Aug 2022 – Jul 2023 · 11 mos

• Leading the Global Software Engineering, Operational & Quality teams of a vertical called Lodging Ground & Sea (LGS). Lodging is a critical hotels inventory distribution system and business vertical for Sabre and growing at a great pace. Ground is the division handling rental Cars inventory distribution system and Rail invetory distributon system. Sea is the divison handling Cruise invetory distribution system right across Ocean and River cruises.
• In addition supporting the technology transformation efforts and partnership efforts with Google.
• The newest and greatest that we are crafting right now is Content Services for Lodging (CSL) - https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-celebrates-the-release-of-its-industry-first-lodging-innovation/
• https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-integrates-booking-com-listings-into-its-industry-first-content-services-for-lodging-platform/
• Product Links
• Lodging
• https://www.sabre.com/industries/lodging/
• https://www.sabre.com/products/sabre-content-services-for-lodging/
• Cars
• https://www.sabre.com/products/cars/
• Rail
• https://www.sabre.com/products/rail/
• Cruise
• https://www.sabre.com/products/cruise/

Jul 2021 – Jun 2022 · 11 mos

• Leading the Software Engineering, Operational & Quality teams of Lodging. Lodging is a critical system and business vertical for Sabre and growing at a great pace.
• In addition support the Order / PNR Technology Transformation effort for 2 key workstreams.
• I also lead the Agency and Airline Automation Portfolio for a globally distributed engineering organization.
• The newest and greatest that we are crafting right now is Content Services for Lodging (CSL) - https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-celebrates-the-release-of-its-industry-first-lodging-innovation/
• https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-integrates-booking-com-listings-into-its-industry-first-content-services-for-lodging-platform/

Mar 2021 – Jun 2021 · 3 mos

• Leading the Software Engineering, Operational & Quality teams of Lodging. Lodging is a critical system and business vertical for Sabre and growing at a great pace.
• In addition support the Order / PNR Technology Transformation effort for 2 key workstreams.
• The newest and greatest that we are crafting right now is Content Services for Lodging (CSL) - https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-celebrates-the-release-of-its-industry-first-lodging-innovation/
• https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-integrates-booking-com-listings-into-its-industry-first-content-services-for-lodging-platform/

Sep 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Leading the Software Engineering, Operational & Quality teams of Lodging. Lodging is a critical system and business vertical for Sabre and growing at a great pace.
• The newest and greatest that we are crafting right now is Content Services for Lodging (CSL) - https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-celebrates-the-release-of-its-industry-first-lodging-innovation/
• https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-integrates-booking-com-listings-into-its-industry-first-content-services-for-lodging-platform/

Oct 2017 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

• Managing the entire Lodging and Media Development organization catering to Agency facing Leisure segment, Hospitality Industry / Corporate facing Products.
• https://www.sabretravelnetwork.com/home/solutions/travel_supplier/hotel/
• Currently managing the development area for the entire Lodging and Media Suite of products. These are more than 25+ independent applications that run across a large variety of technologies.
• Support end to end ownership of product right from budgeting, requirements, market analysis, development, tech debt management, quality management, customer support, production support, dev-ops and datacentre deployments.
• Some of the products are called out here.
• http://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-celebrates-a-decade-of-growth-innovation-and-technology-in-india/
• Responsibilities include
• > Delivery of the product roadmap.
• > Creating and executing the technical roadmap.
• > Leading the development team.
• > Managing the customer care.
• > Working closely with Product marketing and Product management.
• > Managing operations of the product.
• > Managing budget of the product area.
• > Review and monitor monthly traffic.
• > Review and monitor monthly revenue and booking analytic's.
• > Reduce technical debt.
• > System Security and PCI Certification / Compliance.
• > Performance / Benchmark Testing
• > R&D of prototypes
• Global Team: Dallas, India, Supporting Fabric system teams based out of Krakow.

Oct 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr

• Managing the Hotels Development organization catering to Agency facing Leisure segment, Hospitality Industry / Corporate facing Product.
• https://www.sabretravelnetwork.com/home/solutions/travel_supplier/hotel/
• Currently managing the development area for the entire Hotels Suite of products. These are more than 10+ independent applications that run across a large variety of technologies.
• Support end to end ownership of product right from budgeting, requirements, market analysis, development, tech debt management, quality management, customer support, production support, dev-ops and data centre deployments.
• Some of the products are called out here.
• http://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-celebrates-a-decade-of-growth-innovation-and-technology-in-india/
• Responsibilities include
• > Delivery of the product roadmap.
• > Creating and executing the technical roadmap.
• > Leading the development team.
• > Managing the customer care.
• > Working closely with Product marketing and Product management.
• > Managing operations of the product.
• > Managing budget of the product area.
• > Review and monitor monthly traffic.
• > Review and monitor monthly revenue and booking analytic's.
• > Reduce technical debt.
• > System Security and PCI Certification / Compliance.
• > Performance / Benchmark Testing
• > R&D of prototypes
• Global Team: Dallas, India, Supporting Fabric system teams based out of Krakow.

Sep 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Managing multiple areas catering to Agency facing Leisure segment, Hospitality Industry / Corporates facing Product, Product catering to the Insurance domain.
• Currently managing the development area for the Cruises vertical, Insurance product suite and ancillary merchandising / Special Service Request Systems for Airlines and Hotel RFP product.
• Support end to end ownership of product right from budgeting, requirements, market analysis, development, tech debt management, quality management, customer support, production support, dev-ops and data centre deployments.
• Some of the products are called out here.
• http://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-celebrates-a-decade-of-growth-innovation-and-technology-in-india/
• Responsibilities include
• > Delivery of the product roadmap.
• > Creating and executing the technical roadmap.
• > Leading the development team.
• > Managing the customer care.
• > Working closely with Product marketing and Product management.
• > Managing operations of the product.
• > Managing budget of the product area.
• > Review and monitor monthly traffic.
• > Review and monitor monthly revenue and booking analytic's.
• > Reduce technical debt.
• > System Security and PCI Certification / Compliance.
• > Performance / Benchmark Testing
• > R&D of prototypes
• The product suite consists of 7 high availability customer systems and several analytical and caching engines in the back-end.
• Global Team: Dallas, India

Feb 2013 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Managing multiple areas catering to Agency facing Leisure segment, Hospitality Industry / Corporates facing Product, Product catering to the Insurance domain.
• Currently managing the development area for the Cruises vertical, Insurance product suite and ancillary merchandising / Special Service Request Systems for Airlines and Hotel RFP product.
• Support end to end ownership of product right from budgeting, requirements, market analysis, development, tech debt management, quality management, customer support, production support, dev-ops and data centre deployments.
• Responsibilities include
• > Delivery of the product roadmap.
• > Creating and executing the technical roadmap.
• > Leading the development team.
• > Managing the customer care.
• > Working closely with Product marketing and Product management.
• > Managing operations of the product.
• > Managing budget of the product area.
• > Review and monitor monthly traffic.
• > Review and monitor monthly revenue and booking analytic's.
• > Reduce technical debt.
• > System Security and PCI Certification / Compliance.
• > Performance / Benchmark Testing
• > R&D of prototypes
• The product suite consists of 7 high availability customer systems and several analytical and caching engines in the back-end.
• Global Team: Dallas, Krakow, India

Nov 2011 – Jan 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Currently managing the development area for the Cruises vertical.
• Responsibilities include
• > Delivery of the product roadmap.
• > Creating and executing the technical roadmap.
• > Leading the development team.
• > Managing the customer care.
• > Working closely with Product marketing and Product management.
• > Managing operations of the product.
• > Managing budget of the product area.
• > Review and monitor monthly traffic.
• > Review and monitor monthly revenue and booking analytic's.
• > Reduce technical debt.
• The product suite consists of three high availability customer systems and several analytical and caching engines in the back-end.
• Global Team: Dallas, Krakow, India

Jan 2011 – Nov 2011 · 10 mos

• Division: PSD - Product Services Division: The IT engine that moves the world, the core product development team of sabre.
• Product Development: working on a ingenious suite of in house products conceptualized, designed and developed out of the India development center.
• Industry Group: Travel Domain
• Time: Jan 2011 - Nov 2011
• Technologies, Frameworks and Tools: Java 6, Hibernate, Spring, iRise, Maven, Ant, JSF, Rich Faces, JQuery, JSP, HTML, CSS, VB, Jacob, QC, FitNesse, Version One, Jira, Eclipse Helios, My SQL, JS.
• Methodology: Agile Development.
• Team Size: 10(average)
• Global Team: Dallas, Krakow, India
• Additional Roles: Product Management, Product Planning, Product Adoption.

May 2010 – Jan 2011 · 8 mos

• Division: PSD - Product Services Division: The IT engine that moves the world, the core product development team of sabre.
• Product Development: working on a ingenious suite of in house products conceptualized, designed and developed out of the India development center.
• Industry Group: Travel Domain
• Time: May 2010 - Jan 2011
• Technologies, Frameworks and Tools: Java 6, Hibernate, Spring, iRise, Maven, Ant, JSF, Rich Faces, JQuery, JSP, HTML, CSS, VB, Jacob, QC, FitNesse, Version One, Jira, Eclipse Helios, My SQL, JS.
• Methodology: Agile Development.
• Team Size: 10(average)
• Global Team: Dallas, Krakow, India
• Additional Roles: Product Management, Product Planning, Product Adoption.

Jun 2009 – May 2010 · 11 mos

• Customer: World's leading specialist in air transport communication and IT solutions - SITA
• Project: A critical multi government security system related to the airline and travel domain and passenger security.
• Industry Group: Travel and Transport Group
• Time: June 2009 - May 2010
• Technologies: Spring (IoC, AOP, transactional support, JMS templates), Java 5, JMS, Jaxb, Xjc Hibernate, ant, AMQ Fuse distribution, xml, JPA (annotated domain objects), cron jobs, UNIX, loosely coupled architecture.
• Server, DB & Tools: Oracle 10g, Apache Derby, Eclipse, CVS, SVN, DB Visualizer, Apache MQ, IBM MQ, Enterprise architect, Findbugs.
• Team Size: 4(average) - 5(peak size)
• Additional Roles: Release management, knowledge management, QA promotion and testing, onsite coordinator (customer facing), work across different projects for different customers, configuration management, production support, Technical Interview Panel.
• Latest Activity - Worked on creating Knowledge Modules spread across Domain, Technology, Process, Customer and Tools. This is to enable effective and efficient knowledge transfer and lower ramp up period and lower gestation time for new members.

Jan 2009 – May 2009 · 4 mos

• Customer: World's leading specialist in air transport communication and IT solutions - SITA
• Project: A critical multi government security system related to the airline and travel domain and passenger security.
• Industry Group: Travel and Transport Group
• Time: January 2009 - May 2009
• Technologies: Spring (IoC, AOP, transactional support, JMS templates), Java 5, JMS, Jaxb, Xjc Hibernate, ant, AMQ Fuse distribution, xml, JPA (annotated domain objects), cron jobs, UNIX, loosely coupled architecture.
• Server, DB & Tools: Oracle 10g, Apache Derby, Eclipse, CVS, SVN, DB Visualizer, Apache MQ, IBM MQ, Enterprise architect.
• Team Size: 4(average) - 5(peak size)
• Additional Roles: Release management, knowledge management, QA promotion and testing, onsite coordinator (customer facing), work across different projects for different customers, joy manager.

Jan 2008 – Dec 2008 · 11 mos

• Customer: World's leading specialist in air transport communication and IT solutions - SITA
• Project: A critical multi government security system related to the airline and travel domain and passenger security.
• Industry Group: Travel and Transport Group
• Time: January 2008 - December 2008
• Technologies: Spring (IoC, AOP, transactional support, JMS templates), Java 5, JMS, Jaxb, Xjc Hibernate, ant, AMQ Fuse distribution, xml, JPA (annotated domain objects), cron jobs, UNIX, loosely coupled architecture.
• Server, DB & Tools: Oracle 10g, Apache Derby, Eclipse, CVS, SVN, DB Visualizer, Apache MQ, IBM MQ, Enterprise architect.
• Team Size: 4(average) - 8(peak size)
• Additional Roles: Analysis, Modelling / design, reverse engg, knowledge management, application manuals, onsite coordinator (customer facing), joy manager.

Nov 2007 – Dec 2007 · 1 mo

• Customer: World's leading specialist in air transport communication and IT solutions. - SITA
• Project: A critical POC to demonstrate latest trends in ESB and GUI.
• Industry Group: Travel and Transport Group
• Time: November 2007 - December 2007
• Technologies: JSF, Rich Faces, JMS, Spring, Hibernate, Java 5, MVC architecture, Javascript, CSS, log4j, Mule ESB, Web services, maven.
• Server, DB & Tools: JBOSS, MYSql, Eclipse, DB Visualizer, Win CVS.
• Team Size: 4(average) - 8(peak size)
• Additional Roles: Present details of latest technology and its benefits - comparative analysis.

Jan 2007 – Nov 2007 · 10 mos

• Customer: One of the World's busiest Port - Port Authority of Singapore.
• Project: A critical operator timesheet system(billing and wages), DB synchronization and reporting.
• Industry Group: Travel and Transport Group
• Time: January 2007 - November 2007
• Technologies: JPF(pageflowcontroller), JMS, Hibernate, Jasper, iBatis, SQL, Java 4, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol(LDAP), Weblogic DB Controls, MVC architecture, Javascript, CSS, NetUI taglibs, ant, xml
• Server, DB & Tools: Weblogic Server 8.1, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, Weblogic Studio, DB Visualizer, Toad, VSS, iReport, Rational rose,Apache Web Server / Router, Clustering applications, POC on clustering, Migration of application between weblogic servers.
• Team Size: 4(average) - 8(peak size)
• Additional Roles: Release management, Configuration manager, onsite production release support, warranty lead, team lead, customer SPOC, knowledge manager, Requirements, design and implementation of a clustering solution, Requirements, design and implementation of migrating the application from weblogic server 8.1 to 10, Joy Manager, chief editor of account magazine - Anchor, part of the APAC newsletter editor team and APAC joy planning group.

Jul 2006 – Dec 2006 · 5 mos

• Customer: One of the World's busiest Port - Port Authority of Singapore
• Project: A critical operator timesheet system(billing and wages), DB synchronization and reporting.
• Industry Group: Travel and Transport Group
• Time: May 2006 - December 2006
• Technologies: JPF(pageflowcontroller), JMS, Hibernate, Jasper, iBatis, SQL, Java 4, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol(LDAP), Weblogic DB Controls, MVC architecture, Javascript, CSS, NetUI taglibs, ant, xml
• Server, DB & Tools: Weblogic Server 8.1, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, Weblogic Studio, DB Visualizer, Toad, VSS, iReport, Rational rose.
• Team Size: 4(average) - 8(peak size)
• Additional Roles: Joy Manager, prototype, Analysis, Modelling / design (of several modules), HLD, LLD, production support, chief editor & designer of account magazine - Anchor.

Jul 2005 – Jul 2006 · 1 yr

• Customer: A global leader in Manufacturing - Dubai Aluminium
• Project: A complete CRM solution with shipping and pricing modules.
• Industry Group: Manufacturing Group
• Time: September 2005 - April 2006
• Technologies: Struts, Tiles, Hibernate, JBPM, Quartz, EJB, Java 4, MVC architecture, Javascript, CSS, log4j, ant, xml.
• Server, DB & Tools: Websphere Server 5, IBM DB2, Websphere Application Development (WSAD), DB Visualizer, Win CVS.
• Team Size: 25(average) - 51 (peak size)
• Additional Role: Joy Manager.