Project Manager Management

Anoop Khurana

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Summary

Senior Technology Executive specialized in managing Business and Technology

Integration & Architecture across the enterprise. Work closely with the

Business Units for their Integration and architectural needs. Partner with

enterprise application teams, vendors, products to produce "best of breed"

solutions for the organization. Provide technology Vision, Strategy and

Leadership.

. Outstanding history of delivering Enterprise wide Systems Integration and

Architecture solutions focusing on Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) techniques.

. Hold Strong experience in Financial, Publishing & Information Services

Sectors.

. Proven track record of results-oriented performance, hands-on technical

qualifications, also well accomplished in vendor management relating to

product and service delivery.

. Responsible for processes, corporate data exchange mechanism techniques

(CoDeM), strategies, standards, security and its implementation.

. Work with various organization teams includes Products, IT, Marketing,

Business, Finance, Legal, Vendors and Operations to deliver Enterprise

Solutions.

. Currently manage N-Tier distributed architectural solutions with most

flavors of technologies, languages, OS and Vendor Solutions.

. Build and manage large on and off shores collaborative teams and projects

across all levels of the organization & partner providers.

. Manage Project Planning, Budgets & Forecasting.

. As a Shared Technical Services professional - expert in technology

management and leading various team for complete E2E multiplatform

environments which includes Architecture, Development, QA, BA, System

Administrators, Infrastructure, Operations and PM.

Professional Experience

Scholastic Inc. Secaucus NJ

Senior Business Integration Architect ~ Director (Enterprise Architecture

and Integration) (November 2005 - Till Date)

Tasked to work closely with the Business Units, External Vendors, Business

Partners, Application teams, Core IT groups to identify, define and

implement the integration needs, standards, Corporate Data Exchange

Techniques. Mission is to make the application teams work on the core

business strategy with less worry on the data model and its delivery.

Successfully promoted self manage Integration methodology techniques with

in the organization. Currently managing 11 Corporate Web Application (100 -

10000 users each), 3 Corporate ESB, 6 Departmental ESB's, 5 Gateways and

104 Application End Points with 5 million transactions / day. Manage core

staff (4 resource) and virtual staff (15 resources) with $ 2.8MM+ in

operating budget.

Current Corporate Architecture: WMQ(MQ Series), WMB(Message Broker), ESB,

WAS(Websphere Application Server), WICS, Adapters, Process Server(WPS),

WMB(Business Modeler), WCS, DB2/ Oracle /MSSQL, Oracle Apps 11i, 10G RAC,

AS400/iSeries, Zseries Mainframe, JDE, CRM, Win2k3, Linux, HPUX Superdomes,

AIX - pSeries, Nastel, Tivoli

. Project Manager for various strategic projects from Integration and

Architecture Prospective includes COOL(Clubs Online Ordering Systems),

eBook, Stores Online, M & A Projects (Back to Basics Online, Grolier,

MDR, TSP), Mobile Apps Integration, Credit Card Authorization, Warehouse

Relocation / Consolidation, Customer Data Consolidations, Ordering

Systems Consolidations.

. Global Technology Project Manager for infrastructure components upgrade

and migration (MQ Series, Message Broker, Application Servers) on

iSeries, AIX, Linux platforms.

. Web Application Manager to manage Architecture, Design and Topology

Implementation of 11 Web Applications running on Websphere Application

Server and Apache Web Server on iSeries and AIX.

. Chief Integration Technology Architect on various B2B and B2C projects

with Amazon, Skymall, Innotrac, Office Depot, NYBOE, LibreDigital

. Global Project Manager for implementation of enterprise wide Service

Oriented Architecture and implementation of Transaction Monitoring

Software.

Areas of Responsibilities:

. Management of ESB, EAI, SOA and Web application includes Design,

Development, QA, Administration and Ops Support.

. Implementation of Enterprise wide Systems Integration and Architecture,

its standards and best practices.

. E2E Integration Environment Planning and its Release management.

. Define technical vision and a strategic roadmap for the organization.

Align IT integration solutions with business functions.

. Define Architectural vision, conceptualization and experimentation with

alternative architectural approaches.

. Direct completion of tasks within estimated time frames and budget

constraints.

. Schedule and assign duties to solution teams.

. Data requirements analysis, gap analysis, data mapping, information

engineering, systems analysis and design, data and process modeling.

. Business Integration Value Assessment (BIVA) and its pay back.

. Approve development and validation of the architecture and high level

solution design (PoC, PoT) against business requirements.

. Impart expert advice on industry and solution trends to the enterprise -

analyzing and planning current and future IT needs.

. Vendor Management, Vendor's Product Evaluation, Negotiations and Product

Positioning with in the enterprise.

Key Accomplishments:

. Laid the foundation of ESB and SOA infrastructure. Extended Current

Infrastructure and successfully made the paradigm shift from EAI to ESB

and SOA.

. Developed Corporate Data Exchange Mechanism technique using Business

Event Driven Architecture.

. Convinced Business for Clubs Online Integration Project which saved $0.8

MIL in CSR calls for first 3 months after its launch.

. Manage 5 million transactions on daily basis from numerous LoB (Lines of

Business). Each LoB is capable of pushing > 200K Order / day

individually.

. 100% success rate in transaction delivery, tracking, monitoring, PD and

management.

. Developed Global VAR team which helped in creating standards and improved

SDLC significantly with 35% code reusability across teams and

applications.

. Reduced Integration End Points from Core Enterprise Applications

(Customer, Products, Orders). This has increased the integration speed by

3 times.

. Established governance and practices for external vendors and managed key

vendor relationships that were responsible for developing, maintaining,

and supporting critical applications.

. Negotiated monitoring software licensing with technology partners

resulted in 50% cost reduction on base price and maintenance services. It

is under implementation now with locked in price from last quarter.

. Managed design and topology of Web Applications with 99% uptime w/

reduction of multiple servers and licensing cost (savings of > $1MM).

. Significant saving with "Pay as you Use Model" utilizing Clouding

computing (VPC and EC2 Amazon cloud) for Scholastic Strategic Project for

fiscal year 2011 and 2012.

. Hands on Experience in integrating various technology products (ERP /

OTC, Oracle Fusion, CRM, JDE, WCS, WAS, eCommerce, Legacy, WebMethods,

Web Logic, Ascential, Tomcat, JBOSS, WPS, WICS, WSO2, Data Power,

Adapters), multi language custom applications (Java, .Net, VB, Cobol,

C++, C, C#, RPG, CL400) and vendor business applications (DRM, eReaders,

Mobile Apps, OMS) on multiple platforms - Unix, Linux, iSeries, Windows,

OS390, MainFrame, Cloud.

Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP), NJ

Technologies Consultant (July 2003 - November 2005)

Integration Manager and Technology Architect for PTTC group on Financial

Services heavy duty ESB to integrate numerous ADP financial applications on

multiplatform environment. I was accountable for 12 ESB and GLI (Web

Application) environments composed of MQ, Message Broker, Crossworlds (4

Dev, 4 QA, E2E, Hosting, UAT and Production). In addition to that I also

managed a Web Access Management application based on CA Siteminder for

shorter duration. My direct reports were 4 and 12. Few highlights of my

career in ADP are-

. Integration Project Manager responsible for working with various

applications PM to engage their resources in Design, Development, E2E

testing, planning, trouble shooting to get Functional Certification on

E2E.

. Integration testing methodology for the test team so that standalone

Certification can be issued on ESB releases. Selected testing tools,

mentored teams, helped in creating test cases and its execution. This was

a big achievement in ADP world and appreciated by Exec team.

. Streamline Deployments, Environment Planning, Release Planning, Capacity

Planning and Risk Analysis processes.

. Supervision of Design, Development, Installation, Administration and

Configuration of Topology Implementation of Middleware components,

Application Servers, Web Servers, Databases and Security Components in a

multi tier environments.

. Implementation of Horizontal and Vertical scaled solution for Web

Servers, WAS servers, MQ clustering, WBI Message Broker clustering, Load

Balancing, High Availability, Failover strategy and its testing.

. Developed/delivered technical & C-level presentations and custom demos.

Advised on IT strategies to improve integration and business

responsiveness.

. Implemented Automated Code Deployment Process, Fail Over and Decommission

Procedures (saving of 3 days / release cycle).

Qatalys Inc. - Consulting for International Business Machines (IBM), NY

Senior Consultant (October 2002 - July 2003)

Member of Websphere MQ National Team to support Northeast region IBM

accounts. This team provides services on Websphere family products i.e.

Websphere MQ, MQSI, WBI, WAS on AIX and Win2K platforms. Worked with Chase

Bank, Mercedes Benz, IBM Shop, IBM - CRM, B2B systems and other Internal

Clients to manage more than 150 MQ Servers.

. Account Lead for the major clients to provide Technical Expertise for

middle tier.

. Setting up the technical and architecture requirements for the

applications using MQ Series and MQSI, includes Sizing, Volume, Security,

Policies, Risk Analysis, and Processes.

. Managing installs, Configuration of MQ Series, MQSI, MQ Series Links for

R3, MQ Tools, Support Packs, Security Wrappers, MQ Clustering on numerous

platforms as per the application needs.

. Worked with GWA (Global Web Architecture) team to set up the standard

requirements for Web Based Application. Enforce GWA and ITCS standards

(Security Standards) on 500 to 600 servers for better security, future

compatibility and smooth application integration.

. Member of a team for upgrading the numerous tools/ scripts (Shell, Perl,

Dos) as per the newer version of the IBM product.

American Management Systems (AMS) NY (now CGI)

Team Lead (January 2001 - October 2002)

Worked in various slots on Proponix, OTL(Object Trade Line) and TPL(Trade

Processing Engine projects. Proponix (Trade processing Middleware Banking

Solution deals with Letter of Credits LC's, SWIFT generation) allowed banks

/ bank users with disparate systems and on multiple platforms to

communicate with back office object oriented trade engine (OTL).

. Worked as Technical Architect, MQ and MQSI Administrator, Development

Lead, Middleware Team Lead on various projects.

. Development lead for Web Based Java application (Trade Portal) interfaces

for message processing between TPL and Proponix.

. Worked for ANZ Bank- Australia, Barclays Bank - London, Bank of Montreal

- Canada.

Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ

Researcher (January 1999 - December 2000)

Executed various Projects in different languages and platforms (Java and

its various technologies, C++, C, Java Script, HTML, DHTML, VB Script).

Euro Cotspin Limited, New Delhi, India

Programmer Analyst (September 1996 - December 1998)

Contributed on Marker Research Application - A DSS (Decision Support

System) on Oracle, PL/SQL, Developer 2000 and Reports 2.5

Asian Alloys Limited, New Delhi, India

Team Member (June 1994 - September 1996)

Developed Order Execution System written in Visual Basic 4.0, 5.0, Oracle,

PL/SQL.

Tools, Technologies & Techniques

. WMQ(MQ Series), WMB(Message Broker), ESB, WAS(Application Server),

Apache, WICS, Adapters, Tivoli, RAD, WID

. UML, Websphere Business Modeler, Rational, Component, Activity, Sequence,

Use Case

. MQ, SOA, BPM, WebSevices, SOAP, UDDI, WSS, WSSR, XML, BPEL, W3C, HTTP,

HTTPS, JCA, JNDI, MDB, JTA, CWF, SWIFT, EDI, OAGIS, IDOC, FTP, B2B, B2C,

eCommerce, Legacy, Cloud Computing

. Tivoli, Nastel, Wily, BMC Patrol, Siteminder, HP Open View

. Unix, AIX, Solaris, Linux, iSeries, Windows, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server,

LDAP

. Java, J2EE, JMS, .NET, ESQL, SQL, PL/SQL, JACL, Jython, C, C++, Perl,

Shell Script, COBOL, ANT, WSADMIN

. MS Project, HP- PPM, MS Suite, Share Point, STAR Team, CVS, PVCS

. Familiarity / Integrated / Evaluated - WCS, WPS, WPG, Data Power,

Weblogic, WebMethods, Fusion, Sonic MQ, TIBCO, Fiarano, WSO2, JBOSS, CRM,

JDE, Assential, SAP, Apache, Tomcat

. Synchronous, Asynchronous, Publish / Subscribe, Request / Reply,

Guaranteed, Reliable and Once only delivery, Fan Out, Fan In, Fire &

Forget, QoS, Transformation, Translation, Mediation, Security, LLBP,

Registration, Reporting, Auditing, Orchestration, Work Flow, Stateless /

State full transactions.

. Agile, RUP, Scrum, Waterfall, SDLC, OOAD, JAD

Education

Masters in Computer Science with Cumulative GPA 4.0/4.0 (FDU, Teaneck, NJ)

-2001

Bachelor of Science -TT (The Technological Institute of Textiles &

Sciences, India) - 1994

Management Trainings - AMSU, ADP University and Scholastic University

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