Enterprise & Solution Architecture

rajesh sharma

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+1-202-***-****.mob

Washington DC

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SUMMARY

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT, SOLUTION ARCHITECT, TOGAF certified, FEAF

Strategy, Big5, US Federal and International Experience

Crafting technology solutions that first and foremost solve business problems

Technical

Management

General

Enterprise Architecture, strategic solutioning, managing architecture teams

Solution Architecture, tactical solutioning

Coding background.

Large scale Systems Integration, extensive SOA, BPM, Mobile, Cloud, Identity

Emerging Technologies, IoT (Internet of Things), MQTT

Active in DC meetups related to IoT

Strategic planning, gap analysis, technology research, emerging technology R&D and evaluation, road-mapping

Distributed architectures, application architecture, JEE background

Development of standards, reference architectures, architectural governance, diagramming, design patterns and IT practices

TOGAF certified, COBIT, RUP, CMMI, Agile, XP, Scrum (and occasional Waterfall)

IT investments and portfolio management

CxO exposure

Business client management

Team leading, building, mentoring

Extensive diagramming, presentation material for stakeholder interaction

Program Management

Technical Project Management

Large scale project planning (100+ resources) and delivery, high MS Project proficiency (3000-5000+ line project plans)

Conversant in out sourced models, recruiting, budgeting

Vendor and license management

Big 5 experience (Cap Gemini Ernst & Young)

Director+ level responsibilities

US Federal experience with clearance

US Citizen

International experience, widely travelled

Hiker, Cycler, Climber, Diver, News Junkie, Chocolate Lover

SKILLS

Core Skills

Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, creating reference architectures, technical product evaluation, client interaction, executive presentations, technical architecture, systems development including analysis, design, coding, performance testing, design reviewing, technical project management, team building, assembling teams, mentoring, creating WBSs, strategic planning, interviewing, team leading.

Products & Technologies

Cloud (SaaS, IPaaS, IaaS), Mobile, SOA, ESB, Messaging, JMS, BPM, XML, SAML, Office365, Internet Protocols, Internet Security, Networking basics, Clustering, High Availability, Windows, Unix. Extensive J2EE & Java, C++, C

Methodologies

TOGAF, FEAF, Agile, Xtreme Programming (learned from its author Kent Beck), Scrum, UML, RUP, CMMI, OO concepts, Design Patterns, Performance Testing, COCOMO estimation, COBIT

Tools

Troux, JEE, WebSphere, WebLogic, Monitoring Tools, SQL, Oracle, functional knowledge of relational databases, MS Project Professional, MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Project Web Access, Visio

CLEARANCES

U.S. Public Trust

US Department of Treasury

US Department of Education

US Department of Commerce

US Small Business Administration

EDUCATION

M.S. Digital Electronics, King’s College, London, UK

B.E. (Hons) Electronics Engineering, Middlesex University, London, UK

TRAINING

TOGAF Certified

Sun Certified Java Programmer, Sun Certified J2EE Architect

Project Management for SDLCs, Marketing & Finance (MBA essentials), MS Project Server Essentials

Enterprise Integration, Rational Unified Process, Rational Rose, BPM, WebLogic Application Server Fundamentals, C++ Fundamentals, Vitria B2B

IEEE member

WORK EXPERIENCE

EOSPA

Feb 02 – Present (13+ yrs) Washington DC

SBA - Small Business Administration (Washington DC)

Mar15 – Current

Role: Enterprise Architect

Technology: TOGAF, FEAF, Troux, FISMA, FedRAMP

Description: Currently working at the SBA in the Enterprise Architecture Team.

Developed Enterprise Roadmap for SBA detailing the initiatives that were on the immediate horizon.

Helped in developing multi-year, long term roadmap for entire agency.

Developed strategy around use of Troux (enterprise architecture) tool. Gathered information to understand Application Landscape, Server Landscape and how business needs and capabilities were being realized. Used the tool to predict how a Data Center migration may take place. Evangelized the tool amongst senior leadership.

Researched IoT offerings from IBM Bluemix. Use of Watson for AI analysis of IoT data.

Developed conceptual architecture using Amazon's AWS IoT capability (device gateway, registry, rules engine, device shadows)

Aligned with SBA enterprise architecture goals and requirements (FISMA, FedRAMP, Cloud First policy).

Aligned to FEAF reference models and guidelines from an agency perspective while applying FEAF strategic and technology principles.

Worked closely with the Solution Architecture arm of team to provide EA check points.

Participated in Architectural Review Boards (ARB) and Architectural Working Groups (AWG)

USPTO - US Patent & Trademark Office (Alexandria, VA)

Mar14 – Feb 15

Role: Solution Architect

Technology: E-Commerce, Workflow, Research & Analysis, FEAF, FISMA, FedRAMP

Description: Designed e-commerce system that allows USPTO to sell patents and trademarks on the web.

Researched market for best fit solutions for e-commerce (Order Management, BPM), and workflow based products (Gartner, Forrester, industry publications). Collaborated with business owner, system owner, client team members to gain extensive knowledge of system. Analyzed and mapped business requirements to a B2C and B2B technical solution.

Responsible for overall design of cloud based e-commerce COTS solution and proposed technical architecture.

Aligned with USPTO enterprise architecture goals and requirements (FISMA, FedRAMP, Cloud First policy).

Aligned to FEAF reference models and guidelines from an agency perspective while applying FEAF strategic and technology principles.

Managed vendor demos, weighted comparative matrices, bake off. Conducted proof of concept and provided final recommendation in formal paper.

MedImmune, Astra Zeneca (Maryland)

Mar11 – Jan14

Role: Enterprise Architect

Technology: Oracle OSB ESB, J2EE, MS Project, MS SharePoint, SOA Governance, TOGAF, COBIT5, Cloud

Description: Worked at the world's 7th largest pharmaceutical company which has operations in over 100 countries. Part of the Enterprise Architecture group. Responsible for providing guidance on various projects from emerging technology, proof of concept to full production implementation projects. Participated in IT investment and portfolio management planning.

Responsible for leading the entire SOA initiative within MedImmune taking effort from inception to implementation. This includes team formation, planning, design, a prescriptive Reference Architecture and a comprehensive SOA Governance Model.

Part of core team responsible for laying out the strategy for Externalizing the company’s capability. Hence laid out the strategy and architecture for all aspects of Externalization.

Knowledge of CDISC and BRIDG models. Experience in deploying systems that are subject to regulatory requirements in the biomedical domain (21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, FISMA, Section 508)

Created Reference Architecture for all integration across company from scratch. This included work on system integration across company boundaries, implications for mobility, cloud architecture, cloud security, secure remote access, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, systems, identity bridges (Ping, SAML) and next generation Data Integration.

Investigated conversion to (and from) structured, unstructured and semi-structured data using XML, EDI and various data exchange formats used in the biopharmaceutical industry.

Implemented strategy for using Office365 (remote access, access to partners, SAML, evaluating models).

Investigated modernization of corporate Learning Tool and how large loads of training data could be ingested and distributed. Researched various Document Management technologies.

Laid out Enterprise Architecture Framework based on TOGAF.

Conducted research with industry leaders such as Gartner and Forrester.

FINRA (Maryland)

Jun08 – Mar11

Role: Solution Architect, Program Manager

Technology: Oracle OSB (AquaLogic) ESB, J2EE, MS Project, MS SharePoint, SOA Governance, Borland StarTeam

Description: Worked at one of the leading organizations in the financial regulatory field in the US.

Led greenfield project to implement a company-wide SOA initiative using an Enterprise Service Bus from design to implementation. Led design sessions, reviewed design, applied relevant patterns to improve solution.

Presented weekly status at CxO level. Created, organized, resourced, leveled, maintained, updated Project Plan using MS Project Server. Created Project Charter, Risk Matrix, Issues Matrix, Project Dashboard. Created Governance plan.

In a year set up ESB and its supporting SOA governance model for over 21 (from initially 4) enterprise applications.

Project was a winner of a CIO Magazine, SOA Case Study Competition in Sep09

Investigated viability and conducted PoC on BPM software and Cloud Computing usage. Investigated use of Search and Text Mining engines for use within FINRA. Investigated the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology for image and PDF scanning and conversion into plain text. Examined use of Link Analysis tools for fraud detection.

GEICO (Maryland)

Jul06 – Jun08

Role: Technical Project Manager, Architect

Technology: MS Project Professional, MS Project Server, MS Project Web Access, MS SharePoint, AJAX, Java, J2EE, WebSphere, Hibernate, Linux, UML, RUP, CMMI, SOA, Borland Caliber, PerForce

Description: Successfully combined PM capabilities with technical architecture skills to plan and manage entire phase related to development of highly profitable, AJAX based, website (www.geico.com) serving very high volume load. Led entire project planning effort from Requirements to Implementation of a multi-phase project.

Planned for over 90 resources spread across various functions. Applied the RUP model while organizing teams to ensure adequate injection of PM, Deployment and Environments along with the traditional disciplines like Requirements, Development and Testing.

Participated in team CMMI evaluation by PMO organization.

Created, organized, resourced, leveled, maintained, updated Project Plan using MS Project Server. Created Project Charter, Project Management Plan. Created and championed custom team website for successful collaboration.

Extensive use of MS Project Professional to create WBSs, timelines, resource allocations, resource leveling, linking external dependencies. Used MS SharePoint services as collaboration tools (E.g. Risk and Issue Management).

Disseminated information throughout project via weekly and monthly status at executive level.

Year long project delivered within 2 week margin.

US Department of Education (Washington DC)

Mar04 – Apr06

Role: Architect, Architecture Team Lead

Technology: MS Project Professional, MS Project Server, MS Project Web Access, MS SharePoint, Java, J2EE, WebSphere, HP-UX, UML, RUP, Quest tools, Visio, SOA, Rational Robot, ClearQuest, ClearCase

Description: Technical Project Manager overseeing work of entire Architecture group and Common Services Group. Project consolidated four major Loan Servicing Systems for the US Department of Education. Managed the strategic and tactical focus of team. Architecture consisted of J2EE, Siebel, Oracle, Messaging, Mainframes, and Business Intelligence Systems.

Managed team of over 30 people at height of project. Team consisted of strategic arm (senior architects led by a chief architect) and tactical arm (architects and senior developers).

Created and managed team’s project plans (3000+ tasks, 40000+ hours).

Responsible for providing thought leadership and mentoring on the use of technical common services and frameworks throughout the project and the adoption of new technologies via evaluation processes.

Managed operational status by collecting, analyzing and summarizing trends. Communicated project status to executive management on a weekly basis.

US Department of Treasury (Washington DC)

Feb02 – Dec03

Role: Chief Architect

Technology: Java, J2EE, NT, UNIX (HP-UX, AIX), WebLogic, JBuilder, UML, Rational Rose, Apache, Tomcat, Wily

Description: Continued work (see similar below) on one of the world’s largest cash management systems as Chief Architect and perform Technical Project Management functions.

Managed team of over 8 people. Interacted with client at the highest levels, made presentations, communicated technical designs and decisions to uppermost management. Assembled teams for new work and system enhancements. Managed project plan.

Involved in various architectural aspects of getting a large-scale system to production, e.g. performance testing, training, deployment, failover, disaster recovery, component redundancy, systems management, documentation, design reviews and architectural security. Participated in zero and full knowledge penetration testing to test vulnerability of system to attack.

Provided mentoring Java, J2EE, UML, OOA, OOD, Patterns. Project went live successfully in Q3 2003.

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

1997 – 2002 (5+ yrs) New York City

Description:

Commenced work with Capgemini at Mercedes Benz as a Lead Developer, working on NetStar, a dealer based application using rich Java client technology.

As member of an international (US, Brazil, India, Germany) technical architecture team, collectively designed the next generation net-centric enterprise framework for Java-based solutions for the newly merged DaimlerChrysler corporation.

Interacted with Kent Beck (of Xtreme Programming fame) on best practices while he was consulting to Chrysler.

As Architect, responsible for designing the financial module of a large enterprise system for Prometric used to register and schedule examinations for candidates.

As Chief Architect responsible for designing an n-tiered, distributed architecture for a cash management system to be used by the U.S. Treasury. See more above.

Client(s):

DaimlerChrysler automotive New Jersey, Michigan, Germany

Mercedes Benz automotive New Jersey

Williams integrated energy company Houston TX

Cordiem aviation exchange Virginia

Intelsat leading provider of fixed satellite services worldwide Washington DC

Prometric global provider of testing and assessment services Maryland

US Department of Treasury Washington DC

Role(s):

Chief Architect, Senior Architect, Architect, Team Lead

Technologies:

Java, J2EE, UML, MS Project, WebLogic, WebSphere, TopLink, Oracle, Rational Rose, VisualAge, EAI, B2C/B2B, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, NT

Enterprise Computing Services

1996 – 1997 (1 yr) Atlanta

Description:

Primarily concerned with porting C++ code to Java to build a client side library.

Client(s):

Decision Support early business intelligence technology firm Charlotte NC

Role(s):

Senior Developer

Technologies:

Java, C++, Visual J++, UNIX, NT

Logica

1991 – 1996 (5+ yrs) London

Description:

Logica is a leading international IT company, employing 39,000 people across 36 countries. Gained valuable hands on & client facing experience at premier clients. Exposed to various current technologies of the time which was supplemented with extensive in-house business training.

Client(s):

Reuters premier news agency and financial data provider London

Tullett & Tokyo inter-dealer broker London

ED&F Man leading Cocoa broker London

Lloyds Bank share registrar, bank Brighton

IMRO financial regulatory organization London

Time Warner media London

Role(s):

Senior Developer, Developer

Technologies:

C, C++, UNIX, Oracle

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