SUMMARY:

• As Technical manager, don several hats of proficiently handling teams, estimate project budgets, schedule project timelines, Scrum execution, arrange for resources and also help in solving technical problems as and when needed with business capability focused in analytics data management.
• Responsible for Program management, planning, and program/project execution of business systems in auto manufacturing for overall of up to $8M+, software products | 5+ projects, and lead a team of senior program and project professionals.
• Responsible for strategy, development and support of enterprise applications. Provided direction to cross - functional teams to improve business outcomes of auto manufacturing company. Partnered with business leaders to develop IT roadmaps, implementation plans, and led teams of 20 - 50 resources globally.
• Responsible for IT strategy, roadmaps, architecture and applications supporting corporate business systems, Business Intelligence (BI), cloud applications, and business relationships for retail / Utility / Auto organizations.
• Developed the strategy and implemented an innovative BI architecture including mobile, role-based access, visualization, and Enterprise Performance Management solutions for analytics / BI insights.
• Saved over $5M annually by developing a planning, and forecast solution using OBIEE and ETL to manage $800M-$1B in parts procurement for auto manufacturing.
• Designed and implemented BI solutions that lowered operating costs by $500K annually by providing timely access to actionable data for production control executives and leaders in auto manufacturing.
• Saved over $500K annually by implementing Teradata / Oracle / Microstrategy / Datastage to manage over $5M for forecasting, sizing, packaging spend per year.
• Built relationships with business entity business executives in Customer recognition, finance, others. Partnered with executives to identify, champion, and implement IT enabled technology solutions.
• Built rapid Business Intelligence applications using Big data, Hadoop, Hive, Power BI / Tableau on prim leveraging hybrid agile. Resulted in cost-effective and collaborative solutions.
• Build and manage cross-functional team with focused project vision leveraging more agile practice adding quick business value and cost effective solutions.
• Work along with enterprise architect group establishing enterprise initiatives, standards in areas including solution, data quality, and data security.
• An extensive hands-on experience including architecting and developing solutions on Hadoop, NoSql, HPC, machine learning techniques, analytics, business decision support applications spanning multiple functions in technology space.
• Primary passion is business enablement and transformation through technology and architecture, been active in learning new trends, implementing strategic technology initiatives in corporate and customer programs, hands-on with reference to technology platforms.
• Ability to quickly assess, learn, integrate, and apply new technologies to market and customer requirements; and for driving project goal attainment and business development expansion.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

Cloud and Core Internet Infrastructure : XaaS: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Hadoop (Hortonworks, Cloudera)

HPC / Big Data Technologies : Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop/Yarn, Hive, Sqoop, Pig, Apache Flume, Oozie, HBase, Cassandra, Mongo DB

Project Management, Collaboration & Productivity Tools : MS Project, PlanView; MS Office (Excel pivot table, vlookup, etc), Access, Sharepoint, Visio

Business Intelligence / Data modeling : Data Warehousing; Data mart; IBM Information Server (Datastage), Informatica 9.1 Tableau; MS Power BI, OBIEE 11g, Micro Strategy 9, Business Objects XI, Cognos, SolR, Erwin

RDBMS: Oracle; MS SQL Server; MySQL; Teradata, MS Access

Systems Management : Bit Bucket, Serena Dimensions PVCS, Share Point, Visual Source Safe, VM ware; MS Active Directory

Development Tools : Scripting (VB Script, Unix Shell script); MS Visual Studio; SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL, C, C++, Java, .NET, HTML, DHTML, XML, XSD

Operating Systems : Windows, Linux, Mac/OSX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Technical Program/ Project Manager/ Architect

Confidential, Torrance, CA

• As a Program Manager, successfully managed multiple engagements worth 8M$ in Big data, Analytics, Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence (BI) technologies.
• As a Project manager and Scrum Master, lead design and development of Big data, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence infrastructure to deliver analytics projects via Agile methods; driving client business insights
• Develop steering presentations & conduct periodic steering meetings to review the project status, financials status & risks.
• Manage resources from multiple vendors, client & cognizant resources in metrics environment.
• Develop Business Case, project scoping, project charter, and understand business expectations by challenging & meeting the business needs.
• Manage software integration team on custom data analytics projects (full SDLC)
• Developed BRDs, product roadmaps, go-to-market plans, and readiness tools for the business needs.
• Analyze and design data elements to develop efficient business process work flows modeled on client dataflows
• Delivery management, technical oversight, resource management for Team of 30+ professionals.
• Develop business and manage client engagement for Cognizant Data-warehouse and BI practice Strategy input to client for future roadmaps of BI technologies.
• Preparing RFP’s for any New / major enhancement /Technology Uplift business solutions in Big data / ETL / Analytics / BI.

Technical Project Manager/ Architect

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

• As a Project Manager, successfully managed multiple engagements worth 1-3M$ in Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence (BI) technology from inception to production.
• Designed the solution architecture to support KPI/analytical reporting to Provide cleaner data to users from a new EDW environment,
• Architecture and building of BI semantic layer for adhoc reporting using MicroStrategy.
• Architecture and implementation of dynamic security structure.
• Integrated MSTR reports with the Stores portal through Single sign on.
• Delivery management, technical oversight, resource management for Team of 20 professionals.
• Experienced in broadcasting of reports using Personalized Page Execution (PPE) / Personalized Report Execution (PRE) methods.

Technical Manager/ Architect

Confidential, Rosemead, CA

• Responsible for providing solution design for the
• Designed and delivered Data Marts: projects covered Data Integration and Business Intelligence
• Managed Data Lifecycle: including ETL Data Cleansing, Data Lifespan, and Master data Management in Scrum execution
• Led Agile development projects to upgrade and Architecting / building ETL interfaces using web services feature.
• Experienced in executing OLAP reports and dashboards. Architected and implemented coarse grain and fine grain dynamic security.
• Experienced in lot of enhancements of ETL interfaces in Datastage.
• Managing onsite and offshore team in delegating work.

Technical Lead

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

• Led competitive analysis and strategic planning for BI applications (ODS, EDW, BI) development.
• Drove design / development of Enterprise Cube decision support data mining tools for business needs via Agile Scrum; improving effectiveness of analysis of customer use, and client order/ship/bill cycle
• Worked with Business Partners (Planners) to refine and redefine requirements.
• Participated in functional requirements workshops and developed ETL and report prototype
• Created technical design specification documents for ETL interfaces, reports, metrics, dashboards, coordinate with the Reporting Architect, Data Analysts, ETL teams
• Developed and delivered readiness training; enabling field, and integration partner consulting team sales wins

Technical Lead Developer

Confidential

• Led business and engineering consulting projects for Automotive customers in Confidential
• Guided Professional Services Client/Server application implementations and Operational/analytical reporting applications.
• Developed and implementation of Pre-Sales, Sales, Services applications for customers buying cars
• Established the common object model framework to develop client server applications for Desktop Solutions division
• Interviewed customers to refine business requirements and user scenarios; integrate & virtualize, storage, and database infrastructure; and tune custom SQLs