Rajul Patel

Current

• 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

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT / Infrastructure Architect / Application Architect

Over fourteen years experience in the information technology industry. Over seven years in lead architect positions architecting enterprise scale solutions, working with the business, senior management and executives. Expertise in building, revitalizing, consolidating and optimizing a company’s apps and infrastructure in a cost effective and timely manner.

CAREER SUMMARY & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Led designs and implementations of several enterprise class projects resulting in on-time executions, operational efficiencies and high customer satisfaction. N-tier and SOA application architecture solutions utilizing midrange servers, SANs, Storage Replication, LAN/WAN arch., DBMS, various middleware, DR, Backup and Recovery, Dev. tools, etc.
• Architected several solns. using the latest SOA tech. for orchestrating automated process and human workflow.
• Developed several application and infrastructure consolidation strategies using SOA and Master Data Management tech. resulting in operational efficiencies and exponential cost savings.
• Experienced in working with large multi-data center deployments utilizing multiple hardware platforms and application suites.
• Established a wide area network model that resulted in ongoing savings of over $2million in services and initial capital costs of deploying new offices for a geographically diverse business unit.
• Architected and deployed several apps on shared server virtualization platforms.
• Designed and deployed several data center storage and backup solutions utilizing technologies from various vendors. Architected and implemented disaster recovery strategies using replication and vaulting techniques.
• Developed and implemented a requirements gathering process and workflow that aided rapid solutions implementations that strived to exceed customer expectations.
• Consulted as SME for several wireless telecommunications billing projects.

Rajul Patel’s Specialties:

• Telecommunications and Billing
• Identifying Cost-effective Operational Efficiencies
• Service Oriented Architecture, Master Data Mgmt
• ROI, Estimation, Budget/Expenditure Mgmt
• Enterprise scale end-to-end architecture solutions
• App and Infrastructure Architecture
• Team Building, Motivation, and Performance
• End-to-End Solution Orchestration & Integration
• Virtualization Solutions – Platforms, SAN, etc.
• DR & Business Continuity Solns.

Rajul Patel’s Experience

• Enterprise Architect

  T-Mobile

  (Public Company; DT; Telecommunications industry)

  October 2008 — Present (10 months)

  ➢ Enterprise Architect on several projects chalking out the future technology landscape at T-Mobile.
  ➢ Consulting Enterprise Architect on several enterprise class projects leveraging internal resources, external vendors and outsourcing partners. One of the first few members of the newly formed Enterprise Architecture group.
  ➢ Lead architect for the evaluation, design and implementation of thin clients for replacement of desktops in the retail and call center environments.
  ➢ Enterprise Architect on several projects that leveraged IBM InfoSphere application suite for master data management (MDM) across the enterprise. Prior to this, applications had their distinct data stores with inconsistent data resulting in a lot of churn.
  ➢ Developed an application architecture based on SOA concepts that would remove bottlenecks in customer activations process. This resulted in positive customer satisfaction and development cost savings.
  ➢ Participant in an Enterprise Architecture effort to establish current and future state architecture standards and guidelines based on several architecture patterns and frameworks like Zachman, eTOM, ITIL, TOGAF, etc.
  ➢ As an Enterprise Architect was leading Application Architecture, Infrastructure Architect and Business process architecture to deliver cost-effective efficient solutions.
  ➢ Developed and implemented a technical requirements gathering process and architecture workflow that aided rapid solutions design turnaround times.
  ➢ Application Architecture: J2EE, .Net, BEA Weblogic, Apache, IBM Websphere MQ, IBM InfoSphere, Tuxedo, TIBCO, Oracle, SQLServer, NetBackup, Amdocs Ensemble, SAP
  ➢ Systems Architecture: Midrange servers (Wintel, Sun, HP), Operating Systems (Windows Server, Solaris, HP-UX), NAS & Storage Area Networks (EMC2, Sun, Network Appliance), LAN/WAN Networking (Cisco, Riverbed), Telephony (Cisco, Avaya)

Rajul Patel’s Education

• Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, University of Mumbai/Bombay

  Bachelor of Engineering , Computer Science , 1989 — 1994

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Rajul Patel’s Groups:

•    The Enterprise Architecture Network

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