Mevan Royston D Souza
Melbourne,VIC
Summary
Lead Solution Designer with strong expertise in solution design and technical documentation. Demonstrated success in mentoring teams and implementing process improvements that enhance organizational capabilities. Experienced in evaluating emerging technologies to drive impactful solutions aligned with business objectives. Committed to optimizing performance through innovative design methodologies and effective team collaboration.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Solution Designer
ANZ Plus
Melbourne, VIC
08.2019 - Current
- Developed detailed technical documentation for system architecture and design processes.
- Facilitated workshops to identify business needs and define project scope effectively.
- Led design reviews, providing feedback to ensure adherence to best practices.
- Mentored junior team members on solution design methodologies and tools used in projects.
- Performed research on emerging technologies to evaluate their potential for application within the organization's products and services.
- Participated in code reviews providing feedback on coding styles, design patterns and overall quality of implementations.
- Reviewed existing legacy systems making recommendations regarding refactoring or modernization efforts.
- Developed solution designs based on industry standards, best practices, and the latest technologies.
- Created user documentation outlining how new features should be used effectively.
- Developed strategies for the automation of manual tasks using scripting languages like Python.
- Defined user stories and developed prototypes to demonstrate product features.
- Created detailed design documents that included architecture diagrams, data models, use cases, flows, wireframes and other visualizations.
- Engineered cloud-based solutions leveraging the Google Cloud Platform.
- Mentored junior architects and developers in best practices and technical skills.
- Piloted proof of concept initiatives to validate architectural approaches and technologies.
- Combined root-level authentication and authorization technologies with ongoing system design to harden finished solutions.
- Conducted performance reviews and provided constructive feedback to team members.
- Monitored staff performance and addressed issues.
- Coached, mentored and trained team members in order to improve their job performance.
- Recruited and hired qualified candidates to fill open positions.
Team Leader
Accenture
Melbourne, Victoria
09.2013 - 07.2019
- Led team in daily operations and ensured adherence to company policies
- Coordinated training sessions for new employees and provided ongoing support
- Implemented process improvements to enhance team efficiency and productivity
- Facilitated communication between departments to streamline workflows
- Monitored team performance and provided constructive feedback regularly
- Participated in regular meetings with senior leadership to provide updates on team progress.
- Assisted with recruitment efforts by interviewing potential candidates and providing input on hiring decisions.
Systems Analyst/Team Lead
ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT Ltd.
09.2011 - 08.2013
- Company Overview: Accenture is a leading IT consulting, Technology and Outsourcing company in IT space serving reputed clients all over the globe
- Team Leader for portal development of United States’ biggest pension system, CalPERS (California Pensions and Retirement System) managing a team of 12 resources and reporting to a project manager.
- Managed a team of 12 resources consisting of Software engineers and senior software engineers across various stages of the SDLC.
- Highly involved in developing the Domain Model and Business Model from the Business Requirements.
- Worked on Eclipse as the developing environment, ClearCase as version control software.
- Developed Application using Spring, Hibernate, JSP’s and Tag libraries.
- Developed and maintained UI components using HTML in integration with AJAX and jQuery.
- Involved in writing the SQL queries and stored procedures to extract and populate the data from the database.
- Gained knowledge and expertise on Object relation mapping (ORM) with database.
- Estimated and planned release contents and release activities.
- Status calls with onshore leads on a weekly basis to discuss the status of the deliverables and highlight risks.
- Manage project chargeability by proper planning and distribution of work.
- Created various assets that helped the project to understand certain business functionalities in the US pension’s world.
- Conducted brownbag and functional sessions to project audience including project managers.
- Held calls with business teams onshore to chalk down business requirements.
- Initiate and implement process improvement initiatives.
- Instrumental in setting up processes for IT, drawing on past experience and course work related to CMMI.
- Conducted technical interviews for new onboard resources
- Accenture is a leading IT consulting, Technology and Outsourcing company in IT space serving reputed clients all over the globe
Senior Software Engineer/Analyst Programmer
UHG (UnitedHealth Group)
04.2010 - 08.2011
- Company Overview: Senior Programmer for reputed US health insurer giant UnitedHealth Group (UHG) in designing and developing their provider portal.
- Analysis and Design of business requirements at onshore (New Jersey, USA)
- Estimate business requirements in terms of man hours and plan release schedules by planning appropriate intake.
- Manage work distribution across offshore and onshore.
- Manage release budget by planning intake and grow/deplete offshore team.
- Working with key people from the client side to manage the delivery and move more work to offshore resources.
- Implemented content creation widgets using AJAX, CSS, JavaScript and JSP.
- Involved in developing Web Pages using Struts framework.
- Involved in developing presentation tier using CSS, JSP, JSTL.
- Worked on AJAX to retrieve data from database.
- Designed and developed Web Services using Apache AXIS.
- Worked on WSAD, RAD, Eclipse as the developing environment, SVN as version controller.
- Used WAS as the webserver.
- Written JUnit scripts for Unit testing.
- Involved in writing scripts to build and deploy the application using Maven.
- Successful in winning client confidence and being able to move more work to offshore.
- Portal operation and maintenance activities.
- Rated among top 10% peers in the Accenture moderation cycle for consecutively 4 years.
- Manage offshore team of 10 resources by providing SME support and help them complete their delivery within schedule.
- Providing status reports to the stake holders.
- Manage end to end release delivery by making sure timelines are met.
- Conducted technical sessions to the offshore and onshore team.
- Completed Health Payer certification
- Senior Programmer for reputed US health insurer giant UnitedHealth Group (UHG) in designing and developing their provider portal.
Software Engineer
UHG (UnitedHealth Group)
06.2006 - 03.2010
- Company Overview: Worked as Analyst Programmer for reputed US health insurer giant UnitedHealth Group(UHG) in designing and developing member portal.
- Analysis and Design of business requirements.
- Instrumental in streamlining the coordination between business and offshore team in India by facilitating status calls.
- Development for SPRF's(Enhancement activities), business requirements.
- Develop Web Application on Struts Framework using WSAD as the development environment.
- Used Tortoise SVN as the version control tool.
- Developed presentation tier using JSP and CSS.
- Used Log4j for logging and debugging.
- Unit testing and Assembly testing.
- System Integration.
- Release coordination activities.
- Release support.
- Portal operation and maintenance activities.
- Warranty period support.
- Coordinate with business for UAT and provide UAT support towards the end of deployment cycle.
- Status reporting for stake holders.
- Worked as Analyst Programmer for reputed US health insurer giant UnitedHealth Group(UHG) in designing and developing member portal.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
Malnad College of Engineering
Hassan, India12.2006
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 07/09/84
Timeline
Lead Solution Designer
ANZ Plus
08.2019 - Current
Team Leader
Accenture
09.2013 - 07.2019
Systems Analyst/Team Lead
ACCENTURE SERVICES PVT Ltd.
09.2011 - 08.2013
Senior Software Engineer/Analyst Programmer
UHG (UnitedHealth Group)
04.2010 - 08.2011
Software Engineer
UHG (UnitedHealth Group)
06.2006 - 03.2010
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication
Malnad College of Engineering