Raghu Polavarapu

            Email: sraghupola12@gmail.com

 Tel: 718-473-4733

 

§    Experienced professional in building, leading & managing large internet teams, product development, business architecture, data architecture, enterprise & solutions architecture, infrastructure, networking & applications in different industries like financial, media, publishing, utility, manufacturing, health care and telecommunications.

§    Experience architecting, leading and implementing content management and portals, e-Commerce, SOA, BPM, SSO, Marketing Automation/Digital Marketing, Salesforce, DAM (Digital Asset Mgmt), MRM (Marketing Resource Management), Integration architecture across wide range of technologies including Java/JEE & .NET for extended enterprise functionality.

§    Experience working with solution delivery, application development, Continuous integration / Continuous development /DevOps, infrastructure management, SaaS & PaaS models, Big Data applications and analysis, security teams and managing large Infrastructure related deployments with Microsoft, IBM, Linux, Sun & HP platforms.

§    Experience leading POC/POT for multiple technology and business initiatives like Integration platforms. SOA, BPM, Messaging, Enterprise Logging & Audit (Splunk), Operational Monitoring (Tivoli,SiteScope, Wiley, Quest), .NET, Sharepoint, CMS, Windows mobile applications, ETL platforms, Data Integration and various other key initiatives.

§    Experience in designing, leading and building web based commerce and b2b/b2c applications (Websphere Commerce, ATG), personalization, workflows, integration with internal and external systems, commerce sites, working with content management, edge networks like Akamai & managing large deployments.

§    Experience in building process oriented enterprise solutions, SOA architecture, SOA design, SOA governance, using various integration tools/technologies like Websphere Process Server, WID, IID, Process Designer, WESB, Lombardi, IBM BPM 7.5/7.2/6.2.2/8.0, PEGA, iLog, Intalio, Aqualogic, Lotus forms, Portals, Data Power and other integration platforms.

§    Experience establishing CoE’s for BPM, SOA, Cloud Computing (SaaS, PaaS,IaaS) and working on defining the roadmap and strategy from inception to mature programs for various initiatives.

§    Experience working with Industry packs like IBM Healthcare Connectivity Pack, working with IBM ISSW standards, leading PoC/Pilots to full scale implementations and enterprise expansion of various technology initiatives.

§    Hands-on experience architecting, building and leading teams in implementation of high volume distributed enterprise, web, desktop and client/server applications using Java/JEE/Spring/Hibernate/Portals/ECM/SSO/IDM; BPM, Business Rules, Business Activity Monitoring, .NET/WPF/WCF/Silverlight.

§    Experience with EA methodologies like Zachman and TOGAF and producing EA Artifacts to represent existing Architectural artifacts and the “to-be” state of the Architecture.

§    Experience in providing leadership, strategy, direction to both business & technology areas and managing business expectations including budgeting, forecasting, governance, business processes, technology improvements and management.

§    Experience working in various verticals and cross platform applications for financial apps, banking apps, health care application (ICD10, 5010, EDI, Claims processing), telecommunications, media, publishing, energy/utilities and startup organizations including product development.

§    Worked as a conduit between business & technology teams, instituting processes, methodologies across the SDLC for multiple global teams, working with sales & marketing teams, solution delivery teams, R&D, ensuring customer satisfaction and performing business development & account management activities.

§    Worked in planning, mapping business strategy to technology, product vision & roadmap, vendor & customer alliances, internal & external relationship building, conceptualizing & socializing new business opportunities and planning for technological changes.

§    Experience in designing application security models, setting up SSO infrastructure, user management, identity solutions implementation using products like Netegrity/CA SiteMinder, Sun IDM, openSSO, IdentityMinder, SecureProxy, Spring Security (Authentication/Authorization, LDAP integration) and integration of these solutions into the web solutions, ECM, financial applications and portal infrastructure.

§    Strong expertise with enterprise architecture, data architecture, performance management / optimization, design, development, and integration using several generations of technologies including Core Java, .NET, WPF, WCF, RIA, web based, client-server, command line applications.

§    Designed /developed high performing, low latency applications using Core Java and concepts like multi-threading, NIO, JTAPI, JMF and integrated with third party applications like CEP (Java API and C/C++ API), and Charles River IMS.

§    Implementation of SOA based architecture with open standards/technologies like XML, WebServices, UDDI, ESB/Intermediaries, WS* standards, Canonical message formats, WSDL and frameworks like Hibernate, and Spring.

 

SKILLS:

Languages:Java, C++, C, C#, XML, XSLT, HTML, XHTML, SQL, PL/SQL, CSS

Java & Server-side skills: Servlets, EJB, RMI, JMS, RMI, JNDI, JSP, JDBC, Java Media Framework JDO, XSQL, JSTL SOAP, JAXR, JAXP, JAXB, Node JS

BPM IBM BPM, Lombardi, Appian Intalio, Pega, TIBCO

BREJRules, Intalio BRE, Pega PPRC

SOA & ESB:WebMethods, WS02, Datapower, IBM Process Server, WebSphere Message Broker (WMB),Oracle,WESB, IIB, DataPower, Mulesoft, TIBCO

BigData:Hadoop, Pig,Hive

Windows/.NET.NET, WPF, WCF, WAS, ASP.NET, LINQ, Silverlight, Syncfusion DataGrid, IIS, Windows 8 Mobile Apps, Sharepoint, SQL Server, Biztalk

Market Data IntegrationFeedhandlers—RediPlus, IDC

Healthcare Standards & AppsICD 10/9, Claims, Benefits (SEFCAB, MEBEX), Member Eligibility,

Pre-X, Pre-Cert, FEPAudit,COB,HL7,EMR, EDI (834, 835, 837 270/271) transactions.

Content Management Systems: Websphere Web Content Manager (WCM), Vignette, Documentum, Alfresco, Websphere/WICM

Portal Platform/Servers:Weblogic Portal, WebSphere Portal, Vignette Application Portal

Server-Side Skills:Java Servlets, JSP, EJB, JSTL, ASP, JMS, WCF

Frameworks:Hibernate, Spring, Log4J, Apache Commons, Commons DBCP.

E-Commerce:WebSphere Commerce, ATG Dynamo

Continous Integration/CD/DevOps:Jenkins, Maven, Docker, GitHub

Design Experience: Rational Rose, Struts, MVC2 Architecture, MVVM

Directory Servers:Novell e-Directory 8.x, Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP and JNDI skills.

Single-Sign-on: Netegrity Siteminder, IdentityMinder, SAML, Tivoli

Search Engine: Verity K2, Autonomy, Ultraseek, Lucene

Middleware Skills: JMS, MQ Series, ActiveMQ, RMI, TIBCO

CEP (Complex Event Processing)Coral8, Sybase CEP, Aleri

Architecture & ModelingRational Architect, ERWin, Sparx EA, Troux, BigData, Hadoop

Grid ComputingOracle, BOINC

Cache ManagementRelationalCache like RAP, Object Cache (Coherence) etc

ERPPeoplesoft, (Peopletools, AppDesigner, Administration) SAP

Load Balancers:F5, Cisco, INKRA

Build Tools & Testing tools: Ant, Junit, Maven, luntbuild, Mercury Loadrunner, Winrunner, QTP

Databases: Oracle, DB2, mySQL, Microsoft SQL server

Application Server& Servlet Engine: WebLogic, WebSphere, iPlanet, Tomcat, JBoss

Operating Systems: Win NT, HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux (Red Hat)

Web Servers: Apache, IIS, IBM HTTP Server

Scripting Languages: Java Script, CSS, Perl,UNIX Shell Scripting

CRM:  Siebel, Avaya eContact, SFDC/Salesforce

Marketing Automation:Marketo, Oracle Eloqua

Version Control: CVS, PVCS, Continuus, Subversion

Call Center Tools:Avaya CVuIS, Avaya e-Contact

 

 

EXPERIENCE:

 

Sr. Enterprise & Solutions Architect, Prudential Inc, Newark, NJ Feb ’15 ----Current

 

§ Currently working as a Sr. Enterprise & Solutions Architect for practice across the enterprise on multiple initiatives---SOA, Integration, BPM, MRM (Marketing Resource Management), Marketing Automation, Salesforce integration, DAM (Digital Asset Management), Big Data initiatives, WCM & Portal.

§ Responsible for producing solution architecture documents (SAD) for various initiatives like DAM-MRM-Compliance Systems; SOA & BPM applications, Amazon WebServices (AWS), Cloud strategy, CDM/MDM, Persona/Personalization and several initiatives for US Customer office and re-launch of Pru.com and enterprise Dashboard.

§ Responsible for driving and managing the DevOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Development aspects of the lifecycle and drive DevOps adoption in the organization along with micro-services architecture.

§ Lead the development of web services, IIB message flows, business process modeling using IBM BPM Advanced and development of coaches for human interaction/user interface for process applications.

§ Worked with business users and stakeholders to drive process maps, high level process models and then converted to process applications/implementation and integration with other services and applications like Business Rules, IIB and legacy integration.

§ Lead the end to end evaluation, selection of Marketing Automation platform, wrote the Solutions Architecture document, and lead the integration and implementation of MA platform with Salesforce.com, DAM, MRM and lead the governance team.

§ Responsible for evaluation of marketing automation vendors, technical architecture deep dives, market analysis, producing reference architecture documentation for Marketing Automation & integration with Salesforce, WCM, DAM and MRM systems.

§ Responsible for working with various cloud vendors and applications, integration with Prudential and integration between cloud applications like Salesforce, Marketing Automation, MRM (Workfront), DAM (assetServ/MediaBeacon & NorthPlains).

§ Produced SAD and responsible to drive technical and business teams for implementation of Marketing Automation platform Oracle Eloqua, integration with internal and external systems and cloud partners like SFDC, MRM(Workfront), DAM (assetServ), CDM/MDMs etc.

§ Produced SAD (Solution Architecture document) for WCM and Portal integrations, Rich Media Integration, application integrations with existing Prudential legacy systems, middleware integration architecture including service design, governance models and environment alignment related to the SDLC.

§ Responsible for producing SAD for CDM/MDM initiative, BigData & Hadoop, data extraction from existing sources into CDM and alignment with overall technical and business goals of turning current BU centric customer experience to more Prudential brand centric customer experience.

§ Responsible for working with multiple BU’s like Annuities, ILI, GI, Retirement etc in analyzing their existing architecture and technology landscape and drive towards EA standardization, solution integration and delivery models.

§ Responsible for working with senior leadership and executive management including Product Management, CCO, several VP’s of IT Architecture and BU CMO’s to ensure their business goals are aligned with the overall proposed architecture for Marketing Automation, MRM, DAM, SOA & BPM.

§ Responsible for driving services integration architecture, working with BA’s and business units for process discovery, conceptual design/definition and translation into process design leading to delivery of the process applications.

§ Produced all the technical documentation including systems architecture, High level and low level designs for several process applications including Leads Management, New Institutional customer on-boarding, Plan participant management and on-boarding /integration.

§ Responsible for performing and leading various technology stacks for  portals, SOA tooling, BPM, IID, Data Power, CI/CD (Jenkins) etc.

§ Responsible for consolidation of various enterprise monitoring tools across the enterprise and defining key metrics and KPI’s required at various levels including executive dashboards, operational aspects including new tool implementation like Splunk.

 

Environment: TOGAF, Java, JEE, Node JS, MRM (Workfront ),Oracle Eloqua, Marketo, Salesforce, AWS, Jenkins, Docker, GitHub, MediaBeacon/assetServ, IBM WCM & Portal, Digilant, XiNet, IBM BPM Advanced, Process Modeling, BPM Coaches,SOA, WebMethods, MuleSoft, DataPower, Splunk, SSO, SiteMinder, IIB, WebSphere MQ, Informatica, Hadoop, Pig, Hive, Canonical models, SFTP, WebSphere, SSO, Oracle

 

 

Sr. Enterprise & Solutions Architect (SOA, BPM, SSO & EA)    Oct ’13—Jan ‘15

VNSNY, New York, NY

 

§ Worked as a Sr. Enterprise Architect & Solutions practice across the enterprise on multiple initiatives including legacy modernization, SOA, Integration & BPM.

§ Responsible for performing and leading various technology initiatives (Portals, SOA tooling, BPM, IID, Data Power, Portal, CMS/ECM, Integration, SaaS, Windows 8 Mobile applications, Data Integration initiatives (ODS, MDM), Enterprise Logging & Audit/Operational Monitoring (Splunk Enterprise) and business transformation projects like SaaS model for Care Delivery and Care Management.

§ Worked on building the strategy & roadmap of EA deliverables, SOA & BPM strategy, Salesforce integration, Marketing Automation, ODS & MDM initiatives and business transformation of various legacy systems including implementation of Cloud strategy.

§ Responsible for all the tiers of the Integration Services Hub model (conceptualized, delivered technical documents) and implementation of various components like DataPower, IIB, BPM, Biztalk, ODS & DataMarts for reporting.

§ Responsible for SSO and identity management initiatives across the enterprise and implemented SSO with SiteMinder, integrated with existing directory services and other applications for authentication & authorization.

§ Responsible for defining systems architecture, design, development of business processes, integration using SOA paradigm and tooling with IBM Integration Broker, IBM Healthcare Connectivity Pack, IBM BPM Advanced, DataPower, Splunk for enterprise logging, WebSphere MQ, Informatica, MDM/ODS & BigData initiatives.

§ Worked with business to conduct workshops, document business processes during discovery phases using IBM Blueworks live, converting them to BPD’s and developing/leading business processes and all the integration required with backend Systems of record.

§ Responsible for Infrastructure delivery & deployment, working with vendors, solution delivery, applications development/deployment, security teams and capacity planning exercises for migration to Windows 8, IIS, Sharepoint, Windows mobile applications, Mobile Iron,. Splunk, Oracle, Informatica and IBM.

§ Leading the EA practice at VNSNY – capturing current-state architecture & defining future state, developing reference architectures, best practices, frameworks, defined an EA charter, institutionalized governance process, technology/tools evaluation & selection across the application, solution, data & infrastructure stack.

§ Responsible for working with executive leadership on various technology decisions, roadmaps, legacy modernization initiatives, strategy & direction for multiple initiatives like Care Delivery, Care Management & insurance lines of business initiatives.

§ Developed the EA vision & goals document outlining the technology roadmap, (solution, applications, data, infrastructure aspects), defined the transition plan from existing mainframe based legacy model to a SaaS-Hybrid model.

§ Developed the Integration Services Hub architecture at VNSNY and defined all the pieces of this architecture including hardware/firmware appliances, integration products, messaging models, SOA& BPM stack plus business rules and data architecture.

§ Designed and developed integration solutions for Care Delivery, Care Management and Woundcare management using IBM Healthcare connectivity pack to integrate with HIPAA, HL7 and DICOM using pre-built patterns provided by the pack.

§ Responsible for working with various data teams including reporting, informatics, health economics and analyzing existing data architecture, defined future state including a roadmap to build an ODS, MDM model and an ETL platform.

§ Worked on defining the enterprise data models, canonical models, mapping canonical models to enterprise data models and the underlying transformations responsible for integration and data loads/migration of data.

§ Responsible for evaluation of ETL platforms, data governance and data modeling tooling and selection of the underlying tooling and technology platforms responsible to drive the ODS & MDM initiatives.

§ Developed solution architecture documents for migration of Care Delivery and Care Management initiatives to a cloud based SaaS model and the corresponding integration paradigm/architecture patterns to integrate existing systems with the cloud model.

§ Responsible for implementation of DataPower, IIB, Splunk, ETL platform and various integration solutions & design of SaaS to VNSNY integration paradigm for Care Delivery & Care Management.

§ Responsible for working with PMO team, SI partners, security and infrastructure teams on various aspects of the enterprise wide initiatives to modernize existing platforms, build a robust architecture and migrate existing applications and technology.

§ Responsible for driving Continuous Integration/DevOps aspects, defining interface requirements, design and leading SI teams for implementing integration solutions between the SaaS cloud model & VNSNY enterprise systems.

§ Hands-on experience setting up IBM SOA stack (IIB, DataPower, BPM, ODM) and also working with Microsoft applications team on various Sharepoint & Windows 8 mobile application initiatives like Woundcare application.

§ Defining the SSO and identity management strategy, roadmap and working with Infrastructure & Security teams on a working model for application compliance with enterprise security standards.

§ Wrote various technical design documents for both enterprise architecture (TOGAF model) and solution architecture documents for Care Delivery, Care Management, Woundcare Application and various other application interfaces including portals and Sharepoint applications.

 

Environment: TOGAF, Java, JEE, C#, IIS, Salesforce, Marketo, Jenkins, Docker, Windows 8 mobile applications, Microsoft Azure, Sharepoint, IBM BPM Advanced, BPM Coaches, SOA, IIB, Healthcare connectivity pack, ODM, DataPower, Splunk, SSO, SiteMinder, WMB, WebSphere MQ, Informatica, BigData (Hadop,Pig, Hive), Universal Data Models, Canonical models, Embarcadero, WebSphere App Server, WebSphere Portal, AIX, IBM PureFlex, Windows 8, SFTP, SSO, AWS, Oracle 11g, DB2, REST/SOAP Web Services, PSFT

 

Sr. Solutions & Enterprise Architect (Applications & SOA/BPM)          Dec ’12 –Sep ‘13

Citigroup (GFTS—Global Financial Technology Solutions)

 

§ Working as a Sr. Solutions Architect providing design, architecture for the Finance Backbone platform and a Global application framework for Finance Adjustments (FAEM) through a common application interface for all products ranging both wholesale and retail business.

§ Leading the program for implementation of FAEM (Finance Adjustments and Entry Module) via a single user interface for SGL (balances), Indicative/Contract data and Common Balances cutting across multiple source systems like GENESIS, SGL, CDA, OpsPortal.

§ Leading the technical solution architecture & design involving integration with various applications/systems across the Finance backbone.

§ Lead the integration of .NET user interfaces with Java/JEE backend for various applications for GFTS and FRO supervisors and deployment to multiple geographical regions like APAC, EMEA and NAM.

§ Worked with leading the .NET and Java teams onshore and offshore & responsible for managing delivery & key milestones on various GFTS initiatives.

§ Lead the program both from functional and technical aspects as well as wrote the design specifications (High Level Design document, Low Level Design document).

§ Responsible for leading onshore and offshore resources for this program in terms of solution design and delivery.

§ Responsible for designing, leading and development of content & commerce based intranet/extranet applications using ATG Commerce (personalization, content, workflow, user profile management, managing repositories etc.) at Citi for FRO to manage the financial adjustments, integrate with existing content repositories and workflow invocations as part of the business process.

§ Responsible for leading the IBM BPM product upgrade to 8.5, systems architecture and migration of existing process applications to the new platform.

§ Responsible for working with multiple teams at Citi including Data Architecture, CDA, BizTalk, PSFT, ETL, User Interface, EMS (TIBCO), Infrastructure and SA teams; conducting design workshops with multiple teams.

§ Responsible for Process application design, (from modeling to design to development including coaches in BPM) and work with both technology and business teams.

§ Responsible for identifying, designing and documenting all the interfaces for various integration points of the solution.

§ Hands-on experience in setting up BPM platform, defining the standards for process application development, integration with existing systems and delivering the application integration.

§ Responsible for working with Finance architecture team to ensure that the solution fits into the overall vision and strategic direction of the organization.

§ Providing leadership for the BPM Center of Excellence and ensuring that applications stick to a standard framework and are in compliance with best practices.

§ Defining all the interfaces, integration strategies, design choices and providing these as part of High level and Low level design documents.

§ Responsible for identifying the object model and data model, worked with the data model in defining the ER model.

§ Responsible for code and release management strategy for the FAEM/Adjustments application and ensuring that code is reviewed and is in compliance with standards defined.

§ Hands-on in application design and development and mentored onshore and offshore resources for this program.

§ Design and development of JEE application for Finance Back Bone Adjustments and integrate with process applications.

§ Hands-on experience in design and development of services, mediation modules and deployment to WESB as well as integration with IBM BPM platform.

§ Integrated Finance Back Bone to various systems like SL/GL, GENESIS, UAL, CDA (ETL), TIBCO EMS and  BPM.

§ Worked with business conducting BPM workshops, model and design processes on Blueworks Live, process application development on Process designer and Integration designer, build and deployment of BPMN and BPEL processes to the runtime environment, and integration to multiple systems.

§ Design and develop process portal customizations, common library/toolkit design and development for reuse across the entire enterprise

§ Worked on transparent authentication between BPM Process Portal and custom JEE applications with SSO and TAS.

 

Environment: Java, JEE, C#., Sharepoint, Websphere, ATG, Perl, BizTalk, IBM BPM Advanced, SOA, WESB, WPS, Process Designer, Integration Designer, Business Monitor, iLog JRules, TalenD, SFTP, AbInitio, TIBCO, Websphere App Server 8, EJB, ExtJS4, Spring, JMS, Sparx Enterprise Architect, SiteScope, Spring, BigData, SSO, Oracle 11g, REST/SOAP WebServices, PSFT (SGL), GENESIS, UAL

 

 

Sr. Technical Architect/Sr. Portal, SOA & BPM Consultant             

Pershing (a BNY Mellon company)Apr ’12 – Dec ‘12

 

§ Worked as solutions architect for Managed Account Portal, Personalized Account Management sites, Content Management Integration, BPM strategy, application integration, and migration of Lombardi Teamworks to IBM BPM 7.x and 8.0 and leading the PEGA implementation for multiple enterprise initiatives at Pershing and BNY Mellon.

§ Responsible for leading and managing web applications and commerce based personalized sites for onboarding new customers, self-service account management and content/workflow integration using ATG Commerce, Websphere, BPM.

§ Responsible for leading the PEGA initiative at the bank for certain departments of the bank, including systems architecture, installation, configuration and development of process applications on the PEGA platform.

§ Responsible for hybrid operational model of IBM BPM and PEGA’s co-existences at Pershing/BNY Mellon’s various departments.

§ Responsible for systems architecture, installation, configuration, integration of Websphere Portal with Web Content Manager and existing legacy and third party content management repositories using the federated model.

§ Responsible for working with business, mentoring business and technology teams to appropriately strategize content delivery, content authoring, and integration/importing existing content from various systems into WCM.

§ Design and development of Managed Account Portal on the Websphere Portal Platform with integration to multiple backend-systems including content management, data and other enterprise applications to provide a single unified view of the Account Management functionality for various IBD’s through the new platform.

§ Design and development of content libraries, content delivery applications using JEE and custom WCM templates and presentation model, SSO integration, content syndication (inbound/outbound for revenue generation and content linking), developed content taxonomy and integration with search engine.

§ Provided technical leadership in installation, setup and configuration of Websphere Portal and integration with multiple systems like content management, imaging, PMAS applications.

§ Responsible for integration of WCM with IBM BPM using the CMIS open standards to build a platform for interoperability.

§ Migrated from Weblogic Integration Server to Lombardi TeamWorks/IBM BPM Advanced for Pershing Managed Account solutions platform.

§ Lead the team in the implementation of IBM BPM stack with BPM Advanced version, including WESB for deployment of SOA solutions, WPS and Integration Designer for Advanced integration, Lombardi/IBM Process Center/Designer & Server for BPMN modeling and business process orchestration, IBM ODM/iLog JRules for business rules management towards various solutions at Pershing and BNY Mellon.

§ Lead the design and implementation of BRMS platform using IBM iLog JRules, install, configure and author riles, worked with business and technical users in mentoring and working with BRMS, integrated with BPM and SOA platforms.

§ Lead technical design and development of SOA applications, web services, service orchestration via BPM, Business Activity Monitor and Business Rules Engine.

§ Performed the systems architecture design, setup and installation of IBM BPM for various environments within Pershing and BNYMellon; includes systems architecture, Websphere setup, BPM Product suite setup and installation and tuning of various environments.

§ Working with multiple technical business and user teams to perform infrastructure QA, project management, activities like system design/planning, install/setup, configure, gather business requirements, and work as liaison between business and technical teams.

§ Responsible for service identification, design and implementation of services using various paradigms and deployment to the WESB, deployment of WSRR for service repository & other Service Bus infrastructures in the bank.

§ Design and development of JEE web applications using JSP, JSF, Spring, Hibernate, RAD, portlets development, portal and service orchestration using BPM.

§ Responsible for migration of existing PMAS applications to a common Portal platform using Websphere Portal (Managed Account Portal) to provide a single unified access platform and integration with business processes (Lombardi/IBM BPM) across the organization.

§ Responsible for various new BPM initiatives including on-boarding and integration of new process applications, providing direction from requirements with BlueWorks Live, Discovery Maps, Process diagram and blueprints.

§ Providing technical leadership for BPM COE, enterprise BPM strategy and working with IBM and offshore teams for migrating to BPM 7.2/7.5.1 for different teams at Pershing and BNY Mellon.

§ Responsible for integration and orchestration of various services into process applications with REST services, BPMN, and service bus for reusable services.

§ Design and Implementation of enterprise web services, deployment to WESB, integration with various internal and external systems using IBM IID/WPS and PD/PS.

§ Provide technical design documents, process blue prints, mentoring business and offshore teams in requirements phases and technical design and process application development.

§ Lead BPM migration strategy and implementation for PMAS and non-Pershing custodian accounts related applications.

§ Built various BPM applications for Pershing Managed Account Solutions using Lombardi and integration various external and internal source systems like Folio, CDB, APL, ACM, OSP etc.

§ Responsible for providing leadership on all BPM initiatives for PMAS (Pershing Managed Account Solutions) from inception to delivery.

 

Environment: Websphere Portal, WCM, ATG Commerce, Lombardi / IBM BPM Advanced, SOA, WESB, WSRR, WPS, Business Monitor, iLog JRules, JSR 168, JSR 286, Java, JEE, Perl, Shell Scrpting, Sparx Enterprise Architect, Spring, Hibernate, SSO, SQL Server, Oracle, REST/SOAP WebServices, CEP, OSP, Folio, APL, CDB

 

Sr.Solutions/Systems & Enterprise Architect

Blue Cross Blue Shield NJ04/10—03/12

 

§ Providing solutions architecture, system strategy, application architecture and technical leadership in various technologies—SOA, BPM solutions, ESB, Portals & CMS solutions (Websphere Content Manager).

§ Responsible for providing leadership, strategy and direction for middleware engineering, BPM/SOA solutions, Portals/CMS and other enterprise JEE applications.

§ Establish enterprise architectural standards and practices in the middleware space, SOA, BPM, Portals, CMS, SSO integration and application integration/development.

§ Integration of legacy data, content from various source systems, content repositories and delivery via multiple channels using Websphere Portal, Web Content Manager, IBM BPM for workflow/process management & orchestration, WESB for service bus infrastructure and other open standards.

§ Install, configure and manage the SOA environment with IBM Websphere stack (WESB, WPS/Lombardi/BPM 7.5), manage web application infrastructure and managing various SDLC environments in a distributed topology.

§ Responsible in working with business and functional areas in appropriately aligning technology to the strategic business goals.

§ Responsible for creating project plans, managing the project milestones and ensuring delivery of multiple applications across the enterprise.

§ Hands-on experience with installation, configuration, administration and development of applications and solutions using SOA, BPM, Portals, e-Commerce, ECM/WCM and JEE applications.

§ Responsible for delivering multiple SOA/BPM solutions, SOA Governance and providing technical development and leadership to application design, development and deployment.

§ Responsible for the delivery of various solutions using Websphere Process Server (BPEL), WESB, IBM Healthcare connectivity pack, WSRR, Websphere Commerce, Data Power, SOA stack, Lombardi including migration and hands-on experience with BPM/SOA solutions and portals/CMS applications.

§ Built e-Commerce applications using IBM Websphere commerce and integration with services and BPM processes for multiple solutions across the enterprise.

§ Defined enterprise standards for SOA based solutions, architected, designed and developed frameworks and implemented vendor solutions with various technology stacks for BPM, SOA, Portals and content management.

§ Responsible for technical leadership and acting as business liason for various healthcare applications like COB (Coordination of Benefits), ICD 10, FEP Audit, Automated claims processing, business process management solutions for claims processing/adjustments, Member Portal, ImagePlus, Horizon mainframe integration, and external vendor source systems like NASCO, Blues Association and EDI (5010/4010).

§ Installed, setup and configure various components for the IBM SOA/BPM stack, Lombardi and migration to the new BPM 7.5 platform enabling BPMN and BPEL based process integration.

§ Developed various BPM applications like COB management, FEP Audit, Blue2MRRP, PreCert, Pre-X (pre-existing conditions), Authorizations, Member Benefits, 5010, ICD 10 migration, integration with NASCO and QBlue for claims, membership, Account management.

§ Developed WESB modules, mediations, BPEL processes, BPD (using BPMN), integration with CICS adapters, portal development including portlets, content management integration, flat file adapters, JDBC, product customizations and various other aspects of SOA/BPM stack.

§ Implemented SSO for member portal, CMS, BPM applications and other traditions JEE and web applications across the organization to provide single-sign-on capabilities and identity management.

§ Responsible for setting up portal products, integration with content management solutions and technical leadership in rolling out portal applications like member portal.

§ Responsible for project management and managing the BPM/SOA program as part of the CTO organization and working with the business to drive towards reengineering and business process applications.

§ Responsible for leading multiple teams as part of the Enterprise Architecture team for the CTO organization, setting up SOA standards, frameworks, integration with various legacy systems like NASCO, QBlue, Peoplesoft, integration with master data and data architecture teams.

§ Leading on-shore and off-shore teams for various SOA/BPM efforts, portals/CMS, and implementing vendor products like WESB, Data Power, IBM Websphere portal, WICM, IBM process Server, Lombardi, IBM BPM 7.5 migration.

§ Implemented SOA, BPMS and BRE solutions for various product modules and client applications using tools like WID, WESB, Process Server, Lombardi, JRules, Intalio, Data Power and built reusable service based solutions and composite applications for various verticals/industries.

§ Responsible for driving business and functional requirements, writing technical specifications and design documents, business process modeling and simulation, building mediation modules, business processes, integrating with external and internal services (including development of new services).

§ Built various rule based integration solutions with business process integration, developed atomic and composite services, developed event monitors, common infrastructure services, integration with legacy applications like CICS, Flatfiles, databases, Peoplesoft and other EIS applications.

§ Implemented various user interface applications/delivery platforms using portals, Lotus forms, JEE applications, and other dash board applications.

§ Responsible for building a CoE (Center of Excellence) practice for SOA/BPM/RuleEngines and delivery of composite rapid applications; laid down best practices for SOA modeling and design, and driving Enterprise Architecture standards for various clients.

§ Responsible for product development, systems architecture, strategy & roadmap for SOA/BPM, built internal & external alliances, cost & budget management, program management.

 

Environment: Websphere Portal, Websphere Content Manager, Lombardi, Websphere ESB, Appian,BPM 7.5, Websphere Service Registry and Repository/WSRR, Data Power, JRules, Lombardi , ITCAM, SiteScope, Java, JEE, Spring, Hibernate, SSO,  JSF, IceFaces, IBM DB2, SQL Server, Oracle, WebServices, Flex, ActionScript, Peoplesoft, SSO, SiteMinder

 

Business applications: Coordination of Benefits, FEP Audit, ICD 10, HL7, EDI Gateway, 5010/4010, Member Portal, NASCO, Qblue, Claims, Medicare, R282, Medicaid, ClaimStation, Pre-cert, Pre-X, Authorizations, Member Benefits, Member Management, MEBEX/SEFCAB, ImagePlus, HLGS

 

Bintelgroup               09/08-03/10

Chief Architect & Program Management (Product Development Organization)

Customers: Bank of America, Citigroup, AMR Capital Trading

 

§ Responsible for architecture, product management, roadmap, solution delivery for several products and solutions like STP Capital Markets 360° (base platform), Market Data Analytics platform, Insight (Real-time rules on streaming data), modules like Data Integration, Rule Engine, business and data analytics, SOA and BPM, CEP integration, Accounting Engine, Basel II.

§ Implemented SOA, BPMS and BRE solutions for various product modules and client applications using tools like WID, WESB, Process Server, Lombardi, JRules, Intalio, Data Power and built reusable service based solutions and composite applications for various verticals/industries.

§ Responsible for driving business and functional requirements, writing technical specifications and design documents, business process modeling and simulation, building mediation modules, business processes, integrating with external and internal services (including development of new services).

§ Built various rule based integration solutions with business process integration, developed atomic and composite services, developed event monitors, common infrastructure services, integration with legacy applications like CICS, Flatfiles, databases, Peoplesoft and other EIS applications.

§ Implemented various user interface applications/delivery platforms using portals, Lotus forms, JEE applications, and other dash board applications.

§ Responsible for the Systems architecture of product suite, client applications, infrastructure roadmap, developing enterprise architecture models and documentation, network requirements, vendor coordination, server management and administration.

§ Designed and developed core application components using Java technologies like multi-threading, NIO, feed handlers and also built custom CEP adapters, integration with CharlesRiver IMS for multiple customers.

§ Hands-on experience migrating to PRISM framework for the .NET front-end and developed services using WCF framework.

§ Designed & developed modular reusable WPF components using PRISM and applied MVVM design for reusability and complying with IoC/DI principles.

§ Built the back-end components for Market Data Analytics application suite using C#, CEP, Java, WPF, WCF, Silverlight  and Flex (for the Java clients)

§ Design and develop RIA application interfaces for multiple product suites like STP (using Flex, ActionScript, Messaging, & Cairngorm), Trade and Market Data Analytics (C#, .NET, WPF, WCF, Silverlight, PRISM, IPC).

§ Performed run time monitoring and metrics gathering to diagnose, fix and improve UI responsiveness using advanced DataGrids and worked on improving FeedHandler code; wrote code for CEP modules to perform real-time analytics on streaming market data.

§ Designed and developed a rule engine that generates native code for databases, CEP engines (generating CCL/variants of CCL for real time querying) that is applied on real-time data to analyze trends, risk metrics and market data analytics.

§ Integrated custom rule engine within a BPM tool and combined custom rules with BRE driven Rete-based rules to automate multiple business processes.

§ Implemented market data analytics UI (for building & executing rules, alerts, macros, charts etc) using Flex Builder; the target application runs in AIR run-time environment to provide a rich UI on the trader's desktops.

§ Implemented a module/component in Flex that interacts with the local trader's desktop deployed Windows Service to fetch data using Inter-process communication. The Windows service is actually interacting with the CEP engine using a subscription model and Flex UI running in AIR.

§ Integration of the WPF UI components and WCF services with Java backend components like rule generation, expression builders and CEP components.

§ Lead migration strategy of the STP UI from browser to a rich internet application using Flex, RPC, Remoting and messaging integration including development.

§ Responsible for data modeling for multiple components of the STP application suite and the Omega/Mkt Data analytics application components.

§ Hands-on experience working with market data vendors like IDC Comstock (CTF/API’s) to develop feed handlers for market data and publish to multiple destinations like CEP engine, message queues and database.

§ Performance tuning, and deliver high throughput and highly responsive applications on multiple client platforms including RIA and thick client applications.

§ Oversee selection of different vendor solutions and products, reviewing Gartner and Forrester studies, identifying the appropriate solution for integration with product suite or client applications.

§ Write RFP’s, working on POC’s, working with sales teams and other key management to effectively build a proposal for customers based on their specific requirements.

§ Performed R&D, validated solutions, core product development, data architecture, roadmap, strategy, built internal & external alliances, cost & budget management, program management.

§ Performed process analysis for multiple solutions for different customers, modeled business processes with tools like Pega SmartBPM, IBM, Intalio BPMS and implemented business rules using Rule Engine frameworks like Pega PRPC, Visual Rules and JRules.

 

Environment: Websphere ESB, Websphere Process Server, Websphere Integration Developer, Websphere Business Modeler, Data Power, JRules, Lombardi,  WebSphere Portal, C#, WPF, WCF, PRISM, Syncfusion, Silverlight, Java, JEE, Spring, Hibernate, SSO,  JSF, IceFaces, FIX, FpML, Charles River,  Coherence, IBM DB2, Sybase IQ, Sybase ASE, Oracle, WebServices, Flex, ActionScript, .NET,  Weblogic, ActiveMQ, Aleri Streaming platform, Coral8/Sybase CEP, RedHat Linux, JBoss, Peoplesoft

 

Momentive Performance Materials, NY  12/07-8/08

Enterprise Architect

 

§    Lead strategy and defined architecture roadmap, documented process and hardware infrastructure required to improve efficiency and lower TCO for the new organization spun-off from GE.

§    Responsible for defining, implementing and writing reference architecture for application2application integration using the Service oriented model and latest tools like ESB, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Business Integration, SOAP, XML Gateway, Canonical XML, WSDL, WS* standards etc..

§    Defined SOA strategy, roadmap, worked with the CXO organizations to identify and define the path for SOA adoption, identification of the SOA infrastructure and developing reference architecture.

§    Responsible for design, development and delivery of RIA interfaces using Flex, ActionScript, BlazeDS and messaging services.

§    Perform in the lead of a strategy consultant to identify services, define standards, working with common message formats such as canonical XML, defining the layers in enterprise SOA adoption model, integration with portal, content management and SSO/Identity Management.

§    Performed service analysis and modeling, service design, implementation of several layers of services including composite apps, data services, Presentation Services, Business Services, Infrastructure services and Functional Services.

§    Responsible for SSO implementation including installing and configuring Policy server, LDAP authentication and authorization for multiple applications using SiteMinder and federated security token exchanges using SAML.

§    Hands-on development experience in integrating with SSO product to provide transparent user experience navigating between multiple enterprise applications/modules.

§    Design, development and delivery of RIA interfaces using Flex, ActionScript, BlazeDs and messaging services.

§    Hands-on experience in setting up and configuring the BlazeDS environment, developing message based modules and implementing rich user interface applications.

§    Hands-on development in building multiple application components for portal framework, integration with CMS, data delivery from SAP BW to enterprise portal.

§    Lead the hardware and software architecture for various global web applications like ECM, e-Commerce, Pricing analysis applications like Metreo Symphony, E-Commerce applications like OrderCenter and integration with ERP systems (SAP), Infobase, Search engine architecture and integration and several other key enterprise home-grown or third party applications.

§    Implemented SSO and federated identity management solution for app2app integration on intranet and extranet.

§    Defined architecture roadmap, strategy, process and hardware infrastructure to improve efficiency and lower TCO for the new organization spun-off from GE.

§    Developed SOA strategy, implemented web services, and integrated with multiple third party enterprise applications like SAP, CMS, Sales portals etc.

§    Defined a global application architectural integration roadmap, Infrastructure architecture, data architecture, identify redundancies, define enterprise standards for developing/procuring web applications, integration with key ERP systems like SAP.

§    Developed Enterprise architecture models using Sparx Systems EA and produce documentation to effectively communicate with the CIO organization.

§    Lead the application development team including onshore and offshore resources as well as defining a Global application architecture roadmap and standards.

§    Migration of the ecommerce platform from legacy application architecture to ATG Dynamo and integrate with backend systems like SAP and Vignette content management, WebSphere Portal to manage new products to be published to the commerce application.

§    Managed multiple projects including project plans, deliverables, managing teams, and producing Architectural artifacts like UML models.

§    Architected content management solution using Vignette V7, integration with portal to deliver content on both intranet and the internet.

§    Oversee production of UML models for application architecture, deployment architecture and several key business and technology architectures to define the current state and the future state of several applications.

 

Environment: R/3, SAP BW, WebSphere Portal, Flex, ActionScript, BlazeDS, BPM, BRE, JSR 168, WSRP, Websphere Message Broker,  Websphere Business Integration, Virtualization, Solaris 10, Metreo Symphony, Apache, ATG Dynamo Commerce, Weblogic , WebSevices, Oracle, SunOne IdentityManager, SAML, Vignette, Documentum, Java, J2EE, SOA, Google Analytics, MQ Series, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, JBOSS, INKRA, EMC SAN.

 

Rodale Publishing, Inc, NY     6/04-11/07

Sr. Tech Mgr and Lead, Applications Development

 

§    Led the strategy, direction, roadmap and architecture for online initiatives including migration of the Rodale’s web properties to a Java/J2EE platform, content and portal roadmap, Web 2.0 delivery and integration, SOA strategy and implementation, integrating third party licensed content, e-Commerce strategy (rodalestore.com, shop.menshealth.com, shop.bicycling.com, UK store, US Store), Online Acquisition Engine (WebSphere commerce based solution), Online Qualification engine, fulfillment systems (CDS, Genesant, MACS), Security and Identity management as well as the Diet and Fitness platform.

§    Evaluated and implemented SSO and federated identity for multiple web properties, e-Commerce applications and content syndication with external partners like CNET, Yahoo.

§    Responsible for key IT processes, defining SDLC, infrastructure management, production systems team management, internal/external business process improvement, building relationships with key stakeholders and partners.

§    Managed migration to J2EE architecture for several e-commerce applications like Rodale QuickPay (payment processing system), e-Commerce applications like OAE and OQE.

§    Lead the design and development of multiple e-Commerce sites, migration from home grown applications to ATG framework, customization/personalization, content integration and custom portals.

§    Mentored and led the SOA adoption strategy across the enterprise, identifying, defining and implementing services as part of the SOA strategy for business services, application services and infrastructure services.

§    Led the IT Applications Development teams, building the team, leading strategy and managing several different initiatives for e-commerce, content and portal strategy, single sign-on, security infrastructure for applications, application performance management and monitoring that are key drivers for Rodale’s Interactive organization.

§    Implementation of Rodale’s content and portal platform, digital asset management platform, identifying and implementing common services for a multi-year based SOA strategy and related infrastructure.

§    Hands-on experience implementing J2EE based content management systems and experience leading implementing multiple web apps, portals and e-Commerce applications.

§    Architected the enterprise content and portal services backbone, service bus for ecommerce and marketing apps, and also responsible for the architecture and implementation of the service bus for single sign-on and user management.

§    Managed onshore and off-shore resources for several different initiatives like Diet and Fitness platform (Biggest Loser), Syndication Gateway (content syndication strategy and execution), Video integration and other properties at Rodale.

§    Led the online commerce initiatives using ATG and streamlined the product to fit Rodale’s commerce model.

 

Environment: Solaris, Apache, ATG, Weblogic Service Bus, Webpshere Appserver, WebSevices, Oracle, Siteminder, SAML, Vignette, Documentum, SOA, BPM, Alfresco, AJAX, Java, J2EE, DFP, SOA, Coremetrics, SiteScope, Groupee, JMS/MQ Series, Struts, Tiles, Hibernate, Spring, OSCache, SEO, Verity Ultraseek, Pluck Community Integration, Mercury J2EE Diagnostics, Quest Foglight & Performasure.

 

 

Constellation Energy3/03-5/04

Technical Lead of Portal/ECM/SSO Technology

 

§ Responsible for content & portal strategy, architecting portal solutions, e-commerce solutions, infrastructure management, integration roadmap for application integration with the new portal platform.

§ Worked in the capacity of a technical architect and director to the CTO for driving portal & content strategy, search engine integration and several other application integration initiatives.

§ Responsible for defining best practices for development and infrastructure teams as well as manage issue resolution for on-time delivery of milestones.

§ Drive the development and infrastructure teams and set the direction for the execution of the portal and content strategy.

§ Architected the content back bone and its integration with portal and Verity K2 search engine for building taxonomies, creating classifications and managing enterprise search capabilities at Constellation Energy.

§ Provided technical design, architecture, and lead the team in implementing myConstellation.com and newenergy.com portals at Constellation Energy and integrating a lot of business systems and processes into the portal to help Constellation realize cost savings and provide their employees and customer eServices for all their information from a single interface.

§ Provided leadership and involved in gather business requirements, technical documents and educated the executives and development teams with Verity K2, WebSphere commerce, VAP, VAB, V7 and the best practices for successful Portal and search engine integration initiative.

§ Provided web architecture for the site, lead the development team, provide SME services for administration and configuration team with VAP 7.x, 4.5.1, VAB 4.x, VCM 7.x, Verity K2 and laying down processes and integrating various applications like Documentum, PeopleSoft, SiteMinder, VCM and other internal IT applications.

§ Leadership and hands-on work in the design and implementation of Content Delivery Applications for VCM, Content Analysis Applications as well as integration of existing applications.

§ Responsible for leading the architecture, design and implementation of custom module types/portlets in VAP and applications in VAB to generate forms, reports and charts as well.

§ Responsible for systems architecture and administration teams that are responsible for installation, configuration and administration of VAP, VAB and VCM applications.

§ Responsible to identify costs, budget and driving timelines and working with business and technical teams for implementation of the content management and portal platform.

§ Identified the hardware requirements, planned for capacity requirements, managed costs & budget identified the appropriate internal and external technical resources for implementation, and key member of portal/content management executive committee and managing key milestones.

§ Responsible for e-commerce implementation initiatives for constellation’s ecommerce initiatives and self-service initiatives using Websphere commerce technologies.

§ Responsible for working with project management to drive schedules, milestones and managing resources and budget for delivering the implementation of the portal and content platform as well as integration of existing applications.

§ Lead the team in migrating from Websphere 4.x to 5.x and deploying, upgrading VCM 7.1 to 7.3.x and deploying multiple enterprise portals to the new platform

Environment: IBM HTTP Server, Active Directory, iPlanet Directory server, SSO, UML, XML, Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Struts 1.0, WebSphere 4.x, 5.x, WebSphere Commerce, SOA, Vignette, WebSphere, Verity K2, JMS

 

 

Synovus Financial Corporation, GA 1/02-3/03

Technical Consultant to Director of ECM, e-Commerce,Portal & SSO

 

§    Lead, developed and managed the development of enterprise portal and search engine integration using Vignette Application Portal 4.x, 7.x, Epicentric’s X-tended Content Management and Vignette’s Content Management System V7, Verity K2.

§    Responsible for defining infrastructure requirements, application and systems architecture, championing the portal executive committee and responsible for delivering ongoing status to the portal executive board.

§    Architecture, planning, design and development of the portal using EFS/VAP API’s.

§    Design and development of both front-end and back-end components for the portal using Epicentric’s templates (Grids, Styles, Themes for UI) Modules and EFS API’s for custom modules to integrate existing applications into the framework.

§    Technical architecture, design and configuration of the portal platform with Novell’s LDAP server for user and group management, customization of XCM modules and middleware to use a file server as r/w content server in addition to using the metastore for storing content.

§    Integrated Verity K2 search engine with Epicentric’s XCM to search and retrieve content and surface the content through the portal application.

Environment: Win2K Server, IIS, Novell E-Directory Server (LDAP), PeopleSoft (integration), UML, XML, Java, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Struts 1.0, WebLogic, Verity K2, VAP 4.1/4.5, Vignette CMS, VAB

 

 

Convergent Media Systems Corp, GA 4/00-12/01

Portal Dev Leader/Java &SSO Consultant

 

Responsible for application and systems architecture design, development, & testing phases of the portal application, and integrating various internal IT applications and several external applications into the portal.

 

§    Architected the portal platform and integration of multiple applications into the portal.

§    Architecture, design and implementation of single sign-on solution.

§    System and application architecture of the portal and the ECP platform.

§    Integration of Convergent’s LMS and learning platform to build the bridges to integrate it into the portal platform.

§    Built application components in Core Java for LMS integration and rich media integration with a Java client.

§    Engineered and built both the modules and the back-end engine for integrating the existing

e-Learning system (Arel).

§    Designed and developed the Java engine and the modules necessary to integrate the Digital Asset Management System (Artesia TEAMS4.0) into the portal using the Epicentric API, the TEAMS API and J2EE framework.

§    Planned, developed and integrated front-end of Tape Library Management System into portal framework.

§    Developed various prototypes and associated modules and pages in the portal to demonstrate streaming of high bandwidth content from various servers.

§    Built and integrated all the modules for streaming media (audio and video) from the portal servers using different streaming and caching servers.

Environment: Linux, UML, XML, Java, C++, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Struts 1.0, iPlanet and WebLogic Epicentric Foundation Server 4.1, Sun One Studio

 

Avaya Communication1/98-4/00

Java Developer

 

CRM/Portal solution:

Worked as a lead developer on providing a Voice over IP (VOIP) capability. This application involves integrating one of our world class products--Avaya Voice Client into a web directory.

 

Video over IP Solution:

This is an Enterprise Communications integrated solution for improving Customer Relationship by providing real-time Video transmission over IP for Wells Fargo bank customers.

 

e-CRM solution:

Lead a team in the design and development of an e-CRM solution for Unemployment Benefits Claims Department of the State of Tennessee. This is an integrated web and automated voice response system (IVR) based unemployment benefits application.

 

 

DMR Consulting Group Inc. 1/96-12/97

JAVA Developer

 

Client: Bell Atlantic Intelligent Network Services, MD

Developed an online (web-based) service called ICAS (Internet Customer Access System) for customers to enable them to access their telephone features like Call Forwarding, Ring Count Change, and Personal Dialer Provisioning etc through the internet.  The application is developed using Java, C++, J2EE, EJB, and WebLogic.

 

Client: Bell Atlantic Telecom Group Systems, MD

Bill Viewer: Development and conversion of the Bill Viewer (e-bill) application for residential customers of Bell Atlantic.  The application was designed and developed using the J2EE framework and C++.

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ

Masters in Information Systems

 

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India

M.Sc (Tech) in Information Systems