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Greater Seattle Area

Zuhly Technology is Software Development and Consulting and focusing on Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Full Stack App Development. Over the years the company has worked on major projects for different clients mostly in the US. Currently the company is focused on Full Stack Artificial Intelligence for various business verticials. Some of the clients/projects we have previously worked for are: Apple Leisure Group (2016-2017): At ALG developed an "Expedia like" travel portal for ALGs customers and travel agents. A full stack travel platform was developed in Java EE using RESTful backend services with a ReactJS frontend. The backend interfaced with major 3rd party systems such as Sabre, Travelport for flight reservations and Amstar for 'experience' reservations. Lynden Corporation (2015-2016): At Lynden, which is a Logistics company based out of Seattle, WA, ZT developed an enterprise Freight Management System. The FMS helped track the status of each shipment at any point in time. The system was developed using a Java stack, RestFul services at the backend querying IBM UniVerse backend database through an inhouse, proprietary ORM API. The front end of developed in Java Swing/ JavaFx. Omnifactor LLC (2014-2015): ZT has worked as a technolgy partner with startups. One of our client was Ominfactor LLC and startup based out of Seattle, WA. The startup focused on consumer security apps. ZT worked on developing the full implementation of an Android app that would securely store user passwords and sync them accross multiple websites. Apps were developed for Android and backend was build using PHP, JavaScript.

Responsible for the technology, product and project management needs and aligning them with business. Managing the Software Development Center with over 100 technical personnel. Managing Software development, Data Team, DevOps, Security and IT personnel. Developing, managing and monitoring over 20 B2B and B2C projects in flight. Providing technical leadership to the development and operations team. Providing technical vision and roadmap to the company and executive leadership.As Chief Information Officer at the Entertainer, I managed to stabilize and reduce the high turnover rate.Helped with instilling a culture of confidence and service in the technology team. Assisted the associateddepartments like Product Management and Program Management to align with Software Development.Helped the business team maximize the impact of new projects by executing technical projects in line with customer expectations. Provided hands on leadership to technology, product and business teams.

Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Head of Research and Development for one of the top Artificial Intelligence startups in Japan. Workingwith the executive team to provide execution and technical leadership for the company. Managing a team of 25 highly skilled Engineers, including two PhDs in Data Science to build and maintain highly available platform for processing customer data using AI algorithms. The platform has served over a billion long running transactions. Additionally working with Program Management Office (PMO) and Office of the CEO (OCEO) for aligning Sales, Product and Project Management processes with Research and Development. Was responsible for launching the flagship product "SmartRead" for Cogent Labs. Also owned and worked hands-on on the "SmartSearch", an AI enhanced search product.

Within 23 Wards, Tokyo, Japan

SoftBank Client: Design and develop a REST API for Softbank Mobile using Python Flask-SQLAlchemy framework. The API is deployed on an Azure cloud services using Azure App Service, Azure SQL Services, Azure API Management products and other Azure products.FinoLab Client: Developed Web Crawlers and Web Scrapers for an e-commerce client . The product scrapes and collects competing product data and pricing from competitor websites and stores them a NoSQL database. The software is written in Java using Spring Boot framework with MySQL database. A Solr No-SQL database is also used as a backend to REST API for querying scrapped Website data. Worked with Remote developers in coding the system and deploying to Amazon AWS Kubernetes (EKS).Hitachi IT Consulting: Worked at Hitachi IT department as a consultant from Co-Graph Inc. Did proof of concept programming JavaScript using React Framework for an Invenio based Digital Repository. Also worked as a Product Manager for Hitachi’s digital product, advising Hitachi for future directions and positioning in order to compete with comparative products in the regional and international market. SalesIdol: Worked as a Software Engineer for a Twilio based IVR application with an ExpressJS based management application. Programmed CRM and bulk import functionality in the application. Wrote in JavaScript frontend, NodeJS (express js) backend and a MongoDB database.

Seattle, Wa

Technical Program Manager in Global Payments Systems and Kindle department at Amazon.com. Responsibilities include:* Leading and managing large and complex projects involving dozens of cross functional teams consisting of more than 150 individual contributors. These teams were spread across the US and in 6 different countries.* Responsible for the end to end development and delivery of products and projects.* Helping to refine the product requirements based on challenging delivery schedules and limited resources. * Creating functional requirements for development and partner teams. * Driving software development work on distributed and complex SaaS architecture. * Addressing latency, security, scalability, evolving architecture, changing business, customer experience and metric gathering concerns during execution. * Creating complex project plans, assessing risk and monitoring execution. * Anticipating blockers, finding solutions and escalating issues. * Diving deep into varied and diverse disciplines such as Legal, Tax, Accounting, Customer Service, Logistics, Supply Chain, Inventory, fulfillment, Design and Manufacturing, Engineering, Merchandising, Customer Experience and Software Development.* Monitoring progress and communicating status to multiple partner teams and stakeholders and program management.Accomplishments:1. Primary TPM for launching Kindle Store in Canada2. Primary TPM for Launching Physical Gift Cards in US, UK, DE, FR, JP3. Primary TPM for launching a digital gift card product in US, UK, DE4. TPM for re-vamping digital gift cards on .COM

Founding member of the start up. Defined and developed the company from scratch. Defining a streamlined business plan, hiring and mentoring a software development team, working with finance, marketing, business and investors. Developed software as a service with configurable connectors to interface with Banks, POS networks, IVR systems, Web interfaces. Developed and delivered an end to end mobile payments platform.

Managed multiple software development teams. Worked with outside stakeholders to define milestones. Delivered prototypes to bring in additional funding from investors. Worked with clients in UK and the US.

Helped define specs for multiple projects based on business requirements by Product Managers. Worked on defining and delivering the solution architecture. Worked with software developers to deliver individual pieces of the solution.

Designed and developed software for managing ATM networks using Tandem and Java enterprise software. This included Fraud reduction system, software to control ATMs, system to automatically manage trouble tickets between ATMs, owning banks and First Data network and IVR systems.

Worked as a software engineer starting with business to gather the requirements and programming to develop systems and services to manage, HR, Payroll, Sales, Marketing and ERP Financials.

Mse, Electrical Engineering

Bse, Electrical Engineering