Chetan Desai 847.529.8545 ChetanBDesai@hotmail.com

 

Summary:

Software design and architecture: Software re-engineering and reverse engineering, RUP,  Integration, and web patterns, experience developing application frameworks, experience in Enterprise architecture, Data and Information architecture, Solution and application architecture.

Data warehousing and Architecture:  DW architecture, ODS, Staging Area, Data mart design, data mapping, conceptual, logical, physical data modeling and sizing, ETL frameworks, ABC frameworks, warehouse tuning. Universe design, OLAP, ODS, Data mart, EDW, in-memory database, multi cluster data warehouse, Bigdata and Open source ETL, data appliances and cloud computing analytics, decision engines implementation and portal integration

Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Data Architecture: Governance, Meta data dictionary, Master data, Operational, predictive and analytical BI, Enterprise Information & Industry data model, Architecture standards, patterns, Review board participation, Warehouse Stakeholder management, Solution Marketing and budget approval.

Business analysis: Requirement gathering workshop, data and object models, analysis of current business process and business process workflow, enterprise model creation and analysis.

Project Management:  Agile, SDLC and product development experience, Production support, staffing, team development, infrastructure requirements definition, project budgeting, change control, RFP, pre and post sales engineering, Managing software product development.

Industry: Healthcare, Digital Media, Banking, Retail, B2B, Telecom, Chemical simulation, ERP, CRM

 

Technical skills:

Application: Healthcare, Banking, Corporate Finance, CRM, Marketing, Sales and Distribution, MRP, CRP, e-Commerce, and Telecom Billing

Internet: JMS, Web services, Hibernate, Spring, Struts, XML, JSP, Servlets, JavaBeans, EJB, Java, and internet/extranet/ASP,

App Servers: WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache, and JBOSS

O/S: Linux, Solaris, HPUX, IBM-AIX, AS/400, and Windows

Databases: DB2, Oracle, MS-SQL, Informix, Sybase, MySQL, Netezza, and Teradata,

Languages: Java, C++, PL/SQL, SQL, Pro*C, C, C#, VB, VC++, ASP, and ASP.NET

Methodology: RAD, SSAD, OMT, Use Case, RUP, Agile, SDLC and Xtreem

Tools: WASAD, WebLogic WS, VisualStudio.Net, Rational Rose, SQL*Plus, XMLSpy, Eclipse, Blaze rules engine, Ilog Rules engine, Webmethods, TIBCO, MQ, Web sphere ESB, process server, FileNet BPM

Data Warehouse: Data Stage, AbInitio, Business Objects, MSSQL, Pentaho, Netezza, 

OLAP: Hyperion, Cognos, Microsoft Analysis Services, Pentaho

Bigdata/ Cloud: Cassandra, SPARK, H2O, Sparkling water, Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Cloudera, AWS, S3, VMware, GitHub

Cloud:Azure, AWS: EBS, S3, EC2, VPC, EMR, Redshift

Analytic: R, Revolution analytic, Weka, H2O, Sparkling water

Analytics Application: Machine Log processing, Digital media and Click stream analysis, Risk Management Application, Actuarial and Underwriting, Clinical and Risk scores

 

Education & Certifications

Master in Business Administration � Graduated 1996 - Institute - Welingkar institute of management research (India)

Bachelors of Science -  Industrial Engineering � Graduated 1989 Institute � RIT � (India)

Project Management Professional (PMP) � Achieved 2003 (Current)

Sun Certified Java Professional � Achieved 2003

TOGAF Foundation

Working on Spark certification and H2O, Sparkling water.

 

ASSOCIATION:

PMI, IIBA, EMA-I (Leading Technology Strategy Group), other non-profit organization

 

Professional Experience:

 

Solution Architect -PrimeBlueCross BlueShield of Michigan 4/2012 � 1/2016

Part of the CTO group reporting to the Chief Architect in one of the largest Health insurance provider that was implementing various IT portfolio realignment for National Healthcare reform.

Technology: Java, .Net; DB: MSSQL, Oracle; ETL: Informatica; MDM: Initiate; ESB: Data Power, WebSphere; Reporting: Business Object, SAS, Cognos, SQL Server. Also provided architecture input for Cloud and various Bigdata platforms like Pivotal, Netezza, Cloudera. 

Part of multimillion dollar project leadership committee on two programs reporting to executive sponsors

Lead solution for various programs and companywide IT portfolio change

Help create a business case and technology vision for large projects/ programs spanning multi years and multimillion dollars ($10 M-15M/year) and present it to the EOC (Executive Oversight Committee)

Guide various IT directors and delivery team on setting IT portfolio vision, IT planning and delivery, blue printing and implementing road maps.  Presented the case to various executive teams and IT leaderships.

Member of lead committee for program governance. Guide business leadership in workflow and process redefinition strategy and Worked as Technical liaison between blues.

Present the business case, Blue prints, Solutions in various governance committees like TRB, ARB, EOC, Directors reviews...

Closely work with various consulting companies like McKenzie, PWC, Accenture, on blueprinting, business case definition

Worked on key strategic Analytics programs like Risk assessment and Revenue management, Actuary, underwriting & pricing realignment

EDW enhancement, Agent self-service reporting, Actuary DataMart, Book of business data extraction, BO upgrade

ETL reviews and design, data model reviews and data lake and feed design and reviews, provide guidance on deployment and testing. Various reporting Infrastcure integration with Portals, Master data alignments and integration  

Various artifacts creation and reviews viz. Mapping documents, ETL design, Data policy, Obfuscation and security design,

Participated in various enterprise architecture framework creation for Information as-a-service, and enterprise information model

Worked with IT portfolio, which includes Metavance, NASCO, Trizzetto products (FACET, CCA), Benefit configuration

Interaction with other Blues, and projects, initiatives with blue Consortium, CMS and government agencies and legal, STARS

 

UST Global LA, CA1/2012 to 1/2013

Practice Lead Data Architect

Global consulting service provider is a large consulting and outsourcing company helping clients in healthcare, digital media and retail verticals.

Technology: Java; DB: Oracle, Hadoop; ETL: Pentaho, Map reduce, Hive; Cloud: AWS

Responsibilities include pre and post sales architecture and project support.

Provide delivery leadership on large scale data warehouse conversion project. Technology include, Java, Pentaho, Hadoop, AWS, Data stage, Oracle Exadata

Support Open source, cloud computing and Bigdata projects. Work with Sales and Marketing team on prospects and establishing core competence in Big data, Analytics and cloud computing.

Work on RFP, SOW, project sizing, and establishing the project with on-site offshore model. 

Mentor on-site and offshore team on architecture, technology, project management and delivery areas. 

Technologies include various cloud infrastructure like S3, EC2, EBS, EMR, multi-server clustering and data warehousing and analytics tools including Pentaho, Hadoop, Cloudera.

Integration with SAP and Salesforce.com

 

ICrossing Chicago, IL1/2011 to 1/2012

Data warehouse Architecture Lead -Director, Software Engineering                

Technology: Java; DB: Netezza, MySQL, Memsql, Hadoop; ETL: Pentaho, Map reduce, Hive; Reporting: Java, Jasper, Webdetails, Datameer, Revolution Analytics, R, Weka; Cloud: AWS

Digital media engineering and analytic team gathers information on users� digital behavior, including internet and social media. The information is gathered through various types of web analytic and data collection processes. This large set of information is processed through data mining and OLAP techniques and presented for market analysis, segmentation, and research.

Responsibilities include software development and management of high technology oriented software engineering group. The team includes software engineers, and integration & data architects, managing 70 TB data warehouse expected to grow in petabytes. The technology involves Netezza data appliances, Pentaho, ASW cloud computing, Hadoop clusters, Cassandra Revolution analytics and Datameer data mining and analytic tools, in-memory and shared databases like Memsql and MySQL.

Defining technology architecture, product strategy and road maps.

Delivering software projects and products with help from consulting partners in Ukraine, Portugal, India and Chicago, USA.

The project is managed through a mix of internal employees, and on-site vendor and offshore model.

The Company and the group strictly follow Agile software development process due to dynamic nature of the industry.

Working closely with CTO group, chief architects, business users, VPs and director of product strategy and VP of analytics.

 

WellPoint Inc. Atlanta, GA1/2010 to 1/2011

Enterprise Solution Architect 

Work as an enterprise application architect converting business context for the entire program to high-level enterprise integration architecture.

Technology: Java, .Net; DB: Teradata, MSSQL, Oracle; ETL: Datastage, Informatica, AbInitio; MDM: Initiate, Siperian; Rules Engines: Blaze; ESB: Data Power, BizTalk, WebSphere; Reporting: Business Object, SAS, SQL Server

Lead architecture for integrating Clinical Care management system using ESB/Data power/BizTalk.

Lead various architecture decisions, option analysis and solution recommendation for integrating over 20+ applications that are using EDW, MDM, ESB, Gateways, EDI, enterprise data warehouse, analytical rules engines and stratification engine and portals.

Lead MDM design and architecture enhancement for Master Clinical Staff profile, and participate in other MDM initiatives like Master Provider Profile, and Master consumer profile.

Present and conceptualize technical realization of programs to VPs and directors.

Work on estimation and TPMO, BPMO teams, and represent CTO in a discovery session for new programs and participated in various governance presentations.

Work with Information architects, Integration architects, Data architects, and security architects to define the technical architecture vision for next generation clinical care solution.

Work closely with product vendors, advisory group, governance committee, and more than 20 architects from various technology areas to define an architecture for integrating .Net product with the enterprise application using ESB - BizTalk server and various other enterprise integration technologies.

Delivered, enhanced and contributed to discovery architecture and the business impact matrix, Operational Business Architecture, Business priority Heat maps, Component heat maps

Lead Discovery sessions, architecture status meetings, Architecture strategy meetings, Option analysis with executives

 

Walgreens Chicago, IL6/2004 to 12/2009

Master data management and ODS Technical Manager - 12/2008- 12/2009

Assigned to start a new MDM group, which collaborates with the enterprise data warehouse group, and master data groups.

Part of data governance committee, worked with IBM, Knightsbridge and other vendors in creation of Data store inventory, Enterprise model and vision, Architecture standards, policy and frameworks, data access security standards and semantic layer definition. DW strategy creation involving, tools, vendors, and BI, Analytics, operation, deployment and production support framework.

Technology: Java; DB: Teradata, Netezza, Oracle; ETL: Datastage, AbInitio; MDM: Initiate; Rules Engines: Blaze, Ilog; ESB: Webspehre; BAM: WebMethods; Reporting: Business Object, SAS, Micro strategy, Jasper, Open source Java tools

Responsible for architecture and design of ODS, DW and various analytics semantic layers

Establish role and responsibility of DSS team and set up a team, which will collaborate with enterprise group and help in data integration for DSS.  Help with department budget and project budget.

Mange internal team, vendor and offshore project teams from inception through delivery.

Work with enterprise group in data governance committee, and tool/ technology selection

Help define an enterprise data model for patient, drug, medical claims, clients, prescriber and formulary.

Presented architecture for enterprise integration using ESB/MDM layer which could evolve to the BPM /BAM

Create a presentation for centers of excellence and need for various governance activities including MDM, SOA, Data and infrastructure governance with ITIL

Technical Manager, PMB DSS and Data warehouse - 06/2006- 12/2008

The Pharmacy benefits management, data warehouse is the only data warehouse for Walgreens� Health Initiative Division and in its current form several components were failing. This warehouse service different departments including sales, accounts receivable, accounts payable, client services, production system, and claim solutions. The warehouse collects information like claims, patient, provider, plan, prescriber, pharmacy, and formulary. 

Developing a three step plan to reach a goal; short term plan - stabilize the system, midterm plan - enhance hardware and software, and long term plan - support customer relationship management, business process integration, enterprise service bus, master data management, and customer data integration.

Responsible for project sizing and budgeting.

Work on initiatives to promote the data warehouse and communicate the value proposition to business users within the organization, the initiatives includes newsletters, websites, workshops and road shows, and service desks.

Manage team of 12 middleware/EII/ EAI /ETL Architects and developers. Responsibilities include performance evaluation, hiring, career planning, work allocation and monitoring.

Hire, retain, and manage a team of consultants.  Managed multiple project portfolio and a team of more than 30 consultants and 4 consulting companies on various projects

Set up a highly efficient and process oriented decision support system.

Work with systems and architecture group to define a broad architecture.

The team also delivered various projects like e-prescription, RDS, plan-to-Plan, formulary integration, 340B, NPI, Medication Management and CDUR, Medicare part D, Medicare Part B.

Solution Architect - 06/2004- 6/2006

Led vendor and internal teams for product integration as well as evaluation of technology, infrastructure, and software.

Evaluate COTS tools like AbInitio, Datastage, Plainview, Pentaho, Webmethods, Tibco, WebSphere ESB, Siperian, Initiate, WCC and others.

Part of Corporate DW team implementing the retail data model on Teradata, and setting up data governance and Enterprise Information architecture. 

Architect/mentor for the following major data warehouse initiatives:             

Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW): Lead strategic initiatives like enterprise reporting system, enterprise metadata management, and customer data integration from technology perspectives.  Identify and evaluate integration technology like AbinitioEME, Ascential and Webmethods. Establish standards, frameworks and methodology. Focus on key issues with broader impacts like hardware/software sizing, upgrades and selections.

Employee Repository Data Warehouse (ERDW): Worked with other consulting architect on data modeling and reviewing ETL process.  Led Business Objects purchase, migration and initial development effort, consolidated reporting and report distribution requirements, and derived suitable architecture. Worked on corporate wide initiatives on BI infrastructure.

Other activities performed in Enterprise architect group

Drug utilization review: Architect and design highly dynamic application using the Fair Isaac�s rules engine software. Responsible for product and architecture selection, application integration, pricing negotiation with vendor, led external authentication integration and approval.

PMO: Corporate wide project management initiative. Represented system architecture group in the initiative.  Provided insight into the group�s expectation and lobby the interest of the group.  Identified need to understand and integrate BTO, PMO, and ITIL.

Incentive and e-payroll application: Online hiring and payroll application. Approve deliverable and guide offshore vendor, help project estimation and technology integration. Gave multiple presentations and convinced managers and management team to adopt EAI/BPM/BAM approach to application development using Webmethods.

 

Chase/BankOne Chicago, IL11/2003 to 6/2004

Application Architect

Technology: Java, VC++, VB; DB: Oracle, MSSQL; ETL: PL/SQL, C Reporting: Business Object, Hyperion, Cognos, Microstrategy

Led a team of 4 engineers responsible for reverse engineering an existing application.

Evaluated and estimated project costs for a data warehouse project using different technologies and tools like Business Objects, Informatica, and Epiphany. Initial estimation of the project was $3 million. 

Created project proposal for Asset based lending application and custom analytics using OLAP tools like Hyperion and Cognos.

Worked with Business Analysis team for requirement gathering and converting use cases and object models.

Team building and mentoring for J2EE, delivered training and seminars on J2EE/WASAD/architecture/RUP.

Developed artifacts for architectural review and project estimation.

 

Cronus/ Teleprime Chicago, IL1/1996 to 11/2003

Sr.  Manager    - 1/2001 to 11/2003  

Technology: Java, VC++, VB; DB: Oracle, MSSQL, Ingress, DB2; ETL: Pro*C; Reporting: Business Cognos, MSSQL, Crystal Report

Led a team of 12 consultants and employees and managed multiple projects worth $2.8 million.

Developed and managed team of data warehouse developer for a calling card company using Cognos OLAP cubes.

Did initial research to establish a very large-scale data warehouse involving multiple government agencies, international agencies, and universities. The data warehouse was to collect historical genetic research data.

Was part of Application architecture team with Orbit Commerce, Qwest Communication and HP -  conducted requirement-gathering workshop, feasibility study, and implemented Internet billing system.

Worked closely with CTO, Marketing and Finance department to integrate billing system with Great planes accounting system.

Developed analytical solution with the OLAP service using MSSQL Analysis Services.

Worked with SurjaIT a training institute:

Conducted seminars and promoted project management training.

Prepared presentation on RUP, Extreme Programming (XP) and Agile processes, covering issues like project off shoring.

Delivered training for Sun Certified Java Developers and Oracle Certified Professional DBA�s, Wireless CWNA and security.

 

 

 

ProjectTechnical TProject

Engineering Manager - 1/1996 to 1/2003

Managed staff of seven employees and executed projects worth $3.4 million.

Engineering management functions included project coordination, establishment of technologies and standards, resource coordination and management; project budgeting, tracking and execution.

Responsibilities also included HR and administrative functions like performance evaluation, hiring, mentoring, and vendor management.

Worked with the following clients:

Mitel Corporation and CSC for telecom billing system: Team of 12 developers and 2 module leads reported to

Pulsecom for telecommunication test equipment: Helped GM in managing geographically and technically discrete team of 8.

Worked with the CTO in setting up ISG � �Integration Services Group� for Cronus. This division was established to provide strategic technical consulting in software integration. The technologies involved were Internet, middleware and n-tier architecture, UML, and E-commerce.

Visited India for multiple interviews, and skill assessments and identify technology and skill gaps.

Worked with sales and marketing to build project proposals and estimation.

 

Blue Star Chicago, IL1/1993 to 2/1996

Project Lead

Reverse engineered a P/L, A/R, and G/L module of an ERP system.

Coordinated many offshore projects in India and from USA.

Have visited US and offshored projects to India and coordinated design and development team for European offshore projects

 

Rolta (I) Ltd. Mumbai, India1/1990 to 1/1993

System Analyst /Project Lead 

Worked as project/module lead for major clients.

Developed multiple reports using PL/SQL, Pro*C and ESQL-C for commercial ERP package.