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Gajendra Shete

Tampa

Summary

Served as Vice President at Citigroup Inc. with a proven track record in enterprise architecture and regulatory compliance. Expert in Java and agile methodologies, I successfully led the development of a custom Legal Entity Management System, enhancing operational efficiency and ensuring compliance. Passionate about strategic planning and cross-functional collaboration to drive impactful solutions.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Vice President (Enterprise/Technical Architect)

Citigroup Inc
Tampa
10.2015 - Current
  • Developed Legal Entity Management System that combines functionality spread over 3 different applications. New system, CLEMS, will replace these OTS software applications with inhouse custom build functionality.
  • Developed online filing application for legal entity corporate governance reporting for UK Companies house interface. Worked with business & UK regulatory published standards and web service gateways to enable electronic filing submissions, a regulatory compliance mandate.
  • Currently working on system to monitor, report and ensure compliance on booking practices of company. This is another regulatory compliance mandate. This is new functionality stemming from the 2007 financial crisis and subsequent Frank-Dodd regulation.

Enterprise Solution Architect

Capgemini USA
11.2010 - 10.2015
  • Completed 3 year project with Disney using agile methodology, using onshore-offshore teams to deliver a strategic platform functionality for their upcoming initiative focused on mobile guest experience delivery.
  • Developed SF (Strategic Functionality) Platform that has 2 distinct aspects. RTI (Right Time Information) that utilizes Event Driven Architecture based on JMS/ESB to collect all guest updates in various units of Disney. RTI responds to these events by retrieving latest guest information, transforming to canonical format and storing in database called OneView. OneView is another part of SF which has canonical guest data that enables current and future guest facing Disney apps. Utilizes CXF to publish set of 150+ ReSTful services hosted on cluster of Tomcat servers.
  • Utilizes technology stack that includes Spring, CXF, Tomcat, JMS, Sonic/Progress ESB Platform, Apigee, Apache Traffic Server, OAuth servers etc.
  • The platform currently is deployed to more than 170 tomcat servers and handles service call volume of nearly 8-10 million per day.
  • Implemented Rules Engine based on jBPM/DROOLS to drive enhanced guest experience at parks based on eligibility level, past experiences, current purchases and companywide promotions in effect.
  • Managed onshore team of 2-3 development managers and 3-4 offshore development leads to ensure on time project delivery using total team size of 20-30 resources.
  • Worked closely with Disney Business and IT Architecture leadership to provide thought leadership, solution strategies, financially optimal delivery using combination of onshore and offshore resources.

Senior Java Architect / Consulting Architect

Nielsen Media Research
05.2009 - 11.2010
  • Worked on refactoring of MCAF (Matching And Crediting Framework) to move it from RMI based distributed architecture to more Service Component (SCA) based architecture.
  • Proposed a re-factorization based on use of Spring based POJO Services and Component service architecture, use of java multi-threading using Executor Service model, use of Hadoop/HBase for matching data, and Grid-Gain for distributed parallel processing.
  • Significantly reduced the required size of JVM memory, brittleness of matching application and residual unmatched time slices in viewer data.
  • Leveraged Tibco/EMS/JMS products for preprocessing of viewer data to remove data and time signature discrepancies.
  • Also worked on migration of Rules based data processing engine from IBM iLog to Tibco CEP Engine.

Senior Java Architect / Consulting Architect

Dell Services (formerly Perot Systems)
06.2008 - 05.2009
  • Worked on Enterprise integration project for Dell Corp to integrate data between Remedy System (Dell’s order fulfillment and asset tracking system) and Siebel (Dell’s CRM implementation).
  • Built a JBoss hosted, EJB3 based, web services driven system that would seamlessly update Remedy/Siebel in response to change in data state in either system.
  • This integration project enabled Dell to support Dells business offering to Small/Midsize businesses for after sales support/maintenance services contracts.

Team Lead / Solution Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
08.2007 - 11.2007
  • Implemented Mule ESB based trade post-processing workflow that interfaced with Murex Trading platform to receive trade data, processed FiXML trade data, built and sent custom reports to regulatory agencies and trade bodies.
  • Served on Architecture advisory group.
  • Served on the team that represented Tomcat/J2EE Reporting platform and Murex Trading Platform CoE.

Project Lead / Sr. Programmer Analyst

Citigroup Inc
08.2005 - 04.2007
  • Local lead for Global Products Data Synchronization group and responsible for development and maintenance of Events driven update of Global Security products database.
  • Developed J2EE platform based (WebSphere) ETL App to process and load mortgage securities data coming in Mortgage vendors, Loan Servicers and government sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
  • Developed J2EE platform (WebSphere) app to search, modify and update securities database for trade restrictions and similar trading details.

Sr. Software Engineer

Lifecare Technologies
04.2004 - 08.2005
  • Developed Electronic Medical Records Management application targeted towards retirement homes and long term care facilities.
  • Integrated with HL7 streams for patient data, pharmacy data and drugs database from Wolters Kluwer/MediSpan.

Software Engineer

ProQuest Inc
10.2000 - 08.2003
  • Worked on messaging workflow based application to split, index, annotate and store electronic documents into searchable database.
  • Used IBM MQSeries for workflow management.

Development Engineer

Open Networks Engineering
02.1999 - 10.2000
  • Developed Test Suite using Gnu Expect to test C programs.
  • Participated in coming up with diagnostics component of new product for company based off CORBA.

Education

MS - Computer Science

Central Michigan University
USA
01.1999

Post Graduate Diploma in Management -

IIFM
Bhopal, India
05-1995

Bachelor of Technology -

College of Engineering, MPAU
India
01.1993

Skills

  • Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD)
  • Design patterns
  • TOGAF
  • Java/JDK
  • Collections
  • Multithreading
  • Concurrency
  • JDBC
  • Java API for XML Processing (JAXP)
  • Spring IoC
  • Spring boot
  • Spring Microservices
  • Spring Data JPA
  • Spring Security
  • Spring JMS
  • Hibernate 30
  • JBoss JBPM/DROOLS
  • Messaging ActiveMQ/Kafka/Solace
  • ESB Mule/Camel and others
  • Coe repository Git/SVN
  • Databases Oracle/MSSQL/MySQL/Postgres
  • Unstructured Databases CouchDB/MongoDB
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Software development lifecycle
  • Agile methodology
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Solution architecture
  • Team leadership
  • Strategic planning
  • Performance metrics analysis
  • Recruiting and hiring
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Complex Problem-solving
  • Staff development
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Product demonstrations
  • Metrics tracking
  • Operations management
  • Presentations
  • Documentation and reporting
  • Staff recruiting and retainment
  • Training and mentoring
  • Resource allocation
  • Results-driven

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Vice President (Enterprise/Technical Architect)

Citigroup Inc
10.2015 - Current

Enterprise Solution Architect

Capgemini USA
11.2010 - 10.2015

Senior Java Architect / Consulting Architect

Nielsen Media Research
05.2009 - 11.2010

Senior Java Architect / Consulting Architect

Dell Services (formerly Perot Systems)
06.2008 - 05.2009

Team Lead / Solution Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
08.2007 - 11.2007

Project Lead / Sr. Programmer Analyst

Citigroup Inc
08.2005 - 04.2007

Sr. Software Engineer

Lifecare Technologies
04.2004 - 08.2005

Software Engineer

ProQuest Inc
10.2000 - 08.2003

Development Engineer

Open Networks Engineering
02.1999 - 10.2000

MS - Computer Science

Central Michigan University

Post Graduate Diploma in Management -

IIFM

Bachelor of Technology -

College of Engineering, MPAU
Gajendra Shete