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Monroe Township, Nj, Us

New Haven, Ct, Us

Short Hills, Nj, Us

• Defined the integration architecture for cross channel customer onboarding initiative using Mulesoft across on-prem and cloud-based applications• Defined the Enterprise Architecture engagement framework and set up an Enterprise Architecture Governance process• Worked on automation of manual customer reviews for adverse news and validation of KYC documents using Workfusion’s workflow automation and machine learning capabilities

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• Created a 5-year strategic roadmap and presented it to the Division President, for modernization and cloud migration of legacy systems and API based integration with agent partners for the Middle Market division of Chubb• Implemented a Microservices based event driven architecture on Azure, using Kafka for processing quote submissions concurrently for multiple policy types• Created an architecture and roadmap for rewriting a legacy Underwriting Workbench onto a cloud-based Underwriter platform with modern capabilities such as AI & ML driven analytics, OCR and digital signature• Evaluated Duck Creek and an internal system for suitability for a Multinational platform which offers complex Underwriting capabilities for US and international policies• Designed an API that can handle multiple locations for checking Underwriting authority restrictions that addressed performance issues• Presented architecture solutions for new applications and enhancements at the Enterprise Architecture Council

Morristown, Nj, Us

• Ensured that the architecture and roadmap of the Life Insurance, Annuities, Group Insurance and Property & Casualty product enables insurance carriers to exploit business opportunities with speed, flexibility and agility to create profitable growth• Worked with product owners to design new products and features based on the roadmap• Evaluated DevOps technologies and selected Jenkins for Continuous integration and delivery of the product• Presented the product architecture to senior executives of prospective clients and business partners • Worked on creating integration architecture of the Majesco product with client systems and implementing it• Architected the Majesco SaaS offering, which is a fully managed cloud solution on Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services platforms that delivers speed, value and scale• Architected Majesco's Digital Platform as a microservices based multi-tenant, cloud native, digital Insurance platform that enables creation of portals and integration with 3rd party applications

Pembroke, Hm, Bm

• Created a microservices based target Application Architecture and guided its implementation across the Enterprise to enable agile development, continuous integration, continuous delivery and cloud deployment• Implemented an event driven microservices based architecture to replace monolithic systems using Kafka and Spring boot• Created a Federated, Self-Service Business Intelligence oriented, target Data Architecture and guided its implementation across the Enterprise to enable non-technical users to derive Business insights from data• Created an EA Strategy and Roadmap and implemented it by introducing significant changes to the Enterprise Architecture Operating Framework to enforce early engagement of Enterprise Architecture (EA) by the project teams which has made the EA organization more effective in delivering value to the Enterprise• Created and implemented a Cloud Strategy for hybrid, multi-cloud environment leveraging Mulesoft for integration between on premise and cloud-based applications• Chaired the Architecture Review Board in reviewing and approving Conceptual and Solution Architecture’s for new applications as well as for enhancements to existing applications• Researched, evaluated and recommended technologies for ingesting unstructured data from insurance documents - ABBYY for document image to text conversion, Spark ML for document identification and spaCy for Natural Language Processing of the data

New York, New York, Us

• Led the proof of concept and technology selection for Multi Factor Authentication technologies and recommended RSA Adaptive Authentication for implementation across Marsh. Created the overall architecture for implementing the RSA solution across Marsh and worked on its implementation• Led the architecture work and created the Architecture Definition Document for the central Customer master reference data repository of Marsh. Introduced Microservices Architecture, Continuous integration and Continuous delivery using Jenkins and Ansible• Led the technology evaluations, creation of proposed solution architecture using Qlik View or MicroStrategy and creation of technical Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Cyber Insurance Risk Assessment and Analytics platform• Led the Robotic Process Automation architecture using Blue Prism to automate repetitive business processes• Created Architecture Solution Proposals for key Sales and Marketing Business Cases and recommended technologies which will be used for implementation – Drupal for Content Management of an Intranet site, Spring based Java application for capture of Employee Health and Benefits data and MicroStrategy for analyzing this data• Worked on the integration of Salesforce with Savo Sales enablement platform

New York, New York, Us

• Created the One IT Business, Application, Data and Technology Strategy and Vision to synergize capabilities across business domains.• Created the target state Business, Application, Data and Technology Architecture for all the business domains – Insurance, Annuities, Investments and Corporate required to deliver upon the Business Objectives and One IT Strategy and reduce costs.• Identified desired business and technology capabilities and key initiatives needed across the organization to deliver upon the Business Objectives and Strategy.• Created a 3 year Roadmap to achieve the target state Architecture.

New York, Ny, Us

• Responsible for creating and implementing the Architecture Vision, Business, Application, Data and Technology Architecture and Digital transformation strategy for the Commercial Property and Casualty Global Claims and Operations Technology Organization.• Created and implemented an SOA based Target State Applications Reference Architecture for the organization with the vision of reducing costs by consolidating applications and integrating applications using ACORD messages.• Created and implemented Big Data Strategy and Target State Data Architecture with the vision of creating a single ODS and Data Warehouse for the entire organization.• Used Hortonworks Hadoop, Hive, Pig and Cognos for creating a Data Lake and aggregating structured and unstructured data for Fraud Analytics and Customer 360 View.• Chairman of the Global Claims Innovation Incubation Center, responsible for evaluating new technologies and coordinating and judging innovation challenges and ensuring the implementation of winning ideas.• Implemented Akana's Lifecycle Manager solution for Design Time Governance of all Services and Schemas.• Evaluated API Management solutions to drive the digital strategy and enable Run Time Governance of Services.• Researched Internet of Things devices which will be leveraged to prevent insurance losses. These devices are in the process of being piloted and implemented.• Led an Agile and DevOps initiative using process changes and DevOps tools to introduce continuous integration and continuous deployment of applications as part of the Digital transformation strategy.• Created a Cloud Strategy to leverage Iaas, Paas and Saas as appropriate and speed up the time needed to spin up new environments and to enable elastic scaling of environments. • Reviewed design and code of JEE applications and provided feedback.

New York, Ny, Us

• Responsible for providing a strategic vision and architecture design, direction and support for all Global Claims Systems and implementing it.• Responsible for evaluating new products and technologies and recommending them.• Led the architecture work for the Global OneClaim System. This project was a leading initiative within AIG to create a single system for handling the entire lifecycle of claims for all lines of businesses globally. This system is Pega based and uses a highly distributed Service Oriented and Business Process driven architecture with a global infrastructure footprint. $165 million was targeted to be spent in a 3-year period to create this strategic system which is now operating in 18 countries. Link to a news article about this system.• Led a group of solution architects in creating Conceptual and System architecture and other architecture views for the development of complex Global Systems for Correspondence Generation and Distribution, Claims Quality Assurance, Questionnaire Management and Complaints Management.• Led the proof of concept for a Mobile Claims reporting application using IBM’s Worklight.• Led the implementation of a Data Privacy solution using IBM’s Optim tool across 60 Claims and Underwriting applications.

New York, Ny, Us

• Responsible for architecting both Underwriting and Claims applications and ensuring that they follow best practices and standards. • Introduced and implemented Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services and Enterprise Service Bus based integration.• Designed and developed Identity number service which was a unique solution to hide and store social security numbers.• Led the architecture work on several multi-million dollar projects including implementation of SAP Financial planning, Salesforce CRM, IBM Content Manager and their integration with existing systems, a Central Authentication and Authorization System, a Medical Underwriting and Reporting System, and an Adjuster Licensing System

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