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Miami, Florida, United States

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

• Working as a Solution architect and Product Owner liaising between Airlines product teams, team of business analysts, development team, testing team and infrastructure team.• Subject matter expert for the legacy API layer for one of the leading airlines account in North Americas.• Successfully delivered many enhancements including - migration of API layer to new PSS, Expansions of Branded Fares, migration of pricing engine integration, implementation of reservation APIs for Employee/ZED travel, and many more. • Finalizing on the functional, non-functional requirements, complete the feasibility study for the requirements, analyze the impact of the new business requirements, and present them to business/product stakeholders.• Responsible for Design, architecture of API, recommend business/process solutions and owns documenting the new/proposed system design, workflows, schema changes and architecture.• Involved in various road map and brain-storming sessions with internal and external stakeholders, to define scope and priorities, assessing internal and external system dependencies, risks, constraints, and communicating to various stakeholders.• Mentoring technical development and testing team leads, active involvement in estimation/sizing with software teams, providing input to project managers and project management office for scheduling, engaging quality testing team for acceptance.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Conducted discovery sessions to understand business problem, idea conceptualization, requirement elicitation and provide efficient solutions.• Lead the solutions which involved integrations with airline PSS and its supporting systems/service layers , Hotel PMS and CRS, Channel management systems.• Defined the strategy and actively lead the transitioning delivery and sustenance ownership of more than 12 software products from existing vendor to Cybage Software in a period span over 6 months.• Defined architecture and low level design web and mobile booking engines and implemented solutions for migration of more than 50000 hotel properties from old booking engine platform to new booking engine platform.• Helped Delivery team by actively involving in project delivery and taking responsibility of defining architecture, dependencies for web, enterprise, or middle ware applications• Active involvement troubleshooting production issues, finding out root-cause and providing solutions, setting up various ALM tools across project accounts.• Actively worked with pre-sales group in RFPs bidding process, case study presentations, and ensuring smooth hand-over of the pre-sales work to the delivery team • Lead the Travel & Hospitality SME team at organization level - knowledge harvesting within T&H practice project teams, writing whitepapers, road map for SMEs, etc.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Conducted discovery sessions with various application users, executive managements and stakeholders to understand the business goals, application objectives, and ecosystem.• Carried out as-is analysis of legacy/custom build applications architecture, documented existing ecosystem of the various applications and their interactions/interfaces • Conducted build vs buy analysis for corporate travel management company's enterprise platform by researching alternative products, interviewing various vendors of the system to understand their product/solution offerings• Design and architecture solutions such as – cobranding of travel websites, Systems integrations using service interfaces using REST & Spring Remoting, re-architecture of a system in a SaaS model on a SOA platform.• Re-write vs. refactor analysis of existing legacy applications.• Integrated Worldspan XML Pro APIs, Pegasus APIs, Channel management integrations such as EzYeild, RateGain, Expedia, etc.• Worked with pre-sales team on proposal responses with functional and non-functional requirements, technical solutions, efforts estimates, costing and high level schedules• Technical leadership for different projects running in parallel in Agile SCRUM model.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Technical lead for various projects during development and delivery phases• Actively involved in database design, application design, technical code reviews, deployment and support• Conducted requirements gathering and analysis meetings/discussions• Exposure to modeling various EDIFACT/RosettaNet messages – EDI 850 PO-856 ASN-810 Invoice, RN 3A4 POR-3A4 POC-3A7SN, etc. • Involved in Impact analysis, tracking and estimation of change requests.• Produced various artifacts such as – System requirement specifications, Design documents, Deployment/Setup guide• Worked on Project planning, estimation, scheduling, staffing, task allocation and monitoring, Risk management and Client communications.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Responsible for requirement gathering and analysis. Worked on the applications module design, database schema design.• Exposure developing various applications such as - Designing and implementing remote desktop sharing client in Java using Java networking, Java threading, applet, and Microsoft SMB API messages, Designed an approach of integrating Castor framework into thin-client framework, Integration of Payment gateway using LinkPoint APIs, Development of custom FTP and SMTP client module, application modules using PowerBuilder etc.

Pune, Maharashra, India

• Responsible for Requirement gathering and analysis for various IT systems developed for Maharashtra state government projects• Responsible for Application and database design, application development, unit testing and support.

Master Of Computer Science

M.C.S., Computer Science

B. C. S., Computer Science