Qualifications for an Enterprise Architect

Innovative, solutions-driven professional with extensive experience providing enterprise architecture leadership within diverse industries. Possesses strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills as well as proven track record of spearheading technology introductions, developing scalable solutions, implementing process improvements and system enhancements, and meeting project goals on time and within budget. Dynamic, hands-on leader with B.S in Computer Engineering, who is adept at driving cost reductions, streamlining processes, and increasing productivity through effective enterprise architecture planning, vendor selection and resource management.

Core Competencies

Enterprise Infrastructure & Technical Architecture Ï Strategic Planning Ï Architecture Risk Management & Mitigation Ï Technology & Solutions Introduction Ï Budget Preparation Ï Process Improvement Ï Project Management Ï Research & Analysis Ï Systems Integration Ï Team Facilitation.

Technical Summary: Familiar with applications like CRM (Siebel), SOA, BPM (PEGA), Content Management (FileNet), Data warehousing, ORACLE – OBIEE, Peoplesoft, Hyperion, Business Objects. In-depth and hands-on knowledge/experience in diverse technology areas, including J2EE (Websphere, Weblogic), .NET, diverse databases, Mid-range and commodity servers, Mainframe, Network, Storage, Telecom, SOA, BPM, content management, data warehousing, and security infrastructure.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Provided innovative architecture in collaboration with stakeholders for business requirements.
• Spearheaded use of usage of Linux, Storage SNAP, AIX micro-partitioning, and virtualization to significantly reduce cost.
• Headed the deployment of AZUL and JBOSS to significant reduce cost of JAVA Computing and significantly improving capabilities.
• Created data-center migration architecture and design working with engineering, management teams, vendors and various stakeholders.
• Successfully supported Farmers Exchange Claims division through the entire Claims roadmap initiatives and other projects. These initiatives included a Workers Compensation Claims system, Datawarehouse, industry acclaimed First Notice of Loss System(PEGA Based), Primary Claims system, Document Management System, B2B integration system.
• Transitioned disaster recovery for a datacenter to new SLA’s and new location. This requires transformation, design and planning for network, storage, servers, and backup systems.

Professional History
Confidential,
Solutions Architect (Applications) April 2012 – Present
TFS provides automobile financing and leasing services to Toyota Dealers as well as a variety of extended warranty and maintenance related products

• Driving solutions for the new insurance management system – Leading selection of solutions for core application, document management, Forms Management, Master data management and other areas.
• Driving solutions architecture for upgrade of customer master management system.
• Solution architecture for pricing management – 3 enterprise projects.
• Solution architecture for customer website enhancement.
• Vendor analysis for replacement of Loans/Leases servicing system.

SBBT (Santa Barbara Bank and Trust) – Applications Architect October 2011 – April 2012

• Define Architecture Standards.
• Review Architecture for Core banking application conversion.
• Review Architecture for Corporate Applications replacement (Financial, HR, Enterprise Learning, Enterprise Performance Management, and Supply Chain).
• Architecture for new interfaces, Data history and Retention requirements.

CSC –Senior Technical Architect March 2011 – October 2011
Confidential,
October 2007 – February 2011 (Independently through Tentek Consulting) – Highlighting major accomplishments

• LOB architect for Claims Division- Understanding business operations and philosophy and aligning the architecture to meet those goals. Assisted in roadmap planning and estimate. Vendor and product analysis and continuous improvement.
• Provided leadership and guidance as part of CSC transition for new CSC architects supporting projects.
• Provided guidance in datacenter consolidation for various applications.
• Successfully delivered infrastructure (soup to nuts) design (scalability, HA, DR, sizing, planning) for very large claims processing application with very large user base, composed of Siebel, Oracle database, Websphere, Informatica, and other application and custom components.
• Successfully delivered and supported infrastructure for multiple large PEGA based application deployment. Sizing, HA, DR, Production and non-production environments.
• OBIEE (Siebel Analytics) based datamart.
• Datacenter disaster recovery for several applications with different SLAs, design and planning for core network, DMZ, load balancers, servers (AIX, Linux, Windows, Virtualized), AD, DNS, Storage, NAS, backup.
• Successfully delivered architecture for datacenter relocation and provided leadership, guidance and monitoring through the relocation process.
• FileNet based document management system.
• IVR system including call recording.
• Driving architecture solutions (Infrastructure) for numerous enterprise projects supporting different lines of businesses and variety of technologies and environments.

Principal Engineer and Development Manager July 2002 – October 2007
Confidential,
Network parametric test equipment.
Accomplishments:

• Successfully delivered several products to (carrier class) customers. This required generating functional specs, architecture and design, implementation, test (full product life cycle). Including project planning, team co-ordination. Customer interaction and product demonstration. Acceptance test definition and delivery.
• Implemented virtualization server to assist development and QA. Virtualizing both old and new platforms.
• Ported entire code base to RHEL5 including drivers, and customized 2.6 Linux kernel. Installation tools for OS. Creating RPM's for few applications and installation tool in python
• Implemented multicast streaming ip performance test for ipv4/v6 for major Japanese broadcast client.
• Implemented multithreaded video streaming software to simulate hundreds of streaming servers.
• Added support for 10Gbe driver which involves customization and testing.
• Implemented sophisticated route path analysis and route path tracking test applications (for major European carrier).
• Automated Linux installation for production (server and embedded probe).
• Implemented sophisticated high quality time synchronization protocol and other time sync technologies for gps and ntp.
• Ported code base to third party hardware (x86, MIPS). This involves endianess issues, etc
• Implemented automated reports in pdf using java. Full specification, architecture, design and implementation and test. Uses xml templates to create graphical reports from statistics database and those mails the report as pdf file.
• Designed and implemented OO database/log class library, process class library for Unix IPC, signal handling, shared memory and initialization.
• Implemented Perl scripts for database archiving, which generates a self decompressing/restoring script.
• Support and maintenance of script based packaging and upgrade tools.
• Maintenance/enhancement of multi tiered IPV4/IPV6 network test applications using sockets, shared memory, and IPC for performance, features and stability. Reimplemented with OO in c++.
• Managed team of 4 developers in implementing throughput test suite based on RFC 2544 including writing functional/design specification, and developing high speed packet receive driver.
• Maintaining Linux for different x86 hardware platforms.
• Implemented IPFIX/Cisco net flow compatible probe and server.
• Implemented/maintain Ethernet like drivers including wlan for network performance tester.
• part time Linux admin for three companies, experience include xen based virtual servers, oracle installs, firewall, Nat, nfs, nis, dns, imap, pop, Apache, mail, storage management using (lvm, raid etc),fax, automated installation tools (Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL 3/4/5, centos 4/5), system cloning for disaster recovery.

Confidential,
Lightreef high performance/high capacity switch router
This system comprises of three high performance/capacity chassis with gigabit/10-100, smart and LINUX CPU modules.
Accomplishments: Leading a team of highly motivated professional developers (2-3) designing and developing next generation software architecture based on Linux which involve inter board/process communication tools, basic s/w architecture/infrastructure, etc.

• Leading a team of highly motivated professional developers (2-3) providing a complete port of Linux on (PowerPC based) Lightreef platform as a deliverable.
• Led another team (2 developers) for Lightreef core system support.
• Co-designed, developed and supported, a very high performance multicast transport protocol for inter board communication.
• Ported spanning tree in Lightreef.
• Ported GDB to (RTOS) nucleus and maintained cross GNU tools for PowerPC/coldfire.
• High Availability fails over CPU design and implementation.
• System software upgrades design and implementation.

Confidential,
ATM Card for Passport Multi-service Access Device.
This system comprises of a plug in card with an ATM microprocessor and T1/E1 interface.
Role: Principal SW Arch Designer, developing software for basic system initialization, porting VxWorks/Streams environment, Guide Team Members in porting/developing ATM and other SW components. Design/Implement IP over ATM Component with QOS capabilities.

The CPE project involves developing unit which converges voice, video, data (frame relay, IP) over ATM for carriers.
Role: Senior Team Member, porting VxWorks environment, Design/port IP over ATM Component and EHERNET driver. Design/Implement for system issues like BUFFER/CPU management solving real time issues with voice transport.

The project involves developing unit that converges voice, data (IP, IPX Bridge) over Frame Relay.
Role: Senior Team Member, porting VxWorks environment, Design/port IPX. Design/Implement for system issues like BUFFER/CP/CACHE management solving real time issues with voice. Build and CLEARCASE management, bug fixing, performance enhancement’s etc

The project involves developing software for multi-protocol/bridge data card for MARATHON
Role: Team Member, Design/port IPX. Design and develop Ethernet driver, develop the system architecture, contributions towards identifying and buying various s/w, contribution in design and various s/w components.

Ungermann & Bass June 1992 – July 1993

The project involves developing bridge software for token ring card for a chassis system

GODREJ INDIA 1990 - 1992
The project involves porting complete TCP/IP suite to UNIX and implement drivers for ISA Ethernet cards

Education Qualifications
Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering Confidential