I’m an enthusiastic Technologist with over Fourteen years of experience having significant appreciation towards Data Architecture, Technology Delivery, Program/Project Management and People Management. Most of my experience is deeply rooted in Datawarehouse platforms in Banking & Finance domain focusing on Data Acquisition, Data Integration, Data Quality & Data Governance strategies. I’m leading geographically diverse teams with the team spread across Onshore / Offshore / Nearshore. I have broader exposure to traditional Waterfall as well as Agile development methodologies. I’m a quick learner and strive continuously in learning and understanding upcoming trends as they emerge. My current interests includes delivering next generation data platform with Big Data to implement cost-efficient data storage & processing and uncover unbelievable data capabilities by leveraging Advanced analytics to meet business needs and improve customer experience.

 

·   Proven record with Technical Leadership, Program Delivery, Engagement Governance and Team Management excellence.

·   Strong background of analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance of data related applications and GUI frameworks.

·   Participated in various end-to-end datawarehouse life-cycle implementations including but not limited to Data Integration, Data Migration/Conversion, Data Quality, Data Synchronization, Master Data Management.

·   Building Technology appreciation on Big Data based Next Gen analytics – Hadoop open source platforms.

·   Providing ETL Design Solutions for various requirements, working with architecture in obtaining gate-check clearance, interfacing data modelers, BSA’s and Business Sponsors representing single IT point of contact.

·   Driven JAD sessions, Design Reviews, Business Assurance Testing Strategy definitions, User Acceptance Testing, Production Implementations & Post Production support.

·   Defined Service Level Agreements (SLA) for data availability by working with Data Stake-holders

·   Built Managed Services delivery framework by evaluating various components in ETL delivery and defining generic ETL estimation model thereby optimized delivery efficiency and work throughput with increased predictability.

·   Participated in various solutions designing for Proposals with bid value upto $50 MM.

·   Providing global delivery framework solutions including but not limited to Time & Material, Core/Flex Capacity Management, Service Unit based Managed Services etc. depending on the nature of the requirements

·   Maintained working relationship with sourcing management team who manages Vendor relationships in creating Statement of Work, reviewing periodic rate revisions and making any contract amendments.

·   Performed as Transition Manager ensuring various components of an application gets transitioned successfully.

·   Identifying Business Development opportunities, working on RFP responses, Proposal Presentations, Statement of Work creations, Resource Fulfillments / Interviews, Contract Rate Negotiations etc.

·   Experience in managing a global team upto 100 resources spread across geographies spanning multiple engagements.

·   Efficient Project & Team Management containing multi-disciplinary skill-set at various experience levels including Employees, Contractors & Customer Associates.

·   Manage Customer Relationships for the Engagements at VP / Sr.Director / Director levels ensuring their Goals & Objectives are being met with the planning and deliverables across various LOB’s.

·   Driving strategic Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews with Senior Leadership Team in reviewing the healthiness of Engagements.

·   Supporting Waterfall and true Agile based delivery solutions and participating in delivery transformation initiatives, where implementing feature driven Agile solutions.

 

·   Practitioner of Scalable Agile FramEwork (SAFE) and functioning as pseudo Product Owner in delivering the features by defining stories & acceptance criteria.

·   Conducting Sprint Retrospectives, reviewing the effectiveness of Development, designing Quality Services System/User Acceptance Testing strategies and optimize project execution with recommendations for betterment.

·   Excellent Oral & Written Communication Skills and tremendous Soft Skills helping towards building successful partnership with everyone.

Platforms	Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, Hadoop Data Platform (Cloudera)
Languages	Transact-SQL, PL/SQL, Unix Shell Scripting, C, C++
Data Integration Tools	Ab-Initio, Talend, Informatica, Microsoft SSIS / DTS
Data Acquisition Tools	SFG, Custom Java Built File Broker
Data Consumption Tools	SQL, Hive, Business Objects, Tableau 8.1
Databases	Teradata V12.0, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008, Oracle 9i and 10g, HBase, MongoDB
Programing / Scripting Languages	Pig, Python, VBScript, JavaScript, Perl, ASP, XML
Development Tools	Ab Initio GDE, Eclipse, Teradata SQL Assistant, TOAD, SQL Server Client Tools (Query Analyzer, Enterprise Manager, Profiler), ErWin Data Modeler, Putty, MS Office
Software Engineering Tools	Quality Center, HP Service Manager, Version One, Jira
Business Domain	Banking and Finance, Manufacturing
Functional Specialization	Retail Bank, Core Banking, Online Banking, Loyalty Rewards, Branch Teller, Loan Originations & Servicing, Fraud Management, Offer Management, Enterprise Customer Management , Mortgage

 

 

Capital One Bank, Richmond, VAJune 2005 - Present

Data Management Consultant

 

Data Tech StrategyJan 2014 – Till Date

Delivery Lead                                                                                                                                                                         

 

Re-architecting existing data platform that can improve data insights, manage data effectively with reduced enterprise costs, improve data acquisition methodologies and increasing the ROI of data.

 

·  Built the next gen thriving Data Processing & Storage Architecture

·  Designed automated data ingestion framework to acquire massive data into lake without any code

·  Built Data Registry – a catalog of all the datasets in HDFS system and defined REST API’s for data interacting with Registry

·  Defined effective data partitioning strategy and data compression guidelines for the data stored in data lake

·  EBCDIC to ASCII frameworks to process EBCDIC data in lake using open source frameworks

·  Designed solution for uniquely identifying a record in the datasets – Integration Key Framework

·  Implemented Data split framework to meet data security compliance for NPI/Credit data elements

·  Designed effective Data Quality solution to perform schematic validations & Business validations

·  Filled lake with 120 TB of datasets from varied subject area to meet Data Scientists requirements

·  Collaborated with IBS team in understanding the scoring models and fulfilled the data needs

·  Demonstrated POC’s for Real Time streaming data using Flume, Validating Tez on Hive etc.

·  Building migration frameworks to automate movement of Ab-Initio based ETL process to Talend so that the data processing can continue in the new data platform

·  Studied the capabilities of Snaplogic tool to demonstrate a POC in acquiring & processing social media data in cloud

·  Designed Tableau reports for Cyber Security Analytics Platform with the datasets based out in HDFS

·  Managed day-to-day relations with Customer Executives in managing the Engagement

·  Handled an innovation team of 30 members across geographies in having the initiatives delivered

·  Effective collaboration with vendors(Informatica, Talend, Datameer) and 3^rd parties(TSYS, Fidelity etc.) in maintaining relationships for successful Engagement Run

 

Bundle Data IntegrationJune 2013 – Dec 2013

Delivery Lead                                                                                                                                                                         

 

Bundle Data Integration enhances Capital One credit and debit card transactions with rich merchant data from bundle thereby mapping the raw transaction descriptions to clean merchant name in Hadoop Data Platform.

 

·  Stood-up Hadoop Data Platform for mapping clean merchant information with Credit and Debit card transactions.

·  Built solution to integrate Card and Bank transactions from TSYS and Fidelity to Bundle application using Ab-Initio ETL.

·  Evaluate various open-source technologies in defining the eco-system for Hadoop infrastructure performing various Data Integration and Analytics function.

·  Tracking sprint level backlogs and slotting stories for every sprint along with running daily stand-ups and documenting retrospectives.

·  Managing the expectations of Business stake-holders in providing periodic updates on the progress of work.

·  Provide leadership to the development team ensuring timely execution of project deliverables.

 

Teradata Dual Instance Build                  Mar 2013 – May 2013

Delivery Lead                                                                                                                                                                         

 

Leverage untapped Teradata Disaster Recovery hardware resources for BAU workloads still supporting DR requirements with the key objectives of eliminating long outages of analytic platform during Teradata upgrades and better performance predictability to support critical data retrieval needs.

 

·  Design Data Management solution using Ab-Initio ETL for critical data synchronization between Active and DR systems and perform validation.

·  Build generic ETL patterns that can be leveraged for implementing dual load solutions

·  Define controls to perform Rolling Maintenance, Switch-Overs, DR Support between the two environments.

·  Establish and maintain productive working relationships with business partners and project teams.

·  Facilitate the code review process to ensure development work adheres to standards and specifications.

·  Co-ordinated Infrastructure readiness ensuring DR environments being available for implementation.

Next Generation Teller – Branch Image Capture – Transend                      Apr 2012 – May 2013

Program Lead                                                                                                                                                                         

 

Next Gen Teller program mandated bringing in operational and analytical efficiencies of branch teller transactions by migrating existing teller system Touchpoint to ARGO Teller / Branch Image Capture, thereby building teller data platform to calculate branch level metrics fulfilling analytical, operational, compliance and monitoring needs.

 

·  Evaluated program business requirements, translated business requirements into Functional and Non-Functional IT requirements.

·  Categorized requirements to various platforms including Analytic, Operations and Compliance.

·  Provided high level data movement solutions meeting business needs and having them reviewed/validated with architecture team.

·  Participated in Logical and Physical data modeling meeting analytic data needs towards building Information Based strategies.

·  Defined testing strategies integrating ARGO Electronic Journal transactional input, ARGO OLTP transactional input and VISION IP monitoring output.

·  Worked with vendors ARGO and VISION IP managing the business expectations on defect resolutions and new enhancements build.

·  Drove User Acceptance testing across multiple platforms integrating various business stake-holders resolving any UAT issues thereby prioritizing resolutions based on criticality.

·  Functioned as Data Implementation manager and handled 3 major production implementations.

·  Took lead in resolving Post Production issues to the level of detail that meets business needs.

·  Defined Production Support processes and successfully transitioned the application to Level 2 and Level 3 teams for BAU support.

·  Handled Scope, Schedule and Budget of the project ensuring that from data implementation standpoint we are on track.

·  Identified right set of competencies and fulfilled resources on time in order to deliver the project on agreed upon timelines.

·  Periodically monitored project healthiness ensuring the right quality of work being delivered to the program.

·  Mentored team members in defining career path based on their aspirations and setting the right Goals & Objectives.

 

Enterprise Data Services – Development & Support                                  Jul 2005 – Mar 2012

Engagement Lead (Development & Level 3 Support)                                                                                                                

 

Enterprise Data Services in Capital One focuses on integrating information to provide scalable solution to business customers there by delivering business value across LOB’s. During this journey of data integration age, participated in several niche data management solution build initiatives for:

 

·   ING Data Conversion / Data Integration

·   Chevy Chase Data Conversion / Data Integration

·   Loyalty Rewards calculation with TLP and Fidelity

·   Building 360 degree view of a customer

·   Retail Bank Scoring Models

·   Installment Loans – CHARGER (PNC Bank) / PLUS ONE (Fidelity)

·   Digital Sales & Servicing

·   Mortgage Datawarehouse

 

§ Work with BSA’s and Business Sponsors in formulating necessary data requirements and Source to Target Mappings.

§ Develop High Level Design, validate with architecture and obtain gateway check signoff.

§ Develop Technical Design taking various design decisions into consideration.

§ Work with Developers in ensuring technical design gets translated into ETL Graphs, review the code in making sure it gets developed as per DDE Design/Development guidelines.

§ Co-ordinate with Quality Services in making sure they understand the requirement clearly in order for their validations.

§ Front-end User Acceptance Testing interfacing customers, analysts, business sponsors and Data Stewards and resolve any questions by working with respective groups.

§ Get the Production Implementation Plan developed, reviewing with IPS and EPC Unix partners

§ Co-ordinate Production Implementation and work with development team in monitoring post production processes.

§ Transition the application to Level 3 team and making sure from the supportability standpoint, all the aspects gets covered.

§ Work with business in reviewing various possible failure points, understand business criticality and have appropriate severities defined for the production failures.

§ Manage L3 team in making sure desired SLA’s are being met from Incident Resolution and Break Fix standpoint.

§ Devised 24 * 7 support framework for providing L3 support to the enterprise ETL applications

§ Managed a global team spread across geographies from 2 to 30 resources at various point of team depending on the project size and need

§ Provided delivery management oversight for various department stake-holders in EDS

§ Created productivity accelerators that reduced development timelines thereby improving productivity

 

Thomson Financials, New YorkJan 2004 – Apr 2005

Data Management Consultant

 

Thomson One Analytics

Development Lead                                                                                                                                                                         

 

Thomson One Analytics (http://www.thomsononeanalytics.com) is an integrated research and analytical workflow solution for Institutional Investors that provides various contents like Global Fundamentals, Earnings Estimates, Institutional and Insider ownerships, Real Time Market data and News, Public Filings etc. Source data for all these features are being pulled from various external vendors like First Call, IBES, Worldscope and any good independent researches.

 

§ Managed the back-end operations of entire T1A system.

§ Monitored the production runs, identify the performance bottlenecks and resolve them at the earliest by making sure that applications are not getting affected out of it.

§ Added new features to existing interfaces – Analysis, design, development, testing & implementation

§ Performed data analysis on the computed and aggregated data and answered customers queries and made sure it reaches their satisfaction levels

§ Meeting severity timelines and adhering the Service Level Agreements on any of the issue resolution processes to meet the business needs

§ Reviewing the status of interfaces during monthly meetings with Product Owners.

§ Managed a team of 2 Support consultants at onsite and 3 Support consultants at offsite

§ Analyzed ROI on migrating the entire data platform to SQL Server 2005 from 2000 and determined the benefits out of it.

 

 

 

 

 

Lehman Brothers, New YorkMar 2003 – Dec 2003

Lead Developer                                                                                                                                                                         

 

§ Actuate Reports – Migration Analysis

§ Active Participation in Requirement Gathering and Design Phases

§ Database Design to accommodate new reporting changes and requirements

§ Implementation using Crystal Reports

§ Performance Tuning of Reports

 

GMAC, Berkshire, UKAug 2002 – Feb 2003

Lead Developer                                                                                                                                                                         

 

§ OLTP & OLAP data modeling for the application

§ ETL Architecture – Design / Development / Testing / Implementation

§ Business Objects Universe Design

§ Canned & Ad-Hoc Reporting development

 

Investec Bank, London, UKJan 2002 – Jul 2002

Developer                                                                                                                                                                         

 

§ Requirement Analysis

§ OLTP & OLAP Data Modeling

§ ETL Architecture – Design & Development

§ Performance Tuning of Databases & Stored Procedures

 

OTIS Elevators, Farmington, CTJun 2000 – Dec 2001

Developer                                                                                                                                                                         

 

§ ASP Web Pages - Development

§ ETL Framework –Development

§ Reporting Framework – Development

§ Production Support

 

Motorola India Electronics Ltd, Bangalore, IndiaJun 1999 – May 2000

Developer                                                                                                                                                                         

 

§ ASP Web Pages - Development

§ Production Support

Bharathidasan University, IndiaApril 1999

Masters of Science - Computer Applications

Bharathidasan University, IndiaApril 1996

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

 

Motorola India Electronics Ltd.Jun 1999 – May 2000                                         

Information Systems Division

Wipro TechnologiesJun 2000 - Present                                         

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