Ashish Thakkar

• Built and scaled the global OCI and Admin practice to approximately 200 practitioners; owned end-to-end P&L with KPI cadence on growth, utilization, margin, attach/renewals, and hiring/attrition.
• Launched and monetized OCI offerings: application/data modernization, Exadata and Autonomous Database platforms, cloud-native build, and Operate services with outcome-based SLAs. Build and launch campaigns along with the Marketing team for various cloud solutions, such as the migration of the ERP platform to OCI — Journey to Cloud, database services — DB@Azure Factory Model Creation, Oracle application and data security, and GCC Creation for a Japanese corporation.
• Instituted a presales architecture desk, increasing win rates and compressing solution cycles; integrated FinOps into offers to improve commercial performance and client value realization. Technical presales and proposal defense for customers across the US, Europe, APAC, and SA regions.
• Established standardized delivery: reference architectures, compliance-by-design guardrails, Terraform/IaC baselines, SRE operating model, and automated QA gates to reduce delivery variance, and accelerate time-to-value.
• Built a repeatable 'strategy-to-run' operating model, connecting business cases to architectures and execution, improving CSAT, and enabling scale across multiple projects. Building solutions and accelerators for migrating applications and database workloads to various cloud platforms, like OCI, AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Hired and mentored a global bench, including N-1 leadership; established a certification factory and solution guilds to drive skill depth, code reuse, and accelerator velocity. Manage the upskilling program for the team members on next-generation technologies, like Cloud, AI, DevOps/Automation, and security.
• Worked toward building strong partner and customer engagements to grow the business in different geographical areas. Establish a vendor selection process utilizing POC (Proof of Concept) testing, vendor negotiations, and technology product selection.
• Deep, hands-on expertise in cloud architectures (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, distributed systems), and approaches to address their unique management and security considerations.
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
• Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement.

The Airport Sort Allocation Controller for Crisplant A/S, is the highest level of control in the BHS and is responsible for communication with airport host systems (CUTE/DCS, FIS/FIDS/AODB, BRS, etc.), departure sort planning, management of early baggage storage, and controlling of the baggage handling system. This product is also customized based on requirements for individual projects.

I have been part of software development for high-level control (PC client/server architecture, Java-based) at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, China, from design to handover. I have also worked in the core product initially and on some other projects during the requirement phase in Bangkok, Doha, and CPH.

The technology involved Java, Design patterns, XML, Swing, Fitnesse, Junit, Hudson, Ant

• Established an extended development center for Crisplant A/S Denmark, being the first developer and created a team of 10 members in 1 year
• Estimation, design, and development of high-level PC control applications.
• Defining test specifications and conducting automated tests.
• Mentored junior developers through regular 1-on-1 meetings, providing guidance on best practices, coding standards, and career growth opportunities.
• Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
• Implemented continuous integration and deployment strategies for faster release cycles and improved application reliability.
• Maintained close communication with clients throughout project life cycles for accurate progress reporting and prompt issue resolution.

1. Project Details: (July 2008 – September 2011)

Project Name: Consumer Web Portal (www.sonyericsson.com).

Employer: Cybercom Datamatics Information Solutions.

Client: Sony Ericsson

Team size: 7.

Description:

CWS is the consumer web portal from which users get all the relevant information regarding Sony Ericsson. This portal also contains an update service and many other downloads to keep the customer's phone updated with the latest technology.

Responsibilities:

• Playing the role of a software developer.
• Involved in change requests and enhancements.
• Coordinating with the teams involved in the project to sort out the technical issues.
• Working alongside Akamai professional services to rectify the production issues.
• Creating model classes to integrate with the Polopoly CMS.
• Writing the business logic classes.
• Working on the user stories created by clients and stakeholders.
• Adopting Agile and Scrum methodologies (currently acting as a Scrum Master for my team).
• Environment: J2EE, Servlet, XML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Velocity, Ajax, JSON.

2. Project Details: (July 2007 – June 2008)

Project Name: Music Services.

Employer: Cybercom Datamatics Information Solutions.

Client: Sony Ericsson

Team Size: 3.

Description:

PlayNow is an e-trade application that is designed to provide mobile media content, such as ringtones, mobile games, and full-length music, as easily as possible to mobile clients. PlayNow only targets mobile customers and has utilized SMS payments as its primary payment method.

TrackID is a web service that takes an HTTP POST request from a client and returns a reply in XHTML. TrackID also supports text searches done from the client.

TrackID also has an interface for third-party text searches. This interface takes an HTTP POST request and returns an XML response.

Responsibilities:

• Playing the role of a technical support.
• Involved in change requests and enhancements.
• Coordinating with the teams involved in the project to sort out the technical issues.
• Working with Akamai professional services to rectify the production issues.
• Environment: J2EE, Spring, Servlet, Velocity, XML, HTML, JavaScript, UNIX.