• eCommerce/Online shopping
• Content Mgmt, SEO & SEM
• SaaS& Cloud Computing
• Multi-ChannelRetail& Supply chain
• Social &Mobile
• Product Development & QA
• Payments, PCI-DSS, Compliance
• IT Ops, Budgets, & Cost Mgmt
• Scalability & High Availability
• Architecture & Performance
• Java/J2EE & SOA
• Agile / Scrum Methodology
• Team Building
• Vendor & Partners Mgmt

Confidential,CA,Jun06 – Dec 11
Director ofEngineering, Global ecommerce (promoted from Sr. Manager)
Directed product development for Multi-Tenant eCommerce initiative. The productgenerates$2+ Billion, i.e. ~30% of Walmart’seCommerce revenues.Reported to SVP.Walmart is the #1 retailer in the world.

• Established technology strategies with business executives and product management to enter online shopping in major markets for Walmart. The strategies are now the benchmark within Walmart. Selected technologies likeRedhatJboss, Oracle ATG, & RAC, Tibco, Sterling Commerce and Akamai.  Achieved Total Cost of Ownership and Time to Market Goals.
• Directed architecture and product developmentof online shopping platforms for major markets suchasUK, US, Canada and China served by Walmart. The platforms now support tens of millions of customers at 35+% YOY growths, and are the top destinations in the respective markets. The platformdelivered innovations in personalization, multi-tenancy, & delivery model.
• Reduced fraud by 20% by implementing anti-fraud enhancements. Partnered with Product Managers & Business Leaders, architected and led implementation of “Verified by Visa” and “MasterCard Securecode” for UK tenant.  Directed Enterprise Integrations including payments for various markets & PCI-DSS Compliance.
• Built high-performing engineering teams recognized by business as the most responsive to their needs. I grewthe organization to100+ in multiple geographies around the world, including senior managers and architects at Silicon Valley, India, and China.
• Partnered with Business Leaders and product management to directlaunch of Walmart To Go in US, a strategic initiative to enter major metropolitan markets. Launch had high public relations value and covered by national media - Wall-Street Journal /ABC. Managed budgets, total cost of ownership, team building, architecture and launch.
• Evangelized best practices and achieved operations excellence of 99.9% availability to offer the best customer experience, for UK based ASDA UK, US based Sams Club and Walmart To Go platforms. Additionally created key metrics,performed capacity planning, scalability, and tuning. Used HP-Performance centre, and KeyNoteproducts to achieve the results.
• Engaged C-Level executives and business leaders on selection of system integrators and vendors to build ecommerce platforms. The strategy led to build and launch of platform in as little time as 6 months. System integrators considered include Accenture, Deloitte, Infosys, and Wipro.

Confidential,CA,Jun06 – Dec 11
Director ofEngineering, Global ecommerce (promoted from Sr. Manager)

• Defined roadmaps, product requirements, and releases with Product Management. Worked directly with major customers to support product sales. Products were based Linux/RHEL, MySQL and open-source software. 
• Managed major releases and several minor releases for major enhancements, re-engineering to support next generation features, and localization. The releases helped Collabnet enter German, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean markets. Mentored architects, senior engineers, and Instituted best practices to reduce defect rates and time-to-market by over 300%.
• Engineered major turnaround of morale and productivity of team in India. Teams delivered over 4 major releases in a span of 2 years. Additionally built and managed teamsin 3 development centres at Chicago, Silicon Valley, and India.Directly managed a team of 25+ with an overall team size of 50.

Confidential,CA ,Jun 03 – Nov 03
Consultant / Architect, Internet Services group
Provided advocacy and best practices on architecture, availability and scalability for the consumer facing banking platformapplications with hits exceeding 20 Million/day. Wells Fargo is one of the top US banks in deposits.

• Led review of architecture, evaluated risks, addressed migration issues of live B2C platforms,
• Guided junior engineers & addressed scalability, availability, and performance. Banking applications were based on BEA WLS &Iplanet Web Server, XML and J2EE/servlet & other legacy technologies.

Confidential,CA ,2001-2003
Manager and Platform Architect (Reported to VP of Engineering)
Led Application Development, Architecture and Engineering of Insevo’s business integration framework, including integrations to SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft and Legacy EIS systems on WebLogic, Jboss, IBM Websphere and other Application Servers. Insevo’s customers include PG&E, NCR, Oracle (formerly BEA). Insevo is a start-upbacked by 3i, one of the world’s largest VCs.

• Hired/architected/managed teams for delivery of InsevoBusiness Integration Frameworks & BEA’s WLI frameworks on WebLogic, WebSphere, Borland Enterprise Server, and Sun One application servers. Wrote PRDs, aligned roadmap with business vision, managed budgets and release schedules, evaluated & selected development tools, evangelized software practices, and managed customer driven issues for delivery of Industrial strength products.
• Developed JCA Business Process Connectors for SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Legacy EIS systems. Also led use case design, patterns &trade-offs, use of Agile/XP processes. Products were based on J2EE and XML/ XSD, and included, failover, clustering, and execution of synchronous & event-driven business activities. Addressed Web Services/SOAP & Portals support. JCA, JMS, EJB, JCE/JAAS, JSP/Struts, JDOM, RMI technologies were used
• Instituted Build & Release, and Quality Assurance processes for delivery of industrial strength products. This led to release of 128 products in less than 3 months.

Prior management &Engineering roles  ,1988 - 2003

• HP (formerly DEC)
• AT&T (formerlyCybercash) - Payments
• Schlumberger -
• Optum (formerlyWorldChain) – Supply Chain
• Ten Square – Ad Serving / Location Based Svcs
• Philips (formerlyCompass)