PRERAK C. SHAH

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Professional Summary

Highly focused, result driven motivated professional solution architect with 17+ years of experience in designing innovative business solutions for Insurance and financial domains. Skilled in cloud computing, information management, application development, and virtualization. Have unique blend of work experience for migrating the existing systems to cloud platform like Azure, designing the scalable solutions using micro services and restful APIs. Experienced with resource management, reporting and governance, with strong communication skills across all levels of stakeholders. Proven mentor and training with expertise in complex cross system integration, conflicting priority management and multi-geography delivery models.

Education:

Master of computer Applications, Sardar Patel University, India. 2002-2004

Bachelor of Computer Applications, Sardar Patel University, India. 1999-2002

Certifications:

•Microsoft Certified – Azure Solutions Architect Expert

•AWS Certified - Cloud Practitioner

•MCP (Microsoft Certified Programmer)

•Brain Bench Certified Professional

•Agile program development

Professional Experience:

Capgemini November 2016 – Till Date

Relevant Experience:

CHUBB – NJ Solutions Architect Nov 2018 – Present

Chubb is the world’s largest publicly traded P&C insurance company and the leading commercial lines insurer in the U.S. With operations in 54 countries and territories.

Analyze and define clients’ business strategy and determine system architecture requirements to achieve business goals.

Gather detailed business requirements and use cases, translate technical specifications into product requirements and internal documents.

Create team strategies and establish project scopes of work; communicate project deliverable timeframes and benchmarks to clients.

Develop data architecture design to facilitate targeted customer analysis.

Write and implement new cloud migration resource provisioning, and security standards.

Assisted teams in troubleshooting issues during cloud migrations in Hybrid model to implement secure commutations between on-prem and cloud environments.

Designed and implemented new cloud architecture solutions for clients, reducing customer churn by 30%

Work with developers to streamline the development process and reduce production time

Simultaneously managed 6 migration Pods (30 people), Kept team on schedule with waterfall and agile methodology

Willis Towers Watson (WTW) Technical Architect June 2017 – Nov 2018

Willis Towers Watson (WTW) combines expertise in investment and a leading provider of retirement consulting and actuarial services to help organizations develop retirement programs that meet their workforce needs.

Provided technical consultations for clients to identify technology needs, costs and plans to implement tech tools.

Created written reports and charts to show the company's need for technological upgrades

saving companies an average of 15% on each project

Selective Insurance Solution Architect November 2016 – June 2017

Selective Insurance commercial insurance and have their existence in 23 states of US. GEO Expansion is a project to expand their foot print in AZ and NH states

Led team to plan, design, and implement applications and software.

Collaborated with business analysts, developers, and technical support teams to define project requirements and specifications.

Designed, developed, and managed web-based applications, databases, network accounts, and programs.

Launched complex recovery solutions to safeguard mission-critical data.

Prior Experience:

Morgan Stanley, NY

Project Lead

Sep 2009 – Nov 2016

MSQuare Systems, NJ

Tech Lead

Jan 2009 – Apr 2010

Xpanxion International PVT. Ltd.

System Analyst

Apr 2007 – Dec 2008

Cybage Software Pvt Ltd

Sr. Software Eng.

Jan 2006 – Apr 2007

Gateway Techno labs Pvt. Ltd.

Sr. Software Eng.

Mar 2005 – Jan 2006

Macro Tech Pvt. Ltd.

Software Eng.

Aug 2004 – Mar 2005

Skills

Architectural and Project Management

Technical Skills

Business process mapping

Azure / AWS cloud

Cloud architecture

IAAS, PAAS, Hybrid solutions

Cloud Security

Kay Vault, AAD,, ADB2C, Storage Account

Cloud Monitoring and Alerting

Apps Insights, Cloud Watch

Solutions Architecture

Traffic Manager, Front Door,

IT Project management

Web Apps, Web APIs, ASE, APIM

Technical Support

Azure Kubernetes ervices (AKS),

Technical Training

IMB MQ, Service Bus, Event Grid, Event hub

Critical thinking

Kafka, Radis Cache

Process Optimization

Dev-Ops, CI-CD, Jenkins, Dynaflo, Github

Client Relations

Function Apps, Logic Apps,

Business Solutions

C#, .Net Core, Type Scripts,

Performance Testing Analysis

VSCode, Visual Studio, Visio, Web UML, Excel,

Presentation, Time Management

Jira, clarity, Power Point, MS Word

Database Solutions

Azure SQL, Data Lake, Data Factory

Requirements Analysis

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