Vinit Patel
2526 Oakenshield Drive phone: 240-715-4849
Potomac, MD 20854 e-mail: vinit.r.patel@gmail.com
Objective
Seeking a consulting position as an Application Architect in distributed, multi-tier system development and integration areas.
Summary
An Enterprise Architect with over fifteen years of experience in developing and integrating complex enterprise systems with using web based multi-tier architecture, web services & SOA. Methodology experience has included traditional waterfall, rapid prototyping, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and iterative approaches. Vinit has implemented full life cycle solutions ranging from commercial package implementation to custom-built application development. He has experience as Lead Developer, System Architect and a Project Manager, giving direction and support to teams. Combined with years of both product and consulting experience, he has succeeded in architecting, developing, and integrating enterprise systems for Federal govt agencies, healthcare, B2B, B2C, telecommunication, Supply Chain Management, biomedical and Space exploration research.
Skills & Focus Area
Application Architecture |
SOA |
Collaborative Portal |
Project Planning |
Web Services |
Content Management |
Infrastructure Deployment |
ESB |
J2EE |
Technical Liaison |
AJAX |
Open source tools |
Technical Summary
Languages |
Java, C++, C, SQL |
Web Services Stack |
JAX-WS, XFire, Apache Axis, |
SOA & ESB Stack |
Mule, Apache Service Mix, JBoss Rule Engine |
Middleware/Servers |
BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Oracle AS, JBoss, Tomcat, Convera Search Engine, iPlanet Directory server |
Tools/Framework |
Spring, iBatis, Hibernate, Quartz, Acegi, Lucene/Compass, Xindice |
Education
M. S. (Computer Science), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
B.E (Bachelor of Engineering – Electrical), University of Mysore
Citizenship
U.S. Citizen
Experience
10/2005 to Current Consulting (CSC) at Federal Communication Commission, DC
Project Profile: Development of SOA based system to grant licenses for wireless and satellite based transmitters/receivers for Govt. and Private agencies.
Principal Architect
Responsibilities:
Tools & Technology Used: Weblogic 9.x, JBoss Rule Engine, Sybase 12.5 ASE, Service Mix, Spring, iBatis, Quartz, Acegi, Lucene
10/2004 to 09/2005 Consulting (BearingPoint) - Federal Trade Commission, DC
Project Profile: Development of SOA based repository to process complaints received from individuals, other federal agencies & private agencies for investigation.
Application Architect
Responsibilities:
Tools & Technology Used: Weblogic 8.x, Plumtree 5.x, Jboss 3.x, Convera 8.0.3,Oracle 8i & 9i, Contivo
06/2003 to 9/2004 Consulting at : United States Postal Services, Arlington, VA
Project Profile: To expose some of the existing applications and functionalities as web services and to implement enterprise wide web services for electronic payment processing.
Responsibilities:
Tools & Technology Used: IBM Webspehre, Apache Axis, JMS, Oracle 9i
02/2003 to 06/2003 Consulting at : Integic Inc., Chantilly, VA
Project Profile: A pilot project to validate, process and approve online applications of medical service providers for US military healthcare service personnel.
Responsibilities:
Tools & Technology Used: Oracle 9iAS (9.2.x), Oracle Work Flow Engine, Oracle 9i
03/2002 to 1/2003 DigitalPaper Inc., Arlington, VA
Product Profile: A J2EE based product to share, manage and view documents (mainly mechanical drawings, blueprints and maps) over the internet.
Responsibilities:
03-01 to 1-02 Consulting: iMedLink Inc., Bethesda, MD
Project: Health insurance management for the Govt of Saudi Arabia
A web based solution to administer health insurance companies operating in Saudi Arabia to provide claim management and policyholder management.
Responsibilities:
· Tools for each participating insurance company to administer accounts belong to its policyholders.
· XML based batch insertion, deletion and update of policy holders
· Automatic reminder of policy expiration
· Insurance claim management
11-2000 to 2/01 Consulting: GE Global Exchange (formerly TPN Register), Rockville, MD
Enterprise Architect
6-2000 to 11-2000 Consulting at - Hughes Network Systems, Germontown , MD
A content distribution portal to distribute audio, video and text content within multi-locations enterprise or between one-to-one or one-to-many business entities.
Responsibilities:
Tools & Technology Used: Windows NT servers, Weblogic 5.1, JSP, Servlets, Oracle 8i, XML and proprietary middleware and framework, , Rational Rose, UML, Clearcase
11-99 to 6-2000 Consulting at - Commerce One (formerly Appnet Inc), Laurel, MD
Sr. Consultant / Architect
Responsibilities:
2-99 to 11-99 Consulting at - Qwest Communications Intl, Arlington, VA
Software Consultant ( Internet Development Group)
Project :
A portal specifically designed to offer various communication products like VPN based on Frame-Relay, ATM, high speed DSL, T1, T3 and web hosting services to serve business customers. It also help customer to monitor and manage VPN or leased line over the internet. A customer can perform real time statistics, monitor network health (through an applet), increase or decrease bandwidth, generate trouble ticket and various other things to manage network more efficiently.
Responsibilities:
10-97 to 1-99 Manugistics Corp, Rockville, MD
Responsibilities:
· Developed an interface using Java Native Interface (JNI) to call legacy database connectivity API for internet based supply chain management software.
· Designed & developed components on the server side for e-commence product using WebLogic’s Java based application server.
· Developed utility to import ASCII text data into locally/remotely hosted database for e-commerce product using Java/JDBC & Tengah application server.
· Developed business objects to provide object-relational mapping & object persistence.
09-96 to 10-97 Bell-Atlantic, Silverspring, MD
Member - Technical Staff
Responsibilities:
· Designed & developed RMI based multithreaded server to transmit data over the intranet for circuit provisioning system’s database.
· Developed Object Request Broker to activate/deactivate network elements and store necessary information in the database upon completion.
· Developed an interface between external system (Video Information Provider) and a network provisioning system designed to enable Bell Atlantic to rapidly mechanize both the physical & network elements using OSP (Object Services Package, nearly CORBA compliance middleware).
08-94 to 09-96 Hughes Information Technology Corp, Landover, MD
Responsibilities:
· Designed and developed a client server application using distributed computing environment (DCE) for NASA’s EOS (Earth Observation System)
· Developed a string parser and SQL code generator to process request submitted by the client (through web browser)
6-93 to 8-94 Johns Hopkins University
· Participated in developing university library information system, implemented in Informix database using C++/C
· Designed and implemented various algorithms related to data structure using Unix/C & Unix/Shell.
8-88 to 7-92 Bayer Diagnostics (I) Ltd. Baroda, India
(Subsidiary of Bayer Corporation, Tarrytown, NY)
Systems Engineer
· Developed statistical analysis software for bio-chemistry analyzers
· Developed software to display blood cell distribution & size graphs for blood cell analyzers.