SUMMARY

• 12+ years of experience as IT developer in Banking/Financial Services and Retail industry. 6+ years of experience in implementation of Business process oriented applications using Pega / PRPC v5.x, v6.x and v7.1
• Experience in complete Pega/PRPC implementation life cycle using Pega BPM, SCRUM and Agile methodologies with extensive knowledge in design, development, migration and deployment
• Strong experience in developing applications with PRPC as Business Rule Engine as well as BPM application
• Experience in identifying generic and standalone business functions and creating them as utilities and organization level framework
• Strong experience in designing class structures, process flow diagrams, authentication model and actor role mapping for applications developed in Pega
• Extensive experience in developing Pega Portals using Harnesses, repeating layouts, dynamic layouts, Sections, Harness, flow - actions, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and customizing skins.
• Proficiency in working with Pega declarative chaining, decisions rules, data transforms and activities
• Experience in designing and developing security authorization modules aligning to single sign on implementation
• Hands on work experience with integration connectors like REST, SOAP, HTTP, File and SQL
• Well versed with designing Class structures, Work types, Layer cakes, Process flows, Sub-flows, Case designing
• Strong experience in creating reports using Summary views, List Views and report definitions
• Experience in scheduling and debugging agents both in Standard and Advanced mode
• Debugging experience using Tracers, PAL, SMA, PLA, Rule Inspector, UI Tree, Fiddler
• Experience in monitoring and analyzing performance of Pega environments using AES tool
• Strong experience in evaluating and upgrading the Pega applications from PRPC v6.x to v7.1
• Profound knowledge on Relational Database Management with strong experience in writing sub queries, stored procedures, triggers using SQL, PL/SQL

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Unix, Windows NT/XP/2000/98, OS/390, Z/OS

Development Environment: Pega Designer Studio, Eclipse, IBM Rational Software Architect, IBM Rational Developer for System Z (RDz)

BPM tool: Pega Rules Process Commader (PRPC v5.x, v6.x and v7.1)

Debugging tools: PAL, PLA, Tracer, Clipboard, Rules Inspector, UI Tree, IE Developer tools, Fiddler

Languages: Java, HTML, XML, JavaScript, SQL, PL/SQL, COBOL, PL1, JCL, CICS, C, C++

Database: Oracle 9i, DB2, JDBC, IDMS,VSAM, tableBase

Tools: & Technologies: Pega AES, JSP, JMS, SOAP, REST, WSDL, Log4J, JUnit, RMI, ClearCase, Rational Rose, HP Quality center, JIRA, Rally

Mainframe tools: Changeman, Infoman, Inertest, Xpeditor, Abend-Aid, STROBE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Pega Senior System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Participating in design discussions in elaboration phase and UI - Application level skins, wire frames etc.,
• Worked closely with the business analyst and system architect to understand source data to develop technical solutions
• Involving in class structure design and situation layer cakes
• Creating SQL connectors with complex SQLs and REST service connectors to communicate with external domains
• Drafting and creating process flows that include all types of sub flows and screen flows
• Developing rich UI portals by customizing out of box skins, controls and using new dynamic layouts available in v7.1
• Implementing various rules aligning to Pega guardrails and edit validations using Validate, Constraint rules
• Scheduling Agents and monitoring/debugging them through SMA
• Debugging UI using Rules Inspector, UI Tree, Fiddler, IE developer tools and other Pega rules using tracer, Clipboard
• Using PAL, DB tracer to fine tune the performance
• Creating Data pages, Data transforms wherever possible
• Creating Summary views(with charts), report definitions and delegating them to User portals and report browsers
• Fixing defects raised by QA and tracking them in HP Quality Center and Rally
• Migrating Application RAPs through various environments

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Pega Senior System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Setting up of PRPC environment and infrastructure for the development groups
• Set up SSO based LDAP authentication services for the development team members as well as business users
• Migrating code through various environments for the application teams
• Customizing and creating new portals for work manager, work user, Case Manager, Case User etc., with Confidential branding standards using the Pega Out of box portals, HTML, JSP, Java Script and CSS
• Creating and maintaining Pega roles for various access groups (actors) in the applications
• Creating Integration connectors and services for SOAP, Java, SQL requests that enable interaction with other systems in Confidential
• Developing generic utilities in framework for the applications teams
• Installing and tracking hotfixes, jar utilities for various domains across Confidential
• Helping the development teams with DB connections and server side configurations
• Developing Proof Of Concepts as generic solutions for various use cases like promotions, order management/validation, Award optimization, Policy Management, Onramp Access management etc.,
• Writing complex Activities to alter Pega Out of the box functionalities with embedded Java code
• Writing Complex SQL and PL/SQL queries to access databases of various sub systems in Confidential
• Debugging the process flows using Pega Tracer tool, Rule Inspector and Pega logs
• Setting up agents (Standard and Advanced) on different nodes for batch processing of use case applications and monitoring/controlling them through SMA
• Monitoring various project life cycle environments using Pega AES tool
• Supporting development teams by providing technical solutions, developing prototypes and walking through the PRPC sample applications

Confidential, Irving, TX

Pega System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Collected requirements and conducted brainstorming sessions on the most efficient and optimistic solutions
• Designed PRPC applications including formulating design of Class structure, Rules Sets structure, Organization structure, identification of Properties and design of Flows using MS Visio
• Worked on customization of Harness, Sections rule, HTML, JavaScript, CSS
• Worked on the portal design, structuring for various work flow teams involved in the application
• Worked on connectors SOAP, Java to connect to other systems in umbrella, SQL for database access and MQ to communicate with legacy systems
• Developed various PRPC activities, utilities, flows, sub-flows, flow actions, assignments, SLA( Service Level Agreement), declarative rules, correspondence templates
• Worked on PRPC User Interface development - Sections, Harnesses, Flow Actions developing web-based UI’s using HTML, Object-oriented JavaScript and implementation of Declarative Processing features - Expressions, Constraints, On Change, Decision Rules like Decision Table, Decision Map etc.
• Written complex SQL queries for oracle 9i and DB2
• Involved in debugging Pega applications using Pega Tracer tool, Rule Inspector, PLA
• Done performance testing using PAL
• Created Inventory Reports - summary view, list views and custom reports
• Supported release and post production tickets and documented the application using Pega Document Wizard

Confidential, Irving, TX

Java Developer

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Project Coordinator for the internationals to bridge solutions for various countries like Colombia, Spain, Panama, Singapore, Belgium etc
• Facilitated various business meetings with the Confidential Collections Operations groups across the world to identify the areas of manual processes that can be automated to result in loss mitigation
• Involved in the design and development using the presentation components using JSF
• Responsible for Clear Case branching, merging the code
• Responsible to create test scripts and performing Unit Testing using JUnit
• Involved in code writing using Java, JSP, JavaScript, CSS, servlets
• Experience in using features like dependency injection and configuring application context for spring bean factory
• Involved in Code walk thru both as reviewer and developer and also worked on performance tuning
• Involved in websphere deployment and administration like thread pool manage
• Involved in the builds deployment on Dev and production servers
• Responsible for bug fixing by using HP Quality Center application, where QA team reports all the bugs for the current release.
• Team meetings, sprint meetings, organizing web and teleconferences to discuss on issues, for demos on developed features.
• Involved in witting PL/SQLstored procedures, functions, packages, and triggers
• Database persistence has been implemented using Hibernate JPA
• Design patterns like Delegate, DAO, Service Locator and Value Object have been used to develop this application
• Written code for asynchronous communication using MQ

Confidential 

Mainframe Developer

Responsibilities:

• Set up of Settlement Processing systems and transactions management system for new merchants
• Gathered the requirements from the client and acted as a sole functional owner
• Prepared High level and Low level design documents, test scripts for the requirements with traceability matrix, Failure Mode and Effective Analysis (FMEA) documents
• Coded batch and online modules using COBOL, JCL, DB2, IDMS, VSAM, CICS
• Debugged the batch and online modules using InterTest, Xpeditor, STROBE and ABEND-AID
• Executed the SQL queries in SPUFI, accessing files through File-Aid for day to day activities supporting production/test data analysis and reporting purposes
• Participated in Integration testing of system with other application groups in Confidential Consumer Finance
• Acted as a DPR (Defect Prevention Representative) in the team, conducting Defect Prevention meetings every month with team members and SQA to do the root cause analysis of the defects
• Responsible to set up objectives and action items for defect owners, continuously track and follow up on defects in HP quality center