Sharad Agarwal

135 Stardale Rd, Morrisville, NC, 27560

Contact: sharadagarwal16@gmail.com/+1(919)308-7006

SUMMARY

  · Project/Tech Lead with overall 10+ years of industry experience including 8 years of experience in EAI

application design and development using IBM Websphere Message Broker v7.0/8.0/IIB v9, Websphere

MQ, Websphere ESB.

  · Proficient with experience of complete software development cycle in IBM Websphere Middleware tools

like Websphere Message Broker, MQ and Websphere ESB.

  · Rich global exposure under various client facing roles as technical lead/project lead for delivery and a goto

person for any technical and consulting queries/clarification in integration space.

  · Effective team leader with strong interpersonal, analytical and managerial skills to train and manage the

team.

  · Currently playing a role of technical lead responsible for design, build, documentation and other activities

in the project with day to day interaction with business to gather requirements.

  · Involved in Design, Documentation, Implementation and testing of full life cycle projects.

  · Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

SKILLS

ESB/Integration Technology Websphere Message Broker, Websphere MQ, Websphere ESB

Languages

ESQL, Java

XML

Technologies/Frameworks

RDBMS

Development Tools

Build Tools

Operating Systems

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Master in Computer Applications from Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar (2002 - 2005)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Working in Cognizant Technology Solutions since March 2012- till date

Worked in Capgemini from May 2010 - March 2012

Worked in IBM from Sep 2009 - May 2010

Worked in Prosoft Cyberworld Inc. from June 2007 - Sep 2009

Worked in Intersolutions Pvt Ltd - Jan 2005 - May 2007

CERTIFICATIONS

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XML, XSD, XSLT, Apache log4j, Apache snmp4j, Apache Xerces,

Xalan

DB2, SQL Server 2000

IBM Eclipse, Websphere Integration Developer, Starteam, WinCVS,

Sub Version (SVN), MS Visio.

Build Forge

Windows 2K/XP, Unix(AIX), Linux

1. IBM Certified Solution Developer - WebSphere Message Broker V7.0

2. IBM Certified Integration Developer - WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus V7.0

Awards & Recognitions

  · Received Delivery Excellence Award in 2012, at Capgemini (I) Pvt Ltd for training and setting up a

development team at offshore to work with client.

PROJECTS @ Cognizant Technology Solution

1. Local Market Auto Renewal Integration

Client

Duration

Technologies

Role

Location

Metlife Inc.

April, 2014 to till date

Websphere Message Broker, MQ

Project Lead/Lead Developer

Cary, NC

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

MetLife, Inc. is a leading global provider of insurance, annuities and employee benefit programs.

The Automated Renewal (AR) system in the Small Market is responsible for processing more than 50,000

customer renewals annually. The "system" is a series of process steps facilitated by IT PM with manual

intervention needed by SM Underwriting and the product-finance areas. This project seeks to replace the

existing AR process and application in Local Market, while being designed to permit cost effective future

enhancement to be used up market, if this is ever desired.

In order to achieve all this, there are source systems that need to be integrated with AR application to fetch

out the customer details and other information.

Responsibilities:

  ü Working as Project/Technical Lead and Senior developer.

  ü Websphere Message Broker and MQ are used to implement various integration needs that involve

interactions with various source systems.

  ü Used to get the requirements from the customers and create the design for the developers to develop that

interfaces.

  ü Also responsible to take care of the build and deliveries.

2. JCI-EAI Labs

Client

Duration

Technologies

Role

Operating Systems

Location

Johnson Controls Inc.

April, 2013 to Feb, 2014

Websphere Message Broker, MQ

Lead EAI Designer/Developer at Offshore

Windows, Unix

Hyderabad, India

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Johnson Controls Inc is a major player in manufacturing and logistics in Europe and United States of America.

They have a number of plants and different business units to share data among them.

JCI has its own Middleware Team called the EI Team, which consists of 2 Divisions – Solution Delivery (Design

& Development) & Platform Team (Admin activity & Production Support). This team deals with Information

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movement across the various internal Systems, such as – SAP, MFGPRO (a shop floor system installed in each

production plant), MES, EDS (Data Warehouse), Documentum (Document retention & archival). JCI-EAI Labs

project takes care of all integration needs within the organization.

Responsibilities:

  ü Working as an integration designer/developer at offshore, in Solution Delivery team.

  ü Websphere Message Broker and MQ are used to implement various integration needs that involve

interactions with SAP and other systems.

  ü Used to get the requirements from the customers and create the design for the developers to develop that

interfaces.

  ü Also responsible to take care of the deliveries from offshore for Hyderabad location.

3. RISE-WMB

Client

Duration

Technologies

Role

Operating Systems

Location

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational banking and financial services holding company with

operations around the world. They have their own IT division which takes care of all the IT related

requirements like development and support. Their IT division works as back office for the bank at offshore

and onshore. RISE i.e. Remediation, Integration and Service Extension is team which is responsible to

provide all integration services required in the bank. Any new interface and/or any modification or

extension to the existing services is done by this team which is consisted of engineers with various skill

sets like WMB, WMQ, Data Power, Java etc.

Responsibities:

  ü Being part of RISE WMB team, I was responsible there for the development of various business

requirements in each release using WMB.

  ü I was also responsible for setting up and handling the offshore team and used to have regular

communications with onsite team/client.

PROJECTS @ Capgemini

1. Financial Planning

Client

Duration

Technologies

Role

Operating Systems

Location

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The current RBS and Aviva Joint Venture, set up to offer the Group customers a Financial Planning proposition,

are being dissolved. Under the terms of the Joint Venture, Aviva provided the Financial Planning Managers

(advisors) with the necessary infrastructure and sales tools to sell Aviva manufactured (including a small

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Royal Bank of Scotland, UK

9 Months

Websphere Enterprise Service Bus, Java, XML

Senior Developer

Windows

Pune, India

Wells Fargo India Solutions Pvt Ltd

April, 2012 to March 2013

Websphere Message Broker, MQ

Tech. Lead at Offshore

Windows, zLinux

Wells Fargo Center, Hyderabad, India

selection of RBSG managed) products. Now this partnership has been closed, RBS no longer have a point of

sale system to conduct their Advice business.

There is currently a program of work across the Retail bank developing a bespoke single sales platform,

named Multi-Channel Sales, based on Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) principles. All products sold

within the Retail division will eventually be transacted via this platform and as such, it is being leveraged for

Financial Planning

At the same time as the Joint Venture closure, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) conducted the Retail

Distribution Review (RDR) which focused on Financial Planning businesses across the United Kingdom. Their

subsequent regulation has been published; requiring a number of changes in the way we operate, be

implemented, by the mandatory deadline of 1st January 2013.

The application being built, a Point of Sale system will be used to support the re-designed business process.

Responsibilities:

  ü Being part of Service Layer team, Involved in the design & development of various new services and

provide connectivity among different applications.

  ü Involved in the documentation, SIT and other parts of project development cycle.

  ü Developed Web services and mediation modules to expose various services to front end (portal)

application.

2. Integration Services (SOM STP, SIMCO, CEMS HK)

Client

Duration

Technologies

Role

Operating Systems

Location

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

ISIS (Information System Interconnectivity Services) is a hub which connects various applications with each

other through the gateways present for different countries. There are two ISIS hubs present in the countries

Hong Kong (HK) and United Kingdom (LN) to integrate various applications. Applications can connect these

hubs based on their geographical locations.

We, as part of integration services team, not only support the MQ series objects responsible for connectivity

with applications but also develop new requirements and enhance the existing flows.

End point applications may need ISIS services for transaction processing. Transaction can be of two types :

1. File transfer

2. Online messaging

We are responsible to provide required components to ensure this process.

Responsibilities:

  ü Involved in the development of various new services and provide connectivity among different

applications.

  ü Involved in the documentation, SIT and other parts of project development cycle.

  ü Developed message flows for end to end delivery of messages coming from different sources.

PROJECTS @ IBM

3. IBM-Idea Transformations

Client

Duration

Technologies

Idea Cellular Ltd.

9 Months

WMB6.1, WMQ6.0, DB2, Java 1.5

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SCOPE International (Standard Chartered Bank, Malaysia)

10 Months

Websphere Enterprise Service Bus, Java, XML

Senior Developer

Windows, AIX

Chennai, India

Role

Operating Systems

Location

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

This is a milestone telecom deal for IBM with IDEA Cellular to provide a Service Delivery Platform (SDP) to

enable the service provider, delivering innovative messaging and WAP-based content services to its 50

million+ subscriber base over 2G and 3G wireless networks in India.

IBM's SDP helps IDEA to integrate content and applications across all of its service lines to deliver a

consistently high-quality user experience and bring new services to the marketplace much more quickly.

Apart from other SDP services IBM delivers integration of various business support systems (BSS), network

elements and other VAS applications.

Idea-Transformation project is part of integration SDP services which enables various legacy and other

applications to effectively communicate with each other and smooth and fast rollouts of various circles.

Responsibilities:

  ü Involved in the development of framework developed for such transformation projects.

  ü Involved in the documentation, UAT, SIT and other parts of project development cycle.

  ü Developed message flows for end to end delivery of messages coming from different sources. These

flows include WebSphere MQ, Database, SOAP, XSLT, File, Compute, Trace nodes etc.

  ü Developed XSL files to use with XSLT node for various transformations.

PROJECTS @ Prosoft Cyberworld Inc.

4. Consolidated Payment Systems (CPS)

Client

Duration

Technologies

Role

Operating Systems

Location

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

The consolidated payment re-architecture program will address several challenges through a multi phased

effort that will result in a scalable, efficient and flexible channel. CPS enables real time message processing,

deeper integration between customer and bank systems allowing multiple message/file formats (XML, EDI,

SWIFT and NACHA etc.) and connectivity options. It provides cost effective communication channel for secure

and interactive messaging and support multiple payment types in a single flow.

Responsibilities:

Prosoft Cyberworld Inc. US

12 months

WMB6.1, WMQ6.0, DB2, Java 1.5

Developer

Windows

Noida, India

Senior Developer

Windows, AIX

Pune, India

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  ü Understanding of SWIFT MT103, GFF widely used industry standards in finance domain.

  ü Developed message flows for end to end delivery of messages coming from different sources. These

flows include WebSphere MQ, Database, SOAP, JMS, TCPIP, File, Compute nodes.

  ü Implemented Pub/Sub model using JMS and Publication nodes and used toolkit capabilities of creating

policy driven Topics and generating Subscriptions.

  ü Developed message set to parse the data from SWIFT to XML and XML to GFF.

  ü Used Trace, Try/Catch nodes for exception handling and debugging.

  ü Deployment and unit testing of the message flows.

5. Export Automation Software Essentials (EASE)

Client

Duration

Technologies

Role

Operating Systems

Location

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

Export Automation Software Essential (EASE) is a web-based enterprise wide software solution to automate

and manage export/import transactions from the United States and from other countries. It consists of the

following functionalities/modules:

  · Watch List/Denied Party Screening

  · License Management

  · License Screening

  · DOS Licensing

  · DOC Licensing

  · Training Management

  · Compliance Request

  ·

Import Management

  · US Export/Import

Regulations

All the above functionality use a common database, common user interface and easily integrates into your

business process to automate and manage your export/import transactions and to ensure that you are in

compliance with US export controls.

Responsibilities:

  ü Involved in development of various EJBs, JSP and Servlets for Training Management & DOC Licensing

modules. Also involved in Integration, deployment and testing of above modules.

PROJECTS @ Intersolutions Pvt Ltd.

6. Network Surveillance System

Client

Duration

Technologies

Role

Operating Systems

Location

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

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Reliance Infocomm

20 months

Java (Core Java, JMS), XML, Apache Servicemix, SNMP4J.

Developer

Windows, Linux

Noida, India

OCR Services Inc., Rockville, MD, US

13 months

Java 1.4, J2EE (JSP, Servlets, Struts and EJB), IBM Eclipse,

MS SQL Server

Developer

Windows

Noida, India

The objective of Network Surveillance System is to monitor the SS7 links among different network entities in

reliance network and generating different analysis reports from the captured data. This captured data is to be

displayed on the front end in the form of CDRs (Call Data Records) and CLDs (Call Ladder Diagrams). The NSS

project provides complete real-time network view, giving the ability to identify and diagnose potential

problems before they impact to the customers and profits. It also monitors the current status (in-service, out

of service) of the attached devices using SNMP protocol.

Responsibilities:

  ü Involved in activities of project’s architecture design, Coding (Communication Layer, Messaging

Framework, and Data Access Layer etc.), documentation and unit testing.

7. Operation Support System (OSS)

Client

Duration

Technologies

Role

Operating Systems

Location

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

This project deals with configuration of various telecom products of the company. It handles several

configuration files involved in those products. It displays all the configuration parameters on the SNMP

manager, through which user may alter them. Each managed object has an SNMP agent associated with it,

which is responsible to monitor and notify the SNMP manager about the changes in the managed object.

Responsibilities:

  ü Involved in activities of project’s architecture design, Coding (SNMP Manager and Agents), MIB

designing and other design issues.

InterSolutions Pvt. Ltd.

4 months

Java (socket, multithreading and swings), XML, SNMP

Developer

Windows, Linux

Noida, India

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