201-676-0582 · profilemi@gmail.comJersey City, NJ · 07310

 

Result oriented and performance driven Senior IT Professional exhibit over eleven years’ achievement in information technology consulting by re-engineering systems, architecting business transformation and building strong relationships with customers. Technology savvy and out-of-the-box thinker in emerging solutions, adept to quickly assess and utilize the appropriate response to meet the specific needs of the business requirements at hand. Acknowledged for delivering Global Transformative Initiatives related to Platform Consolidation, Infrastructure upgrades, data center/application migrations and End of Life Product upgrades; versatile and flexible, achieve client’s potential with strong time-management and multi-tasking skills to thrive in fast-paced backgrounds.

 

Areas of Expertise

 

 

Experience & Notable Contributions

 

HEALTHCARE CUSTOMER/COGNIZANT · NJ · 2016 – Present

Cloud Consultant

Develop cloud solutions across infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and software-as-a-service stack; deliver leadership and architectural expertise to customers to migrate on premise infrastructure or information to cloud. Analyze application portfolios and acknowledge common infrastructure platform components to assess migration feasibility.

·               Implement cloud based solutions with Microsoft Azure and System Center; run cloud architecture workshops with customers to cultivate cloud strategy; participate with consulting and managed services partners to achieve plans.

·               Improve enterprise solutions on cloud meeting industry compliance and security standards with PCI DSS, SOC-1&2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GxP, FISMA, FEDRAMP and FDA; advance automation to support self-service capabilities.

·               Define cloud governance structure, transformation strategy and migration roadmap for customers; cooperate with C level stakeholders, and AWS to aid customer adopt innovative and next gen solutions on cloud.

·               Excellently design hybrid cloud platforms, drive cost or benefit modeling and generate compelling business cases for migration; deliver performance tuning advice and optimization guidance across virtualization platforms.

 

GLOBAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT CUSTOMER/COGNIZANT · NYC · 2013 – 2015

Project Manager, Solution Architect

Designed conceptual, logical and physical blueprint as well as developed IT strategy and architecture vision; completed gap analysis and layout of architecture principles; defined architecture roadmap and planned the implementation strategy. Established a global platform based on SOA and Semantic principles; discovered concepts and designed Ontology Model (OWL) to drive the data model (RDBMS) and Services model (XSD). Supported proof of concepts on various technologies such as Semantic products to assess capabilities, which enabled organization to be more agile and support faster time to market for various capabilities. Architected proof of concept across IAAS and PAAS platforms to assess the feasibility of migrating from On-premise to Public/Hybrid cloud solutions of IaaS and PaaS instances between on premise to Public and Hybrid cloud for various solutions related to J2EE, .NET, LAMP, Oracle, Sybase, NoSQL, Linux or Windows, NAS, SAN, LAN, WAN, VPN, Security, Firewalls and Encryption. Designed highly scalable and fault tolerant application globally across regions in a short span of time to replace existing on premise standalone applications; produced architecture strategy for environment mapping in AWS. Set up a virtual private cloud, Identity and Access Management compliance as well as DNS and load balancers for customer and systems.

 

 

Professional Experience Continued…

 

 

·               Functioned on innumerable vendor solutions from Topbraid, Anzo, Virtuoso and others to build a Semantic system based on Ontology and SOA, which facilitated migration of various Legacy stack to, distributed systems.

·               Successfully handled increasing business needs and met a robust architecture globally; reduced total cost of ownership, improved stability, and resiliency, and facilitated a faster time to market for future changes.

·               Liaised with application owners for the adoption roadmap, requesting cost estimates, sprint planning and managed schedule of deliverables to ensure ultimate success and acceptance of program.

·               Presented pre-sales support for RFP’s and built culture for programs to accomplish continuous service improvements.

 

PRIVATE BANKING CUSTOMER/COGNIZANT · NYC · 2011 – 2013

Project Manager, Solution Architect

Provided solutions to various stakeholders across software development life cycle following Agile methodology; guided teams to match detailed design of solution to specified requirements; assessed current state and generated Architecture blueprint for target state of Data and application platforms, designed the integration capability across multiple systems, layout the OLA and SLA for the platform, define the delivery roadmap with the stakeholders and plan the implementation strategy. Upheld first-rate communication with Business and Technology stakeholders in the organization and presented weekly dashboard reports on program with stakeholders, Roadblocks and delivery issues across the respective audience in teams and management.

·               Designed applications or services and balanced architectural concerns of projects with the concerns of enterprise; drove a Global remediation initiative of User Defined Tools and migrated functionalities to a web based application.

·               Focused on conversion of certain requirements into architecture and design that ultimately constitute the blueprint; accomplished customer expectations and communicate updates to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner.

·               Initiated projects, assigned resources from business and tested strategies or delivery planning for several applications; aligned solution architecture with roadmaps and adhered to enterprise architecture principles.

·               Generated project plans, solicited estimates and administered budget requests; defined project member roles, tracked resources to meet timelines; completed program within tight schedule and budget.

 

INVESTMENT BANK CUSTOMER/COGNIZANT · NYC · 2009 – 2011

Infrastructure Lead

Administered a team of 10 employees and expertly took a lead role in drifting securities lending trading applications away from End of Life Products as Oracle 9i and MQ 6. Collaborated with different teams to build a global platform; supported internal and external audit initiatives for different SAS70 or SOX Seclending applications, for whole Seclending Business that facilitated the client for resource analysis, effort management, and task forecasting.

·               Controlled huge volumes of seclending trading data and application performance tuning for advanced features in IBM MQ 7; improved the Securities Lending Product to a higher version working with the vendor in the platform.

·               Generated automation scripts to migrate application to new servers, scripts to evaluate application and database; analyzed performance, testing high availability, clustering, disaster scenario testing, and final cutover.

·               Competently designed, analyzed, and settled reports using VB 6 and VB.NET with MS Access or oracle as backend running by an Autosys Scheduler, which helped the Business users for various calculations.

·               Produced blueprint for shared database infrastructure for cost based to rule based optimization techniques, SQL optimization, and performance testing with Oracle tools.

 

INVESTMENT BANK CUSTOMER/COGNIZANT · NYC · 2007 - 2008

Developer, System Analyst

Participated in development of the interface modules for a homegrown Enterprise Service Bus based on JMS and IBM MQ; organized Seclending applications to migrate transmissions to guarantee saving in operational and upkeep cost.

·               Expertly developed an in-house, robust job scheduler using open source Quartz API’s and Struts framework. Thus incorporated MVC architecture and fulfilled multi-tier J2EE specifications.

·               Established scheduler with a role based login, business calendar mechanism with workflow integration, persistence mechanism, and failover capability in a clustered architecture with JMX integration for real time monitoring.

 

·               Formulated monitoring scripts to application and databases in UNIX or Windows by Perl, Shell or Batch Scripting and automated production support processes, resulted in huge cost saving for the client.

·               Competently led hardware and software upgrades for application or database servers across development, UAT, Production and DR to assure application compatibility and performance.

 

INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CUSTOMER/COGNIZANT · India · 2004 – 2007

Developer, System Analyst

·               Developed J2EE modules for Investment Management trading and reporting applications on Websphere platform; efficiently managed a 24/7 team and performed knowledge transition regularly.

·               Successfully investigated data discrepancies, delivered expeditious solutions, identified prospective complications, and rendered efficacious process improvement suggestions.

·               Skillfully upheld development, testing, and production environment middleware infrastructure for BAU activities of the Bank and problem resolution on contingency situations.

·               Led disaster recovery as well as managed business critical trading platforms, accounting systems and messaging infrastructure for a global application stack.

 

Education

 

MS in Software Engineering | bits | Pilani, India

 

B.Sc. (Hons.) Computer Science | calcutta university | Kolkata, India

 

Certifications

 

AWS Solution Architect Associate, 2015 | AWS Developer Associate, 2015

Axelta Certified IOT Professional (ACIP) | PMP-PMBOK 4 | ITIL Foundation, 2011

SUN Certified JAVA Programmer 1.4 | Brainbench-UNIX, MQ, SQL | SIX SIGMA Yellow Belt-Cognizant Internal

 

Trainings

 

Cloud Foundry (@ PIVOTAL & IBM) | AZURE (@ Microsoft) | DEV OPS with Chef (@ AWS) | AWS IOT (@ AWS)

CASSANDRA (@ DATASTAX) | SEMANTICS (@ TOPBRAID) | Serverless Architecture (@ AWS)

 

Technology Skills

 

Platforms | Cloud:  IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, Windows | AWS, Azure, Cloud Foundry (Pivotal / IBM)

Databases:  Oracle 9i / 10g / 11g, MS-SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, Cassandra

Middleware | MQ:  Mule, See beyond Egate, SOA, REST/SOAP | MQ Series 7.0, Active MQ

Languages:  VB.NET, Java, J2EE, C, C++, VB 6.0, Perl, PL/SQL, Golang

Dev-Ops: Chef, Cloud-Formation

Monitoring:  Tivoli, Nagios, Eg Suite, Splunk, Foglight, Netcool, CA Wily

Hardware:  IBM P Series, HP Blades, SPARC, VMWARE ESX

App Server:  IIS, Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere

Modeling:  Semantic Modeling, ER Model

Scripts:  Shell Script, VBScript, DOS Script, Javascript

Version Control:  Subversion, PVCS, GIT

Build Tools:  Make, Ant, Maven, Jenkins

Framework:  Struts 2.0, Spring

ALM Tools: Jira, ALM Quality Center, Remedy, Confluence, Peregrine

IDE:  Eclipse, NetBeans, Visual Studio 2010 Professional, TOAD, DB Artisan, Atom

Office Tools:  SharePoint, Microsoft Visio, Project Professional, MS Office Suite

Practices: ITIL, Six Sigma, TOGAF, PMP, Scrum