RAHUL ARORA

Ph: 408-836-5393 : Email: ra5c6f36@westpost.net

SUMMARY:
* Over 10 years of leadership in IT industry with experience in Technology and P
roduct Management.
* Demonstrated ability to balance product scope, time, cost, quality, resource a
nd risk to produce results.
* Strong knowledge of current software technologies, background in consulting se
rvices delivering multi- million dollar solutions. Extensive hands-on experience
across all phases of SDLC.
* Recruited and built teams with diverse skills. Directly managed teams in local
and remote locations.
* Extensive experience working with diverse group of stakeholders including CEO,
CIO, CTO and VP's. Hands on development experience with leading technologies.
* MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and MS in Computers from University of Mis
souri, Columbia.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
YapLoud Inc 07/07 - 11/09
Founder / Principal
Summary: Rolled out multiple versions of real time social communications softwar
e. Partnered with leading international companies like Ning, Zee, Sify, hindusta
ntimes.com and Dogtime Media.
* Identified achievable, focused product initiative in social networking - socia
l communications domain.
* Launched functional product on time with limited resources. Exceeded stakehold
er expectations .
* Developed sales collateral, customer centered "story based" scenarios and mark
eting strategies.
* Conducted competitive analysis in social networking and social communications
space. Managed product scope based on market requirements, industry trends and e
xternal factors.
* Managed a team of 8 engineers and testers in local / remote locations. Hands o
n with engineering team.
* Technology: Agile, SaaS, Open Social, PhP, MySql, Facebook connect, SOA, XML,
Javascript, HTML.
Carnegie Mellon University, West Campus
Faculty, M.S Software Management 01/04 - 07/07
Summary: Led cross-functional teams from multiple companies with diverse technic
al backgrounds and requirements. Responsible for consensus building, product man
agement and mentoring throughout SDLC.
* Led strategic vision and tactical implementation for all products, balancing
innovation and consistency. Identified result focused metrics and established co
mmunication plans for all stakeholders.
* Responsible for overall performance of assigned programs, coordinated proposal
presentation, draft statement of work and specifications, track estimates and m
anage risk.
* Used various frameworks on different projects that included RUP, XP, Scrum, Ag
ile and Waterfall.
* Responsible for providing direction, supervision, and guidance to technical en
gineers and founders.
* Technology: Agile, Java, RoR, PhP, MySql, SOA, XML, Javascript, HTML.
Business Objects Inc
Sr Engineer 3/02 - 1/04
Summary: Built an internationalization framework for local application and led i
nitiative to improve client side performance by more than 20%.
* Led the design and implementation of caching mechanism on client side which re
sulted in > 20% increase in performance of an enterprise product with revenues
> $20 Million per year.
* Led a virtual team that designed and developed an Internationalization framewo
rk for French, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Italian language support. This fra
mework was used for suite of products with revenue > $100Million per year.
* Conducted server side development using Business Objects API's, Java, JDBC, XM
L and client side development using JSP, JavaScript and HTML.
* Created the product installer using Install Shield 7.03, Windows Installer, XM
L, and perl scripts. The installer reduced install time by 30%.
* Technology: Java, XML, Business Objects API, Javascript, HTML, Install shield,
Windows installer, ClearCase.
Gatespace Inc, 2/01 - 2/02
Sr Engineer / Product Manager
Summary: Provided technical solutions to clients. Led development of web based a
pplication for residential complex builders to distributed services like music,
video and security to residents.
* Led technical discussions during sales calls, responded to customer queries an
d recommended solutions resulting in customer acquisition.
* Architected and developed a web based application for services in residential
complex, resulting in 30% cost savings for residents.
* Researched different vertical markets like Telemetric (Company names: Acunia,
HP), Industrial (Gaming Federation) and Telco's (Motorola) for distribution of
GDSP (Gatespace distributed Services Platform) toolkit.
* Technology: Java, JDBC, XML, Javascript, HTML.
MarchFirst, Inc 5/99- 2/01
Sr Engineer / Product Manager
Summary: Led team of engineers to multi million dollar content management applic
ation for esmas.com and thomaskinkade.com.
* Led a cross functional team of engineers and developed a competitive technical
approach to win and successfully implement projects in the mid cap market ($500
K-$2M). This approach saved the company $50,000 / year.
* Designed project requirements and implementation strategies for a content mana
gement system as part of a $20 million web portal project. This system reduced r
ate of errors from 30% to 5%.
* Technology: Java, Servlets, BEA Weblogic, Bradvision, IBM Websphere, JDBC, XML
, Javascript, CSS, HTML.
University of Missouri, R & D Lab, 06/98- 05/99
Tech Lead
Summary: Led a large government funded initiative to build one of the first web
based patient care system.
* Built multiple versions of a configurable web based patient record system that
provided integrated access of patient care information to doctors and other hea
lthcare professionals.
* Developed strategies to control security of the patient records and implemente
d security controls including setting up of the audit function. Managed the govt
. body funding the patient record project providing them regular updates and man
aging their expectations.
* Technology: Netscape with Livewire, Javascript, ASP, Active X, Oracle, SQL Ser
ver, XML.
Eastern Sales Corporation, India 01/96-06/97
Principal
Summary: Managed multiple accounts, made roadmap for strategic vision, grew comp
any to 20 clients.
* Started up the company which grew to 20 clients and 25 million (INR) in sales
within 14 months.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
* Languages: C, C++, PhP, Perl, Python, JavaScript, ASP, SQL, Java EJBs, JSP, Ja
vaBeans, Struts, XML, DHTML, HTML, UML, XSL, CSS, XSLT, Shell.
* Operating Systems: Windows 3.x/95/98/NT/2000/2003/XP, Linux, Solaris, UNIX (Va
riants), Mac, DOS.
* Platforms: J2EE, Weblogic suite of tools, IIS, Apache, Websphere, Netscape Ent
erprise Server, Rational Rose, Active X controls, Dreamweaver, Visual Source Saf
e, CVS, Clearcase, Rational Unified Process (RUP), AJAX, UML, Microsoft Office S
uite (macro development), Microsoft Project, Visio.
* Databases: RDBMS know-how, Oracle, SQL Server, mySQL, EasyER, JDBC, ODBC, ADO,
MSAccess
* Methodologies: RUP, Agile, Water Fall, Extreme Programming, Scrum
EDUCATION:
* MBA, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
* MS Computer Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999
* BS Electrical Engineering, Pune University, India, 1994