Sunil Arte

Sterling, VA • 703-869-9315 • sunil.arte@gmail.com

Summary

Mr. Arte is an IT Executive, Delivery expert, Technologist, Solution Architect and Certified Scrum Master

with over 19 years of progressive success in building, managing and supporting business critical

enterprise IT software for products/projects ranging from $20-50 Million. He has proven record in B2B,

B2C, Consulting and Government contracting with experience in business development,

platform/systems management, augmentation, integration and migration, client/vendor/sub-contractor

management, leading and mentoring mid–large teams. He demonstrates a unique combination of

technical and business acumen with strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills. He has

excellent Client/Team management skills with effective communication, is a quick learner, highly

motivated, result-oriented team player with demonstrated ability to deliver effectively in a fast paced

environment. Areas of expertise encompass:

Product/Project/Program Management • Client/Vendor Relations • Strategic Planning • Business

Development • Technical Delivery • Platform Management • Operations and Production Support •

Solution Architecture • Team Building & Leadership

Strong knowledge of CMMI, ITIL and Agile Project Management methodologies. Proven expertise in

Cloud Computing, Service Oriented Architectures, Rich Internet Applications, Business

Intelligence/Reporting. Skilled in .NET and Java technology stacks, numerous programming languages,

development and integration tools, databases, software packages and frameworks.

Professional Experience

CGI – Director, Consulting

Federal Cloud Hosting, Department of Interior

April 2014 – Present

  · In support of the Federal Cloud Hosting (FCHS) contract vehicle for the Department of Interior, Mr.

Arte is responsible for business development activities to grow a federal whitespace account by

responding to RFI, RFQ and RFP task orders from the government.

  · Solutions focus on helping government agencies migrate workloads to best-fit FISMA certified,

FedRAMP accredited public and government community clouds such as Azure, AWS, CGI,

Salesforce.com, etc. for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and Shared Service based offerings.

  · Won a $1.2 Million project with the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts to deliver a Drupal PaaS solution for

a Content Mangement System.

  · Engaged in cloud hosted solution architecture development, proposal management, proposal

response development, bid pricing, SLA development, vendor/partner relationship management and

related business development tasks.

  · Working closely with the CGI Federal’s Enterprise Technology Practice for the evolution of cloud

solutioning tasks such as DevOps for cloud automation, Management Service stack definitions for

cloud platform services (PaaS), cloud brokerage evaluation, private cloud hosting, hybrid cloud

support, cloud security, etc.

Federally Funded Marketplace (FFM), CMS

August 2013 – March 2014

  · In support of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), for the Federally Funded Marketplace (FFM), Mr. Arte

was engaged on special detail by CGI’s senior executive leadership to manage delivery of

Medicaid/CHIP application transfers between State Medicaid Agencies and the FFM to facilitate

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Sunil Arte

Sterling, VA • 703-869-9315 • sunil.arte@gmail.com

Qualified Health Plan or Medicaid/CHIP coverage for beneficiaries.

  · FFM is a Government Private Cloud based, CMS 3-Zone, Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture

based system developed on the RedHat JBoss platform with Mark Logic, Akamai, Terracota, Adobe

LiveCycle, Alfresco, Backbone, Javascript MVC, Spring and other enterprise frameworks.

  · He led a 22 member, cross functional team of Business Analysts, Developers, Data Architects and

Testers to manage end to end rolling delivery of the Outbound, Inbound and Outbound Response

functions.

  · 3 Million+ application transfers in the form of National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) based

XML payloads, were successfully completed to and from the States within 8 weeks of deployment.

  · His responsibilities included Project Delivery, Operations Management, Client Management of staff

from United States White House, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Office of

Information Services, reporting to the CGI executive team including CGI’s Global CIO.

Health Plan Management System (HPMS), CMS

September 2008 – July 2013

  · Mr. Arte managed Technical Delivery and Solution Architecture for the HPMS program which is a $13

Million/year contract with Division of Plan Data (DPD) a division of the United States Department of

Health and Human Services (HHS) and provided both strategic vision and tactical support across the

program.

  · In addition to client management and oversight of the technical delivery across the program, he

managed and mentored a geographically distributed technical team of 45-60 senior to mid-level

Technical Managers, Leads, Developers, Database Administrators and Testers.

  · He designed, developed and implemented the first ever .NET layered architecture at the Centers of

Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) by leading a team of talented senior to mid-level managers

and developers. He devised technical solutions for the modular and rolling migration to the ASP.NET

framework using enterprise level object and aspect oriented design patterns.

  · He envisioned and delivered XLC & SCRUM based Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

process solutions in government multi-contractor environments.

  · Implemented a metrics driven Governance model across the program for quality improvement.

  · Strategized and led the system UI Modernization to improve User/Mobility Experience.

  · He was engaged in developing Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Pricing, Resource Management

and Member onboarding.

  · Oversaw technical assessment of COTS products and Proof Of Concept development using tools

such as Dynamics CRM, Domo, Cognos, Tableau, Hadoop, etc.

  · Provided stategic direction and guidance for the enhancement, evolution and growth of the HPMS

contract by leveraging technology to support ongoing and future DPD business needs.

  · Worked closely with CMS management staff and multiple CMS contractors and vendors such as

Microsoft, HP, MITRE, Oracle and DOMO to collaboratively design and develop solutions best suited

for the HPMS program and to meet Production uptime SLAs.

  · Conducted SCRUM training for both Functional and Technical teams to adopt an Agile process.

  · Organized ongoing quarterly Technical All Hands meetings across the program.

  · Organized customized trainings for technical team members.

Health Information Oversight System (HIOS), CMS

April 2010 – May 2012

  · In support of the Affordable Care Act, he led a record 6 week Inception to Deployment delivery of

HIOS, a cloud based web system for the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight

(OCIIO), utilizing the Verizon Terremark Cloud as an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). The system is

a role based portal facilitating data collection from disparate sources/users. It supports real-time data

needs of HealthCare.gov with approximately 6500 concurrent users.

  · Developed APIs and Services for Health Plan Issuers to submit plan data to OCIIO.

  · Client rated this delivery a perfect 10 in a Customer Satisfaction score.

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Sunil Arte

Sterling, VA • 703-869-9315 • sunil.arte@gmail.com

CGI Federal, Health and Compliance Business Unit

September 2008 – Present

  · Across the Health Compliance Program BU, he has participated in business development activities to

yield successful contract wins of over $100 Million of projects such as HPMS Recompete 2013,

Federally Funded Marketplace 2011, Rate Benefit Insurance System 2011, HPMS Mod Extensions

2009.

  · Co–Founded the .NET Center Of Excellence (COE) across the BU to harness, engage and develop

the technical resource pool across the BU to promote knowledge sharing, standardization, technology

innovation coupled with member soft-skill development.

Previous Experience

Mathematica Policy Research Inc. Washington, D.C.

Systems Analyst II

October 2006–May 2008

  · Successfully led and deployed Phase-I of the re-design the What Works Clearing House (WWC)

website (as a part of a $56 million contract), from classic ASP to ASP.Net 2.0 using C#. Gathered

requirements and coordinated efforts with client and multiple project partners. Key features include a

multi-tiered web application architecture and a Workflow design using Sharepoint and Windows

Workflow Foundation using .NET framework 3.5, CORDA, Google Search Appliance (GSA), Log4Net,

iterative designs through meetings with project partners, etc. Some features include AJAX, use of

GoF patterns, custom error handling, asynchronous pages, transaction management, role based

membership and data access layer caching.

  · Co-Architected a custom WebSurv Designer – a Content system to design and deploy MPR’s

database driven Web Survey’s developed using a multi-layered, web service driven Windows Smartclient

application.

Verizon Inc., Falls Church, VA. Regional Operations

Graduate Internship

May 2006–September 2006, May 2005–September 2005

  · Designed and created automated workforce, dashboard-style metrics with features such as roll-up,

drill-down and clickable charts for the Potomac Regional team using ASP.NET 1.1, 2.0 and SQL

Server 2000 (DTS, Proc & UDF’s) on the Windows Server 2003 operating system. Built the data

marts and DTS packages. Reduced page load times from 6-10 seconds to milliseconds by designing

a caching architecture.

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Strayer University, Alexandria, VA

Graduate Teaching Assistant

June 2003 – July 2004, October 2005–April 2006,

September 2004–April 2005

  · Webmaster for the Information & Technology Labs website. Architected the labs website using

DreamWeaver MX, JavaScript and Perl on the Apache web server. Developed Windows applications

on the .NET platform using UML, GoF Patterns, C#, ASP.NET and Rational Rose for Security and

Artificial Intelligent (AI) applications. Architected a scalable distributed Event Response System using

C#, ASP.NET 1.1, SQL Server, Remoting, Windows and Web services.

MapQuest.com/America On Line Inc., Dulles, VA

Senior Programmer Analyst

September 2000 – December 2002

  · Defined and laid out the advertisements/promotions for the redesign of Netscape.com using TCL,

ADP, HTML, XML and JavaScript. Designed and developed a suite of tools to aid publishing to the

front-end web servers used for the Digitalcity.com website. Developed and enhanced features for

the AOL® Instant Messenger (TM) website. Developed the page code, assisted site architecture, did

content management, data warehousing for Visitorsguide, a service for the Digitalcity.com website.

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Sunil Arte

Sterling, VA • 703-869-9315 • sunil.arte@gmail.com

Frontier Systems Inc., Edison, NJ

Programmer/Analyst

May 1997 – September 2000

  · Developed numerous applications in VB, C++, COM, ASP, Java, JSP and XML to demonstrate the

variety of features provided in the MapQuest.com's ISAPI server extension DLL. Developed various

B2B applications for Kiosks, property site analyses, for clients such as Best Western and Hertz using

MapQuest’s BB, VC++, ActiveX components, Oracle 9i, etc.

Silverline Industries Inc., Mumbai, INDIA

Programmer/Analyst

Jan 1995 – May 1997

  · Developed an application for Sanyo, Japan using VC++ on English/Japanese Windows NT and

Sybase on UNIX. Developed an In-flight phone billing system for InFlight Phone Corporation Inc.

using Forms 4.5, Reports 2.5, Delphi and Oracle. Worked on ISO quality testing and documentation.

Skills

  · Software/Tools: MS Project, Visio, Magic Draw, MS Office 2013, Excel BI, Infopath, Team Foundation

Studio, VSS, MKS, Visual Studio (Online), JIRA, IBM CALT, Remedy, SVN, Jenkins, Maven,

Crucible, Fish Eye, Balsamiq, Dynamics CRM, SOAP UI, Splunk, Terracota, Toad, XML Spy.

  · Languages/Frameworks: Java, .NET Framework 4.0, 3.5, 2.0 & 1.1, Web API, WCF, WWF, WPF, C#,

VB.NET, ASP.NET, Microsoft P&P Application Blocks, UNITY, Object Relational Mapping using

NHibernate, Windows Sharepoint Services, AJAX, C/C++, SQL, CSS, HTML 5, XML, XPath, XQuery,

JavaScript, Knockout, Backbone, Angular, Object-Oriented Design Patterns, UML using Rational

Rose, RUP, CORDA (DOMO) Suite, Dundas, Java, SSAS

  · Perfomance Monitoring: App Dynamics, New Relic, Load Runner, JMeter, VS Test Manager

  · Databases: No SQL Mark Logic, Hadoop, SQL Server 2008, 2005 & 2000, SQL Server Integration

Services, DTS, SQL Server Reporting Services, Oracle 11g, 10i, 9i, Oracle Developer Suite, Micro

Strategy, MySQL, MS Access

  · Operating Systems/Web/App Servers: Windows Server, Windows 7/XP, Apache Tomcat, JBoss,

English/Japanese Windows NT, Windows 2000, Red Hat LINUX, UNIX (SunOS), IIS 7.*, 6.0 and 5.0

Certifications

Certifed Scrum Master

Microsoft Certified Professional and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 – Windows, Web and Distributed Applications

Developing and Implementing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual C#.NET

Awards

CGI Annual STAR Award (2010) for delivery of Health Insurance Oversight System

Education

Master of Science in Information Systems, George Mason University

Master of Mangement in Information Systems, Strayer University

Training

Project Management Professional Certification (PMP)

Agile Process using Scrum Framework

Pluralsight self-driven online training for continuous and ongoing technical development

Windows Communication Foundation Master Class

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