
Amit A. Sathe
Experienced Software Engineering Management Professional
Summary
Core Competencies
- Process Productivity improvements
- Visionary web technology leader
- Program management
- Enterprise Agile Coach
- Engineering, architecture and design solutions
- Technology Strategy, Direction and Roadmap
- Team development and leadership
- Customer, Team and Vendor relationship
Skills and Abilities
Management leadership:
Years of working in software engineering has given me excellent interpersonal, management and leadership skills. I am able to take responsibility to lead a wide range of projects with full accountability. I have demonstrated the ability to lead diverse teams of professionals to new levels of success in a highly competitive fast-paced environments. Strong technical and business qualifications with an impressive track record of more than 20 years of hands-on experience in operational planning, business unit development, project and product development, and software engineering strategies. Proven ability to successfully analyze an organization's critical business requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for enhancing competitiveness, increasing revenues, and improving customer service offerings.
Technical skills:
O. S.: AIX-UNIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, and WINDOWS Family
Languages: Java 1.X, UNIX Korn Shell, AWK, C
Web Technology: J2EE1.X, Struts, HTML, Tiles, JQuery, XML, Spring, FreeMarker, Angular Bootstrap
Application Servers: IBM WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat
Middleware: EJB, MQSeries 5.X, and JMS.
Database: DB2 7.X/8.X, Oracle 7.x, Informix.
P.M. Tools: Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel.
CASE Tools: IBM Rational, Microsoft Visio.
Methodology: Agile Scrum, Waterfall.
Tools and Utilities: ANT, RAD, WSAD, AST, MS-Office, Rational CC, SVN, CVS.
Domain Knowledge: Payments, Cash Management, Consumer Banking, Supply Chain.
Experience
Senior Manager, US Implementation
Finastra / Atlanta
Accountable for all customer implementations and integration for U.S., Canada and Latin America customers for Finastra's cash management SaaS product collaborating with partners in Program Management, Delivery and RD using standardized customer implementation methodology.
- Defined global implementation methodology for Americas region and ensure that key processes and interfaces are uniformly architected, defined, implemented to create standard blueprint of implementation.
- Drive cross-functional alignment of objectives and deliverables between onsite-offshore model resulting in 30% productivity gain within 2 quarters.
- Liaised with Product Management development teams for company's flagship SaaS solution offering in alignment with business objectives to roll out Azure cloud based implementations.
- Implemented Dev-Ops tools strategies in various customer implementation on Azure resulting in 10% gain in implementation timelines.
- Managed team spread globally in US India.
Senior Manager, Software Engineering
ACI Worldwide / Atlanta
Accountable for development of ACI's Universal Online Banker and Online banking product solutions. Led the software engineering responsibilities ensuring maximum throughput from given resources in a metric organization structure. Directed highly experienced architects engineers responsible for design of Framework, a set of reusable AJAX-based user interface components and design guidelines.
- Played lead role in establishing UOB product as ACI's online strategic product as a SaaS offering in ACI DataCenter.
- Transformed Legacy Product to Angular-BootStrap UI with Rest MicroServices using SOA architecture.
- Managed team of 30+ engineers and Architects spread globally in US, Europe India.
- Streamlined internal and external processes, improving efficiencies between engineers, product management quality assurance teams resulting in 20% productivity gain.
- Fostered culture of innovation by leading product and technology innovation JAMs.
- Established software development, release management, monitoring, and escalation procedures.
- Implemented metrics driven culture within the team.
- Responsible for all aspects of resource management, including, but not limited to, technical talent acquisition, resource planning, allocation, mid-year and yearly performance evaluation, mentoring/coaching etc.
- Leading the transformation of professional services in adopting agile deliveries.
Senior Manager, Product Development
S1 Corporation / Atlanta
Accountable for development of S1's cash management and Online banking product platform.
- Effectively implemented agile development practices in the product development teams.
- Managed lead team of 20+ engineers, QA, DBAs SCMs across 4 global locations.
- Successfully implemented S1's online banking solution to various fortune 100 financial institutions.
- Architected and Established guidelines for developing extensions to cash management and online banking product.
- Actively planning all product releases and executes them against GA criteria.
- Impart functional knowledge and technical guidance to the various teams in engineering
- Worked as pre-sales consultant for online banking products.
- Developing technical debt in the product and creating approaches for reduction of the same.
- Participate in executive management review, provide status reports to appropriate stakeholders and plan/implement future actions
- Responsible for schedule and effort tracking for release, generating various metrics.
- Progressive career starting with team lead through managing the entire product development team.
Team Lead
IBM / Pune
The overall responsibilities includes execution and delivery of assigned projects for Amex and maintain highest level of customer satisfaction on quality productivity.
- Provided technical guidance to the team and review of releases/deliverables to ensure on time releases of all deliverables with proper quality.
- Developed SOA based application designs and abstracted database design from the main application.
- Designing production support scripts and java application using various design patterns; so as to automate production support and thus provide current health status of the application.
- Refactoring of existing code to increase cohesion between different modules.
Senior Engineer
IBM / Colchester
Accountable for product development for IBM's microelectronics division in supply chain domain.
- Requirement Analysis and product design working with end users.
- Hands on coding, review and testing and product support and maintenance.
- Introduced ANT based compilation and deployment of Java classes resulting in faster deployment.
- Implemented flexible modules for plant specific installation/requirements making application generic enough to cater various requirements.
- Implemented interfaces in MQSeries with Mainframe legacy systems, IBM blue pages and SAP using RFC calls.
Senior Engineer
Satyam / Pune
Accountable for providing end to end solutions for various clients such as Ford Motors, Sharp, TelCase.
- Onsite coordinator with client (Ford Motors) communicating requirements with offshore team.
- Client requirement Analysis and detailed design of the billing modules.
- Hands on development, code review and unit testing using J2EE technologies.
Education
College of Engineering, Pune University
Bachelor of Engineering, Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering from College of Engineering, Pune University, India.