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Morris Plains, Nj, Us

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Proposed the migration project to leadership, developing a four-year roadmap as the Business Owner.• Implemented microservices architecture and API-based solutions, with a focus on MVPs and integrated functional testing.• Conducted regular meetings across various levels, from application teams to executive leadership, ensuring alignment and progress tracking.• As a product owner, initiated planning upon receiving new business initiatives, creating roadmaps and JIRA EPICs.• Oversaw IT delivery, monitored sprint deliveries, and ensured feature integration aligned with project needs.• Managed expectations through regular meetings, documentation, and communication, including status reports and executive briefings.• Facilitated JAD sessions for large projects and handles high-level design for smaller projects, ensuring feature allocation to appropriate teams.• Effectively communicated high-level documents to stakeholders, employing diagrams and artifacts for clarity and efficient work delegation.• Split business requirements across MVPs and EPICs, providing comprehensive project details including user stories and test criteria.• Conducted meetings with development and testing teams to ensure clear understanding and address ambiguities, with weekly meetings to discuss clarifications or scope changes.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Data Management at Data Reality LLC.

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, United States

• Led the transition of high-value financial applications from legacy systems, focusing on modernization and efficiency.• Utilized IBM ODM and its features to migrate rules stored as text to a Business Rules Engine Management system thereby empowering business and eliminating IT dependency/processes.• Successfully streamlined a large volume of code in a financial application, enhancing flexibility and reducing risks.• Spearheaded the migration of a critical claims processing application to a more advanced, database-based system.• Managed both high-level design processes and modularization of backend logic for financial applications.• Effectively communicated and coordinated with stakeholders, ensuring clarity in project goals and design features.

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States

• Solution architect at UHG. Developing solution for migrating from a mainframe CICS based configuration system to IBM ODM rules engine based modern governance system.• Business rules were extracted from mainframe; rule attributes were identified, XOM/BOM created; vocabulary was defined; vocabulary was utilized for the development of business rule language.

Northern New Jersey

• Led management through effective communication, facilitating timely decision-making with well-summarized information and recommendations.• Utilized IBM DataPower to expose legacy applications to web as SOAP XML services.• Actively engaged with business leaders to develop business cases for various initiatives, demonstrating strong collaboration skills.• Mentored IT teams, keeping them updated on industry trends.• Analysis for Business Solutions: Performed analyses to identify optimal IT enhancements for solving business challenges.• Developed comprehensive understanding of company products and system architecture.• Utilized business modeling methods to create result-oriented deliverables, contributing to the company's knowledge resources.

Franklin Lakes, Nj

• Attended gap analysis meeting involving various business owners, Enterprise architects and business architects.• Analyzed and compared the business processes between two IT systems by leveraging product documentation and/or brainstorming.• Created product comparison gap analysis report documents articulating a gap and the document was used for formulating functional specification documents.• Solutions for the gaps were ideated and proposed either as an enhancement to Medco’s current system or as a new feature to Medco’s IT system.• Acted as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the system and created product documentation for the purpose of gap analysis.• Provided high level solution for the products with gap and reviewed high level solution approach of multiple applications.• Solutions developed either enhanced existing SOA capabilities or added new capabilities on the architecture.• Worked with IT Architecture/SOA team to develop new CICS transactions and URI’s for the new web services and thereby pointing them to the right CICS web listener regions.• New XML schemas were developed based on the new integration expectations and provided guidance to backend mainframe teams on integrating it to CICS web listener regions.• Guidance was provided on the XML parser expectation on IBM mainframe and data mapping was provided between XSD and backend communication area.• Reviewed development plans, quality assurance test plans, and user documentation to ensure correct interpretation of original specifications.• Reported Project Milestones weekly to the Management and Business.

Bangalore, India

• Analyzed Business Requirements and brain stormed with business owners to develop Functional and Technical Design Specifications of the application.• Involved in Data Modeling for ensuring data integrity, consistency and avoiding redundancy.• Acted as application architect and devised high level solution approach for the project implementations.• D.0 standard needed enhanced set of PBM claim request response information. New data sourcing and interface development was done using new schemas and backend XML parsing enhancement.• Due to Affordable Care Act (ACA) and EGWP integration, new capabilities were added to claims processing functionality. Data from multiple disparate sources had to be assimilated, validated and passed to the backend claims processing engine for the implementation. Orchestration was development using multiple applications and data had to be sourced and collated and thereby passed to backend. Similar data integration and orchestration had to conducted at the backend as well.• Conducted daily meetings, brainstorming sessions to solve the problems and enhance the workflow.• UML diagram modelling using Microsoft Visio was used to describe solution approach.• Continuously mentored team members on various projects and trained them to improve technical skills and domain knowledge.• Acted as a technical lead for many other projects for the claims system with close to zero production defects.• Created use case scenarios for the purpose of creating functional specification and test plan.• Offered business guidance to the support teams after the standards implementation.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Attend meetings with business stakeholders to identify and clarify client requirements.• Facilitate in the creation of Functional Specification Document (FSD) and translating it into Technical Specification Document (TSD).• Facilitated in the creation of use cases and test plan. Closely coordinated with business users and developers to arrive at an agreeable solution.• Created Systems Integration Test Plan involving multiple applications.• Created technical flow diagrams using Microsoft Visio.• Created scenarios for regression testing and worked with automated regression team to improve the processes.• Reviewed detail level design, code and test scenarios for its completeness and accuracy.• Educated Quality Assurance team on project requirements and high level solution and reviewed their test plan for completeness and accuracy.• Created product documentation for new product installations in the system.• Used prototypes to demonstrate and verify the behavior of the system

Bengaluru Area, India

• Understand client requirements and evaluate solution proposed by Benefits Analysts.• Provide technical solution for complex client requirements or non-conforming solutions.• Understand the client business and provide solution for errors in business software.• Mentor associates in client’s business and system architecture.• Attended requirement sessions, brainstormed requirements with business analysts and business owners, got involved in JAR/JAD sessions.• Facilitated meetings with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and evaluated business requirements.• Developed innovative solution for complex project on client’s request.• Highly instrumental in transitioning the IT software development from client site to vendor site.

Master Of Science (By Research), Mathematical Modelling And Numerical Simulation

Activities and Societies: ISHMT, ISHRAEMathematical modelling of metal hydride based hydrogen storage and heating/cooling devices.

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Master'S Degree, Applied Mathematics