ANKUR SINHA
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Email: *****.**.*****@*****.***
Phone- 510-***-****
IT PROFESSIONAL
SUMMARY
Results driven technology professional with extensive experience in leading IT teams and architecting solutions. Applied information technology to business needs in e-Commerce, tax and financial accounting, e-Governance. Experience of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) following Agile, Waterfall and iterative process. Modeled and designed sub- systems in UML using Rational/Visio. Created class diagrams, sequence diagrams, state transition diagrams and business processes. Experience in using J2EE design patterns, and architectural patterns. Experience developing utilizing AWS resources. Specialized knowledge of application performance tuning. SKILLS SUMMARY
Industry Experience E-Commerce, Retail, Pharmaceutical, Government, Public Sector, Digital Media, Healthcare Functional Areas Supply Chain, Accounts Receivable/Payable, e-Gov, Digital Licensing, Tax and Financial Accounting IT/Web Technologies/Tools - J2EE, Java, C/C++, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, CSS, AJAX, Camel, Adobe AEM, Ant, Maven
- Amazon EC2, AWS, SES, SNS
- Performance testing, Performance optimization, Capacity Planning, HP Load Runner, New Relic, Akamai Luna Control Center.
Other Skills - Google Analytics, Payment Gateway integration, SEO, Design Patterns, Data modeling. Application/DB Servers Tomcat, JBoss, Oracle, MySql Process RUP, Waterfall, Agile
Marketing Email Marketing, SMS Campaigns, Email analytics PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Manager, Softanicca LLC April ’16 –Present
Boca Raton, FL
Worked with the merchants in United States of America for migration and rollout of EMV cards and payment terminals. Managed projects and large-scale rollout of the terminals in a record time of less than 6 months.
Provided engineering consulting services to over 50 merchants, banks and acquirers for transition from magnetic stripe to smart chip transactions.
CTO, American Swan Apr ’15 –Apr’16
Gurgaon, Haryana
Monitored the performance (CPU usage/memory usage) of application servers, database servers utilizing AWS resources and Newrelic.
Performed global traffic analysis utilizing Akamai Luna Control Center.
Monitored Google Analytics metrics to measure site traffic, page views.
Monitored effectiveness of graphic re-design by measuring Google Analytics data Manager Technology/Architect May ’14 – Sep ‘14
Sapient, Boston, MA
Performed stakeholder interviews with a large ecommerce client to assess the technology and business process landscape.
Held design discussions with ecommerce team to assess the technology impact of product taxonomy.
Created performance testing approach for an architecture based on Camel, EJB and Endeca layers.
Developed reports using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
Tools used were Eclipse, Java, Perl, Oracle, AEM. ANKUR SINHA Page 2
Vice President, Technology
Xcira Inc, Tampa, FL Jan ’14 – Mar ‘14
Managed development, design and architecture teams for the firm’s core products related to online auctions and commerce initiatives.
Managed the design and development of new release functionality.
Managed project management team members for ensuring timely delivery of projects.
Managed quality assurance team for successful testing of deliverables to the client.
Worked with enterprise application architects for defining and optimizing processes. Head of Technology Mar ‘13 – Sep ‘13
AmericanSwan.com, Gurgaon, Haryana
Integrated Akamai Content Delivery Network with the ecommerce origin server to reduce content download time and load on media server.
In absence of a robust email marketing solution, developed a mass emailing solution utilizing Amazon SES gateway. Sent 10M emails/day; Set-up an AWS EC2 server as Email server.
Monitored the performance (CPU usage/memory usage) of application servers, database servers utilizing AWS resources and Newrelic.
Performed global traffic analysis utilizing Akamai Luna Control Center.
Monitored Google Analytics metrics to measure site traffic, page views.
Monitored effectiveness of graphic re-design by measuring Google Analytics data
Monitored effectiveness of email campaigns by measuring open rates.
Evaluated Content Delivery Networks and made recommendations to purchase service. Technology Lead May ’11 – Feb ‘13
Software Consultant, Chicago, IL
Provided leadership for setting the product strategy for a firm.
Performed analysis of mobile and technology solutions for retail industry.
Led the definition of enterprise digital asset management requirements and user interface flows for business needs.
Designed a video solution to meet business needs of ecommerce firms. Technology Leadership Associate Mar ’10 – May ‘11
Sears Holdings, Chicago, IL
Analyzed supply chain business processes for Toys business unit.
Designed a video distribution platform to deliver corporate videos.
Led a team for design, analysis and development of a video distribution platform.
Led a team for design and analysis of Gigapan Technology based gaming platform.
Tools: Java, Eclipse, MySql, JDBC.
Research Assistant, MIT Feb ’09 – Jan ‘10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Provided technology, supply chain and adoption strategy based recommendations for pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
Analyzed the Federal and US state requirements for e-Pedigree system to be implemented across US pharmaceutical supply chain networks.
Designed the high level technical architecture of e-Pedigree adhering to system wide standards. Performed cost benefit analysis of RFID-barcode implementations and serialization strategies. ANKUR SINHA Page 3
Presented the findings of the research to, C (CEO/CIO/COO) level executives of pharmaceutical companies of the Plasma group.
System Design Management Fellow, Graduate Student Jan ‘07 – Jul ‘09 Sloan School of Management & School of Engineering, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Technology Lead/Architect Jan ‘05 – Oct ‘07
Inventive Software Solutions, Waltham, MA
Provided consulting services for clients in health-care sector to architect and design a smart card based Personal Health Record (PHR) solution to implement remote access of PHR as per HIPAA laws.
Architected e-Governance electronic filing solutions for a startup company in the dealership sector in California; solution was successfully implemented and reduced public wait time by 95%.
Documented requirements in the form of use-cases.
Worked on development of e-filing of car registrations at dealerships.
Worked on re-architecting a digital asset management system.
Tools/Skills: Java, J2EE, MySQL, JDBC, Eclipse.
Technical Lead Oct ‘01 – Dec ‘04
Keane Inc, Bedford, NH & Charlestown, MA
Led performance team including Oracle and State consultants, resulting in applicationperformance enhancement.
Performed use-case design for various business processes of Maine Motor Vehicle IT System.
Evaluated and recommended best technological, development, design practices through various phases of the project.
Developed proof of concept to validate the architecture.
Developed code to implement Driver Licensing functionality.
Tools/Skills : Java 2, J2EE, Oracle XSQL Servlet, JDBC, Oracle 8i, XML, EJB, BC4J, Mercury Load Runner, Action classes, Performance Tuning, Indexing, Partitioning, Connection Pooling,Application and SQL Tuning. Consultant Dec ’00 – Apr ‘01
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), MCS, Manchester, NH
Researched web order management system and iPlanet tools. Systems Engineer in Site Manager Role
Tata Consultancy Services (formerly Tata Infotech Limited), India & USA Jul ‘97 –Nov’00
Developed accounting posting module of a tax application in PL/SQL
Developer accounting module of a tax application in PowerBuilder. TECHNICAL SKILLS
Oracle 8i, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Designer,
Oracle Developer, PowerBuilder
LICENCES/AWARDS
William L. Stewart Jr. award received at MIT Awards Convocation [http://web.mit.edu/awards/pastwinners/ 2009-recipients.html]
Appreciation/Recommendation letter received from Chip Gavin, Deputy Secretary of State, State of Maine, US. ANKUR SINHA Page 4
EDUCATION
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 2007 – 2009 Sloan School of Management & School of Engineering SM in Engineering Management
Selected Areas of Learning:
Supply Chain Strategy
System Architecture
System Engineering
Risk Benefit Analysis
Cost & System Optimization
Software Engineering
Financial and Managerial Accounting
Technology Strategy
Technology Based Business Transformation
Entrepreneurship
Enterprise Architecture
PUBLICATIONS
Forecasting Using Artificial Neural Network – ‘House Rental Level Prediction Using ANN’ Journal of Urban Planning (American Society of Civil Engineers)