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Education
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NOTABLE PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
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AMITABH JAIN

Pleasanton,CA

Summary

A well respected, highly qualified, and passionate software product engineering and management leader, adept at successfully introducing new technologies, assembling, and empowering high-performance teams, and guiding the release of new products under aggressive schedules. Possesses more than 15 years of progressively responsible experience, and a solid record of repeated success for companies including Apple Computers, HP, and multiple startups with innovative technology and ideas. Demonstrated expertise in managing multiple responsibilities, remote teams, projects, and products concurrently. Capable of resolving complex problems. Has excellent verbal and written communications abilities. Accomplished at cultivating and nurturing strategic and tactical relationships.

Senior executive leader with track record of driving strategic initiatives and delivering impactful results. Adept at fostering team collaboration and navigating complex organizational challenges. Skilled in strategic planning, financial management, and operations oversight. Valued for reliability, adaptability, and results-oriented approach.

Overview

16
years of professional experience
1
Certificate

Work History

BOARDWALKTECH, INC.

Senior Vice President, Engineering
08.2009 - Current

Job overview

  • Direct Product Engineering and Management, General, and IT/Cloud Operations. Within Product Engineering and Management, lead the organization and hold accountability for all Boardwalk products. Tasked with architecting, designing, and releasing Boardwalk Velocity, Boardwalk Sheets, Boardwalk Cloud for Excel, Boardwalk Design Framework, Integration Framework, C# client, JavaScript Web Grid Plugin, Workflow Engine, DevOps, QA Automation, and the migration to the Oracle platform.
  • Support IT/Cloud Operations by orchestrating all cloud infrastructure and SaaS operations to guarantee always on availability of the Boardwalk SaaS platform.
  • Partner with service providers and IT team to significantly lower cloud expenditures to reduce operational costs and improve margins.
  • Within General Operations, guide daily sales/account management operations; streamline processes; institute KPIs; and generate account health metrics and automated subscription renewal processes to foster upselling, improved customer relations, and timely renewal payments.
  • In the role of Senior Director of Engineering, work in conjunction with Product Engineering and Product management to set best practices and engineering processes to reorganize product stability, the release process, and cycle.
  • Launched a cultural change in the organization by conceptualizing and overseeing efforts to modernize software engineering, tools, technologies, and practices; significantly reduced release timings, and substantially improved quality standards/levels.
  • As the Director of Service Delivery, led the Services team, charged with managing the successful delivery of Boardwalk implementations for 15+ accounts in the technology, fashion, and CPG sectors.
  • Made significant contributions as a key member of the executive team and formulated organization policies and strategic plans for future growth.
  • Additional Experience: Senior Project Manager, Infogain Corp, Los Gatos, CA; CRM Consultant, Network Appliance, Sunnyvale, CA; Project/Release Manager, Vantive CRM, Sage Software, Troy, MI; Senior Developer, Acuity Financials, Sunnyvale, CA
  • Influenced organizational change initiatives that resulted in significant improvements in workplace efficiency and employee satisfaction.
  • Developed measurement tools, dashboards, and reports to track metrics on adoption and effectiveness of initiatives.
  • Led recruitment and development of strategic alliances to maximize utilization of existing talent and capabilities.

Education

Kanpur University

Master of Science from Mathematics

University Overview

HBTU

Master of Computer Application

University Overview

Kanpur University
Kanpur India

Bachelor of Science from Maths, Physics And Chemistry
05-1991

University Overview

Skills

  • Leadership & Team Building
  • Cross-Functional Collaborations
  • Cloud Computing
  • Banking/EUC Remediation
  • SOX
  • Budgeting and Planning
  • Program/Project Management
  • Product Roadmaps
  • DevOps
  • Governance/Compliance
  • SEI-CMM/SaaS/CRM
  • Agile/Scrum
  • Product Engineering
  • Enterprise Operations
  • ML/AI
  • GDPR CCPA
  • Startups
  • Resource Management
  • Strategic leadership
  • Policies and procedures
  • Operational excellence
  • KPI tracking
  • Organizational development
  • Process improvements
  • Operations management
  • Digital transformation
  • Recruiting and hiring
  • Budget preparation
  • Product management
  • IT management
  • Operational leadership
  • Procedure implementation
  • Project management
  • Program management
  • Executive leadership
  • Relationship and team building
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Client engagement
  • Revenue growth
  • Change management
  • Consulting
  • Budget planning
  • Management team leadership
  • Contract negotiation

Certification

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Scrum Fundamental Certified
  • Agile at Work
  • Big Data in the Age of AI
  • Microsoft Business CRM 3.0 Application Certification
  • Peoplesoft Tools and CRM Certification
  • Web System Architecture and Protocol, UCSC Extension University of California
  • SOX Assessment

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Hindi
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Senior Vice President, Engineering
BOARDWALKTECH, INC.
08.2009 - Current
HBTU
Master of Computer Application
Kanpur University
Master of Science from Mathematics
Kanpur University
Bachelor of Science from Maths, Physics And Chemistry

NOTABLE PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

NOTABLE PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS
  • Provided daily leadership and guidance to more than 40 engineers, leads, and managers.
  • Managed the Boardwalk Implementation Project that generated up to $1.5M in revenue.
  • Reduced services efforts and timelines for Boardwalk implementations by ~50% while reducing support cases by 60% through the release of the Boardwalk design framework (Universal Template) and Boardwalk integration framework (SuperMerge).
  • Executed DevOps and QA Automation that lowered product QA times by 75% and helped to release software faster with improved quality.
  • Released a new client that enhanced performance by up to eight times.
  • Produced a major initiative that re-architected the Boardwalk platform product, achieving five times gain in scalability.
  • Released Boardwalk Velocity, a low code platform specializing in EUC remediation for banking and finance industries. The platform is 10x faster for EUC remediation.
  • Consolidated resources and virtualization to reduce hosting expenditures by 40%.
AMITABH JAIN