
Senior Manager, Technology (Architect) at Sapient Corporation
Greater Boston Area

Senior Manager, Technology (Architect) at Sapient Corporation
Greater Boston Area
A technology generalist with superior leadership, communication, and organizational abilities as well as a deep interest in the finance domain. Expertise in hands-on management of end-to-end enterprise Java development with an emphasis on server-side and database applications.
Experience with financial and energy markets includes investment performance measurement, investment performance attribution, investment cash flow, shareholder asset management, securities trade compliance, securities trade surveillance, and reference levels for energy market regulation.
15 yrs fulltime IT experience, including 9 yrs with Java. Extensive customer-facing experience architecting custom enterprise solutions for Fortune 500 companies. 13 yrs of leadership experience, with a hands-on development component of 50% to 75% throughout, delivering systems for the financial sector and Workforce Management (WFM systems integrate with systems for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Resources (HR), and Payroll).
(Public Company; SAPE; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
Sapient is a global top-ten technology consulting firm and interactive agency. I have performed hybrid architect / program manager roles on various projects including the following.
For a provider of enterprise infrastructure software and services. Led a 25-person project team to implement the Autonomy search engine and the Interwoven content management system (CMS).
At a leading Boston-based asset management firm. Architecture, design and development of a next-generation shareholder asset management system. The technology stack included Java (Spring, Hibernate, jBPM, Struts, EJB, Log4J), SOA (Web Services), and Oracle. The development toolset included Subversion, Eclipse, Tomcat, Maven, and Quartz.
At a leading Boston-based asset management firm. Responsibility for a $2M+ budget, 25-person team, contracts, program management, architecture, development and evolution of systems responsible for investment performance measurement & attribution, benchmark management, and investment cash flow management. The technology stack included Java (Spring, Hibernate, Struts, EJB, Log4J, C24 IO), SOA (Web Services), C, Perl, Oracle, AIX, Solaris, and Shell Scripts. The development toolset included AccuRev, Eclipse, WebLogic Workshop, Silk, LoadRunner, YourKit, JProbe, Ant, PLSQL Developer, Toad, and IBM Tivoli Maestro Workload Scheduler (Job Scheduling Console v1.4).
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; IGTE; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2006 — December 2006 (6 months)
Retained by CommercialWare (now MICROS-Retail) to manage custom development for their cross-channel retail software suite with CWSerenade as its centerpiece. Enhanced XML-to-HTML transformation capability with CWIntegrate, CW's EAI product using Bostech's ChainBuilder library. The technology stack included J2EE, WebSphere MQ, JBoss, StarTeam, XML, XPath, XSLT, StringTemplate, SQL Server, Tcl, and Toad.
Retained by IBM Global Services to customize a large Java Enterprise Edition-based KANA-hosted General Motors (GM) call-center document management system (aka content management, digital asset management, knowledge management). Designed and developed a scheme to decentralize the above in order to achieve performance benefits. Newly developed components included an SFTP-based 24x7 monitor, an incremental content synchronizer, and a full content synchronizer. The technology stack included J2EE, AIX, DB2, and WebSphere. The tool set included Eclipse, ClearCase, JMeter, and Ant.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; KRON; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — June 2006 (4 years 1 month)
Kronos is the world's leading provider of Workforce Management (WFM) software. I was release manager for a 50-person effort during the conception and elaboration phases of version 5.0 of the Kronos flagship product called Workforce Central. Additionally, I was responsible for driving the incorporation of extensibility mechanisms, the unit test automation initiative, adoption of Agile software development methodologies, as well as the migration of the product's external data transfer operations to the XML paradigm. Later, I led the effort to leverage the XML API to architect SOAP-based Web services for the suite. Finally, I led a POC effort for a JMS-based data cache notification service and initiatives to ensure suite-wide J2EE compliance. I was an invited speaker at the Kronos Technology Summits for 2003 and 2004. The technology stack included J2EE, JBoss, WebSphere, AIX, IIS, Apache, Apache Axis, Log4J, JMS, and Oracle. The tool set included Ant, Eclipse, and AccuRev.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 2002 (7 years )
CyberShift is a leading provider of Workforce Management (WFM) systems. I was hired during the startup stage by the folks who later founded Workbrain, another leading provider of WFM systems. As CyberShift grew, I led a geographically scattered group comprising 20 software engineers and managers responsible for several generations of CyberShift's core products written in Clipper, Delphi, and Java. I was responsible for envisioning and delivering numerous innovations that were instrumental in securing and retaining key Fortune 500 clients including Pfizer, Goodyear, Michelin, Siemens, Toyota, and Revlon.
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
1993 — 1995 (2 years )
I was responsible for advising non-technical managers and executives on technology adoption and helping to roll out and manage a Clipper-based Job Bank application and a Banyan Vines-based wide area network (WAN).
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
1989 — 1992 (3 years )
I held office hours and marked assignments and examination papers for the following courses: Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS), IBM S/370 and Intel 80x86 Assembly Languages, and Matrix Algebra.
Microsoft Certified Professional , Visual Basic , 1997 — 1997
Score: 92%
Computer Science, Mathematics, Business 1988 — 1992
Among Canada's top-rated comprehensive universities.
Electrical Engineering 1984 — 1988
India's #1 engineering school.
Science 1972 — 1984
Among India's top-rated schools for primary and secondary education.
Tennis, Squash, Table Tennis, Chess, Basketball, Badminton, Drums.
IEEE Computer Society, New England Java Users Group (NEJUG), Computing Reviews, Mensa, South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Sapient Certified Negotiator, 2007.
Invited Speaker, Kronos Technology Summit, April 14-16, 2004.
Invited Speaker, Kronos Technology Summit, April 5-8, 2003.
Finalist, National Talent Search Scholarship (India's #1 scholarship), 1982.