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Resume Headline: chandrasekhar arakala - Senior Solutions Architect

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Email:chandrasekhar.arakala@gmail.com                                                                                      Cell: 7038643760

                                                                                 CHANDRASEKHAR ARAKALA

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Total 16 years’ experience in Team Leading, IT Architecture, Design, Development and Integration of Software Products

v   Experience in leading teams and implemented solutions for Federal and Private Industry. Experience as a Technical Manager / Task Lead / to Design, Integrate, and Implementation of Systems at FAA (AIM, TDDS, & ITWS, CIWS)

v   Implemented and Supported USPTO Systems (EFS, PALM, EAST, WEST, CPC, and RTIS) in various roles.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Task / Engagement Management: Leadership

Ø       Manage engagement teams with Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, including excellent writing skills.

Ø       Define deliverable structure and content with Creative problem-solving skills.

Ø       Proactive and result-oriented leader adept in mentoring, motivating the team to exemplary performance.

Ø       Strong ability to work with senior managers, supervisors to facilitate buy-in of proposed solutions from top management.

Ø       Direct on-time, quality delivery of work products.

Ø       Lead teams members with initiative, sound judgment, diplomacy, and discretion.

Ø       Participates and leads technical audits across various projects in Information delivery portfolio.

Ø       Resource management and support by providing daily supervision and direction to staff.

Ø       Cross Team Collaboration and Initiatives: Drive strong collaborative partnerships between business, IT, and enterprise technology teams.

Ø       Provides guidance to technical teams in continuous improvement projects for performance improvements and architecture simplification.

Ø       Ability to understand the significance of the client's organizational culture and support organizational standards.

Ø       Experience with the writing and review of Federal technical and policy documentation.

Client Management:   Specialized Skills

Ø       Managed day to day interactions with executive clients and sponsors

Ø       Proven skills in Client Relationship interface effectively with client technical and management personnel.

Ø       Experience in developing Communications Strategy and plans to communicate the process and expectations of each individual in the standardization of Enterprise Technical Standards and Policies.

Ø       Proven skills in Client Relationship interface effectively with client technical and management personnel plan

Technical Architecture: Process Management

Ø       Experience in design and development of DTD, XML Schemas, RESTFul and WebServices.

Ø       Experience and good understanding of Federal Enterprise Architecture(FEA), Frameworks Zachman, TOGAF

Ø       Designed enterprise applications using J2EE Design Patterns, SOA Patterns and Web 2.0 Frameworks, WSO2

Ø       Evaluated technology directions and trends, Identify Risks and Mitigation Plans.

Ø       Experience in providing technical recommendation including planning, architecture, design, development, legacy migration, configuration management, build environments, testing, security, delivery and operations.

Ø       Mentor and train junior technical team members in technology and architecture.

Ø       Experience in developing Applications using Agile Software Developments and Test Driven Development (TDD) methodologies

Ø       Experience in providing technical recommendation, planning, architecture, design, development and legacy migration.

Business Development: Specialized Skills

Ø       Developed and maintained contact with top decision makers at key clients

Ø       Organized and lead pursuit teams

Ø       Participated and lead aspects of the proposal development process

Ø       Contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies

EDUCATION:

B S (Bachelor of Engineering)

 

M S (Remote Sensing & Computer Science)

P.G. (Diploma in Computer Applications)

 

EMBA (Executive Master of  Business Administration)

Project Management Professional Certification (Earned Credits)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Federal Enterprise Architecture(FEA), Frameworks Zachman, TOGAF,  J2EE Design Patterns, SOA Patterns and Web 2.0 Frameworks , WSO2, Fuse, XSL, XSLT, DTDs, Schemas, and XML, Oracle SOA, Oracle 10g, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle 9i/8i/10g, and MS SQL, Hibernate, Web Services, Component Based, Service Oriented  Architecture (SOA) using REST  (JAX-RS), SOAP, WSDL,  IBM  SOA, Business Modeler.JAVA EE, EJB, JSP, JMS, SAX, DOM, JAXP, MQ Series. Tools: XML-Spy, XBRL,CASE Tools, UML,ER/Studio Data, Enterprise Architect

DOMAIN EXPERTISE:

¨     Department of Commerce (USPTO)                    

¨  Financial Systems                                                         

¨     Manufacturing –ERP

¨     EAI

¨  B2B

¨     B2C  

¨     End-User Training & Support

¨  Data Modeling & Testing

¨     Infrastructure Design & Integration

¨     Demand and Supply Chain Management

¨  Product Development 

¨  Construction Design and Drafting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:  

Senior Solutions Architect                                                                                                          December 2012 –Present

USPTO: TMNG-Trademark Records Management (TRM): The Project is based on (1) improvement of Functional/Technical Services to users of the Trademark systems and, (2) standup of a next generation IT Platform.  The Office of Trademarks is creating a fully electronic, separate, sustainable, end-to-end system in which technology and user services will be developed, managed, and adapted in an efficient and cost effective manner that meets the current and future needs of the Trademark Office and system users.  The resulting next generation IT systems, platform and functionality will enable optimal use of Trademark data by the public and employees to meet their continually evolving needs.  Implementation of Trademark Next Generation (TM NG) architecture, technology platform, systems and functionality will be managed separately from other USPTO business units and take advantage of new technology that will reduce information technology development, enhancement and maintenance costs while providing a more manageable, agile and adaptable technology platform.

Key Responsibilities

ü       Designed and Implemented TRM Data Services Architecture to provide data services to Next Gen Trademark -Web and Business Services System, User Interface and Content Management Systems.

ü       Provided systems and technology roadmaps to the development teams for transitioning to the target architecture.

ü       Manage the systems lifecycle of the architecture itself to include feedback and periodic updates.

ü       Involved in review of data architecture standards for the implementation of XML/JSON technology for TRM Data representation.

ü       Provided support to create/update documents such as TRM Data Service, Solution Architecture Document, Solution Design Document, Installation Plans and Operational Support Plan.

ü       Involved in Trademark Next Gen. Product Owner, System Integration, Architecture design, Data Model and Business priority meetings.

ü       Designed and Implemented RESTFul service layer to support upstream systems to deliver TMNG - TRM data.

ü       Took lead role and support roles in code deployment to development, test and integration environments.

ü       Performed highly complex product design, systems analysis and programming activities.

ü       Coordinated and communicated within a software development teams consisting of developers, quality assurance, product management and project management members.

Senior Solutions Architect                                                                                                         April 2012 – December-2012

USPTO: The Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) effort is a joint partnership between the USPTO and the European Patent Office (EPO) where the Offices have agreed to harmonize their existing classification systems (ECLA and USPC, respectively) and migrate towards a common classification scheme, initially based on European Classification at EPO.  The migration to CPC will be developed based in large part on the existing European Classification System (ECLA) and will be modified to ensure alignment with the International Patent Classification system (IPC) standards administered by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).  USPTO’s Office of Patent Information Management (OPIM) is representing the USPTO Patent Business Area in working with EPO to define how the CPC System will be: defined, developed, operated and managed. 

ü       Provided systems and technology roadmaps to the development teams for transitioning to the target architecture.

ü       Responsible to manage day to day interactions with executive clients and sponsors.

ü       Responsible to lead members to make sure on time delivery.

ü       Involved in review of data architecture standards for the implementation of XML technology for CPC Schemas.

ü       Manage the systems lifecycle of the architecture itself to include feedback and periodic updates.

ü       Provided GAP analysis and expand on existing requirements to develop and derive functional, non-functional and technical requirements that are buildable and testable.

ü       Developed communications strategy and plans to communicate the process and expectations of each individual in the standardization of Enterprise Technical Standards and Policies.

ü       Provide technical and architectural subject matter expertise to the various development teams including communicating architectural decisions and mentoring other technical staff around the various development technologies and decisions.

ü       Designed and developed CPC prototype service framework with USPTO technology standards and demonstrated to USPTO or EPO and development teams at USPTO site.

ü       Provided support to create/update documents such as Solution Architecture Document, Solution Design Document.

ü       Extensive experience in EPO / WIPO – USPTO business rules with respect to classification and patent in general.

ü       Responsible to have technical discussions and derive High Level Architecture for CPC system design.

ü       Participated in CPC database model, software detailed design technical meeting.

 

                                                                                                                                                                                         Apr’ 2010 – Mar’ 2012                                        

FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) www.faa.gov: SWIM Program: The transformation to the Next Generation. Air Transportation System (NextGen) requires programs and technologies that provide more efficient operations, including streamlined data communications capabilities. The SWIM program is an integral part of that transformation. SWIM will provide open, flexible, and secure information management architecture for sharing NAS advisory data and enabling increased common situational awareness and improved NAS agility. SWIM will use commercial off-the-shelf hardware and software to support a loosely coupled service-oriented architecture that allows for easier addition of new systems and connections.

Solution Architect:

Subject Matter Expert and Solutions Architect providing solutions to the following FAA Systems

AIM: AIM Systems is responsible for operations, maintenance and enhancement of aeronautical information management systems, hardware and software. AIM Systems includes three components: NAS Aeronautical Information Management Enterprise System (NAIMES) Military Operations (MILOPS) Airspace and Aeronautical Information Management Laboratory (ATALAB).

ITWS: Integrated Terminal Weather System (ITWS) provides improved integration of weather data into timely, accurate aviation weather information.

CIWS: CIWS is an animated three-dimensional weather tracking system.  CIWS products range from current weather depictions, including growth and decay trends, to convective weather forecasts of precipitation and echo tops - two hours into the future

TDDS: Terminal Data Distribution System (TDDS) SWIM-based interfaces to terminal systems will be provided.  This infrastructure will provide an IP-based front end to Terminal legacy systems. Existing flight data interfaces to Terminal are antiquated and are limited to receiving a subset of the data. 

WMSCR: The Weather Message Switching Center Replacement System (WMSCR) collects, processes, stores, and disseminates textual aviation weather products and NOTAM information between NAS systems, the airlines, and commercial users 24 hours every day. The accurate, reliable, and continuous delivery of these messages is the core of WMSCR is mission and essential for aviation safety.

Key Responsibilities:

ü       Lead teams of consultant, contract, and company resources in the implementation activities for the successful delivery of IT Ops projects.

ü       Take responsibility for key design deliverables, building proof of concepts, or undertaking complex integration tasks as appropriate.

ü       Develop and execute resource and staffing plans to ensure efficient use of resources

ü       Responsible to deliver required Software development life cycle documentation (SDLC) per the FAA documentation templates along with 508 compliant.

ü       Mentor IT Ops staff related to project management best practices.

ü       Developed life cycle management documentation and to manages resources in support of FAA projects. 

ü       Developed project plans, operating plans, and supporting budgets documentation.

ü       Estimated resource requirements based on scope, method and schedules for such projects.

ü       Maintained IT Operations technologies and implemented best practices in the areas of database, middleware, and operations.

ü       Keep abreast of emerging technologies, tools, and development processes.

ü       Proposed and implemented solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of software products and solutions.

ü       Collaborated with Business, Architecture, and Quality Management and also Development teams to ensure successful project delivery.

ü       Gathered required information and developed data models independently.

ü       Conducts data model reviews with business users and system developers.

ü       Developed data management approach and activities to address issues of the entire life cycle of automated information systems.

ü       Provided technical data management advice and guidance to system developers and users.

ü       Developed data element structure designs, working with multiple resources to achieve commonly defined and sharable data. 

ü       Proposes data elements for standardization.

ü       Implements agency-wide guidance on the definition and sharing of data used to conduct FAA business and the enterprise-wide data quality program.

ü       Provided support to create/update documents such as Solution Architecture Document, Solution Design Document, User Interface Design Document, Installation Plans and Operational Support Plan.

ü       Provided systems and technology roadmaps to the development teams for transitioning to the target architecture.

ü       Manage the systems lifecycle of the architecture itself to include feedback and periodic updates

ü       Coordinates and conducts data modeling in support of automated information systems development and maintenance

ü       Developed an executable process model that communicates enough implementation detail for direct execution while retaining clarity required for maintainability and business stakeholder communication.

ü       Participate in program level stakeholder meeting with respect to system design like critical design review, system design review, testing and deployment related

ü       Implemented and supported AGILE development process with proper documentation.

ü       Responsible to ensure systems are compatible and in compliance with the standards for agency IT architectures, and profiles of standards (FAA STD065, 66, 69, & 80).

ü       Lead business and technology stakeholders in developing technology architectures, strategies, and plans that align with and across multiple lines of business.

ü       Provide technical and architectural subject matter expertise to the various development teams including communicating architectural decisions and mentoring other technical staff around the various development technologies and decisions.

ü       Responsible to ensure application of FAA standards to the implementation and specific to the solution for the platform, integration with other systems, and the external interfaces

ü       Provided support to have version management and release support

ü       Implemented and followed established FAA Configuration Management (CM) policies and procedures for all code and prototypes.

ü       Responsible to work collaboratively with all teams designated by FAA to provide a breakdown of responsibilities, deliverables, phases and timelines in order to complete the delivery of the project in a timely and effective manner.

ü       Provided guidance and documentation to the FAA for all aspects necessary to deliver a project design or technical recommendations.

ü       Supporting the SWIM implementation lead and participated in program status review, program management review (PMR), cost effective review, and technical account manager (Fuse TAM) meetings on regular basis.

ü       Overseeing the testing activities and onsite deployments (Tech Center, Boston, Raytheon  MIT LL, Volpe) 

ü       Responsible to provide planning, architecture, design, development, legacy migration, configuration management, build environments, testing, security, delivery and operations.

ü       Provided GAP analysis and expand on existing requirements to develop and derive functional, non-functional and technical requirements that are buildable and testable.

ü       Produced an overall Solutions Technical Architecture based on the FAA business technical architecture and capability needs.

ü       Established architecture and design related policies, standards, guidelines, and best practices to be utilized in the development of technology solutions

ü       Provide technical review comments on system interface requirement document (IRD), system specification document (SSD), Interface control documents (ICD), Web service specification (WSDD).

ü       Identified efficiencies in the current design and proposed development platform solutions to provide cost effective solutions.

ü       Provided product evaluations which resulted in huge cost savings, like FUSE , Open source products

ü       Educated, evangelize and transfer knowledge regarding technology strategies, architectures and migration plans to the implementations are Fuse ESB, Message Broker, Service Frame Work and Mediation Router

ü       Provided documentation and recommendations for the acceptance or mitigation of any issues and risks associated with requirements, proposed systems, solutions, development, designs, plans

ü       Provided impact analysis of the SWIM technical architecture for CIWS, ITWS, WMSCR, and AIM along with mitigation strategy recommendations.

ü       Conducted architecture assessments on SWIM implementing programs.

ü       Worked with SWIM Architect to provide technical support for all SWIM implementing programs. Also, participate and work closely with SWIM Architect in conducting architectural review, working group meetings, and technical interchange meetings.

ü       As a SOA Architect and SME providing support to the SWIM implementing programs AIM, TDDS, CIWS, ITWS and WMSCR.

ü       Participate in product support meetings at COTs working group, bug fixes detailed discussion

ü       Provided support by working closely with FAA technical architecture staff and independently lead the identification and resolution of problems within the SWIM technical infrastructure.

 

Raytheon - Alexandria, VA, USPTO Patent program. http://www.uspto.gov/                                                                    Jun’2005- Apr’ 2010

Technical Lead / Solutions Architect– PALM

Project: Patent Application Location and Monitoring (PALM) System:

The Patent Application Location and Monitoring (PALM) system is an automated information system (AIS) that accepts and tracks patent applications for the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Tech Lead - SOA / Web Service:                                                                              

Responsibilities:

ü       Dramatically reduced the implementation cost by minimizing development and promoting reuse of existing components.

ü       Involved in design and implementation of applications, relying on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), using Web Services.

ü       Implemented software product involving XML technologies such as design XML Schemas, DTD.

ü       Designed and developed XML parsing programming API for PALM project.

ü       Implemented business concepts such as key process indicators, service level agreements, and metrics and reporting to solutions.

ü       Implemented flow control to the process execution, decision making and exception management across multiple organizational applications

ü       Involved in SOA design and followed Industry standards to design USPTO PALM Applications.

ü       Responsible to coordinate PALM services deployments in Web Sphere Application Servers.

ü       Regularly met with the client and team members to resolve key requirement issues.

ü       Implemented solutions to PALM applications relying on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), using Web Services, SOAP and WSDL.

ü       Designed and implemented Web Services for client to retrieve Data using SOAP.

ü       Designed and developed the application based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

ü       Developed Web Services for the product to interact their other application.

ü       Involved in complete development cycle, detail design, development system testing and user acceptance testing.

ü       Assist management in project planning and resource planning by providing Task Estimations (LOE),

ü       Identifying risk, providing team reviews and feedback.

ü       Involved performance related critical production issues of the PALM web services.

ü       Developed and tested utilities to interact with SOAP web services.

ü       Developed Patent Application Initialization Services for EFS Web, RTIS to in PALM.

ü       Developed Patent Application Maintenance Bibliographic Data Services.

ü       Designed Customer Maintenance web services for Patent Retrieval Portal(Public, Private PAIR)

ü       Designed and Developed Classification Service to Assign Class, Subclass for Patent App.

ü       Designed and Developed Wrapper Services to Ad Gen functions and exposed as web services.

ü       Designed and Developed Custom web applications consumed by Patent Examiners.

ü       Improved quality of service by designing an integration model using service component architecture.

 

USPTO Search Tools EAST, WEST

Tech Lead -J2EE Applications:

Responsibilities:

ü       Provided architecture to the applications and did the detailed design of the functionality in the System.  

ü       Involved in J2EE design meetings and followed Industry standards for USPTO systems.

ü       Involved in analysis, design of application using OOAD and used MVC Architecture.

ü       Identified use cases, generated class diagrams, sequence diagrams and activity diagrams.

ü       Manage the systems lifecycle of the architecture itself to include feedback and periodic updates

ü       Provided support to have version management and release support.

ü       Provided support to Create/Update Documents such as Solution Architecture Document, Solution Design Document, User Interface Design Document, Installation Plans and Operational Support Plan.

ü       CSS, JavaScript and AJAX to match design and functionality defined.

ü       Involved in the design and development of Tier using Service Beans (Stateless EJB’s),

ü       Service locator, data transfer objects, data access objects, factory patterns.

ü       Used Hibernate to store the persistent data as an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) tool for communicating   with database.

ü       Developed logging, exception, service frameworks for quicker application development.

ü       Set up clustered Connection pools, Data Sources for load balancing and fail over mechanism

ü       Designed ant build scripts for deployments, integrations and configuration management.

 

J2EE -Technical Lead – Lockheed Martin Crystal City VA                                                                                                   Aug’ 2000 – May’ 2005

Project: EFS (Electronic Filing System) is a custom code and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)-based system that supports the electronic submission The EFS application consists of a client and a server portion: client  includes two software components: Authoring software that complies USPTO business rules and electronic data capture standards to help the applicant prepare a patent specification in  XML, PDF formats.

Principal Software Engineer:

Responsibilities:

ü       Involved EFS server design and coding using J2EE, CGI, ENTRUST toolkit, PKI, SSL.

ü       Involved in building an interfaces between web server and database server.

ü       Provided support for EFS-AISs data flow across EFS-EAI, PALM and IFW systems.

ü       Designed and Implemented XML technologies stack which includes XML DTDs, XML Schemas, and Web Services.

ü       Worked on updating Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and XML Schemas Definitions.

ü       Developed Web Services using reusable XML Schemas and DTD’s.

ü       Worked with data architecture group to develop data architecture standards and implemented XML technology in EFS product.

ü       Developed database security related utility programs.

ü       Developed and monitored Systems, submissions status to help customers via USPTO - EBC.

ü       Developed code for EFS-AIS interfaces modules like payment data routing (EFS-RAM).

Sr. Software Engineer - Landmark Systems Inc. Virginia                                                                                     Mar’2000 – Jul’ 2000

Project: WRDC (web reporting data center)  

Responsibilities:

ü       Generated Correlation Reports on a single metric measurement against entire infrastructure 

ü       Involved in the development of Metric reports, Machine Availability

ü       Inserting deleting and replacing a Child node from parent

ü       Converting the XML document to HTML using Language for mapping XML (LMX),

ü       Worked on SQL embedded in XML

Software Engineer   Cybex Info systems, India                                                                                                       Jan’ 1997-Feb’2000

Responsibilities:

ü       Implemented MVC Pattern by developing a controller Servlets.

ü       Followed the quality process used in the project such as configuration management,

ü       Preparing test cases and updating the test status with the status of the defects.

ü       Developed Session EJBs as part of the business tier development.

ü       Developed Data Access Objects to integrate with data tier.

ü       Validating the implementation for conformance to the design

CADD Engineer – Engineer CADD’s Center                                                                                                       Oct’ 1993 – Dec’ 1994

Responsibilities:

ü       Worked with computer aided design and drafting.

ü       Involved in structural design and drafting using STADD III             

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10+ to 15 Years

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Permanent resident

 

 

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