Technology Solutions Release Management

Location:

Mechanicsburg, PA

Posted:

July 30, 2025

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NAGA RAMESH PALAKURTI (BRMS/IBM ODM/WODM/ILOG/IBM BPM/IBM WAS Admin/Agile/JIRA/ORACLE/AWS/JAVA)

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BUSINESS DELIVERY / SOFTWARE ANALYSIS & DEVELOPMENT / TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS/AGILE Management

Strong credentials in delivering optimal results and business value via technology solutions

PROFILE :

IT Manage, Architecture Design, Administration & Development, Release Management (BRMS/IBM ODM/ILOG/IBM WAS Admin/WL12c/Java)

Seasoned, technically inclined and highly empowered professional offering an eventful career of over 24+ years of Experience in Solution Architect, Analysis, design, Release management, code tuning, Testing and Maintenance/support of Enterprise, E-Commerce applications using object oriented technologies like IBM ODM, ILog JRules BRMS/WODM (ODM8.5/8.6/8.9/8.10/Strata/DROOLS), WAS Admin, IBM BPM8.0/8.5, Java, J2EE,WPS, WL12c,, XML, Web services, Trillium, MQ, IIB, Web Services, Agile (Scrum), Agile (Kanban), MS Project Management, JIRA, Agile,HP quality center, GITHub, BitBucket,Maven,Jenkins, ITSM etc. I have sound knowledge of multiple industry domains such as Finance, Banking, Retail Market, Insurance, RISK management. Taken ownership and successfully led and executed multiple ODM and SOA/BPM Projecs.

Currently I have been working for leading Finance company, as a Rules Architect, Solution, Design, Development and Maintenance, Migration, Implementation, Monitoring, Administration, IBM infrastructure on Cloud. I am working for build the entire odm platform, setup on dockers containers in Kubernetes platform. And ODM docker setup, Strategic planning $ solution for migration, WAS Admin support.

Extensive experience in IT SDLC and Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) implementations brings strong technology leadership experience to technical engagements, along with broad functional expertise. I have experience leading, architecting, implementing, and supporting large information technology transformation initiatives in private and public sector, utilizing the following technologies: Java, JEE, XML, Web services, IBM ODM, ILOG, WODM, Business Rules Engines, Oracle, SQL, Unix, Web Sphere, Web logic. I am specialized in implementing complex Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) Solutions for large scale applications - Architecture Design, Administration & Development. Familiar with Agile process (Kanban and Scrum)

Proven expertise in the complete Software development Lifecycle and configured application with MQ and WBI. Have worked and leading the application deployments such as Web logic 4.5/6.1/7.1/8.1/10G/11g/12c as well as IBM's Web sphere version 7 and EPM (WBI, WID). Trillium application, Testing, Administration, on UNIX/LINUX environment, IBM JRules and ODM86/IBM BPM8.5.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for monitoring bank accounts, accounting paperwork, and financial transactions. They analyze the data to identify any fraudulent and suspicious activities within an organization. Their duties and responsibilities may vary depending on which industries they work in.

Analyse and quantify the risk of loss and create strategies to reduce or eliminate risk. They may work in a variety of industries but usually work for banks.

Skills in pattern recognition, using software to monitor transactions, and a basic knowledge of regulatory compliance are key. These professionals should also focus on developing their attention to detail and critical thinking to identify discrepancies and anomalies.

Prepare to discuss your past experiences with fraud analysis, including how you have handled investigations and resolved issues. Be ready for scenario-based questions that assess your problem-solving and decision-making skills.

As part of ODM modernization initiatives, the client is aiming migrate 10000+ rules from Starta to IBM ODM 8.10 (hosted on Cloud). The migrated rules are required to be hosted on Webshere liberty server in Goole cloud. The client is looking for strategic solution to migrate 10000+ rules to IBM ODM 8.10. Here my role is working as an ODM architect for the proposal and solution for strategizing the migrate to cloud

Carried out Poc to analyze and migrate 10000+ rules from starta to IBM ODM8.10

Led the migration and successfully carried out following activities as part of PoC: ODM docker setup, Strategic planning $ solution for migration,

Migration Phase 1: All 10000+ rules from starta to classic rule projects, Migration Phase 2: As classic rule projects are deprecated from IBM ODM 8.10 onwards, migrated all rules from classic rules projects to Decision Services, Custom BOM Migration, Deployement on Cloud, and supporting for testing phases.

Creating and assinining the Epic/stories/bugs on Agile (Kanaban board) in JIRA.

Creating Projects/Quaterly releases on Agile (Srcum) in JIRA.

Support the sales team by taking a consultative role, including making architectural recommendations, troubleshooting configuration issues, and managing correspondence with other functional units by implementing IBM ODM solutions

Articulate and educate on technical and architectural concepts to a variety of audiences, including developers, architects, IT operations professionals, and senior IT management

Taking care for release management to join the calls, get the approvals, following process etc

Design and develop rules and event solutions using IBM ODM (Operational Decision Management), iLog, JRules, BRMS.

Sell the value of Deloitte capabilities using multiple formats/channels, including phone, presentation, and live/online product demonstrations

Provide technical oversight and leadership on projects while effecting an enterprise-wide view of business and appreciation for strategy, processes and enabling technologies

iLog integration, iLog customization, Rule/Decision Service optimization

Manage & co-ordinate practice thought leadership initiatives

Foster teamwork and inclusion among all employees

Responsible for team level contributions to overall application development efforts within portfolio application(s);

Providing technical direction and oversight on creation of applications from E2E (end to end) perspective.

Ensuring systems design, business requirements, and architecture of solution is well understood by involved parties and responsible for overall delivery of software products.

May or may not manage employees. Manages applications/ development projects, or complex initiatives of an area of the development function.

Provide solutions, Analysis, Design different implementations and Development, and Maintenance.

Write robust, efficient and maintainable business rules, as well as maintain existing rules across multiple languages

Able to respond with functional experience concerning OPA, IBM ODM, WPS/WAS/WL12c, WODM or JRules / ILOG

Experience on Develop robust and scalable designs for software applications

Experience with managing global teams, Experience with managing budgets

Experience with Agile Methodologies

Familiarity with Java/J2EE

Familiarity with Batch/ETL frameworks and technology

Experience with Agile Methodologies

Familiarity with Batch/ETL frameworks and technology

Experience on Develop, recommend and execute business plans/strategy for functional area

I have Understand current applications and technical architecture while ensuring adherence to architecture standards

Experience for Create technical and functional documentation to verify software functionality and adherence to business requirements

Execute system and unit tests of software applications

Assist Testers and technical support staff in identifying and resolving defects

Drive the resolution and communication of application defects

Measure and report development progress and schedule, including defect tracking and risk assessments

Ensure development methodologies are followed and are compliant with Chase standards

Participate in continuous improvement and proactively support knowledge sharing within the department

14+ years’ experience using the rules engine for a large enterprise (acting as end to end architect in defining, developing and testing the solution)

Strong hands on experience in defining, designing and architecting business rule implementation, management and solutions on IBM ODM 8.9.x

Experience with REST/SOAP and in building complex enterprise interface solutions

Strong hands on experience in defining the decision services and interfaces

Setting up the data model (XOM) and rules vocabulary, data dictionary

Sound experience in architecting business solutions using IBM/ODM 8.9.x rules engine

Able to demonstrate to business users and discuss the setup and coach/train them

Implement a dynamic rule build for Business to create, update or delete the business rules themselves

Strong CICD experience knowledge of Jenkins and other deployment tools

Junit build and execution knowledge

Worked in ODM 8.9 migration, Classic engine to Decision Engine migration

Experience with Java, SOAP, REST

Deliverables:

Create and deliver custom demonstrations to support the sales cycle

Ability to quantify business value (cost-benefit and ROI analysis) and develop business cases for process improvement initiatives

Ability to work on complex business problems where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variance factors

Perform technical discovery with customer prospects and quickly architect/build proposed solutions using Prolific capabilities

Successfully manage and execute technical proof of concepts (POCs), on-site or remote

Able to respond with functional experience concerning IBM ODM, WODM or JRules / ILOG

Responsible for representing Deloitte to customers and at field events such as conferences, seminars, etc.

Certifications:

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateIBM Web sphere Administration

IBM Web sphere Administration

IBM Ilog JRules BRMS Development (Certification and Training from IBM university)

IBM Certified BPM Application Developer - Business Process Manager Express or Standard Edition V8.0

IBM Web sphere Integration Development

International Scrum Master Accredited Certification

Oracle Web Logic 11g Administration Training (Oracle Labs)

Academic:

M.C.A (Master of Computer Applications), 1999, Osmania University (A.P) India

B.Sc (Computer Science), 1995, Andhra University (A.P) India

Diploma in Computer Applications (DCA)

Achievements:

Received MPHASIS’s Monthly Summit Award

Received Team award for exhibiting Mphasis value “Stretch”

Awarded “Franklin Templeton Valued Professional”, Twice

Awarded “Franklin Templeton Valued Team Member”, Twice

Career Growth:

Tata Consultancy Services Bank of America

June 2022 to till date

Solution Architect

Mphasis JPMC (Wilmington, DE)

Nov 2018 to June 2022

Solution Architect

Ness Technologies Deloitte (Mechanicsburg, A, USA)

March 2017 to Nov2018

Senior ODM Consultant Lead

C-HIT Vanguard (Malvern, PA, USA)

Nov 2016 to March 2017

Senior ODM Consultant Lead

Franklin Templeton (Hyderabad, India, and USA)

Oct 2006 to Oct 2016

Senior Software Analyst

Innova Solutions FTT (Hyderabad, India)

March 2004 to Sep 2006

Senior Associate

Baron InfoTech (Hyderabad, India)

Jun 2001 to March 2004

Software Engineer

Technical Skills:

Business Rule Tools

IBM ILog 7.0-7.5 (BRMS), IBM ODM, IBM BPM 8.5

IBM WAS, WL12c, Docker containers, Kubernetes (K8s), Data Stage, Hadoop, Azure platform, AWS cloud platform

Machine Learning

Linear Regression, Hierarchical clustering, Collaborating Filtering, AWS Models

Specialization

AI, ML, Deep Learning with TensorFlow, BRMS, IBM ILOG/ODM, Web Services, REST API, Spring/Spring Boot, XML, JProbe, WAS Admin, Trillium, IBM BPM, Hadoop, AI, ML

Operating Systems

UNIX/LINUX, MS-DOS, WINDOWS NT/2000, Windows 9X

Languages

Java, J2EE, COBOL, C, C++, and FORTRAN, Perl, Python

RDBMS

Oracle8.0, MS SQL Server 7.0, Ms-Access

Web Development

HTML, JavaScript, JSP, J2ee, Servlets, EJB, JMS, Java Beans, XML, JDBC, JNDI, Angular

Code Optimization Tool

JProbe, Jconsole

Code performance

JUnit Test

IDE

JBuilder, Eclipse, IBM ODM designer, Web sphere Integration Development tool (WID), IntelliJ

Tools

Postman, SOAP UI

Quality Center

Bugzilla, HP Quality Center 9.2, Jira

Project Management

MS Project Management, Release Management

Current Assisgnments:

Client: Bank Of America (BOFA)

Employer: Tata Consulatancy Services

Destination: Senior ODM Consultant

Project: Risk Management and Content Life cycle, Data Manipulations, Batch processing, Build the AI, and ML models with AWS

Duration: June 2022 to till date

Technologies: Python, IBM ODM 812, TensorFlow, Java, Spring Boot, Hadoop, IBM Data stage, POSTMAN, SOAP UI, UNIX, JIRA, AWS cloud platform, Agile (Kanban, Scrum), Oracle, MySQL, Spark, Airflow Data stage.

Team Size: 35

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Understand the existing business and gathering the requirements, Build Business rules framework in organization level.

Design BRMS applications, Providing the required training.

Desing the AI and ML models with different algorithms

Design the Models ref with AWS in build models.

Involving the judging the requirements, discussion, design meetings

Developed novel and efficient reporting architectures to report KPIs to relevant internal and external stakeholders using Google data studio and tableau server.

Mentoring the team members for ODM Developers.

Working on DC, Team server, Governance framework, Administration, RES console, Decision Warehouse.

Supporting DC to writing the rules, deployments, configuration to businesspeople.

Attend the requirements call, providing solutions for different applications, working for migration applications.

Attend the daily scrum calls, talk with clients, involving planning meetings, providing the technical details for stories.

Working with team members and working for code development.

Assign and track the technical aspects.

Working with different team members, attending the production calls etc.

Involved in designing and developing a decision management solution, and the tasks that are associated with each role.

Playing as a developer, onsite coordinator, project estimations, attend project related calls, attend the calls for business requirements.

Availability 24/7, attend the production calls for sev-1, sev-2.

Attending operation calls and coordinating team to meet project work deadlines.

Design, develop, debug, test and deploy applications using ODM components.

Discussions and gathering the requirements.

The development process of building a business rule application and the collaboration between the business and development teams.

Help consuming applications to Integrate decision services for managed execution within an enterprise environment.

Set up XOM (Java and XSD) and customize the Business Object Model (BOM) and vocabulary for rule authoring.

Author, Debug, Test ( DVS, Junit, SOAP UI), Deploy rule services.

Enable business rule management in Decision Center for business users.

Establishing a methodology for capturing business rule, event processing requirements and agreeing with business users.

Developing business rule apps, defining vocabulary, complex rules using decision tables and other ODM constructs.

Developing applications using Complex event processing using ODM infrastructure.

Code Review, Team coordination and governance.

Develop and integrate the existing flows.

Working on new requirements and enhancements.

Involved in designing and developing functional specification documents for various business flows in the project.

Handling design and development of rules, rule flows, Decision tables.

Implementation of new Services and Activities.

Implementation and Code review with Roll Back plans.

Performance Tuning.

Supporting and Maintenance the existing applications on the WPS environment (UNIX/LINUX/Windows)

Working CR’s Design, providing inputs to developers, involving quality process, attending scrum meetings.

Involving Production issue calls

Work on Sev-1, Sev-2, Sev-3 tickets and respond to clients.

Working on Maintenance projects, Strategic projects and CRs.

Understanding on all possible integration patterns available

Deployments from non – production to Production environment

Working release plans and attending all meetings and defining a flow of execution.

Monitoring and auditing.

Documentation of requirements, development, build and deploy documents,

Prepare the testing services for all touch and support handbooks.

Requirements management, software & database design, software configuration management, build & deploy continuous integration, development, debugging, profiling, code analysis or testing and release new code from non-production to production environment DR environment.

Working with business, Business analysts in requirements and discussing the feasibilities with IBM ODM technology.

Working to create new environments from non-production to production on WPS and WL12c, deploy the modules, tuning the rules etc. (Partially Administration).

Debugging the rules and working with DI, BI and working for Impact analysis and return to CQ s to Clients with appropriate comments.

Work with java team for java issues.

Client: Bank, Wilmington, DE

Project: Risk Management [Check Deposit Fraud and Credit card fraud, Auto Finance]

Duration: Nove 2018 to to June 2022

Destination: Project Lead (Client location: Architect)

Current Responsibilities: Architect, Lead Project and Developer role (Onsite coordinator), WAS Administration

Technologies: IBM ODM 8.9/8.10, IBM WPS, UNIX, JIRA, Agile, WAS Admin, Agile (Kanban, Scrum),Oracle and Cassandra, Google cloud, Docker Containers

Team Size: 8

Current Responsibilities: (Individual Role/Onsite Coordinator)

I have been working for multi tasks like provide solution/design for migration of 10000+ rules from starta to IBM ODM 8.9 on cloud environment.

Involved in designing and developing a decision management solution, and the tasks that are associated with each role

Playing as a developer, onsite coordinator, project estimations, attend project related calls, attend the calls for bunisness requirements

Availability 24/7, attend the production calls for sev-1, sev-2.

Attending operation calls and coordinating team to meet project work deadlines.

Design, develop, debug, test and deploy applications using ODM components.

Discussions and gathering the requirements.

The development process of building a business rule application and the collaboration between the business and development teams

Help consuming applications to Integrate decision services for managed execution within an enterprise environment

Set up XOM (Java and XSD) and customize the Business Object Model (BOM) and vocabulary for rule authoring

Author, Debug, Test ( DVS, Junit, SOAP UI), Deploy rule services.

WAS administration, user management, security, Deployments, Creating the environments, migration.

Enable business rule management in Decision Center for business users

Establishing a methodology for capturing business rule, event processing requirements and agreeing with business users.

Developing business rule apps, defining vocabulary, complex rules using decision tables and other ODM constructs.

Developing applications using Complex event processing using ODM infrastructure.

Code Review, Team coordination and governance

Develop and integrate the existing flows.

Working on new requirements and enhancements.

Supporting and Maintenance to Existing Applications

Involved in designing and developing functional specification documents for various business flows in the project.

Handling design and development of rules, rule flows, Decision tables.

Implementation of new Services and Activities.

Implementation and Code review with Roll Back plans.

Performance the Tuning.

Supporting and Maintenance the existing applications on the WPS environment (UNIX/LINUX/Windows)

Working CR’s Design, Providing inputs to developers, involving quality process, attending scrum meetings.

Involving Production issue calls

Responsible from non production environment issues and setups.

Work on Sev-1, Sev-2, Sev-3 tickets and respond to clients

Working on Maintenance projects, Strategic projects and CRs.

Understanding on all possible integration patterns available

Working on CQ (UAT) and fix the issues in rules flows and Decision tables.

Designing and development of business rules (New requirements)

Working on clients' defects 9QAT/UAT) and production defects and new requirements.

Deployments from non – production to Production environment

Working release plans and attending the all meetings and defining a flow of execution.

Monitoring and auditing.

Documentation of requirements, development, build and deploy documents,

Prepare the testing services for all touch and support handbook.

Requirements management, software & database design, software configuration management, build & deploy, continuous integration, development, debugging, profiling, code analysis or testing and Release new code from non production to production environment DR environment.

Working with business, Business analysts in requirements and discussing the feasibilities with IBM ODM technology.

Mentoring the team members for ODM Developers.

Working to create new environments from non production to production on WPS and WL12c, deploy the modules, tuning the rules etc. (Partially Administration).

Debugging the rules and work with DI, BI and working for Impact analysis and return to CQ s to Clients with appropriate comments

Work with java team for java issues.

Recent Assignments:

Organization #1

Client: Deloitte, Mechanicsburg, PA

Project: VACMS/EDM (State of Virginia/Eligibility Determination) (Medicaid, Child Care, SNAP, EAP, TANF)

Duration: Mar 2017 to Nov 2018

Destination: Senior ODM Consultant

Current Responsibilities: (Individual Role)