Rajesh Thangappan
Mobile- +91-953*******
Location - Bangalore
Qualf - Bachelor of Engineering
Email - abogmt@r.postjobfree.com
Experience Profile
. Do have 13+ years of IT experience handling multi-tasking roles with
extensive knowledge in application design, development and execution of
projects using IBM integration suites and J2EE technologies
. Solid knowledge of web service implementation in a multi-platform service
oriented architecture
. Have around 5+ years of extensive experience as integration architect
with entire line of IBM SOA active products
. 2+ years of extensive experience as solution consultant for SOA
enablement assignments using IBM Integration suites
. 1.5 years of experience as Pre-Sales consultant for IBM integration
suites
. 5+ years of experience in design and build of business/technical services
using IBM Websphere Enterprise service Bus (WESB), Websphere Process
Server (WPS) and Websphere Integration Developer (WID)
. 5 years of experience in design and build of business/technical services
using IBM Websphere Message Broker (WMB)
. 5 years of work experience in IBM Websphere Business Interchange Server
. 2 years of experience with Gentran Integration suite/IBM Sterling
integrator (IBM-SI)
. 9 years of experience in solution, design and building of Integration
(Mediation) services with packaged applications SAP, Siebel, JD Edwards
and legacy systems - AS400,Mainframes using Websphere integration suites
. Superior ability in translating business needs into architecture
requirements
. Contributed for RFPs (Response for proposals), Statement of Works for IBM
based SOA suites
. Executed challenging projects in the capacity of Integration Architect,
Project lead, and lead technical consultant in Retail, Automotive,
HealthCare, CPG, Insurance, and Manufacturing domains
. Designed and executed various projects using MVC frameworks Struts and
JSF and standard design patterns appropriately
. Projects across any platform(s)/tool (s) in short duration with expected
quality of service and time
Skill Summary
RELEVANT SKILLS
. Solutioned using all IBM SOA Integration/monitoring stacks
. Pre-Sales proficient
. Websphere Message Broker
. Websphere Enterprise Service Buse
. Websphere Process Server
. Websphere Services for Registry and Repository
. IBM Stering Integrator
. IBM Managed File Transfer
. Integration Architect
. SOA Solution Architect
OTHER SKILLS
. UNIX admin
. Websphere MQ Admin
. DB2 UDB
CERTIFICATIONS
. Websphere Message broker certified
. IBM Websphere Lombardi Enterprise certified
. Architect certified - iCMG
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
* WITH Accenture Solutions private Ltd, Bangalore AS ibm soa aRCHITECT FROM
FEB 2011 TILL DATE
* With WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, Chennai as integration architect from October
2003 To January 2011.
(On-Site Assignments)
> JohnsonDiversey Inc, Sturtevant, Wisconsin, USA as lead
Integration solution consultant from 10-June-2005 till 16-Nov-
2009
* With Polaris Software Lab/AIGSS, Chennai as J2EE team lead From 2002 to
2003
* With, Pinnacle software solutions, Chennai as White Box tester/ Developer
From APRIL 2002 To October 2002.
* With Kinship technologies, Chennai as Programmer From NOV 2001 To APRIL
2002.
* WITH PENTASOFT TECHNOLOGIES, CHENNAI AS TESTER/PROGRAMMER FROM 1999 TO
2001
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
> Bachelor of engineering - MECHanical
Bharathiar university, Coimbatore
TRAINING
> wORKSHOP ON IBM DATAPOWER
> CORPORATE TRAINING on RETAIL FORUM
> Corporate training on IBM ESB,LOMBARDI and WMB 7.0
Key Projects
Jan 2013 - Feb 2013 As Pre-Sales consultant for IBM SOA suites for multiple
RFP requirements
Organization: Accenture - India Development Center
Nov 2012 - Jan 2013
Customer: Volkswagen
Project: As-Is Architectural assessment and provide alternate To-Be
Solution model
Organization: Accenture - India Development Center
Role - SOA Integration Architect
Project Description -
There are currently a multitude of different processes and IT solutions
used within the markets to deliver parts and product updates that are
largely bespoke, lacking in integration and are not fully cost efficient.
The Volkswagen business recognizes the need to deploy a global SOA enabled
integration solution to all Volkswagen market, to provide a centralized
integration platform for its manufacturing plant, dealers and importers
(across its division globally), in order to nurture strong, highly
available platform to fulfill the integration needs of the manufacturing
division, dealers and importers
Benefits from adopting this approach would bring down their integration
services operating cost effectively and even ensure minimal or no loss of
transactions happening on day to day basis.
Responsibilities:
. Responsible for creating Solution Blueprint as SOA Integration Architect
. Define Integration Strategy & Roadmap for the Volkswagen for the global
SOA implementation Solution
. Perform fit-gap analysis of the current (non-standardized EAI) and to-be
(Service Oriented Architecture) state of integration within enterprise.
. Identification & defining Integration requirement and positioned
Technology capabilities & products specifications for the proposed
solution to address the set of requirements as part of Solution
Blueprint.
. Influenced & performed oral's to Client Architecture design authority
with the briefing on the Integration Strategy and positioned Products
stack including IBM WebSphere Message Broker as ESB, IBM WebSphere
Process Server as BPM, IBM WebSphere Service Registry & Repository as
Enterprise Service Repository etc..
. Conducted Global workshops with Client, Business owners and Business
analyst for fit-gap analysis and to draw outline of solution.
. Define Solution and Conceptual Integration work-products involving to-be
solution architectural approach, Application Landscape, Application
Portfolio, Release/deployment calendar of Market
Aug 2012 -Nov 2012
Customer: American Honda Motors (AHM)
Project: Strategic Incentives Marketing Planner migration from Mainframes
(Legacy) to Web-Based portal system
Organization: Accenture - India Development Center
Role - Accenture Integration Architect & IBM WebSphere Process Server SME
in fire-fighting mode
Project Description -
The Strategic Incentives Marketing Planner (SIMPL) initiative is a multi-
year initiative to replace the existing mainframe Sales Incentive System
(SIS) with a web-based application to meet program objectives. The AHM
business recognizes the need to deploy a SOA enabled integration solution
to provide a centralized integration platform between SIMPL and its
Enterprise systems
Responsibilities:
. Re-visited the as-is implementation approach and worked to re-design and
improve the performance of core Websphere ESB services to match customer
SLA requirements
. Contributed in performance and product testing to improve the performance
of services
. Conduct Solution Architecture Review and submit review report to
Architecture board.
. Assist team to incorporate the best practices on IBM WebSphere Process
Server, DataPower SOA Appliance XI50
May 2012 - Feb 2013 As Pre-Sales consultant for IBM SOA suites for multiple
RFP requirements
Organization: Accenture - India Development Center
August 2011 - May 2012
Customer: Ontario State, Ministry of Community and Social Services
Project: Family Responsibilities Office, Ministry of community and social
services, Ontario State, Canada
Role - Accenture SOA Integration architect/ SME for IBM Websphere
integration suite
Organization: Accenture - India Development Center
Project Description -
Family Responsibility Office (the "FRO") is Ontario's maintenance
enforcement program (MEP) that administers and enforces child support
payments and spousal support payments in the province.
In Ontario, all support orders are automatically filed with the Family
Responsibility Office- FRO. Unless the parties agree to withdraw from FRO,
all support payments must be made to the FRO Office. FRO has a duty to
monitor payments and take enforcement action to collect all monies that are
due. FRO cannot change the support order or negotiate a reduction in
arrears. To change the amount that FRO is attempting to enforce requires a
change in the support order.
Ontario government decided to position centralized CRM based application to
fulfill the needs of FRO related enforcements. This approach necessitated
to enable SOA based integration platform to fulfill the data integrations
between CRM and its other in-house applications
Responsibilities:
. Responsible for the delivery of the Architectural/Technology integrity of
the overall solution including Integration service framework, interface
design as Lead Integration Architect:
. Proactively, visualize various process and technical bottlenecks around
WebSphere integration suite etc. helping team minimize rework and deliver
with high quality standards.
. Worked to deliver Functional requirements and AS-IS process.
. Designed and got delivered-TO-BE structure of middleware on WebSphere
(WS) Platform including components that were to be implemented as part of
GAP Analysis.
. Assisted teams for any process /technical challenges during various
phases as build/test/deployment phase by exploring product functionality.
. Handled Project Ramp-up and Staffing of the team for various roles
. Contributed in Project Planning and Estimates.
. Gathering and understand the client's functional and non-functional
requirements for enabling SOA based integration platform
. Performed Fit GAP- Analysis for the Solution and design the GAP
components in the new ESB Platform.
. Responsible for planning and leading the execution of PoCs on the ESB and
leverages reusable components for the Platform.
. Create Technology blueprint, Authorization & Transport Approach for the
solution
. Identification of design patterns, Interface Design, setting up
Development Guidelines, defining Go-Live & Cut over Strategy
. Provide functional and technical guidance to the delivery team
Feb 2011 - July 2011 Conceptualized, designed and built a Design time SOA
governance process management lifecycle asset for Accenture IBM CoE using
IBM Websphere Services for registry and repository. This asset can quickly
be customized to control any of organization's SOA governance needs
June 2010 - January 2011
Customer: Baxter
Project: Centralized ESB for enterprise level integration needs
Role - Integration architect for IBM Websphere Process Server
Organization: Wipro Technologies
Project Description -
Baxter International Inc. is a global diversified healthcare company. It
manufactures and markets various kinds of medicine.
This project aims to build SOA enabled integration service type
architectural flow model using Websphere Enterprise Service BusV6.1 and
migrate the existing point-to-point interfaces running in web-methods to
Websphere ESB as per the new SOA flow model.
It facilitates integration service to connect from various B2B and A2A
applications. JD Edwards is the ERP for Baxter. Its message exchange
necessities with in-house and external applications are fulfilled by
Websphere ESB. Websphere ESB serves as integration service stack for all
regions across globe
Responsibilities:
. Propose new ideal and effective re-design solutions, plus approach to
resolve performance problems and avoid frequent problems in mission
critical transaction flows
. Conceptualize and build accelerator, which has brought down the
development effort to 30% of as-is effort
. Provide feasibility approaches and implementation models for new
integration requirements
. Offshore Co-ordination to resolve technical related problems.
. Understand the problems from business during critical real-time
applications, offer right solution to resolve the problems.
. Clarify offshore's technical and functional related queries
. Performance tuning of applications without impacting business
Feb 2005 - Sept 2010
Customer: Formerly known as Johnson Diversey (JDI); recently acquired by
Sealed Air Inc
Project: Centralized ESB (BPM and Mediation),B2B setup
Role - Lead Integration Consultant
Organization: Wipro Technologies
Project Description -
JohnsonDiversey Inc (JDI) is a leading global provider of cleaning and
hygiene solutions to the institutional and industrial marketplace, serving
customers in the lodging, food service, retail, healthcare, food & beverage
sectors as well as building service contractors worldwide. JohnsonDiversey
was formed in May 2002 when Racine, Wisconsin-based Johnson Wax
Professional acquired DiverseyLever from global food conglomerate Unilever
Plc. JohnsonDiversey employs more than 14,000 people worldwide.
JohnsonDiversey is committed to being the world's most trusted source of
cleaning and hygiene products and solutions to customers in more than 60
countries. The JohnsonDiversey has many applications systems ranging from
ERP packages like SAP, JDE, and Seibel to Custom applications. This project
is to integrate all these applications. Offshore support will include bug
fixing and/or planned enhancements as per changing business rules.
Responsibilities:
. Offshore Co-ordination in technical related problems.
. Understand the problems from business in critical real-time applications,
offer right solution to resolve the problems.
. Primarily responsible to win all critical integration build projects for
Wipro from JDI
. Identified to be a key integration consultant by client from Wipro.
. Analysis and development of Enterprise Application Interface components
. Gathering requirements from user.
. Create Design specifications and requirement specification documents.
. Delegate the work to offshore, clarify the off shore's technical and
functional related queries.
. Analysis, Development and Testing of Mapping Specifications.
. Integration Testing
. Handling application Support call to resolve the real-time issues faced
for those developed interfaces that are active in production environment
. Co-ordinate to move the tested interface in production environment
Nov 2004 - Feb 2005
Customer: Cadbury
Project: MQSI Integration
Role - Integration Consultant
Organization: Wipro Technologies
Project Description -
This project is aimed to synch the order and customer related data of
Cadburys across globe with the Parent system in UK..
Responsibilities:
* Creation of High level and Low level design specs from requirements.
* Development
* Performing System and Integration Testing
Mar 2004 - Nov 2004
Customer: STAPLES, USA
Project: Custom Integration Framework
Role - Consultant
Organization: Wipro Technologies
Project Description -
Staples, Inc. is the world's largest provider of office supplies to
customers on a contract basis to both Fortune 500 organizations and small
to medium size businesses. Staples sales and margin teams consistently
attempt to increase margins through various analyses, pricing improvements,
and contract reviews. Today, there is no systematic means for analyzing
potential pricing changes across a portfolio of accounts. The proposed
Profit Margin Analysis System (PMAS) application will provide an automated
process for account and contract reviews. More importantly with an
automated process, PMAS will identify margin improvement opportunities on
existing accounts
Responsibilities:
* Converting PMAS functional requirements to technical designs(Macro/Micro
designs)
* Designing EAI framework for PAMS application to interact with external
systems(STAR team and SUNRISE)
* Validating Other frameworks
* Responsible for Validating code
* Responsible for Unit and System level testing
Dec 2003 - Feb 2004
Customer: SEARS, USA
Project: PRS Claims Management System
Role - J2EE, Design Consultant
Organization: Wipro Technologies
Project Description -
Sears is a large retailer in United States. This system is to provide
platform independent core pricing Services for all kinds of users (inside
and outside sears) irrespective of the technology in use at the users end.
The required pricing services were exposed as Web Services and these
services will utilize central and unique data repositories as sources of
information to calculate the right price in accordance with current
contractual agreements, and take into account any special circumstances
such as temporary sales and / or promotions. The web services will respond
to requests made through a pre-determined and standard format. This format
will contain the minimum set of information required in order to be able to
determine the prices for the different components of the claims
Responsibilities:
Analyzing the requirements, providing solutions for integration of
applications across various technologies and to provide neutral based
architecture
Jul 2003 - Nov 2003
Customer: AIG, USA
Project: WINS
Role - Team Lead
Organization: Polaris Software Lab/AIGSS, India
Project Description -
Wins Digital System is a web-based property - causality insurance
processing application. It is based on the WINS system, which has been
processing insurance business. The application is designed to help insures
increase efficiency throughout the insurance life cycle, from quoting and
policy issuance of claims processing and regulatory reporting
Responsibilities:
. Played Team lead role for WINS extended support work.
Nov 2002 - Jul 2003
Customer: AIG, USA
Project: Accident and Health - Quick Quote
Role - J2EE Programmer
Organization: Polaris Software Lab/AIGSS
Project Description -
ANH is a java-based application whose architecture is based on MVC-2
pattern. Its design flow relies on six j2ee design patterns.
It is an internet facilitated site which provides a "quick quote" for three
products; Basic Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Business Travel Accident,
and Vision Care.
This application will be delivered in a wizard format that is targeted for
use by brokers of AIG and administrator.
Responsibilities:
* Implementation of the views using JSP and Struts1.1
* Implementation of the PDF generation using servlet, RenderX, XMLand XSL.
* Implementation of the secured and non-secured swapping mechanism in
application as a whole
* Mapping of web server and application server (Webshpere4.0.3). Production
support for the application
Apr 2002 - Oct 2002
Project: Athena
Role - Programmer
Organization: Pinnacle software, India
Project Description -
Athena Middleware is mainly aimed at integrating the three systems under
one portal and providing 'Single Sign-On' facility to the users. At the
same time Athena guarantees integrity of relevant data on these three
systems. The project, in this release, is designed to integrate one Student
Information System (SIS) and multiple Learning Management Systems (LMS) and
Email - Calendaring Systems (ECS). Its design is robust enough to
incorporate any number of other kinds of systems in the campus such as
transportation, library, college directories, student grants, faculty
research projects etc.
Responsibilities:
* Involved in the Preparation of Test Case, Test Bed to conduct White Box
Testing.
* Carried out White Box and Unit Testing.
* Wrote stubs and drivers to test the flow of each unit.
* Preparation of Test Case, Test Bed for Performance Testing
* Performance testing
* Process to integrate LMS with portal
* Done coding for Encryption (symmetric), background
Nov 2001 - Apr 2002
Project: Custom Mediation Server
Role - Programmer
Organization: Kinship technologies, India
Project Description -
This application is a platform independent package, which facilitates a
secured and flexible work platform to track every field
(Chargeable/Unchangeable field). Mediation system helps to oversee and
modify every command processed at the scheduled interval before getting
reflected in billing system. It is quite compatible with any legacy
telebilling server and activation part (processing part) as well. The
package provides supporting option for Siemens, Nokia, Alcatel, Nortel, and
Ericsson. It mainly aims to reduce the technician job to great extent
provided it can easily adapt to any existing database.
Responsibilities:
* Involved in coding the integration of batch process with parser Coded the
Batch, Schedule functionality -Mediation System.
* Background programming done to execute the commands as per the schedules
(Interaction of CDR parser with batch processor) set by Meditation or the
Activation system
* Designed batch, schedule and rule User Interface screens using SWING
June 1999 - Oct 2001
Role - Programmer/Tester/Designer - J2EE applications
Organization: Pentasoft Technologies
Worked for different projects as trainee, J2EE developer, designer and
tester during my tenure with PentaSoft Technologies
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