Senior level technology executive with a successful career of remarkable results, reflecting strong technology background, leadership acumen with business sense and mentoring skills. Experience in strategic planning and execution of Information Technology initiatives, partnering with business executives, in support of rapid growth. Outstanding history of progressive technology depth and breadth in the areas of Oracle database technologies, Data analytics, SaaS and Cloud computing and . Proven experience in architecture, deployment and operations of large-scale, highly available, geo-redundant and mission-critical business solutions. Demonstrated leadership strengths in building highly motivated and productive technical teams with teamwork, loyalty and commitment.
NOTABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• Built a centralized technical team of over 60 strong engineers in the areas of Oracle database administration, Unix systems administration, database systems architecture and design, enterprise data modeling and data administration, ETL, Data Analytics design & development and application performance.
• Built from ground up and managed a SaaS and Cloud Services offering for a telecom services company, supporting over $100M annual revenues with 70%+ margin.
• Implemented a large Big Data Analytics solution that enabled the flagship Information Based Strategy (IBS) for a small local credit card branch in becoming a financial giant in a span of 5 years.
• Architected and deployed an active-active geo-redundant SaaS solution, with bi-directional data replication and five nines service availability, to manage 200M+ mobile devices for a tier 1 telecom service provider.
Vice President, SaaS/Cloud Operations and Deployment. @ Leader of the SaaS and Cloud operations group, which became a highly profitable revenue channel and a strategic component for the business unit in delivering the customer experience and device management services to tier 1 and tier 2 Telecom service providers across the globe. Also the technology operations veteran of the unit in improving TCO reduction, HA architecture, geo-redundancy, robustness, scale and performance of the core applications, data analytics and customized solutions, resulting in higher service level and customer satisfaction.
Key Achievements:
• Built, from ground-up, a highly profitable (70%+ margin) SaaS/Cloud service offering that enabled many successful large-scale solution implementations (directly impacting $120M+ annual revenue).
• Implemented Data Analytics/Big-data solutions using Hadoop technologies for large telecom providers across globe.
• In collaboration with RnD, built a centralized Deployment Automation Framework (DAF) team for automating the installation and ongoing configuration management of Motive applications, enabling Cloud deployments in public and private clouds including AWS..
• Championed the Performance Engineering Competency Center (PECC) that is an integral part and an important gating item of the product delivery cycle to immensely improve the scale, performance and robustness of Motive applications and integrated solutions.
• Architected and deployed a large-scale active-active geo-redundant wireless device management solution across two data centers with real-time data replication, supporting more than 100M daily transaction volume and 5 9s SLA.
• Deployed many geo-redundant solutions across data centers for customer experience and device management solutions for many tier 1 telecom service providers.
• Developed a strong Oracle database team through mentoring and coaching in Oracle Database administration, architecture, performance tuning, RAC, Data Guard, Streams, Golden Gate and backup/restore. From March 2001 to Present (14 years 10 months) Director/Sr. Manager, Database Management and Analytics. @ Manager of the centralized data analytics and database team that is built from ground up and is responsible for all Data Analytics, Oracle database technologies and data warehouse & reporting environments. Core member of the team that contributed to many key technology initiatives that supported the aggressive growth of a credit card branch of a local bank in becoming a fortune 500 financial company in few years.
Key Achievements:
• Built a centralized technical team of over 60 strong engineers supporting company’s Information Based Strategy (IBS) flagship Data Analytics initiative, in the areas of database administration, Unix systems administration, database systems architecture and design, enterprise data modeling and data administration, ETL, UI, Data Analytics design & development and application performance.
• Lead a team in implementing an enterprise, 3-tier Credit Card Collections application, used by 5K+ call center agents, using client-server technologies, interfacing with the legacy Unisys mainframe system.
• Architected a multi-terabyte large Data Analytics solution, using Oracle RAC and ETL technologies, for IBS driven key operations of credit card solicitation, segmentation and cross-sell.
• Implemented many operational Data stores, DataMarts and reporting systems for customer service, fraud, risk management, recoveries, collections and M&A business units.
• Championed enterprise level data modeling and conformed dimensions data design for the company, collaborating with application development teams.
• Evaluated and implemented enterprise wide OLAP, Data mining, Analytics & reporting technologies.
• Presented to the chairman of the company the database and analytics technologies behind flagship IBS. From July 1994 to March 2001 (6 years 9 months) Principal Consultant, Oracle Consulting. @ Member of Oracle's technical consulting team providing support and consulting services in Oracle applications, database design, data warehouse design & development and systems architecture for many large oracle clients in the southeast region. From August 1993 to July 1994 (1 year) Greater Atlanta AreaSr. Programmer Analyst, Professional Services. @ Member of the consulting services team supporting migrations of Unisys mainframe application to company's 4GL language based applications for State/local governments, hospitals, health insurance companies and financial institutions. From May 1991 to July 1993 (2 years 3 months) Jacksonville, Florida AreaSr. Programmer Analyst, Healthcare, Government and Financial Services @ Member of the professional services team providing custom application development and migrations in Hospital Management systems, technical Support for Oracle7 and Informix databases, Integration of Unisys’s DSC and Clearings Item Image (check) Processing Systems, development of conversion software to convert THRIFT application to global financial system, “Canadianization” of Global Financial System (GFS) banking application, enhancements to Computer Aided Dispatch (CADS) and Report Entry (CARE) online Applications for Police department, development and Support of Utility Billing System for Water Services and Building & Zoning, enhancements to Unisys Hospital Information System and billing modules and technical support on database design, development and administration on UNIX, ORACLE RDBMS and Unisys DMSII database systems. From February 1985 to May 1991 (6 years 4 months) Greater Atlanta Area
Master of Science (M.S.) @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay From 1987 to 1988 Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) @ Osmania University From 1982 to 1986 Raj Tummala is skilled in: Database Design, Data Warehousing, SaaS, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Databases, Telecommunications, Unix, Hadoop, Project Management, Change Management, Oracle RDBMS, Data Analytics, Geo-redundancy, Data Replication