PRASHANT KUMAR

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E NTERPRISE ARCHITECT & A G I L E P R O GRAM MANAGER - BTB - I S A NGO! STRATEGY & LEADERSHIP DIGITAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS ARCHITECTURE PMO Senior Management professional & strategist with over 15 years of rich & insightful industry experience in the Information Technology space including 8+ years of experience in building and inspiring high-energy software product engineering teams with a sense of urgency.

Experience Highlights

• Tech Leadership

o Developed processes for estimating, staffing, training, implementation, and post-implementation support. o Responsible for managing full P&L for product development, software and hardware purchases and R&D. o Review all development projects to ensure reliability, effectiveness and ROI. o Managed department of 50-55 employees & consultants with 6 direct reports: 2 Senior Managers of Development, the Head of QA, Head of UI development and Lead Project Manager.

• Enterprise Architect

o Assist in the development of a governance framework to manage scope and justification for decisions and actions throughout the development lifecycle

o Assists with defining performance benchmarks and prioritises solution performance improvements based on empirical tests o Create existing and future vision enterprise architecture, containing traceability from IT and business strategies to recommended technologies

o Proven track record of success, in leading teams over distributed locations driving transformation, health-check engagements, service improvement of all enterprise applications. o Oversee staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling, development and performance management. Work closely with 3rd party partners/vendors for support

o Monitor and identify performance trends and work with teams to improve processes and procedures o Manages the development, design/architecture, installation, analysis, and on-going improvement of the information technology infrastructure for our clients

o Attends and represents the enterprise at conferences, workshops, networking events with industry peers and solution provider.

• Principal Agile Product Owner

o Acted as liaison between business, sales and IT teams to refine the product and incorporate features based on market demands. o Support an Agile Software Development process, working in conjunction with end users / stakeholders and technical delivery team

o Work closely with counterparts in Product Management to align on the vision, program backlog, and roadmap o Being the voice of the customer/stakeholders and providing a business perspective on value during day-to-day development o PI Planning, Manage risks, attend Scrum of Scrums with other ART Scrum masters.

• Azure PaaS Cloud – Expertise in driving the deployment workloads into Azure PaaS and increasing the consumption of the platform by providing deployment guidance, supporting development of the cloud adoption model and providing appropriate recommendations to overcome blockers. Reduced cost of overall bill by 45% using different application and resources optimization.

• Data Science and Machine learning

o Worked with Data Scientists and Product Managers to frame problems both mathematically and within the business context. o Done Business Analyst certificate from XLRI.

o Used Python and R to scrape, clean, and analyse large datasets. o Designed real time recommendation engine to rank sales leads for upsell opportunities.

• Sitecore & DNN CMS based Solutions

o Provide hands-on, expert-level technical assistance to developers o Manage the technical delivery of custom development, integrations, and data migration elements of a Sitecore implementation. o Provide detailed estimates and develop, document and implement software architectures o Architect and manage a Sitecore CMS implementation that involves architecture, integration and data migration with an offshore model through the entire SDLC of the project.

• Developed e-commerce platforms from scratch for B2C, B2B and B2B2C for online travel business : o B2C Platform used Azure IaaS and PaaS cloud services with Sitecore (digital experience platform combines content, commerce, and personalization), Coveo (Self-learning & intelligent search engine), Redis (caching solution), Cosmos DB

(Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database service) and SOLR (enterprise search platform) to create distributed architecture.

o B2B Platform –Search API ( for meta search engines), Booking API (for hotels, taxi, transfers websites), Cross-sell Widgets, Deep-link support, White-Label support

o Supplier API and Channel Manager API integration platform used Adapter pattern to make sure single point of communication with third-party APIs. We have already integrated 100+ suppliers’ products are coming into the backend system using this platform.

o Payment Platform – Scalable platform which supports country-based payment methods, multiple payment methods like pre- paid, post-paid, bank transfer for B2C and B2B2C channels.

• Delivered Marketing-Technology (Mar-Tech) platform : o CRM integration -Integrated with Adobe and Salesforce CRM for Abandon and payment-failure email campaigns. Marketing team runs multilingual campaigns for all across the line of business for 120 microsites using this platform. o CUBE reporting & Analytics platform (STAR schema & Power BI) – integrated with Google Analytics API, SEMrush API, Google AdWords data, isango supplier & booking data to support

• Conceptualized and Built Automation & Monitoring Framework(DevOps): reduced releases time by 40%, testing time by 50% and production issue replication time by 20% which saved $ .5 million within 3 years o QA automation framework, worked as a product owner with QA team to create and deploy QA automation framework using Jenkins, Maven, and Selenium. This platform has the integration with JIRA for automated release emails after the production release.

o DevOps Platform - Created a CI & CD workflow and framework, leading to one-click production release capability from anywhere even with the mobile device

o Monitoring Platform – We used Microsoft Azure Application Insight and application log to create the errors and exceptions dashboard.

Certifications

Project Management certificates

o PMP (PMI - North India Chapter ) License: 1601047 o Certified Scrum-Master (Scrum Alliance · License: 000380037) Digital Marketing certificates

o Social Media Marketing (OMCP · License: SIMAM14CC-1015) o Online Marketing Certified Professional – SEO (OMCP · License: SIMSEO14CC – 1002) Google Certificates

o Google Analytics

o AdWords Search Certification

User experience certificate

o Conversion Optimization (OMCP · License: SIMAM14CC-1014) Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals

o License FLBXJM3UNUYA (Coursera 85% marks)

Sitecore certifications

o Sitecore 9 developer certificate

o Sitecore Marketing automation certificate

Data Analytics & Machine Learning

o XLRI Programme on Business Analytics

Technology stack

ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC CORE, .NET Core, Node.js, Angular, Blazor, Azure PaaS, SQL Server, Azure Redis, Cosmos DB, Sitecore, Coveo, C#, JavaScript, Azure DevOps, Application Insight Professional Experience

isango! (Apr 08- Present), India

A Hotelbeds brand, isango! is a specialist retailer of tours, experiences and attraction tickets. We work across 300+ destinations with more than 10,000 experiences to choose from.

Jul 12- Present: Enterprise Architect & agile Program manager

Spearheading the Technology organization for isango, with the critical responsibilities of building next-generation application suites to cater to evolving business needs, driving the Technical Vision and providing Leadership & guidance to Technology strategy & initiatives involving the following:

o Providing technical and architectural guidance across projects for all Product development o End-to-end management of the portfolio of products that contributes 80% of isango revenue o Leading technical management of customer-facing technology platforms, websites and mobile technology platforms o Foster Product Innovation to ensure the company stays ahead of the curve while also building a strong footprint in open source ecosystem

o Ensure high-level performance and quality of all software deliverable from the India development center

Collaborating with and lead a globally distributed, cross-functional teams in an Agile environment to proactively identify architectural weaknesses and recommend appropriate solutions

Coordinating a team of 20-40 people in India managing CAPEX and OPEX budget, with the crucial responsibility of constantly building a high –performing team to deliver planned objectives

6+ years of product management experience working with cross-functional mission teams

Strong analytic background with the ability to find insights in data sets, set up and analyze AB tests, and apply data thinking to prioritization, problem-solving and product design

Ability to articulate what a winning feature or product looks like, with a strong understanding of how Design, Software, and Content come together to achieve that vision

Excellent communication and listening skills with the ability to influence the team, stakeholders, executives in order to drive excitement and support for your strategy

Entrepreneurial - takes ownership, pushes through setbacks, and is able to create a vision of the future while driving execution today

Jul 09- Jul 12: Project Lead

Tasked to re-organize web development department in the company, with the role entailing team building along with management of all aspects of technical architecture and design, software development, QA, delivery, and deployment

Successfully established development process and built multiple new websites with multilingual and multi-currency support

Assisted with PCI DSS assessment and worked with the business stakeholders to re-mediate any open issues listed in the assessment work

Coding guidelines & best practices

Apr 08- Jul 09: Senior Software Developer

Initiated tenure within the company with hands-on roles involving software development, and quickly grew into larger roles involving end-to-end Project Leadership and Management

Designed & implemented advanced search and profile customization

Backlog management and requirement gathering

Supplier APIs integration

Employment History - Previous Roles

IMPETUS (May 06- Apr 08), Software Engineer

NETWORK PROGRAMS (Jan 04- May 06), Member of Technical Staff/Software Engineer EDUCATION

2004 Masters in Computer Application- MCA (U.P.Technical University)

2001 Bachelor of Science- Mathematics (Meerut University)

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