Mallikarjun Channappagoudar

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mallikarjunsc@yahoo.com

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mchannappagoudar

 

Overview

 

Over 15 years of IT industry experience encompassing a wide range of skill set, roles and industry verticals.

Extensive experience with Architecture, Analysis, Design, Development, Customization, Implementation of business applications using SOA, BPM and J2EE paradigms utilizing Agile and Waterfall SDLC methodologies.

Experience in Requirements Gathering, Estimation, Project planning, Governance, compliance Reviews, Capacity Planning, Migration and Performance tuning.

Experience in leading and managing teams, handled multiple roles – Solution Architect, Technical Architect, IT Specialist, Team Lead

Executed software development projects for Telecom, Airline, Health Insurance, Investment Banking and Media and Entertainment industries

 

 

Technologies

 

·   Architecture: Service-Oriented Architecture, EAI	·  WebSphere Application Server 8.5, WebSphere SCA Feature Pack
·   Integration and BPM: WebSphere Process Server, IBM BPM 8.5	·  Java/JEE/Eclipse/RAD, JAX-WS, REST, JSON
·   Enterprise Service Bus: IBM WebSphere ESB, WSRR, DataPower XI50

 

Other Technologies

 

·   Oracle, DB2	·  Source Code Management (CVS, Subversion, IBM Rational Team Concert)
·   WMQ, WMB, WebSphere Data Event Publisher, WebSphere Portal	·  Axway Secure Transport
·   Jenkins Continuous Integration, Apache Maven, Ant	·  UML, BPMN

 

Education

 

·   B.E. Electronics and Communications, SDMCET Karnatak University Dharwad India, 1999

 

 

Certifications

 

·   TOGAF 9 Certified (Certification ID: 93876)	·  Six Sigma Green Belt
·   IBM Certified Deployment Professional WebSphere Process Server V6	·  BrainBench Certified Java Programmer

 

Professional Experience

 

 

Perficient, Inc.Jun 06 – Mar 15

Title : Technical Architect

 

 

CLIENT: Blue Shield of California

Role: Technical Architect

 

Member Portal Rebuild, this effort involved redesign and migration of the existing Member Portal application to the WebSphere Portal platform.

 

Responsibilities

·   Collaborate in Sprint grooming sessions, Prioritize requirements

·   Engage with cross functional teams, identify dependencies and create implementation roadmaps

·   Produce detailed technical design documents

·   Manage and provide oversight for technical issues

 

Achievements

·   Utilized Business scenarios technique to construct user stories

·   Enforced standard practices for Source code management for Branching and Merging

·   Conducted  Sprint Retrospective meetings to identify areas of improvement

·   Identified and mitigated performance bottle necks in WMB execution groups

 

Tools

·   WebSphere Portal, WCM, Jenkins, Maven, Rational Application Developer, DataPower, WMB, SVN

 

 

CLIENT: Frontier Communications

Role: Lead BPM Consultant

 

End to end migration of Telecom Business Services exposed through WPS6.0.2 to IBM BPM 8.5.5 Platform.

 

Responsibilities: 

·   Interact with stakeholders to analyze and define business requirements

·   Identify the appropriate Telecom Pack Interface for business service to be implemented

·   Provide technical analysis and technical design

·   Identify and allocate development tasks

 

Achievements

·   Adopted Industry standard solution to create organization specific  business process

·   Used SCA HTTP Binding to expose Advance Integration Service (AIS) as a REST Resource

 

Tools

·   IBM BPM 8.5, IBM BPM Telecom pack, IID, REST, SVN

 

 

CLIENT: BCBSMA

Role: Solution Architect

 

Greenfield upgrade from Windows based Tumbleweed 4.7.X File Transfer system to Linux based Axway Secure transport 5.2 system

 

Responsibilities

·   Create logical, conceptual and physical views of baseline and target system

·   Produce a detailed functional design document             

·   Conduct Gap analysis and identify the roadmap components

·   Lead UAT efforts

 

Achievements

·   Consolidated all the ad hoc custom file transfer scripts as automation jobs there by standardized the file transfer process within the enterprise.

·   Devised a migration strategy to support clients who could not move to new system in time.

 

Tools

·   Tumbleweed 4.7, Axway Secure Transport 5.2.1, IBM TIM, IBM TAM, Sun IDM, Phyton

 

 

CLIENT: ABC

Role: BPM Consultant

 

Participated in design and development of Advance Integration services for Media file ingestion/processing.

 

Responsibilities

·   Participate in process flow analysis and design

·   Implement Advance Integration Service

 

Achievements

·   Created Business Process Definition (BPD) and Advance Integration Service (AIS) Integration facade using a mediation flow pattern with rule based endpoint resolution, BDPs need not be aware of the unique AIS endpoints.

·   Evolved best practices for AIS implementation, naming standards, logging and exception handling

·   Designed a compensation pattern for BPDs using BPEL flow.

 

Tools

·   IBM BPM 8.5, BPD, IID, CVS

 

 

CLIENT: NASCO

Role: Technical Architect

 

Lead the analysis, design, development of a SOA initiative to expose the Member and Billing domain functionalities of Member's Edge CICS system to multiple Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) plans.

 

Responsibilities

·   Realize the application and technology architectures

·   Identify the candidate solutions blocks and prepare implementation roadmap

·   Decompose Business services into Fine Grain and Utility Services

·   Provide Service governance using WSRR

·   Perform defect triage and defect analysis

·   Manage development and testing efforts

 

Achievements

·   Created a deployment run book template to handle frequent deployments (Sprint Deliverable)

·   Designed a common error data model

·   Resolved an issue with Header propagation in a JAXWS web service implementation

 

Tools

·   IBM WebSphere Application Server, WSDL, XML, JAX-WS, Eclipse, DB2, CVS

 

 

CLIENT: BCBSMA

Role: Technical Architect

 

This project involved the upgrade from EDI4010 to federally mandated EDI5010 standard for electronic health care transactions.

 

Responsibilities

·   Lead the implementation of the Services layer of the solution

·   Create Service specification and detailed technical design documents

·   Oversee the development and testing efforts

·   Guide the infrastructure team capacity planning and performance tuning

 

Achievements

·   For rapid application development and faster team onboarding, created reference implementations

·   Defined coding standards, versioning standards, error handling and logging standards

·   Vetted between using WESB (based on J2EE messaging backbone) and WMB (robust MQ messaging backbone), based on the transaction volume, kind of routing/transformation (not many legacy formats ) decided to use WESB

·   Performed cost benefit analysis and Identified an open source alternate to WebSphere Transformation Extender(WTX) to transform XML into COBAL copybook format

·   Created a Service Component Architecture (SCA) reference implementation to be used as a template for rapid application development

 

Tools

·   IBM WebSphere Application Server, SCA Feature Pack, Altova MapForce, CB2XML, Eclipse, DB2, IBM Rational Team Concert

 

 

CLIENT: Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Role: WPS Consultant

 

Participated in analysis, design, development of Branch workflow.

 

Responsibilities

·   Orchestration of Long running BPEL flows

·   Lead UAT efforts

 

Achievements

·   Implemented call back pattern using correlation sets

 

Tools

·   IBM WebSphere Process Server, WID, REST, JSON, Java Script

 

 

CLIENT: Marriott International

Role: WMB Consultant

 

Participated in setup of WebSphere Data Event Publisher and development of Message Flows.

 

Responsibilities

·   Set up Q Replication on WDEP to capture changes within Siebel Application database.

·   Monitor WDEP QCapture performance using IBMQREP_CAPMON table.

·   Updated ESQL modules and Message flows as per System test changes

 

Achievements

·   Performance tuned WDEP QCapture program using MEMORY_LIMIT, COMMIT_INTERVAL

·   Created a utility to append RFH2 header to a file to be written to a queue

 

Tools

·   WebSphere Data Event Publisher, DB2, WMB

 

 

CLIENT: American Airlines

Role: Middleware Consultant

 

This initiative involved design and development of container and shipment tracking process flow orchestration as part of cargo management .

 

Responsibilities

·   Design and develop short-running business processes  

·   Create WESB mediation module to route and transform legacy messages

 

Achievements

·   Create custom parser and function selector for the mediation module JMS export

 

Tools

IBM WebSphere Process Server, WMQ, WID

 

 

Insolexen, Corp.Jan 05 – Jun 06

IT Consultant

 

 

CLIENT: Alltel

Role: Middleware Consultant

 

Responsibilities

·   Configure WBI Technology Adapters (JDBC, JText, MQ Series, XML, Server Access Interface, Email, Web services)

·   Develop Business Objects, BO Maps, Collaboration Templates and Collaboration objects 

·   Expose legacy application as Web Service (Vertex Sales Tax), Generate client to invoke external WebService (IntelliStore, Siebel Fusion)

 

Achievements

·   Developed Generic exception handling and Auditing for WBI interfaces

 

Tools

·   IBM WebSphere Interchange Server, Java, XML, WebServices, WMQ, EJB, J2EE, WAS

 

CLIENT: Union Bank of California

Role: EAI Consultant

 

Responsibilities

·   Install and configure WBI ICS 4.3.0 and Configured MQ and JDBC adapters on AIX

·   Develop Business Objects, Maps, Collaboration Templates and Collaboration objects

 

Achievements

·   Customized fixed width DataHandler to read/write SWIFT message.

 

Tools

·   IBM WebSphere Interchange Server, WMQ, Java, XML, SWIFT

 

 

Tata Consultancy servicesMarch 2003 – Jan 2005

Assistant Systems Engineer

 

Client: GE Health Care

Role: EAI Consultant

 

Led the analysis, design and development of EAI implementation using IBM WBI.

 

Responsibilities

·   Install and configure CrossWorlds 4.1.1, WICS 4.2.1 and 4.2.2., Configured SAI interface Servlet on WebLogic server.

·   Develop  Business Objects, Maps, Collaboration Templates and Collaboration objects

·   Deliver test plans to be used for System Integration Testing.

 

Tools

·   IBM CrossWorlds, WMQ, Java, XML, Servlets

 

 

Thundercloud TechnologiesApril 2001 – March 2003

Software Developer

 

 

Project: eHRIS (Product)

Role: Java Developer

 

Participated the analysis, design and development of Human Resource management product, a 3 tier Web Application applying MVC Pattern using JavaScript, HTML, Java/JSP, Servlets, JDBC API, JAXB, XML, EJB, MS SQL Database and JRun application server

 

 

KALS Information Systems LtdSept 1999 – Apr 2001

Software Developer

 

Project: VirtualInsure (Product)

Role: Java Developer

 

Participated in the Design and development of an insurance solution using Java,JSP/Servlets, Oracle Application Server and Oracle database.