Rajesh Shukla

8900 Independence Pkwy, Apt 22204

Plano, TX – 75025

Email: rajeshkshukla@gmail.com

Phone: 972-318-7964

SUMMARY

·               Seasoned IT leader with extensive experience in technology leadership & successfully driving Business Process Transformation, Business/IT Strategy Formulation, Roadmap / Target Architecture Development and management of IT resources to support and maximize the IT value chain.

·               Unique blend of business, consultative and technical skill sets resulting from a diverse professional background, a solid educational foundation, and several industry-recognized certifications.

·               Rigorous professional experience in IT industry at various levels of Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture & Application Architecture, Infrastructure, Security and Information Architecture. Participated in all phases of SDLC including planning, requirement gathering, system analysis, design, development, integration, testing, performance tuning, implementation, deployment and support related to Java/J2EE, .NET Internet, Intranet, SAP, IOT, Web 2.0, SOA, ROA, Cloud, Mobile, Omnichannel, Big Data, Distributed, Multi-threaded and Multi Tier web based, client-server technology and legacy based distributed application software.

·               Experienced in leveraging comprehensive modeling tools to analyze and optimize the portfolio of business strategies, organizational structures, business processes / tasks and activities, information flows, applications, and technology infrastructure.

·               Knowledgeable and experience in managing teams with varying experience levels, skill sets and technology focus.

·               Expertise in leading large complex IT Projects and Process Improvement Initiative from conceptualization to implementation, for various Fortune 100 organizations, resulting in multi millions cost saving over the years for multiple domains including Banking, Financial Services, Auto, Captive Finance, P&C, Healthcare, Insurance, Investment Banking, Transportation, Manufacturing, Energy, Oil & Gas, Pipeline & Utilities companies. 

CORE COMPETENCIES

·               Enterprise Architecture	·               SOA/Cloud Based Solutions	·               COTS Product/ Evaluation / Emerging Technology Analysis
·               Solution/System Architecture	·               EA Governance/Oversight	·               Stakeholder engagement, Project/Product Management

KEY Area of Expertise

Architecture:Framework (TOGAF/ Zachman, ITIL/CMM/COBIT etc.), Modeling (UML, BPMN, Archimate, ARIS, Alfabet, Casewise, Troux, Sparx EA)

Architecture Styles:SOA, SAAS, OOA, Web 2.0, Portal, Cloud Computing (IAAS/PAAS/SAAS), REST, EAI, Mobile, BigData, Omnichannel

Domains:Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, P&C, Pharmaceutical, Utility, Trading, Investment Banking, Commodity Trading, and Manufacturing

Language: JAVA (J2EE), C++, C, WSDL, BPMN, BPEL, BPEL4WS, WS-*, XML, XSD, DTD, XSL/XSLT, XPATH, XQUERY, SQL, PL/SQL, NoSQL, UML, HTML, JCL, COBOL, JavaScript, Perl, Shell Script, SOAP, WS-Security, UDDI, C#, .Net.

MethodologiesUnified Process (RUP), Agile Process (Scrum/XP/Kanban), Waterfall

RDBMS: Sybase 10X/11X, DB2 7X/8X/9X, Oracle 7x/8x/9x/10X/11X/12X, SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2012, MS Access

Security:SAML,LDAP, SSL security, JAAS, Spring Security, WebSphere security, Login, SSO, Authentication, Authorization Roles, X.509 Digital Certificates, Digital Signature, XML Encryption/Decryption, Binary Security Token, Web Services Security, RSA Key Manager, JSSE, JCE, TAM

Systems: HP–UX, Windows NT, Windows 98/2000/XP, Open VMS, OS/390, Sun Solaris, AIX, Linux

Technologies:SOA, WebServices, Spring Framework, AXIS, EJB(Stateful/Stateless/Entity/MDB),Hibernate, JPA, JDBC,JNDI,JMS, MQSeries, TIBCO, ActiveMatrix, Sonic ESB,IBM MessageBroker, ILOG JRule, JTA,JCA,RMI, HTTP,HTTPS, LDAP, Beans, ANT, JUnit, JFC, JTA, Servlet, J2C, FOP, CASTOR, PVCS

GUI:JSF, AJAX, YUI, JavaScript, Struts, JSP, CSS, HTML, Applet, Java Swing AWT Components

Cloud/SAAS Platform:AWS, Azure, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Workday, ServiceNow

Tools:Visual Paradigm, Archi, VMWare, Salesforce, SAP GL, SAP CRM, SAP ERP, SSIS(SQL Server Integration Services) WebSphere Process Server, WSSR, WebSphere V5.0/6.0/6.1/8.5, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS, PEGA, XML Gateway,  Oracle Fusion, AIA 3.0, OC4J, OSB, TIBCO Business Works, JBPM, BizzTalk, SharePoint, Office 365, IBM Rational Software Architect (RSA), Rational Application Developer (RAD), Websphere Integration Developer,  Eclipse, JAXB, CVS, VSS, Subversion, Microsoft Project, WSAD, Rational Rose 6, Power Designer, JDeveloper, JBuilder, JProbe, JMeter, Microsoft ActiveDirectory, Starteam, WinCVS, VAJ, Toad, SQL Developer, SQL Plus, Mercury Load Runner, Visual Studio .NET, Mainframe based CICS, Mercury Load Tester/QTP, GlassFish v2/v3, Netbeans IDE 6.x

EDUCATION/Certifications

MS Computer Science (India)

BS Electronics (India)

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF)

Certified SOA Architect (SOASchool)

Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA)

OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB)

Cloud Certified Professional (CloudSchool)

SOA Certified Professional (SOACP)

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Energy Future Holding, TX (Sr. Managing Enterprise Architect)05/2015 – Till Date

As a Sr. Managing Enterprise Architect at EFH, was responsible for establishing common vision and driving transformation/leading change across multiple business units which include EFH entities TXU Energy, Luminant Nuclear, Luminant Fossil and Wholesale commodity trading.

·               Provided oversight and drive the establishment for Integrated Project Management Office which includes PMO, OCM and Enterprise Architecture to increase the maturity of the organization from 0.6.

·               Responsible for Establishment of Architecture Forum, Technology Standard Council, Enterprise Architecture Matrix, and revision of Architecture Roles/Responsibility.

·               Lead the effort to develop the architecture models including Business/Technology Capability Model, App Landscape, strategy maps in turn facilitating long range planning, technology selection and solution design decisions.

·               Lead the Architecture Review Board and Technology Standard Council, ensuring compliance and enforcement of enterprise standards, alignment with long term vision, increased ROI & reduce risks /costs.

·               Partners and works closely with senior leadership, key service providers as well as IT service owner personnel to plan, design, and challenge the integrity of the current and future system architecture to support cross-functional business needs and align with longer term best practice standards, applied technology innovation and long term strategic vision.

·               Acted as resident expert for Enterprise Architecture matters for senior leadership.

·               Provided Solution Guidance and portfolio governance across the EFH IT Portfolio in turn helping build the Services/API catalog; Lead the definition of Service Strategy & Governance of Service Portfolio that aided in Integration of Applications, and orchestration of workflow using SOA/Cloud/BPM/ESB/ROA/EAI standards leveraging TIBCO.

·               Responsible for Cloud Strategy for the organization containing a mix of VMware based private cloud and AWS/Microsoft IAAS/PAAS/SAAS cloud hosting services. Provided thought leadership, feasibility study, TCO/ROI evaluation and architectural expertise to a cross-functional team charged with deploying a host of customer-related applications and data to the cloud

·               Responsible for delivering the mobile strategy and associated POC.

 

Harley-Davidson, WI/TX (Sr. Enterprise Architect)04/2014 – 05/2015

Sr. Enterprise Architect Consultant at Harley-Davidson responsible for IT/Business Service Portfolio spanning multiple functional business areas, with a special emphasis on Motor Company and captive finance arm “Harley-Davidson Financial Services” portfolio.

·               Responsible for setup/maintenance of Enterprise Architecture practice leveraging best of breed architecture process and frameworks including TOGAF, Zachman. Creation of framework for Architecture Governance and Enterprise Architecture standard work, as member of a team to advance EA practice maturity.

·               Oversee/Mentor EA team member; evangelize the benefits of Enterprise Architecture to business and IT stakeholders.

·               Establishment of Business Strategy, Technology strategy leveraging tailored TOGAF ADM steps and ARIS models which includes Virtual Integrated Digital Workplace, Cloud Computing Reference Strategy, Web Browser Two Prong Strategy, BigData Strategy, HDFS Pace Layering of Applications.

·               Strategic Planning, Governance Strategy, Architectural Guidance, Process Improvement and oversight related to Development, Designing, Enhancement, Integration and Migration of IT Applications, adoption of new technologies.

·               Working with senior IT leadership (C-Level Executive, Business Lead/Solution Architect, Process Leads, PMO) on enterprise strategic planning, Business-IT alignment, Business Process transformations, IT governance & IT risk management.

·               Responsible for development of strategic target state roadmap and overall architecture of strategic, tactical projects ensuring alignment & enterprise strategy compliance, as a member of the Architecture Review Board.

·               Performed domain assessment/gap analysis between current and future states for system conversion, recommended solutions and best practices for transition to strategic target state architecture, including adaption of Cloud/SOA\Mobile\Master Data\Big Data based strategy. Ensured the proposed recommendation adheres to vision including increase organization agility, simplification of IT environment resulting in multi millions in cost saving from increased efficiency, reduced TCO and increase ROI.

·               Lead the definition of Service Strategy & Governance of Service Portfolio leveraging Alfabet that aided in Integration of Applications, and orchestration of workflow using SOA/Cloud/BPM/ESB/ROA standards leveraging SAP PI, WebSphere Process Server, Mule ESB, Oracle Fusion etc.

·               Lead design, sizing, estimation, planning, code review and implementation of IT system related business solutions for Digital Workplace, Marketing Campaigns, Customer Support Center, Telephony, HDFS Servicing & Claims System Replacement etc., leveraging ARIS, Alfabet, COTS products, SAP, SAP- PI, ERP System, CRM, Tivoli, TFIM, LDAP, Java/J2EE/.NET/MQ, Mobile, HTML5, PHP, SQL, Groovy Grails, JavaScript, Oracle 11G, SQL Server, XML, Cloud, .NET, Azure, PASS, BPM, ROA, SOA, CISCO, Office 365, SharePoint, MDM Products (Analytical, Transactional, Business Object), Websphere Process Server, Mule, Hadoop, Reusable Web services/ interfaces.

·               Issue and Review RFI/RFP's, evaluation of emerging technologies, evaluate responses from COTS product vendors (including but not limited to CHP ALFA System & Oracle), to meet the business needs. Provided thought leadership, feasibility study, TCO/ROI evaluation with respect to migration of core servicing system to Cloud.

·               Led focused project teams in the configuration and customization of Salesforce.com, Office 365 and other SaaS applications.

 

JP Morgan Chase, TX (Vice President Lead Enterprise Architect)02/2012 – 03/2014

Working as a Lead Architect/Technology Evangelist for Home Lending team managing over $500,000,000 in technology investment, which included Strategic Planning, Governance Strategy, Architectural Guidance, Process Improvement and oversight related to Development, Designing, Enhancement, Integration, Migration of IT Applications.

·               Responsible for setup/maintenance of Enterprise Architecture practice leveraging best of breed architecture process and frameworks including TOGAF, Zachman and being an Active member of the Architecture Review Board (Council).

·               Overall architecture of 35+ strategic and tactical projects ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and direction, which included interfacing with the C-Level Executive, Business Lead/Architect, Process Leads, Information Architect, Infrastructure, PMO, CSR and Application Development teams and oversight to ensure conformance to standards.

·               Development of strategic target state roadmap and help with setting up, enforcing the Governance standard/policies, ensuring that solution/technical and service designs adhere to standards, principles and governance processes.

·               Aided PMO/Investment Review Board in scoping project/investment and release by providing designs deliverables, which can be leveraged by Business leads, estimated by the appropriate execution teams and ensures designs and patterns, are adhered to the enterprise architecture standards.

·               Performed domain assessment/gap analysis between current and future states for system conversion, recommended solutions and best practices for transition to Mortgage banking strategic target state architecture, including adaption of Cloud/SOA based strategy. Ensured the proposed recommendation adheres to vision including increase organization agility, simplification of IT environment resulting in multi millions in cost saving from increased efficiency, reduced TCO and increase ROI.

·               Integration of COTS products and customized vendor products (LPS MSP/embTRUST etc.), systems and application within the Enterprise, which included approx. 300+ Applications(Java/J2EE/.NET/MQ etc), Mobile Applications, PASS, ERP Systems, MDM Products (Analytical, Transactional, Business Object), Hadoop, Process Workflow, Reusable Web services/ interfaces.

·               Responsible for definition of Service Strategy & Governance of Service Portfolio that aided in Integration of Applications, and orchestration of workflow using SOA/Cloud/BPM/ESB/ROA based middleware product including PEGA, IBMCaseManager, and VMWare in house Framework etc. Leveraged ARIS for modeling the enterprise.

·               Rationalization of IT Portfolio and Provide Technical Architecture consultancy to multiple concurrent projects, which includes enterprise wide project to house Telephone Consent, Dodge-Frank, FHA-VA Recon, Claims, Foreclosure, DOJ and numerous regulatory projects.

·               Review RFI/RFP's, evaluate responses/ COTS product vendors, evaluation of technologies & proposed solutions.

 

Capital One, TX (Sr. Consultant/Architect)03/2011 – 01/2012

Capital One is fortune 500 US based bank specializing in credit card, home loan, Auto loan, banking and saving products. Working as a Senior Consultant/ Lead Architect/Technology Evangelist for Online Banking team leveraging ITSM/ITIL Process in Agile and Waterfall Environment, which includes providing guidance in defining overall strategic plans, governance strategy, Architectural Guidance related to Development and Designing of New Application / Enhancement /Integration and migration to SOA.

·               Development of strategic target state roadmap and help with setting up, enforcing the Governance standard/policies, ensuring that solution/technical and service designs adhere to standards, principles and governance processes. Active member of Architecture Board with authority to provide the Build permits. Leveraged ARIS for modeling the enterprise.

·               Establish, build and enhance partnerships with internal and external leadership, PMO, Helpdesk and other stakeholders to understand business needs, obtain buy-in on approach, and build consensus.

·               Defined SOA Service/Governance Strategy to ensure conformance to SOA governance standards while creating SOA/BPM/Cloud/ROA based architecture for Online Banking (OLB) & Online Acquisition (OLA) Platform, driving the merger of authentication mechanism for the 2 separate environments, entry into Boston market etc.

·               Provided Architecture consultancy to multiple concurrent projects, which includes addition of chat functionality in Texas Region, Entry into Boston Market, Merge of Authentication Systems used with enterprise, migration of Bank Alerts systems towards enterprise strategic path. Direct, facilitate, and manage work of geographically distributed project teams through conference calls, meetings, and mentoring on Project.

·               Performed domain assessment/gap analysis between current and future states for system conversion, recommended solutions and best practices for transition. Perform peer reviews of designs and solution proposals to ensure conformance to current practice and quality of work being generated.

·               Review RFI/RFP's & evaluate technologies, responses from COTS product vendors.

 

Fannie Mae, TX (Sr. Consultant)06/2009 – March 2011

Sr. Consultant

Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) is a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) chartered by the United States Congress to support liquidity and stability in the secondary mortgage market, where mortgage loans are purchased and sold. Working as a Senior Consultant for Credit Loss Management team of Fannie Mae which includes providing guidance in define overall strategic plans for reducing human intervention for loan modification and credit loss management process.

·               Spearheaded, architected and delivered solution to support the File Workflow at the enterprise level, including overall Solution Design, end-to-end Process Flow, Web Services definitions/message formats /security credentials/SLAs /Constraints /system alerts and standard reusable integration interfaces for Authentication and Authorization, Auditing etc. in a environment leveraging ITSM/ITIL/Waterfall process.

·               Created reusable shared services infrastructure through web services creation to act like an adapter to integrated systems. Using Tibco tools. Redesigned solution to utilize the standard TIBCO Activematrix Adapters for Database connectivity and FTP, that can be reused for Enterprise integration

·               Establish, build and enhance partnerships with internal and external leadership, PMO, Helpdesk and other stakeholders to understand business needs, obtain buy-in on approach, and build consensus.

·               Performed domain assessment/gap analysis between current and future states for system conversion, recommended solutions and best practices for transition resulting in increased production efficiency of 26%.

·               Provide Technical Architecture consultancy to multiple concurrent projects and helped ensure that we are moving towards the strategic direction while meeting tactical needs.

·               Was responsible for Costs Benefit Analysis and Risk Assessment of various COTS/ Open-source products.

·               Review RFP's, evaluate responses/product vendors and recommend solutions, Created overall Architecture, System Spec, Governance and Design Doc.

·               Aided management in scoping projects/investments/releases/governance and keeping them apprised of potential risks and possible ways to mitigate them. Gave technical guidance to the team and helped with setting up the standards.

 

USAA, TX (Sr. Software Engineer)11/2007 – 04/2009

As a member of the Infrastructure team was responsible for providing technical solutions and infrastructure (integration) components for USAA.COM and other channels used to support more than 150 products and services including Auto, Homeowners, Banking, Insurance, Mortgage, Investment etc. in an environment leveraging ITIL/ITSM Process. The services provided at usaa.com allows members to check balances, pay bills, transfer money between accounts, get stock quotes, and even file insurance claims etc.

·               Managed/Provided support for various Infrastructure components used by 3000+ HA applications with 100% uptime of USAA.com deployed on 180+jvms on WebSphere Application Server V5X/6.0/6.1 Farms with approx 30 million hits per day.

·               Performed domain assessment/gap analysis between current and future states for system conversion, recommended solutions and best practices for transition.

·               Conducted workshops with DBA to design/model/remodel the existing/new entity services used for CURD operations by various applications. Helped with the migration from WAS 5x to 6x.

·               Helped in developing and implementing/governance strategy, solutions and process to migrate the WebSphere based solution to JBOSS based SOA architecture resulting in $30,000,000 plus in cost saving over the years.

·               Aided management in scoping projects/investments/releases and keeping them apprised of potential risks and possible ways to mitigate them. Gave technical guidance to the team and helped with setting up development standards.

 

Fortis Merchant Banking, TX (Sr. Consultant /Solution Architect)02/2007 – 10/2007

Work as a Sr. Consultant for Commodity Trading Team of Fortis Merchant Banking which involves providing technical solutions for commodity trading applications including trade capture, generation of forward volatility curves/risk management, etc.

Come up with SOA based technical solutions including application architecture and designing Java, J2EE, JMS, TIBCO, and WebServices solutions based on the assessment of application needs. Made the required enhancement to current energy trading large scale multithreaded application running on 30+ servers

JPMorgan Chase, TX (Sr. Consultant)06/2004 – 02/2007

Provided Solutions to Market Risk Technology Team for various analytical needs including calculations/models to determine value at risk (VaR), analytical reports for risk management including interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk, equity price risk and commodity price risk

Overall Solution Design that includes end-to-end Process Flow, Web Services definitions/message formats/security credentials/ SLAs/ Constraints/ system alerts, integration interfaces using diversified technologies including Fuego, Java, J2EE based webservices.

Designed complex/multi-threaded application including reusable UI/Application framework, Handling various XML and data feed files coming from different internal and external vendors including Bloomberg and Reuters, integration of JPMorgan proprietary tools/applications including VAR calculators, diagnostics jobs and single sign on apps like JADE/IBM East and Site Minder in-turn providing guidance on utilization of tools/technology to support the needs.

Blue Cross Blue Shield, RI (Architect/ Sr. Consultant)             01/2004 – 05/2004

Established strategy for migration of legacy mainframe based application for processing medical insurance claims to web based multithreaded intranet application complying with the prevailing HIPPA standards in the healthcare industry including X12 / EDI 834, 835, 837, and 277/278 messages

Led a team of 4 developers in Designing/Architecting the application leveraging Java/J2EE/WebSphere/Oracle/DB2 and XML based technologies, which involved coming up, with the effort estimate for the developers, working with project manager to create a project plan for the project.

Tenet Healthcare, Dallas, TX (Sr. Consultant/System/Application Architect)             05/2003 – 12/2003

Architected DClaims, an online claims processing system developed for the health care industry based on HIPAA compliance to facilitate faster and increased accuracy in the claim processing and workflow management which in turn helped to significantly reduce the number of claims that were rejected due to billing errors and reduced the number of days in receivables for providers (tenet healthcare facilities like PBAR, Patcom, Medseries) and payers (Mutual Of Omaha, Proxymed, etc.) leveraging Java/J2EE based technologies and design patterns. Developed Ecare System for allowing secure sharing of electronic patient records within various Tenet Healthcare Hospitals using C#, Crystal Reports, ASP.NET using Visual Studio.NET.

American Bureau of Shipping, TX (Sr. Consultant/Application Architect/ Programmer Analyst)              01/2003 – 05/2003

Architected and successfully implemented system for world wide offices/global clients of ABS allowing global users to get critical information about the shipping model including rules, vessel information, creating ship model, as per the specification/guidelines of ABS, leading to certification from American Bureau of Shipping.

Led team of 6+ developers during all phases of SDLC to implement using Java/J2EE/Unix/XML/Oracle/Weblogic/Oracle/ Webservices based technologies. Leveraged UML for object modeling/deciding phases, iterations, and milestones of the application using RUP

Duke Energy, TX (Sr. Consultant)01/2001 – 12/2002

Architected/Developed Systems for one of the top Gas Pipeline & Power company, providing natural gas customer and Commodity Traders with valuable pipeline information as well as automation of the gas transmission process including nomination, capacity release, confirmation, invoicing, contracts, and deals.

Assisted in successful migration of legacy IBM-Mainframe system by Leading/mentoring team of developer for implementing solutions using Java/J2EE/Sonic MQ/JMS/XML/Castor/EJB based technologies. Designed/modeled the operational data stores to support the invoicing activities on DB2 platform.

ITC, NJ (Lead Software Engineer)03/2000 – 12/2000

Leaded the product development effort for the insurance industry allowing agents to get real time quotes over the Internet for customers, thus streamlining the process of obtaining the insurance quotes home, jewelry, fine arts, furs, silverware, cameras, wine and other valuable properties. Functionality was implemented using Enterprise JavaBeans, Java Servlets, JDBC, JSP, Swing and HTML

Century Yarn/Denim (Senior Software Developer/Team Leader/Project Leader)08/1997 – 02/2000

Designed, Developed and leaded efforts to automate multiple systems within Century Yarn and Denim including inquiry system to support the request of details about denim. Material Management System to fully automate the store’s purchase department of Century Yarn and Denim plant.  Leaded and successfully implemented the effort to automate the Human Resource Department of Century Yarn and Denim. The system where developed using Java, J2EE, Sybase, COT Products etc.

Systematics (Software Engineer/Developer/Analyst)08/1994 – 07/1997

Managed Programing Team and Leaded the coding effort to develop Products leveraging UNIX, C, C++, Oracle technologies to handle the Material Management of any Manufacturing Plant, Hospital Management System to aid in efficiently manage hospital resources. University System to handle student fees due, fees receipt, and supporting examination information roll number and section wise