated ThankYou.com site with travels, Citi, B2S, and other partners using SAML and SSO.
• Implemented continuous integration process and automated build and deployment process, resulted in 100% error free code from both onshore and offshore teams.
• Responsible for delivering products on time, on budget under tight and demanding schedule.
• Hiring, mentoring, staff performance, coaching, career development, and performance management.
• Manage resources, processes, recruitment, project scope, schedule, design, code reviews, and system and functional testing.

Confidential, Southlake, TX

Principal Applications Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide Architecture solutions for Sabre airline ticketing system, which supports 80,000 TPS at peak, and is used by more than 400 airlines, 350K travel agents, and 100K hotels worldwide.
• Architecture governance, performance management and communication through a multi-level set of standard reports, status updates and use of SharePoint.
• Developed and presented ticketing system architecture strategy at various forums across Sabre.
• Provide solutions to support different EDIFACT versions of ticketing request/response from various channels such as external GDS, interline and third party ground handling, and Sabre GDS systems.
• Championed code quality and delivery through increased focus on design and code reviews, unit test, continuous integration, test automation and release cycle management best practices.
• Aligned Ticketing solutions with Travel industry patterns.
• Delivered common comprehensive solutions for delivery of ticketing in GDS platforms and Airline eCommerce portals.
• Implemented PCI compliances across all ticketing applications.
• Implemented payload compression mechanism to reduce database foot print of the ticketing payloads by 40%.
• Architectural road map and guidance for ticketing systems, and migration of existing airline ticketing applications to follow enterprise technology standards.
• Provided input for performance and capacity planning. Technical and functional end to end solutioning.
• Collaborated with marketing, product managers, business analyst, and development teams to deliver the products in a timely manner.
• Developed data integration standards that align with Sabre's vision and best practices.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple teams of developers and system analysts across web, backend, and content management groups. Responsibility for full development lifecycle of macys.com & bloomingdales.com and system infrastructure.
• Reviewed and improved the standard delivery process - SDLC and collaborated with teams across the division for wider adoption.
• Delivered Budget savings of $2.8 million through process improvements, migration, API enhancements, productivity gains, smart prioritization and motivating teams.
• Lead architectural reviews, risk management, and provided project and architectural governance.
• Evaluate and identify the right technologies to implement scalable, maintainable, reliable, and high performance applications.
• Involved in setting up oversees development team, and implemented offshore strategy to facilitate the smooth distribution of work without effecting the product quality and delivery timelines. This initiative resulted in development cost savings between 45 - 50% of US cost.
• Managed onsite and offshore development teams, consists of 55 direct and indirect members, to build faceted navigation features, which are implemented using Java/J2EE, Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, SOA, UNIX, XML, JSON, Adobe CQ5, Apache Solr, and web technologies for macys.com.
• Implemented governance process for services development.
• Improved the resource allocation process through automation, a defined and agreed process and phased implementation. Key metrics helped to measure and communicate success.
• Pushed for improvements in software development practices to increase software quality and performance through continuous integration and test automation process.
• Recruited high caliber resource to continue to scale the delivery capabilities of the team.
• Developed Enterprise Reference Architecture for a multi-channel SOA strategy for Macys.
• Wrote and implemented governance process for services development.
• Team development, coaching, and provide road map and vision to top management.
• Managed development life cycle, set clear goals, delegated tasks, and managed workflow.
• Collaborated with many cross-functional teams (Product, Enterprise Architects, QA, and System engineering) to ensure services are in consistent with Confidential ’s long term IT strategy, and on-time delivery of projects.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Development Manager

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw product development, delivery and maintenance activities.
• Took the following major initiatives to reduce operating costs:
• Migrated APS application from Web Sphere servers to Tomcat open source servers resulted in saving $3.5 million annually in application maintenance cost as APS deployed in 600 tomcat instances across 3 data centers.
• Implemented Cache Data Facility (CDF) application, which utilizes an Oracle RAC application, to reduce Main Frame MIPS consumption. This initiative became a huge success and resulted in saving millions of dollars.
• Resource allocation, team building, and full HR responsibilities of hiring, budget allocation.
• Defined APS road map and migration strategy to align with Confidential enterprise standards.
• Migrated legacy applications to SOA environments utilizing Java, J2EE, ESB, Web Services, Messaging, XML technologies to provide high scalability, maintainability, and reliability.
• Coordinated scope definition and technical design documentations to business & product teams.
• Responsible for the right technical strategy and roadmaps to align with the business strategy.
• Ensure project documents such as FRDs, HLDs, code reviews, and migrations meet all audit requirements determined by the bank.
• Worked with project managers, delivery managers, architects, and QA teams to deliver projects in a timely manner.
• Implemented processes to improve communication between onsite and offshore teams, and to speed up development.
• Maintained excellent working relationships with cross-functional teams

Confidential, Foster City, CA

Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Part of the team that developed and supported the Confidential Payment gateway system, which handles 130+ million payments every day.
• Designed and Implemented automated configuration management system (CMS) to configure Confidential Member gateways. Using CMS Confidential can remotely configure its member gateways in different regions from a single location
• Led a team of developers to port the existing system from C++ to java, and implement/support automated configuration management system
• Worked with BAs and system owners from different regions to understand their functional and nonfunctional requirements to implement CMS
• Wrote numerous Web services for Adminserver application using XML, Web service technologies such as SOAP and WSDL.
• Implemented data services and page handlers for EA User Interface application using Java.
• Root cause analysis during defect fixing and responsible for fixing the issues
• Implemented system test engine to run system test cases under nightly regression.
• Wrote shell scripts and test cases to run automated regressions.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Clarify Business Objects using Java and C++ for Confidential Clarify Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.
• Coordinated with business teams and clients to gather requirements.
• Delegated tasks to the team; trained junior consultants to come up to the speed.
• Architecture, design, implementation, support and maintenance of web based CRM products for the customers.
• Enhanced existing components, which were developed in XML and Java. Provided C++ interface APIs to make use of this existing component.
• Written SQL queries to access SQL Server and Oracle databases.

Confidential, CA

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Implementation and maintenance of Retail COFEE ordering and billing system. This application is used by Confidential agents to place landline and mobile phone orders.
• Worked with Confidential to design, development, and integration of Farmers’ insurance Common Agent Platform J2EE online applications with the legacy systems.
• Worked with Dialog Corporation to Design & Development of the EJournal Linking-Subscription Manager project utilizing CORBA, EJB, C++, HTML, JSP, WebLogic, Java Script, UML technologies.