Shekhar Varma Email & Phone Number

Princeton, Nj, Us

As President at Zycus I have assumed the significant responsibility of overseeing the operations of our business. My primary focus will be on enhancing efficiency in our Business Operations and Sales Execution, thereby facilitating the realization of our overarching vision to become one of the top providers of Source-to-Pay (S2P) Software solutions.Under my leadership, Zycus has doubled its engineering strength, added multiple products in its portfolio including P2P suite and established Zycus brand leadership in Source to Pay.I have led numerous transformations on the suite including complete UI refresh as part of Project Dew Drops and Zycus Artificial Intelligence offering, Merlin. I have also led inception and successful launch of Zycus AppStore and our e-Signature solution Certinal over last couple of years.

Princeton, Nj, Us

Princeton, Nj, Us

Princeton, Nj, Us

Zycus is dedicated to positioning procurement at the heart of business performance. Zycus has comprehensive portfolio for complete Source-to-Pay suite of procurement performance solutions which includes - Spend Analysis, eSourcing, Contract Management, Supplier Management, Financial Savings Management, and Procure-to-Pay.Heading the engineering team for downstream products, I am working on the following mandate: * Own and drive successful development and delivery of the company's product initiatives, ensuring high quality software products are delivered on time and within budget.* Define, implement, monitor, and enforce the continuous improvement of processes and metrics to ensure the engineering organization is creating high quality products within predictable time frames.* Effectively and efficiently recruit outstanding engineers with the required skills to develop best-in-class products.* Create and implement strategies to continually upgrade the product(s) quality.• Effective utilization of the resources available to optimize engineering capabilities that create and deliver quality products that map to the company’s goals, objectives and vision.* Work effectively with the Product Management team to continuously improve the quality of the requirements, specifications and other information essential to the creation of high-quality software products• Help create and foster a customer-focused culture of quality, creativity, collaboration and accountability - an environment in which individuals and teams take ownership of and immense pride in their work.* Mentor and grow leaders within the engineering organization.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Headed the Rolta Safety & Security Solutions (RS&SS) Product Development Group which caters to Product & Solutions for Home Land Security (HLS) & Maritime Safety & Security (MSS). Responsible for strategic planning, defining roadmap, product acquisition and consolidation, evangelizing comprehensive Solution design, identifying Solutions & Technology Gaps, vendor/partner development & management, Product Management, enhancing Product suite to Increase offerings in the Segment for wider Market penetration.Responsibilities:• Define Strategy : Identify Key Market Segments & Requirements• Identify Solutions, Technology Gaps, Strategy to fill the gaps, vendor/ partner identification management.• Provide Solution Architecture for the RFPso Provide Reference Architecture and Design Technology Strategy• Lead and direct the Product Engineering, Product Management& Support Groups • People and Resource Management

Responsible for Architecture, Design & Delivery of Mila Product suite for demand generation to accelerate Internet-based sales, based on advanced mathematical modeling techniques for meta-data descriptions. Internet scale web application built around Java EE, Big Data and NoSQL technologies using XML Dynamic schema, Hadoop/Map Reduce, SOAP & web services, Hibernate, spring, Eclipse, Ant & JUnit, JSP, JSON, JQuery and GWT for web tier.Major Responsibilities:Responsibilities:Technical Direction, Development, People Management and Delivery which included• Architecture and Design Technology Strategy, • Translating high level business requirements into technical functional requirements• Technical Effort Management: Resource scheduling, task decomposition, and risk management in an Agile environment• Evaluating and comparing alternate technologies and solutions • Resolves complex technical issues. Mentoring on design, best practices & processes.• Test Automation with coverage.• Data Modelling.

AEM is a distinguished company in Embedded Systems and Solutions and has done a number of successful customized projects in the high technology areas especially for Defense sector. My role included establishing the Functional Unit, Managing the unit including strategic planning, Pre-Sales, Business Development, Solution/Technical Architecture, Delivery & support. Products involved real time sensor integration, signal processing, data validation & processing based on aircraft algorithms, generation of results & analytics.Major Responsibilities:• Build & Manage the team, Design & Development ensuring correct adoption of architecture, testing, Delivery, Customer interaction, Functional Verification & Acceptance Knowledge Transfer & sign-off.• Design, architect and plan implementation of Product Framework, Solution & Technical Architecture • Develop and implement strategies with impact on entire product/service lines.• Develop Proposals & Presentations for pre-sales & interaction with Clients

Positioned as the Interactive Selling Company, Selectica was the leading provider of web centric configuration, quoting and pricing solutions for the Enterprise. I was Responsible for Solution/Technical Architecture, Delivery & managing onshore/offshore teams for design & development of Internet Sales & Configuration applications/products around Selectica & J2EE Technologies. Solutions involved product definition to Proposal Generation and Order Management involving product definition, structure generation, valid rule configuration, quote processing, validation via configuration rules, pricing, proposal generation and order Management.Solution built around J2EE platform, Selectica engine, Open Source technologies like Hibernate, JBoss, Eclipse, Ant & JUnit, Struts, integration with CRM, ERP and other backend systems.Major Responsibilities:• Design, architect and plan implementation of architectural design and services • Build & Manage the team, Design & Development ensuring correct adoption of architecture, testing, Delivery, Customer interaction, Functional Verification & Acceptance Knowledge Transfer & sign-off.• Define strategic design initiatives for the product suite• Coordinates release activities and roll out • Provides support and guidance to developers, customers & business partners.

Role & Responsibility: Group Head (R&D) heading the Development Group involved in Design & Development of various projects involving communications & microprocessor control providing integrated solutions.

Involved in Design & Development of microcontroller/microprocessor based Data Acquisition Systems and Sequential Event Recorders for control applications.