Ravi Thenappan *** Metro Place South

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Dublin, OH 43017

Professional Summary

Senior Executive /Senior Enterprise Application Architect with more than 28 years of experience in creating innovative and proven software solutions in the Application Integration.

Innovative, hands-on executive with record of leading design and development of high technology products, improving processes and procedures to drive revenue, efficiency, and market share.

Results-oriented visionary with unique background in software engineering and design.

Design & Architecture experience includes Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business Intelligence, Distributed Object Systems, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Multi-tier Client/Server Systems, Data Modeling, and Object Modeling & Object Oriented Design using multiple methodologies.

Worked in various disparate technologies and able to come up to speed on each technology within a short time.

Professional Experience

McKesson - Director 2014 – Current

Columbus, OH

Director – Exchange Operations (Integration)

Managed 28 resources team as part of the Exchange Ops.

Managed four core business capabilities to support Exchange Ops Ops covering development, maintenance and payer connectivity.

Managed Tier 2 support for Exchange Ops.

Defined the ITIL functions and processes for the Exchange Ops Support.

Defined 2014 – 2018 Roadmaps working closely with Product Management and Development groups based on APM (Application Portfolio Management), which defines legacy conversation to new Tibco Platform.

Defined release plan and deployment plan for the Exchange Ops

Defined Incident management for Exchange Ops.

Revised Root Cause Analysis process and documentation.

Defined and Managed Vendor licensing process.

Identified savings in the Vendor licensing.

Managed highly available, real time, large volume transaction systems processing 500 million claims with total value of $ 1.2 trillion.

Technologies Used Active Matrix Service Grid 3.2, Active Matrix Tibco BW 5.10, Tibco EMS 7.0, Tibco TRA 5.7, Tibco Admin 5.7, Tibco Business Events 5.1.1, Active Matrix Tibco BPM 2.1.

Director – IT Operations

Participated and provided a lead role in the successful release of a major strategic initiative (Intelligence Hub). Intelligence Hub is built based on PaaS (Apprenda), IaaS (One Cloud, VM stack) and API Management (Apigee). Intelligence Hub is a strategic Platform which is built to support the anticipated growth in the SaaS products supported by McKesson.

Defined, documented and tested the Business Continuity Plan.

Defined and documented SLA & Support processes for Release 1.

Defined Roles & Responsibly and RACI chart to define operation functions.

Created a repeatable install process for SaaS solution.

Lead the successful releases of the two SaaS solution without any major hurdle.

Vendor Management - Identified and provided recommendation in the areas to improve in technical stack and process.

Aurora - Senior Director 2010 – 2014

Columbus, OH

Project Director- SOA & Integration May 2013 – Current HYDUS – Infinity Insurance

Developed process to manage multiple SOA effort.

Defined 2013 – 2014 SOA Roadmaps working closely with Enterprise Architecture based on APM (Application Portfolio Management), which defines legacy conversation to new SOA Platform.

Calculated ROI for each SOA efforts and prioritized SOA roadmap.

Identified and defined KPI based on the Insurance Industry to prioritize efforts.

Assisted VP of Development to define business case for $4 M investment on the Master Data Management Initiative.

Identified & spearheaded paperless initiative with in Infinity and saved $7 M every year by cutting various paper based customer communication

Identified & spearheaded Agent Chargeback initiative with in Infinity and increased $3 M revenue every year and reduced expenses by $ 500 k.

Manage SOA roadmap portfolio and provide status to CIO and his direct reports.

Developed SOA portfolio Executive dashboard.

Conduct Scrum of Scrums for SOA portfolio efforts.

Technologies Used Active Matrix Service Grid 3.2, Active Matrix Tibco BW 5.10, Tibco EMS 7.0, Tibco TRA 5.7, Tibco Admin 5.7, Tibco Business Events 5.1.1, Active Matrix Tibco BPM 2.1.

Manager - Integration (Jan 2011 – April 2013) HYDUS – GE Treasury (Client)

Develop and execute technical project plans for simultaneous client efforts.

Leadership role to analyze interface requirements and work with various application teams in defining service contracts.

Advised projects developing systems by working with project teams in implementing SOA based distributed architectures.

Managed work both on-site and off-shore development groups utilizing Agile development methodology.

Managed risks, scope, cost, resource, time and communication areas of the project.

Developed few key processes to ensure the success of the project like forecasting, checkpoints with client.

Review code, suggest, and monitor the implementation of improvements.

Developed business processes by configuring shared resources, creating process definitions, creating activities, configuring message transports using TIBCO Business works.

Involved in designing and developing XSD’s based on client requirement.

Understand the input/output data structure for enterprise level services and design xml schemas.

Involved in developing mappings to transform input data to output.

Involved in development of Technical Design and Solution Integration Design (SID) documents

Implemented complex transformation logics using Business Works XPATH functionality.

Identified queues and topics need for this application and created them on TIBCO EMS server

Designed and configured the MOM architecture using EMS.

Handled Common Error/Exception Handling using Hydus TIBCO framework

Technologies Used Tibco BW 5.10, Tibco EMS 6.1, Tibco TRA 5.6, Tibco Admin 5.6, Oracle Db, SiteMinder LDAP, TIBCO iProcess 11.1, JAVA Struts Framework, JAVA Spring Framework.

American Electric Power August 2007 – September 2010

Columbus, OH

Architecture Manager

Managed the Solution Architecture group with responsibility for 15+ employees and architecture area for the enterprise.

Developed an IT strategic roadmap and enterprise technical architecture to position the company for growth

Created enterprise-wide SOA architecture to shift organization from monolithic legacy environment.

Defined five year roadmap for Integration Domain Team. Integration Domain Team is chartered to define integration standards for the enterprise.

Defined Maturity model for Integration Competency Center.

Designed, socialized and implemented Standards Exemption Process with in AEP.

Defined Architect Job Family.

Spearheaded & Implemented the Integration Competency Center for AEP.

Represented Architecture team to build Agile practice with in AEP.

Aurora Technologies October 2004 to August 2007

Dublin, OH

Integration Manager Cardinal Health (Client)

Led the Integration work stream, managing a team of 10 resources (both offshore and onshore) in the two projects which are SAP CRM 5.0 implementation, NPS Web Ordering.

Designed, socialized and implemented Integration Competency Center (ICC) with in Cardinal.

Responsible for delivering interfaces using ETL –Informatica tool set, SAP ABAP programming, Web Services (J2EE), IBM Message Broker, IBM WebCommerce Application (WebSphere) and varied source technologies.

Manage the development life cycle including requirements, design, and development and testing.

Manager/Tibco Architect Constellation Energy Group(Client)

Served as Manager of 20 team members, with activities including mentoring, preparing project plan and monitoring the project plan and budget

Global Provisioning System (GPS), an enterprise-wide Provisioning system spanning multiple technical systems.

oManaged a capital budget of $1.2M and Operating Expenses budget of $120k for a project utilizing Six Sigma methodology.

oImplemented using UML,.Net, Active Directory, WebServices, Netegrity – SiteMinder, Oracle Application 11i (Financial Module), PeopleSoft, Vignette Portal, TIBCO Business Works 5.2, TIBCO Business Works WorkFlow, TIBCO GI (General Interface) for User Interface Module, TIBCO Adapters (Peoplesoft, Oracle Application, LDAP).

eTime, an enterprise-wide Time entry system, an implementation of a WorkBrain (product) and its integration with various enterprise systems.

oManaged a capital budget of $2M based on Agile methodology.

oImplemented using UML, WebServices, Oracle Application 11i (Financial Module), PeopleSoft, TIBCO Business Works 5.2, TIBCO Business Works WorkFlow, PeopleSoft, TIBCO Adapters (Peoplesoft, Oracle Application, LDAP).

Deloitte & Touche May 2004 to October 2004

Vienna, VA

Manager Merck (Client)

Responsibilities included defining the project plan, resource allocation, and managing to the project plan.

Aurora Technologies 1998 to 2004

Columbus, OH

Manager (Application Production Support) McGraw-Hill Education (Client)

Responsibilities included Technical Management, mentoring and assisting the team during the development of interfaces, extensions and reports in an Oracle 11i global implementation.

Managed a team of 25 on site and 8 offshore resources as part of implementing 50+ interfaces. These interfaces spanned Supply Chain, Finance, Customer Service, Order Management, Transportation Management, and Warehouse Modules & Planning Modules in Oracle 11i Application.

Responsibilities included technical mentoring, reviewing the Technical design and following the internal process to carry it over to development. Involved in the estimation of development effort and in drafting the project plan. Assisted the client in arriving at the estimation model for interface development.

Manager (Application Production Support) CSC Energy Services (Client)

Managed complete life cycle of two major enhancements & rollout of STAT.

oThe STAT project is a distributed object, mission critical, multi-tier client/server project designed using UML modeling techniques. Implemented using VB, C++, Oracle, and CORBA 2.0, Persistance on a Windows NT and Sun Solaris platform.

Cambridge Technology Partners 1994 to 1998

Miami, FL

Director Various (Clients)

Served in various leadership capacities for Enron Energy Services, Office Depot & Ryder.

World Bank 1992 to 1994

Washington, DC

Technet Computer Services, Inc. 1991 to 1992

Vienna, VA

Technical Manager / Team Lead Various (Client)

BITECH . 1988 to 1991

Washington, DC

Senior Consultant Office of Thrift Supervision (Federal US Government)

T D Pharmaceuticals, India 1986 to 1988

Systems Supervisor

S I Finance Company, India 1986 to 1986

Programmer Analyst

Educational Background

Bachelor in Commerce from University of Madras, 1986 (US equivalent of B.S. in Finance/Accounting)

Technologies

Skills Java, Spring Framework, Spring MVC, Ant, Hibernate, JMS, Struts, JSP, JSTL JDBC, SQL, HTML, XML, JavaScript, DHTML, and CSS

Operating Systems Linux (Suse), Solaris, WINDOWS XP, 2000, NT 4.0, 9x, DOS

Application Servers Jakarta Tomcat, JBOSS, BEA Weblogic

Databases Oracle 9i, TeraData, DB2

IDE Eclipse

Integration Product Tibco EMS, Tibco BW, Tibco Rvd, Tibco Adapters.

Design/Process OOAD, Design Patterns, Agile methodology, Scrum framework.

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