Smita Patel Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- In my current role as a Distinguished Engineer, I lead and influence the roadmaps and technical direction for the Home Depot Supply Chain eco-system and cross-functional initiatives across the Enterprise- Am an Expert in translating customer needs and building sustainable solutions that deliver immense value to the customer. Expert in moving legacy applications to cloud platforms - I manage an architecture team comprising of 8 engineering architects and an R&D team of engineers that deliver best-in-class designs and products for Supply Chain. - The coverage involves warehousing systems on Google cloud, on-premise device management, conveyor systems, robotics & automation. The goal is to singularly serve our customer base and give them the best shopping experience.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Led the charge in enabling multi hop fulfillment in the THD Supply chain network enabling interconnected retail and expanded delivery capabilities for the online customers on homedepot.com- Led the cloud move and foundational layout of multiple applications on to google cloud

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- As a solutions architect on Warehouse systems, delivered a fully functional Custom Warehouse Mgmt System. This system ships the intra-mile/last mile delivery to customers increasing the customer satisfaction index for products sold on homedepot.com. I am responsible for the internal and external integrations of the custom WM product w/impacting systems in Home Depot- Merchandising and Inventory systems responsible for Retail Merchandising and Inventory Planning- Delivered a fully functional POC for services migration/caching services to the cloud platform - Pivotal cloud foundry- Delivered a fully functional POC on Titan graph database for a project feasibility study. This proof of concept involved Titan with Gremlin with the database scaled to load 1 million item data components.- Designed and delivered a SAS re-platform of Clearance Retail Optimization system to Hadoop in 4 months with excellent performance in production. This system is capable of processing 10 million transactions within the system SLA. - Design Architect on all Pricing implementations on Multiple platforms such as Hadoop, Apache Tomcat, Mainframe with databases such as Exadata, Teradata, Hive, DB2, and SQL server- Responsible for the Pricing systems roadmap- Designed the integration for Competitive Pricing Engine with Hadoop being the competitive pricing repository and data pipes back to legacy systems

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Architect and Lead on on multiple systems in Inventory Planning and Replenishment. - Lead on the Long range Inventory Simulation project on Hadoop/Hive with diverse components such as java batch processing, MapReduce components, data integration between mainframe, teradata and Hadoop using TPT. This system has capabilities of parallel processing 50 million SKU/STR combinations in less than an hour. - Involved in all aspects of the project delivery from hardware procurement, system and functional design, development, and deployment. - Responsible from concept to delivery of the Inventory Parameter Management system with a highly parallel java batch system capable of processing large volumes of data. - Architecting end to end legacy transformation of COBOL jobs to Java and newer languages/Platform.- Technical lead on DCM Forecasting and Item Advanced Service level systems.

Technical lead for the cultural web site team and led the upgrade and re-design of the Voyages web site

Atlanta, Ga, Us

- Worked on Chordiant decision engine and rules engine. - Involved in the design and development of java business services and integration of services with rulesets and workflow. - Integration of services with external entities, such as Equifax and Trans Union.- Implemented BPM workflows using JBoss jBPM workflow - Led maintenance release efforts with an offshore development team.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

- Worked on POS system on Returns implementation. Responsibilities included development, project management, and matrix team co-ordination- Lead the APIS(Asset protection information system) from product selection to delivery of the system. - Involved from concept to implementation of the OSSM (Ocean shipment status messaging) system in java servlet technology with responsibilities that included project management, design and delivery- Support and maintenance of Store Order Mgmt system

B.S. Computer Science, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Physics