Ajay Bhargava Career Highlights

Ajay Bhargava

Seeking a senior, hands-on role in product management, consulting, or R&D in an established company or a startup, in software products or IT business. Possess broad, largely US-based, experience with software industry in consulting, product development, and R&D. Willing to relocate internationally.

Career Highlights

· 16 years of technical, hands-on experience in the software industry (including 7 years of managing/leading software projects), relating to business intelligence, data warehousing, and database technologies.

· As Adjunct Assistant Professor, taught Database Design course at University of Texas (fall’01 – spring’05).

· Extensive Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence project implementations using Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MicroStrategy (Desktop, Narrowcast Server, and Web) v7.x/v6.x/v5.x tools, and ERWin.

· Architected and implemented business intelligence initiatives for following customers in USA and Canada:

Industry | Year | Customer
Retail | 2004, 2005 | Hudson’s Bay Company, ToysRUs, Roundy’s, Best Buy
Network Management | 2003 | NetSolve
Telecommunications | 2003 | AT&T Wireless
Retail | 2001, 2002 | Lowe’s
Retail | 1998, 1999, 2000 | Sears, JC Penney, Target, Best Buy, Walgreen’s, Eckerd’s, Rite Aid, Lowe’s, Hudson’s Bay Company

· 16 years of expertise in SQL, database design (conceptual, logical, and physical), and data modeling (dimensional and corporate schemas) using ERWin.

· At Best Buy (05), optimized Teradata environment, resulting in savings of over 750,000$ in couple of months.

· As Principal Consultant at Net Perceptions, lead a team to implement Ad Advisor product at Lowe’s using Teradata as the Warehouse DBMS, and MicroStrategy v7.x DSS Suite for reporting and analysis. Managed the project using MS-Project project plan, estimated the hours needed for preparing the statement of work, based on system development life cycle steps of Detailed Design, Prototyping, Testing, Implementation, and Production. Designed and developed all data models, ensuring they meet the business requirements as well as support quick and efficient ETL and BI development. (02)

· Migrated MicroStrategy project v6.x metadata to v7.x for Net Perceptions retail discovery suite. (02)

· Taught a 1-week internal class on “MicroStrategy v7.x Reporting and Analysis”. (01)

· Roadmap planning and full-lifecycle software implementations within budget and time.

· Management of risks / issues / action items and deliverables / documents / milestones using MS Project and presentation of recommendations / results / status to executive management.

· At Net Perceptions (99), created the “Business Applications Team” responsible for delivering industry’s leading promotional planning and measurement solution (Advertising Advisor product) at the item, department, store, and chain levels, using ROLAP techniques. Based on results to date, several major retailers are estimating that Advertising Advisor will generate $60-100 million in new revenue dollars.

· Created the “Internet Services Department” at Wavefly, responsible for eCommerce, eContent subscriptions, personalization, advertising, and mining services and developed a recurring revenue business model.

· As part of the design team, delivered the most successful product release (generating $10 million in sales in first 3 months) at BMC Software.

· Spent 3 years developing internals of SQL engine using object oriented analysis and design, and C++.

· Chief Architect for Novell in standard committees such as SQL Access Group, ODBC, and IDAPI.

· Presented in various technical conferences, seminars, and classes.

· Engineering education (MS-Aero Engg, UTA; MS-Computer Sc, UTA; BTech-Aero Engg, IIT Mumbai).

· Excellent written and verbal communications.

· Willing to relocate.

Resume: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ajay/cv/ajay_bhargava_res.html