Management Project

ASHOK VASA

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SENIOR ARCHITECT

ARCHITECTURE CREDENTIALS

• 19 years of Architecture and Technology

Implementation Experience - TOGAF certified Architect

with global expertise in Banking, Insurance, Retail,

Healthcare, Telecommunications and Utilities

Key Skills & Experience

• Business Architecture – analyzing business strategy,

Summary

developing, business context, business process and

Ashok is a Senior Architect business capability model; user analysis, defining KPI’s

Manager with over 19 years and calculating ROI

of experience developing • Requirements Management - gathering, analyzing and

enterprise-wide IT solutions. managing requirements change; defining use cases,

functional, technical and test cases

Ashok has successfully

• Application Architecture – current state & risk reviews,

delivered architecture

setting strategy, defining target state, technical solution

solutions to global majors such

design, roadmap and transformation planning; new

as, TD Canada Trust, JP

technology evaluationn, application rationalisation

Morgan Chase, Barnes &

(enhancements / consolidation and retirement)

Noble, Sun Life, Rogers,

• Information / Data Architecture – business suject area

Lloyds Bank, Home Depot,

analysis, conceptual data modeling, physcial data

ING Life, Aviva Norwich

modeling, meta data and data quality management

Union Insurance and ICICI

• Integration Architecture - integrating disparate types of

Bank

technologies/platforms using EAI / SOA and establishing

shared service to reduce costs and duplication

Ashok’s industry experience

• Infrastructure Architecture - optimising data centres &

spans banking, insurance,

ITIL service delivery, establishing monitoring and intrusion

healthcare, marketing,

detection

telecommunications and the

retail sectors within the US,

INDUSTRY AWARDS

Canada, UK, India, Europe,

and Australia.

• Information week India award for ICICI Bank Application

Portfolio Management / Rationalisation

• Forbes & Wipro Global Innovation award for

establishing extended architecture teams & Global CTO

Office for Aviva Norwich Union

ARCHITECTURE SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• 2007 - Open Group, Conference: Solving the architect sourcing issue - increasing the scalability

& capability of an Enterprise Architecture group using federated networks, flex teams & CoEs

• 2008 - Open Group, Conference, Bangalore, India – Moving up the architecture career path

TECHNOLOGY PROFILE

• Enterprise Architecture CASE Tools (6Y) – iteraplan (open source), Rational Tools, Alfabet, Sparx,

Troux

• Enterprise Architecture Methodology - TOGAF Certified (6Y), Zachman (5Y),

• Development Methodologies - Agile Iterative Processes - RUP(4Y), Lean Development, Feature

Driven Development(2Y), Scrum(1Y), XP (2Y) and structured waterfall processes (4Y)

• Java/J2EE (10 Years) - Java (9Y), J2EE (5Y)-EJB 1.1,2.0, JMS, Apache Struts, JSP, Ruby on Rails,

Servlets, JDBC, jUnit, J2EE, performance testing,

• Microsoft (3 Years) - .NET, ASP, COM, VBScript, SQL Server 7

• SOA & EAI Integration (6Y) - Service Oriented Architecture using Web Services-SOAP, JMS, XML,

BEA Weblogic Integration Server 7.x (3Y) & IBM MQSeries 5.x, Active Software, knowledge of

WebMethods (1Y)

• Database Persistence Frameworks (4 Years) - Hibernate (1Y), JDO (0.5Y), XML-JAXB (1Y) and

Castor, Apache Xalan, Xerces DTD, Schema, XSLT (3Y)

• Application Servers (5 Years) - BEA WebLogic 7.x Platform (3Y) & IBM Websphere 3.5, 4.0(1Y),

ATG Dynamo, Microsoft Site Server (1Y)

• Content Management - Interwoven (1Y), Documentum (0.5Y)

• Portals (4 Years) - BEA Portal Server(3Y)

• Database (6 Years) - Oracle 9.x, 8.x, SQL & PL/SQL (6Y)

• B2B (1 Year) - CommerceOne - MarketSite & BuySite (1Y)

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR (NOV 2008 TO DATE)

• Enbridge, Toronto – As the Technology Architect, Ashok was responsible for collaborating to develop

the utilities 5 year IT Roadmap of Operations & Engineering and conceptualizing the future Asset

Risk Analytics Platform requirements [Aug 2013 - Present].

• Capgemini / Banque Laurentien, Montreal – As the lead Architect, Ashok was responsible for the

SOA web services to mainframe integration architecture to support the bank’s BPM program. The

project involved ESB technology selection, IBM MQ Queue design, Mainframe CICS/Controller

program structuring and assessing the volume/performance/MIPS impact to the current production

mainframe [Mar 2013 – July 2013].

• Capgemini / Vancity, Vancouver – Ashok was tasked with the role of Integration Solution Architect

to assist Vancity (Credit Union) to transition from their current legacy banking system to Temenos T24.

The project involved analysing the current state of the 50+ legacy interfaces and developing the

solution architecture and migration plans [Aug 2012 – Mar 2013].

• Enbridge, Toronto – developing the technology strategy and architecture for Enbridge’s core work

and asset management system. The project involved analyzing the current technology landscape

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state, future business goals and determining if Enbridge should sustain, replace or upgrade their

current systems - [Apr – Jun, 2011].

• Enterprise Architect - The Home Depot Digital CRM Program for Totem Brand Stories, Toronto -

successfully transitioned a portfolio of 9 .Net-based Digital-CRM websites from The Home Depot’s

previous IT vendor, to Totem. Established the Project execution, operations management and IT

governance capabilities (including architecture definition, design review and technology risk

management (Technology Team Size 31) - [Aug – Apr 2011].

• Chief Architect - Shroff Eye Hospital, India, as Advisor to the CEO of the hospital, guided the IT

team with the strategy and implementation to migrate from their unsupported legacy HIS (Hospital

Information System) to a more sustainable vendor product: Modules included: Patient admission,

billing, EMR, GRN & Stock [Jun 2010 - Jul 2011]

• Enterprise Data Architect - Lloyds Bank, UK, Enterprise-wide data cascade assurance programme

to ensure that the large volumes of data that would result from the bank merger will not have

adverse impacts on the downstream systems from data migration primary targets. Managed a team

of 10 architects, working within a collaborative onsite & offshore working model – [Jan 2010 – July

2010]

• IT Strategy - ING Life India, working alongside the ING Life CTO, Ashok assessed the Application

and Infrastructure risk of the overall IT landscape and developed recommendations to mitigate the

risk and the roadmap to enhance the application adequacy. [Oct 2009 - Jan 2010]

• ICICI Bank Data Centre Simplification – Assisted the Bank to develop the next-generation Data

Centre Blueprint to address the growing time and quality issue caused by the increasing scale and

complexity of the infrastructure. The blueprint addressed :-

The solution to enable superior proactive capabilities to detect and respond to application

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and infrastructure problems, before customers are even aware or affected

The mechanisms necessary to better plan capacity & performance so that provisioning the

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right amount of infrastructure, re-balance the usage between high and low cost devices and

accurately predicting future needs can be enabled.

[Oct 2008 – Jan 2010]

• National Bank Financial, Montreal, Enterprise Architect, Corporate Portal Strategy. Ashok

developed the corporate-wide portal architecture strategy to address the increasing cost and

complexity of managing multiple diverse portals and web applications. Ashok conducted the analysis

across 21 business units, and developed the 3-year architecture strategy and transition plan for a

unified portal. The strategy also included consolidating their content management systems, and

reusing the Bank’s identity & access management systems for single sign-on [Jan 2005 – Mar 2005]

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT – WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, BANGALORE,

INDIA (NOV 05–OCT 2008)

• ICICI Bank, Mumbai, India – Ashok introduced Application Portfolio Management (APM) into ICICI

and helped them institutionalize the discipline across the Bank. The APM function in the bank now

captures near-real time data about applications, infrastructure, data, interfaces, tools & technologies,

software licenses and business supported, from over 200+ application owners. Data is also fed into

the APM system automatically from other control applications. The initiative also identified

opportunities to reduce the Campaign Management systems portfolio by 30% and save 27 million

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INR annually and opportunities to simplify offer generation, lead management and application

processing leading to reduced turnaround times.

• ING Bank, Amsterdam – Ashok oversaw the APM consulting initiative which identified a 40%

complexity reduction in ING’s Electronic Payments Domain and identified savings of 20%. He was

also Instrumental in evangelizing the adoption of Wipro’s APM methodology throughout ING

• Skandia, Germany – Identified 5 business capability areas across 10 countries where large business,

IT and cost efficiencies can be achieved by moving to a shared services model Identified legacy

modernization opportunities to reduce cost by 40% - approx 1.3 million Euros annually

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TECHNICAL ARCHITECT – IBM GLOBAL SERVICES, CANADA (JUN

05–NOV 05)

• Dominion Insurance, Toronto, Canada, Enterprise Architect, Broker Management Platform. Ashok

provided enterprise-wide architecture guidance and developed their Reusable Assets & Frameworks

strategy across their Broker Management Platform. The strategy addressed rising TCO and

manageability challenges caused by the diverging standards and development practices.

• Sun Life Financial, Toronto, Canada, Enterprise Architect, Federated Security Solution, Ashok

assisted the firm to develop their Federated Identity Management architecture strategy.

• Manulife, Toronto, e-business/CRM Architecture Strategy, the project involved defining the e-

Business/e-CRM architecture framework for Manulife. It also involved identifying opportunities for

consolidating USI e-business opportunities and mapping them to the technologies that Manulife had

standardized on.

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT - EXCHANGE SOLUTION INC, TORONTO,

CANADA (JAN 03-SEP 04)

• JP Morgan Chase, New York, Solutions Architect, Customer Loyalty Program. Ashok architected

and implemented JPMC's web-based solution to support the bank's direct marketing strategy of

attracting new customers, cross-selling products to existing customers, and improving collaboration

amongst three business units - Credit Card, Retail Banking and Home Equity. The solution was

deployed across 500 branches throughout the US North-East. Ashok conducted led the technical team

and oversaw the operations for the duration of the program. Project size: 14 people/US$3.5 Million.

• Barnes & Noble, New York, Solutions Architect, Direct Marketing & Loyalty Program. Ashok

managed the technology portfolio of this $20 Million/5 million-member base loyalty and direct

marketing program. Ashok managed the real-time OLTP (100 million transactions), analytical data

warehouse (700 GB), the operational SLA’s and the technical delivery teams.

TECHNICAL ARCHITECT - BEA SYSTEMS INC, TORONTO CANADA

(JUL 02-JAN 03)

• BEA Systems Inc, Toronto, Principal Consultant/Architect, providing in-depth technical advice to

clients across the US and Canada on the effective use of the BEA Weblogic Platform: Weblogic

Server, Workshop, Portal, JRockit, and Integration Server product suite. Troubleshooting J2EE

performance issues, and assisting deployment teams on optimal approach to tune the server

configurations for clustering, scalability and fail-over within and building working prototypes of Web

Services and WLI [BEA Weblogic 7.0 Platform: Weblogic Server 6.x, 7.x, Workshop, Portal, JRockit,

WLI Integration Server]

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TECHNICAL ARCHITECT - MICROFORUM INC, TORONTO, CANADA

(OCT 01-JUN 02)

• John Deer Credit (JDC), Iowa, Solutions Architect, Common Credit Delivery System. JDC needed

to consolidate their seven different credit approval processes into a simpler single process supported

by a web-based credit adjudication system. Ashok helped convert the business requirements into

technical specifications and led the technical team that constructed and integrated the solution into

the JDC existing environment. Project size: 9 people/$1.7 Million. [Websphere 3.5, EJB 1.0,1.1,

JMS 1.x,MQSeries,XML,JSP, Servlets, JDBC, Apache Struts, jUnit, Rational Rose, Visual Age for

Java, JBuilder Enterprise, Oracle 8.x]

ARCHITECT - CAMBRIDGE TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS, TORONTO

CANADA (NOV 98-OCT 01)

• Rogers Telecommunication, Toronto, Architect, e-Commerce Site Development. Ashok led an 18-

person multi-disciplinary technology team to implement and launch a bilingual e-commerce website.

The solution also required integration with the client's existing cellular, cable, and high-speed Internet

order management and fulfilment systems. Project size: 18 people/CAD$ 4.7 Million) [ASP, COM,

MTS, VB, SQL Server, Windows NT, DevTrack, MS Visual Studio].

• TD CanadaTrust, Toronto, Architect - B2B Marketsite Integration. Ashok assisted the Bank evaluate

and implement an architecture that allowed buyers and suppliers to integrate with the B2B e-

procurement marketplace managed by the Bank. [Java 1.3, Java Beans, XML (DTD, Style Sheets),

Apache XML Parsers, UML, Commerce One (MarketSite, BuySite, XPC), B2B Integration

(webMethods, Vitria, Extricity, Mercator), Win NT/ 2000]

• Union Energy, Toronto, Lead Technical Integrator, Ashok led the integration architecture and

implementation between the Vantive Sales Customer Care to SAP. The initiative utilized Active EAI

Software, Oracle 7.3, PL/SQL, Vantive, HP Unix and catered to volumes of approx. 500

transactions/day.

• Pacific Access, Melbourne Australia, Senior Developer, the project involved creating a re-usable

rule-based personalization framework for two market-spaces: Automotive [ATG Dynamo JSP, Java

Beans, Documentum (and workflow manager), Rational Rose].

SYSTEMS DEVELOPER - ONYX COMPUTERS INC, TORONTO,

CANADA (97-98)

• Internet Banking, Cue Datawest, Vancouver BC, Lead Technical Architect,. Full solution, Internet

Banking application for a west coast data centre responsible for managing the data needs of 60+

Credit Unions belonging to the ‘Credit Union Central of British Columbia’ and Saskatchewan. 3-tier

architecture solution using distributed objects framework for communication between tiers. Integrating

the middleware with the Java encapsulations of the banking Host functionality. Volumes – 10,000 –

15,000 users per day. System successfully passed the KPMG security audits and privacy guidelines.

[Java 1.1, Netscape Application Server (Visigenic CORBA Orb), Digital Unix Server]

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SENIOR DEVELOPER - LANKA ONLINE SERVICES, COLOMBO, SRI

LANKA (95-97)

• StockNet Live - Stock Market Feed Application, Lanka Online, Sri Lanka, Lead Architect &

Designer, designed and development a competing product offering to the Reuters financial terminal.

The application was a commercial Java client/server application to "push" live stock market

information from the Colombo Stock Exchange to institutional investor desktops. Volumes – 1000

users. [Java, Oracle 7.x, PL/SQL, Sun Solaris]

• Money Market Exchange, Lanka Online, Sri Lanka, Lead Architect & Designer, Designed and

development of online money market exchange for overnight Repos. Low latency application

designed to provide real-time view of the bank to bank currency spot and forward rates [Java,

Oracle 7.x, PL/SQL, Sun Solaris]

EDUCATION

• Imperial College of Science & Technology, London, England (1992-1995) - Bachelor of Engineering

(B.Eng) with Upper Second Hons. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering,

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