Candidates About

Irfan Shaik

A.      Summary of Professional Experience & Education

·         Enthusiastic, Hard-Working, Honest, Quick Learner, Self-Motivated and Sincere individual with excellent analytical and problem solving skills and around 12 years of IT experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

·         Architect level experience on Tibco Integration suite - Tibco BusinessWorks (BW), Tibco ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, Tibco BusinessConnect (BC), Tibco Business Events (BE), Tibco Enterprise Message Service (EMS), Tibco Administrator, Tibco Rendezvous (RV), Tibco HAWK and Tibco Adapters.  Tibco BW certified consultant. Strong experience in Load balancing, Fault tolerance, clustering, error handling operation and performance tuning. Good understanding of Network Topology. Strong working knowledge of UNIX, LINUX and Windows operating systems.

·         8 years of Experience as Tibco Professional Services Consultant & Integration Architect in the successful implementation of projects for US Health Care, US Health Plan, US Banking and US Electrical Industries. Direct contribution in the architecture, design and development of the services, components using Tibco suite of products and web services in SOA. Experience in leading and mentoring the team of consultants at onsite and offshore. Lead a Tibco Integration team for one the US banking clients, which won the blue star team of the quarter award for the excellent customer satisfaction.  

·         Strong experience as EDI Analyst – Understand EDI specifications of several trading partners, define and document the EDI processing requirements for HealthCare (HIPAA 270/271, 276/277, 835) and Electrical transactions (867, 810). Contribute in the complete processing of EDI documents using DMZ, Tibco BC and  BW – set up of Trading partners, transactions, auditing, exception handling, functional requirements, technical design, EDI certification testing, end to end testing, production deployment and post-production support. Proposed and implemented EDI processing in-house using Tibco BC for one the US clients in Electricity Industry, which enabled the client to save thousands of dollars.

·         Strong experience to Collaborate with several stake holders (Enterprise DataWarehouse, UX, Principal Business Analysts, Architecture Group, Database Management, Client facing applications) in Project Concept Definition stages to understand the business needs, Define the Scope, Mitigate the risks, Brainstorm the possible options, Perform Gap Analysis, and lead the meetings, Contribute in the documentation of Functional and Non-functional requirements, Document the existing processes if required, Document the Change Requests and Traceability Matrix, Contribute in the Technical Design documentation, Ensure best practices are followed. Document functional test cases, Validate the build, Support User Acceptance Testing and Post-Production activities. Good experience in Agile Project Management methodology.

·         Good experience in Automated and Manual deployments and maintenance of Tibco services using Tibco Administrator. Ability to use all the available configurations to derive desired performance output. Good knowledge on Unix Operating System and scripts.

·         Strong development & Architect experience  - C, C++, Java, Siebel CRM, Web Services on SOA, Oracle and DB2 databases, IBM DataStage, ETL, Tibco, EAI, Kofax Imaging Solutions, Drools Engine, Data Modeling and Database design. Excellent SQL and PL/SQL skills. Ability to accurately translate the business needs into conceptual, logical, database design and technical specifications document.

·         Ability to analyze and document the existing systems (in-house built) functionality and it’s flexibility to meet new requirements; and contribute in the decision on buy vs. build options.

·         Good experience with CVS, Perforce, ClearCase and Visual SourceSafe version control softwares and HP Quality Center and MS SharePoint.

B.      My experience includes the work in the following chronological order.

C.      Skills / Experience

D.     DETAILS OF PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

1.    53 Bank, Cincinnati OH, Dec 2014 – Present                                        Integration Architect & Systems Analyst

o     Contribute in the complete SDLC of the Project Implementation for the following teams on SOA.

·         Product Repository (PR)

·         Value Proposition System (VPS)

·         Imaging Solutions

o    PR is the in-house built repository of all the Products offered by the bank. Lead the team of consultants at onsite and offshore. Contributed in the data modelling, database design, Functional requirements documentation, UI design and validation, ETL extracts, Design of real time web services, Integration and User Acceptance Testing.

o    VPS is in-house built system built to provide 360 degree view of the Customer relationship with the Bank, Evaluate the products owned by the Customer, Provide the benefits to the Customer based on the relationship (examples: discounts on ID Alerts Products, Special pricing on Check Cashing, Zero dollar Monthly maintenance fees, Free Savings Accounts, Employee-based Discounts)

o    Collobarate with the business users and technical teams to define the UI interface and validations and the list of Product charecteristics that need to be stored in PR (example: Credit Cards processing flags)

o    Collobarate with several teams – Customer facing UI applications, Teller applications, Back-end systems, Enterprise DataWarehouse, Consumer ETL, Internet Banking and Mobile Banking Teams to review the functional requirements end to end, perform gap and root cause analysis, document the functional test cases, and support the integration testing.

o    Contribute in the Proof of Concepts using Tibco suite of products

o    Work with WebMethods team to define the Integration requirements, work on Queue set up and services

o    Work with QA, RM, Support Teams and End-users to deploy the solutions to Production and provide support as needed. Contribute in Daily & Weekly work assignment review.

o    Weekly timesheet management, Monthly Invoice Tracking, Quarterly work review

o    Lead the meetings and socialize the daily Meeting minutes and understandings document with meeting particpants. Perform the project management activities as needed for the project.

2.    M&T Bank, Bangalore, Buffalo, Jun 2011 – Nov 2014                                                                                Tibco Architect

o    Architect, Design and Development of services using Tibco suite of products – Tibco BusinessWorks, Tibco BusinessConnect, Tibco EMS, Tibco Administrator

o    Work with LOB to understand the requirements. Document the Integration functional requirements in to Integratin (Tibco) Technical design documents. Design of services using Tibco BusinessWorks. Mentor the work of group of Tibco developers at onsite and offshore. Contribute in the direct development.

o    Desigin of the Loan Application Evolution (LAE) project. Users can save partial loans and retrieve the loans from they have last saved. The application gets saved into the Oracle database on Tibco EMS using CDM. Tibco BW and EMS are used for Orchestration and Integration.

o    Contribute in the definition of CDM schema. Design and development of services on SOA using Tibco suite of products.

o    Document the best practices and check-list document and validate the design and development against the best practices document. Review the development thoroughly.

o    Deployment and maintenance of Tibco produts using Tibco Administrator on Unix.

o    Socialize the daily Minutes of the meetings of the call with the team, write the detailed understandings document of the requirements and socialize the document with client and offshore team.

o    Write the architecture and technical design document. Follow tibco best practices.

o    Work with other teams involved in the development and QA phase.

o    Lead the team of Tibco Developers and Tibco Administrators. Help the team in the development phase. Contribute in the direct development of the services using Tibco BW where needed

o    For the last quarter of the 2011, our team won the blue star team of the quarter award for the excellent customer satisfaction

o    Perform all the project management activities as needed for the project.

3.    Constellation Energy  Baltimore MD, Aug 2008 – Dec 2010       `                                             Tibco Lead Consultant        

o    Design and Develop the Tibco services in the Conversion of old systems into new CRM (Siebel) , MDM (Lodestar) on Tibco Integration platform for the following regions in USA.

·         Great Lakes Region (Aug 08 – Nov 08)

·         Mid-Atlantic/Metro-North (Nov 08 – Jun 09)

·         West (Jul 09 – Nov 09)

·         New England (Nov 09 – Jun 10)

·         Texas / ERCOT (Jul 10 – Feb 11)

o    Work with Trading Partners across the above mentioned regions to understand their EDI Transactions guide for Enrollments (EDI 814), Usage (EDI 867),  Invoice (810) and Pay (820) transactions.

o    Document Integration functional requirements to process Usage and Invoice transactions

o    Thousands of customers from the old systems are moved to Siebel (system of record for enrollments and customer data) using siebel EIM. The records then synced to Lodestar MDM using Tibco BusinessWorks

o    Configure and design Trading Partners, EDI configurations in Tibco Business Connect (BC) and Specbuilder. Prepare Technical design documents. EDI transactions were handled by third-party vendor before. First to propose and deploy Tibco BC to process EDI transations in house at Constellation.

o    Architect and design services using Tibco BusinessWorks (BW) and Tibco EMS to process the transactions generated from Tibco BusinessConnect. Follow SOA in the design of web services.

o    Design and development of services to process the enrollment requests generated from Siebel using Tibco Siebel Adapter and Tibco BusinessWorks

o    Design and development of services to send Meter related data to Lodestar MDM using Tibco BW.

o    Design of common logging and exception handling service and Database tables.

o    Work with Web team in the design of EDI Viewer. Design and development of back-end database tables that are used by EDI viewer. 360 degree view of EDI transactions is achieved with the design.

o    Work with Trading Partners, ISOs, LOBs, end-users in the certification Testing before Prod deployment. All the trading partners are seemlessly transferred to new-systems

o    Work with the release team in the deployment of Tibco services on Tibco Administrator

o    Consistent support to users on EDI Usage, Invoice, Enrollment requests.

o    Work with teams, Utilities, ISOs and Users across different USA electricity regions.

4.    Capital Group of Companies, Irvine, CA, Apr 2007 – Jun 2008                                          Tibco PSG Consultant

o    Integration of Siebel CRM and other applications (databases) on Tibco EMS platform.

o    Real-time save of the events generated in Siebel into Oracle DB on Tibco ESB using CDM. 2 services are designed and developed  using Tibco BusinessWorks- One to receive the events and publish the events to CDM service and the other to receive the messages on CDM and publish to database.

o    Design & development of the Oracle MDM database, where data from Siebel and other systems is saved.

o    Tibco BW, Tibco EMS are used to develop the Tibco ESB interfaces. Siebel EAI Business Services are used to publish the events from Siebel onto Tibco EMS. Understand the requirements, Write Technical design documents, Design and development of services using Tibco BusinessWorks

o    Integration of Siebel CRM and Portfolio Account system (Sybase) using Tibco BusinessWorks. Work with Portfolio teams to understand the requirements and design the interfaces.

o    Design and development of Enterprise wide Exception Management Framework

o    Design and development of Tibco Sequencer using BusinessWorks– that helps in processing of events in correct sequence.

5.    Payless ShoeSource, Topeka, KS, USA, Feb 2007-A