SUMMARY:

An executive technologist with over 20 years’ experience directing technology groups and delivering creative, client - centric, and value-driven solutions. Proven leadership experience ranging from evaluating technology to discovering niche products for corporates and bootstrapped/venture-backed startups. Provides inspiring leadership to cross-organizational design and support teams, showcasing ability to drive change through alignment within an organization.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Strategic Mindset; Strategic and Tactical Problem Solving
• Customer Focus
• Effective Team Building and Development
• Decision Quality
• Driving Vision and Purpose; Roadmap Ownership and Development
• Cultivating Innovation
• Full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Portfolio and Program Management; Agile Project Management
• Collaboration
• Effective Communication
• Work Process Optimization

SUMMARY OF SKILLS:

• Leadership, Mentorship, Estimation and Resource Planning, Project Scheduling, Offshore team Management, Vendor Management
• Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), Object Oriented Analysis & Design (OOA & OOD), UML, Microservices, Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SDLC methodologies (Waterfall, Prototyping, Iterative)
• Cloud based Solutions, SaaS Solutions, AWS products & architecture, Azure, IBM WebSphere Commerce (WC), ATG, Hybris, Coremtrics, Intelligent Offer, Akamai CDN, Jira, MS Project, SEO iOS, Android, Java, C/C++, .Net, REST services, SQL, HTML, PHP, DevOps, PowerBI

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Confidential

Vice President, Engineering & Product

Responsibilities:

• Delivered several products (hardware and software based) in less than two years to build the main revenue streams for the company and addressing business needs
• Developed and executed strategic product roadmap
• Built and mentored a very strong engineering, product, and data science teams in Digital Sleep
• Decreased product TTM by 45% by establishing DevOps processes
• Designed and executed workflow processes and standards based on best practices
• Led the development of an event-based architecture using Big Data and Analytical databases to leverage massive amounts of data captured daily
• Initiated and led transitioning from a monolith application to microservices
• Led the effort to develop an AI-based Product Recommendation and Sleep Stage indicator using Machine Learning (ML)
• Delivered test automation solutions for backend and frontend (apps)
• Established offshore engineering component in Dublin, Ireland, focusing on Data Science, Business Intelligence, backend and algorithm development

Technology Stack: Cloud-based solutions (Microsoft Azure), iOS, Android, .Net, Angular, Node.js, REST services, DevOps, PowerBI, SEO, Jira.

Confidential

Director, Global Digital Commerce

Responsibilities:

• Saved new country roll-out cost by using a common commerce engine
• Quick delivery of the first country roll-out by engaging an external partner and moved the management and delivery of the other countries to inhouse team to cut the expenses by 40%
• Led the first SaaS analytical solution for Confidential customers
• Developed and released consumer apps solutions in UK to increase business reach to a new market
• Streamlined and improved the maintenance of corporate website across multiple countries
• Defined the strategic B2B2C vision for Confidential customers

Technology Stack: SaaS solutions, Hybris, Java, iOS, Android, AEM, SIM/SAM, Cognos, Tableau, ServiceNow.

Confidential

Director, National Commerce Practice

Responsibilities:

• Led teams of managers, architects, developers, business analysts, and QA personnel to implement best in class B2C/B2B web and mobile-based solutions
• Delivered integration solutions of Commerce, Portal, UX, CMS, BPM, MDM, BI, OMS, SOA, and Search
• Played the Scrum Master role in an Agile based implementation of the solution
• Delivered high availability, scalability, stability, and security of the implemented solutions
• Developed strategic alliances with IBM and other key partners to broaden the offering and provide the best solution for the clients

Confidential

Principal, Business Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of senior technical experts to design and deliver solutions
• Worked closely with the business owners and IT executives including CIO and VP of eCommerce during the discovery and requirements gathering phase and led the BA team during the process
• Architected and designed a tailor-made solution for different web properties of Follett to integrate and provide a better online shopping experience

Confidential

Associate Partner

Responsibilities:

• Defined comprehensive solution strategy and roadmap for digital commerce practice
• Defined KPIs for commerce projects success measurement
• Created standard cost estimation & pricing processes
• Led WebSphere Commerce integration projects with AEM
• Delivered multiple enterprise commerce solutions, B2B and B2C, including MRC and Dymo
• Implemented the first IBM Commerce SaaS/CaaS solution
• Managed direct and offshore team members

Confidential

Director of Technology

Responsibilities:

• Organized and orchestrated resources and deliverables in enterprise projects implementation and collaborating directly with the client to achieve measurable results
• Led 30+ team members onsite and offshore to deliver services to the client
• Executed engagement documents: Statement of Work (SOW), execution plans, and status reports
• Led eCommerce product selection processes between Hybris, ATG, and WebSphere Commerce