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Texas, United States

Amsterdam, Nl

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Project and technical lead responsible for bringing Cognizant strategic customer-centric AI product (CJAI) to market in the healthcare domain. Management of client expectations, alignment of internal stakeholders, communication to leadership, project delivery management, resource augmentation, and driving technical & business solutions. Leading and managing onshore(4)/offshore(2) delivery teams, driving scrum ceremonies, removal of impediments, and evaluate quality of key deliverables. Provide technical directions, hands-on support, perform fullstack development as needed, and proof of concept demonstrations.Analytics Developer – Intelligence Energy Demand Forecasting (IEDF) - Development of IEDF POC with the capability to quickly onboard data, perform data exploration & visualization, and forecast energy demand on an hourly basis using advanced machine learning models. Collaboration with business vertical & product owners to drive and develop solutions in Cognizant AI & Analytics horizontal space. Conduct tech demo to leadership and internal stakeholders. Knowledge transfer to offshore delivery team for further development.

Boston, Ma, Us

Provided technical leadership for third-party vendor integration modernizing legacy fee and billing system in the managed accounts space. Subject matter expert in the business domain, environment architecture, DevOps, CICD pipeline, and deployment processes. Provided technical expertise and collaborated with product owner/business analysts to ensure MVPs (Minimal Viable Product) are well understood and obtainable. Focusing progress over perfection.- Envisioned and orchestrated technical roadmap to realize environmental build-out, CICD, and automated testing suite for vendor product; devised and implemented business solutions through integrated product.- Championed for Agile (Scrum) methodology in a squad-based operating model. - Facilitated cross communication between onshore (Westlake/Boston) and offshore (Dalian) technical teams to ensure seamless operation; collaborated cross functionally between Scrum, service support, and platform teams.- Designed and built customized environments for fee and billing system - DIT/SIT/UAT/PERF/PROD; Designed and built customized CICD pipeline using GIT, Jenkins, Artifactory, and uDeploy.- Designed and implemented environment agnostic deployment process.- Delivered multiple business valued processes within vendor product.- Led, create, and issue shake out of production implementation plan; negotiated and discussed with system support team to agree on system support model.

Boston, Ma, Us

Product development specialist focused on back-end system providing end-to-end business solutions in development of software applications for Portfolio Advisory Services managed account space. Performed technical and functional analysis of complex scope, system and architectural design. Developed, unit tested, and ensured deployment of mainframe batch/online solutions in a waterfall development cycle. Provided production application support, problem diagnosis, and resolution. Backend Product Development – ETF Blackrock, Digital Managed Accounts (Fidelity Go), Passive PAS, Defensive PAS. Provided SME support for PAS POC BPM money movement orchestration application, and mentored team members.

Boston, Ma, Us

Program development, core/maintenance, and production support for Fidelity Portfolio Advisory Services brokerage mainframe systems.Conduct system analysis, enhancements, code implementation, and system monitoring for back-end brokerage platform.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Business Analytics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Computer Information Systems