BHARATH REDDY KUNDOOR
Technologist
San Francisco,CA
Summary
A 20-year technology veteran with software and hardware experience. A methodical and customer- focused product manager who employs qualitative and quantitative research, analytics, and market trends to identify customer needs. Able to manage high-value technical projects and collaborate with cross- functional teams to build successful products. Effective communicator and active listener who can simplify complex concepts to an audience-appropriate level and builds long-lasting relationships with customers and coworkers. An honest, dependable, flexible, creative, and persistent individual with a strong desire to learn.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Consulting Architect
Self Employed Contractor
San Francisco, CA
08.2020 - Current
- Work as an independent technology consultant and architect in the areas of Oracle Fusion Middleware,
- Oracle Databases, Oracle Cloud, and Oracle Engineered Systems for a variety of clients in the telecommunications, finance, and e-commerce industries
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to better understand business initiatives and create roadmaps that drive the architectural design of global, multi-site enterprise solutions in the private cloud and hybrid cloud space
- Oversaw the implementation and optimization of Oracle solutions architecture for a Telco client, resulting in a 2x performance increase for their customer service application
- Collaborated with a Financial Services client's DevOps team to implement, automate, and enforce Oracle lifecycle best practices, resulting in a 2x performance gain while meeting their SLA of 99.9% availability
- Served as a technical resource and enabler for Oracle Cloud products, such as platform as a service(Paas), infrastructure as a service (Iaas), and software as a service (SaaS), at various clients
- Worked closely with business continuity teams and key stakeholders to design, develop, implement, and automate business continuity solutions
- The automation of key business continuity processes resulted in cost savings and a 99.99% availability that exceeded SLA levels
- Communicated weekly on progress on various projects with critical stakeholders in upper management
- Designed and delivered customized hands-on training sessions to foster the development of in-house subject matter experts.
Senior Product Manager
Oracle America Inc
Redwood Shores, CA
11.2012 - 08.2017
- Senior Product Manager in charge of lifecycle management, the platform, best practices, and customer success program.
- Collaborated with several cross-functional teams to create a live demonstration of Oracle Exalogic for the CEO's keynote speech at Oracle Open World
- Collaborated cross-functionally with architects, engineering, and sales teams to identify and deliver new product functionality while enhancing existing features
- Developed and executed a detailed roadmap for lifecycle management and the Exalogic platform using agile methodology
- Collaborated with architects, design, and engineering teams on product iterations and used data from beta testing, user input, and data analytics to drive product improvements
- Defined and led the automation of critical lifecycle processes, as well as developed and disseminate best practices for life cycle management. The automation of essential lifecycle operations resulted in a 3x reduction of maintenance windows.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with pre-sales, support, and development teams to create ExaChk, a proactive health check tool for auditing and validating the Exalogic platform's configuration. In the first quarter after its release, this tool reduced support tickets by 10x
- Authored several Oracle Exalogic best practice whitepapers on lifecycle management, business continuity, and DevOps
- Designed and delivered hands-on Oracle Exalogic training to both internal teams and external clients and was a significant contributor to the design and development of the Oracle Exalogic Certification Program
- Collaborated with strategic partners to establish/expand Oracle Engineered Systems Centers of Excellence to include Oracle Exalogic in their offering
- Managed numerous key clients to achieve a successful "Go-Live" deployment, resulting in several clients becoming references.
- Contributed to the retention of several high-profile Oracle Exalogic customers, resulting in several million dollars of new sales and support revenue for Oracle.
- Oversaw internal product team employees and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners.
Consulting Member of Technical Staff
Oracle America Inc
Redwood Shores, CA
11.2006 - 11.2012
- Worked with Oracle's largest Exalogic and Exadata customer to design and implement their migration to Oracle Engineered Systems
- 3 Developed and drove Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) best practices for the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Machine
- Collaborated with several cross-functional teams to run proof of concept and proof of value projects to drive sales for Oracle Engineered Systems
- Author of several MAA best practice whitepapers on Oracle Engineered Systems
- Defined and developed the Oracle Enterprise Deployment Guide for Identity Management, resulting in significantly lower implementation times for customers.
- Created the Oracle Fusion Middleware Disaster Recovery Guide with reference architectures for all FMW product suites based on Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture best practices.
- Conceived, defined, and developed the automation to set up disaster recovery sites and site operations, which resulted in a 3x reduction of time during setup and site operations.
- Developed business continuity and disaster recovery checklists and SOP guides to significantly simplify site setup and operations.
- Author of several MAA white papers on Oracle Fusion Middleware best practices.
Senior Principal Consultant
Oracle America Inc
Minneapolis, Minn
05.2005 - 11.2006
- Worked with customers to design and implement large-scale, highly available architectures using
- Oracle's Fusion Middleware Technology Stack
- Worked on consulting engagements with key customers like Edmunds.com, Social Security
- Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, British Telecom, State of Texas, Atmos Energy, Stanford
- University, General Electric, and Deutsch Bank.
Senior Consultant
Rapid Application Deployment
Minneapolis, MN
12.2004 - 05.2005
Lead Developer and Project Manager
Metris Companies
Minne, Minn
05.2000 - 12.2004
Education
Master of Science - Computer Engineering & Computer Science
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 08.1998 - 01.2000
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering
Kakatiya Institute of Technology &Sciences
Warangal, Telangana, India 04.1994 - 06.1998
Skills
Systems Engineering
Project Management
Product development
Client communication
Research and trend analysis
Technical Analysis
Software Architecture
Virtualization
Agile
Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Databases, Oracle Engineered Systems
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Linux
DevOps
Kubernetes
Cloud Computing
Timeline
Consulting Architect
Self Employed Contractor
08.2020 - Current
Senior Product Manager
Oracle America Inc
11.2012 - 08.2017
Consulting Member of Technical Staff
Oracle America Inc
11.2006 - 11.2012
Senior Principal Consultant
Oracle America Inc
05.2005 - 11.2006
Senior Consultant
Rapid Application Deployment
12.2004 - 05.2005
Lead Developer and Project Manager
Metris Companies
05.2000 - 12.2004
Master of Science - Computer Engineering & Computer Science
Wayne State University
08.1998 - 01.2000
Bachelor of Technology - Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering
Kakatiya Institute of Technology &Sciences
04.1994 - 06.1998