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Orlando, Fl, Us

As a Sr IT Director of Software Development supported organizational changes, technical leadership to deliver software solutions that exceed customer expectations for entire software engineering teams, communicated technical decisions to non-technical audiences and built consensus around them, articulated the value of foundational technology approaches to business executives, built strong stakeholder relationships and foster interaction at different levels, and provided estimate of financial impact. Worked with wide variety of sources as well as work directly with executive stakeholders across the enterprise. Responsible include following areas:Software Projects (35%)· Global Lead, Practice modernization with Microservices architecture, digitization, Containerization with- AWS/Azure- data integration using Kafka, Kinesis, Apache Spark, Kubernetes· Practice Cloud Services - AWS stack, Lambda server less function, S3, dynamo DB, API gateway, SQS, Elastic search, IAM and other services. Software Products (30%)Lead development of five different products for Retail, eCommerce, Education, Security industriesRetail - Food Delivery App Education - Virtual SchooleCommerce - Magento extension for Social Media marketingSecurity - RescueMe geo analytical AppImmigration - background check and workflow applicationLeadership, Operations, and Communications (35%)Lead, organize and positively influence a team of information professionals, which include Assistant Directors, Managers, Technical Professionals, and others to meet the needs of the customer communityPre-Sales, Lead managers in developing technology roadmaps, including effectively evaluating buy/modernize/lease decisions for on premise and cloud hosted solutions

Dublin 2, Ie

Director - Led modernization of EUP portals; Led migration of monolithic to microservices architecture; Established CI/CD; Automation of Operations/Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture and Strategy · Lead, evolving Operations/ Application/ Infrastructure practice to meet customer's needs, develop best practices that add value to organization, make transition to virtual workloads.· Create a business plan and establish goals; validate the need to solve customer problems

Washington, Dc, Us

USCIS Modernization/Transformation Led application transformation and infrastructure architecture efforts for USCIS TransformationProvided overall technical leadership across business application, infrastructure and partner with Business Management, Process Leaders, Product Architects, and Solution Delivery teams to define business and product strategy that fully leverages scalable solutions for short and long term business objectives. Provided solutions for enterprise integration, architecture, including design, definition of standards, guidelines and best practices for application integrations. Mentored, provided integration of WebSphere, Portal content, EAI, SOA solutionsProvided scalable performance solutions, Integration approaches and HA solutions.Provided JEE Application Architecture and Deployment of backend applications Led workflow management architecture using WebsSphere Portal ServerAutomated, Developed the custom-built script for managing and monitoring applicationsProvided network security, IAM, and enabling the creation of Web Services gateways and legacy system inter-op with web applications Provided scalable performance solutions, Integration approaches and HA solutions.Managed Middleware administration for business process re-engineering and transformation of existing business architecture.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

IRS Case Creation Nonfiler Identification ProcessLead architecture and development efforts of delinquency return application for BMF CCNIP Led and Delivered solutions to modernize Nonfiler Identification Process through intelligent business scoring methods; modernize technical infrastructure and service oriented architecture methods to integrate applications.Led, developed effort of SOA initiative to integrate core, main applications and data sources with internal and external partners with middleware products - IBM WebSphere, DataPower, WMQ, WMB. Involved in implementing system architecture for High Availability of Production systems. Led Infrastructure modernization, System Admin, Websphere/MQ Admin for Nonfiler Identification applications; EAIB Broker application integrationArchitected and Validated the HA architecture for single point of failure of applicationAnalyzed and performed health check for WebSphere ESB and SIB components as well as web services endpointsDelivering status reports, projects artifacts and deliverables as per the contractMaintained communication with the customer to manage expectations and to proactively identify potential HA issues and risksCommunicate and collaborate with customers and corporate management team to address schedule, cost, contract and resource related risks and issuesProject URL - http://www.irs.gov/privacy/article/0,,id=175804,00.html

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), WebServices, and middleware infrastructure efforts of for Modernized Electronic Filing and Internet Tax Return Filing Application. Led J2EE Application Development, Administration and Deployment of backend and portal applications for MeF, AMS, ExFirs, and Internet Filing Applications. Developed HA, DR solutions; configuration changes; migration of infrastructure and applications; debugging and analysis infrastructure. Implemented clustering, troubleshooting of infrastructure. Lead architect of Messaging Engine and ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) infrastructure.Provided SOA management solutions and performance analysis of service contracts Provided Best practice guidelines on deployment SOA architecture/ and Webservices for MeF Application.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Responsible for development of eCommerce - BuyerXpert, an e-procurement product which provided automation procurement and service purchases. Responsibilities include integration, customization of requisition and order management of direct and indirect goods, ecommerce and supply chain integration, which includes integration of supplier catalogs through XML, OBI, EDI. Architected, and integrated with LDAP servers, and customized the daily updates. Designed, and developed search engine capabilities.Vanguard Security Services Redesigned the Vanguard Security Services (VSS) from NAS 2.1 platform to NAS 4.0/6.0 platform.Architect and developed security infrastructure for all vanguard internet based applications.Designed, developed, and architected the new Vanguard Security Services using J2EE technologies on Netscape AppServer 4.0/6.0, with security plugin’s using NSAPI on Netscape WebServer, Designed LDAP directory schema, and EJB’s. CitiBank Bill Payment Customized iPlanet BuyerXpert/SellerXpert with Payment module. Architect, design, and implement Payment module for CITI-commerce. Architect API interface for Bill pay module using TIBCO MessageBroker. Architect the Single Sign On interface for buyers, and sellers using Siteminder. Provided the XML data interface, and mapping for EDI interface in XML.

Master'S Degree

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science