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San Francisco, California, Us

Plano, Texas, Us

- Led technology teams of 6 technical managers/directors, 100+ engineering staff, with $25M+ budget, to build solutions for Pricing, and Merchandising systems for JCPenny.com and stores, to drive digital transformation.- Built promo pricing engine, using microservices architecture, cloud native applications, hosted on AWS cloud. Used REST APIs, Java Spring Cloud, Netflix OSS, Cassandra No SQL and Neo4J Graph database. This resulted in multimillion dollars sales and margin improvement, and much faster speed to market for promotion offers and coupons.- Helped complete the re-platforming of JCPenney website from legacy vendor platform to in-house built digital platform, based on micro services architecture running on Cloud.- Building vendor portal web app, to enhance the search, taxonomy and item attribute accuracy on the web site, using ReactJS, Node.JS, running on WebLogic server on Oracle Retail Management Suite (RMS) ERP platform.- Building pipeline for pricing data to land in datalake (Hadoop) and cloud data warehouse (Snowflake) for more granular visibility for promotions and clearance data, for better business decision making.- Implementing customer 360 and personalization strategies aligned with marketing, loyalty and pricing initiatives.

Plano, Texas, Us

Led technology teams of 4 technical managers/directors, 100+ engineering staff with $20M+ budget to build solutions for Finance, Payments (Credit/Debit), Accounting, Procurement, Tax, Audit, Legal, HR, and Payroll systems. Payments portfolio included authorization, returns, private label credit, settlement/reconciliation, and central encryption and tokenization. - Saved $1M recurring yearly cost by replacing legacy Payment switch, with modern Payments solution, and added new functionality for Digital e-commerce sales on JCP website.- Private label brand apply, buy and pay technology upgrade into AWS cloud micro services resulted in increase of JCP Private Label customers, and additional revenue stream. - Helped in delivering EMV (signature and chip), NFC, Apple Pay, Google pay and other emerging payment solutions for stores and e-commerce channels. - Improved accounting and compliance practices with Oracle EBS 12 upgrade with international expansion, and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for business shared services practices.- Implemented Hyperion for Finance Planning & Allocation business to manage enterprise performance.- Improved hiring and employee satisfaction with PeopleSoft HR/Payroll upgrade.- Saved over $2 M in negotiations with software vendors for licensing and maintenance contracts.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

-Led the strategic vision, roadmap and product management for innovative mobile technologies to drive the sales and team member productivity.-Led a team of 7 product managers to build and modernizing business capabilities for Target stores operations including supply chain, replenishment, product movement, task communication, pricing, promotions and signing business functions.-Drove collaboration among various business and technology teams to bring digital and mobile solutions to life to enhance profitable growth and guest satisfaction.-Drove secure and global technology development in Agile/Scrum, DevOps and Cloud environment.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

-Led strategic plan of integrating stores with eCommerce business in alignment of corporate vision and long range plan to truly becoming Omni-channel retailer. -Led a technology team of 7 technical managers and 40+ innovative engineering staff and 100+ global resources with $20M+ budget to build pricing/signing, sales floor, flexible fulfillment, eCommerce applications for team members and Guest. -Transformed application development leveraging Agile(Scrum/Kanban), Automation, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Cloud Infrastructure environment to deliver the business value with greater speed and quality.-Drove innovation in stores with RFID, IoT, VLC Lights, Becons and location based technologies.-Modernized technology footprint leveraging open source technologies, cloud engineering, enterprise services, microservices architecture, and mobile apps on iOS and Androd platforms.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

-Led Testing Center of Excellence to provide functional, regression, performance, security, automation testing to improve stability and quality of retail business applications. -Managed 5 managers, 50+ team members and 100+ global teams for larger & complex programs. -Provided testing services, ranging $30-$50 million, to 100+ projects/programs, across Target stores, target.com, supply chain, merchandising, healthcare, and business intelligence domains. -Led Digital, eCommerce, Omnichannel, EMV Payments and Mobile development testing efforts.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

-Led blueprinting, development, delivery, testing and release management of $60 million dollar SAP program to implement SAP FI/CO, AP, AR, GRC and BW for Finance department. -Led global team of vendors and team members to run the delivery in 24x7, follow the sun, model resulting in faster delivery and defect resolutions. -Managed large global team of 50+ resources from Target team member and strategic vendors.-Drove centralized management of testing & infrastructure services, which resulted into improved quality and reduced time to market.-Received the CFO recognition award for successful implementation-Was promoted to Technology Director

New York, Ny, Us

-Strategically managed various Lawson ERP software application releases / programs from inception to client delivery. Managed teams of Engineers, Project Managers, System Administrators, and QA Analysts in USA and offshore locations in Sweden, Philippines and India. -Created a culture of innovation, engineering and quality by driving project management best practices and transforming the development model towards Agile/Scrum methodologies. -Led the start-up and management of offshore delivery model in Manila and India.-Managed solutions delivery of Finance and HR, ERP re-write, with new Java based technology to reduce the software complexity, speed to market and customer adoption.-Oversaw aggressive plans to improve quality and stability of software releases. Managed initial audit to determine current state of affairs and came up with recommendations that improved quality of releases by 25% and led to savings of $5.5 M.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Led the technical architecture, design and development of Windchill Flex-PLM software using Java, J2EE, Oracle, and MS SQL Server.

Masters Of Software Systems, Management Of Software Systems

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science