Solution Architect/Manager

Himanshu Zinzuwadia

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856-***-****, **************@*******.***

Summary

Information Technology veteran and evangelist with deep

experience in leading business to business integration, enterprise

systems integration, business intelligence, portals and service

oriented architecture strategy in fortune 1000 enterprises.

Specializing in IT mergers and Trading Partner Integration.

Areas of

Expertise

* Enterprise Application Integration

* Application consolidation

* Business Intelligence

* IT and Business strategy alignment

* EDI and E-Commerce

* Service Oriented Architecture

* Business Process Management

* Portals and Application

Mashups

Experience

CIGNA

2008-Present

Highlights

Architecture Manager, Group Insurance

Provided initiative and technological leadership to a team of architects

and developers engaged in creating a customer self service infrastructure

for consumer data intake.

Responsible for support and development for migration and upgrade of all consumer data

intake systems..

* Showed initiative to develop and implemented architecture blueprint of IT model to

support the business goal of generating more small company business with fewer

overheads. Piloted and proved the use of BizTalk message broker architecture to

improve efficiency and accuracy of consumer data intake from new customers,

* Upgraded and repositioned existing legacy consumer data intake systems.

* Created a self service capability for business users and customers so as to reduce their

dependence on IT for integrating with a new business partner.

* Provided estimates, performance improvements, quality assessments and trouble

shooting services during full software development lifecycle (SDLC)

* Developed strategy and plans to match business requirements in areas such as quote,

proposal, policy, eligibility and enrollment.

Associated Press

2007-2008

BizTalk Architect

Implementation and Management of an Internet Scale Content

Management and Delivery system responsible for disseminating over 2

million news items a month to internet and mobile news portals of

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft as well as 1600 news papers in the country.

Responsible for technology upgrades and introduction of changes without disruption of a

24x7 mission critical news delivery system based on BizTalk during the Olympics and Primary

season.

* Introduced and developed a staging / disaster recovery environment.

* Established change management, reviews and quality guidelines for software

development life cycle to prevent service disruptions when changes are introduced.

* Established and maintained an event based monitoring strategy that correlated

disruptions across dozens of loosely coupled news feed and delivery systems as well as

portals.

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BearingPoint

2006-2007

Systems Integration Consultant

Implementation of a screening and biometric ID issuance system for Department of

Transportation employees.

* Integration of screening system with FBI and different state police departments for

securely submitting and receiving background check information using web services,

secure FTP, MSMQ and other protocols.

* Integration of ID card issuance system with device drivers of various biometric devices

such as finger print, iris scan and palm scanners.

* Developing software for secure encryption, transmission and storage and retrieval of

biographic and biometric information.

NRG Energy

2005-2006

Systems Integration Consultant

Lead development and integration of a business intelligence system to assist the energy

traders in making optimal trades based on up to the minute market conditions.

* Downloading and web scrapping of market data from various energy trading exchanges

such as PJM, NEPOOL and NYISO

* Normalization and real time aggregation of this data into Data Analysis Cubes and

reports that allow traders to view market data such as load, outage, prices by region,

time-slot, supplier and other dimensions.

Hewlett Packard Consulting and Integration

2003-2005

Senior Solution Architect

Lead full lifecycle consulting assignments from quote to completion at number of HP

clients and HP divisions

* Implementation of UCC Net integration of Consumer Processed Goods data between

HP printing and imaging system division and Wal*Mart using BizTalk and Web Services

* Development of data consolidation and business reporting solution for Pfizer’s

corporate budgeting system that covers all the Pfizer divisions across the world.

* Implementation of content management e-commerce and b2b integration for the

website of Zondervan, a division of Harper-Collins.

IDT

2001-2003

Senior Systems Analyst

Business systems analysis and design of carrier billing systems and

customer support systems

* Designed an Email based customer service system where customer

emails are routed to appropriate customer rep based on expertise

and availability.

* Designed a customer call routing system for routing customer calls

based on Automated Number Input and customer rep availability

and expertise

* Designed a carrier billing system interfacing with AT&T’s ISTAR

billing system to exchange call record data and compute billing

based on call tariffs by LATA codes.

Technical

Skills

Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2, Microsoft SQL server 2005 including

SSIS, Analysis and reporting services, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

with ASP.NET, WCF, Windows Workflow, Microsoft Sharepoint Server

2007

Education

and

Certifications

M.S. Eng. Texas Tech University, TX

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

UCCNet Certification in GDSN

ISO 9000 lead auditor, Institute of Directors, London, UK

Certificate in Production and Inventory Management, APICS

Executive MBA – Rutgers University (in progress)

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