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E-commerce, Product Management, Program Management, Vendor Management

Co-Founder | Chief Architect at One Connect Solutions

• Location: Greater Seattle Area
• Duration: 2015-11 to Present
• Description: OCS co-founder Vijay Arora is solving a problem that advancement and fundraising professionals experience—connecting with the ideal donors and prospects every time. OCS's flagship offering is Michelangelo Pro--an award-winning cloud-based technology platform that enhances fundraising capabilities by providing smart data on-demand and list generation services. • Chief architect and developer of Michelangelo Pro--a cloud based big data solution built on top of elastic search. • Providing list generation & data exploration services to Higher-Education, Foundations and Non-profit organizations • Developing SAAS and PAAS offerings for data search, query, segmentation with governance and custom dashboards along with Geo-data, time series and graph relationships. • Onboarding and supporting 10+ organizations with hundreds of users. • Driving flagship software product from concept through design, shaping direction and managing delivery. • Empowering customers to better understand complex data and extract meaningful information to increase business efficiency.

Lead Technology Architect at University of Washington

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• Duration: 2012-05 to 2015-09
• Description: Principal architect of https://www.myreportlist.com/ Michelangelo (Patented Technology) is an intuitive, efficient solution for accessing data. Designed and developed a cloud base data platform, which is currently being used by multiple higher ed schools through out the nation. • Served as lead architect for Michelangelo. Michelangelo is UW initiative along with other higher education partners to create a cloud-based data platform. • Built next generation of Data Gallery and List Generation using NodeJS, AngularJS, MongoDB and Elastic Search. • Designed multiple identity provider single sign with Shibboleth, SAML and O Auth. • Designed and developed in memory objects to hold large volume of data. • Evaluated and compared various cloud offerings from AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. • Evaluated Big Data Solutions using Hadoop HBase, Map Reduce, Elastic Search and Mongo DB.

Senior Director at VanceInfo

• Location: Bellevue, wa
• Duration: 2011-09 to 2012-04
• Description: Strategic Consulting, Business Planning & Technical Pre- sales Development • Accelerated the company’s strategy and investments in latest technologies (e.g. cloud computing and devices.) • Hired and managed globally diverse delivery teams. • Coached engineering teams to achieve excellence and high performance. • Initiated and developed various in-house training programs to enable timely and cost-effective delivery. • Lead architect for various enterprise solutions primarily using Microsoft Technologies and offerings. • Provided proposals and solutions to various Microsoft RFPs.

Principal Architect | Principal Dev Lead | Manager | Mentor at Microsoft

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• Duration: 2008-03 to 2011-10
• Description: Lead Microsoft BIE platforms in developing enterprise Business Intelligence solutions to be used in Microsoft Corporation Worldwide. Early adopter of emerging technologies, Data Science, Cloud Computing, AI, ML. • Lead Microsoft BIE platforms in developing enterprise Business Intelligence solutions to be used in Microsoft Corporation Worldwide. • Budget Forecasting and Execution. • Architecture, design and development of Enterprise BI Mobile platform using Windows phone 7 and cloud services. • Initiated and drove Private Cloud to manage and distribute data in an enterprise. • Lead and managed development teams responsible for development of all Microsoft BI engineering platforms • Coached and Mentored team of developers to grow and succeed • Architectural guidance to multiple Microsoft product teams like Windows Azure (Cloud Computing), SQL Server, SharePoint and Office. • Worked with multiple product teams to provide innovative solutions on Windows Azure, SQL 11, Windows 8 and other next generation Microsoft Products. • Enabled discovery and consumption of large enterprise data sets within in Microsoft worldwide. • Collaborated with Microsoft Corporation Security on providing ADFS 2.0 security for various cloud and mobile deployments. • Worked on enterprise solutions using C#, Windows Phone 7, Silverlight, Windows Azure, WCF and WPF.

CTO, EVP Strategic solutions at Minecode

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• Duration: 2006-01 to 2008-02
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