UI Architect

Technology | Leadership| Enterprise Solutions

Over 14 years of experience in software industry, architecting, designing and implementing user interfaces for web and mobile devices. I thrive in fast paced and dynamic work culture; passionate about solving complex problems with simple and elegant solutions to make software easy to use and competitive in market. My  primary focus is collaboration with business owners to build user interface platforms for enterprise applications and tune them for business needs. Have an unique experience of building business applications, working with Business Objects and SAP, and network solutions, working with Cisco; also have an excellent mix of working in product and services industry. A role to provide technology direction and to build self driven teams to deliver profitable products interests me.

 

Professional Experience

 

WUI Architect                                                                                                                                                          2010-present                                                                                                                                                         

Cisco Systems – San Jose, CA
Architected and built UI platforms using Flex for an enterprise product, $100 mil. revenue, and using HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript for SOA platform leveraged by multiple Cisco products. Evaluated software technologies, libraries, frameworks and build systems. Designed and developed mobile friendly web applications. Led internationalization project. Involved in Cisco’s ‘Internet of Everything’ initiative; involved in tiger team of driving vision, built prototype solutions and presented at “Internet of Things World Forum” steering committee. Responsible for hiring, training and managing distributed web development team.

 

Sr. Engineer/Architect                                                                                                                              2006-2009                                                                                                               
SAP – Palo Alto, CA

Designed and developed data quality and information management business applications. Researched technologies, collaborated and architected end-to-end solutions with rich user interface. Worked closely with business owners to define functional requirements, defined technical direction of the product, integrated various internal and external technologies in the solution, adopted scrum methodologies to execute the project.

 

Engineer/Project Leader                                                                                                                                1998-2005

L&T Infotech – India

Led and managed projects in offshore development model. Responsible for requirements analysis, project planning and delivery.  
 

Software Skills

 

Web development:              HTML/5, CSS2/3, JavaScipt, ActionScript3, Flex, JSP, Python, XML, XSLT, JSON, Apache,                                                 Tomcat, LAMP Frameworks:                         Cairngorm, Robotlegs, Caramel, Ember.js, Jaggery, Node.js, PhoneGap, Twitter Bootstrap,OSGi,      J2EE Libraries:                                jQuery, Dojo Languages:                             Java, C++ Databases:                             MySQL and other RDMBS,Cassandra OS:                                           Mac, Linux, Windows Tools:                                      Eclipse, Sublime2, ANT, Maven, UI mockup tools   Others:                                    OpenSocial, SOA, Mule ESB, WSO2 SOA stack, Internet of Everything

 

             

 

 

Other Areas of Expertise

 

UX Design:              Experience in building clear, concise, consistent, usable and attractive UI in collaboration with

                                  poduct managers, UX designers and end users.

 

SDLC:                                 Many years of experience using Agile software development  and scrum tools like Rally.

 

Information

Management:                     Have worked in Data Quality and Enterprise Information Management space for multiple years.

 

Education

 

Bachelor of Engineering – Pune University (1996) Diploma in Advanced Computing – CDAC Pune (1998)