SUMMARY:

Accomplished senior technology leader with MS and over 25 years of experience crafting solutions with focus on user experience, scalability, security, stability and profitability for large multinational corporations. Known for effective negotiation and relationship management. Successfully introduced emerging technology to improve business competency.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating systems: Solaris, Linux, zLinux, Windows, MVS, VM/CMS

Development Tools: Planview/Troux, Sparx, SharePoint, Mega, Eclipse, JBuilder, Java/J2EE, C/C++, Visual Basic, XML, SQL, COBOL

Framework / Standard: TOGAF, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), SOA, SAML, PKI

Enterprise Software: IBM WebSphere / Federation Server / DB2 / MQ / DataPower / iLOG Rules Engine / IBM Lotus Forms / Quickr / Connections / WCM / CICS / MDI Gateway, Open Text, Oracle WebLogic / Access Manager, Tumbleweed, LDAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Principle IS Architect

Confidential, Oaks, CA

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated a multi - functional team to benchmark Enterprise Architecture in the organization against industry standards and best practices.
• Provided key contributions to define an Architecture Operating Model - people (roles), process, current and target technologies (platforms) to support the model.
• Established Reference Architecture based on TOGAF, populate initial set-of contents for each domain (Business, Application, Information, Technology and Security) and collaborate with SME of respective domains to maintain steady state.
• Contribute as core team member of Architecture Review Board (ARB) to evaluate solutions for adherence to prescribed standards, best practices and opportunities of innovation with emphasis on adoption of Cloud, PaaS/IaaS, BigData and DevOps.
• Socialize and manage Business Capability Map (BCM) that acts as the anchor point for aligning IS investment to business drivers.
• Collaborated with a cross-functional team to assess and define a framework for strategic planning and road-mapping activity. Validated, and refined as necessary, the framework with an industry standard platform. Defined assessment dimensions to evaluate business. Conducted POC using Planview/Troux to validate, and refine as necessary, the strategic planning and road-mapping framework.
• Defined and initiated capturing end-to-end matrices to demonstrate value of Enterprise Architecture.
• Manage relationship with on/off-shore business partner for scoping, estimation, development and deployment activities for assigned application(s).

Director, Enterprise Architect

Confidential, New York, NY / Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Enterprise Architecture Framework based on TOGAF (Business, Application, Information, Infrastructure), in addition extended the TOGAF model to include Security and Operations (service levels, monitoring, notifications) as verticals across Business, Application, Information and Infrastructure domains.
• Led/contributed development of key strategies e.g. Identity and Access Management (IAM), Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Mobile and Information.
• Prepared Current (As-is), Target (To-be) architecture for assigned Line of Business (LoB), conducted gap analysis and recommended roadmap activities to achieve the target state.
• Evaluated IT landscape of the organization to advice on project prioritization during annual investment planning.
• Performed Application Portfolio Management (APM) that included 300+ applications across the enterprise to identify opportunities for decommission, replacement and transformation.
• Reduced operating cost by collaborating across multiple business domains to converge individually- owned application servers into a server farm and migrating physical servers to VMWare sessions.
• Research & Development with New/Emerging Technologies
• Collaborated in analysis of Social Network integration, Data warehouse consolidation, Data Visualization tools and Click-to-Chat capability to meet organization’s customer centricity and digital initiatives.
• Participated in evaluating adoption of Public and Private Cloud services (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS) to bring operational efficiency and reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), which resulted in funding multiple initiatives to provide Cloud based solutions.
• Facilitated Proof-Of-Concept (POC) efforts with emerging/new technologies like Business Process Modeling, Rules Engine, zLinux, Federated Authentication (SAML), Dual Factor Authentication and Business Events.
• Championed implementation of Federated Authentication (SAML) in the organization that led to cost savings in integrating with business partner hosted solutions.
• Prepared $1M+ business case for investment in rules engine by aligning it with strategic initiatives like Master Data Management and Illustration Platform. Championed deployment of SAML 2.0 complaint Single Sign-On framework.
• Represented Axa-Equitable in multiple Axa-Group initiatives to share achievements, explore opportunities for convergence across Operating Companies and establish IT Building Blocks.
• Successfully promoted need of Straight Through Processing (STP) to reduce number of data entry points in sales life cycle resulting in improved data quality, which led to funding multiple integration initiatives.
• Currently engaged in key enterprise programs to enable electronic signature across all lines of business, electronic delivery of contracts to recipients and cloud hosting of CRM platform with integration to multiple systems encompassing Lead Generation, Illustration, Electronic Application, New Business Submission and Content Management.
• Evangelized Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) oriented standards and practices for application development that decreased time-to-market and cost for business applications by integrating with shared services.
• Performed technology evaluation for a Predictive Modeling pilot initiative to reduce new business cycle. This initiative involved client data aggregation (e.g. Medical information, Motor vehicle report, Insurance activity, Financial Information) from multiple external sources and applying transformation rules to match requirements of new business platform.
• Mentored junior architects and college graduates in “Aspiring Solution Architect” and “Technology Associate” programs.
• Made key contributions towards automating Architecture Governance Process (AGP) in PPM tool so that progress of AGP could be monitored within project portfolio.
• Reviewed project initiatives in assigned domains to ensure alignment with enterprise strategy, reference architectures, principles and enterprise standards.
• Conducted vendor reviews for applications hosted as SaaS model and secured excellent service level agreements on vendor contracts.
• Represent Architecture community in Chief Information Security Office (CISO) forum that reviews global standards, industry trends, major security incidents and associated preventive/corrective actions.
• SOA responsibilities included defining service taxonomy, design time and execution time governance, defining shared and domain specific services to facilitate migration of legacy systems to open standards and loosely coupled systems.
• Instituted Oracle Access Manager and Weblogic based central security infrastructure and enabled Single Sign-On (SSO) from corporate portal to 100+ internal as well as externally hosted applications
• Designed a Microsoft PKI based Smart Card solution for use by field force, which was integrated with central security infrastructure and corporate portal.
• Architected Secure Email solution that integrated IronPort IEA Appliance with corporate portal and central security infrastructure using web services.
• Developed client portfolio summary using Java/JBuilder and integrating legacy systems with portal via middleware platform (CORBA).

Senior Systems Analyst

Confidential, New York, New York

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded client-server development, maintenance and improvement initiatives for the reinsurance division. Worked with business managers to document functional requirements.
• Guided Proof of Concept (PoC).
• Championed an on time, at cost migration from Optika-based imaging solution to Eastman Kodak-based imaging system
• Standardized re-insurance infrastructure for underwriting systems
• Developed distributed (CORBA, Java) modules to allocate premium and commission

Senior Systems Analyst / Consultant

Confidential, Syntel Cranford, New Jersey / Mt. Laurel, New Jersey / Troy, Michigan

Responsibilities:

• Designed client-server and mainframe applications for commercial customers; consolidated multiple division sales, configured LAN for small business, developed fund management, time management, compensation and risk management systems.