TIBCO Architect and Tech lead

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EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Praveen is a Manager with Capgemini with 11 years of experience in the

analysis, architecture, design, implementation, testing and support of

enterprise integration solutions. Praveen has extensive experience in the

multiple integration products and technologies and has designed and lead

projects across various industry domains and multiple geographic locations.

Praveen is a certified TIBCO professional and his key areas include

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Service Oriented Architecture

(SOA), Integration architecture and Framework design, ERP integration with

customers, suppliers and vendors. He has worked on industry wide EAI

products - TIBCO, webMethods, Core Java, and MQSeries in messaging,

webservices, performance management, distributed team management and

implementation of effective and efficient EAI/SOA solutions.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

Consumers Energy (Apr'2013 - till date)

> Smart Meter Program Integration Architect for system

architecture and design of 150+ Smart Meter integrations

built on TIBCO.

> Responsible for the architecture and ESB integration with the

Smart energy Head Ends(Openway,TMS),Billing(SAP),Meter Data

Management(MDM),Anaytics(Griddirector)

> Responsible for setting up ESB messaging architecture -

Pub/sub models,ESB Segmentation,routing,webservices,canonical

messaging.

> Responsible for ESB security architecture and design - Basic

Auth,Username Token,SSL(serverauth,mutual auth),Certificates.

> Develop,implement and review ESB integration standards - ESB

Segmentation,Messaging,Security,Governance and performance

considerations including throughput,scalability and latency.

> Design and implement logical ESB aspects - TIBCO Exception

Handling,logging framework,Stateful Orchestrations,Monitoring

and Administration methodology.

> Liase with client stakeholders and understand requirements

for new integrations,analyze and document functional

requirements,system interaction designs.

> Technical leadership of a distributed team of 20+ designers

and developers.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE:

Hasbro Inc (Feb'2012 - Mar '2013)

> Onshore Integration Lead for implementation of Oracle

Transportation Management(OTM) custom integration solution

with Hasbro's logistic systems and providers(Carriers,ERP

apps)

> Responsible for the overall integration solution architecture

and design, and operated as a single point of interface

contact from both the client and Capgemini standpoint.

> Involved in the implementation of OTM interfaces - SAP

Deliveries,PlannedShipments,Actuals,Accruals,Invoices,Shipment

statuses,Payment, Voucher,Parcel Rate webServices.

Disney Theme Parks and Resorts (Feb'2011 - Dec'2011)

> Onshore webMethods technical lead for integration of Walt

Disney Parks and Resorts (WDPR) business units, 3rd party

logistic providers (3PL) and Oracle Transportation Management

(OTM) system.

> Involved in the implementation of 50 EDI interfaces of the

X12 standard spread over multiple implementation phases-

Carriers,freight and ocean invoices(110,210,310,810),Shipment

statuses(214,315),Purchase Orders(850),Advance shipment

Notices(856), Remittances(820).

> Managed offshore development to successfully deliver the

interfaces in a highly volatile environment which involved

extremely aggressive timelines.

> Contributed to internal knowledgebase by building and

packaging re-usable components that could be leveraged by

client on their projects.

> Constantly updated webMethods technology framework for

distributed development - including logging,error

handling,common processes and

> services and created documents and artifacts for easier

onboarding of new interfaces.

> Assist in integration testing, debugging and troubleshooting

technical issues,plan,schedule and perform software builds

and deployments.

> Installation and configuration of Integration Server,Broker

and Trading Networks in various webMethods staging

environments

OfficeMax (May'2010-Feb '2011)

> Worked as part of the Capgemini onshore team for building

TIBCO Offshore capability at OfficeMax.

> Worked with the OfficeMax SOA COE team in designing and

architecting TIBCO integration solutions between internal

applications, vendors, point of sale, Datawarehouse and ERP

applications.

> Involved in the solution design, implementation and delivery

of Project - 'New Channel Strategies' which enabled OfficeMax

to shift from a channel specific focus to providing customers

and consumers distinctive office supply products and

solutions. EDI documents (850,852,855) from external vendors

are routed and processed into respective end applications

with TIBCO and webMethods being the middleware components.

> Successfully lead, designed and implemented the 'OfficeMax

SAP Renewal Program' where SAP Adapters were replaced by

webservice invocations in all existing OfficeMax TIBCO

components. Developed the integration design, and

implementation/migration strategy from a middleware

perspective. Involved in the planning, co-ordination and

successful completion of the entire regression testing phase.

> Internalized the requirements for all OfficeMax projects and

build capabilities for handling complex set of requirements.

> Developed the software architecture, high level, detail

design documents for all of the above projects.

> Contributed and augmented the OfficeMax common frameworks,

coding guidelines, testing frameworks, soapUI guidelines.

> Managed an 6 member offshore team by assigning

responsibilities, following with the statuses, participating

in the solution design, reviewing documents and codes,

managing scope with client, creating status reports,

coordinating on a regular basis between Business Architecture

and Application Architecture teams

> Assembled a strong set of developers offshore and built a

very capable and effective offshore model.

Cricket Communications (Apr'2009-May 2010)

> Involved in the middleware solution design, architecture and

implementation of Supply Chain Management (SCM) at Cricket.

This enabled Cricket to outpace its competition by creating a

better retail customer experience, better manage supplier

costs, and increase operational performance. In order to

address the goals of the Supply Chain program, new and

several existing information systems along with the

supporting business processes had to be integrated using

TIBCO 5.x suite of products with Oracle E-business suite.

> Identified and designed Integration touch points to and from

Cricket's Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), existing legacy

external vendor batch feeds, Retail Management system (RMS),

Point of Sale (POS), billing system and Master Data

Management.

> Planned and coordinated design workshops with various Cricket

SME's for requirement gathering, understanding and delivery

of final solution.

> Developed solution architecture, high level and detailed

enterprise design specifications for all points of Supply

Chain Integration.

> Designed and developed an enterprise wide reusable normalized

message router for XML/XSLT transformations using Contivo

maps.

> Developed a Cricket TIBCO competency center with reusable

error and logging frameworks, standards and coding

guidelines.

> Involved in Application development, management and support -

enhancements, troubleshooting issues, evaluating Change

Requests (CRs) and performing impact analysis.

> Involved in performance tuning the TIBCO solution to meet the

SLA target of processing 1 million transactions in 2 hours.

> Managed, coordinated and mentored offshore solution

development with a 10 member development team with daily

status reporting.

PRIOR EXPERIENCE:

Putnam Investments (Ez2 Technologies Consultant, Nov 2007- Mar 2009) -

> Enhanced the existing Enterprise messaging

infrastructure (TIBCO RV, TIBCO Hawk, and JMS) on an

ongoing basis, driven by evolving business needs as well

as technical requirements from vendors.

> Responsibilities include managing, supporting and

monitoring integration environment consisting of 20

mission critical applications and providing messaging

consulting to the application teams, diagnosing

problems, providing application messaging and monitoring

configurations, establishing Business Works, messaging,

and monitoring standards and auditing messaging

activity,

Programmer Analyst at Infosys (Nov 2003 - Sep 2007) -

> Involved in the successful delivery and roll out of

several projects for one of the Infosys key

telecommunication clients-TELSTRA, an Australian

telecommunications company.

> Involved in the successful implementation and delivery

of Telstra's biggest initiative, when TELSTRA decided to

merge with FOXTEL (Cable TV Services) allowing customers

access to bundled deals for telephone and Pay TV

Services. Responsibilities include analyzing business

requirements, developing the high level design for the

23 use cases, designing the TIBCO architecture layout,

preparation of code templates, document checklists,

offshore co-ordination, defect tracking and daily status

report generation.

> Involved in integrating Telstra's Customer Care and

Billing engine with Telstra's central datastore to

reconcile the Customer information in both the systems

once a month. Responsibilities include developing the

data layout for interfacing with Telstra's legacy

systems using MQSeries, normalized message

transformations, designing schema layouts, design and

development of all of the TIBCO interfaces, planning the

progression testing and deployment support.

> Successfully designed and developed the 'Telstra

Software Currency Upgrade' initiative involving

migration of Telstra's legacy applications from Message

Broker, Integration Manager to TIBCO

BusinessWorks.Responsibilties include design, planning

and effort estimation for the migration,software

infrastructure set up, coordinating and conducting

design sessions for a smooth and seamless

migration,planning regression tests for the migrated

applications,configuration management and production

support. Developed a migration framework which maps

Integration Manager & Message Broker activities to BW

palettes.Conducted regular transition sessions for the

Maintenance teams and ensuring smooth application

support in production.

> Involved in the Production support and maintenance

activities For Adidas, Japan including infrastructure

support(Complete setup and maintenance of TIBCO

environment),interface development using Java

technologies - JSPs,Swing,HTML and Oracle database

stored procedures.

TECHNICAL SKILLS :

> TIBCO - BW,EMS,Administrator,Policy Director,Business Events

> webMethods - Developer,Broker,Integration Server,Trading

Networks

> Java - JEE

> Security - SSL,SAML,WSS,LDAP Auth.

> XML - XSD,XSLT,XPath

> Service Implementation - WS-x, JSON, SOAP, REST

AFFILIATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS:

> TIBCO Business Works 5.x Certified Professional

> Sun Certified Java Programmer 6.0

HIGHER EDUCATION:

> Bachelor of Engineering(B.E),Osmania University.

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