Prakash K Sinha's Resume

Prakash K Sinha
Buffalo, NY 14501 US	prakashksinha.com/rants-thoughts

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

10+ years of experience in designing, developing and deploying high trafficked media sites. Proven leadership abilities to manage diversified portfolio of budgets, sites, talents and skills.

Speciality:
Technical Leadership, Application/Database Architect, Project Management, Product Development, Business Process Improvement, Agile Development, Algorithmic Data Retrievals, Cloud Computing Services, Content Management System and Community Platform.

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

Leadership

Leading technical team of architects, engineers and project managers.

Product and process innovation to increase productivity.

Identify work-flow and services pitfall to streamline productivity.

Simplifying solutions to a complex problem thus impacting the bottom line.

Charter standards and guidelines for best practices to homogenize diversified solutions.

Technical

Designing and implementing application architecture to scale high traffic sites.

Database designing and modeling to scale high writes and reads.

Application development using LAMP, MemCacheD, Semantic Web Technologies.

Site search using SOLR and Lucene.

Providing SaaS using XML/HTTP and SOA.

Systems visibility and data analytic to provide transparency and construct strategy.

Cloud computing using SaaS, PaaS and WOA.

Algorithmic data retrieval and heat map.

WORK EXPERIENCE
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April 2008 - Present Technical Director (Global Publishing)	AOL LLC	Dulles, VA
Led diversified team of technologists and project managers for Women&Lifestyle digital media business unit and Platform Publishing systems. Directly managed 3 Tech Managers, 3 Tech Project Manager and Principal Engineers. Responsibilities Included Working with business GMs to layout product strategy and identify potential acquisitions. Technical due diligence on possible acquisition candidates to suggest build vs buy. Technical management of engineering staff to design, develop and deploy multiple high trafficked web sites. Layout mission, goals and objectives for engineering staff to improve performance and productivity. Product and Technology innovation by competitive analysis of feature sets, flexibility and controls. Key Accomplishments High performance team resulted in bringing positive impact on ROI. Chartered process improvements resulted in streamlining productivity and increased revenue. Open door policy resulted in team reach and establish confidence in the team. Sponsored innovation and progressive thinking resulted in competitive products. Acquired Skills Managing through systems. Broadening leadership abilities. Providing systems visibility and data analytic. -
October 2007 - March 2008 Tech Manager		Dulles, VA
Led a team of engineers to meet dynamic needs of Women&Lifestyle digital media business unit. Directly managed staff of 10 engineers. Responsibilities Included Working with product owners and project managers on executing application development & deployment. Laying out application architecture to scale high trafficked sites. Mentor staff of engineers to stay competitive to the market by acquiring relevant skills. Evangelize standards and best practices to increase productivity. Key Accomplishments High performance team resulted in bringing positive impact on ROI. Established quicker and faster feedback loop which resulted in progressive experience. Developed publishing tools to monetize on SEO and contextual advertisement. Acquired Skills Leadership and Architectural skills. New technologies to support scalability. Cross divisional outreach for promotion. -
April 2007 - October 2007 Assoc. Tech Manager		Dulles, VA
Maturity from an individual contributor to management. Managed a team of 5 engineers. Responsibilities Included Working with supervisor, product owners and project managers on executing application development & deployment. Software development and release estimation to set GM release expectation. Mentor staff of engineers to stay competitive to the market by acquiring relevant skills. Work with system architects and administrators to lay application foundation. Key Accomplishments On time delivery of projects. High quality deliveries. Automation of repeated processes. Acquired Skills Leadership and Architectural skills. People management. Analysis and design to improve processes. -
April 2004 - April 2007 Sr. Software Engineer		Dulles, VA
Delivered high quality products with aggressive deadlines. Laid standards and guidelines for development best practices. Automated repeatable processes to increase productivity. Mentored junior staffs to further their career. Established configuration management protocols to facilitate tracking of release candidates. -
April 2004 - April 2002 Software Engineer		Dulles, VA
Worked on creating CMS to support following online media sites AOL Sports, News, Money & Finance, Horoscopes. Used extensively semantic web technologies, TCL, AOL Server, distributed caching, Sybase. -
October 2001 - April 2002 Software Engineer Consultant		Dulles, VA
Worked on online experience of Yellowpages using TCL and combination of proprietary/open sourced AOL Server Technologies along with IBM's DB2 database server. -
January 2000 - September 2001 Software Engineer Consultant	Mapquest	Lancaster, PA
Online mapping application to provide personalized driving direction and pois. Extensive work on Microsoft Personalization server, IIS Web Server, SQL Server 2000 and LDAP. -
January 1998 - March 1999 Assoc. Software Engineer	NIIT Inc	India
Early years experience in enterprise world. Provided Y2K solution to Holland Insurance Co using Pro C and PL/SQL on Oracle 8. E-Commerce application development using Microsoft Commerce server, IIS Web Server, SQL Server and LDAP. -

AWARDS AND HONORS

At AOL

2005 Leadership of the year (Publishing) award winner.

2006 Quality, Dependability and Integrity award winner

2 years consecutive Top Performer

CERTIFICATIONS

MCSD (Database/SQL Server 2000)

Leader Others

Leading Leaders

Deliver Great Presentation

Managing Employees Globally