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New York, Ny, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Lead teams that manage the product catalog master data (MDM) for GPC North America, and the systems that publish the data to GPC’s sales channels, including search engines, micro-services, Snowflake and file feeds. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Led the evaluation and adoption of a new product discovery and merchandizing solution to accelerate the digital transformation of NAPA’s Omnichannel experience. Led the evaluation and adoption of Snowflake as the cloud data platform for Omnichannel. This will reduce the time-to-market of product data from 3 days to 1 hour. Led the development of REST & GraphQL APIs to deliver product catalog data to all e-commerce channels. Today the API serves 8 million search queries per day. Led the development of the website that powers $2.3 MM in in-store sales per day. Led the architecture and development of GPC’s first cloud-native PaaS-based application on Azure, which also built the foundation and standards for other projects to follow. Built a Data Science team that developed solutions for customer-specific product recommendations and identification of parts through image recognition. Partnered with a startup to develop a device that uses image recognition and machine learning to identify automotive and industrial parts. Member of the Enterprise Architecture Review Board.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Built and led a global team to manage the Product Master Data for GPC North America. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Architected and led the re-implementation of the Product Master Data Management system in 9 months; similar projects at other companies typically take more than 2 years. Optimized the workflow to publish catalog data, reducing the time from 100 hours to 18 hours. Implemented an enterprise job scheduling system to orchestrate and monitor processes across platforms and networks. Performed product evaluation and selection, implementation, migration and training. Nominated to the Customer Advisory Board of Stibo Systems, a leader in Product Master Data Management software.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Working for Daugherty’s clients like AT&T and NAPA Auto Parts, led the architecture and agile development of web applications and solutions to collect, analyze and visualize data. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Led the development of a search engine that enabled Point of Sales systems to search for replacement parts that fit specific vehicles. Enhancements included optimizations that brought down initial page load times by over 50%. By the end of 2015 this system was handling 1.5 million searches per day and enabling sales of over $50 million per month across US, Canada and Mexico. Implemented Tableau as the primary data visualization tool in the department. Designed and implemented dashboards to visualize product catalog usage and sales KPIs. One of these reports helped the client discover $1 million worth of unauthorized use of discounts per month. Implemented Splunk as the primary operational intelligence platform for the department. Set up indexes and data inputs, built reports and dashboards to visualize performance and availability KPIs and alerts. Built POCs for customers using emerging technologies like Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Splunk, Tableau etc.

St Louis, Missouri, Us

Responsible for software analysis, design, development, construction testing and integration. Provides technical direction as to the general structure, flow of control and strategy for positioning logic between software modules.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Interfaced with key stakeholders and applied technical proficiency across different stages of the Software Development Life Cycle including Requirements Elicitation, Application Architecture definition and Design. Was responsible for creating high level design artifacts and delivers high quality code deliverables for a module, leading validation for all types of testing and support activities related to implementation, transition and warranty. Managed teams of up to 10 developers.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Developed multiple software solutions for Infosys’ clients in the Personal and Business Banking domains. Developed solutions for clients to achieve Basel II and Basel III compliance including applications to generate risk ratings for borrowers and loans, archive historical risk parameters, model methodologies and risk ratings; and applications to package and track loans of commercial clients, generate reports of loans, risk ratings and exposure, and tracking tools that help credit officers keep customer, guarantor and collateral details up to date through regular reminders.• Designed and developed enhancements to multi-layered web and desktop based software solutions• Analyzed impact of proposed changes to existing systems and estimated effort for new developments as well as enhancements to existing systems• Designed transactional and reporting databases. Designed, developed and tune queries and stored procedures for both web-applications and reports.• Designed and developed real-time and batch reports with advanced calculations and roll-ups.• Designed web services and messages for SOA layers• Manage teams of up to 3 developers; tracked status and managed issues and risks. • Trained new developers and performed code reviews.• Performed Unit and Integration Tests and supported testing and client teams during System and Acceptance Tests.Used: C#.NET, VB.NET, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Infragistics, Webservices, SOAP, XML, Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual SourceSafe 6.0, Internet Information Services, SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports 9, Formula Language (Crystal Syntax), ActivePDF

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Charlotte, Nc, Us

– Led the design and development of redesigns, addition of new functionality and enhancements to the multi-layered Online Banking solution, leading development teams through the entire lifecycle of projects from inception through implementation including hands-on development. Set up version and content management processes and developed tools to support them. o Re-defined SunTrust’s public Web properties, resulting in a more consistent client experience, more integrated brand messaging, and better engagement of all customer segments. o Made navigation user-centric, optimized for disabled users and tuned metadata for natural search results. o Upgraded the Enterprise CMS platform, built a new Presentation Framework and integrated Endeca IAP for search and Omniture for web analytics.o Designed portal to consolidate treasury applications like Treasury Manager, Cash Manager, Wire Transfers etc. and provide single-sign on, user management and reporting.o Led the Content Management (CM) Domain of Expertise which provided consultancy services to all projects in CM strategy and development of Data Capture and Presentation Templates and Workflows.o Built additional functionality and models into Moody’s Risk Analyst (MRA) to meet SunTrust’s needs.o Tuned stored procedures used in existing batch reports, in once case bringing down the execution time from 2 hours to less than 20 minutes. Used: C#.NET, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Webservices, SOAP, XML, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Visual Subversion, Internet Information Services, SQL Server 2005, Autonomy/Interwoven TeamSite, OpenDeploy, Aqualogic Portal

Executive Mba

Bachelor Of Technology, Computer Engineering