SUMMARY:

• Introduction I am a DevOps Architect with 20 years’ IT experience. I have worked with Fortune 500 companies in Media, Healthcare, Banking, Mortgage and Retail industries.
• I help companies in IT Architecture - Application, System and Infrastructure.
• As an architect, I work with executive management, other architects and developers to design technical solutions.
• Also, I provide technical guidance to Development, QA and Support teams in troubleshooting application testing and production support related issues.
• I guide management and architects on the emerging technologies and help them to integrate the latest industry trends with existing legacy systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming: Java, J2EE, JSP, AJAX, JDBC, JavaBeans, JavaScript, HTML, JNDI, JSF, JSR168, Portlets, Web 2.0, XML, XPATH, XSL, XSTL, RPG/400, ILE RPG/400, CL/400, COBOL/400, SQL/400 and C.

Operating Systems: OS/400, Linux and Windows.

Databases: DB2, SQL, Microsoft Access and Oracle.

Frameworks: EJB, Struts, Spring, iBATIS and Hibernate.

Methodologies: Agile and SCRUM.

Application Servers: IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5, IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6.0 and Tomcat.

Development Environments: IBM WSAD 5.0, RAD 6.0, WDSC 7.0 and Eclipse.

Host Integration Products: IBM HATS (Host Access Transformation Services) and IBM Host Publisher 4.0.

Vendor Products: RxCLAIM (Claims Adjudication), PRMS (Retail Management), PKMS, WMS, QNXT (Medicare Member Enrollment), MBD and MARx (CMS Medicare), MSP Software (Mortgage Product on mainframe), and Vitria (BPM product), Nexus, Splunk, Prot g (Ontology Editor) and Essential Project (Enterprise Architecture tool), AWS EC2, AWS S3 and Service Now.

SOA Products: IBM Data power, IBM Websphere Integration Developer(WID), IBM Rational Software Architect(RSA), IBM WebSphere Business Modeler(WBM), IBM Rational RequisitePro, IBM Websphere ESB (WESB), IBM WebSphere Adapters, IBM WebSphere Process Server (WPS), IBM Rational Method Composer (RMC), OWL (Web Ontology language).

Design Patterns: Singleton, DAO, Session Fa ade and Factory.

Build Tools: Maven, Subversion, Ant, CVS, ALDON and Turnover.

Performance Management: New Relic and HP BSM.

Scripting Languages: Python and Jython.

Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins 2.0, Nexus, and GitLab.

Configuration Management: Chef, Docker, ELK, Kubernetes.

Big Data: Hadoop, HIVE, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Spark and SAS Visual Analytics.

IoT: AWS IoT and MQTT.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,CA

DevOps Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design DevOps and Security roadmap for IoT and Big Data applications.
• Identified the security vulnerabilities and provided recommendations (Two-Factor
• Authentication, Data encryption, Active Directory, OAuth) for apps(NGINX, Node.js,
• PHP, MySQL, Joomla, Hadoop, HBASE and Open TSDB) on on-premises and Cloud
• (AWS and Azure). Created DevOps best practices for security, and applications deployment. Installed and configured Ansible for Docker containers managed by
• Swarm. Created playbook to start and stop Docker services using Ansible. Also configured Jenkins to build and deploy application changes to Tomcat and MySQL servers.

Confidential, CA

DevOps Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented Continuous Integration plan for Disney Consumer Products’ applications (Licensing and Publishing) using Jenkins, Nexus and GitLab . Automated the manual builds (J2EE Enterprise applications) from source repositories (CVS and GitLab) and manual deployment jobs for Tomcat and Websphere Application servers. Also, helped migrate the codebase from CVS to GitLab . Migrated Enterprise applications from CVS to GitLab repositories. Used cvs2git utility and Python scripts for the migration.
• Configured Docker container for Elastic Search application. Integrated LDAP for
• Authentication. Created match and tokenizer queries using Kibana console.
• Developed 5 year Architecture Infrastructure Roadmap for Disney Consumer Products. The roadmap lists the existing infrastructure - OS, physical hardware- for retirement and recommends the next OS upgrade and hardware upgrade. Curated the existing infrastructure and configuration from HP Service Now . Used Protégé and Essential Viewer tools for this project.
• Designed the Disaster Recovery plan for OLIVER OTM (Oracle Transport Management) application. Worked with different teams (Application DEV, System Engineers, DBA, Storage, Backup, and Security) to identify the recovery steps (reconfiguration, smoke test, performance test and production release), rollback steps and communication plan.
• Designed and implemented a Data Center migration plan to move Websphere applications between data centers. Worked with Application Architects, System Engineers and Network Engineers to apply configuration changes - F5, VIP and Firewall. Also, configured middleware changes - JVM creation, ports, heap configuration and data sources. Created Chef cookbooks to create and configure IBM HTTP servers for Websphere Application servers and to manage vulnerabilities for SSL ports scan.
• Designed and implemented a transition plan to migrate Oracle and SQL database servers for Supply & Chain Management System (OLIVER- Oracle Transport Management) between business segments ( Walt Disney Parks and Resorts and Disney Consumer Products ). Designed AS-IS and TO-BE architectural diagrams, which included application servers, database servers, firewalls and authentication servers. Guided the development teams in network and firewall rules troubleshooting. OLIVER uses Oracle Transport Management, WebLogic Application servers, WebMethods, Oracle and SQL.

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed the solution for collecting Audience Measurement data (AMS) for Genie Set Top Box. Designed the system diagram including client devices (Set Top Box), head end systems ( Big Data - HDFS and Flume ) and third party Advertising Analytics vendors (Kantar and Rentrak). Also led the team in capacity planning to handle additional capacity for Genie boxes. Held PDR(Preliminary Design review) and CDR(Critical Design Review) review meeting with all the teams ( Client, System Architecture, head end teams, Big Data team, Networks System Architecture and Operations). Developed dashboards with analytics data using SAS Visual Analytics and Hive . Generated additional Advertising Sales revenue by collecting unique client id for Genie Set Top Box (Clients and Servers) and monetizing the Audience data.
• Created Proof of Concept to integrate AMS (Audience Measurements System) and IVG (Interactive Apps) callbacks. Led the team to complete the proof of concept test through definition of ICO (IVG Configuration Object), merging of AMS and IVG forwarding times, and testing of integrated call in lab. Presented the POC test results and conclusion to executives and project teams (STB, head end and Operations team) and documented the proven concept in Systems Specifications document.
• Designed Sample Management for capturing Viewership, Ads and Interactive data from Set Top box using SOAP web services, Oracle Fusion, Hadoop, HDFS and Flume . Designed solution to capture Interactive data(iTV apps) from Set Top Box for a sample provided by third party vendor(Kantar and Rentrak). Also provided technical guidance for capacity planning to scale up systems and networks to hand additional traffic for Interactive data. Helped generate additional revenue for Advertising Sales by monetizing Interactive data (iTV apps).
• Designed system architecture of Social Integration at Confidential . The social integration involved long term strategy for integration of client devices (STB, Mobile and PC/MAC), head ends with social networks (Facebook and Twitter). Designed the integration reference architecture which included authentication ( OAuth ) with social networks, authentication with Confidential account. Designed integrated with REST web services, iOS APIs and Android APIs for social integration. Provided the technical guidance to the cross functional teams (Mobile, STB, Web, Head end) for integrating the applications with Social networks (Facebook and Twitter).
• Designed Big Data Gravity Strategy to migrate data between Oracle and Hadoop cluster using Sqoop . Also, provided technical guidance to copy data from source cluster in Amazon cloud ( AWS ) and destination cluster (Data Center). Designed architecture plan to setup Hadoop cluster and migrate data from Oracle database to Hadoop.
• Designed Splunk reports for monitoring STB callbacks for AMS (Audience Measurement System) and IVG (Interactive) calls. Analyzed the iChannel logs, which passes through the callback from STB to headend systems, and created dashboard for monitoring daily callback metrics using Splunk UI modules and Python scripts.
• Lead the team for Middleware platform migration from ICAN Middleware to Oracle Fusion Middleware. Designed the migration strategy to migrate the platform and related web services. Created Systems Specifications, Functional Specifications and Interface agreements for web services enhancements. Coordinated with Development, Architecture and Testing teams in design, coding and testing phases. Worked with Operations and Capacity Planning teams to evaluate current SLA metrics (volume and response times) and planned for expected SLA metrics on new platform.

Confidential, Lake Forest, CA

Application Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed CMDOCReceiver application for order processing. Used JMS, IBM DB2 Content Manager and IBM Websphere App Server for this application. This application takes fax orders from customers and processes orders in legacy systems and BPM application (Savvion).
• Designed solution to remove the poison messages from the message queue. This solution improved BPM application’s ability to process orders faster resulting into a better customer service. Used Java, JMS and Websphere Application server for this solution.
• Designed and optimized Customer Search Query using DB2 database for BPM application. Optimized the query to improve the processing time using indexing and rewriting the query.
• Migrated the existing applications from Clearcase to SVN for continuous integration using SVN Importer tool. Designed continuous integration plan to automate the deployment of the enterprise applications using Jenkins jobs and Ant scripts.
• Designed interfaces to integrate rules with enterprise applications. The interfaces are related for payer product, payer determination. Designed rules for these interfaces using Blaze and deployed apps on Websphere App Server .

Confidential, Anaheim, CA

Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• The solutions included managing the middleware (EIB), an Enterprise Service Bus, used for all web services across the bank. EIB (Enterprise Integration Bus) provides routing, AAA and service modeling services to bank’s service consumers and service providers. Coordinated with EIB Architect, SMA (Service Modeling Architect) and EIB Engineering to provide integration solutions. Also, coordinated with offshore resources from EIB Engineering and SMA teams.
• Created design patterns for namespace virtualization for routing service requests through Enterprise Integration Bus (EIB) using IBM Data power.
• Configured Data power appliance to transform XML and route to appropriate service providers end points. Configured MQ connectors in Data power to facilitate message routing from MQ client to MQ Queue manager.
• Implemented messaging solutions to enable dynamic routing of service requests from consumers to providers using dynamic routing. This solution uses resource based or content based routing using IBM Data power.
• Designed message transformation patterns for service requests using different message formats e.g. XML, COBOL copybook. Implemented in IBM Data power using any to any transformation engine.
• Educated service consumers and providers on service registration on repository using IBM WSRR. Guided the team on updating service contracts, security certificates and routes for the services accessing EIB.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed Web services for claims and member lookup using SOA framework.
• Provided technical guidance to the team to implement Services using IBM SOA framework.
• Used IBM WSRR (WebSphere Service Registry and Repository) to define service metadata for the web services.
• The services leveraged WSRR to publish and find web services, which are used by different teams across the company.
• The web services reformat the eligibility data sent from clients and loads reformatted data into Claims Adjudication system.
• The services leverage SOA architecture to transform the legacy programs into reusable web services.
• The services provided a flexible and reusable solution to the business.
• The services are mediated and routed using IBM ESB .
• Service metadata are defined using IBM WSRR.
• Also SOA governance policies and artifacts are defined using IBM WSRR. Deployed and administered Service components (Business rules) on WPS (WebSphere Process Server).Integrated and automated the business processes (human tasks) done by end-users using WPS (WebSphere Process Server).
• Designed and developed a web portal using IBM WebSphere Portal, JSF, JSR 168, Hibernate and Spring that processes claims information to identify and correct errors in PDE (Prescription Drug Event) file generated by RXCLAIMS, a claims adjudication product. The application, which is implemented on intranet portal, provides users access through single sign-on ( LDAP ). Led a team of business analysts and consultants to gather the accurate requirements from business users and design a utility to correct the calculation errors of PDE files. OptumRx sends PDE files to CMS ( Center of Medicare Systems ) to get reimbursements for discounts paid by the pharmacies as part of Medicare Part D subsidy program. Coordinated with Operations and Production Control teams to schedule this utility and to transmit processed PDE files to CMS in time. This utility helped the company to improve its acceptance rate with CMS. This utility enabled the company to recoup high amount of dollars from CMS, which would have been lost otherwise. Also, it helped the company to process accurate PDE files for its clients and help them with their acceptance rate with CMS as well.
• Developed an Intranet application to reconcile the financial data between Prescription solutions and its parent company - United Healthcare as a part of integration efforts. The application, which is written Java using Struts framework, generates 2 reports - detail and summary to report LICS (Low-Income Subsidy) adjustments and patient pay amounts for every billing cycle (15 days). Users can input the financial period and client info (Carrier/Account/Group) in the GUI interface and reports are generated based on these inputs. These reports get transmitted to United Healthcare IT and Finance teams every billing cycle. Also, supported OptumRx and United Healthcare Finance teams in to reconcile their accounts with these reports. These reports helped OptumRx to report their financials to United Healthcare in a timely manner.
• Developed enhancements to Medicare Part D application to in corporate changes due to Affordable Health Care Act . Designed and developed the changes related to low income subsidies and patient pay amounts according to CMS guidelines.
• Supported business users in their daily tasks. Supported all the business areas e.g. finance and accounting, eligibility, claims administration, client management, Mail service pharmacy data warehouse and marketing.
• Analyzed the transaction reply codes sent in TRR file and created processes to update QNXT, product used for Medicare Part D system’s accounting, eligibility, claims administration, client ’s system- MBD and MARx (CMS is the government agency that maintains Medicare Part D system in US). Updates in QNXT system involved enrolling, disenrolling and changing other info of the member based on the instructions sent by CMS in TRR files. Also monitored the update statistics to better manage the QNXT updates.

Confidential, CA

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Led the development team to design and implement the solutions for the client’s MSP Applications. MSP Applications are “Green Screen” accounting, eligibility, claims administration, client management, and Mail service pharmacy data warehouse using IBM Host Integration tools. Mentored the development team in coding, testing and implementation of the solutions.
• Designed and developed software for optional mortgage insurance using Java and Struts framework.
• This application uses IBM WSAD as development tool, uses MS SQL Server as database and IBM WebSphere App Server as middleware server.
• Developed automating payoffs application for Cashiering dept.
• The application automates manual processes in MSP (green screens) and uses Java and IBM WSAD as development tools, IBM HATS, Host Publisher and MS SQL Server as database.
• Developed software for Portfolio Retention for Internal Refinance dept.
• The application creates Payoff information and enables the portfolio retention dept. to take better decisions. It uses Java and IBM WSAD as development tools, uses MS SQL Server as database.
• Developed software for reversing payments for NSF transactions for Cashiering dept. This application reverses the payments in MSP (mortgage software) for NSF reversals sent by bank and is developed in Java and IBM WSAD using IBM Host Publisher.
• Developed web service to post notes on MSP screens.
• This web service is called by different intranet applications to post notes in MSP (green screens) .It is developed using IBM WSAD.
• Developed web service to get info about loan comments history from MSP (Mortgage software).
• The web service gets comments history for loan, which is used by other intranet applications .It is developed using IBM WSAD (WebSphere Studio Application Developer).
• Supported all the above applications and resolved production issues. Analyzed logs and App sever logs for troubleshooting the issues.
• Coordinated with database group, System Engineering group and PMO for troubleshooting and production fixes.

Confidential, Lake Forest, CA

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed application to create new contracts and clone contracts for providers and facilities. Developed applications ensuring HIPAA compliance.
• Supported existing application for reprocessing and EDI Claims.
• Resolved user requests for bug fixes. Used Stored Procedures to generate reports for users.
• Analyzed database for creating application for data backup and reduction in data redundancy.

Confidential, CA

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Migrated Web application from IBM WebSphere 4.0 to 6.0
• Migrated Web application from IBM WebSphere 3.5 to 4.0

Confidential, CA

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Customer Relationship Management-Designed and developed Point of Sales Interface system for national retail chain of women apparels. Helped increase sales and customer base.
• Provided production support for Retails Management System for a national clothing retailer of women apparels. Minimized the downtime of the systems.
• Supported users in the day to day functioning of finance, accounting, purchase order systems, merchandise allocation, corporate planning and warehouse, helping the client to effectively use the retail system and grow their business.
• Inventory for the clothing retailer of women apparels, helping the retail stores to update their inventory effectively and timely.

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and tested Open Plan (Loan Servicing System) for Woolwich/Barclays’ Home Loans.
• Application supports various tiers, interest rate and accounts on a single mortgage loan.
• Supports issuance and interface feed/maintenance of credit card transactions.

Confidential, Englewood, CO

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Supported application to retrieve data from legacy systems

Confidential, CA

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed inventory reports to the corporate planners that helped to plan for the stores inventory and finances strategically.
• Developed GUI application for uploading data into legacy systems for Cash Mgmt.
• Developed Y2K solution for retail application
• Developed Physical Inventory application.

Confidential, CA

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed application for warranty claims processing for electronic manufacturers. Helped customers for faster and accurate claims processing.
• Developed a web application for file download on AS/400. The application downloads a file from the host server (AS/400) to the Client’s local disk. Uses CGI programming and Dynamic Indexing.
• Helped setup of email system on the AS/400 using Office Vision and email forwarding.
• Developed an application for Warranty and Audit claims processing for GE Service Centers.
• Troubleshooting network problems (TCP/IP)

Confidential

Developer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and tested PKMS, Retail Management System PRMS 8.4 for Year 2000 Compliance.
• Modified PRMS 8.4 to achieve Year 2000 Compliance. Also customized the product according to the user’s requirements.
• Resolved user requests for bug-fix and modifications.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Developed an application to provide security features for a payroll software.
• Developed installation application for the payroll software.
• Supported for the payroll application.