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Mumbai, Mh, In

Portola Valley, Ca, Us

Portola Valley, Ca, Us

Part of Sage Digital startup, creating a innovative and exciting product based on location data using ML and AI.

San Francisco , California, Us

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Brisbane, California, Us

Worked as a Engineering Lead to Senior Engineering Manager role handling a team of 8 to develop and create a platform for Ad Products (RichMedia, Static, Flash, HTML5) offerings for Glam. Project involved tools for easy creations of Ad Products using Flash, XML, JSON, JavaScipt and HTML5 technologies. Offering products for desktop as well as mobile devices (Android & iOS)

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Worked as a Senior Manager IT handling a team of 15 to redevelop/redesign the rajshri.com domain and seven other regional portals for rajshri and laying the base for Digital Asset Management(DAM).Enhance the website incorporating the SEO and Social Media Marketing tools(SMM).

In

Brand Engagement Engine Personiva is a product targeted at the online advertisement industry. The core of Personiva is extracting faces from the images uploaded by the user and cropping those accurately and animating the static images, lip syncing and replacing them over the characters face in the advertisement using Flash. The best example which can be quoted from the many we have done is the Levis Ad where there is a girl and guy whose face can be replaced by the users own face and the new advertisement is available with you as the star. The new video can then be shared to friends using the email feature, also the same video can be put on ones blogs or personal website with the Embed code provided for the same.Technology involved use of face recognition software and cropping the face from the complete image using our custom application using remoting services. Then creating the animations of the static face for lip-syncing using After Effects 6.0 automation and Microsoft Messaging Queue (MSMQ) from our custom desktop application. We have a filed a Patent for the above innovation as my name featuring as one in the inventors list. The Patent approval is pending. Then using a third party mailing system Silverpop API over the web to send mail. This is the Core which was carried forward and used for many clients with the individual requirements, such as providing a complete site for some or providing a iframe enabled http location which can be called from the clients own website. Or just providing the face cropping and animation API’s over the web for, some clients

Started as Senior Developer and was appraised to the level of Engineering Team Leader

In-House Development of Erp System in Visual Basic 6.0 and Ms SQL Server 2000 as the database server, Based on the existing system in FoxPro, the new system incorporates all the features on the earlier versions as well as fixing bugs and loopholes in the FoxPro version. Adding new features and optimizing the earlier ones for better performance.Change Management of the existing FoxPro system.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Erp SystemIn-House development and change management of the ERP system to track the printing job status across various manufacturing processes in the Plant from the stage of issuing job sheet to final dispatches.Costing Estimation/Job sheet SystemIn-House development and change management of Costing Estimation System to give clients estimated rates for the job which they would need for giving the company the print job. The Estimation of the job involved various cost and time factors which were to computed in a complex pattern to derive a cost then after approval a Job sheet is issued form the system for the ERP ModuleFulfillment SystemUnifying the various Order Processing/Dispatch Management Modules used in the fulfillment center into an integrated common system with a single database for all clients.Purchase Order & Stores SystemPurchase department & Stores had individual modules for each of them. Tracking purchase orders to goods received was completely out of sync. Having a common System for them. This was the first step for ERP development at a later stage this system was merged into the main Erp System so as to have the complete integrated system in the Plant

Restaurant billing & Stock System and Medical WholesalerExisting system was in clipper was outdated slow and lacked a lot of features and accuracy. The entire system was redeveloped in FoxPro 2.5 for Windows. Complete Stock Management and Hr Related stuff were integrated into the system. Right from billing, raw material purchase to material inventory was maintained, Reports generation for stock taking as well as financial and hr purposes. For the medical wholesaler project the major challenge was the amount of data was huge so the FoxPro db files where split on monthly basis for ease and speed of use.

B. Com., Commerce

Secondary School Certificate