Over 14 years of professional experience with focus on IT modernization. Experience in managing the implementation of mid to large sized software projects and e-business applications employing waterfall, RUP and Agile methodology. Expertise in SOA architecture, Business Process Management System (BPMS), J2EE technologies, open source frameworks, data warehousing and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Experience with integrated data driven solutions for mid to large sized clients. Extensive experience as a Technology Consultant in the Financial Services Industry.

                                                                                         

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

GSA-FAME                                                                                           Nov-2010 to present

Karsun Solutions

Team Lead/ Sr. SOA Architect

The FAS Enterprise Acquisition Solution (EAS) Pricing Application is a Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) modernization initiative designed to improve acquisition capabilities across the FAS enterprise through the implementation of optimal, innovative technology services.

 

Responsibilities:

●        Lead a cross divisional team to successfully deliver many software development initiatives.

●        Conducted risk analysis, internal/external dependencies and devised mitigation strategies to anticipate and neutralize possible problems and evaluated impact on enterprise wide applications.

●        Conducted critical change requests meeting with stakeholders. Participated in CCB meetings and helped prioritize proposed updates and future initiatives.

●        Negotiated scope with clients for various release, assessed risk impacting multiple enterprise wide applications and kept the project on track by raising change requests and resource leveling.

●        Prepared budget estimates and high level BOEs for the defined scope.

●        Created project work plan, resource plan, provided schedules and forecasting, status meetings and communication management.

●        Provided input to finance for budgeting based on resource allocation in the project plan.

●        Communicated development scope and drop dates impacting multiple applications in the FAME program.

●        Created a backup plan to mitigate resource dependencies by motivating team members to capture and share technical and business know-how.

●        Prepared the production incidents, technical status and business process cycle reports to provide periodic achievement reports to the clients.

●        Identified and prioritized production issues to ensure a timely response. Analyzed and coordinated research for a viable work around and obtained stakeholder’s approval.

●        Participated in internal review board meetings to discuss changes to Web Services, Data structure, and data corrections.

●        Laid down the architecture and design for the applications based on SOA principles.

●        Conducted lessons learnt meeting and shared the learning across divisions. Tracked lessons learnt over time and improved processes.

●        Expertise in product evaluation to suit specific technical needs given today’s dynamic client environment and ever advancing technology.

●        Coordinated the integration effort for different application teams during all SDLC phases.

 

Fannie Mae, VA                                                                                       Dec 2005 to Nov-2010

Sr. Consultant/ Lead

FAS91, SOP and PDTax Amortization Engine are applications designed to implement accounting standards and SOX controls for nonrefundable fees and costs associated with lending, committing to lend, or purchasing a loan or group of loans. 

Responsibilities:

●        Lead a team of consultants to successfully deliver multiple critical projects to accomplish a part of multimillion dollar Restatement and Get Current initiatives.

●        Conducted meetings with business as well as development teams to review and finalize new requirements.

●        Provided input for formalizing the process and artifacts required to promote code to test and production environment.

●        Reviewed and provided input for creating application & data backup, failover and server decommission plans.

●        Organized and steered development and project status meetings with internal and cross functional teams to keep project in line with the plan and resolve production issues.

●        Provided architectural design for various systems to convert them from batch processing to event based processing, to accommodate multiple events within the loan lifecycle based on business requirements. Applied various core J2EE design patterns to improve granularity and re-usability.

●        Mentored the team members to design and develop various applications using J2EE, Hibernate, Spring, JTA, JMS, JAXB, JAXP, XML, XSD, Oracle and Log4J. Used ANT scripts to build and deploy the application on WebLogic application server.

●        Designed and developed Test Data generation framework to improve code quality and reduced development lifecycle and cost to business centers

●        Monitored the monthly amortization process for any anomalies from expected results. Performed root cause analysis and presented short term and long term fix along with expected completion time line.

●        Suggested and implemented value added enhancements and improved business processes to auto start the amortization, cash flow generation and financial calculation process.

●        Created and exposed amortization engine functionality as Webservice using bottom-up approach as part of future state initiative.

●        Lead the effort to redesign ETL (Ab Initio) graphs and workflows to improve execution time, failover dependencies, error logging and user reporting. Created framework to automate system validations to reduce cycle time and resources

 

Jackson National Life Insurance, Lansing, MI                                     April 2004 – Dec 2005

J2EE Lead

PGS (Portfolio Generation System) was an online system designed for JNL’s client Curian Capital, Denver. 

Responsibilities:

●        Lead a team of five developers for design, development, implementation, testing and deployment of web based three tier application called PGS

●        Managed the workload of five developers.

●        Discussed business requirements, negotiated scope and timelines.

●        Designed and developed a rule engine to load data files from various sources, based on industry specific standards and user defined file layouts.

●        Designed and developed JSP, Tags, Action and Model based on STRUTS framework, classes based on appropriate design patterns. Implemented business logic using Session and Message Driven Bean using MQSeries. Created build scripts and migration scripts for development and testing environment.

 

Capital One, Richmond, VA     September 2003 – April 2004 and April 2002 – March 2003

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

●        Lead a team for requirement analysis, development, unit test and implementation of a web-based IT application.

●        Planned, coordinated and executed development tasks and deployments.

●        Wrote high level and detailed design document per the SDM 2.0 (Solution Delivery Methodology) standards.

●        Lead the implementation of a new campaign using Cleveland state machine based on J2EE Architecture, Struts Framework, JSP tags, and WebLogic application server.

●        Created Stateless Session Bean for business logic that combined together to make a business process.

●        Designed and created Ab Initio processes, Korn-shell control scripts to load data to the production database and extracting data for SMS system for fulfillment.

 

UBS Global Asset Management, Chicago, IL                              March 2003 - September 2003

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

●        Wrote code for presentation, middle and database layer based on some of the prominent design patterns.

●        Created Stateless Session Bean and Stored Procedure to implement Business logic.

●        Coordinated with business analyst and technical team in New York for requirements and implementation.

●        Created ETL control scripts for data load to development, UAT and production database on a daily and weekly basis.

●        Mentored other team members in technology as well as the business.

 

HP / Bear Sterns &Co. Inc., Whippany, NJ                                             Dec 2001 – March 2002

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

●        Developed several HTML pages, developed client side interactivity and generated dynamic HTML based on user preferences using DHTML and JavaScript.

●        Viewed reports using SR/EE

●        Validated client-side user input using JavaScript

●        Troubleshot cross-browser compatibility issues (IE and Netscape issues).

●        Made changes in JavaScript code for efficiency and cross browser compatibility, increased html download speed on Netscape by many folds.

 

AIG/AIU, Parsippany, NJ Project                                                                 Nov 2000 – Nov 2001

Senior Programmer              

Responsibilities:

●        Designed database tables, designed and wrote JSP pages, Session Beans, Entity Beans, Message Driven Beans and other classes.

●        Created ACL for as an access security measure in WebLogic.

●        Created reports using Crystal reports and used Crystal Clear to present it on a JSP.

●        Developed the application using technologies such as Java, JDBC 2.0, J2EE, EJB2.0, JSP, HTML, CSS and JSP.

InfoTel India Pvt. Ltd./ STG International Ltd/ Keane Consulting              May 1997 to Oct 2000

Programmer/ Analyst

Developed software products for various clients. Some of the responsibilities included interacting with the client for the requirement, designing database, designing and coding the package using Java technologies such as- JDK 1.2, JDBC, RMI, Servlets, JBuilder, Java Web Server, Oracle 7.3., ensuring timely deliveries of work requests and ensuring all work met the coding specification.

 

Technical Skills: J2EE, Savvion, Appian, Jboss-SOAP, Hadoop, SOA Service Manager, Talend, Ab Initio, HANA, EJB, JSP, JAXB, JAXP, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, VBSF, DBUnit, JUnit, Log4J, POI, iText, XML, Xerces, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, AXIS2, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, Eclipse, MyEclipse, TogetherJ, SVN, Maven, JBRMS, StarTeam, Telnet, ANT, Embarcadero Rapid SQL, PopChart Server, Remedy, IPlanet, IntelliJ IDEA, TogetherJ, WinCVS, Hummingbird Exceed, Dreamweaver, Crystal Reports, DBArtisian, Sybase, IBM-DB2, Oracle, Business Object, MS Projects, MS Visio, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Control-M, Windows, UNIX, Korn Shell script.

 

Education:

PG Diploma in Planning & Management: New Delhi.

B.Com (Honors): University of Delhi

Diploma in Computers: NIIT New Delhi.