Summary
- A strategic, decisive, business-oriented and result-focused IT professional offering strong technical, leadership and successful team building skills. Good in sales and building productive relationships and interactions with partners and customers.
- Excellent experience and understanding in Architecture & Design principles, Design, Development &Hands-on coding of Web / Mobile Portals & Applications, Open-source development, Software Processes & Patterns, Master Data Management, Using SDLC processesbased on iterative (RUP) and Agile (SCRUM) development methodologies.
- Possess proven skills in leading teams, Project Management, developing and managing budgets, monitoring project standards for all deliverables, creating strategies, managing quality assurance, overseeing technical design, documentationand trainings. Sound technical expertise in software architecture, software development, object-oriented analysis and design, requirements analysis and data modeling.
- Experienced in developing Information Architecture, Development Architecture, IT strategies and architecture solutions, Process and Solution Design (based on EA blueprints, roadmaps/system books, using EA frameworks such as TOGAF 9/Zachman, confirming to enterprise architecture principles and methods and established standards, performance guidelines and strategies).
Experience:
- Around 17 years of well-rounded hands-on international expertise in business application software development, primarily for Banking &Financial Services using products in a variety of technology stacks (Oracle FusionMiddleware 11i, Oracle ECM Suite, WebSphere, InfoSphere, TIBCO, webMethods, Tivoli, Rational, SharePoint Server 2010, etc.)using .NET 4, Java 7, C++, Ruby/JRuby/Ruby on Rails, Objective-C, PHP, Python, etc.
13+ years of secondary roles in Technical Project Management, Team Management, Customer Management, Vendor Management, Pre-Sales, Tenders and Proposals.
- 11+ years in the financial industry with experience in various business domains such as Treasury, Financial Risk Management, Financial Markets, Investment (Credit OTC Derivatives, Investment Banking, FX, MM, Equities), Commercial, Retail (Lending, Cards, Core Banking, and Alternate Delivery Channel Banking – Online [Internet, Mobile, SIM Toolkit], and Wholesale, Cash Management (Collections, Payments, and Liquidity), Billing and Regulatory Reporting, integrations with various Core Banking (Temenos T24, Finacle, FlexiCube, BaNCS, Globus), Banking technologies and Enterprise Systems (Summit, Murex, OPICS) using various Financial Messaging.
Worked closely with Senior Executives, Delivery Heads, Business Analysts, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Technical Architects, Application Architects, Designers, Developers and Partners in scope and requirements management, translating business requirements into innovative solutions through unambiguous standards-based technical designs & frameworks.
Successfully lead and managed large projects, stakeholders & teams comprised of different cultures, spread across geographical locations. / Core Competencies:
- Banking & Technology
- Leadership & Team building
- IT Architecture (Enterprise, Solution, Integration, Data Technical Architectures)
- SOA/ESB,BPM, Process Orchestration,EAI, Enterprise Workflows Information Architecture
- Project & Product Management
- Competency, Managing Bids/Tenders/Proposals, Pre-Sales
- ALM, Development Architecture, Continuous Integration, Build & Release Management
- Emerging Technology
- Financial Messaging, FIX, SWIFT, PCI
- .NET 4. 0 (C#, Web / Windows Forms, ASP.NET, MVC 3, WCF, WPF, Workflow Foundation, MVVM, MVP, EntLib 5. 0),Java 7 (JEE, JSE, JME), C++, C, SharePoint 2010, BizTalk Server 2010, IIS 7. 5, J2ME, Pro*C, Ruby, JRuby, Ruby on Rails
- EAI, SOAP, Web 2. 0, CMS, ORM, Agile, Scrum, RUP, TDD, RAD, UML,
- BPEL, Oracle Service Bus, BPEL Manager, Mule, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BPM,iProcess Suite, WebSphere ESB, Process Server
- Data Warehousing, ETL, MDM, InfoSphere DataStage 8. 1, Query Optimization, SQL Server (SSIS, SSRS), Oracle 11g, Sybase, DB2, RavenDB, Neo4j, BO XI R3, Crystal Reports, Excel VBA
- WebSphere (Message Broker, MQ), TIBCO (ActiveMatrix, EMS, Rendezvous), OracleTuxedo, Oracle Coherence 3. 6. 1, Oracle, TimesTen
- Tivoli Access Manager, i-Sprint AccessMatrix UAM 5
- CruiseControl.NET, SmartBear Automated Build Studio
- iOS, Unix, Linux, Solaris
Recent Experience (Last 6 years in reverse chronological order)
Oracle Consulting Services(Singapore) –3Sep‘11 to Till Date
Workingwith Oracle Consulting Services as a freelancer and providing architecture and technical consulting on pre-sales and development of various technology project engagements based mainly on Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Content Management Suite of products.
Concept phase of the IT Modernization Programme of Singapore Stock Exchange, Singapore
My role in this project is to provide architecture and technology consultancy for the development of the working architecture prototype development based on SOA, Java Enterprise and Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite.
This purpose of the programme is to transform the various IT System silos from IBM z/OS Mainframe to Open Systems, based on SOA, Java Enterprise and Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite.
This programme includes setting up an Oracle SOA & BPM Suite 11g based SOA environment that uses Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Tuxedo / Attunity CICS adapters, Oracle Universal Content Management, Oracle WebCenter 11g, DB2 on Mainframe, Oracle 11g database and JDeveloper 11g. The software development methodology used is Rational Unified Process (RUP) using the Rational toolkit such as Rational RequisitePro, Rational Software Architect, etc. My role in this programme includes customer interactions, conducting technical and requirement workshops, leading the Architecture Review Board, Design Review Board and leading the technical team for the architecture, design, delivery and implementation phases of the programme.
My role in this programme includes customer interactions, conducting detailed technical and business requirement workshops, leading the Architecture Review Board, Design Review Board and leading the technical team for the architecture, design, delivery (offsite) and implementation phases of the programme.
Pre-Sales phase of the IT Revamp 2 Programme of Central Provident Fund Board (CPFB), Singapore
My role in this project is to provide presales and consulting activities related to architecture and technology for the development of the solution proposal, including technology selection, effort estimation, costing, etc based primarily on Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite.
This purpose of the programme is to transform the various IT System silos from IBM z/OS Mainframe to Open Systems, based on SOA, Java Enterprise and Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite. This solutioning includes various constraints due to completely controlled onsite development and implementation.
This programme includes setting up an Oracle SOA & BPM Suite 11g based SOA environment that uses Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Tuxedo / Attunity CICS adapters, Oracle Universal Content Management, Oracle WebCenter 11g, DB2 on Mainframe, Oracle 11g database and JDeveloper 11g.
My role in this programme includes customer interactions, conducting high level technical and business requirement workshops, leading the Architecture Review Board, Design Review Board and leading the technical team for the technology (and architecture) part of the solution proposal response to the bid.
NCS Private Limited (Singapore) - 28 Dec ‘10 to 2Sep ‘11
In this global technology consulting company, served as the technology leader in the application architecture practice and played the following roles:
- Technology Architecture: Project sizing & estimating, architecture gap analysis, architecture & design definition and documentation, governance, review, compliance, advisory & communication, technical leadership & mentoring.
- Team Management: Directing teams of size ranging from 4 to 20, led meetings, proposed and implemented solutions to various business problems, increased team performance, reduced project costs, managing clients, partners& vendors and supportingvarious management units (such as Account Management, Program Management, Project Management, Resource Management, System Development Management, Finance Management, Human Capital Management, etc. ).
- Architecture/Design, Delivery Management/Technical Project Management,Development (Team Leadership & Software Coding)in the following Customer Projects:
Online Global Transaction Services (GTS) Project for CitiBank, Singapore
Enterprise IT Transformation Programme for Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS), Singapore
Housing Integrated Information Programme (HiiP) for Department of Human Services, State Government of Victoria, Western Australia
eXciteTV Consumer Services for SingTel Communications Limited, Singapore
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC India) - Jul ‘09 to Nov ‘10
In this global technology consulting company, served as the key technology leader in the application technology practice and played multifaceted roles that included the following:
- Practice leadership: Practice/organization management (includes hiring, firing, performance improvement& building leaders), resource management, project sizing & estimating, architecture development & compliance, technical leadership & mentoring, managing clients, partners &vendors, supporting various management units.
- Partner Collaboration: Worked with various close partners including Microsoft (several groups), IBM, Oracle, etc. on opportunities involving evangelism, sales and customer projects.
- Team Management and Thought Leadership: Directed teams of size ranging from 8 to 120, led meetings, managed vendors & partners and supported management units, Drove the pipeline, revenue estimates and resource planning and recruiting. Managed the team of application consultants with quality delivery and high customer satisfaction, and provided career guidance and mentoring. Empowered the senior management of various regional practices by sharing best practices and innovative team collaboration tools.
- Customer Project Delivery: As Lead Architect drove the creation of various application solutions from envisioning and architecture/design through technical development and implementation, usually on multiple customer projects simultaneously.
- Competency Leadership: Established and drove various COEs on Android, Cassandra, Solr, Play Framework, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), HTML5, etc.
- Architecture/Design, Delivery Management/Technical Project Management,Development (Team Leadership & Software Coding)in the following Customer Projects:
Cash Management Enhancement System for National Bank of Dubai, Dubai, U. A. E
Credit Gateway application for Wells Fargo, U. S. A
Project Control System (PCS) for Petrofac International Limited, Sharjah, U. A. E
Mobile Messaging Gateway (MMG) Product Development for Inovant LLC (Visa Incorporation), USA
Mahindra Satyam (India) - Jul ‘08 to Jun ‘09
In this global technology consulting company, served as the key technology leader in the application technology practice and played multifaceted roles that included the following:
- Customer Project Delivery: As Lead Architect drove the creation of various application solutions from envisioning and architecture/design thru technical development and implementation, usually on multiple customer projects simultaneously. Architected and delivered various complex business solutions.
- Partner Collaboration: Worked with various close partners including Microsoft (several groups), HP, Oracle, etc. on opportunities involving evangelism, sales and customer projects.
- Team Management and Thought Leadership:Directed teams of size ranging from 5 to 180, led meetings, managed vendors & partners and supported management units, Drove the pipeline, revenue estimates and resource planning and recruiting. Managed the team of application consultants with quality delivery and high customer satisfaction, and provided career guidance and mentoring. Empowered the senior management of various regional practices by sharing best practices and innovative team collaboration tools.
- Practice leadership: Practice/organization management (includes hiring, performance improvement, firing& building leaders), resource management, project sizing & estimating, architecture development & compliance, technical leadership & mentoring.
- Consulting Engagement Management: Managed clients, partners &vendors and supported various management units.
- Competency Leadership: Established and drove various COEs on Windows Phone, JQuery, JSON, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JRuby, IronPython, Apache Lucene, Lucene.NET, MongoDB, RavenDB, Lua, Lua.NET, Scintilla, SciTE.
- Architecture/Design, Delivery Management/Technical Project Management,Development (Team Leadership & Software Coding) in the following Customer Projects:
Streamworks Product for arvato systems gmbh (A subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG), Germany
Integra solution for State Farm Life and Accident Assurance Company, Bloomington, Illinois, USA
PlanSys solution for PLAN NGO, Denmark
Saudi Business Machines (IBM Saudi Arabia) - Dec ‘07 to Jul ‘08
In this global technology consulting company, served as a technology leader in the application technology practice and played the role of a Lead Architect in the following Customer Projects:
SAP ERP-2005 Enterprise Solution for Saudi Electricity Company, Khobar, Saudi Arabia
Arsel Product Development for Zain Telecommunications Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Arab National Bank (Saudi Arabia) - Jan ‘06 to 30 Nov ’07
In this large financial institution, served as the key technology leader in the Information Technology Departmentand played the following roles:
- Customer Project Delivery: As Lead Architect drove the creation of various application solutions from envisioning and architecture/design thru technical development and implementation, usually on multiple customer projects simultaneously. Architected and delivered various complex business solutions.
- Partner Collaboration: Worked with various close partners including Microsoft (several groups), Accenture, IBM, Oracle, etc. on building solutions.
- Management: Directed teams of size ranging from 5 to 30, led meetings, managed vendors & partners and supported management units.
- Architecture/DesignDevelopment in the following in-house Projects:
Finacle Core Banking Implementation
MiSys OPICS Plus Implementation
Basel II Implementation using Algorithmics product suite Algo Suite (Algo Capital, Algo Credit, Algo Risk, Algo Collateral, Algo Opvantage)
ITIL implementation using HP Software IT Management Products
TOGAF 8 Enterprise Architecture Implementation using orbus iServer Enterprise Architect
Enterprise Service Orchestration Architectural FrameworkImplementation through B-Wave Software
- Architecture/Design, Delivery Management/Technical Project Management,Development (Team Leadership & Software Coding) in the following in-house Projects:
Cash Management Internet Banking Enhancements
Basel II Solution Framework (B2SF)
Self-Service Online Banking System
Payments Platform
Consumer Finance Loan Management System
Insight (Customer Care) System
Enterprise SOA Environment
Customer Activity, Profiling and Resolution Integration System
Career ProfileSignificantly contributed architecture, software development and management skills to the following organizations:
- Oracle Consulting Services(Singapore), from 3 Sep ‘11 to till date Lead Architect (Enterprise, Solution & Applications)on a freelance basis
- NCS Private Limited (Singapore), from 28 Dec ‘10 to 2 Sep’11as Lead Solutions Architect (Chief Architect Office)
- Computer Sciences Corporation (India), from Jul ‘09 to Nov ‘10 as Senior Manager - Technology &Architecture
- Mahindra Satyam Computer Services Limited, India, from Jul ‘08 to Jun ‘09 as Practice Head - Technology & Architecture
- Saudi Business Machines (Saudi Arabia), from Dec ‘07 to Jul ‘08 as Lead Architect
- Arab National Bank (Saudi Arabia), from Jan ‘06 to 30 Nov ’07 as Principal Architect / Project Manager
- International Turnkey Systems (Kuwait), from May ‘05 to Jan ’06 as Principal Consultant/Lead Architect
- Ports, Customs & Free-zone Authorities Corporation (UAE), from Nov ‘04 to May ’05 as Lead Programme Management Analyst / Senior Project Manager
- eGulf Systems FZC Limited (UAE), from Mar ‘04 to Nov ’04 as Lead Software Architect / Project Manager
- Ducont FZ-LLC (UAE), from Nov ‘00 to Mar ‘04 as Principal Consultant / Project Manager
- Ports, Customs & Free-zone Authorities Corporation (UAE), from Nov ‘99 to Nov ’00 as Senior Architect / Project Manager
- Sterling System Integrators (India), from Apr ‘96 to Nov ’99 as Technical Architect / Project Leader
- Ports, Customs & Free-zone Authorities Corporation (UAE) from Nov ‘04 to May ’05 as Program Management Office Analyst / Project Manager
- 1999 - Master in Science (Mathematics) from Annamalai University, INDIA (Part-Time)
- 1996 - Bachelor of Science Mathematics) from University of Madras, INDIA
- 1996 - Higher Diploma in Software Engineering from Aptech Computer Education, INDIA (Part-Time)
- Microsoft Certified Solution Developer – SQL Server, Visual Basic, Windows Architecture
- IBM Certified in DB2 Development since 2009
- BrainBench certification in ASP.NET, C# and RDBMS concepts
Oracle Consulting Services Ltd (Singapore)
Project Name / IT Modernation Programme / Start Date / Feb 2012
Client / Singapore Stock Exchange, Singapore / End Date / Ongoing
Project Location / Singapore / Team Size handled / 40
Role / Principal Architect
Operating System / VMWare Virtualized Farm, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
Environment / Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g (SOA Suite, BPM Suite, Oracle Web Services Manager, BPEL Manager, Access Manager, Identity Manager, Business Orchestration, Oracle Business Rules, Oracle B2B, Oracle Service Registry, Oracle Business Process Modeler, Oracle UCM, Coherence, Oracle 11g database), Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite
Project Description / Modernization of IT Infrastructure from Legacy Systems with DB/2 to SOA based Modern Open Source technologies based primarily on Oracle Fusion product suite.
Contribution /
- Pre-sales
- Responding to RFP, Providing Clarifications
- Solutioning
- Presenting Solution Architecture
- High Level Estimation
- Estimation
- Building Architecture Prototype
- Managing client expectations and balances the needs of company and the client to ensure satisfaction for both (Relationship Management).
- Prepared Blueprints of various functional areas
- Prepared project planning of various work streams
- Designed overall system and solution architecture, system integration, and implementation strategy.
- Developed both security components of both internal and external applications