VIPIN KUMAR

kumar_vip@yahoo.com

Cell: 201-919-5565

908-660-4282

Information Technology Leader

Enterprise Architecture● Technology Direction,Design/Delivery ●Cloud ●Security●Project Management

Development technology leader, who thrives in challenging, fast paced IT organizations delivering advanced

technology systems, solutions, architecture, and applications. 17 years of global experience include 8+ years

of extensive leadership in business solutions implementation in insurance, financial, telecom and ecommerce

sectors in System Design and Development, Implementation in IT strategic planning with a rich mix of

business management and technology. Proven ability to lead multiple development teams through accelerated

technology development to meet performance goals, operating requirements and financial objectives.

Strategically and cost effectively utilize technology in alignment with corporate goals. Expertise in defining high

level design, instituting policy and standards, network, and improving architectures’ overall capabilities.

Areas of expertise:

• Azure- Cloud

• AWS –Cloud Infrastructure

• Contract Negotiations &

Management

•

Infrastructure Design &

Implementation

• Process Improvements &

Best Practices

• Project Management

• Continuous Improvement

• Cost Containment

• Large Scale Deployments

• Change Management

• Business Governance

• Architectural & Technical

Review Board.

• Solution design and

presentation

• Enterprise Content

Management solution

• Disaster Recovery

•

IT Transformation

• Enterprise Applications

integration architecture

• Vendor Management

• Acquisition and IT

integration

• Business Innovation

• Application Security and

Performance management

• Release Management

• Microsoft ALM/TFS,

SharePoint and

• MS Project Server

• Microsoft Technologies

Career Highlights

Chubb (Formerly ACE Group)-P&C Insurance), NJ

Director (Strategy, Architecture and Development)

2013 – Present

Hand selected by CIO to lead 50+ direct/indirect reports for Personal Lines IT transformation including

deliverables, vendor management, systems and data strategies, systems integration, innovation, Chubb

and Fireman Fund’s merger and integration.

Accomplishments: Restructured and revitalized the IT delivery process to create a leaner, more profitable

operation. Built and improved IT and business relationship as a strategic partner. After overhauling the

delivery process, identified opportunities to substantially improve vendor management, governance

process and Innovations.

• IT Transformation- Automated delivery process from business requirements to production delivery

and improved products speed to market by 25%,cut down vendor delivery cost by 20%,improved

resources and delivery quality by 30% by reducing number of bugs in delivery process which further

resulted satisfactory SOX and security review.

• Offshore and Onshore

Leadership

• Cross-Organization

Collaboration

• Client Needs Analysis

• Emerging Technology &

Market Assessments

• Regulatory requirements

including SOX

• Training, Development, &

Mentoring

• Advanced Technology

Research Team Building &

Management

• Rapid Prototyping &

Programming

• Governance Board- Lead Enterprise and Architecture governance board for IT Issues, estimation and

project timelines for early visibility to business team.

• Vendor management – Lead Cognizant, Accenture, MFX and IBM onshore and offshore teams.

Improved synergies and quality between IT management and offshore teams. It improved 30%

reduction in defects and 30% improvement on customer satisfaction.

• Fireman’s Fund’s Merger & Acquisition and IT Integration– Migrated and re-issued 200K policies

from Fireman’s Systems to Policy Systems. Delivered the complete project that required Infrastructure,

applications, architecture, performance and security with in a budget of $4Million as communicated to

business stakeholders. Improved overnight batch process by 25%, resulted in smooth next day

business operations.

• Chubb Acquisition & IT integration- Lead and worked as a program lead on capability analysis,

systems overlap, data migration, applications integration and security for day one and long term plan.

• Strategic Technologies Initiatives and Roadmaps – Created five year master plan and road map

for major IT initiatives, Lead modernization of legacy policy systems initiatives and performed business

discovery, product capabilities analysis which resulted in selection of Accenture Duck Creek system.

Designed and created roadmap for Cloud deployments.

• Innovation Lead mobility practice for Claims department for Android and IOS devices using Zamarin

C# for First Notice of Loss business case.

Lead POC and Pilot for Drones usage in inspection and claims domain with Airware using their .Net

platform and cloud storage for multiple GB data produced per flight.

Lead POC in IOT domain using Netduino Plus,.Net Micro framework, C# for home flooding business

case.

• Applications Delivery -Completely responsible for overlooking design , development , integration of

Agency Portal, Quote, Policy System, Claims, Registration and Billing applications with a mix of

technology challenges from Microsoft

.Net stack to Mainframe Cobol.

o Knowledge champion of MS-ALM and applied ALM/TFS for complete delivery process.

o Designed and migrated DRC ASP.Net Policy application and Drones data to AWS Cloud EC2

and S3.

o Lead multiple integration projects design using WCF, ETL,SFTP and BizTalk.

o Lead Accenture Claim Care Migration and Biztlak upgrade project from version 9 to 12.

o Lead Azure Cloud service Web and Worker projects along with SQL Azure, Tables and Blobs.

o Completely owned and delivered performance and security project for all applications.

Technology Stack : ASP.Net,Azure, C#,MVC, Angular js,Zamarin, Java Script,WCF, SSIS,SSRS,MS SQL

Server, AWS Cloud, ALM TFS,SVN,JIRA, Mainframe COBOL,DB2,MS Test Center, Load Runner,IBM App

Scan, Google Analytics, Cold Fusion,VM Ware,F5 Load balancer,Windows 2012,Biztlak 2012,Crown Peek,

IBM File Net,EMC Xpression, Oracle DocuCorp, SharePoint, MS project server,XML,XSD,JSON

FCT (Title Insurance)

2012 – 2013

Enterprise/Solution Architect:

• Enterprise Architecture – Used Alfabet tool to capture business, information, technology and

application current state and defining target state.

• Managed enterprise applications risk register.

• Created applications and technology road map.

• Document Management System- Replaced legacy Calligo system with Open text document

generation and storage system 30% improvement in document delivery process and 50% licensing

cost reduction.

• Performance Management Application-Lead performance management (SAAS) solutions from RFI

to vendor/product selection and further implementation.

• Printers’ replacements and Go Green initiative- Lead a complete analysis, vendor evaluation and

implementation which resulted 50% cut down in paper.

• Lead the design and implementation for Generic portal system in .Net (C#), ASP.Net, WCF,

SQLServer,XML.

ADP (Payroll & Financial Services)

Solution Architect/Manager:

2008 – 2012

• Improved Year-end IT batch process by 50% which resulted on time new year business transactions.

• Acted as a Lead Architect in $50 Million (WFN) project for business and technical solutions and lead a

geographically distributed team and ADP India.

• Lead application design artifacts and development of payroll module with latest .Net framework.

• Extensively participated in code reviews and wrote C# code/design guidelines for development team.

• Participated in UML diagram creation and maintaining documentation.

• Lead vendor team in product migration from VB to .Net C#.

• Developing detailed resource requirement and implementation in MS Project for offshore development.

• Lead Application PEN testing (Application security) and solutions.

• Actively participating in release and Change request management using agile methodology.

• Designed n-tier architecture using MS design patterns and Microsoft Enterprise library blocks.

Avanade Inc.

2005 – 2008

Solution Consultant

• Knowledge champion of e-Commerce applications and multi-layer architecture.

• Acted as an architect and point to contact in delivery of a major healthcare (OLIS) project which was

acquired by Accenture from CapGemini.

• Provided .Net and Biztalk guidance to technical team and worked directly with business analysis team

in prioritizing needs and deliveries.

• Acted as lead in design and code reviews in C#.

• Lead the design and implementation of the legacy title insurance portal to configurable portal using

ASP.Net and SQL server along with Microsoft enterprise library to support multiple languages.

• Lead release management and production readiness tasks.

Verizon, MA.

2003 – 2005

Sr. Software Consultant

• Lead requirement analysis and solutions for file sharing application using .Net and SQL server.

• Worked with Verizon concept design and development team in providing quick POCs to management.

• Migrated and coordinated offshore team members, coordinated project bug fixes and testing.

• Lead performance improvement project of VZShare application.

Sea Change International, MA

Birlasoft

Technical Expertise:

Application Development: AWS and Azure Cloud, SAAS, Windows Servers, ASP.NET, MVC, C#, SOAP,

WCF, REST, IIS,BizTalk, SQL servers, Web API, Mobile, ECM, Java Script, MS-Dynamics,

XML,Java,Oracle,DuckCreek,AWS and AZURE Cloud

Methodologies: OOPS, OOD, Client/Server Methodology/Architecture, Web development, UML Rational

Rose, Waterfall,Agile, SCRUM, Design Patterns, DevOps,SOA, TOGAF 9

Management tools: MS Project, ALM/ TFS, MS- Visio, SharePoint, MS-Office,EA tools (Alfabet)

Education and Professional Certifications:

AWS- Cloud Solution Architect

Microsoft Azure Solution Architect Certification

PMI – NJ Chapter Member

TOGAF 9 – Enterprise Architecture #71521

Project Management Certification

PMP Certification #205210

M.S (Computer Sc. & Engineering).

Currently Pursuing-Amazon

2016

2016

EDX

PMI Institute

2012 Open Group

2004 Boston University

2004 PMI Institute

1997

GJ University

Tech/Team Lead

Sr Consultant

2001 – 2003

1998- 2001