SUMMARY
Result-oriented and analytical professional with over 15 years of
experience in providing technical solutions and consultancy in IT industry.
Experienced in public and private sectors and have been architecting and
leading high stake projects with cross cultural and distributed teams.
Strong academic background consisting of Bachelors in Computer Engineering;
TOGAF certified; PMP certified; Microsoft Certifications; and Executive
education credits from NYU Stern.
Currently work in the capacity of Senior Architect and responsibilities
include; providing end to end solutions; providing technical and
architectural leadership; buy vs. build evaluations; working with
infrastructure and database groups on various enterprise issues; mentoring
architecture and development teams; and managing stakeholder requirements.
EXPERIENCE
Comcast - NETO - http://www.comcast.com/
2011-Present
Responsibilities: Senior Architect
. Led a team of architects to design and architect solutions for
customer troubleshooting tools catering to Comcast Residential and
Commercial customers. The application user base covered 35000
customer care representatives. The application architecture
included all aspects of High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
. Defined architecture processes based on the TOGAF framework
. Defined frameworks for Widget based architecture and Enterprise
level logging infrastructure
. Defined Enterprise caching mechanism using memcache inherent in
CouchBase NO-SQL data store. Resulting in performance improvements
as well as reliable cross data center replication
. Defined test driven development and code analysis strategies for
the organization
. Established governance procedures for ensuring system performance
. Helped transition systems from waterfall to agile processes.
. Created Proof of Concepts for new solutions that helped improve
system performances and enable organization to better handler
future technological changes
. Artifacts created include detailed design specification documents,
deployment and network diagrams, database models and management
plans.
Consultant - http://www.momentumcc.com/ ;
http://www.turnberrysolutions.com;
2010-2011
Responsibilities: Technical Architect
. Let the system design and architecture efforts for development of
widget based application based on .Net MVC.
. Designed integration of .Net MVC applications with InQuira [Oracle
Knowledge and Content Management system] to provide user-friendly
and efficient user experience; better analytical reporting and
. Led the system design and architecture efforts for development of
Letter of Credit Management System for one of the nation's largest
builders. The system architecture is based on .Net MVC framework
integrating with external data stores.
. Artifacts created include detailed design specification documents,
deployment and network diagrams, database models, management plans.
Palm Beach County Information System Services -
http://www.pbcgov.com/iss/ 2003-2010
Responsibilities: Project Management, Systems Architect, Business
Analysis
. Led the system design and architecture efforts for Zoning,
Contractor Certification and Building modules that are part of $4
million endeavor to integrate mainframe and oracle databases with
Microsoft .Net and COM+ platforms. These include web based, IVR and
mobile applications.
. Executed projects under Iterative models such as RUP/ Agile model
as well as Waterfall model. Artifacts created include UML based
requirements and design specification documents, deployment and
network diagrams, database models, management plans, product and
sprint backlogs
. Piloted the efforts for migrating the development platform from
.Net framework 1.1 to 2.0; developing disconnected applications
using .Net 3.5 ADO.Net Sync services; and providing ETL
transformations using SQL Server SSIS
. Developed EAI solutions for single sign-on, securely uploading
documents, integration with credit card processing gateways and
integrating with USPS (Netpost) for automating the process of
sending mails.
. Provided technical guidance across teams in a project matrix
environment and identified common tasks to avoid duplication of
efforts and reduce development costs
. Organized, and coordinated joint application development sessions
to analyze requirements, evaluate system designs and gain client
buy-in
. Presented current and future technologies and system architecture
to management for identification of current and future
infrastructure expansion needs.
. Performed gap analysis and identified integration requirements for
third party software to communicate with existing applications
. Strategized with senior managers about the development projects for
current and future fiscal years to validate future funding
requirements for the division.
. Constant client side engagements to ensure success of deliverables
and projects
Nu Info Systems - http://www.nuis.com/
2001 - 2003
Responsibilities: Technical Consultant, Systems Analysis
. Designed interfaces and technical architecture for VoiceXML based
communication with Avaya IVR systems; negotiated contracts for
implementing an enterprise wide interactive voice response system
resulting in cost savings to the organization.
. Led the integration efforts for WML based wireless applications for
providing field inspectors the ability to record inspection results
via mobile phones and provide real time updates to mainframe
databases.
. Performed competitive analysis of various document management
softwares and recommended alternatives for the same.
. Recommended and implemented process improvements to streamline
project development, enhance version control and ensure quality
. Devised framework to allow Windows based applications to
communicate with legacy mainframe applications resulting in
considerable cost savings by preventing a complete migration to
windows applications.
. Identified and programmed reusable interfaces to be used by
multiple applications
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Infotech Limited - http://www.lntinfotech.com/
1997 - 2001
Responsibilities: Project Lead, Programmer
. As part of L&T Infotech, a SEI CMM Level 5 company, worked in and
coordinated development efforts across cross-cultural, cross-functional
teams in India, Japan, Sweden, U.K., Canada and U.S.
. Successfully procured development projects from clients in US and Sweden
after detailed requirements study and system design for re-engineering of
the existing systems
. Managed offshore teams that outperformed other vendor teams and
resulted in Larsen & Toubro receiving the contract for all
reporting needs for the South American market for Marsh & McLellan.
. Responsible for the software integration and co-ordination of
efforts between banking, clearing and trading systems for a $62
million global trading project by ABN AMRO.
. Developed and implemented $500,000 Order Management, Invoicing and
reporting system for Rottneros Group of Companies, Sweden.
. Developed and implemented Web based sales tracking system for
retail products marketed by Kao Corporation, Japan.
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TECHNICAL SKILLSET
Development Methodologies Waterfall, Agile (Scrum and Kanban)
Programming Languages VB.Net, C#, ASP.Net, VB, ASP, Java, Objective C,
LINQ, jQuery, R
OO tools and Other .Net Framework, SOA, WCF, WSE, AJAX, COM, COM+,
methodologies DCOM, ActiveX, UML, MVC, Telerik Extensions for
ASP.Net MVC
Databases Oracle 8.0/9i/10g,SQL Server, SQL CE, DB2
NoSQL - Couchdb, Mongodb, Couchbase
Data Modeling Package Sybase PowerDesigner
Operating Systems Windows, OS/390, Mac OS X
Other Software Sharepoint, Biztalk, IBM MQ Series, CICS CLIENT,
Packages: COMTI, Crystal Reports, Actuate e.Report Designer,
familiar with TIBCO rendezvous software, Host
Integration Server, Rational Unified Process and
Rational Suite of Products, CA Harvest, VSTS,
iPhone SDK, Knockout.js, node.js, SignalR
EDUCATION
. MUMBAI UNIVERSITY, Vivekananda Education Society Institute of
Technology,
Bachelors in Computer Engineering, 1997
. Completed Executive Education credits from NEW YORK UNIVERSITY,
Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Statistical Analysis, Micro
and Macro Economics, Accounting, Financial Analysis, Marketing
ADDITIONAL
Certified TOGAF professional - Certification ID 58940
Certified PMP professional - PMP #1308000
Provided training on .Net Framework and C# fundamental
Speaker at TechEd Tweener, Orlando 2008 and South Florida.Net User Group.
Represented Palm Beach County at Microsoft TechEd and Mobile Development
conferences
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist
Received awards for Project Co-ordination and Team Management
Awarded Honors in Computer Engineering
Winner of Analytical and Quantitative competitions during academic career
REFERENCES
Available upon request