Apurva Kothari Email & Phone Number

Goa, India

• No Nasties aims to kick-start a consumer movement for organic and fair trade clothing in India; and to indirectly help reduce farmer suicides caused by conventional farming.It currently offers 100% organic, 100% fair.
• Researching, identifying & establishing a 100% organic & fair trade supply chain, from farm to finished product.
• Launching the No Nasties brand - India's 1st 100% organic fair trade t-shirt company, with products sold via the company's e-commerce store as well as retail boutique stores around the country.
• Built a team of graphic designers, fashion designers, operations and marketing.
• Profitable in the first year of operations.

• The role at frog was a mix of an Application Architect, Technology Product Manager and an Engineering Manager for a large mobile project.
• Complete ownership of product development of two mobile applications focused on social networking and media sharing.
• Managed an offshore, outsourced development team in Bangalore while interfacing with onshore interface design and architecture teams in San Francisco and Austin, and interfacing with business stakeholders in Seattle.
• Balanced product interface design against technical feasibility; product feature set against project delivery; product quality against development costs.

• Lead the Engineering competency for Eclipse, Deloitte's online consulting arm in Sydney for full life-cycle management of projects.
• Manage a team of.Net and Java developers for custom development, CMS and Portal implementations and online system integrations.
• Key member of Senior Leadership Team in Eclipse Sydney overseeing Fame, Fortune, Future, Family and Form agendas for the group.
• Responsible for technology input on all business development activities including costing, scoping, technical architecture, resource allocations and project planning.

• Manage a globally distributed team of developers and QA engineers using Agile methodologies and Lean Project Management techniques for development and support of all web-based applications.
• Launched several key projects including FreshDirect's first Ajax product for Shopping Lists, a real-time promotion engine, a campaign management tool, and several performance, security and compliance enhancements.
• Created an inter-departmental collaboration framework using web-based tools for project management, documentation, development, testing.
• Established software development best practices including continuous integration, test driven development, automated functional testing, integrated version control.
• Created FreshDirect Innovation Labs with the goal of making the company's e-commerce site more Web 2.0 by exploring RIA/Ajax capabilities, migrating the application to an SOA framework and creating a custom application.

• Manager of Product Development team for Travelocity’s Last Minute Packages line of business; managed overall application development and support; managing a team of 15 developers, designers and QA engineers.Key.
• Conceived, designed and architected a prototype of a “single page interface” shopping experience using AJAX and built on top of a SOA platform.
• Launched 3 new customized partner sites in an aggressive time frame while maintaining high quality standards.
• Reduced critical site errors by over 90% by improvements in code quality, increased application monitoring and detailed web analytics of customer shopping patterns.
• Recruited and assembled highly skilled design and development teams that gained recognition across Travelocity for their individual and group contributions.
• Streamlined release cycles by introducing collaboration tools and an iterative development approach.

• Defined the development methodology for OpenCrowd including distributed development and collaboration using Agile techniques.
• Architected web-based applications for enterprise clients and evaluated open source software maturity.
• Key projects included designing a contextual Ad Server solution, architecting a web-hosted EDI application, and load testing of high volume websites using open source software.

• Managed overall development of web tier including project scoping, resource allocations, UI and technical design, hands-on development, refactoring and testing.
• Established a development approach to streamline engineering, improve communication and collaboration for distributed teams.
• Formulated and implemented strategy to migrate from a proprietary Model 1 framework to Struts; successfully led effort to reorganize entire UI and navigation structure for web application using Tiles and CSS.

• Developed internal web based tools using Java, XML and Oracle.

• Designed and developed J2EE based web applications and Interwoven TeamSite CMS solutions.

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