Raj Balasubramanian schroskat@ieee.org

Career Profile

• Experienced IT professional - over ten years of experience in the full life cycle management of solution oriented software development and deployment on numerous successful engagements for a variety of clients – multi-disciplinary and across industry.

• Technologist with a business perspective – maintains a firm grasp on emerging technologies and standards and how they can solve a business problem. Has a passion for business driven solutions.

• Relationship focused - builds relationship with key stakeholder and earns the trust of management/executives by explaining complex technical solutions in simple terms and by showing value of the proposed solution to overall business. Promotes junior staff within project teams to become future leaders.

• Technical evangelist- featured speaker and writer at IBM developerWorks and premiere Technical conferences.

Technology Summary

• Products – WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Application and Portal Server, Lotus Workplace & Workplace Client Technology, Lotus Domino and Extended Products (Sametime, QuickPlace, Domino.Doc), Novell Edirectory, Tivoli Access Manager, Rational Application Developer, Rational Software Architect, IIS, Active Directory, Novell DirXML, IBM Edge Server, Netegrity Siteminder, DB2, Dia, Jboss, Apache/Tomcat, Cocoon, CA ACF2, Eclipse

• Operating Systems – Linux, AIX, Windows, OS/400, z/OS, Mac OS X

• Languages – Java, Lotusscript, Visual Basic, C, Ruby, Python, Javascript, HTML, XML/XSL, C#, UML, PHP, SQL

• Standards & Technologies – J2EE, .NET, LDAP, SMTP, Web Services, WS-Security, SAML, Liberty Alliance, Kerberos, SPNEGO, WSRP, Reverse Proxy, S/MIME, X.509, SIP, XMPP, JCR, JSR168, BPEL4WS

Project Summary

SOA Lead Architect for a sporting goods company

Lead the effort to create a SOA Strategy and Roadmap for a sporting goods company, collaborating with local team and IBM Architects. Created an SOA Adoption Model tailored to their business and elaborated on a 1 year plan for SOA Adoption within the enterprise.

SOA Infrastructure Architect for a major Insurance company

Lead a team of IBM consultants and Subject Matter Experts to produce a functional Operational Model for the proposed SOA environment for an Insurance company in the Northwest. The architecture addressed high availability, performance and security along with management of the services in their SOA environment. The architecture included WebSphere based middleware runtime, several Mainframe connectivity options along with an elaborate ESB design. The project also produced a reusable asset – SOA Operational Model Template.

SOA Integration Architect for a major Insurance company

Assisted with documenting Operations Guide for the process SOA environment at a major Insurance company based on the West coast. The guide included areas on performance, security, operational processes and technology recommendations for services that are planned to be deployed.

Worked closely with the extended IBM team and the client architecture team to define touch points between other workstreams – ESB, SOA Reference Model and third party products like Webify and Layer-7

Lead the SOA Lab to showcase IBM SOA-Integration Framework and codify the SOA processes and methodology established in the previous phases of the project.

J2EE Lead Architect for a major Credit Union

Architected and lead the WebSphere Portal deployment and in establishing a common J2EE application infrastructure for the Credit Union to develop business applications. This involved working with key stakeholders and with the key Executives. The Portal includes key applications that was architected and designed by me, as well as other standard portlets.

This project started as a 4 week prototype and I championed it into a multi-year contract. Currently leading the upgrade of the Portal infrastructure from version 5.0.2 to 5.1

Single Sign On Architect for a major Credit Union

Designed and implemented a viable SSO solution that met the business and security requirements of the Credit Union. The end result of this effort - a Credit Union user was able to login to their desktop and access a variety of applications(Portal, Mainframe, Email, IM to name a few) without further login prompts.

Technical Adviser to VP, ISD for a major Credit Union

Acted as a trusted technical adviser for the VP of IS, by providing neutral technology evaluations, explain technical concepts and solutions as well leading workshops with his direct reports.

Lead Portal Architect for a Fortune 100 Chemical Company

Lead the architecture, design and implementation of a Collaborative B2B Portal solution for a major Chemical company. The Portal served as the primary communication and feedback mechanism for this company's premium partners. The solution I designed involved – developing custom portlets interfacing Sametime and QuickPlace servers, SSO with their Aventail based Reverse Proxy and integration with their Corporate LDAP Directory.

Integration Consultant for a leading Paper/Chemical Manufacturer

Performed the lead role of an architect and specialist in designing and implementing integration solution between Domino servers and WebSphere Application Servers in the client's secure Extranet. Assisted with several B2B applications deployment on this common infrastructure. The overall design included SSO strategy and X.509 deployment for one the client's premium customer. This project started as a 5 week engagement and the customer requested my services for over 18 months.

Product Engineering Support & Enablement

Assisted with writing sample scripts and testing beta code as the product team released the Workplace Client Technology SDK. This activity involved constant interaction with Lotus and IBM product engineering teams as well as the Marketing teams to deliver a sample Call Center Application built on this WCT 2.5 platform and shipped as part of the SDK, along with Developers Guide.

Collaboration Architect for a major Pharmaceutical company

Lead the architecture of Sametime deployment for a major Pharma company. The architecture had to span across the globe and support their corporate LDAP Directory. The follow on work included the design of QuickPlace infrastructure as part of the overall Collaboration environment. Also assisted the development team to write Plumtree gadgets to access Sametime and QuickPlace components. Designed the integration of this Collaboration environment with their SSO platform (Netegrity Siteminder)

SSO Architect and Collaboration Consultant for a Telecommunication Company

Architected the SSO solution for a large Telecommunication Company. The company had Siteminder based SSO solution and a large Collaboration environment that included Sametime, QuickPlace and Domino Messaging. The solution provided integration of their current Collaboration environment within this new SSO framework. Upon successful deployment of the SSO solution, I lead the Portal deployment to surface the existing Collaboration environment via WebSphere Portal Extend. The final solution included working Collaborative Portal site for the company's employees and remote access via secure Reverse Proxy.

Document and Content Architect

Assisted with the design and development of document centric application for the Legal business unit of a major food manufacturer. The solution was implemented using Domino.Doc and a custom web-based tool. As part of the overall Document and Content strategy for this company, provided guidance on taxonomy and content categorization services. Migrated HR Resume imaging system written in a legacy application to Domino.Doc. This effort involved writing custom code to the legacy C API to extract the images and recreate them in Domino.Doc using the Domino.Doc APIs.

Previous Projects

◦ Evaluated system scalability for ES7000 Unisys system running Domino 5 on Windows 2000 DCE

◦ Developed a proof of concept portal application using QuickPlace and Domino.Doc for a major advertising company

◦ Prototyped a B2C site in ASP and IIS technologies

◦ Designed and implemented a large mail topology for a major packaging manufacturer

◦ Built and managed an internal infrastructure for a startup, hosting NT 4 Domain and workstations, Netscape News and Mail server, Vpage servers and network infrastructure.

Conferences

◦ WebSphere Portal Technical Conference, Baltimore (October 2006) - Developing applications for SOA deployments

◦ Collaboration Best Practices Conference in Hawthorne, NY (April 2006) – Collaboration Topics in a SOA

◦ Lotusphere in Orlando (January 2006) – Integrating IBM Lotus Domino Applications with IBM WebSphere Portal: Options, Customizations, Customer Examples and Best Practices

◦ WebSphere Portal Technical Conference, Las Vegas (October 2006) – Portletizing Domino Application – The DXL Way!

◦ WebSphere Portal Technical Conference Europe, Cannes France (May 2005) - Patterns in implementing Collaborative Portals ; SSO Across Collaborative Portals

◦ Lotusphere in Orlando (January 2005) – Security-Rich Internet Mail with Notes and Domino 7 via S/MIME ; How To Achieve Security Enhancements with IBM Lotus Domino Web Access

◦ IBM Software University in Las Vegas (January 2005) – Patterns in implementing Collaborative Portals ; SSO Across Collaborative Portals

◦ WPS Technical Symposium in Atlanta (November 2004) – Patterns in implementing Collaborative Portals ; SSO Across Collaborative Portals

◦ CM Technical Conference in Chicago (May 2004) – Lessons learned in implementing SSO across Collaborative Portals

◦ Lotusphere in Orlando (January 2004) – Topics in SSO; World of Collaborative Portals Powered by WebSphere Portal: NFCU

◦ ISSL Technical Exchange in NY and Canada (Octob 2003) - Lessons learned in SSO Across Collaborative Portals

◦ WPS Technical Symposium in Boston(September 2003) - Lessons learned in building a B2B Collaborative Portals; SSO Across Collaborative Portals

◦ Lotusphere in Orlando (January 2003) – Building B2B Collaborative Portals-The DuPont Story

◦ WPS Technical Symposium in Raleigh (September 2002) - Lessons learned in building a B2B Collaborative Portals

◦ devLive Works in Sanfrancisco (May 2002) - Domino and Websphere synergy for an eBusiness Site