Max Thakkar, Mba, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Fl, Us

Celebration, Florida, United States

Orlando, Florida Area

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Orlando, Florida Area

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Waterloo, Ontario

FunRaisers’ big hairy audacious goal is to revolutionize fundraising and donation processing to help charitable institutes. I have the overall responsibility for customer development, product vision, product development, engage the best people to work and collaborate with, empower the teams to be their best, and realize our shared vision.At FunRaisers, we’re combining traditional donation processing and fundraising with fresh new ideas to help nonprofits capture the short and long tail of their donor database. We’re empowering nonprofits to engage their digital donors.

Waterloo, Ontario

• Successfully led the project to transform capacity calculators from existing Excel-based tools to ASP.Net web application. Responsibilities included requirements gathering, scope definition, plan and lead development activities by 2 developers and 2 testers• Developed deep understanding of customer analysts by working with 11 EAP partners to define incremental requirements, delivering solution in agile framework• Motivated team to work as a team, share knowledge, take challenges in analysis, automate repetitive tasks, and keep high morale while company was facing significant headwinds• Spearheaded several 6-12 months projects of performance engineering of BlackBerry server products, including PlayBook Enterprise Server 1.0, BES 5.1 (Performance engineering for Microsoft Exchange 2010), BES 5.0 (Major release since BES 4.1), BAS 5.0 (New web-based administration), and SmartSync (overnight syncing of PIM data between BlackBerry and mail server)• Interviewed candidates, and mentored new hires for complete understanding of BlackBerry solution architecture, data center, and performance engineering technologies• Developed tools using C++ for simulation and load testing of Microsoft ActiveSync and BlackBerry protocols, and analyzed performance issues using memory leak diagnosis tools, network packet captures, application log analysis, and Windows performance counters• Developed several product performance analysis reports for directors, VPs, and external teams, and wrote official white papers on BlackBerry Enterprise Server capacity planning for publishing on docs.blackberry.com, to be utilized by data center and IT staff of customers

Redmond, Washington

 Led the software development using agile methods in a fast paced project, delivering two modules of the release management solution from requirements to deployment Analyzed existing release management processes, conducted requirement analysis, and created high level design of the release management software solution for Microsoft Estimated costs for each module, negotiated with client (Microsoft) and won the contract worth $800K USD  Managed schedule, costs, and risks; and delivered a quality solution within tight budget and time constraints  Collaborated with stakeholders, including release managers, operations managers and sales managers to collect and document business requirements, and brainstorm solution ideas  Designed the integration flow with other enterprise systems using RESTful APIs and Web Services  Led the development and testing teams located in Bangalore, India from Redmond, US  Set the direction and motivated the development team to deliver highest quality solution and exceed customer expectations  Status reporting and point of contact for executives and stakeholders  Steered risk management, change control, and user acceptance meetings and processes

Pune India And Palo Alto, California

 Managed several 4 to 6 months projects for Hewlett-Packard, including redesign of web-portal, migration to ASP.Net from ASP, and connecting web-portal with the enterprise-wide unified customer entry system  Led distributed teams (India and US) for maintenance, administration, and round-the-clock support of ERP system and web-portal for HP Led multiple business-critical EDI deployment projects, which enable automated supply chain transactions between HP and its business partners. Each EDI deployment project required driving close collaboration with HP’s business partners’ IT teams, spread over different continents, working in different time zones  Worked in a team of more than 60 professionals for development and testing of customized ERP modules and multi-tier web applications in Baan ERP  Developed secured web-portal using ASP, XML and WebMethods for customers and suppliers of HP to login and submit supply-chain transactions directly to the Baan ERP  Undertook technical writing of ERP module and web-portal user guides, explaining functional details to end-users, and operations guide, explaining technical details to support and maintenance team

Mba, Strategy And Consulting, $10K Entrance Scholarship, 1St Year Dean'S List

Activities and Societies: Member, Rotman Business Design Club Member, Rotman Entrepreneurship Association Member, Rotman Management.

M.Sc., Computer Science

B.Eng., Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Computer Architecture Research Group