Director/ Enterprise Architect (SAP Hybris eCommerce Manager)

GANESH PRABHU

**** **** ***** **, ***********, IL 60490

********@*****.*** 630-***-****

Summary

Ganesh is a digital transformation leader who brings 20 years of information technology experience in planning and implementing enterprise scale initiatives. Over the course of his career, he has architected and implemented projects across industry verticals and domains. More recently, Ganesh has specialized in architectures and capabilities around eCommerce systems including content management systems, product information systems, backend and frontend omni-channel commerce, marketing and campaign management systems, amongst others, using primarily SAP-HYBRIS and Adobe suite of products.

Professional

Experience

ICFNext April 2019 – Present

Title: Director & Partner - Technology

As a Director of Technology, responsible for technology and architecture assessment,

platform evaluation, roadmap planning and execution of marketing technology and eCommerce initiatives across these chargeable accounts.

(** Client names available upon request)

Director of Technology: Life Sciences Instrument & Software Company

Responsible for technology evaluation and roadmap planning to enable a platform to achieve business growth vision. Analyzed legacy and emerging technologies to perform a fit gap analysis and alignment with business objectives. Responsible for upgrading the product management platform built on SAP-HYBRIS Commerce and then migrating it onto the SAP-HYBRIS Commerce Cloud SaaS solution. Responsible for blueprinting planning of migrating a homegrown commerce system onto the SAP-HYBRIS Commerce platform

Accenture Interactive June 2011 – April 2019

Title: Senior Manager; eCommerce Enterprise Architect

As a leader of technology and solutions, responsible for planning and executing digital transformation initiatives across multiple accounts. Though the initiatives were catered around the commerce channels, they also required broader enterprise wide systems and technology architecture, planning and coordinated delivery

(** Client names available upon request)

eCommerce Solution Architect: Storage Devices Manufacturer

Solution & Technical Architect on a replatforming initiative of a global multi-brand site onto SAP-HYBRIS Commerce and AEM platform. Working along with client enterprise architecture group, was responsible for the overall architecture and had full ownership of designing, implementing and delivering the product information management and commerce portion of the solution. As the primary technical owner, supported a global team of 20 developers, business analysts and quality assurance personnel over the course of the project.

eCommerce Solution Architect: Electronics Components Distributor

Solution & Technical Architect on the build of a headless commerce system on SAP-HYBRIS Commerce using Sitecore as the primary presentation layer. Primary responsibility included blueprinting the overall solution to support online and other channels and delivery of the headless commerce system using secure webservices. Was responsible for a team of around 15 developers, business analysts and quality assurance in the end-to-end architecting, implementing and cutover of the system.

Technology Strategist: Leading Aerospace Company

As a technology strategist, was responsible for evaluating the legacy technology stack of a multi-brand enterprise with redundant and overlapping systems with the intent to unify them under a common set of platform and processes. Responsibilities were limited to defining the architecture and a multi-year iterative implementation roadmap and transitioned to another team for implementation.

Solution Architect: Glass Manufacturing Company

Solution & Technical Architect on a Product Information Management system built on SAP-HYBRIS Commerce that allowed for integration with core backend system, easy user entry of web enrichment data and syndication of catalogs with large retailer channels

Solution Architect: Industrial & Auto Parts Manufacturer

Solution & Technical Architect on replatforming the global site of a catalog driven distributor company using a combined model of commerce on SAP-HYBRIS Commerce and presentation on AEM. The commerce capabilities included catalog design and migration, customized search solution and cart and checkout capabilities.

Solution Architect: Automotive Parts Distributor

Solution Architect on replatforming the North American brand of an automotive aftermarket parts distributor. As the primary owner of the solution, managed a team of clients and consultants globally distributed over the course of the project. Was also responsible for providing a blueprint of the solution to extend the platform for other regions and brands.

Technical Architect: Specialized Sleep Solutions Company

Technical architect on the eCommerce solution of a customized sleep solutions product company. Was responsible for designing and implementing a very customized search and configuration solution with very configurable promotional capabilities applicable for this industry

Technical Architect: Consumer Products Goods

Senior Developer: Multinational Financial Services

Senior Developer: Men’s Big & Tall Apparel

SAP-Sapient Nitro (now Publicis Sapient) Feb 2013 – June 2013

Title: Senior Manager; Technology

As a Sr.Manager of Technology, was responsible for expanding on the SAP-HYBRIS Commerce practice. Worked with clients on improving their digital practice, enabling better performance, innovation and building solution to meet customer needs. Worked on building best practices for SAP-HYBRIS Commerce projects.

Infogix, Inc. June 2006- June 2011

Title: Senior Manager; Products

After a successful tenure as a senior developer, functioned as the Product Owner of a customizable rule-based product for reconciliation of financial data for in enterprises governed by internal and government data compliance regulations. Managed multiple teams consisting of developers, functional and technical architects, quality assurance, technical communication and support personnel.

Encore Consulting Service, Inc Dec 2000 – June 2006

Title: Senior Consultant

As a Senior Consultant, delivered several custom-built enterprise solutions on Java and Microsoft technologies across the following client engagements

(** Client names will be provided upon request)

Inventory Management Solutions

Paper Products Supply Chain Distribution

Transportation and Logistics

Education

NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE; Naperville, IL; M.B.A, Finance; June 2008

NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE; Naperville, IL; M.S, Mgmt. Information Systems, June 2005

BANGALORE UNIVERSITY; India; B.S, Computer Science, June 2000

Relevant

Skills

Packaged Software

SAP-HYBRIS Commerce (C4/HANA)

Adobe Experience Manager

ATG

IBM WebSphere Commerce

Elasticpath

Technologies

C, C++, Java, Spring, SQL, NoSQL, BigData, SOAP, SQL, XML, GraphQL, Microservices, SOA, Event & Stream based integration, CI/CD, Cloud platforms, ELK stack, ALM tools

Consulting Skills

Technology Strategy & Planning

Architecture & Engineering

Technology Evaluation

Infrastructure Planning

Information Architecture

User Experience

Packaged Software Implementation

Data Modeling & Database Design

Roadmap Planning

System Integration

Project and Product Management

Cloud strategy

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