Imtiaz Ali, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Littleton, Co, Us

Langley, Berkshire, Gb

Managing Big Data Platform for TravelPort. Supporting Analytics using Kafka Streaming, Storm and Spark for predictive, availability and pricing for airline, cars, and hospitality

Managed the Engineering team at ClickFox. Led the conversion of the ClickFox Big Data Cloud and On-premise Analytic Services to a Hadoop PlatformManaged the efforts of engineering teams to deliver Journey Analytics Agile Scrum Releases in 8-week cadences. Converted Legacy Flex UI to Angular 2, nodes js, and JavaScript, and using REST/Swagger interfaces. Drove microservices and multi-tenant architecture. Delivered continuous QA automation using Soap UI, Jenkins, Protractor and Jasmine.Led architecture and vision. Converted legacy ClickFox Big Data to the Hadoop Platform to scale to ingest 12 million sessions/day and process 180 TB/job of Journey EventsLed innovations in Spark, Map-Reduce, Hive, Hbase and Impala on Hortonworks and Cloudera distributions. Delivered first version of ClickFox Hadoop to Verizon Wireless.Enabled rapid deployment of software to cloud and on premise environments using AWS, Mesos, Docker.

San Jose, California, Us

Managed efforts of Software Engineers and QA across Denver, Canada, Vietnam, India to deliver McAfee cloud based Email, Mobile, Cloud Identity, Web and Mobile security products. Established well defined Quality Metrics for Release over Release. Improved Quality for Agile Releases in the Cloud. Delivered a highly multi-tenant, redundant, and scalable SaaS platform to 63 K SMB customers, VARS, and enterprise customers. Extended and sold the VAR and subscriber model to AT&T and Verizon private clouds. Improved Scrum Agile processes to deliver 4 Releases per year in the SaaS Cloud.Delivered Green Plum shared nothing architecture to process 500 million/day dispositions and queries across multiple data centers. Implemented Sharding on Solr for archived email product to process 16 TB of data on dual stores. Architected, and integrated Mobile Email, DLP, and Encryption into SaaS Cloud Platform. Converted Legacy Flex UI to ExtJS, JQuery and BootStrap. Developed stable, innovative, and scalable products. Energized the sales channels and the VAR’s through delivery of mobile applications to end consumers. Architected the cloud platform to process 500 million emails a day, and 700 web URL’s hits per second. Extended the platform for Mobile and Identity. Drove innovation through Puppet, MongoDB, Solr, Riak, and REST APIs. Led Dev-ops initiatives through Puppet, Hiera and Docker on AWS, and internal servers. Led PaaS (Platform as a Service) initiatives on Open Stack.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

Grew a nascent staff development team to a mature and scalable development team. Hired critical business analysts and project managers to run individual projects. Built Agile Scrum Teams.Managed efforts of Software Engineers, Database Engineers, DBA’s, QA staff, and off shore staff with budget responsibilities.Managed a high transaction/volume Software-as-a-Service configurable web based java ordering system for 21,000 users, and 6000 customers. Exposed web services on a software-as-a-service model. Provided highly scalable, configurable, and multi-tenant features to the product line. Added bandwidth and capacity through an off-shore team in Pune, India and delivered 7 product lines. Implement Cognos for business intelligence.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Managed efforts of software engineers and QA. Scaled the existing On-shore engineers with offshore developers and QA staff in a 24-x7 cycle.Led Vericept in the DLP (Data Leakage Protection) magic quadrant. Delivered security applications on an Open Source Java/Linux/Tomcat/Apache platform. Delivered 3 major on-time software releases using an agile Rapid Prototyping methodology. Managed offshore resources, budget, machines, and deliveries. Brought the offshore project back on schedule. Synchronized the teams towards common goals.

New York, Ny, Us

Director of Development and interim Vice President for the CRM unit. Managed global software team of 160 engineers across different geographical units. towards successful deliveries. Managed efforts of staff in US, Copenhagen, Hyderabad, and staff in Netherlands to deliver products to a 600+ customer base. Responsible for product development, product architecture and delivery, channeling product requirements, interfacing with customers, sales, consulting, and executive management. Responsible management of the cost center, and annual budget. Provided strong motivation and leadership to teams. Brainchild of Interactive CRM and conversion of the product from thick client server model to a zero-deployment web based using Java stack. Architect-ed the application to expose well-defined data access layers and integration APIs.

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Managed large complex implementations. Applied project management skills, and specialized knowledge of processes, technology and Baan Software. Responsible for assessing team performance, management of revenue across accounts, and development of project plans and risk management strategies. Monitored key milestones, and selected key methods, techniques, and criteria to provide value to the customers.

Nl

Senior Consulting Manager of Baan Integration Consulting Practice involving integration of CRM, E commerce, and Supply Chain products with Baan. Responsible for the strategy, growth, and building of expertise in the areas of technical system integration. Provided leadership in problem resolution, and achieved a high degree of customer satisfaction at various project sites.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Designed, implemented, and supported models for a real-time Crew Scheduling System for Britannia Airways (U.K). Involved in all phases of the project from requirements analysis, design, implementation, to final user acceptance testing. Seconded to Britannia in U.K for a year and a half to manage the final critical implementation phases of a 40 million dollar project involving development of a real-time customized application on a 100 GB ORACLE database on a client-server architecture. The architecture consisted of a mirrored database(s) running on parallel servers. The servers ran on SEQUENT machines with 14 concurrent processors each, and the clients were UNIX HP dual-monitors workstations running X11/Motif.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of software components, and development of algorithms, methodologies, processes to support the system implementation: Developed pairing algorithms and yield management concepts. Developed and implemented the notion of “quality”, a concept that determines the most qualified person for a given duty using scoring algorithms so that “fair and balanced” crew schedules are produced. Designed and implemented “automated rostering” to generate rosters for entire seasons, and developed the “travel alignment” module that optimizes crew travel using cost based constraints on a distributed database. Extensively used OMT as the paradigm, C++/C as the programming language, MOTIF X/C++ as the GUI, ORACLE as the DBMS, ORACLE database procedures and triggers for seamless integration, and CIPLEX as the optimizer to implement these modules.

Worldwide, Oo

Consulting Manager in the Strategic Technology Consulting Transformation practice for Deloitte & Touche. Responsible for assessing software processes, recommending changes, and developing technical architecture solutions and implementation strategies for clients.

In

Project and Design Engineer. Sized and specified pump systems for major steel companies. Also designed air pollution control systems for industrial units.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, In

Production Shop Floor Engineer

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering And Operations Research, Information And Database Systems

Be, Mechanical Engineering