SUMMARY:

• Over 12 years of large scale Business Process execution, Technology consumption, experience including Full Cycle Software Development for the Entire SDLC in multi faceted projects including Financial Applications, Retail Shopping Applications, B2B Portal Application, Real Time Applications, Telecom Customer Care Billing Applications, with Multinational Clients .
• Winning background serving with stakeholders to build up architecture framework that supports processes, strategy, and IT assets with business targets, with an overall working experience of more than 11 years in the IT industry.
• Strong expertise in Cloud Architecture using AWS and Open Stack for IAAS, PAAS, SAAS solution.
• Strong expertise in Integration Architecture with SOA Centric application integration handling SOAP, RESTFUL, MQ services, with integration using ESB, Service gateways like Data Power etc.
• Strong expertise in creating guidelines and best practices for developing, selecting, and implementing information systems within enterprise.
• Strong Expertise in strategic planning, tactical execution, project management, process management and business requirements definition, business system analysis.
• Worked for approximately 8 years as a Vendor Portfolio Architect, for Confidential Technologies, leading the adoption and best practices for State of the Art Technology toolsets and Process Improvement Methodologies.
• Worked for Packaged integration out of box packaged solutions with inhouse IT assets for Confidential , Confidential.
• Know the architectural concepts of Open Group Architecture Framework, Technology Infrastructure Library, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification ) Architecture for Alternate Payment Methodologies, EMV frameworks, Cryptography and Security Architecture .
• Worked with TOGAF framework for Enterprise Architecture.
• Have been a Project Governance Coordinator for the Confidential Technologies groups.
• Have been involved in all the phases of Software Development Lifecycle, and have in depth knowledge of Process Methodologies including RUP, Agile Development, and QC.
• Technical leader with a high level of competence in all areas of software, hardware, network management, high availability, security management, and data center technologies.
• I keep up on industry trends and technologies through a lot of reading and hands on trials.
• Excellent knowledge of software, hardware, applications, networking, and system engineering.
• Experience in defining AWS, Azure Cloud Architecture for Enterprise Infrastructure strategies.
• Experience in budgeting and developing roadmaps for Cloud infrastructure adoption.
• Excellent presentation, communication and organizational skills
• Expertise in Enterprise software architectural solutions for distributed computing systems J2EE based application systems.
• Experience in Docker container implementation for Code Management in Cloud deployments .
• Expertise in TOGAF architecture framework.
• Expert in development of core J2SE and J2EE components
• Expert in large - scale OOAD using UML for use-case, architectural driven design
• Expert in RUP based software life cycle process management and planning
• Expert in GOF design patterns, POSA system patterns and J2EE design Patterns

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX, RH Linux 7.x

Design Tools: RSA, Rational Application Developer, Eclipse

Design Patterns: Application FrameWorks JCA, Command, Flyweight, Wrapper, Iterator, FrontController, Business Delegate, Service Locator, Session Facade, Abstract Factory, Decorator, Singleton, MVC, Spring

Web Servers: IIS 4.0, Apache Tomcat

Application Servers: WebLogic 8.1, WebSphere 5.x, JBoss

Databases: Sybase, Oracle 7/8/8i, MS Access, MySQL, MS SQL, DB2 7.2/8.0

Version Control: Systems Subversion

Networking: TCP/IP, SMTP, FTP, HTTP, NFS, RMI, RMI Over IIOP

Tools: & IDE: Eclipse, Business Rules Blaze

Frameworks: Spring, Struts, AXIS 2.0, .NET Architecture

Project Management: MS Project

BPM Tools: Websphere Process Server

Process Frameworks: RUP, MSF, Agile, Waterfall and Methodologies, EA Frameworks, Tools Zachman, TOGAF, TOG SOA Governance, EA 10.0

Architectural Styles: SOA, EAI, Distributed N Tier Architecture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Solution Architecture and Technical Delivery Ownership for Projects across Confidential for Medicare Modernization project
• Lead a team of BSAs, Project Architects for Requirements Capture and Requirements Coverage and Technical team liasioning.
• ESA for Service Oriented Architecture solutions including Web Services, Rest Services, and using HATEOS principles.
• Architecture Solutioning across UHG Domain as per TOGAF and Zachmann framework

Confidential

Enterprise Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Solution Architecture and Technical Delivery Ownership for Projects across Confidential .
• Lead a team of BSAs for Requirements Capture and Requirements Coverage and Technical team liasioning.
• ESA for Service Oriented Architecture solutions including Web Services, Rest Services, and using HATEOS principles.
• Architecture as per TOGAF and Zachmann framework
• Saas Implementation of vendor capability integration.
• Security and Authentication Strategy implementation.
• API gateway Layer 7.0 implementation strategies.
• Federated Security Strategies using OKTA, and Oauth solutions like SAML federation.
• Responsible for technical implementation of Java J2ee applications for AFI capabilities like Loyalty, Document Watermarking, User Replication, CA Identity minder User Provisioning with focus on Rest Services provider implementation, API Layer 7 gateway integration using Spring 4.2 framework.
• Responsible for DROOLS implementation strategy and adoption for AFI Business Rules Management solution
• Responsible for Big Data /Hortonworks implementation for Predictive Model solution for AFI customer retention and usability functionalities. Implementing the HDFS and the complete Hadoop Eco-system for AFI Recommender system.
• Responsible for AWS, Skytap, Azure adoption for Cloud infrastructure adoption.
• Responsible for defining Integration patterns for AWS adoption for AWS services EC2, IAM, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, Redshift, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, SES, EMR, Elastic Bean stalk, VPC, ELB, RDS, EBS, Route 53.
• Designed TOGAF Architectural deliverables using UML Modelling.
• Integration patterns using Webservices, Rest Services, MQ Services, ESB Patterns

Tools:, Software: Oracle 11g, J2EE, Weblogic 11g, WS - Apache CXF, JBoss Appserver, RH Linux 7.x.s, Cloudera Hadoop 2.0, AWS Cloud solutions, FileNet P8, EA 10.0, Spring

Confidential

Technical and Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed an Agile group consisting of six members.
• Ownership of Delivery of the project of Packaged Integration of Costpoint to Inhouse SAP Systems for Federal Accounts Payable Procurement Studio using AGILE .
• Lead a team of BSAs for Requirements Capture and Requirements Coverage and Technical team liasioning.
• Technical Architect for the Implementation of integration solutions for the Packaged solution (Costpoint) integration to core SAP systems for Federal Procurement Contracting using Webservices and ETL (BODS 4.0) with SOA based integration from J2ee application to SAP including Rest Services, Webservices.
• Integration Developer for Costpoint Extensibility using Costpoint 7.0.
• Architecture and Implementation of EEZEECONNECT.com, an open source netmeeting application using Open Source Bigbluebutton API .
• Paas Implementation of Deployment stack for the netmeeting product using AWS, Open Stack.
• Architecture, Deployment and Maintenance of Virtual Private Cloud for the Net Meeting product .
• AWS Infrastructure Provisioning including EC2, S3, RDS, ELB, VPC
• RedHat Linux system administration tasks - monitoring resources, user permissions, RedHAt linux software installation.
• Monitoring of AWS On demand infrastructure using Cloudwatch
• Security and Authentication Strategy implementation for AWS infrastructure.
• Designed TOGAF Architectural deliverables using UML Modelling.
• Integration patterns using Webservices, Rest Services, MQ Services, ESB Patterns

Tools:, Software: Costpoint 7.0, BODS 4.2, Pervasive 10.0, SAP, Oracle 11g, J2EE, Weblogic 11g, WS - Apache CXF, AWS, OpenStack, Bigbluebutton API, RH Linux 7.x.s

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed an Agile group consisting of six members.
• Ownership of Delivery of the project using AGILE .
• Built high performance teams aligned with company goals and needs.
• Created lunch-and-learn cross-training, between Java and COBOL Teams to socialize the Technical solution to the senior leadership.
• Mentored, trained and on-boarded the technical team.
• Provided continuous feedback and twice-yearly performance review discussions.
• Technical Architect for the Implementation of Distributed ReArchitecture solutions for their High Volume, Batch Processing capability for World wide Centralised Authorisation Systems (WWCAS) of AMEX.
• Toolset includes JDK1.7, Spring, Hibernate, Quartz, C++ (GCC Compiler 4.8), RH Linux
• Analyzing the Enterprise strategy for Business Process Automation, and Transactional Workflow and Middleware Integration functionality for Consumption of SOA Services
• Single Technical Point of Contact for the Customer /Business Stakeholder for Requirements Management, Design and Development, Architectural Solutioning, Environment Setup and Deployment strategies.
• Responsible for timely and high-quality delivery of a portfolio of projects on the IT Roadmap.
• Responsible for the research, analysis, design, and development of software application and systems.
• Collaborate with the Amex Director, Business Architects and Project Governance board to develop a complete holistic solution aligned to Enterprise Technology standards.
• Continuous analysis of application portfolio to determine the functional sets necessary to support ongoing business operations and current and future initiatives.
• Information Architect .
• Tech Lead for the Java, C++ Proof of Concept execution for high volume CAS MF Transaction processing.

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

SOA Solutions & Integration Architect

Responsibilities:

• Built and Mentored, a high performance software development team from ground up - a team of 12 resources including a solution architect, software engineers, QA engineers, technical support specialists, and a network administrator.
• Implemented Agile methodologies (Scrum, Lean MVP, and necessary organizational processes) and trained/coached different levels of organization to adopt Agile software development
• Developed and empowered team members by organizing trainings, setting performance goals, and providing frequent feedback.
• Enterprise Solutions o Architect for the Integration Implementation for Claims Handling which includes Web services and File based integrations.
• Ensure Requirements Management including Functional and Technical Requirement gathering, Requirement Coverage Analysis and Requirements to User Story conversion to support AGILE methodology.
• Analyzing the Enterprise strategy for Business Process Automation, and Transactional Workflow and Middleware Integration functionality.
• Single Technical Point of Contact for the Customer /Business Stakeholder for Requirements Management, Design and Development, Architectural Solutioning, Environment Setup and Deployment strategies.
• Information Architect for the Canonical Model Management for Claims Handling Interfaces
• Integration Architect working with Websphere Message Broker translations for the External Webservice transformations .

Confidential, Troy, Michigan .

Senior Manager cum Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Manager responsible for strategic planning of the enterprise, and held responsible for the most of technology aspects.
• Managed the delivery of repeatable solutions for several verticals. Championed best practices in solution delivery, streamlining the processes across different projects. Worked within the constraints of a formal EA process based on TOGAF.
• Portfolio Architect (GCT)from the Outsourcing Vendor Team, interacting with GCT team, to design and Develop Architectural Solutions for GCT including Architectural Fine Tuning Suggestions, Business Integration Solution Architecture for Atlas PreTravel Information Processing Application, PNR Information provision for Mobility Vendors of Amex.
• Portfolio Architect (GCT)with E2E responsibility of the Niche product for Travel (Mobility). A Web service based solution to provide travel itineraries on the Mobile phone for a value added service for the Corporate Traveller.
• Responsible for working closely with the program management leadership team to measure and report on program metrics on a monthly basis.
• Manage internal and external communication of program performance.
• Ownership of establishing program and project requirements traceability.
• Analyzing the Enterprise strategy for Business Process Automation, and Transactional Workflow and Middleware Integration functionality.
• Key Technical Point of Contact for the Customer /Business Stakeholder for Requirements Management, Design and Development, Architectural Solutioning, Environment Setup and Deployment strategies for Atlas.
• Architectural Solutioning for enterprise wide projects, for reusing the Service offerings of GCT.
• Mentored and guided the Onsite and Offshore teams with respect to the Architectural Solutions and fine tuning, Peer to Peer review of the Development Code.
• Mentored the Test Team to develop the Testing Strategies for the NGProfile application .
• PGB Coordinator for the Supervision of PGB compliance by the various Marketing Campaign Launch teams across GMS.
• Architect (GMS)from the Outsourcing Vendor Team, interacting with GMS and Amex teams across the Amex Technology Services to identify Reusable components for development of the State of the Art Merchant Services Portal .
• Owner of the Effort for adoption of Automated Business Process Management solutions for Enterprise Integration to integrate new assets and existing processes for next generation performance oriented solutions.
• Portfolio Architect from the Outsourcing Vendor Team, interacting with CPT team, to design and Develop Architectural Solutions for CPT including Architectural Fine Tuning Suggestions, Business Integration Solution Architecture, for Customer / Consumer Servicing Functionality of GPP application .
• Driving the Enterprise strategy for Business Process Automation, and Transactional Workflow Management.
• Key Technical Point of Contact for the Environment Setup and Deployment strategies for CPT.
• Architect for the Cryptography Solution for the Power card project.
• Fine tuning the Cryptography Solutions for streamlining the ROI on the project.
• Architectural Solution or enterprise wide projects, for reusing the Service offerings of CPT.
• Architectural Solution in the Business Integration space, for projects across CSBST organization of Amex, analyzing the product offerings in the space, from different vendors.
• Mentored and guided the Onsite and Offshore teams with respect to the Architectural Solutions and fine tuning, Peer to Peer review of the Development Code.
• Mentored the Test Team to develop the Testing Strategies for the CPT Components .
• Implementation of MQ based services using JMS /MQ .
• Leading a POC for Websphere Message Broker implementation for adoption within Amex for the Process Orchestration needs.

Confidential

Enterprise Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Systems Architect for Customer / Consumer Servicing Functionality of GPP application .
• Design and Development of the Physical and Technical Architecture for the Servicing Processor, and the Servicing Processor Web Interface interaction components.
• Architected and managed the delivery of repeatable solutions for several verticals. Championed best practices in solution delivery, streamlining the processes across different projects. Worked within the constraints of a formal EA process based on TOGAF.
• Involved in designing a technical solution for the Servicing Processor Web Interface application, a rich client application to mitigate the shortcomings of a thick client application.
• Technical Decision for different Technology options for development of the Rich Client Application, Rules Engine, Workflow engine, SOA options (Middle tier integration, Service Interface Design) for the project.
• Developed a White paper on AJAX and Rich Client application development.
• Application Security Business Architecture design.
• Proposal of the Method1 template (Amex customized) structure for Reverse Engineering and POA (Point of Arrival) Analysis.
• Business Architecture for the Financial Servicing functionality of GPP Application.
• Resource Planning and Projections for Project Management using FP Analysis.
• Architecting the Integration aspects of the Project Phases including Requirements Management, and Code Design and Visualization aspects.
• Mentored and guided the Onsite and Offshore teams with respect to the POA architecture of the GPP.
• Developed the Physical Architecture for POA.
• Involved in the Migration strategy development for POA for GPP.
• Systems architect for Logical and Business Modeling for the HCFG (Home Consumer Finance Group) application in Confidential .
• System Architect for the Automated Decision Integration Project, which included a sophisticated, state of the art Decision Engine, around the sophisticated Business Rules Management System, to in corporate Confidential Business Policies to facilitate Fair Lending Practices and Consistent Decision across all the three LOBs of Confidential namely WFHM, WFF, CCG.
• Involved in the Architecture and design of the USI (Universal System Interface) front end portlet based framework, a web based portal, for an enhanced, user friendly, rich Customer experience, and offered the various sales and delivery channels and associated sales personnel to monitor and efficiently channelize the Financial Products to the Customer at speed to market
• Involved in the Architecture and Integration of the Enterprise Origination (EO) System, USI with ADI
• Involved in the Common Information Model Design and Development using XML, including the development of the Service Information Model, SADI interface, and the Business Object Model.
• Services Interface Design using industry based ebXML Standards, and financial enterprise standards like MISMO 2.3.1
• Was one of the Architects in the Preferred Product Option architecture for optimization of product presentation to the customer using the combined features of Blaze Advisor, and ILOG Jsolver, Optimization Engine.
• Involved in the Design and Development of a Modular Product Architecture, to modularize and increase the flexibility of new product generation for Confidential .
• Lead Architect for Design and Development of a Test Harness to test the Functionality of the Application including features like Monitoring and Traceability, Translation and Analysis Environment Selection, Automatic, a Team of Developers to implement a reusable, scalable, secure and robust application with real time source code synchronization support using WebLogic WorkShop.
• Responsible for Performance Monitoring, QA Strategies and Estimation effort for the project.
• Lead Architect for the SOA based Automated Decision System, which had a home grown Service Framework, HULA (combined functionalities of EAI, eMF frameworks), for SOAP based Web Services.
• Lead Architect for Versioning Strategies for the ADI components including Process Orchestration tools (WLI Process Flows), Object Model (XML), EJB Versioning, Business Rules Versioning.
• Lead Architect in Mentoring the Process Improvements for Change Control Management for the Application.