Praveen Ponna

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Technology Leader with extensive experience in Application Delivery, Digital Transformation Strategy and leading technical teams to execute highly effective and innovative solutions, on-time and within bud- get.

Areas of Expertise

Certification

● Certified Scrum Master

● Google Analytics Certification

● Oracle ATG Web Commerce 10 Implementation Developer Certified

● Sun certified Java Programmer

Skills

Experience

Digital Transformation Application Delivery IT Governance Budgeting Leadership Enterprise Architecture OmniChannel Solution Mentoring Strategic Roadmap Planning Agile Project Management eCommerce (B2B &

B2C) Solution

Team Building

Tactical Activities Planning Lean Startup Methodology API First Architecture Clean Code Practice Methodologies Agile/Scrum/Kanban, BDD, DevOps, Rational Unified Process, SOA, OOA/OOD Tools Google Analytics, Git, Mercural, Cucumber, SVN, Confluence Wiki/Jira, MS Project Platforms and

Frameworks

Hybris, JEE, Spring, RubyOnRails, Hybrid Platform (Ionic/PhoneGap), Oracle Commerce, Adobe Experience Manager, Mulesoft, Liferay Portal, CA Clarity, Ten- sorFlow, Mobile App Designing (iOS & Android)

Languages Java, Ruby, PHP, SQL, XML/XSL, Cobol, PL/I Databases Oracle, MongoDB, DB/2

Search Engine Endeca, Elastic, Solr

Hardware/OS Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X

Company Start End Duration

Cognizant Technology Solutions March,1998 May, 2011 13 Years Deloitte Digital May, 2011 Sept, 2015 4.5 Years

Ponnas Inc (Independent Consultant) Sept, 2015 Feb, 2016 0.5 Year Greenbasket Inc/Instadel India Pvt Ltd (Startup) Feb, 2016 Current 1+ Year Praveen Ponna Page 2

Projects

Greenbasket Inc (Instadel India Pvt Ltd) Bengaluru, INDIA Chief Technology Officer/ Platform Delivery Manager March, 2016 - Current Technology : RubyOnRails, MongoDB, Wordpress, AngularJS, Ionic, TensorFlow, ElasticSearch, AWS, Android, iOS, Google Analytics, Cucumber/BDD, Nginx. Instadel provides web and mobile services, Omnichannel platform solution, analytics and Marketing ser- vices .

As a technology leader I owned the product delivery to successfully launch an omnichannel platform solu- tion customized for Retail and Fast Food domains. Key responsibilities included Digital Transformation using rapid redesign of the platform from a monolithic RoR framework to API first architecture, Introduc- tion of Micro-services, Mobile Strategy, & Omni-Channel Presence. Additionally in the delivery manager role I steered the professional services division that helped Micro, Small and Medium corporations build websites. The websites were built on headless CMS and thin UI framework.

● Ideation of omni-channel platform solution

● Architected the website design with headless CMS and Angular JS

● Analysis, Design, and Development of the Omnisling platform solution

● Identifying real world business problems and providing innovative solutions

● Provide strategic direction involving technical and business

● Create Technology and Delivery road map and track releases

● Building the technology team that spanned across web (RoR, Bootstrap, HTML5) and Mobile

(Android, Ionic, iOS)

● Implemented a shopping list using Convolutional Neural Networks/Machine Learning as part of Rapid prototyping

GreenBasket LLC Chicago, IL

Technical Advisor /Delivery Manager June, 2015 - Feb 2016 Technology : RubyOnRails, MongoDB, AngularJS, Ionic, AWS, Google Analytics, Cucumber/BDD, Nginx. Greenbasket provides a SaaS solution for creating a Global Market place interconnecting Suppliers, Re- tailers, Consumers & Delivery Logistics. My responsibilities included:

● Analysis, Design, and Development of the platform solution

● Provide strategic direction involving technical and business capabilities

● Manage technology, team and infrastructure for the platform

● Create Delivery road map and track releases

● Mobile enabling the solution using Ionic hybrid mobile application framework

● Create Technology Roadmap, Brainstorm new ideas, implement/introduce new methodologies that help deliver the platform with high quality and with in the budget

● Creating a agile working environment for a distributed team

● Mentoring the technology team members to grow to their full potential Pampered Chef Chicago, IL

Senior Systems Architect Sept, 2015 - Feb 2016

Technology : Hybris, Wordpress, AngularJS, Ionic, ElasticSearch,Google Analytics, Cucumber/BDD. As a key player in Web Architecture team my responsibilities included: Improving the website perfor- mance, Streamlining the software development methodology, R&D on marketing requirements, CMS/ Wordpress sites management

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● Responsible for Optimizing the code to reduce the page load time

● Steering the Development team through scrum of scrum, implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment to enable the team to practice DevOps

● Manage marketing team requirements and provide appropriate CMS/Wordpress solutions

● Helping the management setup DevOps practice

Amtrak - Travel Distribution Platform(Deloitte) Washington, DC Platform Delivery Manager Jan, 2015 – Sept, 2015

Technology : Hybris, AEM, AWS, Google Analytics, Cucumber/BDD, SFDC, & Mulesoft. Application Architect and Delivery Manager for the Amtrak's re-platforming effort that will enhance cus- tomer experience across all touch points and centralizes both customer and agent-facing booking, reser- vations and ticketing functionality. This platform is primarily built using Adobe Experience Manager, hybris, Salesforce and MuleSoft.

● Lead application architect for all third party integration and provided a high level design

● Delivery Manager leading the Core Platform delivery that consisted of AEM, Hybris, SF and Mulesoft components with a team size of 130+ spread across different timezones

● Led technical workshops to gather technical system specifications Underwriters Laboratories (Deloitte) Chicago, IL

Application Architect Sept, 2014 – Dec, 2014

Technology : Liferay, Sharepoint, & Mulesoft

● Lead application architect to assess customer portals and recommend technical roadmap to achieve corporate vision

● Technologies used are Liferay portal, SharePoint Search, and MuleSoft as application service bus Zebra Technologies (Deloitte) Chicago, IL

Web Architect June, 2014 – August, 2014

Technology : JEE, Oracle DB, AEM, & AngularJS

● Lead Web Architect for the Data migration project, responsible for architecting and im- plementing the solution

● Technical manager for the server decommissioning project which hosted multiple do- mains/applications, responsible to plan all the tasks and execute them TOMS Shoes (Deloitte) Los Angeles, CA

Technical Delivery Manager / Application Architect Mar, 2013 – May, 2014 Technology : Oracle ATG, Endeca, SEO/GA, Oracle DB, & OBI Phase 1 - Deliver shoptoms.nl using Oracle ATG Commerce 10.1.2 and Endeca 3.1.1 Phase 2 - Expand the ATG platform to multisite (UK, US, & CA) on upgraded ATG platform (ATG 10.2/ Endeca 3.1.2)

● As a Scrum Master I was responsible for sprint planning and project delivery

● Led a 15 member team that spanned across multiple locations that included Client and a third party vendor teams.

● Responsible for design and delivery of Endeca Integration, OBI integration and overall project delivery

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Exelon Corp. (Deloitte) Oakbrook Terrace, IL

Technical Delivery Manager June, 2011 - March, 2013 Technology : JEE, CA Clarity, OracleDB, & OBIEE

● Responsible for Enhancements and Production Support of Financial Management System built on CA’s Clarity solution

● Successfully delivered system re-hosting and Websphere application server upgrade

● Received ‘Encore Award’ for outstanding client service Walgreens Co. (Cognizant) Deerfield, IL

Technical Delivery Manager Mar, 2010 - May, 2011

Technology : JEE/Spring, Oracle ATG 9.1, Endeca, & Oracle DB

● Design, Develop, Deliver and Maintain self-service and pharmacy modules of Walgreens.com This role included, Interacting with the business users & QA to prioritize and align with the requirements & de- livery of end-to-end solution

● Successfully Delivered “Ninety days supply” and “Immunization” projects for Pharmacy team and “Prod- uct Details Page redesign” and “Single use coupon Integration” for self-service team Orbitz® Worldwide Inc. (Cognizant) Chicago, IL

Technical Manager (Since May 2006) Feb, 2005 - Feb 2010 Technology : JEE/Spring, Tomcat, Weblogic, Linux, Oracle 9i, Apache, JSP, Servlets, Objective-C, Junit, JavaScript, JDBC, Ant, Jira, and CVS

Developed many features in ‘Orbitz for Business’ site like Advanced Policy for hotels, Premium seats, Company Fees.

● Managed a team to 10 developers for Northwest (NWA) Hosting project

● Responsible for production support, build and release management activities for NWA hosting project

● Managed the development team for Company Fees (Phase 1, 2 & 3), Southwest for Corporate, Multi- ple Passengers, and Advanced Policy Enhancements and Migration Tool projects for Orbitz for busi- ness site

● Implemented Premium Seats feature in Orbitz and Orbitz for business websites

● Designed and developed advanced policy application for Orbitz for business site

● Developed Lead pricing marketing tool for Orbitz admin site

● Developed prototypes for Orbitz iPhone application Blue Cross Blue Shield of California (Cognizant) San Francisco, CA Senior Consultant May, 2004 - Jan. 2005

Technology : Java, JSP, ATG Dynamo, Web Services, OpenSAML,

● Developed mylifepath.com’s member service functionality using Java, JSP, ATG Dynamo, Web Ser- vices, OpenSAML, Together Control Center, Interact API, Web methods Glue and Axis SOAP Engine

● Designed and developed post registration and change primary care physician (PCP) modules

● Managed a team of 3 developers for maintenance activities SallieMae® (Cognizant) Fishers, IN

Team Lead Jan, 2003 - May 2004

Technology : Java, Websphere MQ, JMS, Web Services, COBOL, CICS, VB 6 and XML, Ant, Junit, Nunit & VBunit

● Developed a regression test framework for Application Integration Architecture (AIA – a home grown middle tier application to access services) using Java, Websphere MQ, JMS, Web Services, COBOL, CICS, VB 6 and XML, Project, Ant, Glue, Junit, Nunit and VBunit

● Created stubs in Java and mainframe for the services and integrated with the regression test frame- work built based on Junit, VBunit and Nunit

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Dun and Bradstreet© (Cognizant) Allentown, PA

SQA LEAD Mar, 2002 - Sept, 2002

Technology : Cobol, JCL & DB2

● Developed a regression test suite for D&B’s Unmatched data project using Cobol, JCL and DB2

● Implemented a utility using Easytrive to generate test data for testing Farmers Insurance (Cognizant) Chennai, India / Los Angeles, CA Sr. Consultant July, 2001 – Feb, 2002

Technology : Java, JDBC and DB2

● Designed Farmers Insurance’s Auto Liability Insurance Reporting (ALIR) using Cobol for rewriting the legacy application in Assembler language.

● Developed a prototype for one of the ALIR modules in MVC framework using Java, JDBC and DB2 US Cold Storage (USCS)-(Cognizant) Chennai, India

Lead Developer Feb, 2000 – April, 2001

Technology : Java, JSP/Servlets and JDBC

● Designed and Developed USCS’s Order tracking and Tendering modules in the web enabling effort using Java, JSP and JDBC

● Implemented the front-end screens for Carrier access flow

● Developed a prototype of the application in wireless application protocol (WAP) using WML and WML scripts

Nielsen Media Research (NMR)-(Cognizant) Dunedin, FL/Chennai, India Developer / Lead Developer Mar, 1998 – Feb, 2000

Technology : PL/I, JCL, VSAM, DB2, & Easytrive

● Designed and Developed NMR’s Laser Downstream application using PL/I, VSAM and JCL.

● Created unit tests and documentation for the application

● Developed date validation utility in PL/I that reads a program and validate the dates against its date format for Year 2000 enabling

● Created the user documentation for the utility

● Analyzed, fixed and tested NMR Canada’s application code for Year 2000 enabling in PL/I, SAS, M204, Easytrive, JCL and VSAM

Education

1993-97 Bangalore Institute of Technology Bangalore, India BE, Industrial Engineering & Management

2003-04 BITS Pilani, India

MS, Software Engineering

(Distant Learning)

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