Summary:
Results focused management leader with track
record of strong software engineering leadership in multiple technologies
including J2EE development, .Net framework and LAMP. Industry experience
includes online media, CPGs, manufacturing, auction systems, healthcare and consulting
practice management.
Core expertise in structuring teams and
establishing processes in networked model; managed offshore development centers
in Asia and South America. Effectively implemented management best
practices, including RUP and Agile development methodologies; senior project
management, QA
methodologies, standards, metrics and continuous process improvements. Expertise
in budgeting, P/L, organization restructuring and managing direct reports,
including conducting performance and career reviews.
Accomplishments:
- Effectively recruited and built technology/QA
organization from ground up; managed teams
in the range of 55-65 engineers and managers
- Core
competency in managing offshore development centers having established one development center from scratch in India
which presently has strength of 1500 employees. Implemented successful
working models while delivering projects with teams in Asia, US and South
America.
- Provided successful technology sales support to
business development teams at major brands like Scholastic, Cox, Disney
etc for projects ranging from $1-5 MM
- Managed
helpdesk and application support for 24x7
news operation websites like
ajc.com/palmbeachpost.com/statesman.com,ajcjob.com etc with tens of
millions page views per week.
- On
multiple occasions, instituted full life-cycle development methodologies,
including RUP, Waterfall and Agile
best practices that resulted in delivering high quality enterprise
applications on time and within budget.
- Architected large scale enterprise systems including portals (Weblogic, Websphere,
JBoss), CMS implementations (Teamsite, Sitecore, Escenic), analytics
(Sitecatalyst, google, Tacoda), Adobe web technologies like Actionscript,
and flex, CDN solutions like Akamai, social networking applications,
loyalty programs, ecommerce applications, legacy backend integrations and
auction systems.
Professional
Experience:
Director
of Technology - Studiocom (digital interactive agency) Aug’ 07 - Present
Studiocom
is a premier digital interactive agency that creates engaging brand
experiences. It is a WPP company, with expertise in presenting strategy,
solutions, design and implementing enterprise platforms for clients like Coke,
Mattel, Dunkin/Baskin, Activision, Nestle, Disney and McCormick etc
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Leading
technology organization with client management, software development and QA
teams of 60+ engineers and managers in Columbia, India and US
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Established
a direct reporting team of Technology Directors that is responsible for client
relationships from technology perspective for projects with total revenue of
~$25MM.
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Restructured
technology organization, consolidated development centers, hired right client
facing talent and provided a training roadmap for employees; changes resulted
in 100% successful technology implementations in 2008
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Redistributed
responsibilities between development centers in US, Columbia and India thereby
establishing an ideal offshore working model; implemented an effective
handshake process between business owners and technology teams
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Provide
technology leadership, solutions and sales support in business development
process for projects ranging from $2-5MM
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Implemented
strategic direction and technology roadmap for the company resulting in strategic
partnerships with CMS/CRM/MMOG vendors and adoption of new technologies like
Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight, Flex with Blaze DS, CMS systems like
Sitecore, Alfresco and N’Stein, home grown Mobile platforms, social networking
applications like CrowdFactory etc.
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Manage
zero based technology budget with independent P&L
Sr.
Manager-Software Engineering, COXnet Feb’
05 – Aug’ 07
COXnet
is part of Cox Enterprises, one of the nation's leading media/communications
companies. Managed
a development team of 25+ engineers directly supervising architecture team and 4
managers; provided 99.9% uptime for 24x7 news operation websites with tens of
millions page views per week requiring zero downtime and no maintenance
windows; lead the software development and quality control for Jobs vertical
that provided multi million revenue for Cox newspapers.
- Reorganized the team structure as it grew from
7 to 25+ members providing a career path to each individual.
- Re-architected existing products using open
source technologies like JBoss, Lucene and MySQL to productize them for
commercial sales; effectively transforming the organization from being a
cost center to revenue generator.
- Hands on management of projects like CMS for 30
newspapers, search strategy and enterprise online order entry application that
provided 40% savings to Cox Newspapers
- Wireless enabled all newspaper sites with the
capability to target ads on handheld devices
- Renegotiated the BEA Weblogic annual
maintenance costs for 30+ severs and reduced costs by 66% annually.
- Helped renegotiate contractor costs down 40%.
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100% success rate in execution of projects (Testimonials
available on request)
Manager
and Principal Consultant, Yash Technologies Inc Jan’00 – Jan’05
Yash Technologies
is a technology service provider and strategic consulting organization with
over 2000 employees and presence around the globe.
- Multifaceted role of performing management
functions at organization while implementing projects at client sites.
- Managed a team of technology consultants and
represented the organization at clients.
- Implemented effective processes for offshore
project implementations. Setup offshore development center in India and
hired development teams.
Projects: Some of
the key consulting implementations and assignments:
Business Consultant,
Client - BEA Systems Inc Oct’ 04 – Jan’05
BEA is a market leading products and services
provider company. Analyzed existing BEA
Portal implementations and present best practices recommendations. Lead a team
of 3 BEA consultants to architect and implement Weblogic 8.1 portal solution
for a major food chain client.
Principal Consultant,
Client - COXnet May’03 – Sept’04
- Implemented
a user tracking and ad-delivery product that integrated with SiteCatalyst,
Tacoda and Doubleclick solutions.
- Implemented Verity (Autonomy) based site search
solution for 30+ sites.
- Lead the award winning implementation of Print+Web suite
of multi-platform publishing products resulting in 30% manpower savings
for newsrooms.
- Implemented
Akamai as content delivery solution provider and architected its
integration with the existing J2EE enterprise applications providing 99.9%
uptime.
Awards:
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Received
two separate Newspaper Association of America 2004 Best Practice Awards in New
Media for the development and implementation of:
o
Print+Web
suite of multi-platform content management and publishing products.
o
A
deployment strategy on high traffic web sites without requiring downtime.
Principal Consultant,
Client - Cox Interactive Media July’
01 – April’ 03
Cox Interactive Media (CIM) was an online media and publishing entity of
Cox Enterprises. CIM developed and hosted 50+ online COX websites. Lead team of
6 consultants in designing a portal solution and its integration with key
components like
personalization, ad-targeting engine, dynamic tools and services like caching,
user-registration and personalization. Implemented
Interwoven Teamsite content management system for all sites.
J2EE Consultant,
Client - Sotheby’s Sept’00
– June’01
Sotheby’s is one of
the world’s largest auction houses. Migrated existing legacy online
applications into a BEA based standard J2EE platform. Provided consulting on
creating a java based auctioning system for online bids that recorded highest
bid worth $0.5 million in first 2 months of implementation.
J2EE Consultant,
Client - Deere & Co Jan’00 to Aug’00
John Deere is a
Fortune 500 manufacturing company. Developed a B2B preventive maintenance solution
for creating and managing internationalized agreements for Deere equipment.
Programmer
Analyst, Schoolnet India Ltd Apr’99 to Dec’99
Programmer Analyst, Intellec Visions
(P) Ltd Jan’ 97 to Mar’ 99
A packaged software
product implementation that enables highly interactive, informative,
multilingual CD titles for various courses in schools all over India. The
design was component based involving a collection of C++ ActiveX controls
contained in a VB engine.
Education &
Certifications:
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Masters
In Business Administration – Pune
University, India
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Bachelor
of Engineering – Aurangabad University,
India
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Sun
Certified Enterprise
Architect for J2EE
Technology Skills:
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Expertise in advanced J2EE including Java SDK, Webservices, Servlets,
JSP, EJB, JMS, JAAS Security framework, JMX, JDBC.
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Practical experience and expertise with RUP and Agile
methodologies.
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MS .NET framework and programming languages like C#, C++
(intermediate)
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BEA
WebLogic Platform with portal and Integration server (advanced), IBM WebSphere Platform, JBoss, and Apache 2.0
(intermediate)
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Oracle
and SQL Server databases (intermediate)
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TogetherJ
and Rational Rose design modeling tools (advanced)
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Eclipse,
Jbuilder and Webgain IDEs (advanced)
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Open
source applications like Hibernate, Lucene and Beehive initiative and
application frameworks like spring and struts (advanced).
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HTML/CSS/XML/XSL/Javascript , AJAX (advanced)