4340 Franklin Avenue,
Los Angeles, CA-90027
Email: anand.cs.sharma@gmail.com
Phone: +1-213-924-9543
NAME: Anand Sharma
CURRENT TITLE: CTO/Solution Architect/Product Manager/Founder
CURRENT COMPANY: Humesis Inc.
PROFILE:
Mr. Sharma is one of the founder members of Sophoi, which was acquired by Oracle in 2009. He also
founded Humesis Inc., which developed web/desktop/mobile profitable products like www.phytter.com
and www.phytterdock.com for third party clients, and has been internally working on couple of Software
as a Service and associated mobile products and solutions to be released at the end of 2015. He has
helped companies do prototype of their software’s in both web and mobile to help with the strategy and
decision making process. One example would be the product for discounted prescription drugs, the demo
site at discountrx.humesis.com
During his more than 19 years of experience within the Media, technology and IT industry, he has played
key role on multiple IT and Business Process Re-Engineering projects and new products.
He has worked on numerous software systems, products and mobile development as Lead Developer,
Business Analyst, Technical Solution Architect, Solution Architect and Project management/Engagement
manager roles. He has helped companies use cloud computing to scale their application and
infrastructure.
Mr. Sharma has extensive domain knowledge of the complete lifecycle of Media and Entertainment IP,
ERP and consumer facing products and services, like Movie/TV product Acquisition, Development, and
Movie/TV Distribution and Streaming, Payments and Royalties, online file storage/sync, and VOIP and
messaging platforms.
He is experienced in designing developing and implementing integrated software product/systems, and
managing teams of various sizes and cultural backgrounds, spread across multiple geographical
locations and vendors.
Mr. Sharma has comprehensive in-depth knowledge of the business, business processes, technical and
infrastructure requirements within the Media and Entertainment, Telco, Content Acquisition, Distribution,
Broadcast and Streaming businesses along with Software as a Service and mobile (iOS and Android)
platforms.
He has worked with and developed products on cloud IAAS and PAAS platforms like Amazon AWS and
Google Cloud along with in house data centers and platforms.
He has extensive systems integration, warehouse and analytics experiences using open source Message
based integration technologies and products like Oracle Fusion, Data Warehouse and Analytics
platforms.
He has excellent grasp of business concepts and very good communication and solution modeling skills,
and has mentored multiple functional, technical and project management resources, who have gone on to
help customers and end-users achieve the desired business process results through the application of
technology, Business Process Reengineering and Product functionality.
His knowledge of both, business processes, technical architecture and the underlying tools and
technologies, is will respected within the Sophoi/Oracle client base. Due to his long association with
Sophoi/Oracle, He brings to any new project extensive management, technical, systems integration and
business process knowledge along with the lessons learned from previous implementations.
As part of Sophoi/Oracle Mr. Sharma has worked with the following clients:
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E! Entertainment (Los Angeles)
Paramount Pictures (Los Angeles)
CBS (Los Angeles)
Dreamworks (Los Angeles)
Televisa (Mexico)
Star Networks (Hong Kong, India, Taiwan, China, Philippines)
Nintendo (Seattle)
OnSar (Detroit)
Lexis Nexis (Dayton, Ohio)
Rovi Entertainment (www.cinemanow.com and www.blockbuster.com )
Humesis INC. CTO/Solution Architect/Founder August, 2013 - Present
Humesis Inc is a company based in Los Angeles, It is a solution provider and a software product
development company. As CTO and founder member Mr. Sharma was instrumental in designing,
developing and launching third party products like www.phytter.com, a VOIP software for web, desktop
(Windows and Mac) and mobile platform (iOS and Android clients), a cloud based file storage and sharing
product, www.phytterdock.com amongst others.
Mr. Sharma also worked with the Humesis team across different geographical regions namely Tokyo,
Japan and Bangalore, India. Mr. Sharma has worked with Amazon AWS and Google Cloud IAAS, PAAS
platforms and has extensive knowledge on both, and has participated in AWS architecture summits
multiple times.
He has while at Humesis been the key person in architecting, designing and delivering the
solution/product, while also being involved in the hiring of technical resources, working with vendors and
independent contractors, mentoring them, and ensuring that they have the skills and the expertise to
develop world class software products.
Currently Mr. Sharma is working on couple of software as a service and mobile products (iOS and
Android) and also on creating a framework, with key features build in, to jump-start any
web/desktop/mobile, connected applications.
ORACLE INC. Senior Principal Solution Architect (Last two projects listed below) October, 2009 – August,
2013
Rovi Entertainment:
Rovi is a backend solution providers of content acquisition and delivery (streaming) platform along with
financials associated with it, like royalty calculations and payments, and the associated data warehouse
and analytics for sites like www.cinemanow.com and www.blockbuster.com among others.
Rovi was implementing a company wide systems using a mix of Oracle product and custom solutions for
automating their content acquisition, distribution and content delivery lifecycle platform, along with the
associated calculation of royalties and payments to the content owners and the analytics associated with
it.
Rovi sells this platform as a solution to manage content acquisition, distribution and delivery and the
online stores of various clients.
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Email: anand.cs.sharma@gmail.com
Phone: +1-213-924-9543
Mr. Sharma as the lead solution architect on the project designed and developed an integrated solution
using Oracle products (Weblogic Application Server, JMS Server, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle BI,
OMIPM) and custom JMS based integration solutions to manage the complete lifecycle of content, from
its acquisition, to the delivery, on the online stores and the calculations of royalties and payments
associated with it based on the content download or view metrics.
Nintendo:
Nintendo was implementing a company wide system using Oracle product and technologies comprising
of Oracle Database, Oracle Applications, Oracle Media and Intellectual Property Management, Oracle
BRM, Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Mr. Sharma helped put together the integration architecture and solution for the BRM/OMIPM/Oracle
Financials integration solution and also helped setup the J2EE/JMS/XML based integration based on
Weblogic JMS server, along with the Oracle Fusion Middleware which was primarily used to integrate
OMIPM, BRM with external systems.
Oracle Internal:
Since coming on board with Oracle Mr. Sharma worked with the various Oracle team in transitioning and
integrating the Sophoi organization and infrastructure, with the overall Oracle organization and
infrastructure.
Mr. Sharma also helped put together documentation related to the Processes and functionality, and the
recommendations for technical architecture and solutions for future OMIPM implementation, and the best
practices for integrated solution for OMIPM and other Oracle products and services.
Mr. Sharma also initiated the move towards providing the OMIPM (Oracle Media and Intellectual Property
Management Software) product and its module, as software as a service platform using both Oracle
hosted VM’s and on Amazon AWS.
Oracle Pre Sale Activities:
Since coming on board with Oracle Mr. Sharma has also been involved in helping put together proposals,
responding to RFP’s and recommendations based on his past experiences for potential clients. This
involved understanding the client requirements and proposing solutions based on their needs. This also
involved hardware and architecture recommendations and along with high-level solution modeling and
identifying the underlying tools and technologies to be used for the solution.
SOPHOI INC. Principal Solution Architect (Last two projects) June, 2003 to October, 2009
Mr. Sharma was the founder member of Sophoi Inc, which was acquired by Oracle in 2009. As part of
Sophoi Mr. Sharma designed, developed and implemented software for the Media and Entertainment
business and has worked with companies like CBS, Paramount, Televisa, Dreamworks, Star TV, Sony,
Lexus Nexis, Discover, as Lead Solution Architect and Lead Software developer on designing and
implementing integrated software systems for the complete content acquisition, creation and distribution
lifecycle management of content, along with the associated financial tracking, reporting and analysis
software and systems.
410 1/2 N. Ogden Drive,
Los Angeles, CA-90036
Email: anand.cs.sharma@gmail.com
Phone: +1-213-924-9543
TECHNICAL SKILLS
3G Languages
Scripting
Protocols
Databases
Tools
Cloud
Web/Application
Servers
Oracle
UI front End
Mobile
C, C++, Objective C, Java, Python, Pro*C, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Swift
Unix shell scripts
TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP(S)
Oracle 10g, 11g, MySQL, Mongo DB, Amazon Dynamo DB
MS Project, Visio, Excel, Word, Page, Numbers, PowerPoint, Keynote,
Toad, Rational UML, Navicat, SQL Developer, Eclipse, XCode
Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure
Weblogic 11g, 12c, JBoss, Tomcat, Nginx, Apache
Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle BI, Oracle Database and
warehousing products and services, Oracle applications integrations
Bootstrap and Angular JS
iOS and Android Platforms
EDUCATION
DEGREE
Bachelor of Science
Post Graduate Diploma
COLLEGE or UNIVERSITY
University of Bombay
University of Bombay
YEAR
1991
1993
MAJOR
Physics
Computer Science