Bharathi Boopalan

Currently leading fraud prevention and risk assessment solutions project @ADP. Total 20 years of experience in designing and developing software solutions in various technologies and business domains.

Currently enrolled in Executive MBA in Rutgers Business School.

• Sun Certified Java Programmer, with 20+ years of experience in extensive analysis, design, development, testing, and postproduction support for various Java-based applications. 
• Developed applications for different business domains USAA – Auto Insurance, Nielsen – Market Rating, Dept. of Transportation Wisconsin, Arbitration Forums – Insurance Arbitrator, Express Scripts – PBM, and ADP - HCM domain using industry standards.
• Forward-thinking and strategic leader with new ideas to foster team improvements through innovations and take competitive advantage.
• Mentor, instruct, and manage the team through best practices and optimized techniques for producing optimal solutions.
• Increased development by high-quality code output, reduced implementation windows, and 100% on-time deliveries using Scrum Agile software development practices.
• Experience working at multiple levels within the organization and collaborating closely with cross-functional product development teams to identify new features and requirements to develop roadmaps. 
• Develop fail-fast POC to test out new technologies and solutions.
• Continuous learner, quickly adaptable to new environments, and always flexible to growing needs and changes.
• Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction.

• Working with different vendors GIACT, Lexis Nexis, and Socure to integrate fraud prevention services.
• Analyze vendor offerings and make recommendations to the procurement team for contract negotiation.
• Developed homegrown solutions for risk assessment using block IP and device assessment to prevent account takeover and account setup frauds.
• Integrated with different communication channel providers (SMS, Voice, Email) to send OTP for multi-factor authentication.
• Mentoring the innovation team to bring new ideas and develop fail-fast Machine Learning POC for the product teams to take it forward.
• Working as a mentor and Capstone project manager with NJIT students for developing a Chatbot project on behalf of ADP.
• Certified emerging leader at ADP.
• Provide regular high-level communications to the senior management team and represent fraud prevention as shared services across ADP.
• Participate in strategic planning and design sessions with Product Management, Security Management, Architects, and Technical Leaders.
• Manage and execute project plans and delivery commitments to external teams and manage the day-to-day activities of the engineering team within an agile environment.
• Review and revise technical design directions for fraud prevention projects, prioritizing leadership goals.
• Continuous Improvement – Establish the software development process in alignment with best practices for Continuous Integration / Continuous Development from the SRE team.
• Developing applications with high-end java technologies like Spring web-flux for non-blocking execution, machine learning algorithms, rule engine, OAuth authentication, etc.
• Involved with vendors, and development teams both internal and external for performance improvement analysis and fixes. 
• Review code to check security compliance and coding standards.
• Define talent acquisition needs and hire quality team members, manage team schedules according to workloads and department needs.
• Train team to apply best practices and discuss issues to provide resolution.