Hiten Desai

Summary:

·   Experienced Business and Strategy Executive, a Sr. Technologist and  Cloud evangelist for Fortune 500 Companies

·   Career distinguish with 25+ years of commended performance serving in roles as business and technology representative, chief architect/technologist, ambassador and/or liaison

·   Responsible for providing the business with a plan and alternatives for enabling IT to deliver business outcomes in support of business strategy and goals – perform Buy vs. Build analysis.

·   Consulting experiencing in Cloud Computing/Cloud Platform/Cloud Integration (BPaaS, SaaS, PaaS/iPaaS, IaaS - e.g. SFDC, AWS, Microsoft Azure, VMware, EMC, IBM, Cloudstack, OpenStack, OpenShift and Rackspace etc.)

·   Seasoned Enterprise Architect with Cloud (Adoption, Migration) Strategy & Planning experience along with DevOps Automation Tools and Technology

·   Responsible for developing the value proposition of existing and emerging technologies (incl. cloud computing)

·   B2B and B2C (Online Consumer facing) exposure in the following, but not limited to: Finance, Insurance, Telecommunications, Mfg.& High Tech, Healthcare, Retail & Consumer Goods (RCG), Government and the Mortgage Domain

·   Demonstrated history of success in leading teams for premier organizations and Fortune 500 companies for multi-domain industries.

·   Involved in all facets of software engineering including Requirements Engineering, Architecture Review Board, EA Governance and Solution Architect, PMO and Consulting for Onsite/Offshore engagements

·   Oversee technical architecture implementation and managing the entire Software Development Life Cycle and Project Implementation for a large development team located remotely. Ensure all the Development teams are provided with technical detail artifacts for implementing solutions for Onsite/Offsite delivery model

·   Leading understanding of as-Is architecture landscape and analyze the current technology landscape to detect complexity and pain points. Identify opportunities and the gaps after interviewing with the various business and IT leads/architects and   provide the actionable recommendations

·   Provide thought leadership to the Client’s CTO organization for selecting and evaluating industry best cloud based Enterprise CRM platform as well as Cloud based enterprise (integration) platform as a service (iPaaS) for B2B and B2C application development/deployment.

·   Responsible for defining   and publishing Cloud Reference Architecture and Cloud Federation Architecture for client CTO organization

·   Helping Customer CTO organization to build a successful Cloud CoE, develop multi- disciplinary roles with broad skills across the traditional silos.

·   Developed and published Enterprise Mobility Strategy and provided the technical leadership to publish a detailed Mobile Application Development Platform (MADP) Roadmap for client CTO organization

·   As Chief Architect, managed and provided overall technical architecture solutions to Wipro’s key delivery accounts (a range from $25 M - $80 M) for the multi domain industry’s customers located throughout North America

·   Responsible for designing a Pattern/Service which can be used across Enterprise level solution and can be leveraged as “Shared Services”

·   Developed and published Cloud Continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) service and best practices for faster software delivery

·   Responsible for developing industry best standards, guidelines, best practices, implementation approach and implementation plan for new gen software development and delivery environments

·   Responsible for defining   and publishing Cloud Reference Architecture and Cloud Federation Architecture for client CTO organization

·   Developed and published Enterprise Mobility services to help enterprises make smart decisions in adopting mobility solutions to drive business results

·   Extensive experienced with TOGAF 8 and 9 -The Open Group Architecture Framework.

·   Leading and contributing to the Client’s CTO organization for their Enterprise Technology Strategy initiatives, middleware implementations, application architecture and design, and leveraging overall technical architecture solution across multiple line of business

·   Managing a team of Enterprise architects, Application architects for the Enterprise Architecture and Solutions division for the North American Geo for Wipro technologies.

·   Assisting delivery teams/ field teams when  pursuing new business or additional business at existing clients through RFP response, proposal or SOW generation

·   Awarded for outstanding contribution towards customer satisfaction at Citi Group - Mortgage, Dallas, TX

·   Awarded for an excellent contribution in Portal Reference Architecture at Allstate Insurance, Chicago, IL

·   Awarded for outstanding contribution in achieving an excellent rating for solution architecture at JPMorgan Chase, Newark, DE

·   Awarded for ‘showing an adaptability both in terms of multitasking (managing architects, developers as well as designing/coding) as well as dealing with the different personalities at AT&T (formerly Cingular), Atlanta, GA

·   Awarded for outstanding efforts in achieving an excellent rating at Degussa, Mobile, AL

·   Awarded Recognition in Verizon Wireless for the outstanding performance, Irvine, CA

·   Prior to Wipro consulting, Hiten Desai served and performed different roles like CTO/Chief Enterprise Architect, Chief Portal Architect, Sr. SOA Architect, Sr. Technical Architect; as he worked for leading consulting and served their Fortune 500 clients located in North America

 

Technical Skills:

·   EA Framework and Tools:TOGAF, ArchiMate, Zachman, TROUX, IBM RSA, Mega International, Archi and ITIL etc.

·   SOA Technologies:Oracle SOA SUITE 11g( OSB(BEA-ALSB), BPM-BPEL, Business Rules, File Adapter, Human                            workflow and JMS Adapter and WSM/MDS) and IBM SOA SUITE IIB 9.0 (IBM Process                                                                      server/ESB/Message Broker and DataPower), TIBCO Suite ( BW, iProcess, Active Matrix                                                                      etc.), IBM Curum (COTS)

·   Message Brokers:       IBM’s IIB (WMB), Apache‘s ActiveMQ & Kafka, Kestrel and Pivotal’s RabbitMQ

·   Cloud Compute Technologies:Amazon (AWS), Microsoft Windows Azure, VMware, CloudStack, OpenStack, Google                                   Engine, HP Enterprise, EMC, IBM SmartCloud and Rackspace    

·   Cloud SaaS:Salesforce/ Force.com Platform (Service Cloud, Sales and Marketing Cloud), Microsoft                                     Dynamic CRM

·   Cloud PaaS:AWS (Elastic beanstalk), OpenShift, Window Azure, SFDC’s AppExchange and Heroku,                               IBM’s SmartCloud and BlueMix, Google AppEngine and Pivotal’s Cloud Foundary

·   Cloud Integration (iPaaS):IBM Cast Iron, Dell Boomi’s AtomSphere, Oracle SOA, Informatica and MuleSoft

·   Cloud Management Platform:IBM SoftLayer, RedHat’s CloudForms, Google Cloud Platform and AWS’OpsWorks

·   Collaboration Tool:Salesforce’s Chatter, Microsoft’s Yammer, Jive, Lync (Microsoft)

·   Cloud DevOps Tool:Git, GitHub, JenKins, Puppet, Chef, Salt, AWS’s CloudFormation and Ansible

·   Enterprise Mobility &

        Digital Technologies:Mobile, Social Media, Community and Analytics, MAEP/MADP- Kony, Appcelerator, IBM,                                                          SAP, Adobe(CQ, AEC and AMC), Salesforce and Native

·   Big Data:MongoDB, Apache’s Hadoop and Cassandra and Cloudera CDH

·   Big Data Analytics in Cloud: AWS (Redshift, EMR, Kinesis), Google’ Big Query Service, IBM’ Watson and Microsoft                            Cosmos (latest)

·   MDM:IBM MDM and Oracle MDM

·   ECMS/CMS:HP Autonomy (formerly Team Site Interwoven), Vignette (part of Open text now),                            Microsoft SharePoint 2013, Oracle UCM (formerly Stellent), Adobe WEM-CQ5 (formerly                                                                      Day WCMS), Alfresco, Dimension and BEA VCR

·   Open Source Technologies:Portal (LifeRay and JBoss), Apache Projects, Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers, Toplink,                            Subversion, Maven and Ant

·   Enterprise Search Engine:Google Search Engine (GS API), Apache- Lucene/Solr/Nutch, HP Autonomy Search                                          engine (IDOL)

·   J2EE Technologies:  JCA, EJB, Servlets, JSP, XML, JDBC, RMI, JTS, JMS, JMX, JNDI, JDO, Java Security   and Java                            Swings

·   Development Methodology:   RUP, Waterfall and Agile/Scrum

•                                                                                     Operating Systems:              Windows, Sun Solaris, UNIX (AIX) and Red Hat Linux 5.0/4.x.

·   Application/Web Servers:Oracle(BEA) WebLogic 10.x/9.x/8.1/7.0/6.x, WebLogic Portal

10.X/9.x/8.1/7.0/4.0, IBM WebSphere Server 6.x/5.x/4.x/3.x, IBM WebSphere Portal7.x/6.x/5.x, JBoss, Apache with JRun

 

•                                                                                     Virtualization:              VMware’ vSphere and VMware’ ESXI
•                                                                                     Framework Software:              Oracle ADF, MVC, Apache STRUTS, Apache Wicket, Spring, and JSF

 

Education:

·   Master of Science: Computer Science/Electronics

·   Bachelor of Science: Physics/Electronics

·   Certifications/Training

o   TOGAF 9

o   Oracle Portal and Oracle SOA Suites

o   IBM Portal and SOA Suites

o   Salesforce (SFDC) Platform Workshop

o   IBM Curam – SPM (COTS Product for MadiCare and MediCaid)

o   Advanced J2EE

o   Power Messaging Techniques for Conversations

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Experience:

Independent Consulting, Citrus Cloud, Irvine, CA                                                                                                       January 2015 – Present 

Chief Enterprise Cloud Platform Architect/Consultant

 

Wipro Technology, Irvine, CA                         April 2010 – Dec 2014 

Chief Enterprise Architect, North American Geo

 

Independent Consulting, Irvine, CA        November 2008 – March 2010

Chief Enterprise Architect / Chief Architect

 

Collabera Inc., Morristown, NJ            January 2008 – October 2008

Chief Portal Architect

 

Enterpulse Inc. (Strategic Partner with Oracle Inc.), San Ramon, CA                      October 2005 – December 2007

Client Architect / Product Specialist / Sr. Technical Architect

 

Perficient Inc., Dallas, TX        June 2005 – October 2005

Portal Architect/Sr. Technologist

 

Prosoft Group Inc. (Green Card sponsor), Downers Grove, IL                                                                        March 2002 – June 2005

Principal Software Engineer/Technology Manager

 

Lansend Inc. (H1B), Long Island City, NY                            November 1999 – Feb 2002

Principal Software Engineer/Technology Manager

 

Sardar Patel University, INDIA         October 1992 – October 1999

Asst. Prof/System Manager

 

Sardar Patel University, INDIA                                      Sept 1986 – Sept 1992

Lecturer/System Analyst

 

 

 

 

 

 

Consulting Project Clients:

·   Banking/ Finance/Security:American Express, Capital One, JP Morgan Chase, US Bank, Union Bank

·   Insurance:Allstate, Asurion, Farmers, Nationwide(NW), Erie, NewYork Life(NYL)

·   Retail & Consumer Goods:Walmart, Kohls, Nike

·   HealthCare & Life Science:DHHS –State of NE, Cardinal Health, ThermoFisher, BCBS, Health Partner, LabCorp

·   Telecommunication:AT&T, VerizonWireless, Verizon, Dobson, US Cellular, Centennial Communication,                            CenturyLink (fka Qwest), Hughes Communication

·   Mortgage:ACC Capital Holdings( fka Amriquest), Citi Mortgage, Fidelity Title

·   Mfg. and High Tech:HP Inc., Behr Inc.

·   Government:State of NE

·   Pharmaceutical: Evonik (fka Degussa), Johnson & Johnson

 

 

Additional Experience:

Enterprise Architecture (EA) Function

·   Enterprise Architecture (EA) Function Set up & Governance

·   Enterprise Architecture (EA) Solutions Architect/ Project Architect

·   Enterprise Architecture (EA) Platform Architecture

·   EA Maturity Assessment/Cloud Maturity Assessment

 

Transformational Enterprise Architecture and Assessment (includes Cloud Services)

·   Cloud Deployment & Migration Strategy

·   Cloud Readiness and Migration Services (e.g. IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) to Cloud Environment 

·   Enterprise SOA and Assessment

·   Legacy Modernization and Enterprise System Integration

 

Advisory/Consulting– For the Emerging Technologies

·   Cloud Computing/Cloud Platform/Cloud Integration (e.g. BPaaS, SaaS, PaaS/iPaaS, IaaS, SFDC, AWS, Microsoft Azure, VMware, EMC, Cloudstack and Rackspace etc.)

·   Cloud Strategy & Planning/Cloud Governance Best Practice

·   Cloud Development and Assurance Services /DevOps Solutions

·   Big Data (e.g. No SQL– MongoDB, Hadoop etc.) and MDM

·   Enterprise Mobility, Digital Strategy and Digital technologies w/DAM

 

IT Strategy and Management

·   IT enabled business Strategy (Business -IT Alignment)

·   Business Strategy and Business Concerns

·   IT Strategy and Roadmap (Technology, Applications, Capabilities, Governance)

·   IT Cost reduction

 

E-Business Strategies, Architecture and Assessment

·   Integration and Business Process Management strategies

·   Enterprise Portals and Assessment, Enterprise 2.0/Web 2.0 and Rich Internet

·   Enterprise - CMS, Collaboration and Search