Insurance Project

Mahesh C Raghunathan

Objectives

To join a dynamic, innovative and progressive organization.

To be able to make immediate and significant contributions.

To leverage experiences and skills in meaningful ways to impact key initiatives.

Profile

Mr. Raghunathan is a solution architect with experience in IT, consulting and software engineering. He brings over 20 years of

practical knowledge in the technology field, with experience in: application and technical architecture; project management a nd

methodology; development and design; and consulting. He has worked at (and with) small startups to established Fortune 100

companies. His projects have spanned development lifecycle from planning and preliminary design to final product test,

rollout/deployment and commercial release.

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Work History

Echelon ITS July 2007 - present

Senior Solution Architect

eHealth Ontario April 2004 - July 2007

Senior Solution Architect

ArcEssence March 2003 – March 2004

Principal and Cofounder

Accenture Sept. 1999 – June 2002

Manager and Sr. Architect in CDA within GACT

Technology Consultant in Mainline Technology Architecture

Accenture May 1998 – Sept. 1999

Group

Canadian Tire Ltd. April 1997 - May 1998

Senior Programmer Analyst

MDR Telemanagement Ltd. April 1993 - April 1997

Junior/Intermediate Software Engineer

Education

University of Waterloo 1992

BSc Honours (Physics)

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Skill Set

IAM / AD / SSO

Bootstrap / Foundation PKI / PGP Java / j2ee / ejb / servlets / jsps / junit

Responsive / Adaptive / Mobile

Oblix / ADFS /

WIF / SAML

css / sass EAI / BizTalk / WebSphere / SeeBeyond

MySQL / PostGres / DB2 / Oracle / SQL Server

Javascript / jquery / jquery mobile

Asp.net MVC 4 / webforms

/ qunit / requirejs

Web apps / CMSs

Web Services / SOA / REST

azure

LINQ / Rx

Agile / lean / xp

WCF

c#

Continuous Delivery

Azure / cloud

Nunit / TDD / ATDD / selenium

Infrastructure / operations

Powershell / psake

devops

SDLC / process / continuous improvement

TFS / SVN / Hg /

Compliance / Privacy / Security

Nuget / Jenkins

RUP / TOGAF / Zachman / ITIL / Microsoft Operations Framework

C++ / perl / pascal / tkl / bash / ksh

Qualities and Accomplishments

Frequently tasked with helping a client to advance important initiatives that have become grounded.

Delivery and

Often wearing multiple hats, will use the most relevant techniques and empower the available assets

Execution (people and tools) to move forward on the key objectives and ultimately deliver.

One such example of focused delivery was the work done for a Canadian Insurance company during a large business transformation project. While

my primary responsibility was delivering a broker and policyholder web portal also played key roles in upgrading content management system;

data conversion and migration; work with the core insurance system vendor in implementing a SOA interface for their product; performance and

load testing and work on operations monitoring and infrastructure documentation and deployment. As a senior architect provided guidance to

multiple program workstreams and reported to 5 different project managers.

Mentoring & Leadership experience in multi-organization projects, dealing with multiple stakeholders or managing

the implementation activities associated with large projects.

Leadership

An example of this, is work at a major healthcare insurance provider. Led training for developers and BAs (over 2 dozen resources) on use case

documentation and RUP methodology. Curriculum and process represented a significant change from the organization's traditional waterfall

methodology. Work involved gaining the confidence and trust of the organization's senior resources on the team and helping them transition to a

newer ways of delivering technology solutions.

Qualities and Accomplishments

Clarity & Communicates technology decisions and impacts in concise understandable terms.

Communications

One example, is preparing a key technical document for an Insurance Broker Portal that required business stakeholder input and sign-off.

Conducted a number of sessions with VPs from Underwriting and Marketing to explain the concepts and the ultimate business impacts of

selecting or omitting a certain technology feature. Despite a set of lengthy and sometime frustrating dialogues was able to get Business

stakeholder ownership and sign-off on the document.

Continually seeks to make process improvements to deliver IT value more efficiently for the Business.

Process &

Extensive experience in development of frameworks or methodologies and business process modeling.

Governance

Examples include, the creation of a set of architecture documents produced for a major insurance system implementation. The documents

conformed to the architecture guiding principles and the IT governance framework (which was a combination of SAS 70, COBIT, ITIL and Microsoft

Operations Framework (MOF)) in place.

At Accenture, contributed to work within the Architecture practice to integrate Accenture's Business Integration Methodology (BIM) with the

Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology. This variation on the standard Accenture methodology was a core Architecture Practice offering to

projects needing to use newer component technologies such as J2EE and .Net.

Qualities and Examples of Accomplishments

Technology & Experience leading project/development teams and technical specialists working on large and

Architecture complex systems.

As the prime eHealth architect on the provincial drug profile viewer (DPV) application. Work included the buildout of the first provincial Health

Information Access Layer (HIAL). Collaborating with a diverse group of product vendors, external health organization partners, and internal

domain experts in hosting, network, storage and security delivered a solution deployed to over 120 hospitals in the province. Solution was based

on a SOA design and leveraged foundational eHealth services such as identity and access management, secure audit and a HA BizTalk

configuration used for HL7 messaging.

Lead architect for the eHealth Agency's next generation Identity and Access Management (IAM) system. System was to provide the following

features: strong authentication (multi-factor); role based entitlements and access control; provisioning into a number of target systems (including

Active Directory, RSA, Entrust PKI, BEA ALUI portal, Cognos Reporting, MS Exchange, Remedy and a dozen or more custom applications); strong

audit and compliance functionality; and federated identity.

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Possesses a broad and deep understanding of technology and how it can be best harnessed to serve

business needs.

An experienced and knowledgeable team player who can raise the effectiveness of those around him in both

a mentoring and stewardship role.

An extensive background with a strong emphasis in Architecture and Enterprise systems.

Big 5 consulting experience in addition to acting in senior technical roles to provide guidance to project

teams and affect outcomes.

Focus on next generation IT with special emphasis on cloud technologies & strategies, DevOps, Agile

Practices (both for Development and Operations groups) and an emphasis on core enterprise systems.

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