Ashwani Kumar Email & Phone Number

Chantilly, Virginia, United States

Reston, Virginia, United States

Appian platform provides a unified low-code experience to design, automate, and optimize your business processes.- As a Group Development Lead, led Solutions Innovations group (5 to 6 teams) to deliver early stage solutions under multiple verticals. - Worked on annual budgets (new headcounts, promotions, bonuses, merit increases) and hiring plans in the US and India. Defined the job description and screening criteria. Interviewed, hired, onboarded, and retained top talent to build highly performant teams. Scaled teams and assigned engineers to projects based on prioritization.- Coached direct and indirect reports, and enabled career growth.- Delivered Document Extraction smart services and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) application using Machine Learning (ML) services to extract data from PDF documents.- Delivered in-house ML-based Document Extraction service deployed in a Kubernetes cluster. Created a delivery roadmap and defined target metrics. Led SOC 2 compliance for the service, provided the necessary artifacts, and addressed any gaps. - Enthusiastically participated in discovery, design, and development of all early stage solutions. Advised teams on design decisions to balance the quality, technical debt and time-to-market.- Defined scopes and conducted spikes to assess feasibility before larger investment.- Tracked and utilized delivery metrics to make data-driven decisions and introduce experiments.- Partnered with Solution Consultants to understand customer needs and support pre-sales activities. - Negotiated scopes and timelines with stakeholders, product owners, and solution owners. Partnered with Product Owners and teams on requirement breakdown, persona development, user stories, user experience, and developed product delivery roadmaps.- Created plans and managed cross-departmental initiatives like Managed deployment of solutions on Kubernetes Cloud infrastructure and streamlined Appian Solution release process.

Silver Spring, Md

3M HIS offers health information management software to improve revenue cycle, create time for physician care and drive value-based outcomes. Natural Language Processing plays a critical role in extracting key concepts from medical documents to then classify patient visits by diagnosis (ICD-10) and procedures (CPT) in order to detect errors, streamline workflows, run analytics, and improve revenue cycles.• A wide range of product development and management experience, working with cross-functional teams, clients, business leadership, and other shareholders.• Worked closely with customer to understand use cases, current workflows, infrastructure, and future needs. Refined and organized requirements as epics, user stories, and tasks. Designed, documented, and implemented data architecture, integrations, and application workflow as a SaaS solution against a tight timeline.• Successfully delivered ICD-10 switch-over against an industry timeline. • Led the efforts for HITRUST Self-Assessment and Validated Assessment with 600 controls to obtain HITRUST CSF certification. Provided artifacts, evidence, and responses. Implemented monitoring and managing procedures for continuous assessment.• Coordinated cross-departmental effort for Application Maturity Assessment including ongoing Risk Assessment and Penetration Testing of Application. Resolved identified risks to obtain and maintain Authority to Operate. • Championed organizational adoption of Scrum methodology, conducted Scrum training for new employees, launched cross-functional teams, fostered collaboration, and conducted Agile Maturity Assessments. Conducted retrospectives to identify areas of improvement and coached teams towards hyper-productivity.• Completed Six Sigma certification. Delivered a Six Sigma project with the charter to improve Support Cycle processes. • Provided technical supervision, designed systems, created staffing proposals, promoted best practices, and evaluated buy v.s. build decisions.

Paxfire enabled ISPs to improve end-use experience for mistyped URLs and to generate additional revenue.• Provided technical leadership for onsite, offsite, and offshore teams, using agile principles and practices. • Designed and implemented the entire web platform as a high-performant and customizable system. Improved platform performance using heuristics and data association models. Reviewed product backlog for prioritization, led work breakdown and defined release schedules.• Created a knowledge-sharing repository using UML representations of processes and applications. • Led brain-storming sessions and supervised research on various data models and association models. • Established best practices and guidelines for entire SDLC, including development, reviews, testing, documentation, and release of quality products. Evaluated and benchmarked technology options to meet the technology needs. • Recognized individual and team accomplishments through on-the-spot recognitions, team building outings, etc. • Ideated and researched product viability and potential revenue through Cost-per-Acquisition (CPA) model over Cost-per-click (CPC) model. Converted high-level business idea into a product proposal with projections, mock-ups and design documents to obtain leadership buy-in. • Created a strategic product plan, defined a roadmap and managed the product life cycle, including vendor relations, pricing models, integration, development, release, and monitoring. Customer revenues increased by 80% during the first 6-month period. Iteratively implemented related products and deep-linking through based on ML models to deliver an additional increase of 40% in revenue. Explored possible technology patents on product and algorithms. • Supported M&A activities by preparing product and technology presentations along with statistical and revenue metrics. • Supported clients, account managers, and business leadership through reports, statistics, and presentations.

Liquidity Services runs online marketplaces offering reverse supply chain solutions and manages the liquidation inventory at multiple warehouses• Developed and maintained an online auction marketplace platform. Designed and implemented regulatory compliance process for identity verification and authorization, and integrated LexisNexis Risk Solutions. • Gathered specifications to define and improve Inventory Assurance process. Enhanced back-end and interface for remote hand-held scanners used for inventory management. Designed and developed tools to research and manage inventory as well as to generate reports and invoices.

Synacor offers a frictionless login experience for subscribers and manages their access to content, media, email, and other services• Developed content aggregation, content publishing, identity management, and provisioning system to deliver tiered-content offering • Designed, documented, and developed multiple systems on Java and PHP-based portal platforms • Led the development across portal platform, video, wireless portal, and search product verticals. Additionally, served as product manager for these verticals, defining requirements and specifications.• Mentored developers to make optimal design decisions, and follow coding standards.

Ms, Computer Science

B.Engg., Mechanical Engineering