SOA Architect, former Oracle employee

MANISH R. PATEL

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Charlotte NC 28278

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Mobile:704-***-****

Objective

A position in an organization where an extraordinary record of results-oriented success, leadership and team/client relationship building are critical to the success of the business.

Summary

16 years of combined consulting, retail and entrepreneurial experience. A serf-directed, goal-oriented professional who possesses extensive experience in the areas of enterprise software development, architecture, management, coaching, financial management, and enterprise information technology. 10+ years of project and practice management experience with an objective of business development and building lasting relationship with internal and external clients.

Leadership Qualifications

Enterprise Architect Strategy, Lowe’s: Responsible for assembling and directing a team of cross functional resources to create the Enterprise Application Roadmap in the areas of Collaboration, Enterprise Content Management, and Portal(B2B, B2C, B2E). Successfully completed the Collaboration phase of the initiative and currently working on the second phase (ECM) of the three phase initiative. Deliverables include 5 year road map for implementation, detailed architecture options and recommendation, business benefit analysis, TCO analysis, and executive presentation to the CIO and Staff. Based on the deliverables, CIO has asked to start execution of road map.

Senior Project Manager, Lowe’s: HPW Program/Project Manager, leading a team of 5 senior and junior project managers to deliver 6 separate bodies of work to insure that the workspace portal will be ready for the user experience of the future. The 6 streams consist of Infrastructure review that resulted in an end to end understanding of the infrastructure the portal interacts with and identifying gaps in monitoring and other configurations. Governance stream to put in place the operating model, business and IT, development/release standards and policies. Architecture work reviewed the current physical, logical, and development areas to identify migration path, Lowes customizations that can be removed, and upgrade options. Development Optimization work that will redevelop certain portlets and framework code to be more efficient and use standard coding practices, resulting in better login time for users. Monitoring & Diagnostics is to setup tactical monitoring for portal components and also implement an enterprise end to end monitoring and diagnostic capabilities. Pre-Prod Environment build will allow the solutions team to be able to release in an environment that is 100% of the complexity of Production which will allow a higher success rate of deployments.

President, PCB Advisors, LLC: Started a consultant practice that specialized in Portal, Enterprise Content Management, and BPM from a business and technical implementation. Duties included setting up the organization, filling federal and state paperwork, acquiring insurance, and day to day operations. In 2010 lead the business to over $250,000 in revenue with a full time employee as well as working with external contractors. In 2012 turning over day to day operations over to business partner to pursue other opportunities. Continue to provide leadership direction and a member of the board.

PVA Directory for S&L Govt and HE, Oracle: Developed sales and implementation strategy for the region. Assisted VP in developing program objectives, mission and keys to success. As director drove the identification, qualification, development and closure of business for Enterprise Portal, ECM, SOA, Database, and Business Process Management consulting services

Solution Architect, Oracle: Developed enterprise solutions around Portal, SOA, UCM and BPM products for all of North America. Duties included working closely with Business Analyst and Technical leads to create physical and logical architecture; testing plan; designs; failover and redundancy architecture; and disaster recovery plan. These roles also include working with Consulting Sales Managers to help develop client relationships and sales.

BEA BID Southeast Region Practice Manager: Led the sales and delivery of Enterprise Portal and Business Process Management consulting services in the southeast. This role included a significant technical presales component with the objective of generating new consulting and/or license business.

Plumtree/BEA Systems: Successfully managed many enterprise portal projects that incorporated UCM, BPM, and KM/Collaboration in many industries including healthcare, oil and gas, law, finance, insurance, utilities and public sector.

IBM (formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting): Managed implementation team and project for the successful rollout of an Enterprise portal at a national Insurance company.

Professional Experience

General Contrator – Self Employed Sept 2015 – Nov 2016

Building custom home

Working with sub-contractors and managing supplies and construction

Lowe’s, Mooresville, NC

Senior Project Manager/Enterprise Architect, Lowe’s Jan 2012 – Sept 15

Lead a team of 2 senior and 3 junior project managers with BA, DBA, Developers, and contractors delivering on multiple projects.

Working with Enterprise System Monitoring and Cross Functional teams to create and implement Solutions, Enterprise and End to End Monitoring and Diagnostic services using TOGAF framework.

PCB Advisors, Charlotte, NC

President Jan 2010 – Jan 12

Board Member and Majority Owner Jan 2012 - Present

Worked with a major international hotel chain in Atlanta, GA to plan out a major infrastructure portal upgrade.

oWorked with business leaders to identify pain points in current system as well as future functionality needs

oWorked with IT leaders to create project plan, new physical and logical architecture and worked with software vendor, Oracle, to navigate licensing concerns.

oHired a full time employee to help the client implement project plan and deliver upgrade project on time and under budget.

Worked with a major healthcare provider in Baltimore, MD helping navigate post upgrade needs of portal and installations of new CMS system.

oWorked with business leaders to identify pain points in current system and conducted a work shop on the new CMS systems functionality and how it can fit into the organization.

oSold future work to help the IT organization implement a new process to manage video and multimedia content via new CMS and the consumption via the portal. (Currently being implement by contracted developers)

Worked with a govt. housing agency in Boston, Mass. with creating online presence for their loan system.

oCreated the project plan, architecture and design guidelines for the Loan Inquiry system to be built into the existing portal and security applications (oracle products).

oWorked with business leaders to identify requirements and map those to IT requirements to create a prioritized delivery matrix.

oHired a contractor to work on the implementation of the system while I worked with IT Directory managing the project.

oCurrently working with IT Directory on planning an upgrade of the portal and working with business leaders to identify new applications and enhancements to current ones.

Oracle, Charlotte, NC Apr 2008 – Nov 2009

PVA Directory for S&L Govt and HE

Sales/Solution Architect

Developed sales and implementation strategy for region

Assisted VP in developing program objectives, mission and keys to success

Led workshops to help customers to identify high value applications to design and deploy, leveraging portal and BPM technology to maximize ROI

Worked with customers to design and deploy strategies around governance for enterprise portal deployments

Mentored new consulting resources on technologies and processes

BEA Systems (formerly Plumtree), Charlotte, NC Aug 2006 – Mar 2008

Practice Manager

Produced $2+ million / year in sales and delivery. Grew revenue in the southeast by 500% as Practice Lead to allow region to be split off from the east

Managed and developed consulting services to meet regional sales targets while using existing services business to spur license growth

Managed resource allocation and scheduling for 10 regional resources in addition to 120+ contractors

Development of SOWs, managed PO processes, brokered and collaborated with legal teams to negotiate professional services agreements

Plumtree, Charlotte, NC Jan 2004 – July 2006

Product Specialist

IBM (formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting) Charlotte, NC Jan 2000 – Dec 2003

Project Manager/Architect

IT Specialist, Portal & Content Management, Business Consulting Services

Testing Coordinator, Enterprise Portal Implementation, Major Insurance Company

Lead a six-member team from planning through execution of Business to Employee (B2E) and Business to Business (B2B) enterprise portal, taxonomy and content management solutions.

Developed and managed testing work plan, script writing, script execution, and defect management.

Developed and managed exit and entrance criteria’s between four testing environments.

Developed and implemented new processes and governance to facilitate optimization of knowledge transfer.

Participated in the development of an enterprise strategic testing plan.

Portal administrator.

Development lead, Enterprise Portal Implementation, Major Insurance Company

Lead a five-member team of developers from strategy through implementation of Business to Employee (B2E) enterprise portal solution.

Developed and managed work plan through the analysis, design, and construction phases.

Determined guidelines for portal integration, configurations and requirements.

Responsible for creating the development strategy, coding standards, naming standards, filter strategy, publication and syndication strategy, portal taxonomy, and framework standards.

Provided guidelines to integrate other enterprise projects with the enterprise portal.

Developer, Enterprise Portal Implementation, Major Insurance and Energy Company

Designed and implemented portal Interfaces to content management system, single sign on, lotus notes applications, and emergency communications.

Designed and implemented advanced gadgets, COM components, crawlers, data source, filters, publications, and taxonomy.

Researched, prototyped, designed and implemented complex gadgets with other enterprise applications.

Development and implemented an international banking portal (Spanish).

Other Professional Experience

Partner

2007 - present

Glenpool, LLC

Responsible for identifying, analysis, and developing business plans for commercial real estate ventures

Negotiated none compete contract and an extended franchise license with Intercontinental Hotel Group.

Negotiations with general construction companies

Negotiated purchase price for land needed to build an IHG hotel

Negotiated purchase price of a Best Western saving investors 135,000

Re-negotiated rate of loan at 1% below national average rate that will result in over 400,000 is savings

Partner

2000 - present

M&S, LLC

Manager/Owner of rental Condos

Manage finance, operations, and marketing strategy

Negotiated maintenance contracts with local heating & air, plumbing, and general contractors

Partner

1998 - 2000

Affordable Travel, Inc.

Owned and managed car service division (sold to partner)

Other Engagement Experience

Project Management

Technical Team Leadership

Database Design

I4 Methodology

Testing

Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing

Technical Writing

Seminar Development

Content Management

Knowledge Management

Autonomy

Interwoven

Solution and Enterprise Architecture

End User Training

Functional Team Leadership RAD Methodology

PricewaterhouseCoopers System Development

IBM Development Life Cycle Configuration

Object Oriented Design

Applications Development

Six Sigma

TOGAF

Custom Application Development

Documentum

Education

B.S. Management Science and Information Technology Completed 12/1999

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

B.S. Finance Completed 12/1999

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

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