Summary

• Distinguished 17 years experience in architecting and defining enterprise - wide solutions. Wide ranging experiences in evaluating and recommending IT/business strategies to support competitive growth. Strength in partnering with business and leadership teams to define needs, design architecture, and guide the appropriate and on-time delivery of effective solutions to enable continued competitive growth. Natural team leader with proven ability to motivate, energize, and lead to success.
• Process-oriented thinker with aptitude for analyzing the roles of people and business systems. Adept at quickly learning new skills in response to rapidly changing industry technology. Skilled at managing complex projects, customer expectations, and rapidly evolving requirements. Leverages technological skills and operational experience to implement effective solutions. Outstanding communication and interpersonal capabilities, skilled at quickly gaining and maintaining the trust of staff and customers.

Core Competencies

• Enterprise Architecture Software Architecture Software Development Life Cycle Feasibility, Risk, Cost Issue Management Project Management Web Services User Interface Design Database Design Content Management Systems Team Mentoring Leadership IT Strategy Business Process Management Best Practices Continuous Improvement Customer User Relations
• Waterfall, Agile, Service-Oriented Architecture SOA, Event-Driven, N-Tiered Object-Oriented Analysis Design

Professional Experience

Confidential

IT ARCHITECT

Accountable for analyzing, defining, architecting and leading the development of various enterprise solutions. Implemented multiple complex services and applications. Oversee all aspects of projects, from communication between stakeholders to status reporting and risk mitigation. Lead many high profile projects across the enterprise.

Successes Solutions:

• Integration Architect for SOA Solutions, managing the service portfolio for multiple business areas.
• SOA integration architect for tier one business transformational projects like Policy Line Transformation for Nationwide Insurance, Nationwide Insurance and Scottsdale Insurance Claims transformation, Provider Information Management, ServiceNOW Cloud integration, and Marketing Coalition.
• Lead architect for defining Nationwide API Management Strategy, API Reference architecture and redefining the API mindset.
• Practitioner of TOGAF principles
• Leading efforts to define API and Services security profiles
• Member of the Modern Web Reference Architecture Working Group
• Member of the Business Analytic Reference Architecture Working Group.
• Member of the various working group for ALT Architecture Leadership Board strategic initiatives like Anticipate and Adapt strategic alignment to the technology trends
• Strong understanding of Business Process Modeling and business capability alignment
• Leading capabilities to refresh SOA Reference architecture, principles and statement of direction.
• Worked on several MDM implementations.
• Working on capabilities like Service portfolio management, Information Model definition, WS and SOAP standards, REST/ JSON service standards and guidelines, IBM BPM and Operational Data Management.
• Service Domain expert for Nationwide Enterprise Architecture EA
• A active contributor to the EA data model and Capability model
• Strong understanding cloud architecture, Cloud Service Models and management
• Strong understanding of Mobile First Architecture
• Strong System Architect experience in multiple business areas with the portfolio of 25 or more applications of various sizes.
• Worked on Proof Of Concept, Proof on technology and Vendor Selection for many tools and Transformational projects.
• Worked on multiple SOWs, contracts project proposals
• Work with various vendors like IBM, Microsoft, Detica, BEA Solutions, HP, Oracle, CA.

IT Specialist

• Brought on to design, develop and enhance new and existing Nationwide Claims Solutions business applications. Also to automate manual processes, reduce costs, enhance revenue growth, and increase overall customer satisfaction and retention.
• Planned, tracked and monitored all aspects of projects. Led teams through the full life cycle design of applications, leveraging various Microsoft and IBM technologies. Trained support teams on new systems.

Successes Solutions:

• Architected and implemented the detached web solution. This solution provides the users with the ability to work on Web based ACE application offline. This application can be downloaded and deployed from the ACE Window DNA Intranet application and interacts with the attached ACE for data synchronization between the local embedded Apache Derby database and SQL Server database. Used embedded TOMCAT to serve up the JSP pages and JAVA WebStart is used to deploy the application on the client machine.
• Redesigned the ACE application reporting system by migrating to Business Objects WEBI Report.
• Coordinated Proof Of Concepts with various vendors.
• Leading other team members and consultants to bring them up to the speed on projects and technologies, and also help them in their career development.
• Responsible for the application Roadmaps and Playbooks for the technical directions
• Responsible for providing technical alternatives, ROI evaluations and estimates.
• Also responsible for overseeing the release from deciding the content of the release to work break down in the team, oversee testing, defect management, outage Root Cause Analysis, release coordination and conducting architecture reviews and code reviews.
• Interaction with the customer for system understanding and suggest alternative solution if required.

Confidential

SOFTWARE CONSULTANT

Successes Solutions:

• Converted the ACE application, a client-server Power builder application to Web application.
• Maintained and supported many web applications in Nationwide claims solutions.

Confidential

SOFTWARE CONSULTANT

Successes Solutions:

• Maintained and re-designed the website.
• Worked as a Architect/Programmer in development of website for Pearson

Confidential

SOFTWARE CONSULTANT

Successes Solutions:

Worked on project TRACKER-2000 for Division of State Architect, CA and OAL Management System for Office of Administrative Law OAL, CA

Confidential

Sr. APPLICATION DEVELOPER

Successes Solutions:

The projects involved creating a virtual store and an e-commerce site e-Mart, aimed at selling products to the global market through the web that includes a shopping cart, cross-sell up-sell promotions, online credit card validation, order tracking, and integration with e-mail. Worked with SDU Social Development Unit, Singapore to plan, organize, and monitor of SDU activities used by their staff. Also worked on a complete ERP System, involving all the activities of a fertilizer Company, KRIBCO, India

Technology Proficiency

• Software/ GUI: J2EE, JSP,JIBX, AJAX, Tiles, Java Web Start, Java Script, JSON RPC, XML 3.0, HTML, DHTML, C, VB .NET, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C, ASP .NET, ASP, VB Script, MQ, XSLT
• Database: Microsoft SQL server, Oracle, Apache Derby, MYSQL, DB2, TERADATA
• Software Tool/ Appliances: WebSphere Message Broker, IBM DataPower Appliances XI 52, XC10, WTX, Rational Application Developer RAD 7.0, RSA, Business Objects Universe Designer, Business Objects Business Objects WEBI Report designer, Tableau, Visio, Microsoft Studio 6.0, Rational SQA, Visio, IBM MQ series, Mercury ANT, Subversion, Maven, WSRR, XMLSpy, IgniteXML, IBM Software Architect, Splunk, Tealeaf
• Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP, Unix, Linux, AIX
• Distributed Tech: COM/DCOM/COM, EJB, RMI
• Web Servers: IIS 5.0/6.0, Java Web Server 1.1.1, Web Sphere 6.0, TOMCAT, WebLogic
• Languages: C, C, Java, Visual Basic, Win SDK, MFC and COBOL
• Framework: AngularJS, Dojo, Struts, SPRING, Hibernate and iBatis
• Web Services standard: SOAP, REST, WS
• Industry models: IAA, ACORD, CEICA, HR xml, SWIFT