Bhushan Balani Email & Phone Number

South San Francisco, California, US

Manager of Managers leading and empowering technical programs for Stripe Platforms (i.e., API experience, Dashboard platform, Stripe Automation, Messaging, Organizations, Authentication, Authorization, Workbench and Sandboxes platforms). I drive strategic excellence in technical programs for all Stripe external developer facing API interfaces, Stripe.

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Jacksonville, FL, US

• Responsible for 3 year tech strategy for Point of Sale, Self-Checkout, Electronic Marketing Loyalty, Electronic Payment Systems Applications for the 5th largest grocery chain in the United States.
• Responsible for updates to all Rx systems including PDX and EPS so we can use their latest functions, subscribe and save, delivery to home.
• Successfully implemented EMV (Europay, Mastercard., Visa) functionality, as well as Point to Point Encryption of EFT Payment data for 900+ retail locations
• Provide leadership and maintain relationships and set development roadmap with Business Partners in Store Operations, Merchandising, and Accounting.

Jacksonville, FL, US

• Direct the implementation of fresh production forecasting that effectively controls product markdowns and prevents shrink loss.
• Execute corporate strategy focused on adding more stores and streamlining pricing.
• Partner with asset management, finance and legal departments to ensure systems are in compliance and all parties are aligned with the ROI.
• Ensure back office IT systems (store receiving, store inventory, scale management, store production cycle and shrink management) can scale to double store growth targets.
• Develop strong professional relationships with clients, partners and vendors.
• Build road maps and execute implementation along with ongoing support and maintenance.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, US

• Established the digital coupon and rewards program, approving all IT projects.
• Collaborated with various retail CPG firms, IT solution providers, business managers and subject matter experts to execute strategic initiatives to promote revenue growth.
• Administered SDLC to lead product management teams during KIT project development.
• Oversaw product development, customer facing web sites and vendor packages.
• Prepared yearly fiscal capital and expense budgets.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Advised Verizon on most profitable vertical to pursue for upcoming new Machine to Machine (M2M) solution in 2012.
• Verizon leadership accepted recommendations which resulted in successful merger of Hughes Telematics with Verizon.
• Projected growth of $3 billion in 5 years for Verizon based upon acceptance and utilization of recommendations.

Irving, Texas, US

• Managed IT team of 6 direct reports and 10 indirect reports to deliver a custom mining application which allows Caterpillar Mining team to effectively maintain their customer data and save history of all pending.
• Put together the RFP document and change request documents.
• Supervised IT team that provided custom mining application which allowed the company to efficiently maintain customer data and history of all pending, proposed and past quotes.
• Mentored/motivated team and supported in-house resources with additional growth opportunities; assembled proposal and change request documents.

Irving, Texas, US

• Managed $3 million budget projects to create and customize quoting applications.
• Assigned tasks to team members, supervised execution and mentored employees.
• Resolved conflicts and attained cooperation from all project stakeholders.
• Supported product during System Integration Testing (SIT) and Pilot Testing.

Irving, TX, US

• Managed team of 4 offshore and 4 onsite resources that designed custom applications providing effective maintenance and operational efficiency reports on all machines held by Texas Utilities.

Irving, Texas, US

• Led team of 8 developers to enhance performance on existing system and worked as senior developer and SQL database administrator on several other Caterpillar projects.
• Managed resources and allocated and supervised tasks.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Customize Onyx to implement CRM tool for Riggs Bank.
• Implement interfaces using C# ASP.NET, BizTalk.
• Develop reports using Crystal reports that show risk analysis.

New York, New York, US

• Senior programmer on the Warrant Processing System which scanned 500 warrants a minute, reconciled it with the client company’s master data.
• VB, SQL 7.0 on WinNT 4.0, Microsoft Visual Source Safe.
• Worked on ADO, RDO, Access, and SQL Server Administration.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), General Management

Pmp, Project Management Professional

Masters, Computer Science

Bachelors, Biomedical Engineering