Profile

§    Over 20 years of experience in leading, Designing and developing Enterprise Level Software in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

§    Over 9 years of Architect level experience leading and managing big projects.

§    Over 10 years’ experience in ecommerce environment.

§    Strong communication skills and excellent team player with leadership qualities.

§    Experience with using agile methodology for Software development.

§    Experience with AWS and cloud technology

§    Experience in Big Data technologies.

 

Work Experience

Bose Corporation-Online Commerce Group (OCG) – Sr. Architect (Apr'07 - Present)

Responsibilities

§    Architect and deliver application and technical solutions to meet business needs.

§    Provide technical solutions to teams in CIS.

§    Strategize, design and implement Big Data Initiative at Bose.

§    Define the long term architecture vision for the Bose connected products.

§    Work with the teams across the globe to define the new Global e-commerce platform.

§    Improve SDLC process to enable better utilization of resources and communication to the business.

§    Mentor team members on OOAD to improve the overall standard of the product.

§    Optimize the use of off-shore resources for on-going project work.

§    Primary technical liaison between all divisions within the Online Commerce Group at Bose. While acting as primary solution provider for the group, facilitate the work & communication between content management, project management, system administration, page design & production.

§    Continuously introduce new tools and practices to our team.

§    Head up the technical project to introduce our first truly internationalized framework.

§    As Security Lead for the group, responsible for defining the overall strategy for securing our environment.

§    Lead and manage the development function within the online team.

 

Accomplishments

§ Successfully lead, Designed and implemented several new architectures from the ground up.

§ Introduced a simpler Use Case template which has been adopted by both business and technical team.

§ Promoting design first approach to Software development process.

§ Training/mentoring team members on when and how to use UML design tools as part of their development cycle.

§ Refining how the interaction between the business and technical teams should happen for ongoing project statuses.

§ Improved the process for off-shore team interaction and instituted code review procedures.

§ Lead the team of key people from all business units to define the vision for the online platform.

§ Delivered key projects on time

Key Projects

Bose Big Data Platform (Bose Insights)

§ Evaluated various Big Data offerings/platforms to determine best fit for Bose based on agility, scalability and business requirements.

§ Design how data from different sources within Bose can flow to this platform to create a Data lake.

§ Interact with various groups within Bose to understand their need for analysis and data.

§ Help define the vision/scope and timelines for the Bose Insights platform.

§ Communicate progress and status to CIS and Bose leadership.

§ Build/design a highly scalable architecture for collecting Usage data from Bose Devices and apps.

§ Collaborated with various teams within CIS and product teams to determine requirements and align on a common approach and architecture.

 

Connected Products (SoundTouch) – Cloud Architect

§ Define the vision and architecture for the cloud platform that supports the connected products and applications.

§ Collaborated and interact with various teams to get alignment and define the ecosystem.

§ Help create the roadmap and architecture for future connected products.

§ Designed and implemented the services in the cloud. The cloud application is built on Microservices architecture pattern and REST web services.

§ Successfully ported the platform from a hosted environment to AWS cloud using chef for automation and configuration management.

§ Lead a cross functional team to execute and deliver the project successfully.

§ Currently leading an effort to define the future state of this platform and architecture.

 

Awarded with the Directors award for my contribution to this project.

Improved the performance of the platform to handle more than 1000 requests/sec from around 60.

 

Global E-Commerce Platform – Architect

·   Part of the core team that defined the requirements and roadmap of the new platform.

·   Participated in choosing e-commerce, content, hosting and integration vendors through RFI and RFP process.

·   Hired and guided how the new global team will work and operate under the new platform.

·   As member of the Architecture team designed the new Global architecture keeping in mind scalability, availability, security and future business needs.

 

Regional Site Framework (RSF) – Architect/Lead (Eclipse, J2EE, Weblogic, SQLServer, Rose, EJB3, JPA, Hibernate, Agile)

RSF is the next generation platform that allows Bose Corporation to support multiple Regions and sites in multiple languages.

§ Architected and developed the Regional Site framework starting from getting requirements, defining the scope to delivering the end product.

§ Worked with the Content team to define their requirements and architected the Content Management and delivery solution for the new framework.

§ Several regions live on the framework since RSF framework went live.

§ Business is already seeing cost savings that can be achieved on this platform.

§ Less coupling between the Production team, development tasks, content authoring allows new sites to be launched with minimal efforts.

§ Amount of work needed to add a new Region/Site is very low as the framework provides all the infrastructure service like e-commerce, authoring, content delivery, Security etc. out of the box.

§ Able to respond to business needs efficiently and quickly.

§ Formed and lead a cross-functional team to define the vision for the next version of the platform which was successful implemented.

Services Framework

·   Designed and architected the full lifecycle for the new Services framework.

·   The services framework is a common layer between the legacy and the RSF application that enables integration with third party vendors

·   Introduced dependency management as part of the project using IVY.

·   Defined how the existing apps integrate with the new framework.

 

       AXA Region Launch – Architect/Technical Lead/Business Analyst

§ Helped in gathering requirements and did business analysis for e-commerce functionality which also included how the administration screens work.

§ Able to deliver the project on time despite tight schedules and missed requirements

§ As part of this project enabled e-commerce functionality which is now available to any sites that are on RSF framework.

§ Designed and developed the solution.

§ Delegate tasks to team members including off-shore resources.

§ Introduced and Used Agile methodology for the project.

Testing Framework

• Introduced testing framework for both the legacy application and the new RSF platform.

·   The new framework enables developers to test all the layers in our application.

·   The framework also included HttpUnit test framework to enable Integration testing.

·   Added support for cleaning the database before each test case and also insert setup data needed for test.

National Leisure Group (NLG) – Technical Lead (June '05 – Apr ‘07)

§    Worked on the eEuclid product, used by the Agents and other departments internally for booking vacations and cruises.

§    Architected solutions and lead projects including design and impact analysis.

§    Collaborated with other Product line members when a project spans across Product lines.

§    Interacted with end Users/BA’s to get requirements and discuss proposed solutions.

§    Supported Production environment with Clustered Weblogic Servers and Oracle Database.

§    Managed third party processes for Credit Card settlement/Rewards/Commission etc.

Key Projects

Time Share Project – Technical Lead/Architect (Eclipse, J2EE, AJAX, JASON, Weblogic, Oracle, EA)

§ Lead the eEuclid development team to enable Hilton Timeshare customers to exchange Points for Cruises.

§ Interacted with BA’s to get the requirements.

§ Designed and architected the solution using UML.

§ Project spanned across other product lines - Vixen (Middleware API), Reporting, Web Product. Co-ordinated with all these teams with the proposed solution and design.

§ Managed the development phase by delegating work between developers. Wrote the main infrastructure for Points Management and validation.

§ Designed and Integrated with new Vendor API through Web Service to finalize booking.

Achievements

§ Delivered the Timeshare project on time despite resource constraints.

§ Introduced Use Case approach in the IT team. Trained Business Analysts and produced a workable format.

§ Understood the crux of the application and shelved out the requirements that were not usable.

§ Able to in-corporate the Refund Projects changes to allow refunds of points through the new infrastructure within weeks of the Refund projects launch.

Leads Management – Technical Lead

§       Did Business Analysis for the project by talking to subset of User community.

§       Designed the Lead Management System keeping in view how to integrate existing e-leads functionality and other sources of Leads.

§       Managed the development of the Product through delegating development work to team members.

Achievements

§        Focus on User requirements made this project a big success with Agents using this extensively.

Unisys Corporation Publishing division – Sr. Software Engineer (Feb '00 – June ‘05)

§    Technical Architect responsible for designing, developing and maintaining 3 Product lines within the Advertising group.

§    Reusable Assets: Played vital role as a Member of the HFWS (Horizontal framework Services committee). HFWS is a Unisys worldwide effort to identify and support and maintain Reusable Asset within Unisys.

§    Technical lead for group involved in studying and analyzing feasibility of integrating Advertising Manager with an ERP product.

Metro: Next generation advertising Product – Associate Architect

§ Involved in re-designing and re–writing of the current AdCenter product with next generation product. Part of a core team responsible for studying the current system, analysis and design for the new architecture, and creating the initial infrastructure and environment for further development.

§ Gathered User requirements using the Use case approach. Facilitated brain-storming sessions for the same.

§ Architected and developed the distributed application using J2EE (JSP, Servlets, EJB, custom JSP tags), Oracle, MS SQL, XML.

§ Performed system architecture, software development, database design, deployment, testing and performance tuning for the project.

§ Responsible for all client communication, both written and verbal, throughout the project

§ Assessed and designed integrating Advertising product with a CRM Product. (Applix and Seibel)

Environment: J2EE Platform, Weblogic Server, Tomcat, Rational Rose, XML, XSL, Visual Cafe, Requisite pro.

Online Order Entry – Associate Architect

§ Designed and developed an online Order Entry System which maps to Web view and Control part of the MVC architecture. The Version 4 AdCenter formed the Model, which enables online processing and entry of Ads. The JSP pages were compiled and created through the XML2JSP transformation tool.

§ XML2JSP Transformer: Developed and designed a transformation tool that generates JSP pages taking XML document as input. Defined a new XML based language to define JSP pages for Advertising. This language had full-fledged support for scripting and layout and could be customized through XML.

Environment: Java Servlets, JSP, Taglibs, XML, XSL, Weblogic Server, Tomcat, Rational rose, Requisite pro, Visual Cafe, Java, XML, SAX parser

Horizontal Services Framework toolkit

§ Contributed in Prototyping for Horizontal Services Framework toolkit in J2EE. (Now a Unisys Reusable Asset)

§ Took part in design and architecture sessions to generate the initial UML diagrams.

Environment: J2EE Platform, WSAD, Websphere, Rational Rose, Web Services

Migration System

§ Designed and developed a Migration Utility that enables sites to upgrade their System from one version to a newer version. This utility uses DTC (Data Transformation Services) part of SQL Server 2000 to transfer data between databases and the frond end was developed in Visual Basic. Supports adding of new Migration paths for new Upgrades.

Knoxville Sentinel

§ AdCenter Server: Successfully designed and Implemented Multi-threaded COM+ n-tier AdCenter Server capable of handling inputs from various source including Web, Adstar, FaxAction. Deployed the Server to handle requests from third party online system. Replaced outdated single threaded system and decreased the request time by 75%.

Environment: VB6, COM+, Crystal.

§ Successfully deployed and integrated Adcenter Server with third party web product.

§ Lend technical support to delivery team in upgrading Knoxville customer to the current version of software. Able to cut the upgrade time from 3 days to around 12 hours.

Sanfrancisco News Agency (SFNA)

§ Workflow Manager: Successfully designed and implemented Workflow Manager which enables Orders to be routed through different departments for reviewing, censorship etc. Gathered requirements by talking to different department heads in the newspaper, gave presentations to ensure that workflow meets the requirements. Designed the workflow to be configured for each site.

Environment: VB6, Oracle Stored Procedures.

§ Extended AdCenter Server to support multiple Actions enabling users to Stop, Renew their orders. The Adcenter architecture allows more actions to be added without affecting the overall architecture.

Achievement: Recognized by the customer for excellent support and timely response to their queries.

§ Logging Architecture: Designed and developed logging architecture for Advertising product using MSMQ and COM+ transactional objects. Ensured that logging does not affect the performance of overall Order taking process.

§ Unattended Process Manager: Developed and designed a distributed n-tier system (DCOM) that supports scheduling jobs to be run on different servers in different locations.

§ Successfully delivered and handled version 4.24 of Advertising product on time and thus avoided defaulting the contract. Managed contractors to get the version out on time.

Cabletron Systems – Software Engineer. (Aug99 - Feb00)

§ Worked in the Spectrum group (software division) at the Durham Center.

§ Designed and developed applications for Version 4 of Traffic Accountant in C/C++ on UNIX.

§ Integrated LFAP (Lightweight Flow Accounting Protocol) Version 3 and 4 products.

§ Designed and developed software using SNMP for polling the router for flow readings and generating a flat file from it.

Computalog Ltd. - Coordinator. (Oct96 to Dec97)

Inventory Tracking and Logistics Application: Developed an application to manage personnel and material for an oil service company. It kept track of various drilling and logging tools used all across Canada on various locations, including their usage history. The manager could schedule personnel and material for upcoming projects. Environment: VB, SQL Server.

Skills

Databases	SQL Server ,Sybase, Oracle, MS-Access, FoxPro,
Data Access	ADO, RDO, ODBC, JDBC, JPA, Hibernate
Dev. Tools	Visual Studio, Visual Café, Kawa, JBuilder, Visual Studio .NET, Eclipse, Power Builder.
Case Tools	Rational Rose, ERWin, Provision, StarUML
Languages	PL/SQL, SQL, C, C++, Cobol, IBM Smalltalk, Java, Visual Basic, UML, VB .Net, C #, AJAX, JASON
Markup	HTML, XML, XSL, CSS, XPATH, SAX, DOM, JAXP.
Java	Java Servlets, JSP, Taglibs, Spring, JPA
Distributed	EJB 3 & 2, CORBA, DCOM, RMI, COM+, MSMQ, JMS, Web Services
App Servers	Weblogic 6.1 and 8.1 & 10, JRun, Tomcat, Websphere
Web Servers	Apache, IIS, Sun WebServer
Make Tools	Ant, CruiseControl, Unix Make.
Scripting	JavaScript, VBA, Rhino, Shell Scripts, Groovy
OS    Big Data No SQL      AWS Automation	Windows NT, 2000 & XP, Unix. Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Spark, AWS EMR. Sqoop. Cassandra, Mongo DB, HBase, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, EC2, S3, Data Pipeline, RDS, SQS, VPC AWS OpsWorks, Chef
Others	MS-Project 98, RETE-based Rule Engines, Ivy, Maven

Education

1998 – 1999	Master of Science/Computer Information Systems, New Hampshire College, Manchester, NH.
1997 – 1998	Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management, ITM, Navi Mumbai, India.
1992 – 1995	Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honors, Hans Raj College, India.
1993 – 1995	Higher Diploma in Software Engineering, Aptech Institute.

 

Training

§ Fundamentals of J2EE Web Application using Weblogic Server 6.1 (BEA training)

§ Developing Enterprise Applications with Weblogic Server 6.1. (BEA training)

§ Oracle Database Administration.

§ .NET Technology

§ Analysis and Design using UML.

§ Web Application Security certification.

§ CSSLP Training

§ AWS: Architecting on AWS

§ Big Data Boot camp

§ Sun Certified Java Programmer for Java 2.

§ BEA Weblogic Server Certified Specialist.

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Awards/Achievements

§ Awarded Innovator award for the year 2011 at Bose.

§ Awarded with Unisys Silver Recognition award in June 2004.

§ Topped Masters Program in the year 2000 at New Hampshire College.

§ Adjudged best basketball player in Inter-school tournament in India.

§ Acted as Sports Captain of the school in India.