Engineer Project Manager

Srini Kandala

(abmbfm@r.postjobfree.com)

510-***-**** (Cell )

OBJECTIVE:

To build and lead a technology business and exceed expectations by an order

of magnitude.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Over 18 years of experience in the IT industry including large companies

like Amazon.com, Millipore, Travelocity and CMC Ltd, mid size companies

like Versata, and Startups like Ceres inc, with 10+ years in a Technology

Leadership capacity.

Lead and rebuilt from ground up the WebStore by Amazon Technology and

business. Designed the technology Architecture based on Amazon Web

Services and drove SOA adoption at Amazon.com and built and launched the

new product from ground up and successfully took the product to

market.Grew registrations by 120 times in 12 months since taking over.

Grew GMS by 20 times in two years since taking over. Established rock solid

engineering processes resulting in zero sev-1 events in the last 14 months.

Managed Amazon.com's Phoenix Development center. Was commended for

topgrading and building one of the top engineering teams in amazon. Managed

Teams in India and Seattle in addition to the Amazon Phx Dev center.

Managed Amazon.com's Payment Core Systems. All of the US and International

payment transactions flowed through these systems. These systems interacted

with the various external banks and organizations in US, CA, EU and JP to

process all of the amazon.com, amazon services and transactions from other

websites hosted and run by amazon (target.com etc.. ).

As Director of eBusiness Technology, Lead Millipore's eBusiness Channel

which does 270 MM in revenue annually. Doubled the team size with

significant hiring of world class talent. Started recruitment drives with

MIT Sloan and Harvard Business School. Put in a discipline of operational

excellence. Significant improved Site Performance and Availability.

As Director Media Technology at Travelocity architected and designed the

teavelocity media platform. While this was only a one month gig I provided

Significant value in the formational technology strategy stages.

As Director Engineering at Versata Inc also, started their Indian

operations and grew it to a 45 people team hiring best in class, bar

raising employees. Delivered core Engineering products for their J2EE based

Business Rules Engine product, Versata Logic Server.

As Process Automation Architect at Ceres Inc, developed Workflow Systems

and BioInformatics Systems.

Experienced in successfully building and running end to end aspects of a

technology business.

Strong background in building and delivering large scale enterprise Systems

and maintaining them with zero high sev events.

Experienced with JAVA & J2EE, Web Services, SOA platforms, Web

Technologies, SEO, SEM Strategies.

EDUCATION:

.BE Electronics Engineering, 1992 from Marathwada University, India

. Alumni : Amazon Leader of Leaders Program

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Director, eBusiness Technology, Millipore Corporation

April 2009 to Present

As Director of eBusiness Technology, Lead Millipore's eBusiness Channel

which does 270 MM in revenue annually. Doubled the team size with

significant hiring of world class talent. Started recruitment drives with

MIT Sloan and Harvard Business School. Put in a discipline of operational

excellence. Significantly improved Site Performance and Availability. Re-

Architected the entire platform to use best Practices like SOA, Web

Services and Operational Excellence.

Director, Software Development, Travelocity.com

March 2009 to April 2009

As Director Media Technology at Travelocity architected and designed the

travelocity media platform. While this was only a one month gig I provided

Significant value in the formational technology strategy stages on SOA and

Web Services usage.

Software Engineer, Sigmaways

February 2009 - March 2009

Design, develop, maintain and update software applications using various

technologies.

Sr. Manager, WebStore by Amazon and Head Amazon Phoenix Development Center

at Amazon.com

January 2007 - January 2009

Lead and rebuilt from ground up the WebStore by Amazon business with

responsibilities for the complete business including : Product Definition

and Management, Engineering and Architecture, Product Support, 3P Programs,

Self Service Marketing and Sales, Interface with Direct Sales team,

Interface with Finance for budgeting and Headcount, Interface with legal

and other support teams. Built and lead teams in three geographical

locations : A Biz Dev and Engineering team in Seattle, Lead the Amazon Phx

Development Center, lead an Engineering team in Hyderabad, India.

Achievements :

1. Hiring : Completely topgraded the phx dev center and hired top

performers (as recognized by their evaluations ) including 4 Sr Development

Managers, 4 Sr Product managers, 1 Principal Engineer, 2 Sr Biz Dev

Managers and a lot of Sr Software engineers (hired six Sr Software

Engineers just in the last 30 days ) and Software Engineers, Admin and IT

support personnel.

2. Leadership : The team was recognized as one of the top Engineering

teams in amazon as note from the SVP to the CEO.

3. Business Growth :

1. Self Service Marketing : Since taking over Self Service Registrations

Responsibility in end Q1 07, # of registrations in Q1 08 were 120 times

the registrations in Q1 07.

2. Grew GMS by 20 times from Dec 06 to Dec 08.

4. 3P :Signed up and trained 45 dedicated Development partners to resell

and support WebStore By Amazon.

5. Engineering :

1. Built a self service product with 1-click e-commerce site setup

feature used by 1000s of merchants with over 10s of thousands sites

launched.

2. Zero Severity-1 events in last 14 months.

** UCI Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business, MBA class of 2008 used

WebStore By Amazon as the main product to teach and experiment with Web

2.0. Worked closely with John Seely Brown, Amazon Board Member to make

this a success.

** This initiative drove SOA adoption at Amazon.com significantly. The

platform was architected to drive maximum reuse of existing services that

were powering the amazon.com site.

Manager, Technical Alliances Group

at Amazon.com

August 2005 - January - 2007

Was responsible for influencing Amazon Services core platform strategy to

support external 3P partners. While each of the services owners who

comprise the amazon platform had their own goals, my role was to primarily

influence across the organization to design systems in ways such that they

do not just support the amazon.com website but also support the various 3P

partners who were helping merchants selling on amazon.com or using amazon

technology to power their own sites. Was also responsible for interfacing

with these partners to collect their needs and design workarounds and

implement long term strategic solutions for them. Hired and Lead a team of

6 including 3 Technical Program / Product Managers, 3 Sr Software Engineers

and a tech writer. This role was very strategic to the company and laid the

foundation stone for many of the core architectural decision when designing

the webstore by Amazon product.

Manager, Payment Core Systems

at Amazon.com folks

August 2004 - August 2005

Managed Amazon.com's Payment Core Systems. All of the US and International

payment transactions flowed through these systems. These systems interacted

with the various external banks and organizations in US, CA, EU and JP to

process all of the amazon.com, amazon services and transactions from other

websites hosted and run by amazon (target.com etc.. ). Led the team

through a stressful Q4 in 2004 without major holiday issues from these

systems. Then made strategic changes to the underlying system post

holidays. Successfuly led the integration of the Amazon.com integration

with Sumitomo Bank in Japan for handling Amazon's JP transactions.

CTO

at Globalways

March 2004 - August 2004

Project: Development of a Process Orchestration Engine for Web Services

based on BPEL4WS

Conceptualized and developed the alpha version of a cutting edge BPEL4WS

based Process Orchestration Engine and Builder tool for providing Service

Oriented Architecture for Web Services.

Technology: J2EE (JBOSS / Weblogic / Websphere. / Tomcat / Log4j / ANT /

AXIS / STRUTS)

Role:

Defined the overall vision of the product line and established the

product line architecture. I worked closely with the engineering team in

establishing the development processes. Was instrumental in

Institutionalizing component-oriented development processes and

establishing development standards and guidelines. Made strategic decisions

on choice of platforms, technology, tools and methodologies for development

and testing.

Process Automation Architect

at CERES INC

October 2002 - March 2004

Project: Responsible for Automating Bioinformatics and other Process

Pipelines across the company.

CERES is a Plant Genetics R&D company with a lot of process pipelines that

were essentially islands of systems stitched through manual intervention.

Automating these pipelines involved efforts to integrate various legacy

systems developed in a multitude of technologies and platforms. J2EE based

Web Services was the best suited platform for this effort.

Also developed routine IT projects using the Business Rule Engine VERSATA

LOGIC SERVER FOR CORBA and EJB. Also used other J2EE Application servers

for these projects.

Director Engineering

at VERSATA

February 2000 - October 2002

Versata developed Business Rule Engines for J2EE AppServers which automated

the development of J2EE components (Session Beans, Entity Beans, JSP pages

Web Services). As Director Engineering I was responsible for development of

several of their core products from MRD/ PRD stage to GA. Delivered the

Versata product ranges for WebLogic / WebSphere and VisiBroker products.

Was also responsible for the total JSP based client product Lines at

Versata (both at the Architect level and at the Engineering Management

Level.).This was based on STRUTS.

I also setup their India Development Center and was also Managing

Director, Versata India Development Center. Hired and lead a bar raising

Engineering team of 45 and delivered various core products for Versata.

Managed complete budget for Indian operations working directly with the CFO

for this.

Project Manager / Architect / Sr Engineer

at CMC Limited / BRI

May 1995 - Jan 2000

During my tenure at CMC I was involved in a multitude of Software

Application Development projects in various roles. I was one of the first

to develop JAVA based projects way back in 1995 during the jdk Beta. I was

responsible for extensive client interaction at the Technical / Techno

Marketing / Project Management levels for very large scale projects some of

them involving turnkey solutions spanning more than software development

and ranging from Enterprise Security / Networking and total end to end

solution using X.25 Switches / VSATs and other LAN / WAN technologies.

Technology: JAVA,,STRUTS, C++, Oracle 7.1, Sybase, Informix, Netscape

Suitespot, X.25, TCP/IP Suite, Symantec Visual Caf , Rational Rose, Windows

NT4.0, HP-UX, Sun Solaris

Hardware Engineer

at Hewlett Packard (Nesmah Computers KSA)

Aug 1994 -May 1995

Hardware Engineer

at HCL Hewlett Packard

Aug 1993 - Aug 1994

Bhabha Atomic Research Center Aug 1992 - Aug 1993

Trainee Scientist

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