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Sanjeev Karande
Bellevue, WA 98005
Mobile: (425) 269-6693
sanjeevkarande@gmail.com

SUMMARY  PROFILE:
•	Over 25 years of broad, deep and rich IT experience, with strong academic background.  
•	Deep passion for driving technology vision/strategy and delivering tangible, high value business solutions.
•	Consulting practice leadership experience with effective business development, pipeline planning, revenue forecasting, budgeting, strategic thought leadership, creation of collaborative/reusable best practices, recruiting, team mentoring/development, etc.
•	Consulting engagement management experience including selling and delivery of large projects covering envisioning, effort estimation, cost/pricing/margin analysis, proposal development, and successful delivery.
•	Recent experience as Microsoft Services (MCS) Architect, including as a Pre-sales Architect for Business Intelligence, Databases and Data Warehousing.
•	Strong experience in creating innovative architectures for vertical industry solutions and LOB applications.
•	Recent experience with Windows Azure Cloud Computing architectures as the TAP program leader.
•	Large enterprise IT experience in various technical and project management roles using key methodologies, frameworks, data modeling & process reengineering, JAD workshops, cross-group collaboration, etc.
•	Strategic and technological thought-leadership in key emerging technologies such as Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing, Collaboration/Portals/Content Management, Integration/workflow/SOA, RFID, etc. 
•	Deep technical experience with architecture, design and hands-on programming on diverse technology platforms including RDBMS, OLAP engines including Cube design & development, ETL engines, BI Scorecards & Dashboards, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), ERP (Peoplesoft), E-commerce, EAI and B2B Integration servers, Collaboration Portal technologies, and a wide variety of programming languages. 
•	Deep connections and contacts in many Microsoft product engineering groups in Redmond, as well as the global Sales (EPG & DPE), and Consulting (MCS/Premier/Services HQ) groups.
•	Management of vendors & external contractors including related budgets, timelines, deliverables, SLA’s, etc.
•	Featured speaking engagements at premier events such as (TechEd, TechReady) on a variety of topics presenting full sessions with live demo’s.
•	Won several excellence awards at key companies such as Microsoft, Chevron, Avanade and Peoplesoft.
•	Recently served as the leader of the worldwide BI community of Microsoft Services empowering worldwide field consultants, IP harvesting and reuse, customer/partner feedback into product groups and executives, etc.

EXPERIENCE:
MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Redmond, WA (12/2007 –  Present)
Principal Architect/Director, BI/DW Strategy –  Entertainment & Devices Division
Driving BI strategy and delivering innovative solutions involving key BI capabilities such as Event Analytics for the interactive entertainment properties/websites, Business Scorecards for Xbox Live, Self-service BI with on-demand data access for business users, long term Information Architecture and Technology Roadmap for the division, etc.
  
Architect / Principal Consultant –  Microsoft Enterprise Services
In this senior technology leadership role, delivered high profile engagements at large enterprise customers involving architecture design of BI/DW/DB/SOA solutions, contributing to pre-sales efforts including RFI/RFP responses, CxO level presentations, thought-leadership for SQL/BI communities, mentoring and guidance to consultants, etc. 
•	Windows Azure TAP program leader, formulating Cloud based architectures/designs for 12 TAP customers.
•	Served as a Database Architect on a Performance Tuning & Optimization (PTO) engagement to improve the operations of production databases of the next generation website of a large airline customer.
•	Served as Solution Architect on a long term engagement at a large global oil company to develop BI/DW applications that required architectural mandates and governance by their central global Enterprise Architects group (based on SOA guidelines and Oil industry standards) using the Agile methodology and team model. Upon completion of my 7-month engagement, the company management presented me with their “Contractor Appreciation Award”, in recognition of my contributions as their trusted advisor.

VARIOUS SHORT-TERM / CONTRACTING ENGAGEMENTS (7/2007 –  12/2007)
Engaged in various short-term / contracting positions involving Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing. 

 
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, Bellevue, WA (10/2006 – 7/2007)
Senior Architect and Director, Information Strategy & Architecture Group
This position was a senior leadership role providing strategy consulting for Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, collaboration portals (such as SharePoint) and business process integration initiatives.  Worked with CxO and V.P. level senior management of large U.S. customers on strategic assessment and roadmap projects providing advisory SME assistance in multiple areas, impacting long term decisions surrounding key BI/DW platforms and solutions.

AVANADE (A joint venture of Accenture and Microsoft, Seattle, WA (6/2005 – 9/2006)
Senior Solutions Architect and Practice Manager – Business Intelligence Practice
In this technology consulting company served as the key SME leader in the BI/DW practice:
•	Customer Project Delivery – As Senior Architect drove the creation of BI solutions from envisioning and architecture/design thru technical development and implementation, usually on multiple customer projects simultaneously.  Architected and delivered various BI solutions involving complex OLAP databases/cubes, ETL pumps, scorecards, dashboards and reports, as well as strategic CTO advisory assessments and roadmaps.
•	Team Management and Thought Leadership – Served as the BI practice manager for the Seattle area driving the pipeline, revenue estimates and resource planning and recruiting.  Managed the team of BI consultants with quality delivery and high customer satisfaction, and provided career guidance and mentoring.  Empowered the Americas BI practice senior management by sharing best practices and innovative team collaboration tools.
•	Creating BI Solutions for LOB and Vertical Industries – Drove the creation of new BI solutions focused on specific LOB vertical industry needs based on past successful projects and new ideas triggered by real customer demand, such as Lean Manufacturing BI Scorecard and CRM analytics. 
•	Business Development – Won several large and small new projects to build BI solutions, primarily focused on business scorecards. Participated in the entire sales process from initial CxO level presentations with follow up technical discussions, and then closing the deals with formal SOW’s.
•	Partner Collaboration – Worked with various close partners including Microsoft (several groups), Accenture, ProClarity, Panorama, DSPanel, etc. on opportunities involving evangelism, sales and customer projects.

Received 2 awards for winning new customers engagements and for delivering successful solutions with high quality.

MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Redmond, WA (11/1999 –  5/2005)
Program Manager – Business Process & Integration Group
Product feature ownership role for managing the B2B feature within BizTalk Server, providing a self-service portal for business users based on SharePoint Server and InfoPath forms to enable their interactions directly with BizTalk orchestrations.  End-to-end feature ownership through the product cycle including product planning, specifications, interfacing with engineering, test and user education teams to manage bug tracking, triages, dependencies, milestones, management reporting, product evangelism, value-added partner solutions, etc.  Authored a technical white-paper titled “Introduction to Business Activity Services in BizTalk Server” that was published on Microosft.Com / MSDN.

Program Manager – Industry Solutions Enablement Group (.NET Enterprise Servers Division)
This strategic collaboration role was primarily about architecting innovative vertical solutions for the Industry Solutions Group (worldwide organization) and its synergy with the product groups in Redmond.  Key accomplishments were:
•	Launched a major new BI initiative (sponsored by senior executives) titled Business Intelligence in Vertical Industries.  Conducted a research study of the key verticals for about 3 months with a goal to identify the vertical specific BI needs and pain-points in each industry including the industry specific standards and compliance needs.  Surveyed various Microsoft and external sources including customers, partners, analysts companies specializing in verticals (such as AMR, ARC) and in BI technology (Gartner, Forrester, IDC).  Published the strategic study report (155 pages) within Microsoft, which was highly appreciated globally across the company (including by senior management).
•	Obtained sponsorship and funding based on the BI study and kicked off the Execution Phase of the Vertical BI initiative.  For the potential high ROI opportunities, developed innovative BI solution accelerators with vertical specific KPI Dashboards for industry specific job roles, on MS BI products suite.
•	Served as a key Architect on the global virtual team for the Radio Frequency Id (RFID) initiative, formulating the technology architecture stack of various MS platform products to support several unique business scenarios.  Authored the Architecture section in the larger RFID white-paper published by the virtual team.  Created highly effective slide decks to elaborate the scenarios with the step-by-step process flows and presented them to senior management and top MS executives.  Worked with a large number of partners including RFID hardware/software manufacturers and large Retail industry customers. 
•	Worked with the Retail vertical team on a key strategic opportunity for MS SQL Server platform adoption by a major ISV partner that had challenging performance requirements based on their own SLA’s for their customers to support the advanced replenishment processes.  Worked with the Performance Engineering team in the MS SQL Server product group and hired highly capable consultants to conduct elaborate benchmark testing/tuning.  The benchmark results established linear scalability of the RDBMS engine which conclusively convinced the partner to adopt MS SQL Server as the new platform for their global Retail solutions.
•	Served as featured speaker in many internal and external events presenting technical sessions involving BI/DW, SQL Server, eCommerce and RFID application technologies, including a full featured session at Microsoft TechEd-2004 conference, titled “Real-world Business Intelligence Solutions for Vertical Industries”.
•	Developed a white-paper titled “Architecture Patterns for Business Intelligence Solutions” for MSDN publication, outlining the distinct architectural patterns for BI including KPI Dashboards, Reporting Warehouse, and Real-Time BI solution architectures for specific sets of BI requirements.

Program Manager – CommNet  (.NET Enterprise Servers Division)
This role primarily owned the CommNet system which is a web-based system for conference planning/management and attendee communications that is used to drive the Microsoft premier events including TechEd, Fusion, PDC, MGB, MEC, PDC, etc  The CommNet system contains a sophisticated website and many other custom functional modules running on top of a the Microsoft product stack.  Managed the migration of the entire CommNet legacy system to the new .NET platform with ASP.NET.  After creating and distributing an RFP, evaluated proposals only from top partners and engaged best the vendor via a formal selection process.  Managed the development project with the newly selected partner team of architects, programmers and network engineers to develop a totally .NET based website system within a tight timeframe.  The new CommNet was one of the first public facing Microsoft system on the new .NET platform. 

Senior Consultant – Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) National Practices.
•	Participated on the customer conversion pilot project involving the migration of their Peoplesoft implementation from Oracle/Unix to MS-SQL/Windows 2000 for a major oil company in Texas.
•	Served on the Commerce Server product engineering group in the Data Warehouse/Analytics feature team, managing several tasks including installing daily build’s, scalability testing, MS-Field/ISV/customer interfacing/support, bug reporting,, DW/OLAP design reviews, creating and delivering presentations and demos, disseminating learnings to MCS communities, and providing field feedback to the product team.
•	Created and presented a 400 level full session at the MTB 2000 conference in San Diego, titled “Extending the Commerce Server DW/Analytics” for integrating external ERP/CRM data into the CS click-stream Data Warehouse, leveraging the Commerce OLEDB Provider via ADO.
•	Authored a white-paper on the same topic above, providing prescriptive guidance with fully tested sample code that was published on Microsoft.com / MSDN.
•	Received the Outstanding Contribution award from the Senior VP of MS-US.
•	Served as the key BI consultant for the hands-on development of a very large Data Warehouse solution for the BI prototype POC project (including Cube design & development) for Starbucks Coffee Company.

PEOPLESOFT Inc., Pleasanton, CA (1/98 – 12/99)
Senior Consultant.  As part of the Peoplesoft Consulting Group worked on various Peoplesoft products and technologies including PeopleTools/PeopleCode, Visual Basic/Essbase API, Peoplesoft 3-tier architecture (Tuxedo Transaction Server), product development and related architecture/design/programming,  performance benchmarking & tuning for key Peoplesoft applications on Microsoft SQL Server (in MS SQL product group labs in Redmond), Peoplesoft Application Messaging technology (BEA/Tuxedo Application Server via XML/HTTP), Peoplesoft Financials/Budgets, Enterprise Warehouse and Analytics including some involvement with the Informatics ETL tool to extract data out of Oracle databases on Unix.

BOEING CORPORATION – Commercial Division, Renton, WA   (1/97 – 1/98)
Senior Consultant.  As an external consultant, developed and implemented BI/DW applications for Financial Reporting and Budgeting on SQL Server, Visual Basic, and the Essbase OLAP server with Cube design/development.

NESTLE’ CORPORATION, Glendale, California (7/96 - 12/96)
Contractor/Consultant.  For this large food products manufacturer/retailer, developed Budgeting and Management Reporting/EIS applications based on the Essbase OLAP Server, SQL Server and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

NETBASE COMPUTING Inc., Irvine, California (7/95 - 7/96)
Senior Consultant.   The key projects for this Microsoft/Powersoft solution provider company were:
•	Analysis, architecture and design of an integrated Data Warehousing/OLAP/Reporting solution for a major Shipping company in Long Beach, CA.
•	Architecture/design of an Inventory Reporting sub-system for a major Aerospace client (TRW).  Created a pioneering web based solution using an in-house Web Server to publish production reports viewable in the Internet browser.  (Developed this innovative solution in mid-1995 before the Internet revolution started).
•	In-depth comparative evaluation study of the internal technology features of Oracle and Sybase, for a large enterprise customer making the long term strategic selection decision.

BERGEN BRUNSWIG CORPORATION, Orange County, California (10/92 - 7/95)
System Architect / Project Manager.  Hands-on design, development and implementation of a new integrated financial planning, analysis, budgeting and reporting system for this $8 Billion nationwide distribution company.  Conducted JAD workshops for requirements analysis and data/process and product evaluation/selection.  For this nationwide financials/budgeting system, managed and participated in the system architecture, design/development, Novell network administration and programming in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) with Excel and the Essbase Multi-Dimensional OLAP Server.  Used MS-Project for planning and reporting the project.
 
MCA/ UNIVERSAL STUDIOS INC., Hollywood, California (7/90 - 9/92)
Systems Planning Analyst/Project Manager.   This was a research & development position in enterprise IT.
•	After extensive research, published an in-depth study on Image Processing technology.
•	Acquired and implemented a Project Tracking and Chargeback Accounting System including analysis, product evaluation/selection, application design, development, and implementation, managing a steering committee.

McDONNELL DOUGLAS CORPORATION, Long Beach, California (12/88 – 5/90)
Contractor/Consultant.  Design/programming in the 4GL NOMAD2 DBMS for various DSS applications.

COLUMBIA PICTURES INDUSTRIES, INC., Burbank, California (3/84 – 11/88)
Senior Systems Analyst / Project Manager.  
•	Developed and implemented several applications using NOMAD2, SAS and REVELATION for Legal Files Library Automation system, “What- if” Analysis for media budgeting and many other enterprise applications.
•	Help Desk management and hands-on support of company-wide PC hardware/software, mainframe based Decision Support Systems and Novell LAN implementations.

UNION BANK, Los Angeles, California. (4/82 – 3/84)
Associate Systems Analyst.   Successfully conducted the pioneering implementations of the original IBM PC’s in corporate and branch offices including on-site installations and training across California.  Programmed in various key 4-G/L’s on the IBM mainframe for complex data analysis of various banking systems on the IMS databases.

EDUCATION:
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, Cleveland, Ohio (1981)
M.S. in Operations Research with electives in Information Systems.  
My M.S. Thesis titled “A heuristic branch and bound algorithm for assembly line balancing” was presented at the ORSA/TIMS joint national conference in Toronto, Canada in 1981; which also included the large Fortran program that implemented the heuristic algorithm.  My graduate thesis advisor/professor had certified that “with some minor academic extensions” my thesis would qualify as a doctoral dissertation.  My thesis and the program were also used in a software tool-set package named STORM (Software Tools for Operations Research & Management) used by professionals and academicians (for OR/Quantitative Methods) created and sold by my professor’s software company.

Professional Publications
•	Business Intelligence in Vertical Industries – A comprehensive internal study (155 pages) within Microsoft Corporation funded by the senior management for the benefit of the BI community and the vertical industry groups, which was received very well across the company.
•	Introduction to Business Activity Services in BizTalk Server -  A technical white-paper published on Microsoft.Com describing the innovative feature enabling direct business user interaction with work-flow orchestrations in BizTalk via SharePoint collaboration sites. 
•	Architecture Patterns for Business Intelligence Solutions -  A prescriptive guidance white-paper for MSDN publication, outlining the distinct architectural patterns for BI solutions 
•	Extending Website Click-stream Analytics in Commerce Server -  A technical white-paper published on MSDN describing the new technology and its applications in business scenarios 
•	Applications of Emerging Imaging Technologies for IT Applications -  An internal white-paper for MCA/Universal Studios management and IT community (written in the early 1990’s). 

Professional Speaking Engagements
•	Microsoft TechReady 2009 – Co-presented a session on Business Intelligence competitive landscape.
•	Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Global Conference in June 2009 –  Keynote speaker to present Microsoft’s cloud computing vision with Windows Azure platform
•	“Lighting Up BI” webcast for Microsoft field to explain emerging BI scenarios and surrounding opportunities
•	Avanade Internal Conferences –  Presented progress report, vision and plans for the BI practice
•	Microsoft TechEd 2004 conference –  Delivered a full session titled “Real-world Business Intelligence Solutions in Vertical Industries”, with live demo’s by four partners representing four industries.
•	Various large internal conferences and global events of Microsoft Corporation on various topics over the years.
•	Various smaller events and webcasts, as well as executive briefing sessions at Microsoft.
•	Peoplesoft Conference – Microsoft SQL Server competitive open debate forum with Oracle and IBM in from of a large audience with interactive question/answer session in a town-hall format 

Recognition
•	Acknowledgement in appreciation by the author in his new book “Pro Azure Services Platform” (March 2010).
•	Great People Great Performance (GPGP) award for technical achievements and customer satisfaction (2009).
•	US CTO office award for major contributions to and leadership of the Worldwide BI Community (2009).
•	Consultant Appreciation Award from Chevron, after the MCS engagement as Solution Architect (2008)
•	High performer MVP award from Microsoft MCS management (2008)
•	Two Consulting Excellence Awards, Avanade Corporation-A joint venture of Accenture and Microsoft (2006)
•	Technical l Excellence Award, MCS, Microsoft Corporation (2001)
•	Consulting Excellence Award, Peoplesoft Corporation (1998)

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE:
PLATFORMS: Windows Server 2008/2003/2000/NT, Windows 7/Vista/XP, Windows Azure, Apple Macintosh, OS/2, Novell Netware, IBM Mainframes/SNA, VM/CMS, MVS/CICS), some experience with Unix and AS-400.

DATABASES:  MS-SQL SERVER (2008, 2005, 2000, and before), Essbase OLAP Server (and API), DB/2, NOMAD2, SAS, Revelation, DBASE, some experience with Oracle/Unix. 

LANGUAGES:  C#.NET, XML/HTML, Visual Basic, VBA, VBScript, Fortran, APL, SQL, MDX (OLAP), IBM Assembler (370 & 8086), PeopleTools/PeopleCode, PowerBuilder, and a wide variety of proprietary languages

MICROSOFT SERVERS:  SQL Server (with Analysis Services & DTS/SSIS) BizTalk Server, Commerce Server, SharePoint (MOSS), Exchange Server.  Strong familiarity with IIS, Active Directory, ISA, MOM/SMS, etc.

APPLICATION SOFTWARE:  Microsoft PerformancePoint Server, Business Scorecard Manager (BSM 2005), ProClarity, Microsoft .NET (CLR) platform, ASP.NET, BizTalk Orchestration and WSS Adapter, Microsoft Office products (familiarity with VSTO & IBF), MS-Project, Peoplesoft PeopleTools/PeopleCode, Informatica ETL tool, and a very wide variety of other software and tools such as Powerbuilder, SAS, Lotus Notes, STAIRS (text search), SLAM (Simulation),  CASE Tools (ERWin).  Good understanding of Networking concepts including Windows-2003/NT-TCP/IP-Active Directory, Novell NetWare, IBM SNA.  Good familiarity with UNIX and C/C++.  Good understanding of the Microsoft OLE/COM+/ActiveX concepts, IIS/ASP/VBScript, with some exposure to Perl.  XML/SOAP, Webservices/WSDL and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). 

METHODOLOGIES:  Recent training and experience with Agile/Scrum, Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), Several traditional IT life-cycle methodologies (SDLC), Object Oriented Analysis/Design (Booch), and Unified Modeling Language (UML), the newer key methodologies –  Six Sigma and the Zachman Architecture Framework.

PERSONAL:  
•	U.S. Citizen.  Married with 2 teenage children.  Hobbies include music, sports, movies and poetry.
•	Presented a weekly radio program of Indian pop & classical music on WRUW-FM in Cleveland, Ohio (1980).
•	Served on local Indian community cultural committees in Seattle, involving music, literature and theater arts.
•	Was interviewed on KOMO-TV in Seattle (ABC affiliate) in the evening news program in 2006, as the lead representative of a cultural committee of the local Indian community in the Seattle area.