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• 16 years of experience in IT industry
• Experience in industries -- Finance and Investment Banking, Mobile, Telecom, Healthcare, Travel, Airline
• 10 years of experience in developing and architecting E-Business, Investment Banking/Insurance, and Enterprise Applications on Java/J2EE and Microsoft platforms
• 5 years of experience in Networking, protocols stacks, distributed applications on UNIX platform in C, C++ etc
• Experience in managing client and end user requirements, writing specifications, doing system design/architecture, and their documentation
• International work experience including travel to US, Germany, France, UK and Netherlands for client meetings and requirements analysis

Technical Skills:

Domain and Verticals Experience:

• Telecom/Mobile services
• Investment Banking/Finance/Insurance industry
• Enterprise applications, E-Business applications, E-Commerce
• Healthcare
• Travel industry

Technology Experience:

• Web services and SOA
• Network Management and Storage Area Network Management
• N-tier and Client-Server Computing
• Airline Reservation Protocols
• Networking protocols

Career History:

Professional Qualifications and Activities: Sun’s Java Certified Programmer

Training/Workshops Done

Have done courses like Team building workshop, Project Management Fundamentals course, Work breakdown structure course, Java/CORBA course, Weblogic Server training, Code Inspection course, BusinessObjects, and SQA and quality assurance seminars

Education:

Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; MBA - graduated 2005
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; B. Tech. Electrical - graduated 1993

Detailed Project Descriptions

Consulting Work

Projects done for Client: A healthcare solutions company

Project Description:

An EMR (Electronic Medical Records) system for management of patient health records, scheduling of appointments, claims/billing etc.

Projects done for Client: Saudi Arabian Ministry of Finance

Project Description:

Was involved in meetings with Govt Ministries and wrote use cases for payment and bills integration system (SADAD).

Projects done for Client: a US general insurance company

Project Description:

Fixed bugs in PL/SQL logic. Made online booking of insurance for condominiums using JSP/Servlets and integrated with authorize.net’s payment gateway.

Projects done for Client:(a startup in area of SOA)

Project Description:

Developed configuration module for web based configuration of an SOA system.

Projects done for Client:(www.mformation.com)

Project Description:

Worked on Mobile services management and Device Management using web services. The web services mirror the functionality available through web based UI, and provide for modular delivery of features. Also wrote a framework for automated testing of web services. This is achieved using jython scripts which invoke the web services automation framework.

Projects done for Client:Ayurveda and Travel Portal

Project Description:

Worked on an Ayurveda and travel portal. Helped to hire client's team, did software architecture, set up development processes/tools, design database, and developed initial codebase.

Projects done for Client:(www.c2silicon.com)

Project Description:

Developed framework for accessing SAN (Storage Area Network) management APIs through web services. Wrote several web services for SAN management. Also developed a command line interface (CLI) and scripting framework to manage SAN using scripts for provisioning storage, volume replication, monitoring etc.

Projects done for Client:(www.firstapex.com)

Project Description:

The role involves analyzing the insurance components and product, and analyzing performance bottlenecks in application, persistence middleware, and database.  Also, to profile the applications for CPU usage, memory leaks, and recommending changes (if required) for making the application scalable.  Also involved in preparing performance tests, and a predictive model of performance over hardware with different tpmC.

Projects done for Client:(www.sgsoftwareasia.com)

Project Description:

The project involves developing a compliance system to enable better compliance checking for client's brokerage business with US SEC regulations. It does real time processing of market data and Reuters data to generate alerts. Also, it does intelligent gathering of information from trade and order data to generate compliance reports for insider trading, chinese wall, booking anomalies, trace reporting, and other compliance reports.

Projects done for Client:(www.lisletech.com)

Project Description:

The project involves developing a operational support system to manage call records, consumer, and product management of a cellular services company in US. It involves building a highly scalable system to support upto 2 million mobile service users. The main modules of the system are call data record (CDR) processing, enriching CDRs, pre-processing, rating, applying rated call records to products, and customer usage records generation. The architecture utilizes JMS queues, and dynamically configurable distributed processing nodes.

Projects done for Client:(www.vcpl.org)

Project Description:

This project involved working onsite to fix bugs and enhance and code features to an existing e-Learning product under final stages of development. I also instituted proper configuration management and documentation procedures in the organization.

Projects done for Client:(www.impelsys.com)

Project Description:

This project involved enhancing the online website for physicians, where they can redeem their gift certificates for purchases of books and medical supplies. The work involved doing design and analysis of the existing application, and producing design documentation, to be used in further development. I was also involved as designer and technical lead in IGR (Interactive Grand Rounds), a certified application for online tests application for physicians to upgrade their knowledge

Project Description:

This project involved changing and overhauling an existing internet site of a big US publishing group. The work also involved building a content management system for easy administration of this site. I was involved in the project doing design, technical direction and UML modeling using use case, sequence, and class diagrams

Project Description:

Reconciliation project was meant to reconcile the credit card payment data, supplier invoice data in EDI 855 and EDI 857 files, with customer's own order and billing information. It gets the input feed from supplier and credit card processor 'cybersource', stores them and compares them with EDI database of customer. The deviations are marked and can be displayed in html format or saved as a .csv file for viewing in excel

Project Description:

This project involved enhancing and porting an E-Commerce site www.medsite.com (selling books and medical supplies online to physicians and medical students) to a new database design, and involved migrating from SQL Server 7 to Oracle 8. The middle tier logic was also changed from ASP to J2EE architecture (servlets, EJB). The project involved changes to the bookstore E-Commerce application with a long-term view of merging these within a unified architecture for the whole E-Commerce /Medical portal site

Company: Eclaton eBusiness Development Unit India Pvt Ltd

Project Description:

Nautopolis.com was meant to be a nautical sector portal catering to people with sailing, ships, and nautical interests. Eclaton designed, developed and did customer acceptance test for the discussion forum part of the portal. The discussion forums were implemented mainly using IBM Domino server, with Websphere, IBM Http server and DB2 as the other components.

Project Description:

Smarthaven is a company providing infrastructure for internet enabled shopping comparison using mobile agent technologies. For the customer, Eclaton designed and developed an interface between a vendor agent and a hosted shop conforming to a highly flexible XML DTD.

Project Description:

XOIP.com is a company based in Netherlands, providing thousands of users with integrated messaging using voice, email, fax, SMS - with an idea of providing a unified messaging platform. This project was about developing an Advertisement Manager and Message Manager modules for the XOIP system. These enabled targeted advertisements to be sent to subscribers in the form of email, fax, sms, or voice to xoip users. The modules utilized message-driven beans (in EJB 2.0) and JMS for message passing between the modules.

Project Description:

ECIP was developed as an Intranet portal for the company. It has several subsystems like Project Management, Timesheet management, Defect Tracking, Leave Mgt, Library mgt, HR management module etc. These were implemented on Apache server running on RedHat linux

Other Miscellaneous Projects done in Eclaton: Several other projects -- Dailysoccer.com (Europe based soccer portal), BDW (Bureau de Woonmarkt)- a housing/real estate portal.

Proposal related work: I was also involved with making technical proposals and project feasibility analysis for customers ranging from a shipping/logistics company, a Chemicals marketplace, a major European ERP vendor, and a framework for Airline industry using Weblogic Collaborate technology.

Company: WebTek Software

Project Description:

Over the Counter Equity derivatives was a promising business for the investment banking division, involving customized trades being done between corporates. The previous MS Access based system was not sufficient and sophisticated enough to handle the volume of trades. This project was conceived to provide a scalable system based on open technologies for settlement and trading for multiple locations of the bank in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo -- and more in future.

The system architecture was modeled on MVC (Model, View, and Controller paradigm). It involved IE 5 browser communicating with Weblogic server, with a servlet, EJB architecture. Trade input from multiple locations, Trade workflow happening across departments and user roles, trade feed to Documentum (documentation system) were some of the major features of the system.

Project Description:

LIFT was used for pricing of deals done by Leasing team of Global Finance division. The project involved Java COM objects for calculation of cash flows and arriving at a cost of funds number. The results were displayed on IE browser. The users could input cash flows on browser, calculate cost of funds and accept deals online, which would automatically send emails to the authorized members of the leasing funding team. The project was a great success since it helped in centralizing the calculation of deals, and their tracking and authorization became very easy from then onwards

Project Description:

BRAINS was developed for the Tokyo Global Markets division of the investment bank. The users had primitive ways to access and share information using excel sheets to store and communicate data. This project involved specifying a data model, designing java interfaces for XML generation and using XML/XSL to display and update the data on browser. The whole architecture was designed such that many of the generic components from this project for XML/XSL could be utilized in other projects

Project Description:

Dealbus Adapter Framework is a XML based framework for data exchange between bank entities. It uses Tibco Rendezvous and Tibco Etx as the messaging middleware for publish-subscribe messaging between various bank nodes. The project involved development of a "Hospital" component, which could store messages that have not been delivered to destination due to an error. These could later be taken out and processed by the hospital component to be delivered again.

Project Description:

IDRIS (International Deal Recording and Interchange System) was an MS-Access based application to record and display data for Structured Finance and Asset Backed Finance units of the Global Finance unit of the bank. The project involved database design, Front-end screens and ongoing enhancements and additions to the screens, data model, reports etc.

Project Description:

Portfolio Management System was developed for the Credit Risk and Financial Control groups in the investment bank. The architecture involved collecting loan data from older systems, enriching them and adding new loan data. This was meant to be input to Whitelight tool for analysis of the data by financial and risk analysts. The work involved writing java classes which send XML data to browser, Javascript to render the XML on browser, and viewing /updating of data from the browser. One of the main features was hierarchical navigation of the data, which closely modeled how a user will look and update data.

Project Description:

Magic is implementation of a customer contact management system. The backend of Magic selects data from a collection of information databases and makes a repository of links to these. The Magic data was retrieved by the backend stored procedures when requested by the user. The data was made available on the browser and user could navigate through the various pages. This made the relevant information available to users in a much easier way than existing VB based GUI to the databases.

Company: Hewlett Packard India Software Operations

Project Description:

This was a complex solution for Amadeus, Germany, the leader in airline reservation market. The solution is a multi-protocol application level gateway for both airline standard and Amadeus proprietary protocols. I was involved in support of MPCPI (a patent-pending common programming interface to write airline applications) module of the OFE product. Also, was involved with working on a making MPCPI API as a product targeting other markets in airline businesses. I coordinated a team of 4 people working on it for about 3 months. The developed product could not be deployed due to lack of funding/immediate customer need but a prototype was successfully tested.

I also supported the customer for 3 months from Jun 98 to Aug 98 in Germany as part of warranty support.

Project Description:

OTS is an implementation of OSI stack reference standard defined by ISO (International Standards Organization). It provided complete OSI services through standard interfaces like XAP (ACSE services) and XTI (Transport Services) and RFC1006 (TP0/TCP). Telecom provider companies are the main customers including Lucent Technologies, Alcatel and NTT.

I supported the ACSE library and presentation modules of the OSI stack throughout the project. From Jul 96 to Sep 96 I worked on making the ACSE library thread-safe confirming to POSIX 1003.1c standard. From May 96 to Nov 96, worked and coordinated a team of 3 people for porting of complete code to 64-bit HP-UX. During that activity, I was the overall technical in charge and also liaison with the other HP divisions involved in 64-bit work on HP-UX.

Project Description:

This product is the implementation of OSI standard on file transfer called FTAM (File Transfer, Access and Management). It provided regime-based transfer of documents of several types. Apart from FTP like user-interface, it also provides FTAM API's for customers to write own applications. Major customers are telecom service providers like Lucent Technologies, Alcatel and NTT.

I worked for 6 months from learning the newly transitioned product and taking over support responsibility. From Dec 95 to Jul 96, I did the technical leader role for the project involving coordination of a team of 4 people supporting the product.

Company: Hughes Software Systems

Project Description:

Is a full-fledged implementation of an X.25 and Frame Relay network. Both Frame relay PVC and SVC services were provided as features. The network was managed through a proprietary Windows GUI based on HP Openview library. Through the GUI, the network configuration and statistics could be administered on a VAX machine in Ingres database. Some of the customers were BT Spain, Telenet, and Tymnet etc.

I developed a test-suite to test LAPF protocol (used for Frame relay layer 2) over a Forth like language on HP IDACOM protocol analyzer. The total code size was 21,000 LOC.

I was also involved in acceptance testing of the Frame Relay SVC feature at customer site in Hughes Network Systems, US for 2 months. We also did some design work on the new Large Area Networks feature of the IPN. Large Area Networks support would enable a network to have maximum of 1024 nodes, compared to then limit of 256 nodes.