SUMMARY:

• Passion : Relentless pursuit of Innovation, Strategy, Technologies/Architectures and Management.
• Leadership Style: Influencing people without authority.
• 20+ years of leadership experience in Fortune 100 and Startup Companies in delivering Vision, Thought Leadership, Innovation, Business and Technology Strategy, Architectures, Consulting and hand - on Development.
• Proven outstanding leadership abilities, breadth and depth of experience and expertise in diverse technologies including Blockchain/Cryptocurrency, IT/Cyber Security, Cloud Computing with proven delivery of solutions in Financial Services, Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Transportation & Supplychain applications.
• Thought Leadership, Strategy and Customer Focus : Excellent at synthesizing business and technology strategy to bring out the best value for customers that is second to none. A commitment to excellence in delivering value to customers.
• Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Value Creation : Not afraid to move out of the comfort zone and use new and wider boundaries for thinking, planning, doing, evaluating, and continuous improvement.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

• As a CTO & hand-on-developer of a startup in Blockchain, provided leadership and developed & delivered blockchain solutions for the following industries. The solutions were based on Ethereum Private and Bitcoin public networks and Fullstack consisting of MERN technologies on Amazon AWS cloud.
• Oil & Gas/Energy Services Company in Houston
• Educational Institution/University in Malaysia
• Working on a Banking Application for a UK company
• An ICO solution for an Indian Company - Using Open Zeppelin smart contract framework.
• Developing the following innovations in Blockchain
• Filed several provisional patents in Blockchain Technology.
• World’s fastest blockchain platform supporting 1000 TPS.
• Application of Blockchain & Smart Contracts in the Healthcare Industry, Transportation Industry, Internet of Things, Supply Chain Solutions. Hosting the solutions on Amazon AWS.
• Deep expertise in multiple Blockchain/DLT technologies and architectures including:
• Ethereum Platform: Ethereum platform architecture & technologies - EAO - Externally Owned Accounts, Contract Accounts, Smart Contracts, Transactions, Gas, Solidity, Distributed Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Network Architecture, DApps, DAOs, Mining, Consensus Algorithms, POW, PoS, GHOST, Merkle/Patricia trees, Uncles, Web3 JavaScript Ethereum APIs. Public/Private Key Cryptography, Digital Signatures, Hashing, Wallets, Multi Signature Wallets.
• Hyperledger: Permissioned Ledger Architecture, Hyperledger Fabric, PoET, Chain Code, Identity, Policy, Ordering Service, Membership Services, Channels, Privacy and Confidentiality, Endorsement policies,
• Bitcoin: Bitcoin Networks, Distributed Ledger, Digital Wallets, Transactions, Blocks, Keys, Addresses, Public Key Cryptography, Digital Signatures, Pay to Script Hash (P2SH) and Multi-Sig Addresses, Pay-To-Public-Key Hash (P2PKH) Transaction Lifecycle, Mining and Consensus (PoW, longest Chain)
• Deep Expertise in FullStack including MEAN and MERN - REACT, NodeJS, Express, JavaScript, MySQL/MongoDB etc.
• Delivered multiple multi-million-dollar cloud migration and hosting projects with special focus on cloud security.
• Led the migration of Financial Services & Healthcare Industry applications to Amazon AWS IaaS, PaaS and SaaS and Container Clouds.
• Led as a Chief Architect and Strategist for GSE (Global Systems Engineering - a group of 350+ management and technology professionals) in delivering multi-million-dollar projects through leadership, innovation, business and technology strategy, broad and deep technology expertise, technology standards, governance and execution across cross functional and multi-functional divisions and business units.
• Conceived and setup Visa Cloud Working Group. Led it from its inception. Setup the Vision, Mission and Strategy and Multi-Generational Cloud Plan. The strategy was built on a foundation of CapEx, OpEx and ROI optimization and in strategic alignment with Payment Card Industry in general and VISA strategy in particular.
• Led the initiatives to migrate financial services industry applications to Amazon AWS cloud.
• Innovated VisaRAMP, a Cloud Security Program/Solution for highly secure cloud hosting and migration.
• Delivered the following $$$ multi-million projects in a big four consulting company:
• $11 million Healthcare IT/Health Information Exchange Cloud/SaaS project for a Fortune 200 company
• $20 million SAP Private Cloud project for a Fortune 200 company
• $2 million Mergers and Acquisitions Management Consulting project for major NA Wireless Company
• $1 million migration & development of CRM applications to SFDC (SalesFoce.com) cloud from in-house data center
• $15 million Internet of Things (IoT)/M2M project for a Fortune 100 company

Technical Experience: Technology Strategy, Architectures & Solutions delivery (15+ years)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Ethereum Platform: Ethereum platform architecture & technologies - EAO - Externally Owned Accounts, Contract Accounts, Smart Contracts, Transactions, Gas, Solidity, Distributed Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Network Architecture, DApps, DAOs, Mining, Consensus Algorithms, POW, PoS, GHOST, Merkle/Patricia trees, Uncles, Web3 JavaScript Ethereum APIs. Public/Private Key Cryptography, Digital Signatures, Hashing, Wallets, Multi Signature Wallets.

Hyperledger: Permissioned Ledger Architecture, Hyperledger Fabric, PoET, Chain Code, Identity, Policy, Ordering Service, Membership Services, Channels, Privacy and Confidentiality, Endorsement policies

Bitcoin: Bitcoin Networks, Distributed Ledger, Digital Wallets, Transactions, Blocks, Mining, Consensus, PoW, Longest Chain, Keys, Addresses, Public Key Cryptography, Digital Signatures, Pay to Script Hash (P2SH) and Multi-Sig Addresses, Pay-To-Public-Key Hash (P2PKH) Transaction Lifecycle. MERN (MySQL, Express, REACT, NodeJS) & HTM, CSS Technologies.

IT/Cyber Security: Cloud Security, Cloud Security Alliance Models and Controls, NIST Security and Cloud Standards, PCI, HIPAA & other GRC implementations. Access Control, Telecommunications and Network Security, Information Security Governance and Risk Management, Software Development Security, Cryptography, Security Architecture and Design, Security Operations, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, Legal, Regulations, Investigations and Compliance, Physical (Environmental) Security, CIA, AAA, Web Services Security, Privacy, Identity and Access Management, SAML, SSO, Federated Identity Management, DR & BCP, DLP, Network Security (NIDS, HIDS), Mobile Security, Tokenization, OWASP, SDLC, Healthcare specific security - PHI, HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST,IHE Specific Security Profiles. Data Privacy/Compliance, De-Identification. EU Data Privacy, TPM - Trusted Platform Modules.

Cloud Computing & Virtualization & Containers : Public, Private & Hybrid Clouds, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS & Container Clouds.

AmazonAWS: Compute Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), EC2 Container Service, Auto Scaling, ELB, EBS, VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch, Route 53, DynamoDB, SimpleDB, Relational Database Service (RDS), Elastic Cache, Elastic Beanstalk, Cloud Formation, Identity & Access AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Application Services Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Simple Notification Service (SNS).

Microsoft Azure: Compute Virtual Machines, Cloud Services and Web Sites; Network Virtual Network, Traffic Manager & Express Route; Data Services Storage, SQL Database, HDInsight, Cache, Backup, Site Recovery; Application Services Service Bus, Multifactor authentication, Automation.

Containers/Docker: Docker Engine, Docker Hub, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Docker Registry, Docker Machine. Micro services architecture.

Enterprise & Solution Architectures: TOGAF & Zachmann, SOA, Web Services, ESB/XML-Gateway, Web and Internet Applications, Application Architectures, Infrastructure Technologies and Architectures including Operating Systems (Linux, Unix & Windows), Distributed Systems, Networking and Storage, Rules Based Engines, Storage, Backup and Restore, Archive and Purge, Deduplication, Monitoring & Management, DR. HSP/MSP environments, High Availability, Load Balancing, ITIL & ITSM.

Senior Advisor/Cloud & Blockchain Architect

Confidential

• Delivered Application of Blockchain in Internet of Things, Supply Chain Solutions.
• Delivered Application of Blockchain in Smart Contracts.
• Delivered multiple multi-million-dollar cloud migration and hosting projects with special focus on cloud security.
• Led the migration of Financial Services & Healthcare Industry applications to Oracle SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and Oracle Container Clouds.
• Cloud Solutions Security Assurance Process (CSSAP)
• Leading the implementation of Oracle CSSAP process in guiding the Global Business Units for hosting the industry applications in Confidential in compliance with PCI, HIPAA & CSA (Cloud Security Alliance) standards for IaaS & SaaS Clouds.
• Cloud Acceptance Process (CAP)
• Leading the implementation of the CAP process. The process drives all activities from business case formulation to cloud migration and hosting of Oracle HW, infrastructure and applications for five different industry divisions (Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Utilities, Communications) including a comprehensive Cloud Solutions Security Assurance Process.
• Leading the development and deployment of next generation of cloud computing technologies.
• Leading the architecture groups to drive the definition and evolution of the cloud and security architecture for Oracle’s Cloud for Industry (OCI) with special focus on Healthcare and Financial Services industries.
• Driving the roadmap creation and implementation of Healthcare and Financial Services application architectures for migration to Oracle Clouds.
• Driving the align Confidential (OCI) vision with Oracle Public Cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS vision and roadmaps.
• Mentoring junior architects in implementing best of the breed cloud architecture practices.
• Leading the initiative to migrate OCI cloud hosting processes to Oracle Public Cloud processes for alignment with DevOps and Agile cloud SDLC methods.
• A compliance foot print reduction solution for cloud security compliance for HIPAA and PCI Compliance for Healthcare and Financial Services Industry
• Implementing Industry’s best cloud architecture patterns and processes to re-architect and re-host Healthcare and Financial Services industry applications.
• Partner with business units across the company to lead architects, engineers, managers etc. to implement OCI cloud vision in alignment with Oracle Public & Private Cloud vision.
• Providing technical leadership and management to virtual teams across the company in realizing the cloud vision.
• Providing thought leadership to the senior leadership team in innovations in cloud and cloud security architectures.

Senior Manager/Lead Cloud Architect

Confidential

• $11 million Healthcare IT/Health Information Exchange Cloud & Security project for a Fortune 200 company
• Strategy, Management, Architecture & Security of SaaS/Cloud based HIE (Health Information Exchanges)
• Client Roadmap Development, Alignment of Client Roadmap with Industry Roadmap, Recommendation of Strategic Initiatives, HIE Business Plan and Value Proposition, ROI, Project Planning and Implementation.
• Led a group to deliver HIE solution architecture to a major NA Health Insurance Company. Major deliverables included Payer and Provider systems integration, application and middleware component architecture, security architecture based on HIPAA, IHE, HiTRUST, WS-Security standards. EMR, HIE, HIX architectures and Technologies, EMR-HIE integration IHE, HITSP, HL7, RIM Standards, RLS, HTB, MPI, NIHN, DIRECT, Provider and Payer Systems, HITECH ACT, Meaningful Use, ARRA.
• Business Plan and Architecture for Service Cloud project migrating Payer Applications including Claims Processing, Adjudication, Member Services, Provider Services, Customer Service, and Computer Telephony Integration.
• Led a group of 20 engineers to implement and deliver Provider/Payer Integration to HIE.
• $20 million SAP Private Cloud project for a Fortune 200 company
• Technical Management, Architecture, Operational Excellence.
• Filed a provisional patent for an Extreme Availability Solution for Cisco UCS and VMware DRS-HA
• Led the end-to-end solution architecture, development, deployment and project/program management of SAP on Cisco UCS, Redhat, VMware technologies. Managed deployment to production, operational readiness and excellence, ITIL process assessment. Evaluated and re-architected DR plan and solution implementation. Managed 90+ offshore resources in developing and deploying solutions.
• Provided leadership to a team of 90+ offshore resources and 20+ on-shore resources.
• Led & coordinated project activities between five major vendors of the solution including Accenture, Cisco, Redhat, VMware and NetApp.
• Private Cloud: vBlock, FlexPod, CISCO UCS Converged Network Architecture (Ethernet & FibreChannel). Cisco UCS (Blades, Fabric Extenders, FCoE, CNA, Virtual Interfaces, Fabric Interconnects, VN-Link, UCS Management), VMware vSphere (ESX, vMotion, DRS, HA, vCenter), vCloud, Storage (NetApp Filers, Backup, Restore, Disaster Recovery, SNAP Mirror, Protection Manager/DFM/Operations Manager, Flex Clones, Cisco MDS switches, Cisco Nexus, iSCSI), Redhat Linux based SAP applications. Data Center Migration, Application Outsourcing, Infrastructure Outsourcing, ITIL & ITSM.