Senior Manager, Technology (Architect) at Sapient Corporation
Greater Boston Area
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- Senior Manager, Technology (Architect) at Sapient Corporation
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- Software Consultant at iGATE Mastech
- Manager, Software Engineering at Kronos Incorporated
- Senior Manager, Software Development at CyberShift, Inc.
- Technology Coordinator at Employment and Immigration Canada
- Teaching Assistant at University of Windsor
- Education
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- Microsoft
- University of Windsor
- Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
- Modern School, Vasant Vihar
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Puneet Lamba’s Summary
A technology generalist with superior leadership, communication, and organizational abilities. Expertise in hands-on management of end-to-end enterprise Java development with an emphasis on server-side and database applications.
Puneet Lamba’s Specialties:
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).
Puneet Lamba’s Experience
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Senior Manager, Technology (Architect)
Sapient Corporation
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SAPE; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Sapient is a global top-ten technology consulting firm. As part of Sapient's Trading and Risk Management (TRM) practice, my current assignment involves responsibility for a $2M+ budget, contracts, program management, architecture, development and evolution of the Global Performance System (GPS) and Cash Flow System (CFS) suite of applications at Wellington Management Company, LLP, a global top-ten investment management firm. The 25-person GPS/CFS team is comprised of several subsystems including Daily Performance System (DPS), Benchmark Rebalancing System (BRS), and Performance Attribution System (PAS). The technology stack includes Core & Enterprise Java (Ajax, Hibernate, Struts, EJB, Log4J, C24 IO), SOA (Web Services), C, Perl, Oracle, WebLogic, AIX, Solaris, Bourne Shell Scripts. The development toolset includes AccuRev, Eclipse, WebLogic Workshop, Silk, LoadRunner, YourKit, JProbe, Ant, PLSQL Developer, Toad, and IBM Tivoli Maestro Workload Scheduler (Job Scheduling Console v1.4).
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Software Consultant
iGATE Mastech
(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. -
Manager, Software Engineering
Kronos Incorporated
(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.
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Senior Manager, Software Development
CyberShift, Inc.
(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.
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Technology Coordinator
Employment and Immigration Canada
(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).
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Teaching Assistant
University of Windsor
(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.
Puneet Lamba’s Education
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Microsoft
Microsoft Certified Professional, Visual Basic, 1997 — 1997
Score: 92%
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University of Windsor
Computer Science, Mathematics, Business 1988 — 1992
Among Canada's top-rated comprehensive universities.
- Activities and Societies:
- Squash Team, Rock Band.
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Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
Electrical Engineering 1984 — 1988
India's #1 engineering school.
- Activities and Societies:
- Debate Team, Squash Team, Basketball Team.
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Modern School, Vasant Vihar
Science 1972 — 1984
Among India's top-rated schools for primary and secondary education.
- Activities and Societies:
- Soccer Team, Athletics Team, Field Hockey Team, Science Quiz Team.
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Puneet Lamba’s Interests:
Tennis, Squash, Table Tennis, Chess, Basketball, Badminton, Drums.
Puneet Lamba’s Groups:
IEEE Computer Society, New England Java Users Group (NEJUG), Computing Reviews, Mensa, South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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IEEE UNIVERSE member
Puneet Lamba’s Honors:
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.
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