SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated, results - oriented Team Leader, Manager and Enterprise Architect with over 15 years of experience in Managing, Developing and supporting mission critical systems software development. Excellent team player, able to influence business and technology executives to create solutions that solve business and technology problems. Recognized for the ability to evaluate and leverage new technology to ensure alignment between IT and business needs.
• Experienced Solution Architect and Integrator for Credit Card Systems and Financial Applications including merchant systems, front-end systems and back-end processing systems. Certified Architect - TOGAF 9 by Open Systems Group.
• Highly energetic with relentless approach to solving problems and a very strong sense of accountability. Strong interpersonal skills. Highly adept at facilitating discussions and negotiations diplomatically and tactfully with stakeholders across all levels of an organization.
• Organizing and building global teams, Building strategic levers in Centers of Excellence, Post-Merger Integration, Program management, Process improvement, performance/stability improvements
• IT Governance, IT vision, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Capability Management, Technology strategy and roadmap, Application Portfolio Rationalization, Technical Architecture simplification
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Process Management (BPM), Event Driven Architecture (EDA), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
• Agile methodology - adoption, transformation and delivery, Agile team management, Impediment ownership
• Partner Integration - B2B Integration with merchant partners, 3rd Party vendors, and other financial systems
• Financial Systems - Co-brand and Private Label Credit Card Systems, Transaction Processing, Financial Compliance Management (AML, PCI-DSS, SOX), Reporting and Enterprise Data Management, Payment Processing, Risk Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software Engineering Practices: Mobile Computing, Responsive Design, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, Open Source Computing, Agile Methodology, Object Oriented Programming, Cloud Computing, Web Standards, Accessibility, Internationalization

Agile Enabling Tools: Operating Systems:Version One, TableauUNIX, Sun Solaris, AIX, Windows Servers, IBM Mainframes

Technologies and Tools: Java, J2EE (MDB, EJB, JSP, Servlets), Spring, JQuery, AngularJS, JavaScript, Python, JDBC, XML, .NET, ASP.NET, C#, C++, C, Perl, JSTL, AJAX, HTML, CSS, API, IBM MQ Series, IBM WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, IBM WorkLight, AWS, TeamSite, Selenium, Gherkin

Database: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Development Manager/Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple high performance teams with consistent record of delivering highly supportable software applications that improve efficiency of IT and business operations with measurable ROI
• Managed the migration of multiple contact center applications into a consolidated contact center applications using Confidential target architecture, IRIS
• Put in place measures to ensure timely service delivery, secure operations from external attacks and comply with new regulations and privacy laws. Led the PCI/DSS compliance analysis of all Partnerships front-end systems and developed a remediation plan including identification of compensating and alternate controls.
• Led the delivery of one of the largest partner integration project for onboarding a Canada based Warehouse Store cobrand card in record time, meeting all the contractual obligations with no customer impacts
• Managed multiple vendor transitions seamlessly to drive technology and process with Confidential Branded Book and Partnership portfolios
• Championed the adoption of agile methodology in partnerships technology, building multiple agile teams and working closely with the senior leadership team to resolve impediments
• Introduced several advanced software engineering practices such as Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, Open Source Computing and Cloud Computing to increase productivity and reduce total cost of ownership of application systems
• Leveraged expertise in financial, banking and lending disciplines to define future state and drive the execution of development to meet the target architecture for Digital and Staff facing channels
• Influenced wide range of stakeholders across multiple LOBs and obtain consensus on the correct technical solution
• Led Integration activities for HSBC Cards front-end architecture with the Confidential Enterprise Architecture Practice. Actively participated in the Capability Assessment and Target Refresh process for Agent Servicing, Middleware and Digital platforms, leading discussions around the target environment, toolkits, business processes
• Solution Architect of a number of critical partner integration initiatives such as Saks In-store Mobile Credit Application project, Costco Modernization Project etc.,
• Key Participant in CRS Partnership roadmap triage and planning sessions, Data Center Migration Strategy discussions and other CRS-COF Integration activities
• Designed a content management system to allow the deployment of business content to customer facing applications without any IT involvement
• Managed offshore teams of various sizes in allocation and planning of resources, project delivery, maintenance and support of production systems

Senior Consultant - Technical Lead Led

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage the development and delivery of WebFinance and XMLGateway releases for all business, regulatory and infrastructure enhancements
• Solution Architect of External Interface Work stream for US One HSBC Cards Migration. This work stream includes all merchant processing and external interface infrastructure involving all merchant connections into HSBC network
• Worked with merchant partners and third party vendors to develop prototypes for Finger Print and Signature based credit card authentication. This involved working extensively with the JAVAPOS User group and multiple technology vendors
• Managed offshore teams of various sizes in allocation and planning of resources, project delivery, maintenance and support of production systems

Confidential

Lead Developer

Responsibilities:

• Led a team of 15+ offshore resources in the migration of the AR system to a new version. This project was a multi-million dollar project, implemented ahead of time and under budget with no issues
• Implemented a Remote Entry Application Processing system to run on merchant locations and use a modem to communicate the transactions to the back-end systems for processing. This system was developed in C++ and written with a vision to write once and run any where, before Java popularized the concept