Amir Rashid

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Tel: 781-***-**** e-mail: adyat1@r.postjobfree.com HIGHLIGHTS OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

20+ years of data transformation experience through strategic initiatives defined with clear metrics and outcomes. Implemented modular data and technology platforms. Agent of disruptive innovation with direct impact on the strategy, architecture and product design. Introduced agile governance with built in change management. Worked closely with decision makers and steering committees to implement cost-effective solutions. Performed as a critical link connecting stakeholders and other technology departments to design application infrastructure, application architecture and manage delivery of data analysis initiatives. CIO level consulting, product and large-scale application design.

1. Data – Governance, Engineering, Analytics, Science

● Managed data and software engineering effort to digitally transform legacy environments using heavily customized Salesforce, Azure Data Factory for pipelines using python and SQL. Data Bricks to ingest, move to curated and consumption zones.

● Data governance effort to create a data model, ingest in Collibra data governance platform to productize data so that data entities can be searched and associated fields can be identified for reporting and analytics consumption.

● Managed, architected, designed, and developed data-analytics projects using data mining tools, R, Python. Participated in various database restructure and data warehousing architecture, design and development projects.

● Designed Power Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards, drill downs, and context specific analytics.

● Performed data analysis, textual analysis, sentiments analysis, and regression analysis for various data sets.

● Analyzed the suitability of Snowflakes as a data platform to be used for the newly introduced online MBA program. 1. Data Integration – Robotic Process Automation

● Managed a team to data modernization/integration effort so that entities can be exposed as consumable APIs using MuleSoft and events using Solace messaging bus.

● Participated in data integration using SNAPLOGIC to integrate Salesforce, data warehouse and 3rd-party applications.

● Designed a warehouse to host data from various data sources (registrar data, enrollments, student data, course registrations, student data) was aggregated using university databases and warehouse (Zoom, peer assessments, learning platforms) data using SNAPLOGIC API aggregation platform.

● Architected the flow for data to be extracted using SNAPLOGIC API aggregation platform from a cloud-based application to be hosted in a data warehouse with full sync of the data in both directions. Refine data to be used in POWER BI/Tableau dashboards and other highly sensitive accreditation reports. 2. Low Code – No Code Platforms

● Proposed and helped implement a 360-Degree Engagement Platform to capture the full life cycle of a student. The platform has functionality for when they request brochures; to the students stay with the school to help with the performance and engagement of the student; to when they graduate and become an alumni.

● Identified architectural issues and participated in re-architecture efforts to map data to the correct objects (Contacts, Applications, Opportunity, Leads) in SF. This forced Business Process Reengineering efforts for the admission process and resulted in the implementation of a full life cycle of the student applications.

● Integrated the no-code development platform Service-now to route all servicing requests from Salesforce. 3. Cloud Computing - DEVOPS, Container-less Applications, Infrastructure Provided technical management for cloud computing projects using Salesforce.Com, Force.com, cloud formation, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. Designed seed applications to deploy R data analysis model as a .Net web service on MS Azure

4. Consulting Experience - Architecture, Design, Development 1

Experience with architecture, high-volume, high-availability, transactional applications. Experience with Security, and privacy considerations. Proven expertise with object and data modeling techniques used in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Familiar with (ITIL) best practices and Project Management Institute (PMI) project management principles.

● Founding member of the core team to start a multi-million-dollar division in a large corporation. The company was appraised and sold at US $220 million to Nestle. The parent company was sold for $880 million to GE. EXPERTISE

● Data/Integration/Messaging Platforms: Azure Data Bricks, MuleSoft, Solace Messaging, SnapLogic, Snowflake

● Cloud Platforms: Salesforce (SF), HEROKU, AMAZON AWS (IAAS), MS AZURE (PAAS), Google Cloud Platform

● Data Science Tools: R, Python, WEKA, RAPIDMINER, SAS, SQL Server, POWER BI, HADOOP, Azure-ML

● Project Management: ITIL, PRINCE, SAFE, Six Sigma, Kaizen, SCRUM, HIPAA, ITIL, MS Project, Azure DEVOPS

● Development Environment: Salesforce, .NET/C#, ORACLE, JAVA/SPRING, JAVA/JSF, C/C++, LISP, Azure Data Bricks

● Salesforce Clouds: Salesforce.com (SAAS), Force.com (PAAS), SF Financial Cloud, Experience Cloud

● Experience with Educational Data Architecture (EDA) and Student Access LINK (SAL) implementation in Salesforce. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Manager Software and Data Engineering, Financial Partners Inc, Springfield, MA Sep 2022-Present Managed data and software engineering effort to digitally transform legacy environments using heavily customized Salesforce, Azure Data Factory for ingestion, Data Bricks to create an ETL pipeline from ingestion to curated and consumption zones.

● Managed a team working on data engineering effort to digitally transform legacy data and application environment using Azure Data Factory for ingestion, Data Bricks to create an ETL pipeline from ingestion to curated and consumption zones.

● Manage a team parallel data modernization efforts so that entities can be exposed as APIs using MuleSoft and events using Solace messaging.

● Participated in data governance effort to create a data model, ingest in Collibra data governance platform so that data entities can be searched and associated fields can be identified for reporting and analytics consumption. Associate Director Applications — Boston University (BU), Boston, MA Feb 2014-Apr 2022 Responsibilities: Performed as an agent for digital transformation to create data warehousing, analytics, low-code development and cloud computing initiatives. Created seed projects for data warehousing, data analysis and integration. Introduced the use of Salesforce as a low code development platform for 360-degree engagement platform. Architected data engineering efforts to create a Data warehouse. Participated in integration projects to bring data from various platforms in the data warehouse and Salesforce. Integrated the no-code development platform Service-now to route all servicing requests from Salesforce.

● Managed, architected, designed, and developed data-analytics projects using data mining tools, R, Python. Participated in various database restructure and data warehousing architecture, design and development projects.

● Analyzed faculty data for student evaluations to generate statistics on the data and to perform sentiments analysis using python.

● Analyzed student data for peer evaluations to generate basic statistics and to perform sentiments analysis. Created a model for the adaptation of the university-based approach for team learning concepts of their Plus/Delta peer assessment model using R.

● Generated basic statistics using R for the Framingham heart data. Created a model to predict events using time series data and Ranking algorithm.

● Architected the flow for data to be extracted using SNAPLOGIC API aggregation platform from a cloud-based application to be hosted in a data warehouse with full sync of the data in both directions. Refine the data to be used in POWER BI/Tableau dashboards and other highly sensitive accreditation reports.

● Designed a warehouse to host data from various data sources (registrar data, enrollments, student data, course registrations, student data) was aggregated using university databases and warehouse (Zoom, peer assessments, learning platforms) data using 2

SNAPLOGIC API aggregation platform. Context specific reporting from inside of Salesforce and historical reporting inside and outside of Salesforce was developed using Power BI/TABLEAU.

● Scrapped web data for faculty research using Selenium and Python to generate analytics on publications.

● Developed a seed application for genetic algorithms using HADOOP Map Reduce for an academic project. (BU)

● Participated in data integration using SNAPLOGIC to integrate Salesforce, data warehouse and 3rd-party applications.

● Designed Power Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards, drill downs, and context specific analytics.

● Performed data analysis, textual analysis, sentiments analysis, and regression analysis for various data sets.

● Analyze data to determine that the plus/delta team assessments are reflecting the desired effect on team performance.

● Performed as a critical link connecting stakeholders and other technology departments to design application infrastructure, application architecture and manage delivery of data analysis initiatives.

● Analyzed the suitability of Snowflakes as a data platform to be used for the newly introduced online MBA program.

● Created a regression and classification model using time series data to determine the engagement of students based on their performance and attendance using tensor flow and SCIKIT LEARN, PANDAS and NUMPY.

● Taught an Amazon web services (AWS) based DEVOPS course involving infrastructure (GIT, Docker, Ansible) covering Amazon web services (AWS) based DEVOPS infrastructure creation/management automation with cloud formation, scaling, continuous deployment, continuous integration automation.

● Designed seed applications to deploy R data analysis model as a .Net web service on MS Azure.

● Deployed infrastructure including (Java based applications, MONGO DB, NEO4J, AWS RDB) on AWS instances.

● Proposed and helped implement a 360-Degree Engagement Platform to capture the full life cycle of a student. The platform has functionality for when they request brochures; the students stay with the school to help with the performance and engagement of the student; to when they graduate and become an alumni. The student performance is monitored using automation built to generate alerts/notifications for attendance and engagement using integrated data from assessment engines, learning platforms, online meeting platforms, social interaction platforms and student data from university sources.

● Identified architectural issues and participated in re-architecture efforts to map data to the correct objects (Contacts, Applications, Opportunity, Leads) in SF. This forced Business Process Reengineering efforts for the admission process and resulted in the implementation of a full life cycle of the student applications.

● Analyzed requirements, map SF capabilities and features translating requirements into standard solutions.

● Participated in solution designing and architecture, layout technology options performing fit analysis.

● Participated in design, development, prototyping, testing, documentation and deployment of Salesforce solutions. (BU)

● Experience working with the Force.com development platform: Apex Code including triggers, controllers and batch classes), VisualForce pages, Web Service APIs and the Lightning Platform (Aura /LWC), triggers, SOQL, and SOSL.

● Familiar with various automation and custom development using Lightning Components, Apex, and Visualforce

● Experienced with Sales Cloud, Education cloud, Marketing cloud, financial cloud and experience cloud.

● Experience with Educational Data Architecture (EDA) and Student Access LINK (SAL) implementation in Salesforce.

● Experienced with API aggregation platform (SNAPLOGIC) based integration of data warehouse with Salesforce.

● Experienced with integration of RIVA for calendar events, Salesforce for Outlook, TAMARACfor integrated portfolio and client management in Salesforce, DocuSign, and Conga for document process automation and management.

● Developed a seed application based on HEROKU to sync data and to make the Salesforce data available to develop faculty, student applications against the Salesforce data.

● Worked on the development of API based integrations from Salesforce to external systems.

● Experience with Agile methodology using (Agile Accelerator in Salesforce and JIRA) promoting continuous iteration of development and testing throughout the software development life cycle of the project.

● Knowledge of system integrations using API form within the Salesforce platform; Firm understanding of Object Oriented Programming methodologies, Services Oriented Design Principles (SOA), design patterns and development best practices. Senior Software Engineer/Applications Manager — Boston University Feb 2007-Dec 2014 3

Responsibilities: Manage application portfolio, Team coordination, project management, planning, architecture, and design.

(ITIL) best practices and Project Management Institute (PMI) project management principles.

● Managed application development teams to streamline application architecture as well as performed in leading roles in design and development of application/database infrastructure. This application development team at Boston University was profiled in the university publication for creating a novel social networking application.

● Served as a member of the information technology team that was recognized in the Builders and Leaders publication for building innovative instructional design solutions using WORDPRESS and iOS applications.

● Responsible for design and development of JAVA/JSF/Spring based application for peer assessments. The application had credit card process integration, Student and staff login, plus/delta peer assessments, reporting, team learning modules, and reports.

● Architected SAML based single-sign-on and use active directory based authorization schemes to present appropriate functionality for the three tiers of business school stakeholders (students, staff and faculty).

● Created technical design for the mobile application to be used on various mobile platforms. The mobile application was designed to use APIs to access data from JAVA based learning management system and registrar data from university resources.

● Provided technical consultancy in developing an iPhone mobile application to scan, compare and report on companies by tracking the barcode and providing information on carbon footprint and sustainable practice for any off the shelf product in the market.

Manager Development/Operations (Putnam) -- Keane Inc., Boston, MA Jan 2006-Feb 2007 Responsibilities: Project management, transition management, architecture, development, and operations management. Managed near shore development/operations team for wholesale trading applications. Applications included trading, portfolio construction, positions trading compliance, and investment portal applications.

● Managed a set of applications for portfolio construction, compliance and a portal for investment customers within and outside the company for a chain management, ordering and reporting Portal Application portfolio. The applications aggregated data from various trading and investment sources for positions, pricing, cash and analytics. Project management used agile methodology, MS Project and Visio and developed in JAVA, Oracle, SAP, Vignette Portal, TIBCO, and SAP portal. (Putnam Investments)

Design and Architecture Team (Fidelity)-- Axis Technologies, Burlington, MA Mar 2005-Dec 2005 Responsibilities: Participated in the development of HR applications developed in collaboration with IBM and Oracle.

● Participated in the development of JAVA based HR application developed in collaboration with IBM and Oracle. The product was designed to handle most human resources functionality for a high visibility, time critical initiative. Designed highly reusable modules using tag components, Interacted with highly distributed teams including service module developers, content database, data and configuration teams to deliver highly customizable UI components using Java, web services, struts, JSF tags.

● Performed as a member of a technical team for the retail and corporate banking highly customizable applications using Java/J2EE. Participated as lead in the design of entitlements for the client-banking environment. (Citizens Bank) Member Design and Architecture Team -- Bank of America (BofA). Atlanta, GA Jan 2003-Mar 2005 Responsibilities: Technical management including estimation, budgeting and scheduling, large-scale application architecture, design and development management for key initiatives central to all online banking and call center functions.

● Developed Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design including maturity model comparison for various offerings.

● Java based middle tier to act as a pass through mechanism for all its communication with the legacy systems, vendor, and the centralized databases. Participated in the design of a large-scale project to build an automated payment and biller engine and to integrate it with existing consumer banking applications using Oracle, MQ Series, custom developed middleware using SOAP/HTTP and SOAP/MQ, IBMWebSphere,RMI. Managed impact around JAVA based middle tier.

● Participated in Six Sigma process management pilot projects for CMM compliance at a large retail-banking institute as part of KAIZEN driven continuous improvement management bank-wide initiative. Technical Manager -- Fidelity National Financial, Milford, MA Jun 2001-Apr 2003 4

Responsibilities: Managed the delivery of various system wide web projects used for process evaluation and appraisal orders.

● Architected leading edge technology solutions and seed applications for startups and new line of businesses

● Architected various inter/intra company processes for the order flow and fulfillment using .Net and C# to implement the full life cycle of real estate evaluations.

Consulting Engineer (AXA) -- Object Design/eXcelon Corp, Burlington, MA Jul 2000-Jun 2001 Responsibilities: Product management, applications architecture, and design. Developed customized solutions based on Object DB and distributed applications for high-performance and high-availability.

● Designed reusable components used for database access, error logging, and class factory using JAVA—the latter of which was used to encapsulate the customized data processing needs for various types of quotes.

● Developed customized solutions based on C++ based Object DB and distributed applications for high-performance high-availability. Developed a product level data/XML access mechanism using hash maps to enable the development of data retrieval and access tools similar to SQL studio.

● Lead effort to integrate portal server and Team Site workflow engine as part of an OEM effort. Architected an RMI server to receive in-coming requests for data aggregation, manipulation and to componentize XML documents for OpenText Team site content management system. Java, XML and Web services. Design and Architecture Team (Putnam)-- Covansys, Wellesley, MA May 1997-Jul 2000 Responsibilities: Performed project costing, scheduling, project management, Architecture/Design for large-scale initiatives.

● Performed as team lead to develop funding occurrence functionality for the Cash Management project using JAVA/J2EE technologies, Net Dynamics, Oracle, MQ Series.

● Architected a JAVA servlet based portal to deliver highly customizable run time personalization. The key components of the product are the interpreter and execution engine used to interpret and execute a predicate based proprietary language. The product relied heavily on a database based caching mechanism for URLs. Implemented a shell to serve as an email client and encryption mechanism using JAVA extensions. Architecture analysis effort focused on production performance issues. Member Design and Architecture Team -- Bank of Boston. Dedham, MA Jul 1995-May 1997 Responsibilities: Design and develop retail banking workstation to accommodate 400+ banking products including DDA, TDS, loans, banking card, mortgage and credit card functions for domestic and international customers.

● Designed and developed retail banking retail workstation using C/C++, Argo Bankpro, DB2, ATF, CICS, DB2, VSAM, C-tree database to be used with retail banking. The project was designed to accommodate 400+ banking products including DDA, TDS, loans, banking card, mortgage and credit card for domestic and international customers.

● Architected and implemented an innovative strategy for cross-platform automated functional testing of a large-scale, high-visibility initiative started by IBM and Accenture. This project was recognized by the steering committee as key enablement in project wide testing for development and production support. EDUCATION

● MS, Computer Information Systems, Boston University, Boston, MA May 2014

Data, Data Analytics Concentration

Security Concentration

● Attended courses in Financial Math, Harvard Extension School, Cambridge, MA Sep 1991

● MS, Computer Engineering, ECS Department, Boston University, Boston, MA. Jan 1989

● BS, Electrical Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology. Jan 1986 INTERESTS

Behavioral Ethics, Prompt Engineering, Algorithms Analytics/Data/Mathematical/Statistical modeling, Robotic Process Automation 5

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