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Raza Khan

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

 

·               12+ Years - Comprehensive background in designing and implementing “Enterprise Level”, “N-tier”, “Complex” Web, B2b, Integration and Desktop applications (front-end and back-end).

·               9+ Years - .NET Framework using Visual Studio .NET C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, WinForm, ADO.NET, LINQ, SOAP, WCF/SOA, AJAX, JavaScript, JQuery, MVC, XSD, XML, XSLT, AJAX, ORM, Entity Framework, Microsoft Enterprise Library, IIS 6.0 & 7.0.

·               7+ Years – MS BizTalk Server (2010, 2009, 2006 R2, 2006, 2004), BizTalk Mapper, BPM Orchestrations, Business Activity Monitoring, Custom Pipelines & Adaptors.

·               5+ Years – Middleware, Enterprise Services Bus (ESB) and Messaging System including Mulesoft ESB, Data Power SOA Appliance, Talend integration platform, RabbitMQ and ApacheMQ.

·               5+ Years – Web Services, Windows Services, WCF/SOA, Business Intelligence such as SSIS and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), EDI.

·               5+ Years – Architecting Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), B2b Systems & Enterprise Services Bus. Migration of Large Mainframe Systems to Middleware.

·               5+ Years – Designing Enterprise Level Production, UAT, Staging & Development Environments including MS SQL Server Clusters, Web Farms, MS BizTalk Server Clusters, and Disaster Recovery.

·               5+ Years – Leading Enterprise Integration Projects for various mergers & acquisitions, Technical Due Diligence of mergers and acquisitions.

·               5+ Years – Managing global (India, Pakistan, Philippines), multi-site large development teams (Onsite & Offshore both)

·               5+ Years – Defining & implementing Source Control, build process, automated testing, development standards, development methodology, Load & Stress Testing.

·               12+ Years – Designing and modeling SQL Databases, SQL Server (2008, 2005, and 2000), Transact-SQL, Stored Procedures, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS).

·               3+ Years – Experience in Agile Development (Scrum Methodology).

·               3+ Years – Working with Big Data and NoSQL including Cassandra and Reddis.

·               3+ Years – Defining and developing Enterprise Architecture practice using TOGAF.

·               2+ Years – Working with search technologies including Elasticsearch, Solr & NLP.

·               2+ Years –Cloud Strategy and architecture development including cost, infrastructure, security, storage and development strategy (for both AWS and Azure).

·               2+ Years –Mobile development android/iphone using Xamarin mobile platform.

·               Member of Advisory Group for Azure Cloud.

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

First American Title (FAF), www.FirstAm.comMarch 2005 – Present

Database Services Group

Sr. Enterprise Architect                                                                                                                             

 

Achievements:

 

·   Develop & implemented cloud migration strategy and architecture for IT infrastructure, security, storage and application development.

·   Develop & implemented open source strategy including vendor and technology selection

·   Successfully migrated and retired Legacy Mainframe System to modern middleware SOA architecture

·   Received First American Kennedy Excellence Award 2010 for best performance in IT Division

·   Implemented first successful Service Oriented Architecture SOA in First American Title

·   Architected groundbreaking applications in title, tax, and property information industry

·   Streamlined B2b services platform extending Data Trace reach to new markets

 

Responsibilities:

 

·         Enterprise Architecture:

o        Build a holistic view of the organization's strategy, processes, information, and information technology assets based on vision and goals of the company using TOGAF standards.

o Develops and documents technology standards policies and governance

o        Transform architectural purity to practicality.

o        Bridges gap between stakeholders including product, project and IT management.

o        Understand business strategy, market and key business initiatives.

o Documents and assess existing IT architecture/infrastructure, and technology portfolio

o        High level target architecture for future infrastructure, applications, systems and integrations.

o        Develop Technology Roadmap including high level technology architecture based on business strategy.

 

·         Cloud Architecture: Develop & implement cloud migration strategy and architecture including identifying existing and new cloud candidate systems.

·         Open source & mobile: Socialize use of open source and mobile technology in new projects based on benefit realization, technology alignment and cultural fit.

·         Solution Architecture: Software architecture, design and development, system structure, enterprise integration

·         Project Methodology: Project structure, development mythology (SCRUM) and team structure

·         Leadership & Guidance: Provide technical leadership, coaching, mentoring, and guidance for solution architects and team leads.

·         Infrastructure selection: Cloud strategy, hardware, software, system design, disaster recovery etc.

·         Non Functional Requirements: Application performance, scalability, security and integrity

·         Vendor/Software selection: Application stack designing, libraries/tools/framework/technology/vendor selection

·         Development Process: Source code control, build process, integration, tools, automated testing

·         Practices & Standards: Coding standards and guidelines, project practice, tool & technology selection, enterprise level system monitoring/logging, exception management & reporting etc.

·         Enterprise Technology Trends: Keep up with technology trends for company, Agile, Cloud, ESB, BMP, SOA etc.

 

 

PROJECTS

 

DBS Big Data Initiative                                                                                                                 August 2013 – June 2014

Role: Lead ArchitectTeam Size: 20+ (onsite & offshore)

 

Challenges: 1.5 Billion documents (approx. 5 billion pages/tiff images), 1.5 petabyte of data, 100 million transactions per day, high desired data accuracy.

 

Details: First American Title DBS division host one of the largest property document databases with approx. 1.5 billion documents with ingestion rate of 350 million new documents per annum. DBS big data initiative is to convert these documents into valuable data assets. Project involves conversion of 1.5 billion documents through OCR to full-text, extraction of 400 data elements (un-structure to structure) in NoSQL, replacement of existing manual data entry, indexing of full-text database for search, data quality management of extracted data, and services to publish data assets.

 

Technology: Nuance OCR Engine, AWS/Azure Cloud (EC3, S3, SQS, VPN etc.), Atacama Data Quality Management, Mulesoft ESB, RabbitMQ Messaging, Tableau BI Platform, DataStax Cassandra NoSQL database, MS SQL Server, Lucene based Solr Search Engine, Natural Language Processing Tools (NLP), .net C#

 

AIS Field Abstractor Mobile System                                                                                                  June 2013 – Sept 2013

Role: Lead ArchitectTeam Size: 20+ (onsite & offshore)

 

Details: Abstractors’ Information Service AIS, a Division of Data Trace Provides title information (manual exam services), tax searches, municipal products, and recording services to the Title Insurance and Abstract companies for New York State (62 counties). AIS sell over 90 managed products (processed by AIS staff) and 6 online products. This project was initiated to reduce operational cost by replacing manual order management and field abstractor system with mobile technology.

 

Technology: .net C#, Mulesoft ESB, MS SQL Server, Xamarin Mobile Platform, Team Foundation Server, VS 2010/2008, Tableau BI Platform, Android OS

 

Legacy Modernization Project

(Mainframe migration to Service Oriented Architecture SOA)                                          June 2010 – June 2013

Role: Lead ArchitectTeam Size: 40+ (onsite & offshore)

 

Challenges: Project Scope (50+ products on MF), tight deadlines, over 25 years of business logic, large geographic coverage, geographic business rules diversity, large database, high volume transactions.

 

Details: First American Title Data Trace division hosts largest network of title plants in the world including property data (sales, ownership & transaction history, title information, property info, property documents, tax, judgments, cases etc.). System covers almost 70% of US property transactions. This data and related applications (50+) are hosted on IBM Mainframe with multiple CPU’s costing millions of dollars every year in maintenance and license fees. Furthermore this valuable data is hosted in VSAM and DB2 format with schema limitations. In 2010 Data Trace decided to migrate all its legacy applications and data from Mainframe to SOA architecture. There are several types of applications on Mainframe:

 

·   Geographically  Diversified Services (XML Request/Response)

o   Property Characteristics, History, Title & Tax Search Services

o   Property Comparable Search Services

o   Original Document Retrieval Services

o   Case & Judgment Search Services

 

·   Workflow applications mainly related to data abstraction

·   Maintenance Applications

o   County & Municipality Configuration Applications

o   User Security Modules and Data Maintenance Applications

 

·   Hundreds of batch ETL jobs to update data daily

·   Reporting & Billing Modules

 

Technology: C# .Net 4.0, BizTalk Server 2009, Microsoft MSSQL Server 2008, BAM, SSRS, WCF, WF, XML/XSD, MVC 3, AJAX, nHibernate, JQuery, Razor Engine, Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0, Team Foundation Server, VS 2010/2008, Data Power SOA Appliance - ESB, SOAP UI, SRUM, Rally (Scrum Software), Tableau BI Platform.

 

Data Trace Application Portal – www.edatatrace.com                                                                       Jan 2009 – June 2010

Role: Lead ArchitectTeam Size: 20+ (onsite & offshore)

 

Challenges: Dynamic user interface based on geo location, service and customers, flexible search screens and workflows, complicated user security and profile, desktop experience including backend printing and exports, high volume transactions, supports 35+ products.

 

Details: eDataTrace.com is a Data Trace web portal for Title Insurance Companies to access one of the nation's largest title and processing network. It is in development to replace existing legacy desktop application used by over 100,000 users. eDataTrace.com is used to search property title data, tax information, property characteristics, name searches, document searches, original document retrievals, case & judgment information, etc. Customers can also open, manage and track their orders. eDataTrace.com also hosts workflow system for data abstraction.

 

Technology: ASP.NET, Microsoft MSSQL Server 2008, C# .Net 3.5, SSRS, WCF, Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1, Team Foundation Server, VS 2008.

 

Data Trace Gateway - XML B2b Data Delivery                                                                                    June 2007 – Dec 2008

Role: Lead ArchitectTeam Size: 15+ (onsite & offshore)

 

Details: DTG is the gateway to tap into one of the nation's largest title and processing network through Industry Standard protocols. Customers can submit 35 different types of service requests. DTG transforms, routes & processes these requests based on product type, geo location and other business rules. DTG connects several different First American DataTrace backend systems and 3rd Party vendor systems to give aggregated intelligent content/reports according to customer needs. Customers can also open, track, and maintain orders through the DTG System. DTG System also keeps track of user activity, billing and exception management. DTG System also supports both synchronous and asynchronous transactions. DTG is used by several of the Nation’s largest title companies.

 

Technology: Microsoft MSSQL Server 2008, C# .Net 3.5, BizTalk Server 2006 R2, BAM, SSRS, WCF, XML/XSD/EDI, Microsoft Enterprise Library 4.1, Team Foundation Server, VS 2008, Data Power SOA Appliance ESB, SRUM methodology.

 

Data Trace Northeast Systems                                                                                                  March 2005 – June 2007

Role: Team Lead/ArchitectTeam Size: 10+ (onsite & offshore)

 

Data Trace Northeast System is comprised of approximately 20 different systems and supports several products related to property information services:

                           

·                        Enterprise Integration: ERP & CRM Integration for order management and invoicing. Integrated several backend systems due to acquisitions and merger.

 

·                        ASP.NET 1.1 & 2.0 Web Applications: Several web applications have been developed and maintained for the system. It includes customer order placement and tracking system, internal order management system, different types of order processing systems, client management, county & municipality management, invoicing & billing management.

 

·                        Web Services/B2B API’s: Various web services have been developed and utilized throughout the system. Web services for property lookups; B2B web services utilized by 3^rd Party Vendors; Pricing web services to handle complex pricing structure throughout system; web services for tablet applications used by field searchers for order processing; web service used to extract data from third party system; various web services to exchange data between different applications within system.

 

·                        Windows Services/Applications: Various Windows services & backend applications have been developed to handle order processing, inter-system order distribution and collection, automated order completions, automatic order delivery through email, ftp, and fax.

 

·                        Tablet/Desktop Applications: These applications are used by field searchers to complete various order types remotely using tablet pc. These applications are a combination of special data entry modules, business rule engines, and asp.net web services.

 

 

Technologies:               VB.NET, C#, VB 6.0, BizTalk Server 2004, ASP.NET 1.1 & 2.0, AJAX, ASP,  XML, JavaScript, VBScript, DHTML, HTML, Web Services, Windows Services, MS SQL Server, MS Project, Visio, Reporting Services, Infragistics .NET Controls, ActivePDF.

 

Web Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd.                                                                                                  July 2001 – Feb 2005

Manager Software Development                                                                     

 

Responsibilities:

 

·   System analysis, technical designing & development

·   Allocation of tasks to team members and mentoring other developers

·   Coordination with clients in requirement gathering

·   Coordination and management of offshore development team

·   Database schema modeling & complex stored procedures development

·   Handle complex application features and technical designs

·   Plan and conduct training on OOP, .NET, XML, web services etc.

 

Projects:

·   Filter V2005 Data Transfer/Exchange System identical to MS BizTalk (Client: DBFS, UK)

·   Asset Management System (Client: Habib Bank, UK)

·   Loan Management System (Client: Asia Development Bank)

·   Cargo Tracking System (Client: Irtisaal Shipping & Trading)

·   Online Digital Media Library (Client: Hussainiat Foundation)                           

·   Planning/Conducting Internal Developers Training for OOP & .NET

·   VB.NET Tools & Components Designing & Development

·   Manufacturing Resource Planning System MRP (In house product)

·   Manufacturing Execution System (Integration)

·   EMR with HL7 Integration (Electronic Medical Record System) (In house product)

·   Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) (In house product)

Technologies:              VB.NET, VB 6.0, ASP, ASP.NET, XML, JavaScript, VBScript, DHTML, HTML, Web Services, Windows Services, MS SQL Server, MS Project, MS Visio, Crystal Reports, Infragistics .NET Tools & Controls, Protoview, Far Point

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National Group of Companies                                                                                                  Feb 1998 – June 2001

Role: Programmer/Analyst                                                                                                 

 

Responsibilities include: ·           Coding & Development ·           Report Writing ·           Debugging ·           Integration and Regression Testing ·           Maintenance ·           User Training

Projects: ·   Inventory Management System ·   Cash Flow System ·   Bank Reconciliation System ·   Order Processing System ·   Payroll System ·   Manufacturing Resource Planning

Technology:VB 6.0, ACCESS, SQL7, ASP, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript.