PRABHAT GUPTA

11505 Casa Marina Way, Apt 302

Tampa, FL- 33635

                                           Mobile: 614.787.0360

prabhatmail@gmail.com

Profile

·              13 years of experience in Solutions Architecture and Technical Management. MBA with Focus on Strategy and Implementation from the Ohio State University.

·              Extremely hands on development skills in C#. Won the Microsoft Appathon building Windows 8 App.

·              Experience working through the full development cycle from initial design to service deployment to on-going operations and enhancement.

·              Experience in high-tech leadership and daily operations for both US public and commercial sector.

·              Manage and Mentor technical staff of Architects, Designers & Developers. Work with geographically distributed teams. Skilled to formulate enterprise frameworks, strategies & roadmaps, re-engineer process and cross functional integration.

·              Formulate product frameworks, strategies & roadmaps; skilled in contract negotiation, process reengineering and cross functional integration.

·              Advise cross-functional core and executive teams (C level) of various business & technology implications, for solid policy decisions; track emerging industry trends; technology strategy, analytics, target and shape niche-driven customer relationships.

·              Deploy agile processes, applications and techniques: Rapid Application Development, Test Driven Software Development, Balanced Scorecard, Activity Based Costing, Business Process Redesign, Reengineering, Transformation and Continuous Improvement.

·              Technology application and business integration; formulate requirements, analyze business benefits and payback, qualify and select technology partners , lead technical teams in implementation, integration, software configuration and development.

Education

·              MBA With Focus on Strategy and Implementation, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University – 08/2011 (Ranked 11^th in US per US News & World Report 2012)

·              B.E. Computer Science and Engineering , Institute of Technology and Management, India – 06/2002

Technology Skills

·               Platforms: Windows 8/8.1/ Server 2008/12, UNIX, Microsoft Azure, Hyper V, VMware, Amazon AWS, TIBCO AMX BPM, IIS, Windows Appfabric, .NET Framework, Nokia

·               Packages: MS Office Suite, MS SharePoint 2010, MS Project, Enterprise Architect 6.0, MS Visio, Redgate ANTS Memory/Performance Profiler, Wireshark, Github, Fortify, Adobe Robohelp, TFS

·               Technologies: MVC3, WCF, REST, VSTO, LINQ, SignalR, WNS, Enterprise Library 5.0, IOC, nLog, Telerik Kendo UI, HTML5, CSS, JQuery, AJAX, JSON, Pex and Moles, Spring.NET, PowerShell, Bing Search API, LDAP, OAuth, Roles Based Access Control, Async, nUnit, SSRS, SharePoint Component Object Model

·               Database: SQL Server 2008 R2, Oracle

·               Languages: C#,C++,VB.Net, XAML, JavaScript

·               SDLC: Agile and RUP.

Career Background

Nielsen, Tampa FL, Mar 2012 to Present

Sr. Solutions Architect

Working on re-engineering BASES - Booz Allen Sales Estimating System platform. BASES was developed in 1977, later on acquired by AC Nielsen. It is used for forecasting the sales of a product which is yet to be launched. Typically, the Client approaches Nielsen with their statement about the new product and the expected result out of the data analysis. It consists of different service options and based on the cost that the client is ready to pay, the type of BASES service is chosen.

At Nielsen I am responsible for building product strategy and architecture for the BASES program targeted for Retail Marketing Research and Analysis. It takes in account inputs from multiple channels such as Media & Display Marketing Data, Point of Sale Data from retailers, Nielsen’s Market Insights program to track consumer behaviors. It’s a $40M product base with revenues around $600 M annually. The product is being built on Microsoft Stack (.Net) and Business Process Integration supported by TIBCO AMX BPM.  My responsibilities include:

·   Product Architecture, Design and Development of technology framework components. For development and design I have a supporting team of developers working both onsite and offshore.

·   Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact and work with implementation teams to deliver.

·   Technical Reviews & project assessments at the different phases of projects. I am instrumental in presenting the strategy and technology state to the CTO office during the periodic tollgate reviews.

·   Lead and Mentor development & design teams for software development with 85+ programmers in different geographies (US, India).

·   Work with business architects, product leaders and define models & interface specifications.

·   Troubleshoot on technical issues with the team. Dive in the performance tuning aspects of the application using Redgate (Ants) Profiling Tool for Memory and Performance.

·   Work on Developer Cookbook, Design Guidelines, Coding Standards, ETL Documentation Standards, UX Behavior Standards and Architecture Document. Responsible to maintain the addendum architecture artifacts for the new technical components we are building.

My achievements are:

·   Realized the “Workbench Platform” architecture grounds up. This platform is used by Nielsen to manage the studies Nielsen conducts for its clients globally.  The online platform has been developed using ASP.NET MVC3 and WCF Services. The unit testing framework uses Pex and Moles.

·   Built the product platform to integrate Workbench Platform (.net) with TIBCO AMX BPM for business process improvement and SharePoint 2010 for Document Management using Client Object Model.

·   Designed and developed a cross platform scalable SOA grid for Notifications & Logging (uses SignalR).

·   Awarded the “Star of the Quarter” award for my contributions to the product.

·   Conducted ~25 interviews for acquiring project resources (Systems Analysts and Architects).

·   Evangelized & built a mobile platform to identify TV programming in real time. Using this app, Viewers can identify live TV programming using their smart phones or hand held devices by just letting the app listen to 30 second of the live programming. Using this app the idea was to measure brand resonance in real time letting advertisers adjust their TV campaigns in real time.

Skills used:

·   Technologies : Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0, ASP.NET, HTML5, CSS, jQuery, JSON, MVC3, WCF, TIBCO AMX BPM, Pex & Moles, VSTS, SignalR, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Server Appfabric, Telerik, Windows PowerShell, nLog, SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Patterns and Practices, SSRS, Team Foundation System, VSTO.

·   Languages : C#, JavaScript

·   Tools: Visual Studio 2010/ 2012 IDE, GitHub, Wireshark, Telnet, HP Quality Center, SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Visio, Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint

·   Database: SQL Server 2008 R2

·   Skills: OOP, System Designing & Implementation, Technical Management, Solutions Architecture, Object Modelling.

Independent, June 2012 to present

Apps/Mobile Evangelist

Dec 2012 - Developed an application named 'tagMap' for Windows 8 Apps Store. This app won the first prize at Microsoft WOWZAPP 2012 event at St Pete FL. The event WOWZAPP 2012, sponsored by Microsoft was joined by thousands of developers worldwide. 'tagMap' enables users to share their pictures with the world and get to see where in the world people share common interest as theirs. See the app details at http://tagmap.info

June 2013 - Won the SDK integration contest at Microsoft Build Conference – 2013, San Francisco and got a Microsoft Surface tablet. The contest required integration of Marketing, Payment, Analytics, Notifications and Authentication platforms from Microsoft partners in a Windows 8 app. I worked through integrating inMobi, Fortumo and Facebook platforms. Member of Nokia Developer Program.

November 2013 - Launched a new innovative mobile platform with geo-tagging capabilities to report lost and found articles and pets. It allows you to simultaneously post on 'Lost & Found' Facebook & Twitter pages. See the app details at http://www.lostfoundapp.com and a YouTube video explaining the idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO7D2Jia2RI

January 2014 - Conceptualized, Designed and Developed a line of business app for Cattcomm to audit telecommunications colocation facilities in US. Cattcomm is a consulting and services company specializing in providing and deploying telecom solutions for carriers. The goal of creating this new Windows 8/8.1 app was to add automation to a manual process by making the process of auditing the various Fiber Distribution Panels faster while significantly reducing the data errors. With this Cattcomm gained a 5X increase in speed of their operations. This application is used on Surface tablets used by technicians in field & include a depiction of the appropriate sized fiber distribution panel as a visual guide for auditing.

As an evangelist I am passionate to design, build & publish windows 8 apps using C#, XAML, Windows Azure and REST APIs. Currently working on building a native windows 8 phone app using Bing Search and YouTube APIs.

Skills used:

·   Technologies: Windows 8 Mobile SDK, Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0, Bing Search, Windows Azure, REST API, Microsoft Azure SQL Server, Microsoft Azure Blobs Storage, TFS Online, Bing Maps, Async Patterns, Camera UI, Geo Location APIs, Facebook Authentication using Oauth2

·   Languages: C#, XAML

·   Tools: Visual Studio 2012/2013 Preview IDE, GitHub, Wireshark, Microsoft Visio, Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

·   Skills: OOP, System Designing & Implementation, Cloud Computing

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, Columbus OH, Jun 2008 to Mar 2012

Solutions Architect

Responsible for product architecture, strategy, design, development and performance improvement. Worked for General Motors, MI and State Government Projects for VT, RI and NM.

·               Responsible for design and development of framework components, proof of concepts for COTS based Comprehensive Motor Enabling Technology Product. It’s a Government Enterprise Product for managing Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) at State Level.  The technology stack is Microsoft .NET.

·               Responsible for Technical Reviews & project assessments at the different phases of projects. It involves collaboration with Project teams, Centers of Excellence  (HP Global Testing Practice, Security Vulnerability Assessment Group)

·               Lead and Mentor development & design teams for software development with 40 programmers in different geographies (US, Asia & South America). Monitored and controlled the phase with Resource Managers to complete it within planned schedule, cost and effort.  Closely work with PMO for tasks planning, scheduling, and budgeting. Provide inputs for process governance around software design and development at Inshore and Offshore Delivery Centers.

·               Conceptualized and Realized Performance Test Bench for SLED DMV Practice using open standards and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System.

·               Worked with the pre-sales/sales teams for new product offerings & have experience in all stages of RFI, RFP response preparation, Orals Presentation to Final Contract Negotiations. Participated in a multimillion dollar sales bid for one of the DMV Project as a technical leader and was instrumental in a successful award of this project.

·               Designed and developed the security architecture for the COMET Product (NM DMV Implementation). It is a Roles Based Access Control (RBAC) Security Framework for the WCF Services where I worked on to define the AAA (Authorization, Authentication & Accounting) store and carved the services on the Windows app fabric host. This involved creating WCF authorization policies and utilizing the distributed cache system. The authentication was done using active directory (LDAP).

·               Manage external HP vendors and partners for product implementations (Make-or-Buy Analysis, Created Contract, Evaluated Vendors, Monitored the upgrade Project, and Closed the Contract).

·               Conducted ~100 interviews for acquiring project resources (Systems Analysts and Architects).

·               Active Interest in HP Cloud Computing Platform. Technical member of http://www.hpcloud.com

Tata Consultancy Services Limited FL, AZ, AL Nov 2003 – Jun 2008

Application Architect, Sr. Developer

Responsible for product design, development and interim management for C++ based product (TAX MANTRA^®). Developed by TCS this product is used for managing Department of License and Sales Tax for counties & cities in US. This product has been implemented at Department of License and Sales Tax, Jefferson County, Birmingham, Alabama (USA); Department of License and Sales Tax, City of Chandler, Arizona (USA).

·               Received Certificate of Excellence from City of Chandler, Arizona USA for outstanding performance and contribution for the implementation of Tax Mantra® project onsite.

·               Design and Code framework components in Microsoft .NET and C++.

·               Designed and developed registration and case management modules and Performed Gap Analysis between captured requirements and Product features.

·               Performed Component Based Effort Estimation for Tax Mantra Proposals. Closely worked with TCS Presales team.

·               Managed software processes from requirements gathering, documentation, management approval, client approval, development, to testing and final presentation to the client. Established software release criteria’s, sign-off software releases for production, and provide implementation and client support.

·               Managed onsite and offshore teams efficiently to optimize issue resolution time, Managed a team of 15 programmers at India Delivery Centers to customize the product.

·               Managed onsite User Acceptance Testing and received approval for the deployed product.

·               Conducted User trainings in ‘Train the Trainer’ program at City Office, Chandler, AZ.

Provided technology consulting at CARNIVAL CRUISE LINES, Miami Florida.

·               Worked as a lead designer and senior developer on the Enterprise Reservation System (ERS) .NET Conversion Solution with TCS Microsoft Center of Excellence for Carnival Cruise Lines, Miami Florida.

·               Led and facilitated requirements elicitation, analysis, validation, design and specification of SOA-based web services for integration of Point of Sale systems fleet wide with the ship management system & Smart Client interface for Pre Sales Systems.

·               Modeled requirements and use cases using Rational Unified Process (RUP) methodology, UML, documented business process workflows and design specification. Facilitated requirements gathering meetings, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, workshops, design reviews, UAT, and end user training. Presales Team.

Technology/Software: C++/VC++/ORACLE 8i/HP UX/CORBA/VB/COM/MS Office/Rational Products/UML/MS Visio/.NET Framework 3.0/MS Office Suite, Project, SharePoint

Lifecare /M DOT, Delhi, India July 2001 – Nov 2003

IS Analyst

Responsible for development and testing of software components for a mid-size finance and marketing company. Activities Included Program Design, Prototype Modeling & Development.

·               Worked on Binary Tree and Graph data structures and developed a C++ based solution for the finance distribution. Algorithms devised for minimized funds disbursement based on balanced Binary trees.

·               Developed Logic Construct prototypes for Point of Sale Applications in Visual Basic.

·               Business Requirements Analysis and Research for equitable and profitable business solutions for Multi-Level Marketing Industry

·               Member of the product launch presentation team at the Research & Development Department.

Technology/Software: C++,VC++,UML,VB 6.0, SQL Server 2000, MS Office Suite

Skills

Solution Architecture ; Strategic Planning ; Product Design ; Product Development ; Technical Management; IT Governance

Certifications, Trainings

Certifications

·               Brainbench Certification in C++/C++ Fundamentals

·               Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Trainings/Conferences

·               Windows Phone Week Challenge, Microsoft Office, Tampa FL – Oct 2013

·               Microsoft Build Conference, San Francisco – June 2013

·               Microsoft Appathon, St Pete, FL  - November 2012

·               Microsoft Tech Ed, Orlando FL -  June 2012

·               Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 & BI (SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services & Performance Point Server 2007) training at Microsoft Campus, Redmond, Washington - 2 Days, Dec 2007

·               Miami .NET User Group Workshop on AJAX with Wallace B. McClure  - 1 Day, May 2007

·               Deutsch – Foreign Language Program, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. - 2 months , Apr 2006- May 2006

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