Rajul Patel

Current

• Principal Enterprise Architect at 4T Technologies
• Enterprise Architect at T-Mobile

Past

• Senior Technical Architect/Technical Systems Architect at AT&T
• Technical & Integration Architect at BellSouth (now at&t)
• Billing SME at LHS Communications

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Education

• Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, University of Mumbai/Bombay

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Industry

Telecommunications

Rajul Patel’s Summary

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Infrastructure Architect / Application Architect / Enterprise Architecture and Integration

“Proactive Leader, Problem Solver & Cost Transformation/Reduction Specialist”

Over thirteen years experience in the information technology industry. Over six years in lead architect positions architecting enterprise architecture solutions and working with senior management and executives. Expertise in building, revitalizing and optimizing a company’s infrastructure in a cost effective and timely manner. Led several efforts resulting in significant cost savings and operational improvements for customers.

LEADERSHIP, INTEGRATION & ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECTURE, BILLING EXPERTISE
>> Led designs and implementations of several enterprise class projects resulting in on-time executions, operational efficiencies and high customer satisfaction. N-tier architecture solutions involved UNIX-based midrange servers, storage area networks, Storage Replication, LAN/WAN architecture, relational databases, various middleware technologies, Disaster Recovery, Backup and Recovery, Development tools, etc.
>> Experienced in working with large multiple data center environments utilizing multiple hardware platforms (Sun, HP, Dell, IBM, EMC, etc.) and application suites (Oracle, BEA, Symantec/Veritas, Hyperion, etc.).
>> Established a wide area network model that resulted in ongoing savings of over $2 million in services and initial capital costs of deploying new offices for a geographically diverse business unit (over 5000 employees across the US).
>> Architected and deployed several applications on shared server virtualization platforms that ended up saving the company capital expenditure in acquiring infrastructure and also ongoing expense in maintenance of applications and infrastructure.
>> Consulted as Subject Matter Expert for several wireless telecommunications billing projects.

Rajul Patel’s Experience

• Principal Enterprise Architect

  4T Technologies

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2008 — Present (3 months)

• Enterprise Architect

  T-Mobile

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DT; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2008 — Present (3 months)

  Enterprise Architect on several projects chalking out the future technology landscape at T-Mobile.

Rajul Patel’s Education

• Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, University of Mumbai/Bombay

  Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, 1989 — 1994

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  C4

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Rajul Patel’s Groups:

•    The Enterprise Architecture Network

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