Quality Assurance Management

Confidential

phone: 203-***-**** email: *******@*****.***

Seasoned, well rounded IT leader known for implementing strategic

initiatives across multiple disciplines creating high ROI. Recognized as a

successful change agent, challenging the Status Quo. As a strong leader

with the ability to communicate complex concepts to Senior Management.

Excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills. Possesses

an in-depth knowledge of Applications and Infrastructure technologies and

leveraging them effectively to provide a business advantage

Skills

SOA, Object Oriented Analysis & Design, c#/.Net, Java/J2EE,C++, SSO

frameworks, WebSphere, Documentum, MS SQL Server, Oracle EBS,

Informatica, Lombardi TeamWorks, Tibco, WebMethods, Subversion,

Lucene, Documentum, FileNet, WebServices, Network and High

availability Architecture, Caching, SDLC, Quality Assurance

Education and Qualifications

MS in Software Engineering, Fairfield University, CT - 2006

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering, University of

Madras, Madras, India 1994

Certified Ethical Hacker - Successfully completed Ethical Hacking and

Countermeasures course

Taught a Graduate level c#/.Net programming class at Fairfield

University for three semesters

professional EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Connecticut 2008 - Present

Director of Architecture

In a newly created role, led, enterprise architecture, software research

and software vendor management. Provided thought leadership in strategy,

application architecture, tools, methodologies and packaged software.

. As the Chief Architect for a multi-year Transformational program, owned

the Application, Security and Infrastructure Architecture. Created a SOA

based Architectural Roadmap applying proven Design Patterns. Owned the

vendor management function, worked to consolidate procurement and managed

the budget.

. Led the Architecture Review Board and built a Shared Services

Architecture Team. Conducted design and code reviews. Consolidated

several source code repositories into a single entity. Rolled out HP

Quality Center to support the SDLC process. Developed best practices,

Architectural models, Reference Architectures based on TOGAF. Built a

Shared Services Quality Assurance organization from the ground up by

retraining Business Analysts.

. Designed and managed the build of several applications in .Net and Java.

Set development standards and guidelines for teams.

. Created a multi year Technology roadmap for the organization taking into

consideration tradeoffs, buy vs. build. Standardized Development

methodologies to Agile and Waterfall.

. Implemented bedrock technologies such as FileNet for Content Management,

Expense Management system, Grants Management system and a Portal

solution.

. Owned the application rationalization Strategy and constructed a

buy/hold/sell list for the application portfolio

. Established Security design principles and provided guidelines to teams

on utilizing common security services. Conducted Application Security

training for developers.

. Strong exposure to OpenSource technologies and integrating them into the

Enterprise

. Performed research on technology trends, technical tools and platforms

and emerging/evolving vendor software.

Managed budgeting and staffing needs and addressed as appropriate. Owned

the vendor management function.

Confidential, Connecticut 2002 - 2008

Vice President, Applications Architect

Responsible for Line Architect development, creation of domain technology

roadmaps, and implementation of Enterprise Architecture frameworks. Led the

architecture, design and hands-on development of key applications. Managed

the design, implementation and delivery of a strategic web and extranet

platform. Strong exposure to operational needs (Unicenter,

Compuware).Rationalized a portfolio of applications and identified

platforms to sunset. Managed the Development of several key projects across

multiple platforms in an Architecture role.

. Owned the technology strategy for confidential company's online presence

(in collaboration with marketing), secure extranets, content management

and portal. Designed the extranet to utilize a single sign on product.

Established a warm backup secondary data center location with fast

failover for websites. Managed Infrastructure & Operations teams.

. Worked with the Senior Business leadership to assess the value of

potential acquisitions and to determine the means and costs of

integrating business process and technology infrastructure

. Managed budgeting and staffing needs and addressed as appropriate;

managed vendors and 3rd party relationships

. Provided Architectural guidance and Managed a team of developers to

deliver a Secure Extranet, Content Platform and developer toolkits.

Established Best practices, common tools, common source code repository,

code control mechanisms and automated builds. Integrated Applications

with SSO frameworks using SOA. Developed several PoCs, identifying and

addressing issues before scaling them up for production. Rolled out

Mercury Quality Center as the SDLC toolset for Requirements, Test cases,

Functional test and Performance Testing. Hands on both at .Net/c# and

Java.

. Mentored development teams, performed design and code reviews.

Implemented web search using Lucene. Strong exposure to unstructured data

and searching large collections.

. Strong exposure to Identity Management and Access Control and integrating

these technologies into the Application stack. Worked with Information

Security to apply Security principles in application development.

. Ran a monthly knowledge sharing forum with Line Architects and Senior

developers within the organization to facilitate knowledge sharing,

software reuse and infrastructure rationalization

. Established Enterprise Technology Standards and Governance Processes.

Established Security guiding principles for Application teams. Performed

Penetration testing of Application and Security Design Review. Worked

with the Operations team to redesign the DMZ to support application

stacks with minimal external hardware footprint

. Streamlined IT processes by introducing a Global SDLC model. The three

methodologies were Waterfall, Agile and RAD. Instrumental in establishing

a Quality Assurance as a Shared Services offering.

. Conducted several product evaluations backed by prudent and expeditious

analysis, made recommendations to be adopted by the organization

. Created a monitoring tool for the internal portal using C++/MFC

Confidential, Connecticut 1998 -

2002

Web Architect/Development Manager

Servicing requirements of large insurance and reinsurance clients in web

and client server development. Responsible for strategy development,

application architecture, delivery functions and implementation of reusable

frameworks. Led organization in process definition and implementation,

product development, product migration, technology strategy,

standardization.

. Acted as a trusted advisor to the CIO and Senior leadership in

establishing and executing a multi-year Strategic technology program.

Implemented an Extranet solution for IRI's client base to support the

Risk Management function

. Worked with the leadership to simplify business processes and automate

them as appropriate.

. Managed the Technical Delivery of a Commercial Insurance System

leveraging the complete J2EE suite (EJB, Servlets. JSP, XML), implemented

using the iPlanet Application server platform. Managed a team of on shore

and off shore resources(consultants and employees)

. Architected and implemented a Service Oriented Framework of reusable Java

code, patterns using the GoF Design Patterns, techniques such as

Programming by Contract using Rational Rose for building UML models.

Established Best practices, common tools for managing, building and

deploying applications

. Responsible for the Software lifecycle planning and, execution

development processes, source code management, design and code reviews,

build scripts. Managed Operations for Release 1 of the of the platform.

. Implemented Service Interfaces with legacy systems using TIBCO

Rendezvous, Tibco ActiveDB, Tibco Message Broker

. Maintained and performance tuned a C++ based policy producing system.

Confidentail, Connecticut 1996 - 1998

Consultant

Hands-on developer responsible for delivering the UI, portions of the

Treaty subsystem and implementation of a large scale system conversion.

Application environment was a mixture of Unix and Microsoft Windows

platform, C++, Java, Delphi, Client/Server, N-Tiered Systems architecture

utilizing Design Patterns.

. Developed a Reinsurance system using an Object Oriented C++ framework.

Developed a Facade in Delphi that communicated through a COM interface to

a C++ transaction engine

. Extensive application of Design Patterns, UML, techniques such as

Programming by contracts, object modeling using Rational Rose, performed

design and code reviews

Designed and developed an RMI based server that stored and retrieved

information from an Oracle database to track defects. The client was a Java

applet

Confidential, India 1994 - 1996

GSE Provides outsourcing services to clients in Europe and North America.

Was with the company since inception, starting out as a 3 member

development group.

Client - Multiple Clients in Europe and North America

Team Lead/Supervisor

Project Leader responsible for application architecture, development and

integration of various software components. Provided technical leadership

to all development teams. Worked with project teams to provide estimates,

review requirements and worked in Release management

. This was a startup company, played multiple roles

. Designed and developed a set of reusable library for animation using C++

. Developed several Delphi custom controls.

. Developed an IDE for Java based on OCX controls using Delphi which

included a complete GUI builder, Text editor with property editor.

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