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 trade t-shirts with plans to expand to a wider clothing range in the future.Key achievements:• 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 for mobile devices (iPhone, Blackberry, etc).

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 Accomplishments:• 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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