Summary:

• Sr. Manager / Technical Director with an entrepreneur mindset having hands on experience in defining System/Application architecture, depicting measurable long term vision/road map and managing large diverse onsite/offshore teams leveraging Agile and Scrum methodologies. Over 10 years of Life Sciences, Health Insurance and IT Leadership experience implementing state of the art technology solutions facilitating corporate growth, leveraging J2ee, .NET, Websphere Portal, WCM, Social Media Lotus Connections, bazaar voice, Facebook API Websphere BPM platform ILOG, Process server , Commerce platform, SOA SOAP/REST and brings in a wealth of experience around corporate governance. Well versed in all phases of project life cycle with a strong emphasis on delivery, ROI and has a proven track record for building strong technical teams. Very effective in communicating and influencing stakeholders and development teams at all levels
• Strengths: Strategic Responsible for laying a foundation for health exchange integration and revamping the Member, Consumer, Provider, Broker and Group Admin Portals for a major health insurance company by leading a geographically dispersed onshore/offshore teams and was responsible for automating and integrating a Portal / Commerce solution that interacts with numerous 3rd party services. o Secured 21M in capital and expense funding over a 2 year period with estimation that project will add 70M in value through cost savings, productivity and process improvements. o Responsible for building strong internal talent by leveraging relationship with some of the best IT consulting organizations. o Played an active scrum master role in coaching/mentoring and ensuring adoption of scrum methodology. o Responsible for managing and building key systems that meets stringent government mandated programs ICD10 , Health care Exchange Integration, DOJ and FDA compliance requirements for life sciences / health care industry Needs Assessment, Aggregate spend, Physician/Patient portal, CFR-11, CAPA, IT governance SOX compliance . o Responsible for defining standards/best practices, vision/road map and long term strategy and managing advance technical teams whose expertise span across multiple technology domains. o Solid knowledge of key portal and repository standards JSR 168, JSR-286, JSR-170, WSRP and platforms Websphere / Sharepoint.
• Risk Management Met all target goals by identifying and tracking high risk areas, by implementing risk mitigation early and contingency plans as needed, through proof of concept technical and architectural prototyping, and by maintaining constant communication with program/project stake holders Results Orientation Turned around a key project that was one year behind schedule and met and exceeded all goals and objectives.
• Coaching Mentoring: Most team members performed above expectation and all team members raised level of their performance.
• Technology Evangelist: Highly adaptive to emerging technologies. Responsible for adapting, testing and prototyping new technologies that adds value to the business. Implemented 3D simulations, Mobile Strategy, Portals and rolled out hand held applications to support key business initiatives.

Experience:

Confidential

Sr. Manager

Accomplishments:

• Managed and lead highly skilled onsite / offshore teams and was responsible for defining SOA architecture to streamline the existing applications stack, perform code reviews and constantly evaluate development standards.
• Road Map with detailed implementation plan that includes Portals face lift, data standardization, commerce integration, cross sales across Member, Broker, Consumer Portals, Forms Standardization and automation across BCBS, Medvantage /NCCT/ NPD Integration. Life stage configuration/Personalization, Member/Provider Interaction /Messaging, Preference management, Social Commerce and joining the dots and integration between EMR and health Insurance industry.
• Responsible for working with key business stakeholders in defining a measurable and implementable roadmap until 2014 that is targeted to clearly differentiate and revolutionize the way health care can be reached across insurance industry.
• Provided Leadership and oversight to turn around a Key project Member Portal leveraging Websphere Portal platform that was six month behind schedule to launch on time and met and exceed all goals and objectives.
• Role: Development Manager Hands on
• Skill: Websphere Portal 6.1.5/7.0, IBM Datapower, Process Server, Social Media, Webphere Commerce7.0, WCM6.1.5/7.0, J2ee1.5, Spring3.0, hibernate, Web experience Factory, Mobile Hybrid Apps

Confidential

Enterprise Architect /Technical Director

Accomplishments:

• Hands on experience working with POC around SOA solution leveraging Websphere Portal, Mobile Portal Accelerator, Spring, Hibernate Maven, DOJO, Ajax, REST and SOAP based web services.
• Played an active Scrum master role in coaching and mentoring scrum process with clients that have been having a challenge embracing and adopting within their culture.
• Managed and lead highly skilled onsite / offshore teams and was responsible for defining SOA architecture to streamline the existing applications stack, perform code reviews and constantly evaluate development standards.
• Responsible for successfully delivering three complex full lifecycle projects leveraging J2ee, Portals, SOA.
• Responsible for three accounts Sanofi Aventis, BCBSTN, Horizon BCBS in span of 18 months and all the clients had successful Portal/WCM and Mobile platform delivered.
• Responsible for working with key stakeholders in managing expectations, defining a technology roadmap and playing a key role in mentoring Scrum teams and enabling corporate governance.
• Role: Solution Architect / Technical Director
• Skill: Websphere Portal 6.1.5/7.0, Webphere Commerce7.0, WCM6.1.5/7.0, J2ee1.5, Spring3.0, hibernate, Portlet Factory, Mobile Portal Accelarator

Confidential

Development Manager

Accomplishments:

• Needs Assessment: Responsible for leading a key compliance initiative DOJ across 14 divisions around the globe. This application automates the process of gathering needs, documenting the engagement of health care professionals and making payments online.
• WebSphere Infrastructure: Responsible for managing and defining architecture to implement a high available clustered Web Sphere7.0 Infrastructure to host mission critical high volume applications.
• Responsible for mentoring Technical Specialists and junior developers
• Responsible for providing thought leadership and designing Portal/J2ee solutions for senior executives and stakeholders at all levels.
• Responsible for defining architecture, working with stake holders, converting use cases to design specifications, enforcing best practices and hands on development of critical design components by integrating design patterns as required.
• Successfully streamlined various business processes by improving efficiencies and mitigating risk that led to multimillion dollar savings.
• Successfully lead and delivered critical compliance Needs Assessment, Aggregate Spend and time sensitive projects on time and within budget.
• Responsible for delivery, second level support, expectations, communications, prioritization and budget allocation for enterprise applications. Directly responsible for 14 resources onsite/offsite and manage 2M departmental and 5M project deliverable budget.

Accomplishments:

• Confidential: This application is developed to standardize on the global catalog and content across different divisions in Stryker and provide and common means for Confidential folks and Hospital clients to buy capital equipment online. This application also streamlines the sales territory and affiliated regions to the Confidential folks for invoicing non capital purchases for hospital and surgeon customer

Confidential

Project Leader

• Met a tight deadline imposed by DOJ to provide the required documentation and as a result Stryker was the only corporation out of 7 medical device firms that was not penalized.
• Work closely with health care professionals and key stakeholders in defining viable requirements and web experience through interviews and surveys.
• Stream lined the process in one division and marketed and successfully implemented the solution across all the divisions in Stryker. Introduced the concept of Software as Service for internal projects.

Accomplishments:

• Responsible for leading a geographically dispersed onshore/offshore teams and was responsible for automating and integrating a Portal solution that interacts with numerous 3rd party services
• Responsible for defining and configuring visibility/attribute rules and access levels across various verticals.
• Responsible for defining best practices, overseeing overall architecture and implementing JSR168 specific portlets, composite applications and web services for remote portlets WSRP .

Confidential

Role: Technical Lead Global

• Skill: Websphere Portal 5.1/6.0, Webphere Commerce6.0, Stellant Content Management, J2ee1.4, Spring, hibernate
• Confidential: This application is a part of Oracle ERP implementation. Responsible for leading a team of oracle and Deliott consultants in house to provide customizations to base ERP and as well transfer knowledge in house.

Confidential

Software Engineer

• an application, at the same time not compromising on its quality.
• The main objective of the frame work is to provide reusable components that would reduce the overall time in building
• Web Application Framework: is a component based API that extends the Struts/Tiles framework by enforcing the best practices with the Application development and J2EE patterns to build robust applications, quicker and more efficiently.

Accomplishments:

• Quality Log System: is a web based application which was initiated as a result of Confidential. The goal of this application is to be in compliant with the CFR part 11 regulations placed by Confidential and provide a tool for the manufacturing and Packaging teams to be able to test the blisters and other packaging material. This system is built leveraging the components of framework. The system architecture is based on J2EE for the web based application development and Oracle 9i as a backend.
• Skill: Struts1.2, Tiles, LDAP, JNDI, Custom UI components JSTL , I18N, J2ee1.4 Listeners, filters
• Role: Jr.Architect and Developer
• Productivity: Responsible for improving the turn around time by 40 , Performance by 50 and code quality significantly..

Accomplishments:

• Hardware/Machine Interfacing: Responsible for providing a interface with third party testing tool to auto populate the test results into the application and also implement complex business rules that aids in tracking and maintenance of the test results for future analysis either by internal or FDA auditors.

Confidential

Software Engineer

• Confidential: The Confidential is a web-based Internet application for Confidential that integrates the total health care information. Users will have the ability to track, refer, and search information pertaining to them or their providers. Providers will also have similar ability about their patients.

Accomplishments:

• Responsible for developing and executing stored procedures, making calls to LDAP through JNDI, JMS access to integrate with IBM MQ and Web Sphere portal. Also responsible for developing some of the components like Registration, Referral entry/ inquiry. Developed a test suite to integrate all the test cases and measure performance of the each individual components built by all the team members.
• Role: Developer
• Skill: Stuts1.1, Java/JSP, Servlets, Db2, Weblogic5.0, Ant1.5, Netbeans3.4, XML, Websphere Portal5.0

Confidential

Programmer Part Time

• Participated in full life cycle development process of Departmental Projects. Performed statistical data analysis to analyze data using exploratory and confirmatory methods. Generated results and reported them in the form of tables, graphs, and percentages
• Skill: Java/JSP, Servlets, HTML, Apache Tomcat, Oracle8i, Windows 2000/XP/NT

Confidential

Intern

• Developed Internal Mail Server application for the system software department. Design of secured server area for multiple e-mail users for storage and retrieval of email data.
• Skill: Java, Swing components and Network programming