Project Management

Suchitra Deo

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Profile

• Result oriented leader and technologist with more than 18 years of professional experience in

solution and enterprise architecture, leading teams, implementing product ideas and proof of concept

development.

• Has strong foundation in enterprise and solution architecture, modeling frameworks, software

development life cycle methodologies (SDLC), Process and Project Management.

• Solved business challenges with innovative solutions to align the enterprise needs to IT capabilities

in the Federal and Commercial Space.

• Outstanding motivator and team builder and has excellent transitional skills in adapting and learning

new business applications and technologies. Excellent flair for effective verbal and written

communication.

Status: US Citizen. Clearance: Secret (Active).

Applicable Experience

• Over 18 years of Enterprise IT Architecture, Systems Design and Development.

• 10 years Project Planning And Management.

• 8 years Federal IT Architecture and Implementation

• Over 8 years of SOA related Architecture and Implementation experience.

• 9 years IT leadership experience.

• Over 5 years of COTS Vendor relationship experience.

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Management Skills

Knowledge and experience using the business models and processes, Rational Unified Process (RUP), Risk

Assessment; Earned Value Management, scheduling, budgeting and estimations; Client Relationship

Management.

Professional Experience

Enterprise Architect – Independent (Defense Contract Management Agency) Aug 2013 – Present

• Enable the DCMA Enterprise Architecture to align with the strategic goals by defining the service

layer of the architecture.

• Collaborate with the solutions team to define the as-is architecture. Define the SOA layers and data

services based on the conceptual information model that is being defined by the data team.

• Present the CIO with a strategic approach for the implementation of Services in order to bring a

cultural change for moving towards a service-oriented architecture. Defined a governance

structure for DCMA that can be put in place for the various environments.

Lead Enterprise Architect – General Dynamics IT Apr 2012– Aug 2013

ONC - Federal Health Architecture Project.

Lead a team of senior architects and modelers to analyze the requirements for and collaborate on the design

of the Federal Health Architecture (FHA), which is an e-Gov. initiative under HHS.

Additional duties include:

• Liaison with federal agencies, private sector organizations, and with relevant governance bodies, to

understand common goals and priorities and existing Health IT initiatives, and to facilitate consensus on

the approach, content, and roadmap for the FHA.

• Lead the team and facilitate the analysis of the interoperability architecture overlaps of the individual

participating agencies, and the capture of interoperability interfaces to those architectures in accordance

with best-practice methodologies.

• Prepare documentation and presentations describing the approach, content, and roadmap for the

Federal Health Architecture.

• Provide direction and mentorship to a team of senior enterprise and technical architects, for the

development and documentation of the Federal Health Architecture.

VRM (Veterans Affairs) Project.

Ms. Deo was the Enterprise Architect involved in defining the Service Oriented Architecture for the

VRM program.

• Define business processes, identify and design Services, external interfaces.

• Define the Service Model for integration with internal and external services.

• Participate in the definition of authoritative source information model.

• Participate in defining the DoDAF views for VRM Services.

• Used Agile process to define user stories and backlogs for requirements.

Independent - Mar 2011– Apr 2012

DISA - Principal Enterprise Systems Architect.

SOA Services in a disconnected, intermittent and low bandwidth (DIL) environment.

Defined Service Discovery and Content Discovery use cases, requirements and service oriented

reference architecture for the tactical edge in a DIL environment.

• Analysis of existing artifacts for the Program of Records and define requirements.

• Propose architectural approach for Content and Service Discovery in a static and dynamic tactical

environment.

• Define Services, Service Components and related message components.

• Develop UML and SysML models using Rational System Architect tool.

Support the Content Discovery IPT for the overall service specification for the DoD/IC community.

Senior SOA Architect - FAA - SWIM (System Wide Information Management)

• Chair of the SWIM Architecture Working Group.

• Provided technical support to the SWIM COTSWG

• Provided Systems Engineering coordination and guidance for SWIM Implementing Programs – ERAM,

TDDS, ITWS, WMSCR, CIWs

• Provided architecture support to SWIM Segment 2 Technical Overview artifacts.

Sr. IT Architect – IBM Global Business Systems Sep 2009– Mar 2011

USCIS Transformation (Homeland Security). The program provided end-to-end SOA architecture for

USCIS enterprise transformation. Ms. Deo worked as a Sr. IT Architect involved in the high level design and

leading the architectural decisions on the program. Used IBM’s Rational Software Architect and Websphere

Application Server for deployment.

GSA ETS2 (E-Gov Travel Service) As a Lead Architect Ms. Deo worked on defining the portal and interface

architecture to interact with third party Web Services to implement the functional specifications for a

proposed system.

C-HIEP (CARE Health Information Exchange Project) Ms. Deo worked with the Health Information

Exchange Subject Matter Expert on the interoperability and standards defined for NHIN.

DISA Federated SOA Proposal Ms. Deo performed the role of a senior architect in defining the plan for the

to-be solution architecture for the DoD agencies, best practices related to the SOA architecture and define a

road map for the future federated SOA framework.

DSS (Defense Security Systems -DOD) provided the govt. IT Manager an independent government

cost estimate (IGCE) for a Service Oriented Architecture based system. Work with the Enterprise

Architecture team to define the ‘to be’ Architecture of the agency. Define SOA Architecture that can

be used across the DSS systems. Provide cost benefit analysis of SOA - presentation to the senior

management. Worked on the Statement of Work for SOA with the DSS IT manager.

Technical Lead/IT Architect - Lockheed Martin, Feb 2006 – Sep 2009

WIN-T (War Information Network – Tactical -DoD) Lead the Network Operation software team of 15

developers build SOA based Web Services for the ad-hoc mobile network for the US Army. Perform

numerous project functions including business analysis, strategic planning, project management, architecture

design and development.

Key Contributions:

• Provide technical direction with regards to software architecture and development of SOA based J2EE

Web Services. Conduct Trade Studies on COTS/FOSS (Free Open Source Software) to reduce program

cost for the WIN-T software systems. Used Oracle Database, RedHat’s JBOSS Server to deploy SOAP

based Web Services. Used AXIS2 as the SOAP engine.

• Work with the system team to review and validate requirements and overall system architecture.

• Participated and evaluated the software development life cycle for various releases.

• Provide guidance to developers in supporting the customer and interface with the customer on various

technical matters. Mentor junior developers to build the knowledge base on the team.

• Interact with Vendors like Red Hat and WSO2 evaluating and purchasing their COTS and engaging them

in professional services for solution provision.

• Developed software schedule using Microsoft Project for the whole program life cycle in order to

identify various customer deliveries in a timely manner. Support the planning effort along with the

program manager and other leads.

Software Team Lead/Architect - Marriott International, Sep 2004 – Feb 2006

Architected and developed solutions for the eBusiness Systems (commercial system)

based on various J2EE technologies. Provided leadership and direction to project teams

by understanding business processes, gathering requirements, identifying potential

usability issues, managing scope, and ensuring that an appropriate level of application

quality is maintained at all times.

Key Contributions:

1. Lead multiple software teams of up to 10 developers to design and implement J2EE based software.

Used Websphere Application Server for deploying Java based code and Eclipe IDE for development.

2. Performed requirements and business analysis with the business partners. Interact with the client to

refine the requirements based on the analysis done.

• Managed development infrastructure including bug reporting, release management

and version control. Communicate with QA team and configuration management

team including build and deployments. Tools used were ClearCase and ClearQuest.

• Performed project estimations, project plans, resource allocation, risk management,

project deliverables and co-ordinate various efforts within the team adhering to

rational unified process.

• Prioritized and handled multiple projects simultaneously, both new and in production.

Consulting Opportunities, Jun 2000 – Sep 2003

Senior Consultant - Z-Tech Corp

Developed systems based on J2EE technologies for the Electronic Research

Administration, which is NIH's infrastructure for conducting interactive electronic

transactions for the receipt, review, monitoring, and administration of NIH grant awards

to biomedical investigators worldwide. Tools used were Oracle Application Server and

Oracle’s JDeveloper for development.

Senior Consultant – HP

Designed and developed prototype using J2EE for the One Yield system at Marriott to

change their existing two-tier client-server system into a three-tier web based system and

deployed the system on the Websphere 3.5 Application Server.

Technical Proficiencies

Technologies: SOA -Web Services, DODAF, XML,WSDL, WS Standards, Java – J2EE

technologies, AXIS2, UML, SysML, JavaScript, XML, DODAF, Microsoft Office.

Software: Enterprise Sparx EA, System Architect, Topcased SySML tool, Rational

Software Architect, Rational Systems Architect, Rational Rose XDE, ClearCase,

ClearQuest, Eclipse, Oracle’s JDeveloper,

Application Server: JBoss, WebSphere, Oracle.

Education

B.S. – Statistics, Mumbai University

Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Programming, Board of Tech. Examination, Mumbai

Certifications

SOMA Training – IBM

Certificate in SOA Web Services – Learning Tree.

Certificate in Enterprise Java Beans Programming - Sun Microsystems.

Training in Junior CA Architecture – FEAC Institute.

Earned Value Management – Lockheed Martin.

Managing IT Projects – Lockheed Martin.

Recognitions

Spot Award – Program Architectural Review – Lockheed Martin

USCIS Program Award – High Level of Leadership on High Level Design – IBM

Presenter at the iEHR May 2013 conference for Federal Health Information Model.

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