Summary

. Results-driven professional with more than 20 years of experience in

Information Technology industry.

. Upward catalyst in balancing tactical implementation needs with long-term

architectural goals to reduce costs, increase quality, and generate

significant competitive edge.

. Proven ability to successfully analyze organization's business

requirements, identify opportunities for improvement leading to the

development & implementation of innovative & cost-effective solutions

(People, Process & Technology) using the best practices.

. Highly experienced in working with vendors to select cutting-edge tools,

to help corporations stay current & competitive.

. People skills - coaching, counseling, cultural diversity, staffing,

training, team-building, collaboration.

SPECIALITIES:

Data & Business Intelligence Strategy, Data Governance Assessment &

Architecture and Planning Vision

Master Data Management [MDM] Metadata Management

Enterprise Information Standards Definition Tool Selection and Roadmap

Definition

Business Stakeholder Relationship Management Program & Resource Management

Vendor Relationship Management Merger & Acquisition

ACHIEVEMENTS

TD Bank Financial Group, Toronto, Canada Aug 2013 -

June 2014

. Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence (DW/BI) Strategy & Architecture

for NACC&MS (LoB).

V Normalized data warehouse based on a multi-domain industry standard

data model and a de-normalized dimensional data-mart, along with the

necessary staging, administrative and audit capabilities.

V The data sourced from over 30 systems - external as well as internal

bank systems. Established - tracking & control mechanisms, procedures,

methodologies, and data mapping & modeling standards, and code-

management strategies critical enablers for managing over 35K data

elements and hundreds of tables across the sources, staging, data

warehouse, and data mart layers.

. Data migration strategy for 7 TB of data at-rest (legacy/distributed) to

TD internal target systems.

. System Capacity uplift for e-Registration of external clients from 1000

clients/day (current) to 550k clients in 20 days.

. Acquisition of 7TB of data (legacy/distributed) from an external

institution in upto 40% less time & efforts.

Manulife Financial, Toronto, Canada Oct 2011- April

2013

. Influenced the decision of the stakeholders in order to achieve business

strategy goal. This resulted in the cost avoidance equivalent to $1.35m

for Wealth Management BU.

. Led the transformation of existing data/BI landscape from

legacy/unstructured to a structured/governed environment by developing

Enterprise Data Strategy & framework.

. Produced & communicated a clear & compelling visualization of data/BI

services goals over-time, and was able to deliver against the

visualization with the approval of:

Enterprise BI Strategy & Reference Data governance framework,

Architecture requirements & roadmap.

Digital Strategy Identity & Access Management (IAM)

framework

JH Wealth - Securities (Market) Multi-domain Common/Enterprise

Data program in order to Information Model

standardize & centralize its (aka Enterprise Reference Data Model)

Securities data.

. Developed the enterprise solution architecture framework by influencing

the decisions across the organization in the transformation initiatives:

PeopleSoft to Workday - HR/Payroll/Finance (SaaS offering), FATCA

compliance.

. Developed enterprise solution architecture framework for Canadian

division FATCA compliance - adhering to the four pillars: Classification

(KY-FATCA-Client); withholding capability; Reporting; and Compliance.

. Data architecture framework supporting Basel functions by implementation

of data integrity, control and reconciliation processes for consistency

with Reporting across Risk & Finance [Basel III Compliance].

. Researched emerging trend / technology - Big Data - and provided insight

into the potential business opportunities, and guidance for adoption.

Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, Canada April 2007 -

Oct 2011

. Influenced the decision of the stakeholders, and hence led the plan,

build and run aspects of a Master Reference data hub across multiple

business units. This resulted in minimal cost to each BU. The solution

helped RBC Home Equity Finance and Risk Management group to manage

Client, Credit & Market risks more efficiently & effectively.

. Created Metadata Strategy, and hence led the plan, build & run to

eliminate costs equivalent to 6 FTE.

. Setup a governance process within enterprise data warehouse. This brought

cost savings up to C$1.9m. The continued discussions with another BU

brought cost savings up to C$1 million [one-time], and up to C$400K on an

annual basis.

. Led the plan & build for Data Governance assessment and vision. This

resulted into extension of existing bi-domain (Party & Product) data

model to multi-domain (inclusion of new domains - Location, Channel,

Event) enterprise reference data model.

. Developed data architecture framework in the transformation initiatives -

Basel, AML/KYC, PeopleSoft - HR/Payroll to SuccessFactors SAP -

HR/Payroll (SaaS offering), Capital Markets Securities Reference (Market

Data) Data, SAP CRM & BW [Retail Credit], Incentive Compensation

Management (SaaS offering), Enterprise Performance Management [IFRS

Compliance]; Contact Centre Business Analytics, Liquidity Risk Management

[Basel III Compliance].

. Developed enterprise solution architecture framework for FATCA compliance

- adhering to the four pillars:

Classificat Withholding Reporting Compliance

ion capability

TATA Consultancy Services, Toronto, Canada May

2006 - Apr 2007

. Successful implementation of DG & MDM (strategy & framework) - Great-West

Life, CVS Retail Pharmacy MHE, JP Morgan Chase.

. Prepared proposal for a project related to Group Benefits line of

business at Great West Life, and won the project.

EMPLOYMENT/ENGAGEMENT HISTORY

. Independent Enterprise Architecture Executive Consultant, Toronto, Canada

Aug 2013 - Present

(Financial Services)

. Manulife Financial, Toronto, Canada, Director Enterprise Info Strategy &

Architecture Oct 2011- Apr 2013

. Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, Canada, Senior Manager (Sr Enterprise Data

Architect) Apr 2007- Oct 2011

. TATA Consultancy Services, Toronto, Canada, Practice Manager / Principal

Architect May 2006 - Apr 2007

(Healthcare, Insurance & Financial Services)

. Independent Consultant, Toronto, Canada (HP, Public Sector - Healthcare &

Education) Dec 2002 - May 2006

. Commerce One, MA, USA, Sr Data Architect

Oct 2000 - Nov 2002

. Birlasoft, NJ, USA, Sr Technical Consultant (Enterprise Architect)

July 1998 - Oct 2000

(Healthcare, Financial Services, Retail)

. BIPS Systems Ltd., INDIA, IT Consultant (Financial Services, Retail)

Aug 1993 - June 1998

PROGRESSIVE PROFESSIONAL ExperiEnce

. Enterprise Architecture Executive Consultant (Present)

V Leading the efforts to achieve a federally compliant architecture with

all the IT departments across enterprise.

V Provide direction and leadership for architecture for a portfolio of

applications & technology in TDCT.

V Leading the analysis of technology industry and market trends to

determine their potential impact on the enterprise architecture.

. Technical Advisor to CIO, CTO, BU IT and Business customers.

. Active member of Enterprise Architecture Council.

. Lead Architecture Review Board.

. Enterprise Architecture Services to multi-year programs of multi-million

dollars portfolio of IT Projects.

. IT program management.

. Lead, manage and execute IT architecture roadmap/blue prints

. Develop & promote the strategic vision, and establish an Enterprise

Information/BI Strategy, Architecture & framework

. Continuous revitalization of the Enterprise Architecture Practice

(People, Process & Technology)

. Work with key vendors to understand & influence their technology roadmaps

. Conduct research to remain up-to-date and knowledgeable with industry

trends and emerging technologies in anticipation of new business

processes and/or system enhancements

. Represent on the Global and Divisional-level Working Groups

. Collaborate with peers in the Business Units, Divisions and Central IS

area

. To provide architectural governance and direction for strategic

initiatives as a senior member of the Enterprise Architecture Board

. To provide leadership in researching and architecting quality technology

solutions & techniques to meet business objectives and increase business

partner satisfaction.

. Initiate and direct studies related to enterprise IT standards,

strategies, issues and opportunities.

. Manage a team of high calibre Information Architects, and review their

career goals & performance.

. Lead Architect - Data/BI Strategy & framework, Data Governance, Metadata

Management, Master Reference Data Management.

. Started career as Systems Analyst and progressively grew to Enterprise

Architect level

PROFESSIONAL membership

American Society for Quality, U.S.A. TDWI, USA.

Education

. Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Systems Management - Equivalent to B.S.

(Computer Science)

. B.S. (Commerce)

Technology & Skills

. Business Acumen: Project Management, Functional / Process analysis &

design

. Enterprise Architecture Framework: Zachman, TOGAF

. Methodology / Architecture: RUP, SOA, MDM, ETL, OOA/OOD, www, AS/400,

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