SUMMARY

• He is a results - focused, pragmatic technology leader with over 20 years of Information Technology experience.
• He is a clear-thinking visionary who synthesizes facts, needs, events, and concepts to develop realistic plans that deliver timely and cost-effective results.
• Recognized for balanced judgement, stability, negotiation skills and the capacity to steer consensus between stakeholders, he is an experienced candidate who is a pragmatic relationship builder capable of seamlessly working with working with both, the C as well as operational levels of stakeholders.
• He is an accomplished Information Technology Consultant, who has led complex programs, architected effective Big Data strategies, developed result oriented analytics roadmaps, led delivery teams governed global vendors and steered IT projects to successful outcomes.
• He brings well-rounded technical exposure to include Big Data, Internet of Things, Cloud, legacy COTS applications, and a grasp over a wide set of software languages and platforms.
• He has played key roles in critical-to-business, Information Technology initiatives in a wide variety of initiatives including Merger & Acquisitions, application integration, Full Cycle Implementations, Internet and Data Analytics. Experienced in functional business applications, including business intelligence, Sales & Operations, Manufacturing & Distribution, Finance, Logistics, SCM, Reporting and HR.
• Capacity to sell anticipatory business value to stakeholders in tough business situations
• Led high value multi-site/multi-module IT initiatives at large multinational organizations
• Led multi-project portfolios addressing diverse business needs with stakeholders from various disciplines spread across large geographies in complex matrix structured organizational models
• Worked with PMO, consulting and development practices in complex matrix organizations
• Experienced on the full project management and software development lifecycle
• Participated in multi-million-dollar business-critical, IT initiatives Conversant in ITIL practices for IT service management and capability & maturity model

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Analyze, design, build, test, deploy, train, support.
• Advanced Analytics - SPARK, Hadoop / MapReduce, Kafka, SCALA, Python, Hive / Hue, Pig, Java
• SAP, PeopleSoft, Salesforce.com (SFDC), JD Edwards, Lawson, Kronos, Siebel and other products
• Hadoop, SAP HANA, DB2 BLU, MYSQL, NoSQL, Cassandra, TinyDB, MongoDB, Parquet, Oracle, SQL Server, Informix
• Unix, Linux, Windows, Android, iOS
• Google Cloud, AWS, AZURE, .NET, Java, BLE, WiFi, NFC etc.
• Python, C/C++, C#, JAVA, PHP, R, Assembly, SAP Hana Studio, SAP BI/BW, BaaN Tools, and several other tools.
• SAAS, ASP, SOA, Virtualization etc.
• Agile, Waterfall, SAP ASAP, and Incremental
• Wordpress, Excel, Lotus, PowerPoint, MS Project, Word, Visio, HP Quality Center (ALM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Business need - enable ‘Corporation’ data exchange between Federal and Provincial governments, and any kind of data exchange between provincial ministries in real time
• A central Business Information Data Exchange hub (ABIDE) was designed and built bottom up. API’s on ABIDE and CRA were consumed to drive xml embedded WSDL based data interchange on a SOAP protocol
• Data parts included Hadoop FS on Linux to store raw collection, Cassandra DB for intermediate storage, Spark jobs for extraction, Python used to write complex transformation and upload routines. Application portions - Azure for Web Apps, SQL server and API management. Oracle 12C, Oracle Weblogic for CORES integration with ABIDE.
• Sprints based - Agile methodology
• RedDot to OpenText 2016 Migration - Lead developer to migrate SA RedDot sites to Opentext 2016
• Business need - As part of Enterprise Information Management modernization program Service Alberta wanted to upgrade existing websites from RD to OpenText2016
• Setup REST support for SOAP API through EP4 developer. Wrote Python programs to transform and encode load-ready legacy and new json structured data sets
• Methodology - Waterfall
• Enterprise Wide Applications and SQL Server Re-Platforming. Developer to migrate, test and implement target windows / solaris VM’s
• Business need - Project was part of Service Alberta’s periodic migration initiative of public-critical applications and databases to newer platforms that present improved reliability and performance
• Data migration from old databases SQLServer 2008 to 2016, legacy data sources like Excel, Flat and Access to SQLServer 2016. Assisted in Test automation scripting.
• Semi Structured data ETL routines written in Python.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Internet of Things (IoT) based Connected Car development. Solution architect and lead developer - to build a ready-to-deploy, big data application ensemble.
• Business need - Develop a demonstrable prototype with relevant functionality to gain VC support
• Designed the acquisition and transmission layers and, designed and built the processing and presentation layers.
• Designed data-driven, data acquisition algorithm for Android App to work on OBD II compliant Car CPU requests to collect Sensor data in real time using BLE protocol.
• Designed the data structure and transmission strategy for Wi-Fi on GCP IoT Core - Device Registry and Android background services
• Developed Kafka stream capture, ‘Staging-Area-Sweep’ of Semi-Structured data into GCP-Data Proc - Hadoop. Scala and Spark used to write batched extraction procedures. Python used to develop MapReduce and Transformations for data deconstruction-reconstruction for human readable uploads to MySQL on GCP.
• Python used for development of Predictive Analytics which was written back to MySQL for consumption. GCP Kubernetes was tested and app deployment automation.
• Consumer readable data extraction procedures written in Python for graphical rendering in Plotly (plot.ly) with a roadmap to Tableau as potential tool.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Merger & Acquisition driven initiative. Team lead to migrate product data/algorithms across enterprise applications.
• Business need - Manulife acquired a division of Standard Life. Data migration for Products/CRM applications (Peoplesoft to SFDC), data and routines translation for Business Intelligence (SAP BI/BO to Cassandra - SFDC Wave Analytics), data migration for NPI initiatives and develop risk reporting.
• Developed programs in Python to apply business rulesets to Peoplesoft extracted data to construct preload data stage to SFDC staging area. Ensured validated uploads to Hadoop and Cassandra DB from new source.
• Migrated several product lines from Standard Life systems to Manulife Systems.
• Reverse engineered Java/ABAP BI cube builders and analytical routines to rewrite using Python. Assisted in developing and testing SFDC Wave APEX routines.
• Migrated biometric IoT device data and core logic from legacy applications written in Java to Python with Cassandra DB projected for joint venture between the client and FitBit (Biometric device company). Spark was prototyped for possible future use.
• Methodologies: Agile for Products migration, CRM and Analytics. Waterfall for NPI.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Financial Data Reconciliation. Architect and team lead to design and build ground up BI application.
• Business need - A central, generic, application-agnostic solution was required to perform data reconciliation between any two application across the portfolio of 18 applications.
• Designed a data-informed reconciliation engine allowing application owners to configure
• SAP CRM Business strategy ‘upgrade’ - Project Lead to prototype big data SAP CRM application
• Business need - Aiming to improve customer service, ATB wanted to reengineer its customer support strategy by providing ‘Converged Application Access’ to support executives
• Build routines using Python to ETL data from 18 different enterprise applications to reside on Hadoop Cluster. Assisted writing Java and ABAP to enable access in SAP HANA. Worked with business/analysts to configure HANA studio.
• Various other supporting efforts in Python, Java, ABAP. Databases like Mongo and Derby used for quick prototyping of solutions designed for rollout to the larger application framework.
• SAP Identity Management implementation
• Business need - ATB selected SAP as their IM. Prototype was to provision users on inward facing applications
• Assisted deploying infrastructural components like SUSE Linux, Eclipse IDE and integration with DB2 for code development.
• Designed provisioning scripts for batch deployment in xml. Worked with SAP to develop blueprint for SAP IDM solution in SAP SolMan.
• Methodology: Waterfall
• Bank Analyzer and Retail Banking Integration (BA-BAS): Team lead to develop and implement solution.
• Business need - There was a need to integrate SAP BaS (Banking services) with SAP BA (Bank Analyzer)
• Designed the full solution to cover data points, data mapping between Bas and BA, and ETL routine.
• Developed batch procedures for Redwood runs
• Methodology: Incremental
• Enterprise business performance reporting. Team lead on SAP BI and HANA studio development.
• Business need - ATB wanted to Prototype business performance reporting on HANA for 4 banking products.
• Led workshops to gather requirements on building the TO-BE system. Developed technical documents outlining development design including mapping, data flows, format replacements and expected technical benefits.
• Worked closely with SAP consulting to get the new reports configured and developed.
• Assisted technically on various issues including the legacy database side (DB2), Hadoop related data extracts and Led system cutover.
• Methodology: Waterfall
• BobJ Upgrade. -Team lead to oversee upgrade of SAP BI/BO (BoBJ application).
• Business need - ATB wanted to upgrade their SAP BI platform.
• Participated in requirements gathering and system design. Oversaw the build of the new systems.
• Wrote the testing and system cut over plans (Phased Data cutover – business line by business line).
• Methodology: Waterfall
• SAP SuccessFactors and Employee Central Integration. Developer to Design, Develop and Implement ETL.
• Business need – ATB was one of SAP’s first few customers in the Finance. The Cloud based application integration was on Ramp-Up with SAP
• Developed micro-programs in Python and Java to prepare cleaned up data sets for upload (ETL) to SAP’s SuccessFactors cloud.
• Methodology: Waterfall

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• SAP SRM, MDM and Supplier analytics – Big data consultant making data assimilation related recommendations.
• Business need – The client wanted to reengineer their Supplier related Data Management strategy to improve negotiation power by leveraging historical and current data. There also was a need find a reliable method of storing unstructured/semi-structured ‘Quotes’ data which was mostly attachments in emails.
• Studied the AS-IS techno-functional scenario of data storage. Proposed Hadoop as a potential to store ‘text’ data from suppliers.
• Designed and developed prototype algorithms to Extract relevant data from incoming messages and load to Hadoop cluster. Outliers were subject to manual processing.
• Developed prototype program in Python to MapReduce analyzed data from Hadoop for load to the SAP SRM backend
• Developed sample ‘Raw’ reports from Hadoop’s MapReduce outputs for Analytics.
• Participated in long term vendor selection for systems support.
• Methodology: Waterfall