Manager, WebStore by Amazon, Amazon.com and Founder, EqualCraft.com
Phoenix, Arizona Area
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- Manager, WebStore by Amazon at Amazon.com
- Past
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- Manager, Demand Generation, Amazon Services at Amazon.com
- Engineering Lead at Amazon.com
- Researcher at IBM Research Almaden San Jose
- Founder and CEO at VidyaJyoti Technologies
- Researcher at Project Dynamap
- Education
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- Delhi Institute of Technology
- The University of Texas at Austin
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Guru Hariharan’s Summary
Guru Hariharan’s Specialties:
E-commerce, retail, demand generation, technology
Guru Hariharan’s Experience
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Manager, WebStore by Amazon
Amazon.com
(Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
• Strategized the WebStore by Amazon program from ground-up. The WebStore business is a strategic growth area for Amazon. Amazon’s multi-channel seller business is the direct cause for its domination over eBay.
• Responsible for Amazon’s Phoenix center operations. Played key role in the acquisition (to seed the WebStore business) and top-grade the employees in Phoenix center. The center strength has tripled in two years and was named the top performing engineering center for Amazon in 2008.
• Member of management team (3 execs) that manages the P&L, Revenue/FCF, operations and budgeting for the business. I represent Revenue/FCF from the business. Responsible for providing monthly business update to CEO.
• Directly responsible for the success of seller-businesses on Amazon WebStore platform.
• Responsible for Amazon’s Phoenix center operations. Played key role in the acquisition (to seed the WebStore business) and top-grade the employees in Phoenix center. The center strength has tripled in two years and was named the top performing engineering center for Amazon in 2008.
• Created a Developer Community Program with tens of on and off-shore service providers. -
Manager, Demand Generation, Amazon Services
Amazon.com
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)
February 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 11 months)
• Volume based demand: Established Amazon’s first self-service process that enables multi-channel sales. Executed automated marketing strategies to drive volume demand, enabling over 10k sellers to sell on Amazon and their branded e-commerce sites. Seller units play a key role in improving in-stock levels and selection and contribute to 29% of unit sales on Amazon.com.
• Value based demand: Negotiated Sony BMG (SonyBMGstore.com) to power worldwide music sales on Amazon WebStore. Launched WarehouseDeals.com, a Direct to Consumer channel for Amazon’s reverse logistics business (customer returns, vendor returns, liquidations) for the North America segment -
Engineering Lead
Amazon.com
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMZN; Internet industry)
June 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 7 months)
Engineering Lead, Retail Systems
• Retail Budgeting: Created a merchandizing management solution based on transaction level pocket margin analysis used for website pricing decisions for fast moving goods. This was also used by merchandisers for margin negotiations with vendors.
• Retail Open to Buy Process: Led the project across supply chain, fulfillment and retail business teams to build a standardized Open to Buy process for the worldwide supply chain
Software Engineer, Inventory Planning Systems
• Core team member for establishing the Amazon fulfillment center and supply chain operations in Germany.
• Defined optimum inventory level goals by product line for worldwide inventory that supports the retail business at Amazon.com (60% of revenue). Calibration based on the goals reduced operating inventory liabilities by 40%, yet raising the customer satisfaction service levels by 30%. -
Researcher
IBM Research Almaden San Jose
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
April 2003 — August 2003 (5 months)
Researched data mining applications in content personalization in user workspaces
Developed neural network based learning framework in Java -
Founder and CEO
VidyaJyoti Technologies
(Internet industry)
April 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 9 months)
Software company providing web-enabled educational services for students
Executed marketing strategies & developed relationships with educational institutes
Best Innovation Award, E-Awards 2000 (nationwide technology incubation competition in India) -
Researcher
Project Dynamap
(Partnership; Computer Software industry)
January 2001 — December 2002 (2 years )
Researched AI applications in GPS
Developed machine learning architecture to provide location specific information to mobile users
Guru Hariharan’s Education
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Delhi Institute of Technology
B E , Computer Engineering
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The University of Texas at Austin
MS , Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Guru Hariharan’s Groups:
Internet Retailer Conference
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DIT NSIT Alumni -
The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees -
Texas Exes/University of Texas at Austin -
YOUNG INDIAN ENTREPRENEURS -
Retail Industry Experts -
Phoenix Real Estate Group -
Retail Management -
Retailers Industry Management Group: Merchandising, Finance, Supply Chain, E-commerce, IT Technology -
ALLRETAIL retail executive network -
Amazon.Com -
Amazon Global Network -
Distressed Asset: Buyers and Sellers -
Web 2.0 for Nonprofit Organizations -
The REO Circle
Guru Hariharan’s Honors:
Patent Pending: Dynamic Website Cluster Fragmentation (Amazon.com)
Bar Raiser at Amazon.com
Engineering Fellowship at The University of Texas-Austin
Program Committee, SPIE conference on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Best Entrepreneurial Venture 2001, Data Quest
Columnist PC Quest
Technical Advisory Board, PC World
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