Ash Gupta

Irving, Texas - Email: Career@AshishGupta.Com - Phone: +1-972-900-0361

IT Leader

 

Multi-cultural, bilingual Technology leader who innovates practical solutions to plan, budget and deliver complex, mission-critical, multi-million dollar systems across diverse industries. Proven business partner who aligns IT deployment with business strategy; reengineers business processes and underpinning IT infrastructures for more productive, efficient and valuable use of information. Builds strong relationships; and highly motivated, committed teams through interpersonal, persuasion and negotiation skills. Excels at:

 

·       Enterprise Architecture ·       Information Security ·       IT Strategy ·       IT Outsourcing

·       System Lifecycle ·       IT Standards and Governance ·       Project Management ·       People Management

 

Eligible to work in US (Permanent Resident)

 

Professional Experience

 

Big 5 Consulting Firm                                                                                                      May 2007 – Present

 

Principal / Sr. Architectural Expert

Direct large scale IT programs, provide expert technical guidance and manage center of excellence for various IT Architecture and Solutions initiatives.

 

·       Delivered a Future State Architecture and Technology Roadmap to a large Venture Capitalist firm.

Travelocity.Com                                                                                                                          2005 – 2007

 

Senior Manager - Enterprise Architecture

Define long term IT strategy, short term tactical roadmaps and direct 25+ Senior Architects leading the Enterprise IT Architecture, IT selection, standards, governance, infrastructure and highest level of technical support.

 

·       Saved $10M+/year by migrating systems to open and common standards; sun-setting legacy platforms; and mentoring, providing training and new skills to experienced staff members eliminating their fear of losing job.

·       Saved $2M+/year by standardizing enterprise hardware and software portfolio across all business units thereby maximizing vendor leverage, resource sharing and operational effectiveness.

·       Doubled production capacity and cut hardware cost by half through innovative application deployment.

·       Increased developer efficiency by standardizing development environment, tools, processes and support.

·       Directed an Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture Framework program by providing strategy & change leadership, developing the enterprise architecture, defining enterprise standards, implementing the common infrastructure for application interoperability and defining overall platform migration strategy.

 

BearingPoint Inc. (KPMG Consulting)                                                                                          2000 – 2005

 

Manager – Solutions Architecture (Service Oriented Architecture)

Managed multiple teams through delivering 15+ enterprise technology projects in diverse business functions (CRM, eBusiness, BPM, IT optimization etc) at Fortune 100 companies across all major industries. Strategized, architected and deployed cost effective, well planned, enterprise systems that achieved the client’s business objectives.

 

·       Won several multi million dollar engagements through RFPs and presenting to senior client executives.

-         $7M+ SOA based Systems Integration Engagement at USDA Forest Services

-         $2M+ convergence & platform migration engagement at Marriott International

-         $500K+ User Provisioning and security architecture assessment at Federal Trade Commission

 

·       United States Forest Service: Led an SOA based solution for an emergency response management system, integrating with diverse devices like airplanes, helicopters, tankers, cell phones, PDAs etc, providing all business functions from procurement, scheduling, deployment, collections and personnel management.

 

 

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BearingPoint Inc. (KPMG Consulting) (Continued)

·       Marriott International: Migrated 25+ different hotel/resort sites to common technology and infrastructure providing business functionality for reservations, promotions, eMarketing, and mainframe integration.

·       Gaylord Entertainment: Led an IT audit, future state definition and gap analysis exercise of the enterprise IT systems, architecture, standards and processes of the acquired subsidiaries (ResortQuest International).

 

·       Various Clients: Architected and implemented enterprise systems for Fortune 500 clients across diverse industries. e.g.: Retail (Walmart), Government (LAPD, Federal Trade Commission); Finance and Insurance (New York Life, GE Capital, Bank of America); Publishing/Media (New York Times, Harry Fox Agency); Technology (Xircom, Intel); Internet (Epinions.Com); Construction (Arch Chemicals, Degussa, Master Builders)

 

Gupta Consulting, Freelance Consultant                                                                                     1993 – 2000

Computer hardware business and Software Architecture/development consulting to top software giants, ISPs, educational and government institutions like Learning Universe, Dimension India, Asia Cybernet, ERNET etc

 

PC World and Computer World, Columnist                                                                                 1993 – 2000

Columnist in two of the top computer magazines, writing regularly on current Internet and Technology trends.

 

Education

 

Masters in Computer Science (Spl: Distributed Systems Architecture & Software Engineering)

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA

Bachelors in Computer Science, University of Delhi, New Delhi , India

 

Awards

 

Earned “India’s best Computer Programmer” award for 3 consecutive years.

Won several State and National level computer programming and problem solving contests.

 

Business & People Skills

 

Business Development	Business Case Development, Proposal Response, Roadshows
Project Management	Scoping, Planning, Budgeting/Costing, Estimation, Resource & Time Management
Team/People Management	Conflict Resolution, Leadership, Motivation, Counseling, Goal Setting, Performance & Career Management

 

Technical Skills

 

Software Engineering	CMM, Design Patterns, UML, Rational Unified Process
Programming Skills	Java/J2EE, C/C++, Smalltalk, Pascal, Delphi, Cobol, Perl, Python, CORBA, IIOP
Application Servers / Portal / Content Management	Weblogic, IBM Websphere Commerce/Portal Suite, JBoss, Tomcat, Epicentric, Plumtree, Vignette, Documentum, Microsoft Sharepoint
Messaging / Integration	IBM MQ, Tibco, Vitria, Sonic, webMethods, Weblogic Integration, Mercator
Customer Management	Kana Contact Center, Siebel eBusiness
Business Process Mgmt	Websphere MQ Workflow, Lombardi, Savvion, SeeBeyond
User Provisioning/SSO	Netegrity Siteminder, Encentuate, Entrust, Active Directory, Sun One
Network Administration	VPN, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, Wireless: Architecture, Planning, Assessment
Network Security	Cryptography, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, Authentication, Firewalls
Devices	RFID, J2ME, PocketPC