SUMMARY

• Over 15 years’ experience delivering high quality enterprise SaaS/ Cloud Applications. Proven expertise in providing technical leadership and oversight to large teams. Adept at solving complicated security, performance and architectural issues. Delivered $30 million revenue in innovative projects, using off shoring as a competitive edge to reduce costs by 40%. Expert at building a metric driven, communication oriented organization.
• Expert in: Pre Sales - Architecture Design - Technology Evaluation - Project Management -Teamwork
• Successful Communication capability:
• Effective at presenting complicated architecture concepts and technical issues, integrations and architectures.
• Understand, Anticipate & Articulate business wants, needs, functionality and technical and design specifications.
• Expert in CXO & End User presentations, documentation and exception reporting.
• Foster Collaborative Relationships: Be a trusted advisor for CXO’s, end users, IT, engineering, QA, and other internal/ external vendors and stakeholders. Effective in Vendor relationship management.
• Enterprise Architecture -- Synergy of Business Acumen, Architecture and Technology:
• Leverage cross-functional and cross-platform knowledge to develop best practice designs in support of complex business processes. Broad, full-stack engineering expertise for SaaS/Cloud applications.
• Hiring & Mentoring technical staff to make appropriate architecture, design and quality decisions for multiple technologies (PaaS, IaaS, Apache, Apex, Visualforce, Heroku, AWS, Java, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.).
• Ability to provide technical solutions for scalability, security, functionality and usability with deep expertise in multiple architecture platforms and tools.
• Expert at decision making and articulating -- Architectural landscape, MDM, testing automation processes, technology build vs. buy, open source vs. proprietary, in house vs. out sourced, using Agile / Scrum, Waterfall, Six Sigma methodologies.
• Successfully Manage Portfolio of Projects: Manage risk; utilizing excellent communication, planning and facilitation skills. Motivate and lead Project/Program Managers and the entire team to deliver consistently across all project phases (requirements, design, development, release, beta and ongoing support).

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: AIX, UNIX, Linux, HP-UX, Windows Server, Symbian

Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL Application Servers WebLogic, Sun One, Apache Tomcat, IIS

Tools: & Languages J2EE, XML/XSL, JDBC, Struts, AJAX, SOA, ETL, EJB, SOAP, ILOG, C, C++, Ruby on Rails

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Technical Leader

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for technology decisions for a portfolio of projects implementing the Confidential Product, an enterprise SaaS application, built on the Force.com platform. (CRM, CLM, CPQ, AR, AP, GL, Treasury, P2P, Q2C, GL).
• Owned all technical solutions for implementations at over 40 global Fortune 500 customers, with revenue stream in excess of $30 million.
• Successfully provided technical leadership to a team that:
• Architected and Implemented complex Salesforce.com packages (applications), for various Fortune 1000 companies, using standard as well as custom data objects, creating 50+ screens and over 50 batch programs.
• Implemented Automated QA, integrated test plans, Audits, user acceptance scripts and JIRA implementation.
• Defined design and architecture protocols for Access Control, Security and Performance Benchmarks
• Built multiple POC and Demo point solution applications for multiple enterprise business requirements.
• Built Java based ETL tools. Developed enterprise data integrations with external systems e.g. Oracle, Dun & Bradstreet, Experian, SAP, J.D. Edwards using Informatica, Talend, AWS, Force.com API, Data loader etc.
• Built multiple Force.com API connectivity for credit card payments, credit scores, FICO scores.
• Implemented Email connectivity, SSO, Desktop Integration for Salesforce.com
• Developed Mobile applications replicating web functionality.
• Implemented Project Management best practices to
• Provide detailed Dashboards and Reports for managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Detailed Microsoft Project plans and resource requirements.
• Developed detailed artifacts including presentations and videos for
• Technical & Solution Design Guides, User Guides, RFI’s, RFQ’s, IT Security requirements and Proposals.
• Documentation of As-Is and To-Be processes, ERD’s, Application Landscape and data flow integrations.
• Marketing documentation for technical architecture used in seminars, webinars and trade shows.

Confidential, Silicon Valley, CA

Principal/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple customer projects, developing and implementing budgeting and forecasting applications.
• Implemented and supported a budgeting and forecasting application, including project management, functional ownership, and communication with C level stakeholders.
• Designed and developed a Cloud Based portfolio management application on Force.com platform
• Successfully led and supported multiple developments of large volume budgeting and forecasting applications for premier companies, using platforms like Oracle's Hyperion and KCI Computing's Control products.

Confidential, Redwood Shores Leader

Technical Operations

Responsibilities:

• Set up and managed an independent, wholly owned offshore operation based in India.
• Managed a team of 90 people in product development, QA, support and technical operations, for a .NET and Oracle based enterprise revenue management, CRM, CPQ and CLM.
• Single point of contact and oversight for the India operation, responsible for effective delivery of software, implementation, QA, performance labs, technical data center operations, and support services.

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Product Leader

Responsibilities:

• Transformed a concept to a functionally complete, award winning (Best in Class Software by Business Finance Magazine), and $35M annual revenue financial software product.
• Established a 100-strong team that delivered, implemented, and supported a stream of major releases for Aceva, a financial SAAS product with robust quality, functionality, and a user-friendly interface.
• Implemented multi-currency, multi-language, and multi-byte features, with connectivity to credit bureaus, banks, and credit card systems.
• Used a combination of extreme programming, scrum, traditional waterfall processes to establish a multi-location, engineering and support operation.
• Redesigned the product in a modular fashion with enhanced functionality and feature set to make it a highly profitable revenue stream. Transformed the technical support and implementation organization from a cost center to a profit center.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Engineering Leader

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of 70, designing and developing a Web-based ERP suite with CRM and integrated Web Storefront - Confidential ’s Channel Master was pioneering mid-market software as a service (SAAS/ASP hosted).
• Established functional responsibilities, release dates with Indian teams, and met all original commitments. Consistently met budgets/deadlines.
• Developed a fully functional consumer market place, with shopping cart functionality, credit card acceptance and banking connectivity.

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

Engineering Leader

Responsibilities:

• Recruited top local talent. Managed multi-country localized releases.
• Integrated acquired companies applications into a single offering, a MS Project competitor