V James Dante

PMP, MBA, TOGAF*, CSM, SAFe SSM, ISO-9001

Accomplished Agile Technical Program Leader

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Summary of Professional Experience

Seasoned IT professional with 25 plus years of progressive experience leading teams to implement success- ful IT solutions, business consulting, enterprise strategy. data architecture, delivery and governance en- gagements for a wide range of multi-national companies across several sectors worldwide. Areas of strength include collaborating with senior executives to increase revenue, reduce cost and sustain innovation. Well- rounded industry experiences in government, healthcare, real estate, banking, education, communications, mortgage, manufacturing, supply chain and retail industries. Certified PMP and Certified Scrum Master with end-to-end SDLC experience and having outstanding ability to communicate with people, developing rapport and gaining trust.

Enterprise Strategy & Roadmap

Data Management & Solutions

Business Data Analysis & Modeling

System/Data Migrations and fork-lifting

Stakeholder management

Global Methodology & Best Practices

Complete SDLC experience

Proof of Concepts (POC)

Business Process Reengineering

Proficiency in TOGAF, DODAF and FEAF

Information Governance & MDM

Business Intelligence & Data Warehous-

ing

Legacy Systems modernization

Delivery of large scale IT projects

Scaled agile framework on data

lakes/AWS cloud.

Business development & revenue growth

Thought leadership and innovation

Mix of business & technical skills

Professional History

KARSUN SOLUTIONS LLC. 2018 - Current

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Technical Project/Program Management - Enterprise Architecture Strategies & Solutions Leading enterprise strategy and solutions for FAA.

Technical Project/Program management of Enterprise Architecture solutions as well as cybersecurity initiatives of FAA. Assist FAA leadership in coming up with strategy and method documents for cy- bersecurity mission essential functions to be implemented globally.

Led the development of Segment and Domain Architecture, that involved extensive collaboration with senior level stakeholders to capture their needs and concerns from As-is environment and developing a To-be roadmap and strategy for execution. After the approval of the strategy, coordinated with the team to plan and implement the solution.

Provided various Enterprise Service Roadmaps to FAA leadership that included extensive research and collaboration with outside partners like Gartner providing recommendations on using various services available, such as platforms, cloud services, IAM etc. for system users.

Created cybersecurity awareness by carrying out assessments of mission essential functions for Mission Support and NAS Operations to take care of cybersecurity risk management and assist in the imple- mentation of automation tools and cyber threat intelligence tools.

Led the development of Ontology and Taxonomy for FAA EA division that included the business func- tions and capabilities/services to create standardized terms to be used by stakeholders of different sys- tems and services.

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The task also involves research on the latest tools and technologies for enterprise architecture, collab- orating with vendors for demonstrations of their tool capabilities, comparison of the tools and providing a business case with alternatives and investment strategies to the client to make informed decisions.

Performed as the Scrum Master for multiple EA projects, leading the teams and Product Owners for successful planning and delivery of work.

Responsible for reporting of team’s work status to senior leadership. OMNISOLVE INC. 2015 - 2017

General Services Administration (GSA)

Expert Enterprise Solutions Manager

Providing enterprise strategy, roadmap, application rationalization, enterprise architecture and data solutions for IT modernization initiatives at GSA.

Assisted the client in the enterprise data strategy, business architecture and application rationalization initiatives for CIO’s office.

Led the data management, enterprise data architecture, and data stewardship to support the implemen- tation of the scaled agile development framework for Integrated Award Environment (IAE). The task involved working on enterprise vision, creating roadmap for business, data, application and technology areas, migration and implementation planning and supporting governance activities.

Spearheaded the task of performing business analysis, data quality assurance and providing the results of data analysis of existing legacy systems data to support of data quality management. This is done by requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, data quality assessments, classification of data, final- izing candidate roadmap data components, common data analysis, defining data standards, enforcing data access and retention policies and documenting business processes, rules and data stewardship guidelines to migrate and manage the data.

Provided enterprise data strategy and roadmap services to assist IAE for the SAM.gov modernization efforts, that includes step by step process to migrate the legacy systems data from over 10 legacy sys- tems to modernized data lake on AWS cloud environment with clearly defined roadmap consisting of tasks, processes, deliverables and associated timelines to fit into the overall CI/CD (Continuous Inte- gration/Continuous Delivery) cycle.

In addition, the task involved implementing governance and establishing data stewardship during the data migration to capture related metrics on dashboards to report periodic status to the key stakeholders to help them make informed decisions. This helps in establishing MDM (master data management) by defining the golden source for legacy data items as they merge to centralized and standardized data dictionary.

Extensive experience of analyzing the common services platform (CSP) and business services platform

(BSP) architectures to modernize the current acquisition systems to state of the art systems for business reporting.

Performed as the SRT (Solution Review Team) leader at PBS IT on several application modernization initiatives. This task required extensive interaction with business and technical communities, detailed study of as-is systems and the current and future business requirements to come up with the business case to replace/upgrade the current systems to provide state of the art solutions to comply with GSA IT and governance standards.

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Managed several data management initiatives at PBS IT as related to open data on data.gov, data access to BI Framework staging area, consolidation of siloed databases to a single unified open scalable data- base for reporting, building the PBS data architecture on System Architect in line with FAS architecture framework etc.

Performed as the Scrum Master for the IAE data lake project, coordinating with multiple vendors and leading the teams and Product Owners for successful planning and delivery of work. HEWLETT PACKARD 2006 - 2014

Principal IT Strategy & Delivery Manager (Worldwide) - Analytics & Data Management (A&DM) Provided expertise in the areas of business process, systems, data and technology in leading business con- sulting, Enterprise Information strategies, proof of concepts, software development and implementation. Led client negotiations in delivering best in class BI/DW solutions for multi-national companies world- wide. Led client engagements and performed varied and multiple roles. Provided domain expertise to manage client engagements both in business and technology consulting domains related to government, education, healthcare, banking, transportation, communication and media entertainment industries. Pro- moter of enterprise standards, best practices, and global methodologies.

Managed very large teams onsite and off-shore to perform extensive data analysis on legacy systems in order to generate standardized common data, remove redundancy/duplicity and carry forward quality data from multiple systems to the data warehouse.

Extensive experience on legacy systems and databases, ETL, data architecture, MDM and data govern- ance, software application development, reporting and documentation management for several industry segments, including the government agencies.

As the strategy and solution leader, was instrumental in winning several client engagements amidst tough competition from other onsite and off-shore vendors.

Delivered technology subject matter expertise during to RFI/RFPs, bids and presentations, Statement of Work, Development of business cases and analysis, and participated in negotiation and closing of bids with client senior leadership on large and complex projects.

Led the team as the Solution/Strategy leader delivering quality work related to overall master plan on technology assessment consisting of solution and information architecture, data architecture, data mod- els, delivery roadmaps, project plans, MDM and Data Governance, hardware, software, tool recom- mendations, impact and risk assessments, sizing, time, resource, cost estimates, and business cases to justify the ROI and TCO to implement the proposed solutions.

Spearheaded the stakeholder interviews, needs assessment, KPIs and metrics for data governance, data profiling, data lineage, requirements categorization, scoring, prioritization and summary, requirements traceability matrix, categorization and gap analysis between the current operational model (“as is”) and desired business and process model (“to be”) to successfully redesign the future-state systems and in- crease revenue in the market place.

Promoted enterprise architectures and standards, best practices, global methodologies and information governance in client projects.

Recognized as the trusted advisor by clients and engagement teams and as an experienced mentor by employees.

Consistently recognized for top contribution and excellent performance from the company and clients for making a difference.

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AJILON CONSULTING, 2004 - 2006

Freddie Mac, McLean, VA

IT Strategy & Delivery Management

Provided Information Strategy and Business Consultancy services for the Mortgage Ops Redesign of the US Mortgage giant Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

Successfully led the teams in the data analysis, architecture, redesign, resequencing and restructuring of multiple tracks of work related to mortgage operations for restatement audit in order to cut down the overall end-to-end processing time from a month to a week’s time in multiple phases.

Led the client stakeholder interviews to understand the current processes and business rules used in moving data from various source systems to target systems.

Coordinated with the client subject matter experts to develop revised business rules for transformation and migration of data from existing process to the proposed process.

Identified bottlenecks in existing systems and processes and developed business transformation roadmap to redesign business and information architectures to efficiently process data and cut down reporting time from monthly to weekly to daily.

Effectively steered the reengineering of the end-to-end process from point of source data acquisition from legacy systems to final reporting through Corporate Data Warehouse. NCR TERADATA 1998- 2004

Sr. Technical Program Delivery Management, Supply/Demand Chain Software Solutions Provided leadership and expertise to worldwide clients on full-scale information strategy roadmaps, needs assessments, master plans and led the system and data migration for implementing point of sale (POS) supply chain software solutions for retail and manufacturing industries.

Managed large teams performing the extensive data analysis, redesign and migration of data from ex- isting systems and databases to the state-of-the-art open systems at client site and back office.

Spearheaded the life cycle implementation of supply chain solutions projects spanning 2-5 years for global retail and manufacturing industry chains. Led the strategy and development teams to perform implementation strategy followed by end-to-end project life cycle deployment spanning several years.

Led the implementation team starting from scratch to completion at client sites and effectively coordi- nated with client IT and business personnel during feasibility studies, proof of concepts, require- ments/gap analysis, data profiling, data architecture, implementation of customized software, end-to- end testing, and tuning and benchmarking the systems for optimal performance.

Delivered training to the client management and SMEs for effective decisions making to eliminate zero stock situations by demand forecasting, evaluating market demands, inventory management and auto- matic reordering using the supply chain software.

Efficiently managed multiple partner vendors in order to successfully integrate third party applications with the supply chain software.

Acted as a trusted advisor to clients and engagement teams by providing guidance and mentoring on global methodologies, best practices and standards.

Recognized for top contribution and excellent performance from company for three years in succession V James Dante

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RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LTD. Prior to 1998

Gen. Manager MIS & ISO-9001 Lead Auditor/MR

As the overall in-charge of the MIS division of the largest manufacturing company in India, successfully managed software, hardware, operations, networking and the data centers having over hundred IT employ- ees and reported directly to President of the company. The job involved extensive business process reengi- neering work to be performed with business and technical leaders from various lines of businesses to come up with a detailed strategy to modernize existing legacy systems to the state-of-the-art architecture for providing a new experience to users.

Education/ Professional Certification

Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Chemical Engineering - University of Mysore, Karnataka, India

MBA from University of Bombay, India

TOGAF 9 Certified Enterprise Architect (Certification #120568), The Open Group,

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) ID #000657841, Scrum Alliance

Certified Scaled Agile Framework Scrum Master (SAFe SSM) ID # 951*****-****, Scaled Agile.

Project Management Professional (PMP), (Certification # 1713236)

ISO-9001:2015 Certified Auditor (Certification # 368076)

Tik-IT Software Trained Lead Auditor (ISO-9001)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies

Cloud – AWS Cloud, PaaS, SaaS using Salesforce, ServiceNow, Appian Work Flows. Data Warehouse/BI Methodology - Kimball/Inmoon, Data Lakes. Architecture – TOGAF9, FEAF, DODAF.

Development Methodology - SAFe, Agile and Scrum, Jira/Confluence, Kanban, SOA, SDLC. Operating Systems

UNIX, Linux, IBM AS 400, VAX VMS, Windows, Solaris, AIX Databases, Software, Development Tools

Databases: Amazon Redshift, PostreSQL, Oracle, IBM MF, DB2, Vertica, Teradata, SQL Server, Ingres, MySQL

Software: C, C++, PL/SQL, SQL, COBOL, VB

Data Modeling: Popkin/Rational System Architect, ER/Studio, CA Erwin ETL: Pentaho, AbInitio, Datastage, Informatica, IBM Cast Iron Data Profiler: Talend, Informatica, AbInitio, IBM Information Analyzer, Dataflux BI Tools: Tableau, Microstrategy, Jaspersoft, Business Objects, Cognos, OBIEE MDM: Hyperion, Kalido, Informatica

Query: Queryman, Command Center, Toad, RapidSql, SQL, SQL Developer. Other: Microsoft Office suite, MS Project, Visio, Rational tools, Analytix Mapping Manager, HP Mercury

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