Arvind Sood Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

DevOPs Team of 8+ (consisting of permanent and contractors) TIBCOBW, EMS, Administrator, BWPM, BPM, Designer, TRA EnvironmentsDevelopment – Windows Test and Prod - Solaris AXWAYAPI GatewayMPG (Managed Partner Gateway)EnvironmentsDevelopment and Prod - LinuxDuties include• Managing team’s day to day operations• Ensure successful delivery of projects• Assigning projects to team members• Participate in architectural discussions and provide input from the integration perspective• Work with support team• Manage risk – projects, resources• Work on project – development work • Assessing new projects/requirements (cost and time)• Proactively interact with the business• Recruit new team members• Liaise with vendors/suppliers• Participate in leadership forums and interact with other IT management/teams

Sydney, Australia

Part of DevOps team where my role is to design, develop, deliver integration solutions that comply with standards and guidelines, contribute towards improving and reviewing of standards and guidelines. My role includes architectural design/decisions, developing solutions using TIBCO products, providing documentation, testing and supporting existing applications and working with external parties on various projects. TIBCO products used: - EMS (8.0.0), Business Works (5.11.0), Administrator (5.8.0), Designer (5.6.0), TRA (5.8.0), BWPMProjects worked on: -• Integration Technical lead - Work Order management. Participated in analysis and design, technical lead -Tibco development, managed risk, responsible for delivery of integration components. Application involves integrating with third-party applications.• Upgrade of Project Management Application – various systems require information from this application and send updates to this application. I was part of the team that built TIBCO applications for this purpose. Coordinating deployment of applications into the production environment and ensuring any issues were resolved. • Involved in the design and solution of water modelling application. Existing application that uses MQ series as its integration layer. Water Modelling displays Geo Spatial data and requires data from satellite systems. The project requires replacing MQ series with TIBCO.• Customer Field Management Application - Integrating with third party application that extracts and updates information regarding Sydney Water assets at customer sites, along with provisioning and updating of work orders. TIBCO applications developed to integrate third party application with satellite systems. I was development for part duration of the project, also responsible for overseeing deployment of application into various test environments.Participate in project estimation and costing, resourcing for future integration projects.

Canberra, Australia

Working on TIBCO Business Works (BW) related projects for delivering new on-line services for Veterans. My duties include analysis, design and technical documentation, development of applications using TIBCO products, testing, supporting and enhancing current TIBCO applications. Part of my role is to contribute towards architectural design and implement suitable solutions. TIBCO products used: - EMS (5.1.2), Business Works (5.3.2), Administrator (5.6.0), Designer (5.6.0), TRA (5.6.1), BPEL (5.7.0).Project work, which includes designing and developing TIBCO adapters for: -• Present design; participate in discussions, prototyping applications for development.• An enterprise payment service. This service is the gateway for various applications to make payments to their vendors. • An application specific adapter to send payment requests to the TIBCO payments service.• Integrating with external service providers through web services.• A TIBCO adapter that polls a legacy system files for transport requests, processes and updates the requests into the new application.• Supporting existing TIBCO applications • Look at improving existing TIBCO applications

Sydney, Australia

DWS is an IT services company providing services to blue chip organisations. I was contracted out through Wipro (who have a partnership agreement with DWS) to Westpac Institutional Banking, in a TIBCO support role. My duties included providing 1st level support for in house TIBCO applications. TIBCO products used: - EMS, Business Works, Administrator , Designer, TRA.

Sydney Australia

Lonispace is a systems integrations company and Lonispace further contracted me out to:-RailCorp (project duration 3 weeks)Document options for High Availability and Fault Tolerant TIBCO Systems for their PP Pproject, along with install and configure the following TIBCO software stack in their Production and UAT environments: -• TRA• Business Works• Administrator• ADB and File Adapter• Business Connect• Smart Mapper• EMSCountry Energy (project duration 6 weeks – reduced to 3 week due to internal resources became available)Country Energy want to reduce the number of TIBCO production servers they have, my role was to document the process of migrating TIBCO Business Works Engines into their new environment along with testing the actual migration process. I completed the document (pending migration component) but was not able to migrate the BW Engines due to non-availability of the environment and Country Energy’s decision to cut short my contract.

Technology Architect – TIBCO Part of the architecture team at CSC Sydney, Australia working on Timetable Distribution System – Part 2 for the local railway system. I am part of a team of four architects and my responsibilities are to validate requirement s for TIBCO infrastructure, design TIBCO components based on requirements for the project, co-ordinate development of these components with the development team in India and oversee the oversee implementation.The project is using TIBCO Active Matrix Business Works version 5.6.0 along with Hawk, Administrator, and EMS Server.

Private Bag 92143AUCKLANDTelstraClear is the second largest telecommunications company in New Zealand, which employees about 1,200 people. The company provides state of the art broadband technology to deliver voice, data, mobile and Internet services to business and residential clients.Strategic planning functionInvolved in all stages i.e. defining, designing, development, implementation and documentation of specific projects assigned.Documented all functional and technical specification for projects assigned.Provided related deployment and user documentation.Analysed and designed solutions per users requirements.Managed risk and crisis related to my projects.Work closely with test teams, IS Operations during testing and implementation phase and interaction with final customers when project is in production.Development functionApplication integration - worked on various projects that have required integration of data from front end systems to back end systems such as billing, CRM and vice versa. These projects were /are being done using middleware (TIBCO- integration manger and Business works) and SQL. Wrote, implemented and support self-configuring rules base engine that implements business rules for order entry and provisioning system. Application is a C++ dll and uses XML froe defining the rules. The dll access the provisioning systems through APIs. Written applications for data extraction from either Sybase or Oracle, processing and display information through reports and GUI interfaces.Developed J2EE application for provisioning of a new product for existing customers for internal use.Developed and maintained Actuate reports for customer billing and telephone usage. The Actuate reports are deployed on an Actuate server and are viewed by customer via the Internet.

Strategic planning function- Analysed and designed solutions per user requirements.- Involvement in all stages of projects.- Assigned special projects to provide statistical analysis software.- Assigned to move Stage 1 programs from Raima to Oracle.- Provided support for Stage 1 programs- Earned a Certificate of Achievement for outstanding work.Development function- Develop and maintain software for Stage 1 of Market Track systems, which is used by A.C.Nielsen- New Zealand, Japan and other countries. Wrote programs in C, C++ with Raima Database. Stage1 of Market Track software involved applications for raw data collection, data filtering and cleaning, data conversion, quality control, and statistical analysis. - Prototyped some of Stage1’s programs for conversion from Raima to Oracle. - Wrote functional specifications and user documentation.- Part of the Web design and implementation committee for International Systems team web page.

Cotton is a major grower cotton and ginner of cotton in Zambia with annual turnover of USD30 million with over 900 employees. Strategic / Planning functionResponsible for overseeing / managing the outcomes of 15 full time and contractor staff including setting individual staff performance objectives and periodic performance reviews.Managed requirements and procurements of software and hardware.Prepared summary long term (3 Year) and detailed annual operational and capital budgets for the IT department.Managed all the information technology portfolios at Lonrho Cotton. I.T. Infrastructure consisted of five networks (Novell 3.12 and 4.11) of which four were in remote areas and three stand-alone computers at ginneries. Planned the development and implementation of major enterprise resource planning systems including - Cotton Scheme (farmers' loans and payments program), Accpac (accounting package) and Payroll Planned, installed and managed of all the five Novell networks including backup systems. Managed all operational and business risks and crisis management issues related to all IT operations.Set departmental and project budgets, including operating and capital budgetsDevelopment / implementation functionAnalysed, designed, developed and maintained the Cotton Scheme. The Cotton Scheme is a system to effectively and accurately manage the farmers' loans and re-payments. Developed the cotton scheme, a database application that consisted of data entry modules, data processing, and reports such as statements, farmer payment slip, loan default report and others. Trained users and provided support.Accpac (accounting package) - responsible for setting up the accounting package Accpac in the four regions, head office and the ginneries.

Holdings Ltd consists of a group of companies involved in retail and wholesale trading from house hold goods, furniture, building and hardware and motor vehicles.Managed 20 staff involved in processing of data.Prepared detailed annual operational and capital budgets for the IT department and related projects.Prepared and managed to detailed quarterly operating and capital expenditure forecasts prepared to the end of the reporting period.Involved in staff recruitments including preparing departmental job descriptions, individual key performance indicators and performance management.Prepared month-end reports such as accounts, stock reports and stock discrepancy report.Installed new hardware and software such as "over-the-counter sales point".Trained over 17 staff in use of Windows 95, Excel, Accpac, internet and e-mail.Managed the day to day running of all IT systems.Managed data security including backing up of data.

The group consists of company's involved in manufacturing of safety wear, fashion wear, household and commercial paint and ran distribution centres. The company had operation in 3 different cities. I was responsible for the day to day running of the computer systems. Projects implemented were related to management, finance and the production departments.Strategic / Planning functionSet up the IT department from scratch.Managed procurement of software and hardware. Recruited and trained staff for the IT department.Set departmental and project budgets, including operating and capital budgetsDevelopment / implementation functionThe following systems were written in house using dbase 5 including - Debtors and creditors system Payroll systemInventory control Report generationCustom programs written in C.

I taught basic programming language, to over 120 full time students in the School of Technology at the bachelor level. I had a pass rate of 85%.

Mba, Administration

Post Graduate Diploma, Business Administration

Pgs Dip, Information Systems

Post Graduate Diploma, Information Systems

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Completed some short / executive development courses including iPlanet, Actuate and BMC Patrol, TIBCO.

'O' Levels

Post Graduate Diploma, Information Systems

Post Graduate Diploma, Business Administration