Guru Kalle, Sr Solution Architect

Guru Kalle

Sr Solution Architect

honeywell

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
Experience
16 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 4 Months

Sr Solution Architect at honeywell
  • India - Bengaluru
  • March 2016 to November 2017

Worked as a Cloud Architect
• Worked for the client Honeywell through the employer Datamatics
• Worked as part of the Application Rationalization Team,
• Analyzed applications, mapped applications to servers, calculated current TCO, future TCO for the Applications for migration to Enterprise Hybrid Cloud as per the criteria set by the management
• Also came up with strategies to migrate applications to the cloud,
• Used Amazon Calculators and identified the Cost of Ownership for the future state in the cloud,
• Helped develop business case, present it to the sr. management for migrating applications to the cloud
• Evaluated Server, Application Utilization, Business Value of the Application, Identified Underutilized/Unutilized Servers/Applications, collaborated with the Infra Team to decommission the under-utilized / unutilized servers, stop billing and save the dollars,
• Attended discussions with the sr. management for migrating applications to the cloud
• Evaluated the environments, identified low utilization servers, evaluated the strategy to migrate the servers to PCF Cloud, Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Amazon Cloud, Apprenda etc and helped save /generate Millions of Dollars in cost, opportunities,
• Migrated Applications to the various clouds such as Amazon Cloud, PCF/Apprenda, Salesforce Cloud,
• Customized Data Models in Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Developed Tabs, Applications in Salesforce to meet the requirements to service the needs of Sales, Service Team,
• Performed User Access Control for the users in the Salesforce Environment,
• Deputed Internally for a Retail Client on the payroll of another vendor
• Attended daily tele-conference sessions with on-site client, consultants to gather Requirements, System Knowledge for CEDS Systems (Central Encryption Data Services), Prepare BRD, Low Level Design Documents,
• Design, Develop Web Services to support the Retail Functions,
• Mapped the Business Requirements to the available solutions in the Sales force Cloud, customized the Sales Cloud, Service Cloud to cater to the requirements of the customer,
• Researched App Exchange Products in Salesforce and customized, deployed them to the Salesforce Cloud to cater to the needs of the customer. Customized Lead Management, Procurement Management in App Exchange

Sr Solution Architect at Citigroup Global Markets
  • Singapore
  • January 2015 to December 2015

• Worked closely with Business stakeholders (Business Analysts, Users, Scrum Masters, Solution Architects, Designers, Vendors, Infrastructure, Security Team) across different teams to gather requirements, define scope, identify the subsystems (Product Processors) Impacted, Interface Requirements for designing Web Services for Mobile, Web Applications that integrate across the TIBCO ESB, communicate with the Core Web Services exposed from the Legacy System and saved Millions of dollars in rewriting, testing efforts, time,
• Designed, integrated the High Level Design (HLD) documents for 800+ User Stories for monthly SDT sprints for 20+ subsystems for the ecommerce Systems, 8 Sprints in Agile Mode for 7 different projects for the Debit Card Stream in CBNA (USA), in 9 APAC Countries including Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand,
• Evaluated the environments, identified low utilization servers, evaluated the strategy to migrate the servers to PCF Cloud, Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Amazon Cloud, Apprenda etc and helped save /generate Millions of Dollars in cost, opportunities,
• Migrated Applications to the various clouds,
• Designed IAM, EC2s, VPC, AutoScaling, ELB, S3, EBS, RDS, performed AD Integration, provided Solution Architecture Support, Migrated applications to the Amazon Cloud,
• Developed AWS Architecture Diagrams, reviewed with Enterprise Architects,
• Performed User Access Control, Data Model Changes, developed applications to meet the customer requirements in Sales Cloud, Service Cloud,
• Led the team to design, develop, test, document, and deploy high quality solutions on the Force.com platform, write triggers, develop Visual force pages to service customers in the debit card stream
• Helped prepare change sets, deploy the changes to the Salesforce Cloud,
• Researched Applications in the APPEXCHANGE, customized applications AutoFX (Forex Conversion), PAYMENTCONNECT, Mergers & Acquisitions for implementation at customer site

it project manager at CNO FINANCIAL GROUP
  • India - Bengaluru
  • November 2011 to January 2014

• Attended requirements gathering sessions with business analysts, designers, developers, helped prepare understanding document (requirements document), low level design documents to develop programs for 20+ releases in Web, SAAS Applications
• Generated approximately USD 20 Million in 10 years by new revenue, savings by evaluating, rank-recommending the e-commerce package Salesforce CRM for providing support to the Insurance Agents to sell the products, provide Post Sale Support
• Mapped the Legacy System Functionality to Salesforce CRM (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud), Identified the Data Models, Customizations, architected the target system,
• Led the team to migrate the data from Legacy System to Salesforce System
• Wrote the Apex Triggers, Customizations to update the customized data
• Made enhancements to the Sales, Service cloud to meet the customer requirements
• Led the team to gather requirements, develop tech specs, perform estimation, allocate the work to the team members, track development, assess risk, prepare status reports and distribute to the management, manage risks, perform testing, prepare packages, deploy to SIT, UAT, Prod environments in the SAAS environment to service customers in Sales Cloud

ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER at UST GLOBAL
  • India - Bengaluru
  • September 2008 to November 2011

• Visited onsite to gather the requirements for an energy client to design the Environment Audit System
• Attended Training Sessions on Salesforce Cloud Computing, PreSales, Web Services
• Provided Training on CICS, DB2
• Developed the development plan for the team
• Worked on Presales project for the Healthcare customer
• Worked on building a Migration Package of Reusable components for the healthcare customer that would save on 30% of the cost, efforts, quality and would save more than USD 10 million in 10 yrs for the future migration
• Wrote Whitepapers, participated in the Retail Product Design competition and won award
• Participated in conveying High Level vision, Corporate Culture to 1000s of employees
• Received Award from the CEO, HR

sr. PROGRAMMER ANALYST at KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS
  • United States - California
  • July 2000 to September 2008

• Performed Encyclopedia Administration for 4 Encyclopedia servers to support 10+ application systems spread across 10+ states in USA,
• Worked Closely with Developers, Business Analysts, Users, Deployment Team, Release Management to administer 4 Advantage Gen Encyclopedia with hundreds of models, Thousands of Users,
• Performed Daily, Migration, Impact Analysis of Major / Minor release components /Change requests from Development through SIT, UAT, Prod (SDLC stages), .
• Supported Data Modelling, Implementation in the Development, SIT, UAT and Production Models,
• Developed web based tools in Java, J2EE, JDBC, Servlets, JSP Applications with IBM WebSphere Application Server to perform migration, migration QA, Impact Analysis, Tools reduced Migration Errors by 50%, Improved Time to Migration from 12+ hrs to 6+ hrs for Daily Migrations, from 5+ Days to < 3 Days for Major Migrations; Tools developed for one system (FS) was adapted for 6 other systems (ARK, TIMES, KITS etc.),
• Verified data quality, conducted impact analysis of changed components, generated code of changed/impacted components and handled over for deployment of the changed components,
• Prepared Models for Development, Testing (every release), Co-ordinated, Applied Data Model Changes,
• Performed Weekly DB2 Maintenance of Backups, Deletes, Re-orgs of tables for Dev, Test, Prod environments to optimize performance, enable disaster recovery,
• Prepared reports of Function Points (Productivity Reporting), Entity Relationship Diagrams, Capacity Management Reports for consumption by management, User Community,
• Involved in providing support to SOA project to analyze, identify processes that can be used for exposing as major web services,
• Performed User Access Control for 100s of Users for 10+ Application Systems for 5+ yrs.,
• Supported the technical architecture for the code development and movement to SIT, UAT and production.
• Supported Customization of Change Management Tool - GuardIEn, Provided Training to Developers,
• Worked Closely with Developers, Vendors team to identify, apply, test improvements for the Change Management Tool, .
• Worked Closely with Developers to upload Both Cool Gen, Non-Cool Gen (COBOL, TEXT etc.) Objects through GuardIEn, Prepare Change Requests, Release Packs,
• Provided 99.8% Encyclopedia Availability 4 Advantage Gen Host Encyclopedia to develop applications for serving thousands of users across major installations for 10 application systems spread across USA used by 10000s of Users across 10 States of USA, 100s of Interfaces.
• Led the efforts to support Design, Development and Implementation of 20+ large releases, hundreds of small & medium releases (2002-2007) worth millions of dollars for major initiatives in the Membership Enrolment, Finance, Medicare, HIPAA projects etc,
• Led efforts to integrate, deploy Web Modules for Enrolments, Address Maintenance, Appointments for Members for the ATLAS project,
• Provided CEO with innovative ideas on business generation and expansion, achieving growth through new sales channels, strategic partnerships, mergers, acquisitions, etc. and appreciated by the senior management,
• Received Leadership Award including several other awards from the senior management

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
  • at Kuvempu University
  • October 1995