Sr. Director/Chief Enterprise Architect

SUMMARY:

• Experienced Business and Strategy Executive and a Sr. Technologist for Fortune 500 Companies
• Over 20 years of commended performance serving in roles as business and technology representative, chief architect/technologist, ambassador and/or liaison
• Specializing in: Modernization, Standardization and Enterprise System Integration of legacy Systems and Platforms using Event - Driven Micro Services Architecture
• Demonstrated history of success in leading teams for premier organizations and Fortune 500/1000 companies for multi-domain industries
• Seasoned Enterprise Architect with Cloud (Migration) Strategy & Planning experience along with DevOps Automation Strategy includes DevOps Toolchain Strategy
• Responsible for Advisory, Go-To-Market Strategy and end-to-end ITaaS (IT-as-a-Service) and Digital Transformation & Innovation Consulting Services
• Responsible for providing the business with a plan and alternatives for enabling IT to deliver business outcomes in support of business strategy and goals - perform Buy vs. Build analysis.
• Conduct workshops for the customers to identify potential areas for Proof of Concept (PoC) development and design/architect, drive PoC and Proof Of Technology (POT) evaluation on Cloud Platform.
• Responsible for Next Generation Data Center (NGDC) Strategy includes Data Center Development Model (DCDM), Hybrid Cloud and Hybrid IT Strategy, SI Services Strategy, Big Data Strategy and Business Cloud Advisory with Application Placement and Cloud Readiness (APCR) Assessment
• Extensive Cloud Computing/Consulting experience for all Cloud Services -SaaS, PaaS/iPaaS and IaaS using Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Platform, Pivotal‘s Cloud Foundary, RedHat OpenShift Enterprise, SFDC’ Heroku, OpenStack, IBM SoftLayer etc.) Deployment and Manage Cloud Platform tools and technology
• Extensive leadership and mentoring of cross-disciplinary teams in analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance of critical business services and applications
• As Chief Architect, managed and provided overall technical architecture solutions to Fortune 500/1000’s key delivery accounts (a range from $25 M - $80 M) for the multi domain industry’s customers located throughout North and South America.
• Provide the thought leadership and strategic assessment to the Client’s CTO organization for selecting and evaluating industry’s best Cloud Service Provider for PaaS (Platform as a Service), iPaaS (integration- Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) to migrate enterprise On-premise’s B2B and B2C production applications and other data center workloads.
• Establish cloud computing templates and implementation guidance for applications that leverage IaaS and PaaS solutions to meet customer use cases. Integrate application design strategies to include the design of loosely coupled cloud resources to allow for a redundant and resilient end user application design
• Responsible for developing industry best Cloud migration standards, guidelines, best practices, Cloud implementation approach and implementation plan for Cloud based software development environments.
• Developed and published Enterprise Mobility/Digital Strategy and provided the technical leadership to publish a detailed Mobile Application Development Platform (MADP) Roadmap for client CTO organization.
• Extensive experienced with TOGAF 8 and 9 -The Open Group Architecture Framework.
• B2B and B2C (Online Consumer facing) exposure in the following, but not limited to: banking, finance, insurance, telecommunications, mfg.& high tech, healthcare &life Science, retail & consumer Goods (RCG), public sector & government, pharmaceutical and the mortgage domain.
• Involved in all facets of software engineering including Requirements Engineering, Architecture Review Board, EA Governance and Solution Architect, PMO and Consulting for Onsite/Offshore engagements
• Assisting delivery teams/field teams/Pre-sales team when pursuing new business or additional business at existing clients through RFP response, proposal or SOW generation
• Extensive experienced with TOGAF 8 and 9 -The Open Group Architecture Framework
• Oversee technical architecture implementation and managing the entire Software Development Life Cycle and Project Implementation for a large development team located remotely. Ensure all the Development teams are provided with technical detail artifacts for implementing solutions for Onsite/Offsite delivery model
• Prior to joining Dimension Data Consulting Services, Confidential served and performed different roles like CTO/Chief Enterprise Architect, Chief Portal Architect, Sr. SOA Architect, Sr. Technical Architect; as he worked for leading consulting firms and served their Fortune 500/1000 clients located in North and South America.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

EA Framework and Tools: TOGAF, Zachman, ITIL(ITSM), TROUX, IBM RSA, Mega International and ArchiMate Modelling tool

SOA Technologies: Oracle SOA SUITE 11g( OSB(BEA-ALSB), BPM-BPEL, Business Rules, File Adapter, Human workflow and JMS Adapter and WSM/MDS) and IBM SOA SUITE IIB 9.0 (IBM Process server/ESB/Message Broker and DataPower), TIBCO Suite ( BW, iProcess, Active Matrix etc.), IBM Curum (COTS)

Cloud (Technologies) IaaS: IBM SoftLayer, Amazon (AWS), Microsoft Windows Azure and Azure Stack (Hybrid Cloud Platform), OpenStack, Google Cloud Platform, and RackSpace

Cloud PaaS: Pivotal‘s Cloud Foundry, Redhat’s OpenShift, IBM Bluemix, Google App Engine, SFDC’ Heroku, and AWS’s Elastic Beanstalk

Cloud Integration (iPaaS): IBM Cast Iron, Dell Boomi AtomSphere, Oracle ICS, SAP HCI, Microsoft BizTalk and MuleSoft

Cloud SaaS Integration: Salesforce’s UI, Business logic and Data integration. Salesforce-SAP Integration & Salesforce-iPaaS

Collaboration Tool: Salesforce’s Ch Confidential er, Microsoft’s Yammer, Jive, Lync (Microsoft)

Cloud DevOps Tools: SCM - Git, GitHub, GitLab, CI- Jenkins (aka Hudson), Bamboo and CM -Puppet, Chef and Ansible

Digital Technologies: SMCAIT (Social Media, Mobile, Community Cloud, Analytics and IoT), MAEP/MADP- Kony, Appcelerator, IBM, SAP, Adobe, Salesforce and Native

Big Data and Analytics Platforms: No-SQL (e.g. MongoDB, Apache’s Cassandra) and Hadoop Framework (HDFS and MapReduce), Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR

MDM: IBM MDM and Oracle MDM

ECMS/CMS: HP Autonomy (formerly Team Site Interwoven), Vignette (part of Open text now), Microsoft SharePoint 2013, Oracle UCM (formerly Stellent), Adobe WEM-CQ5 (formerly Day WCMS), Alfresco, Dimension and BEA VCR

Open Source Technologies: Apache Projects (Active MQ, Kafka, Toplink, Subversion, Maven, Ant, HBase, Hive etc.), Docker Container, CloudStack, Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers

Enterprise Search Engine: Google Search Engine (GS API), Apache- Lucene/Solr/Nutch, HP Autonomy Search engine (IDOL)

J2EE Technologies: JCA, EJB, Servlets, JSP, XML, JDBC, RMI, JTS, JMS, JMX, JNDI, JDO, Java Security and Java Swings

SDLC Methodologies: SAFE(Scaled Agile Framework), Scrum/Agile, Kanban, Iterative (RUP) and Waterfall

Portal Technologies: Enterprise Standard Portal from BEA, IBM, Oracle, Sun and Open Source JBoss and Liferay Portal

Healthcare Std./Methodologies: HL7 Standard-FHIR, HER and PHR