Technical/Application Architect and Project Management

Profile Summary

Result driven individual and technically proven leader with significant experience of 14+ years, predominantly in Java Technology using J2EE methodologies with working in full product life cycle. Designed, implemented and supported complex business applications by playing both as a Project Manager and Technical Architect roles by effectively handling a mid-sized team in providing quality deliverables on time and within budget.

Job Experience

Client/Company: GA Dept of Human Resources/Accenture

Project: SACWIS

Project Duration: May 2006 - Present

Project & Role Description

Georgia SHINES is a web-based, statewide automated child welfare information system (SACWIS) for Georgia Dept. of Human Resources that offers case managers with the Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) -- from field staff to regional supervisors -- a comprehensive tool for helping children and families to support children's safety, permanency, and well-being.

As the Project Manager and Technical Architect role, my responsibilities include:

* Analyze Business Requirements to identify IT solutions (enhancements to existing solutions, or design of new ones) and migration strategies

* Look at requirements and solutions from an enterprise-wide point of view, i.e., across applications and development organizations (i.e., factories)

* Work with Application Architects and others who understand the design of specific applications in detail

* Participate in the High Level Design (HLD) and Application Interface Design reviews to ensure applications implement the Solution Approach

* Help resolve architectural, deployment and support issues

* Design the application components and facilitates the working environment for the application development team members.

* Deliver the architectural deliverables to the client.

* Manage all the release and support activity.

* Mentor Software engineers and System Analysts in Technical Architecture Design by following the Accenture Delivery Methodology.

Tools Used: Sun Solaris 10.0, Java 1.5, Microsoft Projects, J2EE Technologies, Sun Java Application Server 8.1, Apache Ant 1.6.5, Web Services, Spring, Hibernate, Rational Unified process tools such as ClearQuest, ClearCase, RequisitePro, Test Manager, Subversion and Oracle 10G.

Client/Company: Bellsouth/Accenture

Project : Service Inventory Management

Project Duration: Dec. 2005 - April 2006

Project & Role Description

As an Inventory management designer, the scope of my role includes design, development, testing, deployment and supporting the project.

* Created system designs documents to support the customization of Cramer and integration to other OSS modules such as Domain services, ISTM, and BPM.

* Developed Customer List and End to end View Services using the Carbon/ESB framework (custom framework of Bellsouth) integrated with Cramer application incorporated SOA, IBM MQ-Series and J2EE technologies.

* Developed Ant build scripts and JUnit to build, deploy and unit test the developed modules.

* Used MQ Client and Message Driven Beans to Integrate with Carbon Frame Work

* Used IBM WebsphereMQ6.0 (Queues) for Component testing.

* Used XML Beans for request and response processing.

* Supported the CM and Infrastructure teams for seamless build and deployment process.

* Responsible for the delivery of the application.

Tools Used: Sun Solaris 7.0, Java 1.4, J2EE Technologies, MQSeries, Weblogic 8.1 SP4, Weblogic Workshop8.1, IBM Websphere MQ 6.0, Cramer 5.0, Apache Ant 1.6.5, Mercury Test Director and Oracle 9i.

Client/Company: US Army/EDS

Project: ARISS

Project Duration: June 1998 - Oct. 2005

Project & Role Description

As a Sr. Tech. Consultant for US Army, the scope of my role includes design, development, testing, deployment and supporting six different projects during my seven years tenure while leading a group of developers.

My primary responsibilities include:

* Following the established organization and Project processes and work instructions.

* Participating in the Integrated Project Planning review and approval process that involves conducting PDR (Preliminary Design Review) and CDR (Critical Design Review) meetings with client users.

* Coordinating with the organization's process area teams to draft the process/procedure documents.

* Learning about the Customer's business and objectives to identify and understand their requirements that include conducting JAD (Joint Application Design) meetings with the client users to obtain requirements.

* Presenting ideas and alternatives for requirements, including opportunities to adjust requirements to permit reuse, reduce development time, or to reduce development costs.

* Providing a system that meets the Customer's functional and quality needs that involves coding, unit testing, conducting Peer Reviews, Planning the Deployment Strategy, Maintenance and Support by performing troubleshooting activities and implementing critical fixes for the developed modules.

* Used JAVA/J2EE platform with Struts/Hibernate Framework for five different projects

* Used PowerBuilder/Sybase Client Server tools for two projects.

Tools used: JAVA, EJB, Apache Struts Framework, Servlets, Hibernate, Displaytag, JSP, ANT & Maven Build tool, WSDL, SOAP, JUnit, JMeter, HTML/XML/XSLT, Javascript, Sybase ASE and ASA database servers, Weblogic 8.1 and Sybase Jaguar 4.2, Eclipse 3.0, Win-CVS (SCCS Tool), Test Director 8.0, PowerBuilder 6.5/8.0 & PFC, Form Flow 99 and Windows 2000/XP.

Client/Company: ValuAmerica/Deloite & Touche Consulting Group

Project: VALUNET

Project Duration: Feb. 1998 - May 1998

Project & Role Description

Responsible for developing ValuAmerica’s title and appraisal software named VALUNET. The client, a bank, or a lending Institution transmits a request for title or appraisal services to ValuAmerica. Transmission is in the form of a fax, EDI (Electronic data interchange) or telephone call. ValuNet assigns any appropriate vendor for the request and on receiving the report, sends it to the client after performing the quality control review.

Key Contributions to the project includes designing and developing screens in the following modules: Order maintenance module, and Vendor module. Screens of master detail type and custom made reports. Unit test plans and technical specifications.

Tools used: PowerBuilder 6.0 (PFC), Oracle 7.3, and Windows NT 4.0/95

Client/Company: Boston Management Consultants, Pvt. Ltd.,

Project : FACTS

Project Duration: April 1997 - Feb. 1998

Project & Role Description

Responsible for developing (Franchisee Accounting System) FACTS, a system used to plan all the Sales and Operations for the franchisees of BMC.

Key Contributions to the project includes designing and developing screens in the following modules: Students Information, Material Management, Month and Year end processes, Payment modules, Auto Invoice Generation and Reports.

Tools used: PowerBuilder 5.0, and Oracle 7.0, and Windows NT 3.0/95

Client/Company: Info World Consultants Pvt. Ltd.,

Project: Custodian System

Project Duration: Dec. 1996 - March 1997

Project & Role Description

Responsible for developing Custodian System, a management tool for security service. It holds shares on behalf of their clients and provides useful services such as receiving and preparing shares, registering shares, receiving dividends, and generating reports.

Key Contributions to this project includes designing and developing screens that captures data and reports.

Tools used: PowerBuilder 5.0, MS-SQL Server 6.0, and Windows NT 3.0/95

Client/Company: Pambban Software Systems Ltd.,

Project: TABS

Project Duration: Jan. 1996 - Dec. 1996

Project & Role Description

Responsible for designing and developing the Textile and Apparel Business Solution called "TABS", an OLTP application based on the concepts of MRP II. This includes industry standard modules such as DRP (Distribution Resource Planning), and Supply Chain Management. TABS, a generalized product and a client server application address the Textile industry consisting of modules such as Manufacturing, Financials, Distribution and Personnel.

Tools used: PowerBuilder 4.0, SQL Server 6.0, and Windows 95/NT

Education

University/College Degree Year

Bharathiyar University, India B.S. in Computer Science 5/1993

Bharathidasan University, India Masters in Computer Application 4/1996

Training/Continuing Education

Course Company/Vendor Date Taken

ATS Technical Architecture Design School Accenture November 2005

Team Lead Accenture January 2006

Accenture Project Management School Accenture November 2006

IBM Rational ClearCase & ClearQuest Administration IBM August 2007

Leaders Window Accenture August 2007

Estimating Work Planning & Monitoring-Solutions Accenture February 2008

Professional Societies

Professional Society: Sun Certified Java Programmer Member Since: 8/2000

Certifications

Certification Certification Status Year Certified

Rational ClearCase Windows Completed 2007

Rational ClearQuest Admin Completed 2007

Skills

Operating System Unix, Windows

Java Technologies Java 1.5, J2EE Methodologies Eclipse, BEA Weblogic, Hibernate, JUnit, Tomcat, Apache Struts, Spring Framework, Eclipse, Apache-Ant, SJSAS

Databases Oracle, Sybase

Testing Tools Test Director, IBM Rational Clear Quest

UI Tools Power builder, HTML, JavaScript

CM Tools Subversion Repository Management,

Technical Architecture Java Technical Architecture & Deployment

Reference: Provided upon request.

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