Aakash Agarwal Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

• Design integrated solutions working directly with key stakeholders on large, complex projects• Manage EAI, SOA and technical business process improvement projects (BPMS) from initiation to deployment• Undertake vendor management and platform improvement initiatives• Designing governance framework for integrated solutions and systems• Assist management with new hiring(s)• Mentoring, getting new starter up to speed with companywide architecture, governance principles and discuss about individual professional and personal development plans.Achievements -- • Led platform upgrade project from webMethods 7.0 to 8.x which resulted in improving productivity and provided a more stable platform for deploying process models• Introduced reusable ebXML modules, the same module has already been adopted by 2 different projects with zero design or development effort• Excellent rated performer in the performance reviews on a consistent basis

Bristol, United Kingdom

Everything Everywhere is a merger of Orange with T-Mobile in UK. Responsibilities included all those listed under Orange PCS Ltd and the below - Orange & T-Mobile Integration • Managing the integration systems of the two companies • Knowledge sharing and making T-mobile colleagues familiar with the existing Orange architecture • Exposure to the existing T-mobile middleware architecture by visiting their head office • Participated and presented views on SOA driven architecture for the integrated company going forward • Facilitated the removal of old hardware due to the migration into the new architecture

Bristol, United Kingdom

Software Development Life Cycle and Management• Managed a project from Requirements analysis to first customer ship (FCS) using structured design methodologies (Waterfall), or rapid application development (RAD) based on complexity and priority• Cost forecasting, project planning, technical and business documentation from middleware perspective• Resource planning and vendor management• Consultancy to other domain experts, SAs and EAs.• Capacity assessment for high-transactional and high-availability systems• Support handover and operational requirements review at both design and development stage• Cross-verification of the work been completed by other designers against quality, architecture and design principles• Hands-on development experience in IBM WebSphere DataPower XI50, webMethods 6.1 and 7.1 suite, XML and UNIX for high-transactional and high-availability solutions.Architecture and design patterns• Enterprise application integration (EAI) and service oriented architecture (SOA) based design using IBM Rational Rose and Sparx EA• A core team member of SOA enabler group, a virtual team responsible for introducing SOA design and development patterns• Wrote the guidelines for wrapper/Façade services to enable people to use legacy services while still complying to SOA based architecture• Introduced the concept of reusable common business process (BPM)• Wrote and validated a major part of web services guidelines for composite services• Participated in POC with IBM in order to establish the feasibility of using IBM WebSphere DataPower in Orange. This included understanding and coding XML, XSLT to an extent.SOA Governance and security• Part of the SOA governance core group responsible for reviews/approval/rejection or enforcement of new governance principles• Involved in Payment Card Industry (PCI) auditing project with an independent consultant• Reviewed and revisited the existing service log template for Business Processes

Bristol

To analyse the business requirements for systems from the management team and get it delivered through off-shore development partnersAchievements: • Selected to attend the UKRC 2007 conference in Manchester to represent UKTeleradiology• Heavily involved in negotiating a major deal for the company which was a big success

Bristol, United Kingdom

I worked as a student ambassador for the University the West of England; my role involved representing the University in a number of different capacities; including Open Days and Conferences.

Msc, Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Student Ambassador Subjects included - • Project management and development • Object-modelling and design.

Bachelor, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Graduate Diploma in Information Technology Subjects included - • Project management and development • Unified.