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Dallas, Texas, United States

As a key technical team member at TCH, I successfully implemented innovative payment solutions, including Payment Account Tokenization (PAT), Secure Token Exchange (STE), and Real-Time Payments (RTP), to leading commercial banks in the US. Proficient with OEM specifications such as Samsung Pay and Apple Pay, and Payment Network specs by Mastercard and Visa. Also familiar with messaging formats ISO 8583 and ISO 20022 and EMV, with a readiness to deepen this knowledge.As a subject matter expert, I possessed extensive knowledge of PAT, STE and, RTP APIs and collaborated with vendor and client developers, reviewed SDDs and API specs, and created supplemental documents for use by RTP, Banks, Fintechs, Token Requestors, and Vault Search institutions consuming tokenization, de-tokenization, lifecycle management, and vault search APIs. I also developed Java-based API client application, identified and reported critical functional issues, assisted in bank certifications and provided level-4 production support. Additionally, I assisted in creating onboarding procedures, forms, JWE encryption and decryption, JWS signing and verification, SCOM monitoring, DB2 database replication (Q Replication), Urban Code deployment, and maintained up-to-date wikis with technical concepts, flow diagrams, learnings and troubleshooting documents.

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Served as a Technical Systems Analyst in the Account and Cash Services division of the Personal Investments group. In this role, I made key contributions to the implementation of HSA Auto Investing, a complex cross-departmental project that required a blend of agile and waterfall methodologies. I played a crucial role in gathering business requirements and creating technical stories, collaborating with multiple cross-functional teams from different departments such as PI, WI, FI, UXD, Clear2Pay, and FIS. As a key technical contributor, I was instrumental in delivering the MVP1 in less than four months using Agile methodologies. Additionally, I proactively identified potential risks and presented mitigation plans to project managers and stakeholders. I proposed effective solutions to vendor management pain points, which led to an improvement in vendor management. My contributions were recognized for enhancing delivery efficiency by streamlining collaboration and work processes. My experience at Fidelity has equipped me with the necessary skills to work collaboratively with multiple cross-functional teams to achieve successful project outcomes.

• Integrated Amex app with Apple Pay and Touch ID, managed token issuance, created an onboarding system for credit card issuers, and delivered multiple complex projects (RWD, MGM, D2W, Timeout Widget, E-Apply platform) in 19 international markets.• Served as SME for American Express standard components, including JUICE, JSession, JPF, JLog, Service Locator, GDAF, and JConfig.• Played a pivotal role in the delegation team for transitioning knowledge from IBM to Cognizant, specifically for American Express' Interactive portfolio of projects.• Delivered onsite technical support at the American Express Brighton branch in the UK for 2 years.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics And Communication Engineering

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics And Communications Engineering