SUMMARY

• Proven Information Technology professional with 16+ years of extensive experience.
• Strong management, Leadership, Organizational skills, effective use of process improvements to improve quality of product and reduce time to market.

Areas of Expertise

• Full System Development Life Cycle
• Strong Communication skills
• Project Management
• Software Quality Management
• Merger / Acquisition / Conversions
• Big Data Certification
• Employee Mentor and Coach
• Teamwork & Partnership
• Staff Management
• Knowledge Managemet and e - Learning
• Risk and Change Management
• Test Automation and Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

METHODOLOGIES: Full SDLC, AGILE / SCRUM.

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS: .NET, Visual Basic,HTML, MQ, Microsoft Project, Word, Visio, Outlook, COBOL, BATCH SCRIPTING, CICS, BAL, PROC/JCL, Changeman,Expediter, Librarian, Endeavor, File-Aid, JAVASCRIPT, SELENIUM,SOAPUI,Test Director, SQL SERVER INTEGRATION SERVICES, SQL SERVER REPORTING SERVICES,C++, C#, JAVA J2EE,, HIVE,PYTHON,SPARK,FLUME,hdfs, scala,flume,sqoop,MAPREDUCE,MS Visual SourceSafe.

DATABASES: ACCESS 2000, DB2, IDMS, VSAM,HBASE, CASSANDRA,SQL SERVER,ORACLE

DATA ANALYTICS: SAS, R, EXCEL

HARDWARE/OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows, OS2, DOS, Mainframe, Unix, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Palm Beach, FL

Sr. Architect / Data Scientist

Environment: Eclipse 4.4, Linux 2.6.32, UNIX Shell scripts, Hadoop 2.7.1, Hive 1.2.1, Spark 1.4-1.6,Sqoop 1.4.6, Flume 1.5.2, Kafka 0.9.0, Oozie 4.2.0, Pig 0.15.0

Responsibilities:

• Interpret business requirements to articulate the business needs to be addressed
• To automate data collection, aggregation, and visualization to produce metrics that are actionable
• Designed and implemented data warehousing offload solution for Commercial data to Hadoop using Sqoop and Hive.
• Built Syncsort proof of concept jobs to read / write from HDFS.
• Used PYTHON for Machine Learning to train and test the data by Logistic regression and Linear regression modelling etc by Scikit-Learn libraries.
• This helped us the scale up model easily to optimize the performance and accuracy.
• Implemented a proof of concept to read Twitter feeds, send to Kafka, integrate with Spark Streaming and process them.
• Implemented proof of concept with Spark in both Scala and Python to get distinct number of orders by day, average revenue per day.
• Involved in Data Lake capacity planning.
• Create technology roadmap for long term architecture and present to senior management.
• Facilitated numerous stakeholder discussions around business requirements gathering.
• Created and presented internal and external status report to the higher management.
• Track and resolve technical and non-technical issues.
• Approve final product before launch
• Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility

Confidential, Palm Beach, FL

Architect

Environment: UNIX-AIX 5.3, UNIX Shell scripts,, Hadoop 1.1.1, Hive 0.9.0, Pig 0.15, Sqoop 1.4.2

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis and Design.
• Design, develop and execute software solutions to address business issues
• Work with the business analysts to identify metrics, cost savings and benefits.
• Experience in SAS programming for auditing data, developing data, performing data validation QA and improve efficiency of SAS programs
• Created various SAS Reports, Tables, Graphs and Summary analysis on PMS systems being used in these properties.
• Made improvements to production code by replacing generic macros and data steps with proc sql steps, resulting in a 70% reduction of processing time.
• Load data to HDFS using Flume.
• Extract data from operational relational data sources (using sqoop) and assumptions from sales force and load to HDFS.
• Loaded IBM Watson questions and answers to Hadoop.
• Provide cross project operational and benefits reporting (time, dollar savings, breakeven period etc.) for RevDev initiatives.
• Provide architectural blueprints and technical leadership to our IT team
• Communication Management and Change Management.
• Provided post implementation support for internal end users of the system
• Collaborate with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications
• Team Management and Co-ordination of the development efforts.

Confidential, Jacksonville, FL

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Project Management, planning, scheduling and tracking of business cases.
• Requirement Analysis and Design.
• Analyze and prepare technical and business documentation.
• Effort Estimation and Coding
• Impact Analysis and Detailed Design.
• Unit Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Integration Testing.
• Client Interfacing, reporting and status evaluation.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible of getting the requirements and preparing the analysis documents depending on High level documentation from the customer.
• Involved in Architecture, High level and Low-level design and the technical specifications Document.
• Design, development, extraction, verification and Re-verification of test scenarios, test conditions and test cases as per customer requirements and tracking Metrics.
• Coding and Unit Testing/System Testing.
• Worked with team of contract/staff technical writers to produce high-quality, timely documentation for our Client’s products.
• Production Support.
• Created effective modular documentation that aligns with business objects.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to determine the best content for each product, feature and serving as the content expert to these teams.

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Obtaining stakeholders signoffs, setting stakeholders agenda items, producing business requirements for development team.
• Establishing best practice repository, identifying lessons learned and creating consensus while managing customer expectations.
• Requirement Analysis and Design.
• Creating Project Definition Plan and Coordination of activities between team members.
• Technical Specs Preparation & Review
• Co-ordination with Onsite.
• Prepare test scripts and verify the test results.

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Requirement Analysis and Design.
• Preparation of Impact Analysis document.
• Coding and Testing
• Work closely with quality control and documentation teams for delivery of projects.
• Responsible for relevant documentation, and Unit Test Cases adhering to standards

Confidential

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and prepare technical and business documentation
• Effort Estimation
• Impact Analysis and Detailed Design.
• Testing - Unit Testing, Integration Testing.