Viren Pandit

 

Jersey City, New Jersey

 

 

Email: virenpandit@gmail.com    ·   Mobile: 646-320-3892

 

 

Technology Leadership ~ Lead Architect

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·               Lead Architect and strategist with 18 years of technology experience and a reputation built on innovation, expertise on latest trends and best practices on everything technology

·               Extensive domain knowledge and great relationship with clients in diverse industries including - hospitality, institutional banking, retail eCommerce, publishing and digital marketing

·               360⁰ technology value chain ownership as a lead architect from digital marketing technologies to big data analytics

·               Effectively influenced my client – Wyndham Hotels save over $198,000 and $580,000+ YoY on two separate initiatives.

 

 

Most Recent Technologies

 

 

 

Adobe AEM/CQ WCM		Big Data – Hortonworks HDFS, MapReduce			DevOps & Continuous Delivery Chef, Jenkins
Search Engines - SolrCloud, ElasticSearch, GSA, CloudSearch		MongoDb and Solr NoSQL			Cloud Strategy (Amazon AWS)

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Offbelay Corporation2013 - Current

 

Chief Architect, Principal Owner

Clientele: Wyndham Hotel Group and other smaller consulting engagements

Lead architect on turnkey digital marketing initiatives for content management and analytics at Wyndham.

Technology: Adobe CQ, Mobile using PhoneGap, Solr Search Engine, Chef DevOps Automation, Akamai DSA/DPC, Adobe Analytics, Flume, Hadoop and Amazon AWS/EMR and Teradata.

Work Profile –

 

·         Lead architect on turnkey digital marketing initiatives for content management and analytics for Wyndham Hotel’s 14 international brand web properties.

·         All-round hands-on technologist introducing responsive web design practices for tablet, mobile and desktop, open source technology replacements such as Solr, Hadoop, Jenkins, Chef and instrumental in provisioning a DevOps continuous delivery process.

·         Architected a solid digital marketing foundation using Adobe AEM web-content management platform for Wyndham.

·         Very much hands-on with all technologies – delivered a high-scaling, enterprise-level search solution using AEM, Solr, MapReduce and DevOps with Chef, Jenkins; effectively saving Wyndham $198,000

·         Proposed and influenced adoption of newer technologies for source-code management that effectively saved Wyndham $580,000 year-over-year, capitalized.

·         Designed a full-chain end-to-end 360-degree view of the customer from front-end Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics integrated into Adobe AEM/CQ WCM to backend search and log analytics using Amazon AWS/EMR and Hadoop.

·         Developed a cloud adoption strategy for Wyndham for their IT technologies demonstrating value-add and cost efficiencies to senior leadership.

·         Architected large-scale (~30 terabytes) image processing using HDFS and MapReduce for consumption as renditions into AEM digital asset management.

 

 

IBM, New York2013

 

Senior Management Consultant

Lead architect on turnkey digital marketing initiatives for content management, publishing and trend analytics.

Clientele: Axel Springer Publishing (Germany), AIG Insurance and Banco de Crédito (Peru)

Work Profile –

 

·         Solution architecture for digital marketing platform (DMP) content publishing based on Adobe CQ, customer targeting and search using Solr for a large insurance firm

·         Reference architecture for creating a 360-degree view of the customer through multi-channel data integration into Hadoop HDFS for dynamic customer segmentation and targeting (STP) analytics for a leading Latin American bank.

 

 

Razorfish, New York2005 – 2013

 

Senior Architect

Responsible for guiding client to achieve business objectives using technology, defining technical solution architecture, scoping, effort and cost estimation, product selection, hands-on POC/development and leading teams to deliver.

 

Projects –

 

v      Digital Marketing Technology Architecture For T. Rowe Price and JPMorgan Institutional Bank

Technology: Adobe CQ, Google Search Engine (GSA), Solr, Lucene, Akamai CDN, SSO, JBoss ESB and                                           custom analytics using Flume, Hadoop HDFS and Hive

·               Responsible for end to end solution technical architecture and design

·               Capability assessment and guidance to senior management on technology adoption and transformation to achieve business objectives

·               Defining application integration touch points based on contract-first web services

·               Architecting CQ content taxonomy, content replication, personalization and physical infrastructure

·               Tailored search using meta-data rich content integrated into Google search appliance using custom feeds.

·               Analyzing unstructured call center data logs using Hadoop HDFS/Hive to identify metrics around customer attrition rate

 

v      Product Development – Cloud-based PAAS offering For Publishing And Targeting

Technology: AWS, CloudFormation, Adobe CQ, ElasticSearch, Mule ESB, LDAP, SOAP/Rest Web Services

·               Owning end to end product architecture for Amazon cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PAAS) offering

·               Leading multiple architecture and development tracks including Adobe CQ, and AWS on-demand cloud architecture

·               Technical leadership for an onsite/offshore team of 30 members

·               Leading integrated architecture and development tracks including designing complex Hadoop MapReduce jobs for structured/unstructured data feeds including log file, customer profile information and social feeds to support rich analytics

·               Architected on-demand CQ initialization in AWS cloud, integration with CloudFormation for environment automation and CQ architecture including taxonomy, templates and 3^rd-party integration

v      Digital Content Management for AutoWeek, a leading Automobile Magazine

Technology: Adobe CQ, Amazon CloudSearch, Heritrix for web crawling, MaxMind Geo-location, EdgeCast CDN on Amazon AWS cloud, J2EE

·               Owning end-to-end solution architecture for digital content publication for magazine

·               Leading 12 member cross-functional team to achieve project goals

·               Designed content taxonomy, metadata tagging and content governance model

 

v      Customer Contact Center Enablement For Dow Jones

Technology: JBoss ESB, J2EE Web services on JBoss Server, LDAP, Oracle-based data-warehouse and data analytics using Hadoop HDFS and Hive

·               Responsible for establishing SOA standards, best practices and process

·               Envisioned, architected the end-to-end solution for providing a unified view of the customer

·               Oversight, definition of integration layer using SOAP/Rest web services and mediation of service contracts between integrating systems

·               Defined best practices handbook for overall SOA and security compliance

·               Led team of 50+ across multiple tracks for solution

 

v      Enterprise Search For Largest Publishing House In U.S

Technology: Google Search Appliance, Solr, Lucene, JBoss Application Server and J2EE framework

·               Architected enterprise search solution for multiple websites owned by organization using Solr, Lucene and GSA

·               Conceptualized and architected dynamic, multi-faceted navigation using custom Feeds API for Google Search Appliance (GSA) and Ajax to provide a seamless interface

·               Defined tagging structure, content import strategies for integrating with multiple content source systems within organization

·               Built proof-of-concept for prototyping searching, indexing and tagging using a customized content publishing workflow

 

 

MphasiS, New York, NY / Riyadh, Saudi Arabia / India1999 – 2005

 

Senior Architect, Technology Manager

Guide clients globally with innovative technology design, planning and delivery using an onsite-offshore model and ensuring compliance with CMM-5 quality standard. Create case study projects and reusable reference implementation as a core member of the SOA advisory team. Built an excellent track record for technology leadership and efficient delivery with the offshore delivery model

 

v      Structuring And Ratings Application For CDOs At Standard And Poor’s

Technology: Java/J2EE, Bea WebLogic, Business Objects Reporting, eRights SSO and Oracle database

·               Brought in as a technical expert due to lack of a clear vision for a CDO solution in development

·               Responsible for creating a strategic technology roadmap for proposed application

·               Reviewing existing implementation (software and infrastructure) and recommending improvements for scalability, reusability and maintainability.

 

v      eLearning Initiative For Employee Training At Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

Technology: Java/J2EE, Bea WebLogic Server, WebLogic Integration Server, Blue Titan Web Service Orchestration Server, Data Power Xml Bridge

·               Responsible for solution design and project planning

·               Leading the onsite and offshore delivery team

·               Leverages Blue Titan Web Service orchestration infrastructure, Data Power and BEA WebLogic Integration

v      Citibank (Saudi Arabia) – An Ambitious Brokerage Application

Technology: Java/J2EE, Bea WebLogic Server, SiteMinder for SSO

·               Responsible for leading the architecture for the first online trading platform in the country

·               Recommending and leading a super-imposed work-stream model for delivery within a record-breaking timeframe

 

v      First-In-Class Brokerage Application With Full End-To-End Order Automation For Equitymaster

Technology: Java/J2EE, Bea WebLogic

·               Responsible for technical research for a fully automated trading system

·               Recommending a fast, scalable solution for zero order loss and high availability

·               Leading delivery team for quick delivery and competitive rollout

 

 

 

Asterix Informatix Ltd., Mumbai, India1998 – 1999

 

Senior Consultant

 

v      Establishing technology for operations at Inter-connected Stock Exchange of India Ltd

Technology: C language, Visual Basic

·               Key member of a 3-team design committee for technology planning and design of financial trading, clearing and settlement system for Inter-Connected Stock Exchange (ISE), India with annual volume of $35 million.

 

 

 

Entrepreneur1997 – 1998       

 

 

v      Designed first of kind customized product to automate retail operations for the garment industry which would handle inventory management, order automation, warehouse management and international shipments.

 

v      Oversaw all facets of new business including product vision, development, sales and support to clients in the retail business.

 

 

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

 

 

M.B.A, Business Strategy & Leadership

New York University, Stern School of Business

 

M.S, Information Systems

University of Phoenix

 

B.S, Physics

St. Xavier’s College

 

 

Project Manager Certification (PMP)

The Project Management Institute