Summary:

Fifteen years of experience in application design and development in information technology consulting with both the private sector and government agencies. Experienced in performing project estimation and planning, requirements gathering, client communications, application design, and leading application development teams.

Skills:

Technologies: Java/J2EE Developer Web Services, JSR 168/286, XML, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, HTML, SQL, Apache Tomcat Databases: Oracle 9i, 10g, SQL Server 2005/2008, MySQL Toolkits: CVS, Visual SourceSafe, Subversion, Visual Studio, Eclipse Functional: Development Team Leadership, Requirements Analysis, Solutioning, Package Evaluation Technology Recommendation, Application Design, Scoping/Estimation, Development Team Management, Project Management, Full SDLC Project Execution

Experience:

Confidential

Senior Architect

• Senior Architect in the Central Architecture Group which is a group of architects deployed to strategic clients during concept/assessment/design phases to lay the architectural strategy and provide roadmaps to achieve the client's vision.
• Engaged clients in architecture assessments to determine IT-business misalignment, address performance and scalability issues, evaluate and provide roadmaps for achievable implementation of re-architecture.
• Involved in strategic calls with potential clients to present the architecture competency of Mindtree.
• Key Projects:
• AIG Knowledge Exchange Apr 2013 Dec 2013 - The Knowledge Exchange application consolidates data from multiple sources and brings the content under one delivery channel to service multinational underwriters. Technologies include IBM Websphere Portal 6.1, ESRI ArcGIS Maps, Oracle 11g, SOAP/REST services, JSR 286, JSF, and DOJO
• Participated in requirements sessions with business analysts and clients to formulate the business architecture and roadmap for the application.
• Responsible for package evaluation and package tool/selection for the application. Responsible for defense of architecture with multiple client stakeholders and the Enterprise Architecture group.
• Delivered artifacts under the SDLC 3.0 including business architecture, system context, logical architecture, conceptual architecture, and physical architecture documents. Reviewed data architecture and datamodel documents and reviewed with the AIG data architecture group.
• Coordinated communication between onsite and offshore team 5/35 ratio to ensure that design was implemented correctly and requirements were understood. Facilitated many sessions between offshore and clients.
• Entertainment Partners Vista5 Architecure Assessment
• Technology: JBoss/JEE, Business Objects/Crystal Reports, SQL Server, IBM Websphere MQ
• Engaged client in an assessment of as-is architecture state and formulated a target architecture to remediate performance concerns.
• Led POCs in the areas of stored procedure refactoring and analysis of possible report-friendly schema changes to improve performance.
• Evaluated upgrade path for Business Objects to leverage 64-bit architecture.
• Architecture assessment recommendations led to development contract for implementation.

Confidential

Application Architect

• Architect for solutions and system integrations based on Dow Jones integration platforms which included SOAP Web Services, REST Web Services, and XML integration. Involved in the full SDLC of assigned projects, from pre-sales to deployment. Applications leveraged the Dow Jones Factiva content and taxonomy to provide clients with meaningful, relevant content for their business needs. Incorporated a variety of open-source components and platforms such as Liferay, Lucene, and SOLR.
• Responsible for overall technical architecture of client engagements. Selected appropriate technology for each engagement through vendor evaluations and gap analysis. Completed functional and technical design documents including use cases, functional requirements, wireframes, system architecture documents, system process flows, UML design, database design, and test plans. Approximately 40 projects completed.
• Primary architect for solutions implemented on Java technology stack. Implemented solutions using Java/J2EE, XML, XSLT, Ajax, SOAP and REST web services. Database implemented was SQL Server. Implemented solutions on various application and portal servers including Tomcat, Websphere, and Liferay.
• Acted as team lead during design and development phase of engagements. Led development team to ensure proper implementation of functional specifications and technical design. Hands-on when needed during development. Accountable for correct implementation of design, scoping of work, determining out-of-scope change requests, issue resolution, and communication of status with project management and clients.
• Performed peer design and architecture reviews, mentored junior and new architects, and performed code reviews of developers.
• Worked with sales team on pre-sales opportunities to communicate competencies and determine client requirements for consulting engagements. Responsible for requirements analysis and providing cost/duration of engagements. Developed Statement of Work documents with Sales which detailed the proposed solution functional and technical , duration, and cost to clients.
• Involved with client contacts throughout the lifecycle of projects, from kickoff to closure. Responsible for scope management, impact assessment of changes in requirements, and raising and pricing of change requests. Accountable to ensure that projects are completed on time and on budget. Liaised with technical client contacts to ensure integration of applications.
• Led many complex and highly custom large-revenue projects. Examples include:
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise Information System HPEIS Corporate Marketing dashboard which integrated HP's confidential marketing data as well as data from HP's partners.
• S P JSR 168 portlets to allow analysts to track news for equities on their watchlist or portfolio holdings.
• Barclay's Dashboard which allowed Barclay's to identify important developments in their lines of business, participants in those developments, and deep linking into company and financial information about partners and competitors.
• Credit Suisse Design of Lucene search architecture with a 6-year full-text content archive to allow CS to search news across all of Dow Jones publications while still meeting regulatory requirements.
• Managed allocation of applications on production servers. Determined impact to additional applications, migration strategies for applications, and troubleshooting performance issues on production servers.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

• Responsibilities included consulting on projects with federal government agencies, performing analysis, design, development, unit/QA testing, and support. Also responsible for mentoring junior developers in the areas of design and development practices, process improvement, and Java technologies. Led one of the pilot CMM projects in Philadelphia office, responsible for implementing process improvement to reach CMM level 3 certification.
• Key Projects:
• Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families Technologies Used: J2EE, Struts, Oracle 9iAS, Oracle 8i Design and development of grants management application for Head Start program. Designed and developed presentation modules using JSP and tag libraries, including custom tags. Developed JSP, forms, and action classes using Struts architecture. Business logic and data access layer built in core Java and JDBC using DAO factory pattern. Performed load testing using Apache JMeter to ensure application capacity.
• Environmental Protection Agency Technologies Used: JSP, Servlets, Documentum, Oracle 8i, PL/SQL, Apache, Tomcat Lead developer for records management system for Superfund cleanup efforts. Designed and developed two web applications using JSP and Servlets to provide public access to documents. Used tag libraries in presentation, and integrated Apache log4j.
• United States Navy Technologies Used: ASP, SQL Server Software Manager and Requirements Manager, responsible for leading requirements, design, and development phases involving distributed, multi-disciplinary team. Gathered client requirements through JAD sessions to produce software requirements document. Implemented change management process to limit risk from client. Designed and developed ASP reporting module for the application, including data modelling and Data Transformation SQL Server scripts.

Confidential

Independent Consultant Technologies Used: J2EE, Weblogic, Struts, Sybase

• Developed administrative search functionality for a telecommunications portal site. Implemented JSP, forms, and action classes, and view helpers according to the Struts architecture. Designed and implemented business logic and search functionality using Java/Weblogic utilizing fa ade design pattern EJB and dynamic SQL generation.
• Responsible for full lifecycle project execution including analysis, design, development, deployment, and support. Team lead on several projects, managing sub-teams as well as developing modules. As manager, responsible for sub-team project planning and oversight, project tracking, risk management, and communication with clients and program managers. As lead developer, responsible for module development, design and code reviews, and mentoring junior developers.
• Key Projects:
• Lucent Technologies Technologies Used: Java, JDBC, XML, RMI, JSP, Servlets, Oracle Lead analyst/developer managing 3 technical resources and 2 client resources through business design, technical design, and implementation. Worked closely with several client business units to gather business requirements and define a strategy to combine existing CRM Vignette and B2B Java e-Commerce offerings under one application architecture. Designed and developed a publish/subscribe data synchronization component using XML/Xerces Parser and Java/RMI for near real-time data exchange between NAS4.0 application and Vignette/Oracle application. Built data access layer for CRM portal and extended functionality of the B2B portal by designing and developing JSP, Servlets, and Java components.
• Cablevision, Power to Learn Technologies Used: Vignette V5/5, Oracle, PL/SQL Lead analyst/developer through design and implementation phases of a student portal site. Responsibilities included facilitation of client sessions to gather business requirements, project estimation and planning, and accountability for business and technical design and implementation. Managed team of 6 technical resources through design and development of user administration module. Managed team on a daily basis to ensure that business and technical designs were implemented correctly. Performed technical design reviews and code reviews of junior developers.
• iWon.com Technologies Used: Perl, Vignette 4.2, Oracle, PL/SQL, Solaris Designed and developed a PERL framework for data feeds received from content providers. Framework subsequently became a standard feeds framework at Sapient. Managed the development, staging, and production environments, including setup of production system 10 servers and Vignette deployment architecture. Led release management process through development, testing, and launch. Led several project sub-teams in the design and implementation of content areas using Vignette 4.2.
• Financial Analyst Responsible for finding investment opportunities in the computer services sector for high net worth private asset management clients. Modeled company earnings and outlook based on sector trends and meetings with company management. School of Business