1. My Initiatives at EWS
Data Analytics / Big Data Eco System (October2015 - Ongoing)
ExtendedEWS’backgroundinData AnalyticsandBI/DWby introducingBigData AnalyticsEcosystem.
Raisedawarenessandinterestthroughintracompanyseminarsinvarious typesof analyticsincluding
Descriptive, Exploratory,Inferential,Predictive,Causal,andMechanisticanalytics. Reviewed 4V’s,
Volume,Variety,Velocity,andVeracityof BigDataand the significance of suchanalysisingenerating
BusinessValue. Tappedinternalandhiredexternal talentwithskillsinMathematics,Statistics,
Economics,andBusinessinadditiontoComputerScience. AddedtoolsandtechnologiestoBigData
ToolkitwithHadoop,MapReduce,andR forAnalyticsatthe topof the stack. Setuptrainingaccessto
teamsfor a multitude of toolsincludingApache Spark,Scala,Python,HBase,Oracle NoSQL,Apache
Hive/Pig/Ambari,Tableau,etc. This,byfar,is the mostextensiveundertakingatEWSsimplydue tothe
sheersize andmagnitude of requirementsincludinghighlyspecializedskillsets,diverse areasof
analytics,anda wide array of relevanttoolsandtechnologies. The Ecosystem;however,hasbeensetup
to evolve andadaptto markettrends.
MobilityServices- Native,Hybrid, HTML5, RMAD, AWSMobile (October2013 - Ongoing)
IntroducedMobilityServicesinitiative forfasterTime-to-Marketwhileexercisingandpromoting
attentiontodetail. Existingtalentfromwebandbackenddevelopmentwasleveragedforcross
platformmobile implementationsusingHTML5. Skillsof Native andCross-platformdeveloperswere
strengthenedthroughformal trainingsessions. Low-code andNo-codetools,suchasAlphaAnywhere,
for RapidMobile ApplicationDevelopment(RMAD) were reviewedandratedforpossible use. AWS
Mobile wasintroducedtoleverage cloudbaseddevelopment,testing,deployment,andmonitoring. All
processes,trainingmaterial,toolsandtechnologiesweredocumentedforcontinuousimprovement.
EWS MobilityServiceswereincubatedinside Agile andContinuousDeliveryModel fromthe getgo.
Agile / CI / CD Initiative (October2012 - Ongoing)
Introducedinitiativetobringthe entire organizationintothe foldof TestDrivenAgile Developmentwith
ContinuousIntegrationandDelivery. Strategywasformulatedtoimplementchange andpromote
acceptance. Trainingsessionswere conductedstartingwithpilotteamstoavoidthe shockgoing
throughthistransformationall atonce. Once the propertrainingandtoolswere inplace and the
cultural impactwas accountedfor,the processof transitioningadditional teamswasinitiated. All
proceduresandtrainingmaterialswere documentedunderaversioncontrol documentrepository.
Procedureswere putinplace forswifton-boardingof new teammembers. Trainthe trainersessions
were conductedtomitigate risksassociatedwiththe turnovers. Overtime,the entire processwasmade
self-sustainablebyintroductionof continuousimprovementtechniquesincludingadditionof new tools
and technologies.