EDUCATION
Master of Science in Computer Science, New York University (NYU), NY, NY
Institute: Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, GPA: 3.47, Graduation: September 2009
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering, University of Mumbai,
Mumbai
Institute: St. Francis Institute of Technology, GPA: 3.8, Graduation: June
2006
WORK EXPERIENCE
Cognizant US, Charlotte, NC
Advanced Solutions Group, Business Intelligence Lead
October 2011 - Present
Proficient in project and technical delivery management, analytics and
communicate regularly to the executive management.
. Currently holding an search engine subject matter expert for Ally bank
and owner of implementing and imtegrating many search technologies
into Ally's environment in banking, auto and dealer sectors.
. Business Intelligence skillset to analyze the business data, execute
data analytics on different perspective to perform risk assessment for
the management team. Exposed to extreme levels of performing risk
assessments on many different business requirement and consulting the
same with clients to help them minimizing the risks involved.
. Leading a team of 8 as a Transition manager and responsible as a
liason between different business groups to gather business
requirements and work with the development team to implement this
requirements and transitioning this into production environments.
. Search engine subject matter expert with the knowledge of several
search solutions including Autonomy IDOL, Lucene/SOLR, Google search
appliance, Microsoft FAST search services. Consulting the clients on
their search engine design and integration to the backend search
appliances and architecture.
. Creating BRD's, architecture documents and working with business to
understand their needs and scope of a project. Triage calls with
different lines of of business and understanding their needs.
. Heavily exposed to many content management systems such as Tridion,
Interwoven etc. for hosting websites, storefront, managing web
services, storing templates used by many applications that are part of
storefront etc.
. Excellent knowledge of adhoc client request such as blacklisting,
whitelisting, web services, redirecting etc.
. Excellent knowledge on the search optimization and business rules such
as promotions, best bet, facets, cardinal management, redirection,
biasing logic for a better user search experience.
. Consulting Ally financial, providing them inputs on current
architecture and recommendations on how to make the search capability
scalable, incorporating features like failover, load balancing and
disaster recovery so that the end users are not impacted in any
manner.
. Consulting clients on many aspects of SDL Tridion implementation and
integration into company's infrastructure.
Deloitte, Hermitage, TN
Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, FAS Sr. Associate (Level 4)
October 2009 - October 2011
. Develop standard Metrics process and developed an application to
capture this metrics periodically, which will incorporate the capacity
and future predictions on the time lines for client projects. This
system is real time and is used to calculate the timelines for the
client deliverables.
. Always have been the point of contact for any kind of sev 1 and sev 2
issues related to the application maintainance and have always been
the key person driving the incident management processes during this
time.
. Gained and specialized knowledge in Computer Forensics, Electronic
Discovery world and various tools such as FTK Imager, Aungate, IDOL
Server, Discovery Cracker, Concordance, Relativity, Introspect, E-
capture, Clearwell and many tools.
. Developed powerful Business Intelligence and Analysis skills required
to map business vision and develop business processes and work flows
to meet client deliverables on a timely manner.
. Expertise in designing the BCP/DR for various tools and dataset of the
data center.
. Lead productions team and help identify the process brakes, failure
and developing standards in the process of redactions procedure,
developing workflows for the development team to help automate the
Quality Assurance
piece of the production workflows.
. Owner and lead of implementing design phase, end to end testing and
architecture of a remote collection tool called Autonomy ALH. This
tool is being used by the computer forensics to remotely collect the
data for the matters that belong to Office of General Counsel.
* Exposed to many search indexing technologies like dtSearch, Lucene,
IDOL, SQL etc. Consulting the clients on how to manage this indexes
for very large scale engagement involving terabytes of data.
* Exposed to Data Analytics processes for remediation projects, working
with the client to prepare complex reports, data validation of the
metadata in the hosting platform.
* Responsible for an end-to-end throughput testing to generate metrics
for data center that helps the leadership to understand the
capabilities of a data center.
* Responsible to identify process breaks and help standardize, automate
the process for various teams involved in e-discovery management
process.
* Regularly exposed to working with the forensics tools such as
cellebrite for extracting data from Simcard, Media card, phones and
Ipad.
* Leading the team responsiblefor the implementation process and end-to-
end testing of new technologies like Introspect 6, Aungate,
Clearwell and ECapture. Play a key Role in throughput testing of
Introspect 6, Aungate and Clearwell application.
* Develop processes and procedures, troubleshooting workflows for
engineering team on the tools, which are used in E-Discovery.
* Worked with the Risk Management team to help identify the risk
associated with the deliverable, and help the management get an
insight into the risks associated with the particular workflow that is
been practiced and how can we overcome the deviations practiced on the
client requests.
Huron Consulting Group, NY, NY
October 2008 - October 2009
Electronic Discovery, Legal Operational Consulting
. Electronic Discovery Management process for Client Google.
Technologies used: Sql Server, Epiq Documatrix and FIOS Prevail
platform.
. Exposed to Client facing opportunity and worked for a highly
confidential project. Project name: "Viacom International, Inc. et al
v. Google-YouTube, Inc. et al". This project required strict
deadlines.
. Responsible for day-to-day operations related to meet the expectations
of client and manage different vendors involved.
. Managing many different sub-teams that have different roles in the
litigation process, specially working with Top 10 NYC Law Firm Mayer
Brown who are the direct law firms representing Google.
. Responsible for the development and execution of quality control
protocols to prevent inadvertent production of privileged documents.
. Developed strategies in the Sql Server database to run complex
privilege searches on the entire database so that documents that are
only relevant to the case gets reviewed by attorney and passed along
to the next level.
. Assisted with the development of a Migration Assessment Plan to major
Search Engine Company for migration of the review database.
. Analyzed the structure of databases of two vendors and developed field
level mapping between databases. Perform quality control checks on
sample migration.
. Responsible for the day-to-day operations with team and actively
involved in negotiations with vendors involved in the case to get
correct requirements documentation.
. Pro-actively raised many questions and concerns on migration of data
into other vendors database and how would it impact the overall
quality of database on loading any new data while simultaneously
migrating the data from other vendors database.
. Opportunity for client facing to discuss the migration plan with
client and how will Huron manage the whole migration.
Walt Disney Company, Disney ABC Media Networks, NY, NY
June 2007 - August 2007
Intern Broadcast Operations and Engineering/IT Group (BO&E/IT)
. Worked for a High Profile project named "Capturing and Monitoring
Harris Air Client" in real Time and On-Air.
. Created and deployed SVGA and monitoring system.
. Exposed to Business Work Flow, Technical details of the Automated
System, broadcast video file storage and playback system, supporting
IP Networks.
. Monitoring Application developed using Visual Studio.NET (VB.NET).
New York University, NY
August 2006 - July 2008
. Database maintained for New York University to access the branding
securely through security protocols.
. Website currently used by New York University Palladium, and Coles
Sports Center.
. Sample of the project can be found at: www.gonyuathletics.com.
Technologies used Php, MySql.
. Generated report that automatically predicts potential customers where
certain threshold and complex search rules are applied.
. Automated the process for an ongoing Steinhardt School department
website for different to post Internships, and Full time positions.
Sample of project link: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/dcc/internships/
TECHNICAL SKILLS
. Database: MS Sql Server, MySql, Oracle, MS Access and Microsoft Excel
. Systems: Windows, Linux, MAC OS, Solaris, Unix
. Web Based: HTML-CSS, CGI/Perl, ASP, JSP, JavaScript, VBScript, PHP,
LUA
. Electronic Discovery platforms: Epiq Documatrix, Fios Prevail,
Concordance, Citrix, Autonomy, Introspect 6, Relativity, IPRO, E-
Capture, Clearwell.
. Content management systems: Intervowen, Tridion, Sharepoint, Oracle
weblogic.
. Enterprise Search Technologies: IDOL, Microsoft FAST, and Endeca.
. Certifications: Autonomy IDOL Certified Admin, Relativity Certified
Admin, Clearwell Certified Administrator.