Jan 2022 – May 2022 · 4 mos · New Jersey, United States

Aug 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore, India

• Leading NextGeneration Secure Digital Payments.

Feb 2019 – Jul 2019 · 5 mos

• Leading future digital payment revolution and building Future Payment Network for American Express.

Oct 2015 – Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Leading DevOps, Internet SSO, Enterprise Reference Architecture, ePaSS and Application Security Architecture initiatives for American Express Global Business Travel.
• Evaluated DevOps ( ALM, CI and CD) products and provided recommendations towards JIRA, Jenkins, Maven, NexusPro, Openshift, Ansible, Selenium, Junit, Jmeter, Crucible, Docker, Azure,Hipchat, Confluence and Openstack.
• Build and managed entire DevOps(ALM, CI and CD) platform for GBT.
• On boarding 60 projects on DevOps and transferred 98 project repos from AEDC SVN to GitHub.
• Expert of technical support, service management for internal and external identify & access management and DevOps components (ALM, CI and CD, Single Sign on-, Federation, Virtual Private Network) and trusted advisor to business partners, and development teams for support
• Worked with various in house team or external vendors.
• Provided technical expertise on evaluation and selection of new IAM products.
• Led design reviews with technical staff and provide guidance on programming standards and best practices.
• Build, manage and lead a team of highly talented engineers, develops deep understanding of tie-ins with other systems and platforms, writes code and unit tests, works on API specs, automation, and conducts code reviews and testing.
• Performs strategic planning activities, including application road maps, solution / system blueprints, technology trend research related to Travel application portfolio, ensures technical currency of application portfolio, and ensures application portfolio meets business capability needs.
• Works with portfolio architect to translate organizational architectural direction into actionable project level tasks
• Designed and executed DR Plan for File Services.

Jul 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Served as Lead Project Architect for Nationwide Insurance, involved in the daily meetings with the business to get the requirements of the project.
• Develops and manages IT architecture for assigned programs and projects supporting Commercial and Personal lines of Business needs and infrastructure domain; examples include:
• Developing an IT architecture that supports program/project delivery
• Managing program/project technology risk
• Contributing to application and technology roadmaps
• Ensures programs and projects meet functional and non-functional requirements; examples include:
• Leveraging building codes and enforcing compliance with technology and architecture standards
• Ensuring technical quality by conducting architecture and design reviews
• Participating in capacity planning, modeling and testing
• Assists project team with cost and technical resource estimates as well as planning for new solutions, technology upgrades and application platform maintenance
• Mentors program/project technical talent and provide feedback to program/project people leaders to improve architecture and design capabilities
• Ensures technical architecture and design implemented in a given program or project supports functional and non-functional requirements, and then advises on cost, design and requirement trade-offs to guarantee this
• Building Identity Provisioning System for Scottsdale Insurance company for Commercial and personal Lines of Business.
• Analyzes the core heap dumps of applications and provides recommendations for performance related issues
• Practiced TOGAF 9.1 and ESDM Standards

Oct 2012 – Jul 2013 · 9 mos · East Moline

• Served as Technical Architect, involved in the daily meetings with the business to get the requirements of the project.
• Involved in the analysis, design, preparation of the functional specifications documents and detail design documents and communicated the same to the offshore. Managing the entire offshore team.
• Designing the architecture of the application and providing security level suggestion to the development team.
• Owning the end to end infrastructure procurement and engaging all the teams to install and configure the product. Worked on performance fine tuning of the application.
• Create/Update business requirements, functional specification documents and implementing using agile methodologies.
• Prepare class diagrams and sequence diagrams using MS-Visio.
• Design and developed graphical user interfaces to meet the business needs using JSP/JavaScript/CSS.
• Implementation of Spring MVC and Java/J2EE design patterns for design and development of the applications.
• Developed Java Business Objects for business logic implementation and Data Access Object using John Deere proprietary IAF Framework.
• Unit testing is done using JUnit framework.
• Responsible for fixing the defects per requirements.
• Provide application release support as well as for application enhancements from Development, Quality and Certification to Production systems.
• Provide technical assistance and guidance to the development group.

May 2006 – Sep 2012 · 6 yrs 4 mos · Phoenix, Arizona Area

• Designed and Build Registerd Card Platform, ABACUS Platform, Cmax, GNS, NG Selects Platforms.
• Involved in the analysis, design, preparation of the functional specifications documents and detail design documents and communicated the same to the offshore. Managing the entire offshore team.
• Designing the architecture of the application and providing security level suggestion to the development team.
• Preparing XML schema and reviewing with the Enterprise architect team.
• Preparing of delivery documents and making timely deliveries.
• Monitoring, implementing the development activities of the team and updated to the Management.
• Participated in weekly status meetings, and conducting internal and external reviews as well as formal walkthroughs among the team members, and documenting the proceedings.
• Responsible for the end to end delivery and implementation of the Project.
• Used Outh2.0 to integrate to facebook.
• Owning the end to end infrastructure procurement and engaging all the teams to install and configure the product.
• Worked with multiple Product vendors( Vignette, Infogix etc)
• Performed Loadtesting for NG Selects Project and fine tune the Selects Platform.

Sep 2005 – Oct 2012 · 7 yrs 1 mo · Phoenix AZ

• Worked with Multiple Clients American Express, First Data, Skillbay
• Designed and Build Registerd Card Platform, ABACUS Platform, Cmax, GNS, NG Selects Platforms for American Express.
• Build and Managed Registers Card Chennai offshore team of 45 resources. Trained team on AJAX, Webservices, Spring, REST technologies for project requirement.
• Involved in RFP/ RFI process